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A Scottish Piper wearing McInnes Tartan Date: 1906
Black and white minstrelsA fashion shoot featuring the Black & White Minstrels in Tatler, 1962. The outfit worn by the model in the middle is a white silk, two-piece
Cover for Brochure advertising Triplex Grates / RangesA cook proudly produces a loaf - another successful piece of cooking using her Triplex Garte / Range. Date: circa 1927
Classic Tight Scotsman Joke - Lured by six beautiesClassic Tight Scotsman Joke - A stereotype Jock doesn t hang on long to his tight purse strings as six pretty girls required a drink! " It wasn t long here till bang went saxpence
Brochure advertising Triplex Grates / RangesA cook proudly produces a loaf - another successful piece of cooking using her Triplex Garte / Range. Home made with Triplex! Date: circa 1920s
Native AmericanThe Native American as noble savage as depicted in a French costume book
Diet and Dieters by Joyce DennysA selection of types and the diets they are all eating in order to retain, or, in some cases, reduce their figures. Date: 1929
The Goal in Sight - Two Scotsmen fired up in race for ScotchThe Goal in Sight - Two Scotsmen fired up in a race for the First Prize of a bottle of Scotch Whisky! Date: 1916
Racial Type / Lady TattersLADY TATTERS We know nothing about this romantic light opera except for this splendid Hassall poster : looks as though it might be like My fair lady. Date: 1907
English SmugglerGerman portrayal of an English smuggler
Home Sweet Home down South - Kentucky, USA. A slightly-derogatory view of the run-down home of a black family in the deep south of America. Date: 1907
Cicely Courtneidge as an Eton-cropped flapperActress Cicely Courtneidge made up as a typical eton-cropped, cigarette-smoking flapper in Cleansing the Stage sketch in the revue, " By the Way". Date: 1925
American Racial Stereotypes - Wooing. 19th century
American Racial Stereotypes - The Wedding. 19th century
American Racial Stereotypes - The First Child. 19th century
American Racial Stereotypes - The Family Walk. 19th century
Englands New Voters, 1928 - Caricature by GarrettoImpression by Garretto of the new women voters in 1928, the year in which British women finally gained electoral parity with men
Impressions of Englands new voters by Garretto, 1928" Fluffy and Stuffy" - impressions of the new female voters of 1928 by Italian caricaturist Garretto. Rather unfair stereotyping with the pretty blonde on the left
When Women Vote by Charles Dana GibsonThe Suffragettes as the creator of the Gibson Girls Sees Them. " When Women Vote: After dinner the girls will have to listen to politics"
WW1 - Comic Postcard - K-Nut in a tuxedoWW1 - Before conscription into the army was introduced, a certain class of young men existed, for whom everything was " too much bally trouble" or " too much fag." They were
Three French women (pretending to be Spanish) pose in a photographic studio as musician, dancer and (male!) bullfighter !! Date: 1910s
John Bull Shot in RearThe bombardment of Hartlepool - John Bull gets hit in a sensitive area... Date: December 1914
Comment on Womens Fashion for wearing trousers / culottesGerman Comment on Womens Fashion for wearing trouser suits / culottes - " You are in here if you are wearing trousers
The front cover of Wild West Weekly - No.1 Vol. 1 - 12th March 1938. Packed with first class stries and two free gifts! Date: 1938
Cartoon, German soldiers eating and drinking, WW1Cartoon, Kultur and Grub. A stereotypical view of German soldiers eating sausages and drinking beer, showing the contrast between the German idea of culture and the soldiers greed. Date: 1915
Cannibalism - Humorous postcard - Fiji - Doctor to be eatenCannibalism - Humorous postcard - Fiji - Western Doctor, investigating the Culinary Habits of the Cannibal Islands is himself about to become the entrea.. Date: circa 1910s
Difference between a Lady and a Diplomat. When a Diplomat says " Yes", he means " Perhaps". When he say " Perhaps", he means " No"
The Colonels Christmas Dream by H. M. BatemanA Colonel dreams of inspecting a battalion of Father Christmases. Date: 1928
First and Second Impressions by H. M. BatemanThe Majors speaking voice was simply charming. Maisie was rapidly succumbing to its spell. Until one day she heard him use it on parade! Cartoon by H. M
Thoroughness, WW1 cartoon by William Heath RobinsonMopping-up the floods in Belgium: the new German method. Spiking the water with a combination of sausages, sauerkraut and lager
Two Isle of Wight Farmers assess a tricky situationWhy the Natives are called Isle of Wight Calves. " Well, what shall us do Bill? Is pose there baint nothin else but to Cut his ed off." Date: 1907
West Country yokel, Scrumpy ManA sterotypical image of a West Country yokel, drinking Lands End Scrumpy (cider). Date: circa 1970s
WW1 - Mocking the BocheWW1 - The enemy seen here captured by a British soldier. The soldier represented as a stereotyped Englishman, Cockney Tommy. The name Tommy was commonly ascribed to the British private soldier
Putting the Screw on by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoonThe above exclusive photograph (received via Amsterdam and Singapore) shows clearly the consternation in German official circles on receipt of the amended armistice terms for February, in which 1
Suffragette Carried off by Policeman. A Suffragette who is not the usual stereotype old maid, is held in the arms of a burly policeman
Suffragette Shouts Give me a Vote. Anti-Suffrage view of stereotype. flag-waving screaming harridan on postcard designed by John Hassall for the National League for Opposing Womens Suffrage
Germanys war aim - Peace & a Sword, David Wilson, WW1Germany depicted as a gigantic, militaristic ogre, standing amidst the rubble of a devastated village brandishing a sword engraved with the words, Might is Right. Date: 1917
Kultur in the Flesh by A ParysJunkers and Gentlemen, or Kultur in the Flesh. A meeting of the Prussian War Party as depicted by the French artist, A Parys. A not entirely flattering portrait of the German war cabinet. Date: 1915
Sketch cover - The Arm Chair critic, WW1Front cover of The Sketch magazine featuring an illustration of an arm-chair critic, one of the satirised stereotypes of the First World War - a club man type who who likes to read the papers
Belly Cold - Chinese man causes linguistic confusionChinese man causes linguistic confusion... " Belly cold today, miss!" " Well - why don t you tuck your shirt in?" Date: circa 1940
The Sneezing Man - Alphonse Levy illustration of Jewish LifePostcard illustration by Alphonse Levy, a painter of Jewish life, depicting The Sneezing Man (possibly making a noise at an inappropriate moment?)