Straw Collection (page 4)

British colonial group in India, japes on steps Date: circa 1900s

British colonial group in India. Date: circa 1900s

British colonial children in India with Indian nanny. Date: circa 1900s

Comic postcard, Little girl at the seaside with goat Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Teddy bear suffragette and policeman. Come Along, Christabear! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Teddy bears in the street. I m waiting for a bus. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Edwardian woman at sea in large hat Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Edwardian woman in large hat Date: early 20th century

Threshing rice grains, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Farm workers tripping rices grains from straw, Japan
Farm workers tripping rices grains from the straw, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Farm workers stripping grains of rice from straw, Japan
Farm workers stripping grains of rice from the straw, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Farm ox cart with hay, farm workers, pitchforks, European
Farm ox cart loaded with hay, farm workers with pitchforks, European. Vintage 19th century photograph

Harvesting the rice crop in Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Making straw mats, Japan
19th century vintage photograph: mat makers weaving straw mats, Japan on a loonm

Matmakers, Japan
19th century vintage photograph: matmakers making straw mats, Japan

Selection of womens brimmed hats. Date: 1916

Happy Girl
Happy young girl in a soft straw hat. Artist: Joyce Averill Date: circa 1917

Marylebone School
The St Marylebone School began as the Marylebone Day School of Industry, founded in 1791 in what was then Paradise Street, now Moxon Street, to educate the children of the poor in the parish

Fashionable couple at a ball, Paris, 1834
Dandyism in the Romantic Period, A ballroom in 1834. Fop in coat with tails, tight pants and top hat. Woman in fur-trim dress with feather in her hair. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Couple waiting for a coach, Place de la Concorde
Couple waiting for the Saint-Cloud coach, Place de la Concorde, 1806. She in deep bonnet and high-waisted coat, he in hat, coat, breeches and boots. Saint Cloud was part of the Malmaison estate

Trades in Regency England. Brick making, butter churning and rabbit warren. Brickmaker with bricks, hod, kiln and wheelbarrow in Woolpit 31, woman churning butter in an urn in Bury dairy 32

Trades in Regency England: cable making, straw work
Trades in Regency England. Men twisting rope in a cable making factory in Deptford 1, women and children making straw hats in Dunstable 2 and a woman making lace outside a cottage in Buckingham 3

Historical views of Japan. Japanese woman riding in a sedan chair on wheels 22, Japanese Christians forced to step on a crucifix (fumie) in Nagasaki, 17th century 23

Woman with muff, era of Marie Antoinette
Woman with muff, bathing cap under hat, morning dress, era of Marie Antoinette. Dame en belle matineuse avec robe et jupon blancs garnis

Fashionable man with monocle, era of Marie Antoinette
Fashionable man with monocle, in striped coat and tricorn, era of Marie Antoinette. Le Lorgneur. Copperplate etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot from Costumes et coiffures du XVIIIe siecle

Fashionable man and woman playing in the Bois de Boulogne. Delassemens du Bois de Boulogne. Copperplate etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot from Costumes et coiffures du XVIIIe siecle

Woman in fashionable straw hat, era of Marie Antoinette. Copperplate etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot from Costumes et coiffures du XVIIIe siecle, Costumes and hairstyles of the 18th century

Woman in giant bonnet with feathers, era of Marie Antoinette. Copperplate etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot from Costumes et coiffures du XVIIIe siecle

Woman in costume as a magician for a masquerade ball
Woman in costume as a magician (magicienne) for a masquerade ball, late 19th century, Paris. Designed by M. Robin. Handcoloured lithograph published by Martinet, Paris, 1880s

Old lady, eastern alchymist, etc
Old lady or black underwing, Mormo maura 1, eastern alchymist, Aedia leucomelas 2, and Dypterygia scabriuscula 3, 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johann Carl Bock after Eugenius Johann

Spotted clover, Guernsey underwing, straw underwing, etc
Spotted clover, Schinia scutosa 1, 2, Epilecta linogrisea 3, Guernsey underwing, Polyphaenis sericata 4, and straw underwing, Thalpophila matura 5, 6

Woman in pansy dress with straw-coloured apron, bonnet with white lace. Handcoloured lithograph by A. Carrache after an illustration by Francois-Claudius Compte-Calix from Les Modes Parisienne sous

Woman in white dress with velvet design, red velvet hat and long straw-colour gloves. Handcoloured lithograph by E. Bracquet after an illustration by Francois-Claudius Compte-Calix from Les Modes

Woman in white dress with straw-coloured trim and garnet belt, capote hat in garnet silk. Handcoloured lithograph by A. Lacourriere after an illustration by Francois-Claudius Compte-Calix from Les

Woman in white dress with black velvet trim, red waistcoat, blue fur sash, white hat ornamented with flowers. Handcoloured lithograph by E

Man in hazelnut colour coat with monocle
Man in hazelnut colour coat, green culottes and gloves, black boots and hat with tricolor cockade. Handcoloured lithograph by A

Woman in pearl-grey suit and black straw hat. Tailleur de satin gris de perle, chapeau de paille noir. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil)

Woman in crepe-de-chine gown with cupid, 1913
Woman in crepe-de-chine gown with belt and bag embroidered with pearls. A cupid aims a love dart at her head. Robe de crepe de chine, sac et ceinture brodes de perles

Woman in grey wool suit and yellow straw hat
Woman in grey wool suit, Baptiste shirt, straw hat, and beige wool gaiters. Costume tailleur en cheviotte grise, chemisette de baptiste, chapeau en paille de riz

Womens hat designs by milliner Marcelle Demay, 1913
Womens hat designs by milliner Marcelle Demay. Modeles de Marcelle Demay. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by B

Woman in straw hat and dress of printed taffeta
Woman with basket of autumn fruit in straw hat and dress of printed taffeta. Toilette de taffetas imprime, Chapeau de paille

Rear view of man in travel overcoat by Marcel Lus, hat, pants with turn-ups. gaiters over shoes. Pardessus de voyage par Mr. Marcel Lus

French soprano Mlle Virginie Dejazet as Mimi in the one-act vaudeville Grisettes by Scribe and Dupin at the Gymnase-Dramatique, 1823

Girl in a straw hat
Smiling young girl wearing an old straw hat. A sprig of periwinkles in the foreground. Artist: Frances Brundage Date: circa 1908

Tools used in roof thatching, West Country, UK
Tools used in roof thatching in the West Country, UK. Date: circa 1960s

Tray with lemonade jug and two glasses. 1922

Victorian scrap, Boy in sailor suit with cricket bat. 19th century

Victorian scrap, Boy with pink roses. 19th century

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