Telling Collection (page 5)

Fortune teller, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA
Chinese fortune teller, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: 1936

British Mediterranean Fleet Sports Day - Prize Giving at the Ben-Marl Stadium, rigged up by the crews of the HMS Benbow and the HMS Marlborough of the 4th Battle Squadron

Myanmar - Burmese Fortunetellers. Date: circa 1909

Doctors Advice
A doctor gives a female patient a ticking off. Date: 1960s

Serpents / Apollos Oracle
The tripod and serpents of Apollos Oracle. Date: 1886

Algerian Story-Teller
An Algerian story-teller Date: 1906

The Erythraen Sibyl

Fortune Telling Birds
A fortune-teller in the streets of London uses Indian birds who are, it seems, gifted with occult powers of divination Date: 1890s

Reading a Palm
A gipsy fortune teller reads a young womans future in the palm of her hand Date: 18th century

Cumaean Sibyl & Jesus
The CUMAEAN SIBYL foretells the coming of Jesus - a pious invention of the early Christians, hoping to show that their faith had been predicted in ancient times Date: BC

Tea leaf fortune telling
A lady explains to a young girl what the tea leaves in her cup reveal about the future. Date: circa 1850

Cartoon, When will peace come? WW1
Cartoon, When will peace come? A woman asks a fortune teller. The answer: Why, when the fighting stops! Date: 1916

The palmists warning (The New Science) -- an engaged couple have just had their palms read, and the palmist has warned them that they are not suited to each other. Date: 1887

Lady having her palm read
A lady having her palm read while others look on. Date: 18th century

The Cumaean Sybil
THE CUMAEAN SYBIL It was she who offered Tarquinius Superbus the Sybilline Prophecies

German wise-woman
Villagers crowd the cottage of the village wise-woman, and one of them writes down her inspired utterances. Date: 1867

Telling the Tale by Sydney Blow and Douglas Hoare
Reverse of promotional postcard for Telling The Tale by Sydney Blow and Douglas Hoare from Une Nuit de Noces by Henri Keroul and Albert Barre (Theatre des Folies Dramatiues, Paris)

Family scenes on a three-part Christmas card, looking back to previous generations. Date: circa 1890s

Thanks awfully for telling us! Cartoon by H. M. Bateman
Thanks awfully for telling us! Knowledge as it is purveyed: dedicated to the " Daily ___" Bateman here pours scorn on the Daily Mail for its journalistic technique of stating the obvious

Leader speaking to scouts and cubs, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
A leader speaking to a large group of scouts and cubs on an outdoor activity in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: 20th century

And Then They Charged Us by Denis Cowles, WW1 cartoon
A British Army officer during the First World War, entertains and alarms a group of non-combatant men dressed in evening wear, with some dramatic stories from the Front. Date: 1916

Isadora Duncan teaching children at Rye, New York, WW1
Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), modern dance innovator, pictured with some of her pupils at Rye in New York, telling them a story on what looks like a beach. 1915

Womens Royal Air Force -- Fortune Teller
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing four women consulting a Fortune Teller colleague, with cards laid out on the table. Date: 1919-1920

A Christmas Story, by C. Rebel Stanton
A colour illustration showing a young couple flirting oblivious to the the animated story teller who is entertaining the rest of the group. Date: 29th November 1929

Palm reader Zingora lets a lady know her love is true
Palm reader Zingora lets a lady know that somebody loves her madly! Is it the gentleman who is next in line...?! Date: circa 1907

Old Yokel extols the fighting qualities of his son
" My Laad Garge as bin feaghtin t Booers. If e only whopped em like e did is did is Old Woman, ed mak em sit up, I tell ye." Date: 1900

Young boy admonished for fishin on the Sabbath
Clergyman - " My Boy, do you know its wicked to fish on the Sabbath?" Youngster - " I isn t fishing; I m teachin this ere wurm ter swim." Date: 1895

Streetwise young scamp talks back at an admonishing woman who is criticising him for smoking." Do you know its very wrong for little boys to smoke tobacco

Teacher and father telling a child off: Ok
" Teacher and father telling a child off: " Ok, you had a 58, it is not bad; but in the future you have to be the first one, if not..I don t need to say anything else"

A reading from Homer
BREND AMOUR, Richard (1831-1915). A Reading from Homer. Copy of Lawrence Alma-Tademas oil painting that is preserved at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Date: 1885

Charter Bank House, Mount Pleasant - Rangoon -.telling how splendid the homes and gardens of Rangoon used to be before the war no basha huts, no lack of paint

Prophet of St Pauls reading a womans palm
The Prophet of Saint Pauls reading a womans palm. The womans black servant stands at her side. Date: 17th century

Gypsy palm reader, 1884 Date: 1884

Farewell present of useful white flag, which Russian Generals wife thoughtfully gives when he leaves for front, telling him to use it as soon as he sees Japanese army

I am telling you - On June 28th I expect you to enlist in the army of war savers to back up my army of fighters. Half-length portrait of Uncle Sam, standing, facing front, with his fists on his hips

The man we would like to strangle
" The man we would like to strangle." from " The Sketch Book & Winters Pie". A room full of people look fed up as a man recounts his fishing stories during a thaw at a Winter

Studies of Moorish Life -- a Storyteller. The man on the right holds up his hands as he tells his story. The man on the left sits on a rock with a human skull in one hand

Teacher telling mother her son is good for nothing

Man and dachshunds
A man scolds his two dachshunds. Landskrona, 1910.- Date: 1910

The Truth About Grown-Ups by William Heath Robinson
A baby, who should really be fast asleep in his cot, instead regales a gathered group of elves and pixies in his bedroom with tall tales about the deeds of his parents

Railway Crossing Sign
A railway crossing sign for large vehicles, telling them to stop and telephone for permission to cross! Date: 1960s

The Beach at Berck-Plage, France Date: circa 1910s

Mother Story-Telling
A mother tells a bedtime story to her daughter` Date: 1931

Fortune Teller with cards
French (Breton?) Fortune Teller with cards Date: circa 1910s

Fortune Telling Cards
A sinister gipsy woman, dripping with rings and necklaces, spreads her fortune telling cards across the table... Date: 1970s

Iranian Fortune Teller
The old Iranian fortune teller looks up at her shy, smiling young customer : I see a rich and handsome young man from Tehran... Date: 1930s

PALMISTRY
Cross my palm with silver : a fortune teller reads someones fortune from the palms of their hands. Date: 1930s

Fortune Teller & Cat
A sinister gipsy woman and her scary cat, reading someones fortune with playing cards... Date: 1970s

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