Waves Collection (page 12)

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

Futuristic machine for reading human thought waves
A futuristic machine which registers and translates human thought waves, even if the subject is unconscious or unable to speak. Date: 1928

Advert for Eugene permanent wavy hair 1937
A beautiful wave discovers new beauty in you ! 1937

Waves at Pine Avenue Pier, Long Beach, California, USA
Large waves at Pine Avenue Pier, Long Beach, California, USA. Date: circa 1930

Phantasy
Mer-babies playing in the surf of crashing waves. Date: 1929

HMS Resolution in rough seas. Launched in January 1915. From 1916 to 1919, she served in the 1st Battle Squadron (United Kingdom) of the Grand Fleet

Cutout advertisement, Prices Candles
Cutout advertisement in the shape of a ship, Prices Candles. Date: circa 1900

American Glamour Girl on the Beach - USA Date: 1939

Soldier waving farewell, c. 1800
A woman waves farewell to her soldier husband who is off to war, c. 1800 Date: C.1800

Arch Rock, Santa Cruz, California, USA. Date: late 1930s

Casino, Santa Cruz, California, USA. Date: circa 1910

American Art Deco Playing Card Back - Female bather (2)
High stylised (and stylish) American Art Deco Playing Card Back - Female bather rather seductively taking off (or putting on) her bathing top against a black background. Date: circa late 1920s

American Art Deco Playing Card Back - Female bather (1) Date: circa late 1920s

View at Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall
View of Levant Mine and Beam Engine, Trewellard, Pendeen, near St Just, Cornwall, where tin and copper were mined between 1820 and 1930. Date: circa 1980s

Aerial view of Lizard Point, Cornwall, the most southerly point of mainland Great Britain. Date: circa 1980s

Sea and rocks at Lands End, Cornwall, viewed from the top of a cliff. Date: circa 1980s

Jamal machineless permanent advertisement, 1941
" Jamal for waves that women envy and men admire." The advertisement shows an elegant woman with perfectly shaped hair waves. Date: 1941

Cartoon, Guarding Salonika, WW1
Cartoon, Guarding Salonika. Two sailors in white uniform on deck, watching the passing shipping. Date: 1916

WW2 poster, And please don t throw FOOD away either
Second world war poster by Fougasse, encouraging people not to waste clothing or food. A sailor on board ship throws his trousers to the winds

Surfing scene, Hawaii, USA, with a woman standing on her surfboard and others watching her. Date: circa 1920s

Olas Altas beach, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
Olas Altas (meaning: high waves) beach, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Date: circa 1910

Illustration, The Fisherman and His Wife -- Flounder, Flounder in the sea, Prythee, hearken unto me. Date: 1909

Illustration, A Song of the English, British Empire
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine). My arm is nothing weak, My strength is not gone by

Illustration, A Song of the English, Deep Sea Cables
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

Naucrates ductor, or Pilot Fish. Date: 1863

Gay Words, Aching Heart - WW1 farewell
A woman wipes away a tear as she waves farewell to soldiers, departing for the Front at Christmas time. Date: 1915

Group of children at the seaside
A group of children at the seaside, with the tide coming in around their sandcastles. Date: circa 1920s

Woman and child at the seaside, standing on a wooden breakwater as the tide comes in. Date: circa 1920s

WW1 - Cartoon - Kaiser on North Sea coast
WW1 - A scene of the coast of Belgium, with a Kaiser standing on the coast line. The Wild Waves personifies the British, the illustration

WW1 - Battle of Falkland - Heroic German on S. M. S. Leipzig
WW1 - Battle of Falkland - A heroic German waves a flag on top of the S.M.S. Leizpig as it sinks. SMS Leipzig (" His Majestys Ship Leipzig" )

Rough sea and rocks at Lands End, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

French fishing boat wrecked, Dollar Cove, Lands End
French fishing boat wrecked in Dollar Cove, Lands End, Cornwall. Date: 1986

Nefeli wrecked at Dollar Cove, Lands End
A cargo ship, the Nefeli, wrecked at Dollar Cove, near Lands End, Cornwall, October 1972. 1972

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