Stretching Collection

Elizabethan London, stretching from St James Park in the west to Whitechapel and the Tower in the east. Theatres and other places of ill-repute are located on the south bank

Ballet dancers exercising at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse. (2 of 2)

Dressing Shetland Shawls
Women from the Shetland Islands dress Shetland wool shawls on large racks Date: 1908

Streamline Fuselage by David Wright, showing a red-haired woman in pink and black polka dot lingerie, stockings and stilletos, stretching out her legs

Ballet dancers exercising at the French Academie de Musique et de Danse. (1 of 2)

Attila the Hun
ATTILA, KING OF THE HUNS Leader of an Empire stretching from the Netherlands to the Urals. Seen as the epitome of cruelty in Western Europe, but lionized in Eastern Europe

Craftsmen making besom brooms and wooden rakes
Two craftsmen sit on narrow benches, making besom brooms and wooden rakes. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

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

Craftsmen make besom brooms and wooden rakes
Two craftsmen sit on narrow benches, making besom brooms and wooden rakes. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

V for Victory Exercise
Doing the V for Victory gymnastic, keeping fit by stretching in a V shape! Woman women fitness

Shoot for John Lewis Partnership product packaging - tights - circa 1960s. Date: 1960s

Comic postcard, Husband after riotous night out Date: 20th century

Member of the Meru Tribe - Kenya, East Africa
Memeber of the Meru Tribe - Kenya, East Africa. Both men and women of this region stretch their ears, although today more women than men follow the practice

Fashion Advertisement Illustration
A pair of fashion advertisement illustrations for Wolsey Ltd and Lux, portraying a young woman stretching on her back and standing to the side, wearing various garments. Date: circa 1939

Country Woman
A portrait lithograph of a young country woman sat on a low brick wall, with a background view of flat land, divided by a horizontally stretching fence. Date: circa 1922

Street View
A watercolour painting of a straight street road, stretching alongside a row of buildings, with a church steeple visible at the back, a woman is walking down the road. Date: circa 1918

Post Office Radio Telephone Services and Fisheries
A wonderful, original, poster map showing Post Office Radio Telephone Services commissioned by the General Post Office and designed by Leslie MacDonald Gill, 1935

F. X. Shields, Tennis Player
Frank X. Shields (1909-1975) was an American amateur tennis player, and also an actor who appeared in several films throughout the 1930s. Date: 1931

Flora Le Breton (1899-1951) was an English stage and silent film actress who moved to the United States in 1924. Date: circa 1924

Mona Paiva, a Russian dancer of the Opera Comique in Paris. Date: circa 1924

Walter Cathro Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Walter Cathro Pty, Ltd. promoting Holeproof Hosiery. The illustration shows a woman stretching on her bed, showing off the leg wear. Date: circa 1921

The Monarch
Drypoint of large tree by the Kalgan River, stretching 140 kilometres, in Western Australia. Date: circa 1918

Stone pot lid with the figure of a stretching dog - Greece
Stone pot lid with the figure of a stretching dog and cross-hatched patternation from Mochlos, Greece - mid 3rd millenium BC. Date: circa 2400-2200 BC

1969 1960s 60s Sixties Electric Man Men Electricity
1969, 1960s, 60s, sixties, electric, man, men, electricity, council, appliance, appliances, testing, laboratories, laboratory, leatherhead, surrey, lab, labs, test, experiment, quality, electrical

Comic birthday postcard, Girl posting birthday card Date: 20th century

Wilton Williams Idea of Comfort, taking a bath
A lady looks the picture of relaxation following a steaming hot bath. One of a series of illustrations done for Comfort Soap in the 1920s by leading illustrators of the day. Date: c.1925

Daughter at Work Day Date: 1950

Paris Window View Date: 1887

WOMAN WAKING 1940S
Young woman, in a nightdress with gathered bodice & broad straps, stretches as she wakes up. A quilted dressing gown hangs up near her bed. N.B Satin quilt or eiderdown. Date: 1940s

EXETER HALL GYMNASTS
Male gymnasts at Exeter Hall YMCA in London do various exercises including stretching, lifting and cycling. Date: 1895

EXERCISES FOR GIRLS (2)
Exercises for girls (2 of 3). Date: 1884

EXERCISES FOR GIRLS (3)
Exercises for girls (3 of 3). Date: 1884

EXERCISES FOR GIRLS (1)
Exercises for girls (1 of 3). Date: 1884

Staking tawed leather at a leather factory, south London
Workman staking tawed leather (stretching, smoothing and softening) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Royal Air Force de Havilland DH. 98 Mosquito B Mk. IV DK336
Royal Air Force de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk.IV DK336. Seen in the photo is the common affliction of the Mosquito; drooping main Undercarriage doors

Teenage Ballet Dancer. Date: 1929

Sculpture of a male ball player by Georg Mattes (1874-1942). Date: circa 1900s

Female contortionist Diana Gaye relaxing
The female contortionist Diana Gaye stretching out and relaxing in her bikini. Date: 1971

Dance, Ballet - two dancers demonstrating lifts and poses. Date: circa 1930s

African Lion - lioness stretching before hunt (Panthera leo). Ndutu area between Serengeti and Ngorongoro - Tanzania

A Diabolo player by German photographer Reinhold Thiele
Composite photograph of a Diabolo player by noted photographer (Karl Anton) Reinhold Thiele (1856-1921), born in Hamelin, Germany

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - waking up. circa 1910s

Interior of Latecoere
Interior of the Latecoere 521 flying boat Lieutenant de Vaisseaux Paris, carrying 30 passengers trans-Atlantic or 70 on Mediterranean routes in leg-stretching comfort. Date: 1935

Advert for Abplanalps Institute, cure of obesity 1929
Showing a man with large a waistline and after the recommended workout slim two months later. For all sexes the cure of obesity, free booklet and cinema demonstration

In the Stretching Sheds of an Ox-Tail Soup Factory. War-Time Economies from William Heath Robinson including an ingenious idea for making the ingredients for oxtail soup go further. Date: 1918

Japan - the Foreign settlement of Kobe
Lantern slide of the Foreign settlement of Kob鮠 When Kobe port was opened in 1868 after two centuries of isolation policy by the country

Gymnastics at the Hermitage School, Brussels, Belgium, founded in 1907 by Jean-Ovide Decroly (18711932), a Belgian teacher and psychologist. Date: circa 1920

Sudan - Africa - Men and Women at Lado Enclave Date: circa 1910

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