Stroking Collection

St Martins Home for Boys, Surbiton, Surrey
Boys and staff in the garden of the St Martins Home at, Surbiton. One of the boys is stroking a cat. The home was run by the Waifs and Strays Society. Date: circa 1903

Sugar the pony with young girl at Deal, Kent
Sugar the pony is patted by a young girl as he waits to give rides to children in in his cart at the seaside town of Deal, Kent. Date: 1950s

Stable girl with a horse
A stable girl with a horse. Date: 1964

Woman with pitchfork stroking a horse in front of a haycart. circa 1930s

Queen Alexandra with tiger cub at the London Hippodrome
Queen Alexandra, during a visit to the London Hippodrome on 22 November 1905 with her brother, King George I of Greece, and Prince and Princess Nicholas of Greece

Trade Card for the Luxor Hotel, Egypt
Delightful trade Card for the Luxor Hotel, Egypt featuring a stylised ancient Egyptian Princess or Queen, seated in the bullrushes with two black pet cats on a pale green cushion. Date: circa 1920s

A country girl & a calf
Young girl gingerly stroking a calf while picking wild flowers.Date: circa 1901

Victorian girl with pet kittens
A Victorian era girl with bonnet and parasol sits on a low wall and plays with her two kittens in a break from a walk to pick flowers. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Boys with a pony at a street party. circa 1970s

Lion Cubs in the New York Zoological Park
A young woman strokes two little lion cubs in the New York Zoological Park. Date: circa 1920

The Hound by Mihaly Munkacsy
Mihaly Munkacsy (1844-1900). The Hound. 1882. Hungarian National Gallery. Budapest. Hungary

Two women police officers with horses, London
Two women police officers standing with their horses in a Central London street. Women were appointed to the Mounted Branch in 1970. Date: circa 1977

Police officer on horseback, WPC and little boy, London
A police officer on horseback smiles as a woman police officer holds up a little boy so that he can stroke the horse. The WPC is wearing the Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968

Children with puppy, Balham, SW London
Group of children with a cute puppy, sitting in an open doorway of a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Dog - mongrels with tourist - Dogs roam free on a beach in Sabang in great numbers. Palawan (50km North from Puerto-Princesa), Philippines. February

Selkup children, North Siberia (Northern minority). Children playing with elk skin, near river Taz, North Tumen region, Russia

Stroking a Camel
A female hiker, dressed in shorts and a beret, stroking a camel through some railings. Date: early 1930s

Birds Lunchtime
No, this woman is not stroking a yucca plant, she is actually feeding some hungry birds in the Embankment Gardens, central London! Date: 1930s

The cat that lead a dogs life
Two toddlers stroking a cat. Date: 1930

Friendly Horses

Princess Elizabeth stroking a pony
Princess Elizabeth of York (Queen Elizabeth II) pictured showing an early interest in horses at an unidentified event in the early 1930s. Date: c.1933

Queen Elizabeth II and pony
Queen Elizabeth II attending the Royal Agricultural Society show at Newton Abbot in Devon, seen patting one of the winners in the pony class. Date: 1952

The Queen and Princess Margaret at Badminton
Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret make friends with the famous Foxhunter during the third day of the British Horse Societys Olympic Horse Trials at Badminton. Date: 1952

Fashionable mother with baby stroking pet dog
A fashionable mother wearing a cloche hat and a coat with a thick fur collar holds her baby, who in turn strokes their pet dog

Stable girl with a horse
A stable girl with a horse

Nanny and Child
A small, rather solemn-looking child sits on their carers lap, staring out into the distance. The nanny holds the child carefully, stroking one of the childs tiny, chubby feet

Very glamourous witch
A Witch. A glamourous model holding a black cat! Both sit serenely in a fine wooden chair

Fantasy Illustration - young boy and rabbit
A fantasy Illustration in a cartoon-esque style showing a young boy and pet rabbit. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (1907-2001) British Conservative politician at Selsdon Park Hotel, Croydon for the Tory Partys Shadow Cabinet planning weekend

Frederick Earl Carlisle
FREDERICK HOWARD, 5th earl of CARLISLE statesman and writer, with George Selwyn, who is stroking a dog

Nollet Experiment 2
Nollet, at the College de Navarre, Paris, demonstrates how electricity can be generated by stroking a glass globe, and then passed from one person to another

Back of a Mans Head
A woman puts her hand on the back of a mans head

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