Wives Collection (page 5)

Daniel Hanmer Wells
DANIEL HANMER WELLS Mormon pioneer, general, and mayor of Salt Lake City : a controversial figure who was indicted though not tried for having seven wives. Date: 1814 - 1891

4th Earl Shrewsbury
GEORGE TALBOT, fourth earl of SHREWSBURY, with his dog and his first (Anne) and second (Elizabeth) wives. Note he is wearing the Order of the Garter on his left leg. Date: 1468 - 1538

Harriot, Duchess of St Albans
HARRIOT (nee Mellon) duchess of St ALBANS, actress in the role of mistress Page in Shakespeares Merry wives. Wife of banker Thos. Coutts, later of William ninth duke. Date: 1777 - 1837

James Kenney
JAMES KENNEY Irish playwright, author of many successful stage pieces including the immensely popular Sweethearts and wives. Friend of the Lambs. Date: 1780 - 1849

Upper Class Korean Family in Traditional Costume
Upper Class Korean Family pose for a group studio portrait in Traditional Costume. Date: 1905

Grand Chief Bernando and Family - Central African Republic Date: circa 1910s

Egyptian Fellahs Women (and child)
Egyptian Fellahs (a peasant, farmer or agricultural labourer) Women (and child). Date: circa 1910s

WW2 - Italian brides of American GIs arrive in USA
WW2 - Seven Italian brides of American GIs reach the United States of America through the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation on the last stage of their journey to their new homes

Paris, France - Spanish Diplomatic Wives outside the Emabssy
Paris, France - Spanish Diplomatic Wives outside the Embassy awaiting the official visit of King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Date: 1905

Hideyoshi and his wives. Print shows Toyotomi Hideyoshi having tea and being attended to by four women. Date between 1804 and 1806

What are the wild wives saying?. Illustration shows a shapely, beautiful young woman standing on the beach between two male admirers, whose wives look on with disapproval from the background

Oceanside High School Masque Society will present 4 one act plays Riders to the sea, When the horns blow, A new school for wives, and A minuet

Shakspeare. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act IV. scene II

Anne Page, slender and shallow. A scene from the merry wives of Windsor. Date c1851 Feb. 15

A wife giveing her husband a cup of Oxo
A wife giving her husband a cup of Oxo. Advertisement for Oxo, assuring their nourishing concentrated Beef will " maintain health and vigour" Date: 1928- 1929

A young wife visiting a cigar shop to buy some cork tipped cigars for her husband. Date: 1928- 1929

Old Friends and New, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
During the First World War a group of soldiers join the local fishermen and old sea dogs and their wives along with three children for a photograph before the men go off to fight. 1915

The wives of the military
" The wives of the military" -- two ladies of contrasting stature (and possibly contrasting social stature!) stand talking about their husbands, both away at war. Silhouette by H L Oakley

English Gable Hood
A model wearing a Gable Hood or an English Hood, a popular Tudor head-dress, made famous by the wives of King Henry VIII of England. Date: 16th century (re-enactment)

Good Wives - 7
Amy in the garden with Laurie. Date: first published 1869

Good Wives - 5
Professor Blaer watches Jo with the children. Date: first published 1869

Good Wives - 6
Laurie presents a bouquet of flowers to Amy. Date: first published 1869

Queen Catherines Tomb
The tomb of Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain and first of the six wives of King Henry VIII of England, at Peterborough Cathedral. Date: 1485 - 1536

Good Wives - 3
Meg and John Brooke have just quarreled about her jellies : they sit sulking, she with her sewing, he with his paper - but soon a kiss will put things right. Date: first published 1869

Good Wives - 8
Jo in Beths sick-room. (She gets better, you ll be glad to know.) Date: first published 1869

Good Wives - 2
Meg prepares for her wedding to John Brooke, in the gown she has made herself. Date: first published 1869

Good Wives - 1
Mrs March and her daughters were left under the festival tree. Date: first published 1869

Good Wives - 4
Jo and Amy pay a call. Date: first published 1869

Ezra, Prophet
EZRA Jewish priest and scribe, a teacher of the Torah, advocate of strict observance of the law, particularly opposing the taking of foreign wives. Date: circa 459 BCE

The Duke and Duchess of York in Uganda
The Kabaka of Buganda with his wives, who attended him with vessels of beer and food during the omwoleko (review) of Bugandan warriors. Date: 1925

New Baby Greetings postcard
A New Baby Greetings postcard, featuring Dr Stork, who has just delivered a little bundle of joy. " May All Your Troubles Be Little Ones" !!! Date: 1905

Nero and Julia
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, later NERO Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, Roman emperor, depicted with Julia, one of his wives whom he murdered Date: 37 - 68

Middle Class Prize Wives
Woman, women, wife, housewife Mr Punchs Four Prize Middle Class Wives. The wife as cook, intellectual companion, clerk and tennis partner! Date: 1889

Algeria - Camel Transport
A camel palanquin (covered litter), used to transport wives and children across the arid desert of southern Algeria, each with a central ventilation shaft

Turkish peasant family group
A Turkish peasant family group photograph. Situated on their farm in Central Anatolia. The seated mans two wives wear traditional headdresses as befits married women

Gas advertisement 1954
Advertisement by the Gas Industry promoting the use of coal-fired gas as fuel for gas cookers in the 1950s home. To drive home the point

Abyssinian Expedition: The Exodus of Theodores Broken Army
The British 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia was a punitive expedition against King Theodore, after he had imprisoned missionaries and representatives of the British Government

Close to the Galata Bridge - Constantinople
Street scene close to the Galata Bridge, Constantinople. A man walks along with his two wives and child

Croker-Kings / Speare
CHARLES CROKER-KING English actor in the roll of Slender in Shakespeares Merry Wives of Windsor

L Braithwaites / Speare
LILIAN BRAITHWAITE English actress in the roll of Anne Page in Shakespeares Merry Wives of Windsor

Beerbohm Trees / Speare
Sir HERBERT DRAPER BEERBOHM TREE. English actor in the roll of Falstaff in Shakespeares Merry Wives of Windsor

A Soldiers Homecoming
A soldiers homecoming from the battlefields of France during World War I. Three sons return home to wives, mothers, sisters and sweethearts

American Indians. One of Sitting Bulls Wives
Portrait of Sioux woman

Zulu war. Dinizulus slovenly kraal at Usutu. Three of Diniz
Dinizulus wives in demure European dress, were allowed to accompany him to his trial in Pietermaritzburg in January 1908

The restoration of Cetshwayo
One of Cetshwayos wives with her male attendant. The only royal zulu woman to be photographed, this was possibly Msweli, mother of Dinuzulu

Submission of Ghent
When the nobles of Ghent are too proud to submit to Philippe le Hardi, their ruler thanks to marriage with Margaret of Flanders, their wives perform the act of submission instead

Scottish Fishwives
A jolly group of Scottish fishwives and some of their menfolk. One of the women plays the bagpipes

Cholera quarantine at Marseilles
Quarantine for officers of ships that are in detention, visited by their wives and children. Travel played a large part in the spread of disease

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