Suggestive Gallery

Olga Valery - French actress - Roses

Olga Timchenko (aka Olga Valery) (1903-2002) - French actress of Ukrainian origin - performing at the Casino de Paris. The (remarkable) comment on the postcard reverse reads as follows: "The roses round the door, make you love Mother more." Date: circa 1925

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

1920s, 20s, Actress, Apr18, Blue, Colour, Colourful, Exotic, Festooned, Floral, Flower, Flowers, Follies, French, Garland, Garlands, Olga, Origin, Ribbons, Rose, Roses, Strings, Suggestive, Timchenko, Top, Twenties, Ukrainian, Valery, Ziegfeld

WW1 poster, I Want You for the Navy - promotion for anyone enlisting

WW1 poster, I Want You for the Navy - promotion for anyone enlisting, apply any recruiting station or postmaster. Date: 1917

© Mary Evans Picture Library/Onslow Auctions Limited

1910s, 1917, 1st, America, American, Apply, Attractive, Effort, Enlist, Enlisting, Great, Join, Naval, Navy, Patriotic, Patriotism, Persuasion, Poster, Postmaster, Promotion, Recruiting, Recruitment, Service, Station, Suggestive, Uniform, Usa, War, Wartime, Woman, Women, World, Wwi

Comic postcard, Couple climbing a cliff at the seaside - getting the wind up Date

Comic postcard, Couple climbing a cliff at the seaside - getting the wind up Date: 20th century

© The Donald McGill Archive Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

Beach, Birds, Boyfriend, British, Card, Climb, Climbing, Comic, Couple, Crude, Double, Dress, Enjoyment, Entendre, Frilly, Fun, Funny, Girlfriend, Holiday, Holidays, Humorous, Man, Meaning, Men, Nest, Postcard, Red, Sea, Seaside, Skirt, Smiling, Stockings, Suggestive, Summer, Verbal, Wind, Windy, Woman, Women