Stocking Collection (page 4)

Holly and red ribbon on a cutout Christmas card
Holly and red ribbon with a stocking on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

A boy ties a large basket to the mantle-piece
A small boy ties a huge basket to the mantle-piece, instead of the traditional stocking, in the hope that Father Christmas will fill it up with presents. Date: c. 1910

Father Christmas filling up the stockings
Father Christmas places a pretty pink doll into a stocking. Date: c. 1910

Sergeant of the English infantry. Engraving

Amorous Confessions front cover
Front cover of a pulp fiction paperback featuring a blonde woman posing in seductively in a blue dress to reveal her stockings. Date: 1950s

Presentation of a champion bat to the Red Stocking base-ball club, Cincinnati, Ohio, on its return home. Illustration showing members of the Red Stocking baseball team

Teddy waiting for Santa
Teddy in bed waiting for Santa to come and fill his stocking. From 1950s Christmas card. c.1950

Teddy with a stocking full of presents
From 1950s Christmas card. c.1950

Hanging the Christmas stocking
Children hanging their stockings at Christmas for Santa to fill. Date: c.1907

Tommy Rose - British Forces Revue Star in full flow and in full feminine attire! Performing in Arthur Lanes Forces Revue as a showgirl. Date: circa 1940s

Advert for Aristoc stockings 1934
The Autumn tints year are wonderful this year. Yes - especially in Aristoc. 1934

Advert for Aristoc stockings 1937
" Whenever I see hands in a stocking I think, Ah, Aristoc! " A pure silk stocking of beauty, strength and quality. 1937

Hanging up a stocking for Santa Claus

Stocking Lake Fish
In the Italian lakes, fishermen stock the water with young fish. Date: 1939

Advert for Aristoc stockings
" Whenever I see hands in a stocking I think, Ah, Aristoc! " A pure silk stocking of beauty, strength and quality. 1937

Beagle Waits for Santa
A beagle puppy sleeps on a sofa beside the fire, with his Christmas stocking hanging over the mantlepiece in aniticipation of a visit by Father Christmas. Date: early 1930s

Children see Santa filling their stockings
Three children see Santa Claus filling their stockings in their bedroom on Christmas morning. early 20th century

Santa filling the stockings by Hilda Dix Sandford. Illustration from a postcard by Hilda Dix Sandford (1875-1946). She specialised illustrating children at play. circa 1909

Woman with stockings

Stocking Weavers C. 1760
Two workers at their weaving looms in a stocking factory and a description of the machine itself. Date: circa 1760

Just Look by Muriel Dawson
A back view of a little blonde girl in a green dress discovering the wonderful toys and gifts in her Christmas stocking

Punch and Judy by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in pink pyjamas, awakens on Christmas morning to find a bulging stocking filled with Christmas toys and presents at the end of her cot

Ladies Home Journal illustration
Illustration for the Ladies Home Journal, showing Father Christmas with a group of children

Saint Nicholas / Father Christmas / Santa Claus - delivering presents to the children of the world by climbing down chimneys on Christmas night

Bear Brand stockings advertisement
Advert for Bear Brand superfine stockings with a slim and elegant lady, wearing a full skirted evening dress, pulling up her skirt to reveal shapely legs clad, of course, in Bear Brand

Columbines Stocking
Sleeping beauty being watched by a group of revellers

The Last Silk Stocking. By David Wright
A lady reclining in an easy chair or chaise lounge, dressed in a negligee and inspecting the last of her stockings. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during

The Imperial Stocking
The Kaiser receives an unwelcome gift in his Christmas stocking from Lord Kitchener - a bunch of pesky British soldiers with bayonets fixed

Throwing the Stocking

Preliminary Manoeuvres
A show girl, with skirts hoisted to reveal stocking tops, peeping through a stage curtain

Elizabeth Montagu - 4
ELIZABETH MONTAGU writer and blue-stocking

Elizabeth Montagu - 2
ELIZABETH MONTAGU writer and blue-stocking

Toboggan Girl 1928
A girl races downhill fast on a toboggan, exposing her stocking tops along the way

Peasant Style Dress 1923
A dress inspired by European peasant costume: applique trim, full sleeves, low waistline & gathered skirt. Also a hat with a broad brim & cockade & a stocking purse

Flapper on a Cloud 1926
Androgynous woman with an Eton crop, short dress with square cut collar, patch pockets with tassel trim & pleated flounce, & rolled stocking tops sits dreamily on a cloud smoking

Giant Stocking
Children find a giant stocking - and its full to the brim with presents !

Opening Stocking / 1930
A little girl opens her stocking in bed - she has already found an orange and now she has a stuffed toy

Opening Stocking 1902
This girl has found a quite extraordinary number of presents in her stocking

Stocking Advert 1924
Advertisement for McCallum silk stockings

Woman Darns Stockings
Her dog watches patiently while she darns a stocking in her underclothes

Viking Explorers / 1007
Viking explorers stop off in Scotland to mend their longships, take on extra cargo and prepare for the long voyages north toward Greenland and Vinland (North America)

Equality / Blue Stocking
Valentines day at Girton: satire on the thinking woman

Doctor Syntax meets a blue stocking beauty
Dr Syntax meets with a blue-stocking beauty

Blue Stocking / 1881
An Italian blue-stocking

Girl with Stocking
This spoilt French girl seems to have not one, not two, but THREE stockings overflowing with nice things !

Hanging Stocking
An American boy hangs up a very big stocking - a chance to test Santa Clauss generosity

Straightens her Stocking
Young lady straightens out her stocking

Girls Open Xmas Stocking
Two girls open their stockings early on Christmas morning

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