Wives Collection (page 2)

Scottish lasses knitting jerseys for the fishermen during their dinner hour. Date: November 1912

Herring Harvest in Great Yarmouth 1934
A small group of the 2, 000 Scottish herring gutters which came to Great Yarmouth in the October to earn some money. Date: October 1934

Scottish Fisher-Women in Great Yarmouth 1932
Scottish fisher lassies who came to Great Yarmouth for the herring harvest, sharing their biscuits with the lucky crew of the Cornstalk. Date: October 1932

Scottish Fisher-Woman in Great Yarmouth 1932
One of the 3, 000 Scottish women that came every year to Great Yarmouth in the herring harvest to gut fish in the months of October and November. Date: October 1932

Herring Harvest in Great Yarmouth 1932
Some of the 3, 000 Scottish women which could gut about forty fish a minute, arrived on the east coast of Great Yarmouth. Date: October 1932

Comic postcard, Two drunkards chatting Date: 20th century

One of the thousands of Scottish women that came to Great Yarmouth in the herring harvest to pack and gut fish in the months of October and November. Date: November 1910

Group of chiefs and their wives, Kandy, Ceylon, Sri Lanka

Scotch Herring Women Workers 1902
Towns of Yarmouth and Lowesoft in the East Anglian ports were full of women from Scotland, coming down to help with the herring harvest in October and November

Italian noble youth fashions from the late 15th century. They wear doublet and hose with many cutout panels, slits and slashes. From an oil painting by Bernardo Pinturicchio

Costumes of Count Ernst IV von Gleichen and his wives
Costumes of Count Ernst IV von Gleichen with his first wife Ingeborg and second wife Margaretha, 13th century. Graf Ernst von Gleichen. From the effigy in Erfurt cathedral

Maid in stockings and garters embraced by a man. Maidservant assaulted by her upholsterer employer. The vindicated servant girl. Le servante justifiee. After Marguerite de Navarres l Heptameron

Native American Chief and two wives. 1908

Sardine fishery at Brittany 1871
Arrival of sardine fleet towards the close of the day, in the bay of Douarnenez, Finistere, France. Date: 1871

Victorian Scrap, Scottish Fishwives series, with two fishing boats included. circa 1890

Ellen Terry as Mistress Page, Merry Wives of Windsor
Ellen Terry as Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor. 1906

Scene from the Merry Wives of Windsor
Scene from Shakespeares Merry Wives of Windsor playing at the Haymarket Theatre, London, in January 1844. 1844

Man greeted by his evacuated children and wife 1939
British man, having traveled to the country to see his evacuated family is greeted by his children and wife, during the second weekend of the war. September 1939

Brass rubbing, Robert Ingylton, Knight, and three wives
Monumental brass rubbing, Robert Ingylton, Knight, and three wives, Thornton, Buckinghamshire. 1472

Sardine, ilisha, and sardine smokehouse
Sardine, Sardina pilchardus 143, West African ilisha, Ilisha africana 144, and fish wives smoking sardines in a smokehouse

Mandinka polygamist in a bark suit beats one
A Mandinka polygamist in a tree-bark suit beats one of his wives in the brutal ritual of Mumbo Jumbo. From Mungo Parks Travels in the Interior of Africa

Muchicongo men and many wives outside a hut, Angola. The men drink and smoke cachimbo pipes, while the women pound corn to make the local drink of oualo, brush their hair, etc

Native American (Timucuan) chief and his wives, Florida
Native American (Timucuan) tattooed chief in painted deerskin robe accompanied by his wives in necklaces and sashes, and two servant boys with fans

Funeral ceremony and burial of a high-ranking Berber, with wives mourning at the graveside. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Hernes Oak, Windsor Great Park, Berkshire
Hernes Oak, in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire, felled in 1796. Associated with the legend of Herne the Hunter, the tree features in Shakespeares comedy, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Date: 1790

Falstaff
Illustration of Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor

Illustration, Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare
Illustration by Kenny Meadows to The Merry Wives of Windsor, by William Shakespeare. Cast list with decorative skull and antlers. Date: 1840

Newhaven fishermen and fishwives 1862
A group of fishermen and fishwives in typical clothing worn at that time. 1862

Paraguay Women at Camp
Three women, wives or bed partners of soldiers during the Paraguayan War, make camp. Sitting by a thatched building, three women make food on a smoke fire, a child standing by them. Date: 1867

Man with two wives, Lokoja, Nigeria, West Africa
Abigah (Abigel), son of the King of Lokoja, with his two wives, Lokoja, Nigeria, West Africa. 1922

David Frances Barry photo - Chief Hand Horn
Chief Hand Horn and his two wives in full traditional native American dress including beaded moccasins and leather belt. Hand Horn is wearing tights and a roach headdress

David Frances Barry photo - Ree Squaws
Ree Squaw women and children with wooden houses in the background. The wives and children of Struck𢹰 the𒥥, a chief of the Native American Yankton Sioux tribe

Jo kisses her Friedrich. Date: first published 1859

Sweet Anne Page by G. D. Leslie
Sweet Anne Page from The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare painted by George Dunlop Leslie RA (1835-1921), part of a series of Shakespearean heroines by well-known Victorian artists

HOUSEWIFE IN KITCHEN
A happy housewife cracks eggs in her stylish new fitted kitchen, with built-in cooker and oven - wow! Date: 1960s

HAPPILY MAKING THE BED
An attractive, happy housewife making a bed. Date: 1960s

GIVING UP JEWELRY
Wives of artists donate their jewelry to the National Assembly, to help pay the public debt. Date: 7 September 1789

NICARAGUAN WOMEN 1928
A Nicaraguan womens regiment commanded by the wives of two generals is among those opposing the invading U.S. Marines. Date: 1928

Woman making nets in the Claddagh 1870
Woman making nets in the Claddagh, Galway. Date: 1870

Mr & Mrs Benson and Company, Theatre Royal, Halifax
Mr & Mrs Benson and their Company, at the Theatre Royal, Halifax, with a programme of Shakespeare plays (The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet)

Repairing nets, Bermeo, Spain - 4
Women repair the nets for fishermen on the quayside at Bermeo, Biscay, Northern Spain Date: 1990

Repairing nets, Bermeo, Spain -1
Women repair the nets for fishermen on the quayside at Bermeo, Biscay, Northern Spain. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1990

Repairing nets, Bermeo, Spain - 3
Women repair the nets for fishermen on the quayside at Bermeo, Biscay, Northern Spain Date: 1990

Repairing nets, Bermeo, Spain - 2
Women repair the nets for fishermen on the quayside at Bermeo, Biscay, Northern Spain Date: 1990

Food Queues in London owing to shortages
Food Queues in London owing to shortage of supplies. People waiting to get 2 ounces only Date: 1918

Extended family group at a local fair, Manchester
Extended family group (three generations) at a local fair (posing proudly in front their new car) - Manchester, England. Date: circa 1920s

Tanzania - Sultan Ikoma and his wives - house stockade. Date: circa 1923

Statue of Queen Nefertari at the Luxor Temple, Egypt
Statue of Queen Nefertari at the side of a sitting statue of Ramesses II at the Luxor Temple, Egypt. The statue shows the standing queen supporting her husband Ramesses II

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