Watch Collection (page 22)

Tweed Jacket / Photo 1880S
Young man wearing a tweed lounging jacket & matching waistcoat, his shirt has a soft turned down collar, his necktie is loosely tied

Union Pacific Construct
Native Americans watch with mixed feelings as the Union Pacific extends its track into the western territories

Male Type / Bourgeois 1882
A prosperous and self- satisfied French bourgeois

Children Watch Snow 1929
Two little girls and their mother look out through the window as the snow falls

Costume Photo Man 1860S
Victorian man wearing a frock coat, double-breasted waistcoat with roll collar, cravat with diamond design, trousers & top hat. His watch chain is also visible

Mother Dressing / Daughter
Mother dresses for dinner with the help of a maid, while her daughter is allowed to watch

Mother & Children C1883
Mother welcomes her son home from school, while his two sisters sit on their ponies and watch

BABY & PAPAs WATCH 1890
A toddler is fascinated by Papas watch

Social / Tsar at Ball 1893
Tsar Alexander III and the Tsarina watch the Quadrille d Honneur - HIS honour - at a ball at the French Embassy, St Petersburg

Dandy (Williams) 1818
A beau adds the final touches to his toilet, surrounded by garments including pantaloons, a corset, top boots & bicorne hat. His shirt frill & watch seals are enormous

Children & Swallows 1891
A brother and sister watch a group of swallows who have perched on the washing line

Blue Waistcoat 1829
Blue waistcoat open to reveal the shirt front, square toed boots, pantaloon-trousers, black cut-away coat with M cut collar. Blue coat fastened with straps, gigot sleeves

COSTUME / MEN / 1826
D-B coat with gigot sleeves, velvet collar, hip pockets, cut-away at the front & vents, pleats & hip buttons at the back; white strapped pantaloons, pleated shirt

Police / Watchmen / 1808
The watchmen Getting ready for their shift at Marylebone Watch-house, London. At the time, the night watchmen were the only public policing body in London

Social / Krakow Market 19C
The goose market, Krakow. A prospective buyer inspecting the geese while two scruffy children look on

Girls Watch Geese
Two children watch the approach of three geese with trepidation, taking refuge behind a tree

The Three Little Men
THE THREE LITTLE MEN (here called dwarfs) IN THE WOOD The girl finds the strawberries beneath the snow, while the three lttle men watch gleefully

CHARLES CRUFT 1852-1938
CHARLES CRUFT founder of the largest and best known dog show in the world. Also a pet food magnate selling dog cakes

Watch & 2nd Pendulum
The mechanisms of the watch and second pendulum

Blue Coat 1830
Blue double-breasted tail coat cut-away at the front & with a high stand-fall velvet collar, white fly-fronted trousers, black pumps with bows, grey top hat & cane

Evening Dress 1920
Elegant gentleman in white tie & tails: single-breasted evening dress coat & white waistcoat, top hat, cloak or overcoat, white gloves & cane

Fishing Boat at Staithes
The days catch is unloaded from a fishing boat at Staithes, Yorkshire; fishermen bring baskets of fish up the harbour steps while spectators watch the proceedings

Death Watch Beetle
The caretaker of St. Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales, holding a section of the cathedrals woodwork, badly eaten away by the Death Watch Beetle. Date: 1930s

Election, Westminster
THE WESTMINSTER ELECTION : the hustings in Covent Garden, adjoining St Pauls church - market women watch as the voters choose between Evans and Rous

Giant of Ariosto Book
The citizens crowd to watch as the captive giant is led through the streets of their city

GLENDOWERs OAK 1838
The oak near Shelton where Owen Glendower supposedly watch the battle between Henry IV and Harry Percy in 1403

Boys / Toy Boat 1930S
In Paris, two friends lean over the edge of a lake to watch their toy boat

Guardian Angels at Work
Guardian angels watch over two babies, thwarting the Evil One who was reckoning to do something nasty to them

COSTUME 1791-1792
Man: top hat with a tapering crown & cut-away coat. Women: buffonts (buffons), belt with medallion buckle, a skirt with a vandkyked & oranmented hem, pierrot jacket

Horse Guards, Whitehall
Sightseers watch as troops manoeuvre on Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall : several carriages and sedan chairs can be seen

Night Watchman
DER NACHTWACHTER A German night-watch patrols the streets, armed with a pike and carrying a horn with which to summon help if required (his dog is already helping)

Hungarian Rowing Boat
Two little girls in summer dresses stand on a river bank and watch a family in a rowing boat

Dresden Prison 1930S
The interior of a prison in Dresden, Germany, which in its day was one of the most up-to- date in Europe. The central tower was built so that one person could watch 800 inmates

Japanese Wrestlers
Large crowds gather to watch two Japanese wrestlers

Troops at Gravesend
British troops cross the Thames from Gravesend to Tilbury Fort, on flat- boats drawn on ropes : besides men, guns, horses and wagons are carried, spectators watch

German Watchmakers
A man and a woman, watchmakers or clockmakers, Black Forest, Germany

Girls at the Cinema
A group of extremely well turned-out young ladies, all of them with trendy Marcel Wave hair-dos, wearing headphones to watch a film at the cinema

French Troops Retreat
Beaten back by the German offensive, French troops retire : the people of Reims watch as their troops defile through the place du Palais- de-Justice and rue de Vesle

Belize / Davenport
Port of Belize (Balize) in what was British Hondurus. Troops watch as locals move about on rafts possibly made from the main export logwood used in the dyeing industry

Georgian Girls Griddle
A group of young girls keenly watch as one of their number uses a griddle over an open fire while another stands by with a poker. Is it supper or a fortune telling custom?

Printing a Catalogue
The Automatic Front Delivery enables the pressman to closely watch the printing without necessity of removing the sheets from the press

Federal Sentinel
On the banks of the Potomac river, a Federal picket keeps watch while his companions sleep. Across the river are the Confederate batteries

Flock of Sheep in Snow
A flock of sheep in the snow, eating from a trough while the shepherd and two children watch

Circumcision in Senegal
Menfolk of Senegal are circumcised in an initiation rite while European travellers watch

Elegant Spectators
Three well-dressed ladies watch a motor race

Swedish Betrothal
A Swedish couple from Skane in southern Sweden plight their troth wearing traditional dress, while relatives and friends watch in approval

Retired Soldiers
After the Napoleonic wars, unemployed French soldiers watch troops drilling and exchange reminiscences about the glorious past

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