Wishing Collection (page 2)

Wishing Arch, Whiterocks, Portrush - An elevated view of an coastal eroded archway. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Portrush). Date: circa early 1900s

Lady Wishing for Child
A would-be mother gazes at a picture of a baby and wishes that she, too, could have one Date: circa 1840

Wishing you a delightful time
Boys and girls in period costume with bunches of flowers. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: 1903

Little girl with pug dog on a cutout greetings card
Little girl with a pug dog in a cradle on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Aesthetic young man on New Year card
Aesthetic young man on a New Year card: A most intensely utter & ecstatic New Year. Date: circa 1890s

Aesthetic young woman on New Year card
Aesthetic young woman on a New Year card: May your New Year be quite intensely too too! Date: circa 1890s

Aesthetic young woman on Christmas card
Aesthetic young woman playing a guitar on a Christmas card: Wishing you a quite too rapturously utter Christmas. Date: circa 1890s

Wishing well, Agua Caliente, Tijuana, Mexico
The wishing well at Agua Caliente, a popular leisure centre in Tijuana, Mexico, with a woman drawing water. Date: 1930

View of Hotel, Agua Caliente, Tijuana, Mexico
View of the Hotel from the Casino, showing the wishing well on the left, at Agua Caliente, a popular leisure centre in Tijuana, Mexico. Date: 1930

WW2 birthday card, Wishing I could walk beside you. Date: circa 1942

Testing the Heart by Edmund Blampied
A young woman in peasant dress plays " He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not" with a dandelion clock. Date: 1914

WW2 greetings card, Best of Luck
WW2 greetings card, Wishing you the Best of Luck, showing a soldier, a sailor and an airman with flags. Date: circa 1942

Ramonas Marriage Place, San Diego, California, USA
Wishing Well at Ramonas Marriage Place (Casa de Estudillo), Old San Diego, California, USA. It is an historic adobe house, built by early settlers in 1827

Naval Recruiting Officer and Actor - WWI humour
Naval Recruiting Officer: And what experience have you had. Actor (wishing to join): Quite considerable. I was two years a midshipman in HMS Pinafore

Ciss on Rose Day - WWI postcard
Ciss on Rose Day. Won t you buy my pretty flower. Caricature of Ciss. Includes card saying Happy Christmas with pressed leaf and ribbon (one leaf missing). Card on verso reads To Ciss

New Year Greetings 1911 / 1912 Wishing Wealth in year ahead
New Year Greetings Postcard wishing the recipient wealth and success in the year ahead. Sent from the model in this shot - Bell Dixon. Date: 1911

Christmas Postcard - Jolly Sweep delivering a letter
Christmas Postcard - Jolly Sweep delivering good wishes. Traditionally chimney sweeps used to go door to door wishing (and hopefully bringing) folk good luck

Actors discuss rates of pay
First Budding Actor (to second budding actor) - " Oh yes, you hear about those salaries of Twenty-five and thirty shillings, but you never get em." Date: 1901

Boy wishes good cheer to all at Christmas
Wishing good cheer and a Happy Home A young boy getting stuck into liquid Christmas Cheer and hoping the feeling is mutual throughout the household!! Date: 1908

Young Girl
Charming illustration of a young Russian girl by Elizabeth Bem. Wish!! Date: 1909

Three children welcome in the New Year
Three children crowd around the window as a little sprite brings a note wishing them a happy new year. Date: c. 1920

Lothair and Innocent
The Holy Roman Emperor LOTHAIR II, wishing to secure the good will of the Papacy, leads pope INNOCENT II in procession into Rome Date: 1131

Four children on a birthday postcard

Dog and Xmas Greeting
A dog lies holding a card wishing people a bright and happy Christmas, a flower is pinned to the card for decoration. 1890

Good Luck postcard
A Czechoslovakian Good Luck postcard, featuring a small girl sat in a barrel holding a bottle of sparkling wine (and spilling a glass of the same), surrounded by large four-leafed clovers

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

Ireland - Greetings Card
A greeting card from Ireland (interestingly depicted as one country)

Hungarian Sympathy
All Europe is in a state of revolution this year : the Hungarians express their sympathy with the French republicans, wishing they too could discard their rulers

India Naini Tal
A popular summer resort for those wishing to escape the heat of the Plains

Fable / Two Lizards
THE TWO LIZARDS: two lizards were bemoaning their fate as lowly creatures, & wishing they d been born proud stags, when hounds tore apart the very stag they d admired

Fable / Lion, Wolf & Fox
THE LION, THE WOLF AND THE FOX: An old lion, wishing to find a cure, summons his animals. The wolf slanders the fox, but finds he comes off worst in the end

Chester City Steps 1930S
The Wishing Steps, Chester, Cheshire, England. If you want to make a wish, you must run up the whole flight of steps, then down and then up again, all in one breath!

French Troops Off to War
A poignant scene, showing two young women saying goodbye to French soldiers as they march enthusiastically away to the Western Front

Christmas Card Dog
A dog holds a card wishing people a joyous Christmas. A large flower decorates the card

Racial / China / Cut Pigtail
Many young Chinese, wishing to westernise themselves, cut their pigtails

Tortoise & Two Ducks
THE TORTOISE & TWO DUCKS A tortoise wishing to travel is flown by grasping a stick in its mouth, supported by two ducks; the foolish tortoise speaks and plummets to earth

Using Hand Signals
The driver of this car is using hand signals to indicate that he is pulling out or wishing to turn right!

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