Waves Collection (page 11)

Mount Lavinia Grand Hotel, Mount Lavinia, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Mount Lavinia Grand Hotel, Hotel Road, Mount Lavinia, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1900

View from Landing Place, Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
View of the city from the Landing Place, Madras (Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India. Date: circa 1904

Lighthouse bombed with food supplies
A remote lighthouse in bad weather is bombed with pork pies (and, presumably, other food stuffs) by two aeroplanes bringing supplies by air. Date: 1932

Breakwater scene, coast of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Breakwater scene with ships, coast of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1900

Hastings lifeboat on a rough sea, with crew on board. Date: circa 1930s

Seaside scene with pavilion, Ystad, Sweden. Date: circa 1910

Sunrise over άe de Gor饠(Gor饠Island), Senegal
Sunrise over ά e de Gor饠 (Gor饠 Island) behind the silhouettes of palm trees - Dakar, Senegal. Date: circa 1930

Victorian scrap - Schooner. late 19th century

Girl in the Cornish surf -- one of a series of images taken by Adams for the British Councils postwar Peacetime Britain campaign. circa 1946

Large Wave over the Breakwater - Colombo Harbour, Sri Lanka. Date: circa 1910s

Seafront - Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine
Waves crashing into the Seafront - Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine (then (as now, sort of!) in Russia). Date: 1905

Packet design, Eve Soapless Shampoo for every shade of hair. circa 1930s

Anse Royale, Mahe, Seychelles, Indian Ocean. 1912

Beach scene in Trinidad, West Indies
Man walking across a beach in Trinidad, West Indies. circa 1969

Advert for Thierry Schram, hair and beauty 1909
Hairstyles designed by Thierry Schram, Paris. Showing women with increased volume to the width and back, using small accessories to finish off the style. 1909

Suffragette Emmeline Pethick Lawrence
Mrs. Pethick Lawrence waves to her supporters on her release from Holloway, 17th April 1909. Date: 1909

Advert for Noirat hairpieces 1909
Advertisement for Noirat hairpieces, showing women with increased volume on top to support their enormous hats. 1909

Advert for Noirat, hair and beauty 1912
Advertisement for Noirat, showing women with increased visual width at the back of the head using wavy wigs, also wearing discrete headbands with feather and combs. 1912

Panama City, Panama, South America
Panama City viewed from the sea, Panama, South America. 1847

Canute reproving his courtiers
Canute (Cnut) reproving his courtiers. King Canute of England (1016-1035) and Denmark (1018-1035) gets his feet wet to demonstrate to his sycophantic courtiers that even kings have no power over

Rough sea at Beira, Mozambique, East Africa
Rough sea at Beira, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa. Date: circa 1905

Malo-les-Bains, France - women fishing for shrimp
Malo-les-Bains, France - two women fishing for shrimp sieve through shallow water with large nets on poles. circa 1910s

Seascape on a sail-shaped New Year card
Seascape with sailing boat on a sail-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Fishing stages on the St Lawrence River, Canada. 1889

Greetings card in the shape of a lighthouse -- The Guiding Light. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a lighthouse with a sailing ship depicted on it. Date: circa 1890s

Whaling ship in rough seas. Date: late 19th century

Solitary man on the beach at Eastbourne, Sussex. circa 1960s

Boys building a sandcastle, Eastbourne, Sussex
Boys building a sandcastle on the beach at Eastbourne, Sussex, with the pier in the distance. 1955

Fantastic Adventures - Princess of the Sea
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, January 1947, featuring the story Princess of the Sea by Don Wilcox. Beautiful Amazon with red cloak rides a white horse through the waves of the sea. Date: 1947

Susi - on a pebbly beach, looking out to sea. 1950s

Fishing Pinks in Breaking Waves, c. 1875-1885, by Hendrik Wi
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831-1915). Dutch painter. Fishing Pinks in Breaking Waves, c. 1875-1885. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Steamboat Furst Bismarck. Engraving. 19th century
Steamboat Furst Bismarck. Colored engraving. 19th century

Two pretty Japanese women on a riverboat - the seated woman appears to be playing a Shamisen. Date: circa 1900

The sea coast at Hayama, Japan
The sea coast at Hayama - located in Miura District, Kanagawa Prefecture, on central Honshu, Japan, at the northern end of Miura Peninsula, facing Sagami Bay on the Pacific Ocean. Date: circa 1910s

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Salt the Boatmans Wife. circa 1930s

Music cover, Ferry-Boat Serenade, words by Harold Adamson, music by E Di Lazzaro. 1940

Japan - Mother and young child outside wooden home. Note her large wicker backpack basket, used for transporting plants, vegetables, crops etc. Date: circa 1907

Handmade Christmas and New Year card with mermaid
Handmade Christmas and New Year card with a mermaid emerging from the waves, and a lighthouse in the background. circa 1890s

Ship on a stormy sea on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Mother and child watching a ship on a New Year card
Mother and child on the beach, watching a distant ship on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Eugene permanant hair 1938
The secret of beautiful dressing is largely hair dressing! 1938

Advert for Butywave Wavesetters 1931
Set your own hair with the Butywave Wavesetter! 1931

Green Spotted Cloak 1899
Pale green theatre cloak with high collar edged with white accordion pleated chiffon & trimmed with black lace applied in serpentine waves to the border. Date: 1899

The Upper Nile / Egypt
The Upper Nile on a windy day. Date: 1904

Nat. Insurance / Lly-George
THE PITILESS PHILANTHROPIST (The National Insurance issue) Lloyd George: Now understand, I ve brought you out to do you good, and GOOD I WILL DO YOU, whether you like it or not. Date: 22 November 1911

Trade catalogue of hairpieces 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a collection of Edwardian wiglets. Date: 1911

Tidal Wave at Ito
The town of Ito, in the Izu peninsula of Japan, is destroyed by a tidal wave caused by an earthquake Date: September 1923

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