Straw Collection

Hereford Bull & Cow 1912
A Hereford bull and cow in the farmyard. Date: 1912

Retro poster, Gilbert & Sullivan, D Oyly Carte
Retro poster for Gilbert & Sullivan, D Oyly Carte, character from HMS Pinafore. 1960s

Milk for school children, 1955
Before Margaret Thatcher the milk snatcher put and end to free school milk for the over sevens, all primary school children would enjoy their daily third pint ration at school

Retro poster, Gilbert & Sullivan, D Oyly Carte
Retro poster for Gilbert & Sullivan, D Oyly Carte, character from HMS Pinafore. 1960s

Suffragette Cat in Straw Hat Votes for Women. Cat in a straw hat, placed at a jaunty angle, wears a large placard which reads, Votes for Women Date: circa 1908

Komuso Buddhist monks, Japan. They wear a straw basket (tengai) over their head and play a bamboo flute (shakuhachi). Date: circa 1890s

Two Horses and a Dachshund family
Two Horses peeking over the edge of their stable to see a Mother Dachshund and her brood of puppies Date: circa 1910s

Moroccan Woman of the Mountains
A Moroccan Woman of the Mountains with her young son asleep in a sling made out of the same material as her sarong-style skirt

Bathing Belle on Pier
A flirtatious young woman in a two-piece bathing costume of side lacing shorts & striped tunic adjusts her black stockings. N.B espadrilles with ribbon lacing

Kuwait - The Main Street of the Kuwait City Date: 1933

Street scene with shops, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A street scene with shops, in Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales. The large corner shop is Bells grocery store, decorated with flags, perhaps to celebrate Empire Day (24 May)

Tomando Mate - Argentina
Gaucho taking mate in Argentina

First airmail letter delivered, Windsor Castle
The first airmail letter ever to be delivered is handed to the Postmaster of Windsor, to whom it is addressed, on the East Lawn of Windsor Castle

Lady and Blossom 1925
A girl, wearing a straw cloche hat with a two colour double brim and ornamented with a broad hatband and ribbon bow, smells some apple blossom

Hat Wireless 1930S
A man tunes into his hat radio!

Hoffmann / Augustus / Soup
THE STORY OF AUGUSTUS WHO WOULD NOT HAVE ANY SOUP "...& on the fifth day he was dead!"

Hoffmann / Suck-A-Thumb
THE STORY OF LITTLE SUCK-A- THUMB The great, long, red-legg d scissor-man cuts off Conrads thumbs

Women outdoors 1881
Two women in walking dresses at the seaside. 1881

Surgery Cures Stupidity
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: young mans stupidity cured by replacing straw head- stuffing with a brain!

Hoffmann / Johnny Head-Air
THE STORY OF JOHNNY HEAD-IN- AIR Johnny falls into the river, much to the bewilderment of the fish

Hoffmann / Inky Boys / Story
THE STORY OF THE INKY BOYS The great Agrippa dips the boys in his enormous ink well

Hoffmann / Shock / Head / Pete
SHOCK HEADED PETER..." Never once has comb d his hair"

Hoffmann / Johnny Head Air
THE STORY OF JOHNNY HEAD-IN- AIR Johhny collides with a dog

Hoffmann / Man Shooting
The Story of the Man that Went out Shooting

Madimba - Congo - Pipe-smoking lady
A rather powerful looking lady from the Congo, smoking a pipe and carrying a large wicker basket on her head. She is the wife of the Chief of the Mpongo Tribe of Kibweta, Madimba, Congo, Africa

Busy Summer Morning on The Pantiles, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Date: 1914

Swedish Church Mission, Mnene, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Group of people assembled after a baptism ceremony. Date: circa 1910

Cats enjoying a dinner party on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Mr Pastry, aka Richard Hearne, with lion
Mr Pastry, aka the comic actor Richard Hearne (1908-1979), with a lion. Date: circa 1960s

Saucy and silly seaside postcard with cheeky caption
A Young man heads out to sea in a small rowing boat named the Saucy Sue - she instructs him: " Mind you don t goo too far, Darling!

LCC-LFB Islington fire station stables
Islingtons first fire station opened in 1860 in Florence Street. The station pictured here was located in Upper Street, and opened in 1899

Women brickmakers in the Black Country
Women brickmakers at work in the Black Country -- south Staffordshire and north Worcestershire

Lord Brooke, later 6th Earl of Warwick
Lord Brooke (Leopold Guy Francis Maynard Greville, 1882-1928) who married Miss Elfrida Marjorie Eden on 29 April 1909 at St Margarets Church, Westminster

Geisha girls at the seaside, Japan
Two Geisha girls in elegant Western-style striped bathing costumes recline on a studio beach set

Potato Clamp
Men storing potatoes, covering clamps of them with straw on a farm in Surrey, England

Old English Sheepdog and lamb
Unusual Friends - Old English Sheepdog and lamb. 1950s

Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, East Africa
Mweya Safari Lodge, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, East Africa. Date: circa 1954

Farmers in grass coats, Japan
Three farmers in grass coats, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

A Shetland Peat Carrier
A Woman of the Shetland Islands carring turves of peat in a wicker back pack basket. She does her knitting whilst she walks (possible some distance). Date: circa 1910s

