Wishes Collection (page 6)

Best Christmas Wishes -- girl in white dancing. 20th century

Father Christmas and wreath
A Jolly Father Christmas holding up a Happy Xmas wreath. Date: circa 1910s

New Year Clover Cart
A pretty lady wishes you a Happy New Year as she drives a cart loaded with clover for good luck. Date: 1907

Abundance and Prosperity - a New Years wish for 1906

Christmas Greetings card by Ethel Parkinson
A Christmas Greetings card by Ethel Parkinson, showing a lady and a boy walking through a snowy landscape. They are dressed in 19th century style

Holly and Ivy, Box and Bay, by Ethel Parkinson
Holly and Ivy, Box and Bay, Put in the Church on Christmas Day. A Christmas Greetings card by Ethel Parkinson, showing people in a snowy landscape taking bunches of holly

A Pierrot playing the banjo wishes the recipient of this postcard every good wish for a Merry Xmas Date: circa 1910s

A Shoeshine boy - New Years Card
Shoeshine boy from Algeria, holding a bunch of flowers, wishing the cards recipient a Happy 1906 !

Rustic wedding in Kent
A rustic wedding in Kent -- the bride sits on a horse-drawn cart which has been decorated with garlands, and receives a lucky horseshoe from the village blacksmith

Letter to Thomas Henry Ismay
A letter to Thomas Henry Ismay from twenty of his colleagues and employees on White Star Works headed paper, dated Bootle, 6 February 1899

Greetings from HMS Sirdar - Istanbul
Greetings postcard from the Royal Navy vessel HMS Sirdar - at this stage in Turkish Waters at Istanbul (hence Tophane Mosque photographic centrepiece) during the winter (Christmas) of 1922

Chanak - Humourous Christmas card 1922
A British soldier takes amusement at Father Christmas (a rotund, white bearded Turk riding a donkey!) passing his watch at Chanak, Turkey

Seasonal Greetings card (Christmas) from Egypt
Christmas Wishes from Egypt to a Dear Mother with a scene of the banks of the River Nile with boats (feluccas and dhows) moored up on the riverbank

Prince Charles Edward of Albany, Duke of Saxe-Coburg
Prince Charles Edward, 2nd Duke of Albany, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (1884-1954) in German military uniform during World War I. When the Duke of Saxe-Coburgs son Alfred died in 1899

No Joke! by Frank Reynolds
A humorous artist, stumped for further jokes on the subject of the First World War, wishes that peace would be declared so he could submit some of his new ideas

Kaiser Reading the Iln
WILHELM II GERMAN ROYALTY. Pictured reading a copy of The Illustrated London News, " because he wishes to be the best read man in the world"

Prometheus Forms Man
Prometheus forms man of clay and against the wishes of Jupiter steals fire from heaven to animate his work

Nurses at work in a hospital at Scutari
38 nurses departed with Florence Nightingale for the Barrack Hospital in Scutari, during the Crimean War (1854-1856). They were sent, against doctors wishes, to assist with the medical support

Greenaway Card - 2 of 2
A girl wishes you a Merry Christmas

Greenaway Card - 1 of 2
A boy wishes you a Very Happy New Year

Girl Reads to Boy 1911
A girl reads from a book to a lazy boy, while another boy walks by, and wishes he could join them

Wealthy Canine Family
Two smartly dressed ladies receive the new year wishes of a well dressed bulldog and his children

Squirrel New Year Card
A squirrel wishes you the compliments of the season

Fighting in Barcelona
Fighting at the gate, Barcelona : the Catalonians are caught up in the Carlist Wars in addition to their own wishes for independence

Les Exiles De LA Terre
LES EXILES DE LA TERRE (Andre Laurie) Exiled on the Moon, a man gazes at Earth through his telescope and wishes he was back there again

G night Kiss / Among Daisy
Mother wishes her two children goodnight

NEWLYWEDS GOING AWAY
One of the wedding guests wishes the newlyweds well as they prepare to depart for their honeymoon

Boys building a snowman in the woods
Three boys building a snowman in the woods

New Year Angels
Two angels sing New Year wishes to you in German

Comm Dell arte / Orlandin
Orlandin & Fiuma: he wishes to carry her off, but her tutor is at hand to watch over her

Meyerbeer / Huguenots / Lib1
Act 1 scene 2 - the Huguenot Raoul de Nangis is presented to the Catholic duc de Nevers, because the king wishes to reconcile the two faiths

Spanish Postman
A Spanish postman, delivering a letter to two ladies, wishes their papa would offer him a glass of wine

The Unfortunate Merchant
A merchant receives news that the ship in whose cargo he had invested all his capital is sunk, and with it all his hopes of making his fortune. Ah, the vanity of human wishes!

Saint Wenceslas
SAINT WENCESLAS Noted for his piety, Wenceslas promoted Christianity in Bohemia against the wishes of its nobility. He was murdered by his brother Boleslav I

Cycling Cats Good Night
A ginger tom with a Cheshire cat grin whizzes by on a penny farthing with 3 kittens in tow as he wishes us Good Night from a banner. Probably the final slide of the evening

Byron and Spirit
Byron himself - the Pilgrim - wishes that he could leave the world and enjoy solitude with one fair spirit for my minister

Prometheus & Fire
Against the wishes of Zeus - hence the lightning flashes ! - Prometheus brings fire to mankind, as well as the arts. For this he is punished, but mankind keeps the fire

Becket Assassinated / 1170
Thomas a Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated in the cathedral by four knights who believed they were carrying out Henry IIs wishes

STAGECOACH GOOD MORNING
Good morning A stagecoach passes a couple of gentlemen and wishes them a good morning

Events / Russia / Cartoons
Louis XVI shows Tsar Nicolas what happens to rulers who do not respect the wishes of their subjects

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