Waiter Collection (page 4)

Music cover, You Are Always Sure to Fetch Them with Wst, Wst, Wst, written by Henry Pettitt, sung by G H MacDermott. circa 1880s

Cartoon, Royal Victoria Coffee Music Hall (Old Vic)
Cartoon, the Royal Victoria Coffee Music Hall. In 1879 the Coffee Palace Association took over the Victoria Theatre (now the Old Vic), and turned the theatre into a temperance music hall. 1880

Hotel Californie, Marseille, France
Welcome to the Hotel Californie, on le Cours Belsunce, Marseille, France (!) - pink champagne on ice not pictured... Date: circa 1940s

In a French Cafe 1905
A woman converses with a waiter in a cafe. Date: 1905

Cartoon, The final shot. The armistice might have been signed, but there are still bills to pay. While he pays for their expensive meal, she nonchalantly powders her nose. Date: 1919

English Waiter
An English waiter carries cups and a jug to a table, accompanied by a wooly dog. Date: 1838

Cartoon, The aperitif. A waiter stands beside a table whilst a seated couple read the menu. The woman asks her husband why he has such a good appetite

Nice, France Restaurant
A couple enjoying a meal on the terrace of a restaurant in Nice, France. An attentive waiter pours dressing on their salad. Date: early 1970s

Cartoon, The first outing. Europe goes dance-crazy in the immediate aftermath of the Armistice, after five years of fighting. A couple dance the foxtrot in a cocktail bar. Date: 1919

Skating Dutch Waiter
Fashionable Dutch people have their drinks served by skating waiters in dress suits. Date: 1923

Cleo De Merode / 1904 Paul
CLEO DE MERODE French actress and dancer out on the town with her friend, Leopold II of Belgium Date: 1904

Hotel Foyer Fashions
Well-heeled people in evening dress mingle in an hotel foyer. Some sit at tables possibly waiting for drinks ordered from the cocktail waiter at the hotel bar. Date: 1930s

Cartoon, How Many Lumps? WW1
Cartoon, How many lumps? The French comic actress Cecile Sorel serves her guests, including a bearded man who has been fighting in the war. On the left sits the French philosopher Voltaire. Date: 1917

Champagne and Dessert
Dinner guests affable over the dessert course, while a waiter hovers with more champagne Date: 1903

Overheated Customer 1903
Obsequious waiter and overheated customer Date: 1903

Cartoon, British troops at the Front, WW1
Cartoon, British troops at the Front. Rumour has it that British troops on the Western Front are living in idle luxury, leaving it to the French to do any nasty fighting that has to be done

Afternoon tea is served at a tea shop
Afternoon tea is served by a waiter to an elegant lady in a tea shop. Date: 1902

Men at a Stag Night dinner
A group of men at a Stag Night dinner -- the groom and his male friends celebrate on the eve of his wedding. Date: 1894

Cafe D Orsay or Trois Freres Provencaux, Paris 1846
Interior of Cafe D Orsay or Trois Freres Provencaux. 1846

Hotel des Princes, Paris 1840
Hotel des Princes, Paris. 1840

British visitors in a cafe, Paris
The British in Paris after the defeat of Napoleon: English visitors patronise a French cafe. circa 1815

Cafe La Rotonde, Paris
Customers seated outside Cafe La Rotonde, Paris. circa 1900

Cartoon, Scene outside a cafe, WW1
Cartoon, Scene outside a cafe. With new restrictions on the serving of alcohol, two soldiers are turned away, and a waiter challenges two little boys sitting at a table. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Disappointed greed, WW1
Cartoon, Disappointed greed, a comment on new alcohol restrictions. The waiter tells a lady that the anisette is too high in alcohol content for him to serve to her. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Soldier returning from leave, WW1
Cartoon, a French soldier returning from leave tells his colleague what it was like. At every point someone pointed to the Keep Quiet notice, although what he had said was entirely innocent

Barman and waiter working in a bar. A sign invites customers to Join Our Christmas Club. Date: circa 1930s

Kaiser as a waiter: a WW1 peace conference imagined, 1915
Taking orders: a forecast of the peace conference. Kaiser Wilhelm II is re-imagined as a waiter, taking orders from George V, Theodore Roosevelt and other leaders. Date: 1915

Khidmutgar or waiter.. handcolored copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from Asiatic Costumes, Ackermann, London, 1828

Inter-Allied Fraternisation - British and French in Flanders
WW1 - Inter-Allied Fraternisation - The Friends of Today, not the Foes of Waterloo - British and French soldiers fraternising in Flanders. Date: 1915

Bystander masthead 1929, society at an ice rink
Lovely illustrated design by Howard K. Elcock for The Bystander magazines masthead depicting fashionable society at an ice rink

FOGOLINO, Marcello (1483-1553). Courtiers at Malpaga Castle. 1st half 16th c. ITALY. Bergamo. Malpaga Castle. Servants bringing game dishes to table. Renaissance art. Fresco

Liqueur Galliano. Italian herbal liqueur created in 1896. Named after Giuseppe Galliano, hero of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. Advertising Poster of 1902. Contemporary Art. Engraving

Interior view of caf頎uevo. Madrid, s. XIX. Engraving
Interior view of caf頎 uevo. Madrid, s.XIX. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Museo de Historia

CHERET, Jules (1836-1932). Advertising of restaurant Taverne Olympia in Paris. Printed in 1899. Poster (119 x 81 cm.). Contemporary Art. Litography

Msai Tribesman - rests playing football after a working day as a waiter in a restaurant. near Dar es Salam - Tanzania - Africa

Dinner reception at election time
Upper class ladies and gentlemen at a dinner reception at election time, with a results board above them naming the four political parties: Conservative, NAT Liberal, Liberal and Labour

Crew on board PS Bournemouth Queen
Group photo of crew on board the paddle steamer Bournemouth Queen, Southampton

Chinese waiter, San Francisco, California, USA
Chinese waiter carrying a tray on his head, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: circa 1905

Dutch Grille, Bismark Cafe, San Francisco, California, USA
Scene inside the Dutch Grille, Bismark Cafe, Pacific Building, Market Street, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: circa 1911

Paris, France - Grands Boulevards - Montmartre. Date: circa 1875

Dickens. David Copperfield. David Copperfield & a friendly waiter. Date: circa 1912

Dining room with two waiters, China. Date: circa 1890

Silhouette of diners and waiters at a table. Date: 20th century

Actor performing in a play, Merely Mary Ann
An actor named Howard performing in a play by Israel Zangwill entitled Merely Mary Ann (written 1903). It was later adapted into a film (1931). Date: 20th century

Cartoon, Russias Thorn in the Flesh, showing a scene in a typical Warsaw cafe on receipt of war news. Date: August 1914

Restaurant scene, The Unkept Appointment. Showing an elegant lady sitting alone at a table, watched by a waiter and three men at another table. Date: July 1914

Silver service on a train
Two attendants serving dinner to a woman (incidentally, a TWA stewardess) on a train journey. Date: 1940s

The Diner Who Addressed The Maitre D Hotel As Garcon
Maitre D Hotel stunned by a offensive presumption that he is a waiter not a manager. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to the Sketch, the Tatler and the Bystander

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