Thin Collection (page 10)

View toward The Pyramids Giza, Egypt
View across an irrigation channel and through some tall thin palm trees toward The Pyramids Giza, Cairo, Egypt

Pretty white orchid
A couple of fronds of a pretty white orchid plant spill out of a glossy grey vase with a thin elegant stem. Airbush painting by Malcolm Greenwmith

Egyptian Beauty and scenes from the country
An Egyptian beauty is framed in a diamond, surrounded by scenes from the country including the Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza, an avenue of Palm trees

Egyptian Beauty amoking
An alluring Egyptian beauty turns her gaze outwards from behind her sheer veil, as she smoking a cigarette

American Indians. North American Indians holding council on
Four Indians round a camp fire wearing feathers and fringed trousers, smoking long thin pipes. Date: 1860

Thin busts perfected
Advertisement for the ideal corset, manufactured by J. Evans and Co. of London, designed to beautify thin busts

J-M Charcot / Luque / Hommes
JEAN-MARTIN CHARCOT A satire on the French neurologist

Jos Chamberlain / Leandre
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN Liberal MP satirised as the " Friend of France"

Mcpherson / Aimee / Kapp 28
AIMEE SEMPLE MCPHERSON nee AIMEE ELIZABETH KENNEDY American Pentecostal evangelist

Noel Coward, Nerman, Caric
NOEL COWARD Caricature of the actor, playwright and songwriter

Michel Chevalier / V Fair
MICHEL CHEVALIER French political economist

Clinton Joseph Davisson
CLINTON JOSEPH DAVISSON American physicist

Blonde in a Hat 1940S
A blonde woman models a fashionable velvet hat with a wide brim

Husband / Wife / Disgruntled
A thin husband and rather well-built wife having a disagreement at bedtime

Fur Coats 1938
Belted, ocelot coat, crocodile clutch bag, pill-box hat with veil, seal fur coat, lattice- work bag, flat hat with chin strap and suede gauntlets; just the thing for Longchamp!

Evening Gown / Mainbocher
Peach, bias cut gown with thin straps and wrap-over bodice which is echoed in the diagonal skirt panels. The skirt is gored with a train. A fur-trimmed scarf is worn

Thin Art Nouveau Flower
Very slim, very slender, somewhat anaemic, you could walk down Piccadilly with this in your hand and everyone would recognise you as an unquestionable aesthete

Carpenter at Work / Sawing
A carpenter uses a large frame saw to split a thin piece of wood held tightly to his bench

Poiret Day Dress / Photo
Design by Paul Poiret: high waisted Directoire / Empire revival day dress in a Chinese floral fabric, half-length sleeves with engageantes & a red ribbon belt

Ww1 Steam Roller
The French and English look on in despair as the Russian Steam-Roller runs out of steam and ceases to roll

Planing Off a Bit More
Comment on womens desire to achieve the fashionable silhouette of no curves. A thin, flat-chested woman with an Eton crop wears court shoes & a sailor style dress

German Espionage 1914
German espionage

Female Type / Bright Young
A bright young thing with a short haircut and cigarette

Arthur Carlton / Variety
ARTHUR CARLTON Music hall entertainer

Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872 - 1930), British lawyer and Conservative politician

Cartoon commentary on Germanys lack of money
A cartoon commentary on Germanys lack of money after the First World War. The German man in the foreground is in rags, and has no trousers, but none of the other European powers is able to help

Curved window, Wales
The elegant curved front window of a very narrow house at the end of two diverging streets in Wales. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Wilkie Collins / Van Fair
WILKIE COLLINS English novelist

Grandville Great / Small
The great and the small

John Morley / Visc / Pc 1905
JOHN, VISCOUNT MORLEY English politician and writer, in 1905 when he became Secretary of State for India

Cl Morgan / Cig Card 1936
CHARLES LANGBRIDGE MORGAN English novelist and drama critic in 1936

George Warwick Deeping
GEORGE WARWICK DEEPING English novelist

Cunninghame-Graham / Spy
ROBERT BONTINE CUNNINGHAME-GRAHAM Scottish writer, traveller, radical politician and nationalist

Churchill / Randolph / Fly
British MP Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill as a pesky insect which bites at night, but no-one feels its sting, and which is " all hum"

Nicolas Caussin / Clouwet
NICOLAS CAUSSIN French Jesuit

Edward Viscount Cardwell
EDWARD VISCOUNT CARDWELL English politician

Brueghel / Boulonois Fc
PIETER BRUEGHEL THE ELDER Flemish painter best known for his peasant scenes

Fearful Miser Guards
A fearful miser guards his money

Misses Price 1825
The Misses Price: half, full, high & low! Costume includes: spencers, a fur-trimmed pelisse, feather trimmed bonnets, reticule & a fur muff

Dime Museum, 2 of 2
The interior of a Dime Museum in the Bowery, New York: the audience stares with curiosity at a bearded lady, a very thin man and a giantess among other human oddities

Evening Wear 1939
Evening gowns by Balenciaga (with a bustle) and Alix (very thin spaghetti straps)

John Bull after Tax
Mr John Bull after an attack of Income Tax

Kingfisher / Morris
A kingfisher sitting on a thin branch. (Alcedo ispida)

Manx New Year Custom
MANX NEW YEAR CUSTOM Children go from house to house on New Years morning singing New Years Cakes for which they are rewarded with - you guessed it - cakes

Undercutting Coal Seam
Undercutting a thin coal seam

Tea Party / Greenaway
Thin faced little girls in mob caps partake of cake & tea seated on rush chairs. A racquet & shuttlecock have momentarily been abandoned for the sake of refreshment

Woman Dressing 1831
A skinny husband helps his plump wife with her corset: " He is fond of a slender waist!"

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