Things Collection (page 6)

Llywelyn Banqueting
LLYWELYN THE GREAT after a banquet, he listens as a bard with a harp tells of old forgotten far-off things and battles long ago. Date: ? - 1240

Children Study Pondlife
Children catching things in a pond during a biology lesson Date: 1950s

Female Type / Georgia B
She just got here yesterday, Things are hot here now they say... Date: 1922

Habakkuk, Prophet
Prophet who was chiefly concerned with the imminent invasion of the Chaldeans (Babylonians); he said things would be bad for the Jews and lo ! they were indeed bad Date: probably 7th century BC

After Party / Asleep 1911
A waiter starts to clear things away, while all the guests seem to have fallen asleep or passed out... Date: 1911

Paris Kite Flying

French Confiserie
A French CONFISERIE selling cakes, sweets, and other nice things Date: circa 1870

British / German Fight
At Milwall Docks, London, a fight breaks out between English and German sailors - a foretaste of things to come! Date: 1892

1927 by Lewis Baumer
A quintessentially twenties young woman with an Eton crop, a short skirt and a cigarette holder, posed nonchalantly by a stylised picture of Adam and Eve hanging on the wall

The dream of a French Tommy (WWI)
France - The dream of a French Tommy (WWI). All of the aspects of his pleasant dream, from his lady love to the Gates of Paradise - Enter without knocking, but please wipe your shoes!

1920S Fancy Dress Party
A group of revellers smoke, dance and wear fancy dress at a typical Bright Young Things party of the twenties

Dog Tears Things Up
Towser is very naughty, tearing things to pieces

Puppy Goes Upstairs
Towser decides to be helpful, and takes his masters slippers upstairs

Shore Things
The caption below reads: The sea birds migrate. Two women leaving a hotel after a holiday by the sea

The Young Visiters
Some of the Bright Young People arriving for the second childhood party, hosted by Rosemary Sanders

Bright Young People
Group photograph of William Acton, Mrs Arthur Bendir, Elizabeth Ponsonby, Harry Melville and Babe Plunket-Greene taken at the fancy dress ball hosted by David

HELL
A number of sinners are subjected to a variety of punishments for the naughty things they did during their earthly lives...and fresh victims arrive continually

Russian Guards
The Polish frontier is heavily guarded by Russian forces, who make the best of things by relaxing in taverns

Sir Henry Morton Stanley and his men exit a forest, Central
Engraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) (centre with walking stick), the Anglo-American journalist and explorer, and his companions leaving a dense forest, Central Africa

France Condom
The town of Condom, in southwestern France, is famous for its armagnac, among other useful things

Parisians Go to Premiere
Bravely, Parisians make the best of things despite the shortages caused by war : here they arrive for a fashionable premiere by any means available to them

Brawl at Madrid
All Spain is divided as to which of the contending regimes should prevail : this brawl in the Cafe de Paris, Madrid, is characteristic of things throughout the country

Breakfast Tray Pattern
A design for the little mat which you will want to put on a breakfast tray when serving breakfast in bed to an invalid relative. After all, one must have things nice !

Alpha and Omega
I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last : and behold, I make all things new... JHVH, aka Yahweh, Jehovah etc) depicted as the origin of the cosmos

Wurttemberg
Friedrich I, herzog von Wurttemberg, entertains James I of England with great ceremony and lots of nice things to eat and drink

Hunting in Enclosure
Hunting game within a fenced- off enclosure, preventing the quarry from escaping and so making things easier for the hunter

Tsar Warned - 2
The ghost of assassinated tsar Alexander II appears to Alexander III and warns him to carry out reforms before it is too late. He doesn t - and things go from bad to worse

Jesus and Money
Questioned by the Pharisees about money, he replies : Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar s; and unto God the things that are God s

Girl at Vending Machine
A vending machine in an Exeter Post Office selling postal orders amongst other things

Tea and the News
Oh lor, oh lor ! oh dear, oh dear ! - two ladies at their tea table share their alarm at the frightful things they read in their newspapers

Caedmon, Poet & Herdsman
CAEDMON A herdsman who, according to Bede, received a divine call in a dream to sing of " the beginning of things"

Female / Ladies Converse
CONVERSAZIONE OF LADIES Fashionable dress - overfed pets - handsome manservants - female accomplishments - these are the things that women talk about when they gather

Effect of Corsets
Wearing a corset may make you look nice, but it does awful things to your body

Sinner in Purgatory
A sinner in purgatory expiates his wickedness but hopes for better things as one of his companions who has served her term is released by an angel

Maid and Ice Cream
A maidservant prepares a tray of ices for a party of bright young things after their game of tennis

Cab and Horse Take Easy
A cab-horse and his master taking things easy

Future Flying Machine
Two years before the Wright brothers flight, illustrators were already predicting that flying machines like this would be among things to come

Country Dancing C18Th
A crowd enjoy a range of activities at a village fair. There is music and dancing, there are things to buy, games for the children to play and food and drink for everyone

Family on Washing Day
A French blanchisseuse leans over the tub while her daughter pegs things out to dry and her little boy blows bubbles

Gibraltar Workers
Gibraltar : Spanish workers are blindfolded as they go to work, so they won t see things which they might report to the Germans and Italians

Knickers 1935
A lady models one of the many styles of undies available from this company. Others include a girls knicker with a pocket for keeping safe all manner of things

Sir Herbert Croft
SIR HERBERT CROFT clergyman and literary figure, detained in France by Napoleon, wrote many and varied things, imprisoned for debt, dictionary compiler

One Room home Earlyc20
A mother and her three children make the best of things in their one-room lodgings in a tenement house at Lisburn Street, Bethnal Green, London

Chinese Bazaar
A Chinese bazaar selling an assortment of things from pictures to baskets

Abbe and Housemaid 1780
A French Abbe, whose mind should be on higher things, takes a close interest in a servant girl who wears a sack-back gown hitched up to form a bustle/polanaise

Nice French Inventors
Unlike their nasty German counterparts, French inventors create nice peaceful things

Work for the Tinker?
Any work for the tinker? He works in a London street with the fires burning on his cart, waiting for people to bring him things to mend. A woman obliges

Greece / Costume / Objects
Various Ancient Greek things, such as necklaces, instruments, shoes, vases, fans &c

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