Woman Collection (page 9)

Embankment / Lantern Slide
A woman walking along the Embankment on a rainy night with a full moon 1910

Pavlova, Anna (1882-1931). Russian classical dancer. Poster of the Russian Ballets

The Festival of Reason, created by the French

Woman suffrage headquarters in Upper Euclid Avenue, Cleveland - A. (at extreme right) is Miss Belle Sherwin, President, National League of Women Voters; B. is Judge Florence E

Barred from Womens Lecture for wearing bloomers
A woman wearing bloomers is stopped by a Vicar from entering a Lecture (for Women Only !) as she is wearing bloomers, which Rev Self Righteous views as totally unsuitable for a lady! Date: 1911

Advert for Gorringes fashion fabrics 1932
Advertisement for Gorringes pattern book containing viyella and visylka dress fabrics. 1932

Chilean Indian Woman weaving a blanket on a frame set against the thatched roof of her house Date: circa 1904

Modes et Travaux front cover. Art deco
A woman in grey evening wear poses in front of her mirror. Artist: Wecla Date: 1934

Silhouette of a waitress or pub barmaid, about to pour beer into a glass. An advertisement for Worthington beer

Norwegian Types (5 / 5) - Young Norwegian wife
A Young Norwegian wife in traditional national costume Date: circa 1910s

Hairdressing exam
A girl pass the test as hairdresser before a male inspector

Advertisement for Rigaud perfumes, featuring a semi-naked woman inhaling the aroma from a bottle of scent. 1924

Women working during the First World War. Above: in a weapons factory, filling shells with explosives. Below: an outdoor scene with a woman bus conductor

Tatler front cover, May 1962
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a model wearing typical 1960s makeup. The lipstick is Cardinal by Lancome and the dramatic eyes use spangled Pailettes D Or and turquoise eyeshadow by Perle Dore

Tatler front cover, 9 March 1960
Front cover of the Tatler featuring a photograph of a woman, eating breakfast while arranging to meet friends over the telephone. 1960

Piano teacher and pupil, 1915
Teacher: What does ff mean? Child(learning military march): Fump! Fump! Date: 1915

Fanny Blankers-Koen hurdling, 1948 London Olympics
Fanny Blankers-Koen, a Dutch housewife, taking the victory in the 80 metres hurdles and setting a new Olympic record. Maureen Gardner of Britain took the silver

Who will buy my sweet blooming lavender?
Old Street Cries -- Who will buy my sweet blooming lavender? 20th century

Britannia and Eve magazine, August 1940
Front cover illustration featuring a smiling woman, clasping her hands with joy and thinking very happy thoughts. She wears a orange silk dress, bright red lipstick and her hair in finger waves

David Wright woman holding black negligee
Elegant naked woman sitting on a red and gold couch, holding a flimsy black negligee or underskirt. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Shire horses and cart on Marazion beach, Cornwall
Two white shire horses pulling a cart along Marazion beach in Cornwall, with St Michaels Mount in the background

Miss Lucy Pocock, sculling champion
Miss Lucy Pocock, the winner of the Thamesside Water Womens sculling championship. She came from a family of boat builders and sculling champions

Mrs Sullivan of Covent Garden Market
Mrs Sullivan, or Auntie of the Garden, a famous character in Covent Garden Market who earned her living from looking after the carters whips

Women of Pleven, Bulgaria
Pleven, Bulgaria - Women in the costume of the region, incorporating patterned ornamental aprons

Fashion for 1956
A bolero and dress of lightweight wool georgette with all accessories from Debenham and Freebody, is a spring winner. The bolero

The Bystander masthead by Laurie Taylor, 1930
An athletic woman in a swimsuit and bathing cap, sprints along a beach accompanied by two elegant greyhounds, the canine icon of the art deco period

The Bystander Cover 1929
Striking cover of The Bystander featuring a leggy, athletic woman clad in bathing costume and cap dancing around in the surf with a beach ball

Window Gardening
A Victorian woman sits in a comfortable armchair reading a book, proud of her verdant display of plants decorating a large window

Girl Plays Ping Pong
A girl in a flowing pink dress plays ping pong

Eve Adamised 1927
Eve Adamised : new woman in a liberated age dons male attire of suit & tie with hair in an Eton crop, but signals her gender with make-up, earings & a cigarette holder

Penny Farthing Post
A postman on a penny farthing delivers a parcel to a woman dressed in a long coat with fur trim

Ugly Duckling (Boyle)
The old cottage woman, with her distaff and her animal companions : often such solitary females were suspected of witchcraft

Mary Henrietta Kingsley, traveller and writer, in her canoe on the Ogooue (Ogowe) River in Gabon, West Central Africa, in 1896

Young lady - arms crossed wearing a sheer black wrap. Reproduction of a painting by David Wright

Arts of Peace by David Wright, showing a woman pinning up hair in front of a mirror. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

The Tune That He Loved Best by David Wright, showing a woman sat listening to a gramaphone. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

No News to Speak Of by David Wright featuring a glamorous, half-dressed woman lounging on a boudoir-style chair as she pens a letter

About Turn ! by David Wright
About Turn! by David Wright, using a typical military-style double-entendre to entitle an image of a woman in lingerie looking over her shoulder at the artist

Powder Monkey by David Wright, showing a back view of an elegantly slim woman only just covered by a fur evening coat, looking at herself in a powder compact mirror

Bathing Belle Parade
Three disgruntled beauty queens look particularly annoyed at a sassy woman in a red bikini holds a placard boasting that she can cook too!

Stamp Machine 1960S
A young woman puts a penny (1d) in the slot of a stamp machine, which will dispense a second class book of stamps. First class stamps are 3d (thruppence) per book

Woman in a Kent Garden
A Kentish Garden A woman picks flowers from large herbaceous borders in a typical English garden

Evening Standard Seller
A woman sells the Evening Standard newspaper announcing the death of King George VI

Padstow Hobby Horse
ENGLAND: PADSTOW HOBBY HORSE: MAY DAY. Oss, teaser & attendants dance. Any woman caught under the frame of the Oss will become pregnant before the end of the year

Older Woman Baking 1947
An older woman wearing a flowery apron rolls out pastry for some home baking

Astor as 1st Woman Mp
NANCY, LADY ASTOR Vicountess Astor, standing between Lord Balfour and Lloyd George, becomes the first woman MP, 1919

Lady Wearing a Spencer
One woman wears a fur-lined spencer the other a pelisse. Fashions of around 1805 according to a later source

Doing the Crossword / 1925
The thinker, ponders a crossword clue

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