Widows Collection

Tatler front cover - Mrs La Touche Congreve and baby daughte
Mrs William La Touche Congreve, wife of Major William ( Billy ) La Touche Congreve V.C. pictured with her baby daughter, Mary Gloria Congreve, born 21 March 1917

Pandita Ramabai / Postcard
PANDITA RAMABAI DONGRE MEDHAVI Indian reformer and educator, " Friend of the child widows"

Widows tears, Tinantia erecta. Upright spiderwort, Tradescantia erecta. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis The Botanical

Advertising bookmark, November, designed by Walter Crane for Scottish Widows Fund (Mutual) Life Assurance Society Date: late 19th century

Advertising bookmark, October, designed by Walter Crane for Scottish Widows Fund Life Assurance Society Date: late 19th century

Advertising bookmark, May, designed by Walter Crane for Scottish Widows Fund (Mutual) Life Assurance Society Date: late 19th century

Advertising bookmark, July, designed by Walter Crane for Scottish Widows Fund Life Assurance Society Date: late 19th century

Advertising bookmark, June, designed by Walter Crane for Scottish Widows Fund (Mutual) Life Assurance Society Date: late 19th century

Advertising bookmark, August, designed by Walter Crane for Scottish Widows Fund Life Assurance Society Date: late 19th century

Advertising bookmark, January, designed by Walter Crane for Scottish Widows Fund, Life Assurance Society Date: late 19th century

Advertising bookmark, April, designed by Walter Crane for Scottish Widows Fund (Mutual) Life Assurance Society Date: late 19th century

Russia - Tsar Nicholas II meets Crimean War veterans
Russia - Tsar Nicholas II and his family in Sevastopol (Sebastopol) meeting and greeting veterans of the Crimean War (fought between 1853-1856)

Advert for Peter Robinson's mourning clothing 1896
Variety of mourning clothing for widows kept in stock for daughters, relatives and servants, available from Peter Robinson's Mourning Warehouse, Regent Street, London. 1896

Advert for Jay's mourning clothing 1893
Large and well-assorted stock of mourning costumes, mantles and millinery for immediate wear. 1893

Mouring dress 1916
Widow wearing a black mourning dress in the First World War. Date: 1916

Victorian mourning dress 1875
Widow's mourning dress. 1875

Woman wearing morning dress 1875
Widow wearing elegant Victorian mourning dress, with tassel edge, tails and long train. Hair dressed high at the back with complicated twists and rolls with flat cap. Date: 1875

Cartoon, The Merry Widows, WW1
Cartoon, The Merry Widows. A reference to the operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehar, showing widows of the First World War in a cafe looking anything but merry

Miners widows protest
The widows of British coal miners protest, seeking greater compensation for the death of their husbands. Date: 1970s

Anne Marchss Hamilton Circa 1625 Marchioness
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WIDOW REMARRIES 1950
At Campine, when a widow remarries, the neighbours thoughtfully improvise a band to keep the ghost of her dead husband away Date: 1950

RACIAL/FLORIDA INDIANS
Widows of Florida who having lost their husbands in the wars beg the King for his assistance; in the background, hermaphrodites attend to the sick and bury the dead Date: 1564

FLORIDA WIDOWS ASK
Women of FLORIDA who having lost their HUSBANDS in the WARS implore the Assistance of the KING - in the background, hermaphrodites attend the sick and bury the dead 1564

Her Cross
A heart-broken young widow mourns her dead soldier husband. His medal, cap and sword are all she has left. 1916

FLORIDA WIDOWS, HAIR
Widows of Florida scatter their hair on the graves of their dead husbands Date: 1737

FLORIDA WIDOWS ASK AID
Women of FLORIDA who having lost their HUSBANDS in the WARS implore the Assistance of the KING - in the background, hermaphrodites attend the sick and bury the dead 1737

FLORIDA WIDOWS MOURN
Widows of Florida scatter their hair on the graves of their dead husbands Date: 1737

GERMAN WIDOW'S WEEDS
WITWENTRACHT, A German widow in her mourning weeds 16th century

His Little Widows, Wyndhams Theatre, London
His Little Widows, Bernard Hishins musical comedy production, Wyndhams Theatre, London. Date: circa 1925

Rosamonds Pond, St. James Park, circa 1758 (filled up in 1770). Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of the Society of Antiquaries from his J.T

Picking up sixpences at Smithfield 1902
Centuries-old tradition, when 21 sixpences were placed upon a flat gravestone in the churchyard at St. Bartholomew in Smithfield, London, on Good Friday morning

Mother Holle - Scene from Mother Holle (Grimms Fairy Tales). The widows daughter shaking apples from the tree. Artist: AH Watson Date: circa 1935

MASONIC ALMSHOUSE
Inmates of the Royal Masonic Institution for the Aged and Widows enjoy a cup of tea - though one of them is drinking hers out of her saucer. Date: 1875

English Widow 1552
Anne Stanhope, duchess of Somerset, widow of Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset, in widows dress Date: 1552

FLORIDA WIDOWS 1737
Women of FLORIDA who having lost their HUSBANDS in the WARS implore the Assistance of the KING Date: 1737

WIDOW & MAUSOLEUM WIDOW & MAUSOLEUM
Pretty young widow of an elderly Naval officer takes tea with a handsome young man while she views the architects plans for her husbands mausoleum Date: 1820s

Montagu Monuments, St Edmunds Church, Warkton, Northants
The Montagu Monuments are four stunning marble statues in the unlikely setting of Grade I listed St Edmunds Church in Warkton, Northamptonshire

Sketch cover, Madame Simone Andre Puget, WW1
Front of The Sketch magazine featuring an artistic portrait of a war widow, Madame Simone Andre Puget, wife of the war poet who fell in a bayonet charge at Neuville St. Vst

Tatler front cover - Mrs Percy Wyndham widowed, WW1
The Hon. Mrs Percy Wyndham, formerly Diana Lister, daughter of Lord Ribblesdale. She married Percy Wyndham in 1913, the only son of the late George Wyndham and Countess Grosvenor

WW1 German poster, Support for war widows and orphans
German poster, Der eiserne Blumenteufel, support for war widows and orphans. circa 1918

Victorian scrap - The Dowager Duchess. late 19th century

Masonic Institutions - Louisville, Kentucky, USA. (from left) The Masonic Theatre, Masonic Widows and Orphans Home and the Scottish Rites Cathedral. Date: circa 1909

Elegant Widow / Two Men
An elegant young widow is followed along the pavement by two men. Date: 1930s

The widows plant -- an old lady leans out of her window with a potted plant in her hands. Date: circa 1875

Homes for Officers Widows and Daughters, Wimbledon
Homes for Officers Widows and Daughters, Queen Alexandras Court, Wimbledon. Date: circa 1908

Bath Characters by Edouart
Ann Arter, a fruit woman of bath (left) and Elizabeth Smith, 63 years of age, Scotch woman, soldiers widow. Sold matches for forty years

Indian Muslim soldiers Widows and Orphans War Fund
An appeal to give to the charity of the Indian Muslim soldiers Widows and Orphans War Fund, showing Britannia providing for impoverished Indian women, whilst also holding a small Indian child

Lady Petre
Lady Catherine (Kitty) Petre, formerly Catherine Margaret Boscawen, wife of Lionel Goerge Carroll, 16th Baron Petre. The 16th Baron, son of the 15th Baron and Julia Mary Cavendish-Taylor

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