Sweet Collection (page 22)

Sweet Waters of Asia Minor - Fountain - Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1908

Japanese girl - Sweet Dreams of Love
Japanese girl playing a small drum - titled Sweet Dreams of Love. Date: circa 1910

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Listening to Winston Churchill
Churchill: " We Shall never stop, never weary, and never give in." Old Lady to her military officer son/Grandson

Japan - Two young Children eating rice and drinking tea Date: circa 1906

Embossed greetings card, featuring a white elephant
Embossed French greetings card, featuring a white elephant on a red background. Date: circa 1910s

Sending a new pipe and a heart of love to the front
France, WW1 - A pretty girl sends her beau a new pipe and a heart of love to the front, where her brave man is fighting. Date: circa 1916

Tunisian Spahi Officer with his pet Gazelle - Tunisia. Spahis were light cavalry regiments of the French army recruited primarily from the indigenous populations of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco

Thessaloniki - Itinerant Liquorice Water Seller Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Sweet Cottage in the Turkish Quarter. Date: circa 1910s

Istanbul, Turkey - Goksu - Sweet Waters of Asia Minor Date: 1895

Syrup Seller - Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1910s

Goksu, Arnavutkoy and Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1897

Goksu, The Sweet Waters of Asia Minor, Istanbul, Turkey Date: 1895

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Trying it on
Trying it on! A sailor boy (home on leave) proposes to his girl sweetheart and presents her with a diamond ring! Date: circa 1942

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A little bit behind
" A little bit behind!" - A kind young girl helps her boy chum who has torn his shorts and requires an urgent spot of patching-up! Date: circa 1942

Won t You come for a ride?
A little Dutch boy offers the chance of a fun ride to a little Dutch girl in his hobby horse and cart. She seems intrigued by the suggestion... (1/3) Date: circa 1920

Full Speed Ahead
Having persuaded his lady friend to come for a ride, a little Dutch boys commands his wooden hobby horse to travel " Full Speed Ahead" ! (2/3) Date: circa 1920

Personification of Charity - Sweet Sunshine to the Flower
Charitys transforming power - Is like sweet sunshine to the flower. Date: circa 1910s

Wooden Dolls stirring the Christmas Pudding
Loving Greetings - Wooden Dolls stirring the Christmas Pudding - see (10514352). Date: circa 1906

Ragged British Family Carol Singing - Christmas - this card bears the title: " I still work for the same firm - Wife and four kids" !! Date: circa 1910s

A couple occupying their Favourite Corner Newlyn, Cornwall
A couple occupying their Favourite Corner on the seafront at Newlyn, Cornwall Date: circa 1890s

Irony of a sweet child wearing an HMS Furious cap
HMS Furious - somewhat ironic picture showing an old soldier and the least likely ilor of the HMS Furious, a sweet little child in a sailor suit. Date: circa 1890s

Military Father disarmed by daughters generous reply
Disarmed. " Why do you pick those flowers" " To give to you." Date: 1898

Little girl approaching pub bar to ask for Brandy
A Large Order. Little Girl - " Three penn orth o Brandy an I want a cork; an will ye wash the bottle out, cos its ad milk in it." Date: 1895

Two Cockney street Flowergirls
Two Cockney Flowergirls, not in their first bloom of youth - entitled (somewhat wickedly) " Sweet Violets" ! - caricature by Phil May. Date: 1897

Russian Mother helps teach her daughter to read by pointing to words on posters on a brick wall. Date: 1902

WWI - Sweet Remembrance from France - Shell through wall
WWI - Sweet Remembrance from France - The Same to you, and many of them! A resting soldier is seemingly unperturbed by a large artillery Shell bursting through the wall above his bed

Young boy standing amid the divergent trunks of a oak tree Date: early 1950s

Mother and young donkey stand sweetly on the seashore
Mother and young donkey (unclear whether a Jack or a Jenny/Jennet) stand sweetly on the seashore, awaiting their next youthful burden. The caption reads: Home Life

Istanbul, Turkey - Rowing on the Sweet Waters of Asia Minor Date: circa 1920s

Izmir, Turkey - Two young toddlers in Traditional costume Date: circa 1902

Istanbul, Turkey - Anadolu Hisari and Bridge over Goksu
Istanbul, Turkey - Fortress on the Anatolian Shore (Anadolu Hisari, on the Asian side of the Bosphorus) and the Bridge over the Goksu River (Sweet Waters of Asia Minor). Date: circa 1922

The Half Back - A Young Footballer Date: circa 1890s

Istanbul, Turkey - Sweet Waters of Asia Minor
Istanbul, Turkey - Rowing on the Sweet Waters of Asia Minor Date: circa 1910

Sweet Little man making his case to bathing beauties
Sweet Little man making his case to three bathing beauties: " I may not be much to look at, Girls, but I m Reliable." Date: circa 1925

German Bavarian Mother mends her young sons sock
Jolly German Bavarian Mother mends her happy young sons sock Date: circa 1910s

Tatiana, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova) (18971918) aged five, riding a miniature pony - pictured with a royal attendant. Date: 1902

Young Russian Girl holding up a bunch of flowers
I m going to give you a bunch of flowers and then make a swift departure! (very loose translation!) Young Russian Girl holding up a bunch of flowers. Date: 1908

WWI - Girl gives a party to wounded soldiers
A young girl hosts a garden party picnic for wounded soldiers invalided home from the Western Front - instead of receiving her usual Birthday presents Date: circa 1916

Young Boy and Girl carrying chickens
A charming painting by Elizabeth Bem, showing a young Boy and a young Girl, each carrying a chicken. Date: 1902

Christmas card in the shape of a honey pot with mouse
Christmas card in the shape of a honey pot with an escaping mouse. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a honey pot decorated with a beehive and pink flowers. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a jam pot. Date: circa 1890s

Castanea sativa, sweet chestnut tree
Plate from Pomona Italiana Vol 2, 1839 by Giorgio Galisio. Illustration entitled Castagna Marona

Theobroma cacao, cocoa
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Zea mays, maize
This large cultivated grass called maize or sweet corn is an important cereal. Grain is ground for flour as well as forming a table vegetable, the husks are used as fuel & the leaves for cattle fodder

Some of the sweets beloved of the native
Watercolour by Olivia Fanny Tonge 1858-1949. 180 x 260mm. From one of sixteen sketchbooks presented to the Museum in 1952

Honeycomb of Apis sp. honeybee
A close-up of the structure of a the honeycomb made by a colony of honeybees

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