Things That Matter, by Bruce BairnsfatherColonel Fitz-Shrapnel receives the following message from G.H.Q Please let us know, as soon as possible, the number of tins of raspberry jam issued to you last Friday
Cecil Beaton, Rex Whistler & Stephen Tennant at Cap FerratA group of Bright Young People sketching at Cap Ferrat - from left, Cecil Beaton, the Hon. Stephen Tennant, Rex Whistler and Elizabeth Lowndes. Date: 1927
The Bright Young People - mock Rayner-Ponsonby weddingA group of Bright Young Things indulging in one of their many silly pranks, in this case a mock wedding where Elizabeth Ponsonby married John Rayner. The best man was Robert Byron
Art deco illustration of Bright Young Things, 1929 Date: 1929
In a Theatre BoxIn a box at the Opera Comique, Paris, their evening dresses by Molyneux (2), Beer and Premet can hardly be seen : but when the interval comes, things will be different
Mariner, WatersnakesThe Mariner, the dead albatross slung round his neck, watches the sea snakes and blesses them as living things in his desolate world
Ufos / Books / JungCarl Gustav Jung, flying Saucers : a Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies
The Bright Young People at a partyA group of Bright Young Things at Captain Macheacans fancy dress party where guests were instructed to come as a living celebrity
Suffragette Votes for Women Pepper PotA silver suffragette pepper pot or muffineer a small pot with a removable lid - the head of the figure. Holes in the bonnet dispense pepper or sugar
13139861The designer and photographic artist Cecil Beaton (standing - r) showing costume designs to Lady Domville (seated, left) and Mrs Sacheverell Sitwell (seated)
Things that MatterTHINGS THAT MATTER. Colonel Fitz-Shrapnel received the following message from GHQ - Please let us know, as soon as possible, the number of tins of raspberry jam issued to you last Friday
Dog and Two ChildrenA little black dog sits patiently while a boy and a girl hand him nice things to eat from the table
Elizabeth Ponsonby with cocktail shaker and glassesMiss Elizabeth Ponsonby (later the Hon. Mrs Dennis Pelly), one of the Bright Young Things of the 1920s, and daughter of Arthur Ponsonby a senior minister in the Labour government
On with the dance by Lewis BaumerA fancy dress ball in full swing in the early 1920s with couples on the dance floor in costume and balloons and streamers filling the air. Date: 1921
Craven Lodge Fancy BallA page from The Tatler, featuring photographs and a report on the Craven Lodge Fancy Ball in Melton, Leicestershire, a New Year party with a prehistoric fancy dress theme
Tutmania 1923A comic look at the influence of all things Egyptian, especially on female fashion, sparked by the interest in Tutankhamen & his tomb
Marquise de Casa MauryThe Marquise de Casa Maury, formerly Miss Paula Gellibrand, and Mrs Loel Guinness, formerly Joan Yarde-Buller, daughter of Lord Churston. Joan later divorced her husband and married Prince Aly Khan
Joe Elvin as a CabbyThe Cockney Comedian Joe Elvin in the role of The Hansom Cabby, singing a ditty entitled My Lot. " Strange things I view when I peep through the little trapdoor!"
Beauty / Beast (Boyle 2)Beauty discovers that love is the magic that makes all things fair - her love transforms the Beast into a handsome lover
Bloomers in Hyde ParkA view of things to come - women wearing the trousers. All of female kind take to wearing bloomers. A kilted scotsman chats to a newly emancipated lady
Wells / Things to Comethe Shape of Things to Come
Old man comforting crying woman, 1903Painting by Louisa Starr Canziani (1845 - 1909) depicting an elderly man comforting a crying young woman after seemingly having read a devastating report in a newspaper about an overseas battle
Suffragettes Plain Things at Meeting. A bevy of buck-toothed, grinning suffragettes applaud the speaker at a Votes for Women meeting
Cinema advertisement for Things to Come, 1936
Things are looking up - two passing Gents are delighted to see their attentions have been spotted by a housemaid cleaning the upstairs windows of a streetside property Date: 1908
Work SimplifiedThis series of illustrations comically shows a sketch in which some workers are struggling to get a large, heavy pipe into a trench by the end of the day
Africa. Loanda. St. Paul of Loanda. Market SquareHistory of Africa. 19th century. Loanda. Saint Paul of Loanda. View of the Market Square. Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre
Africa. The Congo. Indigenous with double burdenHistory of Africa. 19th century. The Congo. Indigenous with double burden. Engraving by Pedro Mullor. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre
Fleurs Et ChosesThis still life oil painting, title translated to Flowers And Things, includes some plates of apples, grapes and a banana, to each side of a large vase of flowers. Date: circa 1920
ChertseyA London Underground design by F Gregory Brown, depicting Bright Young Things punting on the River Thames at Chertsey in Surrey
Smith and Julius Studios AdvertisementThis advertisement illustration promotes the services of the Smith and Julius Studios, a large illustration company used by many great business houses for the production of their booklet
Tyrrell's Limited AdvertisementAn image used as part of an advertisement for Tyrrell's Limited, booksellers, art dealers and publishers. The picture showcases a figurine of Pu-Tai Ho-Shang
Caricature illustration, Highland Bull with radio aerial, with herdsman listening below. Captioned, Things seen and heard'
Music cover, How Are Things in Glocca Morra, song from the musical Finian's Rainbow, lyrics by E Y Harburg, music by Burton Lane Date: 1946
Horse and cart making deliveries in a flooded streetThe flood is in Watford and someone in an upper story of a house has a basket hanging on a rope and the baker in the horse and cart is putting things in it. Date: 1903
Eviction of squatters, Harrow Road, London, 17 June 1974 -- a policeman stands guard outside the property, from where all the squatters belongings have been put out on the pavement. Date: 1974
MRS ALEXANDER Annie French Hector) Irish wife of archeologist, after whose death she wrote nearly 50 novels and hymns including All things bright & beautiful Date: 1818 - 1895
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Human souls moving on to higher things ! Date: 1907Human souls moving on... to higher things ! Date: 1907
Vampire of VinezacLE VAMPIRE DE VINEZAC Janssouint, gravedigger of Vinezac, is caught doing things that our pen refuses to recount Date: 1883
Illustration by Anne Harriet ( Annie ) Fish (1890-1964) for an Abdulla Cigarettes Advertisement - The Bright Brigade - Higher Photography. Date: 1929
Grumman US-2B Tracker N8112A (msn 336, ex 136427), with the Museum of Wings & Things Inc, New Castle IN. Date: circa 2000
An artistic representation - Discovery of Tutankhamun's TombAn artistic representation of the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun by (on right) Archeologist Howard Carter (1874-1939) and his backer (on left) George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923)
As the magazine itself describes it: "The smile on the face of a tiger would warn off the least wary but the smileAs the magazine itself describes it: " The smile on the face of a tiger would warn off the least wary but the smile on the face of a chorister is plainly to be trusted
The equestrian group at the Circus Ball, Grosvenor House, 1933. From left, Nancy Mitford, Cecil Beaton, Lady Castlerosse and Viscountess Weymouth. Date: 1933
Comic postcard, Children in a rowing boat on the sea Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Waitress serving in a restaurant Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Happy diner in restaurant Date: 20th century
