Umbrella Collection (page 19)

Yokohama, Japan - Umbrella Shop Date: 1910s

Two Japanese women by the side of a canal / river - Japan Date: circa 1905

Garden Scene, Japan - Geisha - Fishing on small stone bridge Date: circa 1905

Garden Scene - Geisha - Japan - One of the four girls is fidhing, whilst two others stand and hold umbrellas / parasols. Date: circa 1905

Japan - Two Japanese women and a baby take a rickshaw ride
Kobe, Japan - Two Japanese women and a baby take a rickshaw ride Date: circa 1904

Japan - Geisha arrives at a friends home
Japan - A Geisha and female companion arrives at another friends home. Date: circa 1903

Japan - High Class Japanese woman with large umbrella
Japan - A fine postcard photograph of a high Class Japanese woman with large umbrella in full winter attire, including thick overcoat, shawl and fingerless gloves Date: circa 1905

Japan - Geisha Girl walking in garden - bizarre expression
Japan - Geisha Girl walking in garden - she is exhibiting a rather bizarre facial expression - not her best look one would imagine. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Two Geisha Girls - pose in an ornamental garden. Date: circa 1906

Japanese Woman with paper umbrella transported by Rickshaw. Date: circa 1910s

Sri Lanka - Noss Village maids with Palm Leaf Umbrella. Date: circa 1910s

Senso-ji - Stalls by Buddhist temple, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan
Senso-ji - Food and refreshment stalls outside the Buddhist temple, Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - A group of friendly Geisha Girls - all wearing beautiful silk kimonos. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Flower Festival Date: circa 1910s

Portrait Artist Gilbert at work at Vichy
A corner of the tea garden at Vichy - the artist Gilbert and his (rather excellent-looking) portraits. He is busy working on a new subject! Date: 1909

Turkish girl by the Bosphorus, Istanbul, Turkey
Picture from a set of cards issued to reflect the fact that soon after Ataturk took over in Turkey in the 1920s, there was liberation by women from the old modes of dress

Turkish girl by the Golden Horn, Istanbul, Turkey
Picture from a set of cards issued to reflect the fact that soon after Ataturk took over in Turkey in the 1920s, there was liberation by women from the old modes of dress

Arthur James Balfour instructed by 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
The Story of the Pushful One. Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour (1848-1930) - Prime Minister (1902-05) instructed by Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil

The Fleet in Japan - Attack Under Cover - A British Naval Officer enjoying the delights of Japan behind a paper umbrella. Date: 1906

Hong Kong - China - Street Coolies. The first and last are clad in straw raincoats while the one in the centre is carrying provisions purchased from the market. circa 1910s

Geisha Girl with patterned kimono and umbrella, Japan Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Woman with umbrella Date: circa 1906

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Cheerio
Little girl off on her travels, carrying a hat box, suitcase and violin. Her train awaits. The war will not be stopping her leisure travelling. Date: circa 1942

Bermuda - Natural Rock Arches on the beach. Date: circa 1940s

King Alfonso XIII of Spain and Princess Ena of Battenburg
King Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886-1931) and his Fiancee Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887-1969). Date: circa 1905

A view of ڳtad Labem, Czech Republic A view of ڳt�ad Labem, Czech
Usti nad Labem (German: Aussig) - a city in the Czech Republic. The significance of the male Mary Poppins is slightly less clear, but rather wonderful! Date: 1904

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

Man at bar wanting clove to disguise evidence of his boozing
Drunken gentleman leaning against a bar, requesting the barmaid for a clove to disguise the olfactory evidence of his boozing

Football Terms Illustrated - A Plucky Try - Running for bus
(Rugby) Football Terms. Illustrated. A Plucky Try. A rather portly and ruddy-cheeked Mother and her sailor suit-clad son make a futile attempt to catch their bus after a busy morning at the shops

France - Bresse Region - Rhone-Alpes
Two very unusual-looking Frenchman sharing a meal in the Bresse Region - Rhone-Alpes, France. Possible the scene at a Zoological Garden - all very very strange... Date: circa 1910s

French country gent with a large red umbrella
" I always take my umbrella when I go shopping!" A French country gent from Normandy with a large red umbrella. (top line is the likely translation of the French pattoir on the card)

Small Baby boy in a Moses Basket amid the reeds. The child is showing admirable resourcefulness in taking along a brolly, in case of showers or passing high speed motor boats

Natural Arches, Bermuda Date: circa 1930s

WW2 poster, Yes, theres just time to get across
WW2 poster by Fougasse, Yes, theres just time to get across -- very nearly! Please don t take chances. Road Safety Campaign by The Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co Ltd. Date: 1940s

LS Plate 166 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Pandanus odoratissimus, umbrella tree
Fruit of the umbrella tree from the Nicobar Isles. Now known as Pandanus fascicularis, screwpine bears edible flowers and fruits. Illustration from the John Fleming Collection

Little girl walking through snow with cat
A young girl in bonnet and blue striped dress, walks home in the snow carrying a large satchel, umbrella and pet cat. Date: c. 1920

Snowy scene with children
A group of children carry umbrellas as they battle through a blizzard. c.1920

Mistress Goose goes shopping
Three foxes politely raise their hats to Mistress Goose as she ventures out for a shopping expedition, wearing a pretty orange bonnet and carrying an umbrella under her wing. 1912

Spain (20th c. ). Entrance of Alfonso XIII into
Spain (20th c.). Entrance of Alfonso XIII into

Modernist umbrella stand. ca. 1900. Impressionism. Furniture. SPAIN. Barcelona. National Art Museum of Catalonia

VILASECA I CASANOVAS, Josep (1848-1910). Bruno Quadros House or Umbrella House. 1896. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Ramblas. Detail of the dragon that decorates the fa硤 e. Modernism

Umbrella bamboo - Rangoon - Thi wa, at Kalaw Date: 1952

Table Tennis Players

The Magic Umbrella. Samuel Jones flies above the rooftops thanks to his magic umbrella

Ice cream vendor in the Dordogne, France
An ice cream vendor with her stall in a village in the Dordogne, south west France. She and her assistant don t appear to be very busy. Date: 1951

U for Umbrella
From a Deans Rag Book entitled Kiddiewiddies ABC Date: 1920

Teddy Bears on the River. Source unknown (probably Teddy Bear Annual)

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