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

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

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

Craftsmen making besom brooms and wooden rakes
Two craftsmen sit on narrow benches, making besom brooms and wooden rakes. 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

Chuvash people wearing traditional clothing
Chuvash people. Turkic ethnic group, native to an area stretching from the Volga Region to Siberia. The Chuvash people wearing traditional clothing. Engraving by Lemaitre, Vernier and Monnin

Italy. In Venice. Original drawing by H. Quilter. Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1882

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

Shoot for John Lewis Partnership product packaging - tights
Cient: PHP Advertising for John Lewis Partnership product packaging - tights - Studio Shoot - February 15, 1968 - Model: Debbie Grieve Date: 1968

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

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

David Wright woman in evening dress and black gloves
Elegant woman in a low-cut evening dress and long black gloves, stretching her arms in a seductive pose. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Women of the Burmese Kayan Lahwi tribe
Four women and a young baby from the Kayan Lahwi tribe, a group of the Karenni people of Burma (Myanmar). Women of the various Kayan tribes identify themselves by their different form of dress

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

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

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

Human skeleton holding a heavy object
A human skeleton in movement, holding a heavy object above its head

Teenage Ballet Dancer. Date: 1929

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

Cat reaches up to open the door
Unusual Friends - cat reaches up to open the door. 1950s

A mile-long KFOR invasion column stretching from the border between Macedonia and Kosovo to the Kosovo plains.One of 48 colour photographs taken by Sgt David John Miles

Abdul-Ham - Arab Boy Acrobat - Hi act is called Arabian Fantasies and this card states tat he is the very best at it! Date: circa 1910

London, England - Battle Village - Wide empty street, houses stretching into the distance. Part of Box 186 Boswell Collection - London. Date: circa 1900

South Africa Cape Colony - Bulawayo Agency Building - Square building stretching length of street. Part of Box 169 Boswell Collection - South Africa Cape Colony. Date: circa 1900

Grinning policeman and clown on a Christmas card
Grinning policeman on a Christmas card, pulling a clowns ear. (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century

4th Avenue, New York
Today 4th avenue is a thoroughfare in the New York city Borough of Brooklyn stretching for six miles. Widely known as Park avenue

Picking Flower in Wall
Trying to reach a flower growing out of a wall Date: circa 1890

Model wearing a floral maternity evening gown 1937
Model wearing a full length draped floral maternity evening gown, lightly shirred across the bust with three hand-run tucks down either side which can be let out inch by inch

Self-portrait of Andrew Besley, photographer, yawning and stretching in bed in the early morning. 1956

Man yawning and stretching on a train as he reaches his destination. Date: circa 1960s

The flowers awake
The flowers of the garden awake after their long winter sleep. Date: 1895

Female in shorts and striped top stretching on lawn Date: 1946

Cornwall - Lands End
Black and white. Image of craggy rocks stretching out to sea.. Part of Box 365, Miscellaneous Part 1, Boswell collection. Slide number 2. Date: circa 1900

Japanese / Manchurian / Red-crowned CRANE - pair dancing in snow (Grus japonensis)

Asian / Indian Elephant - baby (Elephas maximus)

Russian village Garyi stretching along the river Sosva bank. North Ural Mountain region, Russia. traditional wooden houses and vegetable gardens, meadows and forest. September

3rd Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg, training
Boys of 3rd Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa, doing physical training

A Trouser Stretch of the Imagination by Heath Robinson
Are you taking care of your summer flannels? A suggestion for preserving the shape of your nether garments in view of the summer holidays

The Awakening by Muriel Dawson -- a baby wakes up and stretches. Date: 1929

English Dance School
Girls doing leg stretching exercises at the Berthe Krull Dance School. Date: 1930s

Keep Fit Exercises
Three women standing in front of a mirror doing keep fit stretching excercises. Date: early 1930s

Reduced facsimile of a Chart of Physical Exercises (supplied with Cassells Physical Educator). Date: circa 1910s

Poster advertising Trufood -- Put breakable things out of reach. Date: circa 1949-1950

Washing and stretching cloth. Print shows two women with a large washtub and a hammock, washing cloth and laying it on the hammock to dry. Date between 1767 and 1769

A man, bare-chested, sitting cross-legged with arms raised over his head, stretching or practicing yoga(?). Date between 1830 and 1850

Scissors and Pendulum - Exercise regime for 1927
Images illustrating two exercises, the Scissors and the Pendulum designed to keep the figure neat and trim for 1920s ladies. Date: 1927

The Seal - Exercise regime for 1927
A recommended exercise for the 1920s lady, the Seal improves the general circulation, strengthens the abdomen and corrects that very common fault called sway back. Date: 1927

Silhouette, Early to Bed, Early to Rise
Early to Bed, Early to Rise -- silhouette showing a little boy standing in front of his bed, stretching and yawning

Land Girls Awake
Happy Land Girls stretching their arms out in their beds as they awake! Date: early 1940s

Chelsea Foreshore
Stretching along the foreshore to the west of Chelsea Bridge, London, is this long line of old sailing barges. This Barges Graveyard houses many bohemian artistic Londoners. Date: 1940s

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