Essex Cricket Team, 1898. 1898

Bargate Below Bar, Southampton, Hampshire. Date: circa 1920s

Amanzimtoti River, Natal Province, South Africa
Amanzimtoti (Manzimtoti) River, Natal Province, South Africa. Date: circa 1925

Mussolini Yachting
BENITO MUSSOLINI The Italian dictator looking rather dapper in a straw boater hat whilst relaxing on a yachting trip. Date: 1883 - 1945

Japanese Geisha playing a Traditional Shamisen
Japanese Geisha in her home playing a Traditional Shamisen Date: circa 1904

Tatler front cover, June 1960

Two Horses in the stable with puppies
Two Horses (one black, one white) peer over the edge of their stable dividing wall at two small puppies (Terriers?) sitting on a blanket on the lower bench. Date: 1910s

Britannia and Eve magazine, September 1932
Front cover illustration featuring a pretty 1930s woman in casual attire. She wears blue trousers with a matching short-sleeved jacket and white camisole and holds a straw hat with blue ribbon

Making horse tack in a workshop
Two craftsmen preparing the leatherwork for horse tack; shaping, stretching and sewing the pieces to the correct shape and size. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Tatler fashions for July 1930
A fashion design by Gordon Conway, taken from a series of monthly supplements drawn by the artist. A summer dress in printed cotton voile, trimmed in cream coloured organdie

Beach Dress
A perfect outfit for the seaside: sleeveless dress with fitted bodice, bow detail, 3/4 length skirt with contrasting fringing, strappy sandals, straw hat & bucket bag

School Milk 1960S
A rather contented looking boy drinks his free school milk straight from the bottle, using a straw

Woman Feeds Chickens
An older woman in a long dress and wide-brimmed hat throws handfuls of chicken feed on to the ground for the chickens to peck at and scratch in the straw

Hoffmann / Harriet / Matches
THE DREADFUL STORY ABOUT HARRIET & THE MATCHES " She burns all over everywhere"

Caucasus Georgia Tiflis Tblisi-donkey with load & Armenian d
Caucasus Georgia Tiflis Tblisi - a donkey with its load and its Armenian driver. Vintage 19th century photograph

Little girl with kittens in a basket on a postcard -- Our Darlings Darlings. Date: circa 1890s

Middlesex Cricket Team, 1898. 1898

Advert for Hudsons Soap 1890
Advertisement for Hudsons Soap, showing a laundry woman holding her basket. Date: 1890

Women rice planters walk along a road to work in Bali
Five young women rice planters walk along a road to work in Bali, Indonesia. They wear Asian conican straw hats. Some of the girls are barefoot. Date: circa 1985

Cooling Her Heels! By Dorothy M. Morgan
Lady sitting in front of a fan in her underwear, trying to cool herself in the heat. Date: 1927

Straw-Plaiting
Three women plait straw, near St Albans, Hertfordshire

Young couple on a romantic greetings card, sitting on a vine branch -- With affection and regard. Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Asprey for the races 1937
A variety of outdoor items for the races including: Ladies seal race companion, pigskin betting book, field glasses, binoculars, aluminium mount saddle seat

A woman of the Auvergne collecting walnuts
A woman of the Auvergne region of France loading a wickerwork pannier backpack with the walnuts she has been collecting in her straw basket Date: 1910

Sister and brother with hoop and stick, walking along hand in hand. first published 1879

Making a posy of summer blooms
A mother and daughter make a posy of summer blooms in a meadow. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Chanson De Printemps
Lovely illustration featuring a girl in a pink dress, holding a straw hat enjoying the warbles of a bird in a tree

1890S Cycling Ladies
A young lady in practical outdoor dress of tailored skirt & jacket holds a bicycle steady for her friend who sits on it to have her photograph taken. Both wear straw hats

Male Type / Bowness C1850S
Man wearing a tweed lounge suit consisting of a lounging jacket, waistcaot & trousers all of the same fabric. He holds a straw boater across his knee

Man with Goat
A man and a goat confront each other

Belgian Baby & Dogs
A typically Belgian child in a long blue gown, wearing a white little cap and clogs meets two dogs as big as her pulling a straw cart

Hoffmann / Shooting Man
THE STORY OF THE MAN THAT WENT OUT SHOOTING " At last he stumbled at the well, head over ears, & in he fell. The hare stopp d short, took aim, & hark!"

Two chicks in a plantpot on a cutout greetings card
Two chicks nestling in a plantpot on a cutout greetings card -- Confidences. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a boy in a sailor suit with bucket and spade. Date: circa 1890s

Reverie Date: 1890

Comic postcard, Neutral American with newspaper. Date: 1914-1918

Comic postcard, Rat with hatching egg - shell bursting. Date: 1914-1918

Comic postcard, Soldier versus civilian - a clear winner! Date: 1914-1918

Comic postcard, Little boy waiting for girl in the rain. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man and wife at the seaside, walking along the beach. Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Man and woman at the seaside Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Young couple at the seaside - forget the war for a week or two. Date: 1914-1918

Christmas postcard, hamper of food and drink Date: early 20th century

Patriotic postcard, For the Glory of the Empire - Play the Game! Elegant woman with tennis racket. Date: early 20th century

Three young men in a field beside a tent, two of them with rifles Date: circa 1910s

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