Women Collection (page 20)

Fine Feathers by Webster Murray
A glamorous cabaret star or showgirl, shows off her shapely legs on stage while wearing an extravagantly enormous feather headdress. Date: 1930

Ducking a Scold - or Duckynge a Scolde. Cartoon showing the medieval practice of ducking women to punish them for a nagging tongue. Date: 1913

Aylesbury Prison Laundry
Interior of laundry at Aylesbury prison. Uniformed women handle the washing on trolleys and in baskets which bear the convict arrow insignia. Date: circa 1900

Advertisement for Players cigarettes
Players please " Its the tobacco that counts" Young elegant lady holding a cigarette in a holder. Date: 1930

Two Women Kiss
Two women kiss 1904

1906 Studebaker
Automobile (cars). 1906 Studebaker Touring Car, model g-30 with eight costumed women

Fashion for the Moors by Gordon Conway
Suggestion for a slimline country tweed suit, perfect for striding stylishly over moorland on the Glorious Twelfth. Date: c.1930

Reading War Hospital, Reading, Berkshire
During the First World War, the Reading Union workhouse (opened 1867) on Oxford Road, Reading, Berkshire, was used as a military hospital

David Wright woman with lipstick
Elegant woman in a low-cut blue evening dress, putting on bright red lipstick at her dressing table. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Miss Kathleen McKane, tennis player
Miss Kathleen McKane (Kitty McKane Godfree) (1896-1992), tennis player, Englands lawn tennis hope, and rival to the French player, Suzanne Lenglen

Front cover of The Bystander by Rick Elmes
A front cover illustration by Rick Elmes entitled The Minx, depicting an elegant young woman in evening dress, with her fur-trimmed coat falling off her shoulders

Elderly woman in front of a Welsh dresser, Mid Wales
An elderly woman in Victorian style costume sitting in front of a Welsh dresser, Mid Wales. The dresser contains family photographs and crockery

Three Salmons Inn with staff, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
The Three Salmons Inn in the town of Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales, with three members of staff, including the landlord, John Herbert (left) and his wife (right)

Welsh woman in traditional costume on a donkey
A young Welsh woman in traditional costume, riding a donkey sidesaddle. This was the usual form of transport at the time -- for example

Lady golfer (1928)
A lady golfer in a chic outfit surveys the sky after hitting the ball, while a group of admiring fellow golfers appear suitably impressed

Faroe Islands, Denmark - Women Spinning
A woman working at a spinning wheel with two companions - The Faroe Islands, Denmark

Scene in the International Stores, Crediton, Devon, with two middle-aged women chatting in an aisle. The photograph dates from before decimalisation of the currency -- tins of peaches are priced at

Old English Sheepdog turned into wool
An Old English Sheepdog with its enterprising owner, who has spun its coat into balls of wool for knitting

London telephone exchange, WWII
Women telephone operators at a London telephone exchange with tin helmets, during World War II

Cocktails by Baird
A wonderful, stylised illustration showing a fashionable flapper girl not only drinking a cocktail but hallucinating about them also

David Wright pin-up
Red-headed woman in black underwear with bra straps slipping seductively down her shoulders. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Carpet Factory (Usak)
Armenian or Greek women at work at a carpet factory at Usak, Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. They sit on the carpet they are slowly producing

Girl in a Pierrot Costume in this stylised circular painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Calendar girl by David Wright
A blonde woman dressed in a transparent black teddy which leaves little to the imagination relaxes on a chaise lounge and enjoys the sensation of a new pair of silky stockings through her elegantly

The Tatler Summer Number front cover 1932
Jolly front cover design for the Tatlers Summer Number featuring two cheery beach belles wearing fashionable pyjama suits. One smokes a cigarette while the other grins under a wide brimmed sun hat

The Sketch debutante number front cover 1956
Front cover of The Sketch magazines debutante number, featuring the face of a woman wearing pink gloves, hiding partially behind a small posy of violets

Coats for rainy weather, 1954
A couple of coats, suitable for wet and windy weather. On the left is a coat of lightweight pure woollen Venetian available in wine, cocoa, bottle or charcoal

Britannia and Eve front cover, April 1954
An elegant woman in a full-skirted dress with a nipped in waist typical of 1950s fashion, poses with hat and gloves finishing off her ensemble

Kangol advertisement 1956
Advertisement for Kangol hats showing three chic, elegant women wearing Kangol hats (of course) at an event, possibly a private view at an art gallery

The Bystander Summer Number 1928
A bold, colourful cover for The Bystander Summer Number featuring two attractive young women in beachwear. One, wearing a hat and holding a parasol, is more sensible of the sun

The Courage to Heal, a Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, the book that fueled the American abuse scare of the 1980s/1990s

British and French Soldiers - Salonica
A scruffy young turkish paperboy selling the Paris Balkan Newspaper and the French Echo to British and French soldiers during World War One in Salonica as two veiled ladies and a Greek priest

Women workers, World War I
Women workers packing fuse heads in the Coventry Ordnance Works during World War I

Bapsy Pavry
Miss Bapsy Pavry, later Marchioness of Winchester and author of " The Heroines of Ancient Persia". She was the daughter of the Parsi High Priest of Bombay

Summer Holiday Fashions
Nautical holiday outfits from 1932, including palazzo pants and berets

Viscount and Viscountess Astor and their children
A photograph taken at Lord Astors seat, Clevedon, Taplow, Bucks. Lord Astor was M.P. for the Sutton Division of Plymouth until 191, after he succeeded Lady Astor represented the position

Herring Fleet Fisher Women, East Coast of Britain, 1913
Photographs showing three views of fisher women who worked for the herring fleet on the East coast of Britain in 1913. At top, three women stand at the pickling trough, gutting and pickling herring

Dame Florence Simpson
Dame Florence Edith Victoria Simpson, nee Way, other married name Burleigh Leach, controller of Queen Marys Womens Army Auxiliary Corps during World War One & beyond

Kos - Women (Ottoman era)
This picture is from Ottoman times and depicts women sitting, having been drinking wine, in traditional costume, on the Island of Kos (or Cos) (Turkish - Istankoy, Italian - Coo, English - Stanchio)

Victor Stiebel / Twenties
Design by Victor Stiebel (1907-1976) for an elegant evening or cocktail dress in royal blue with embellished assymetric hem and drop-waist. Shoes & jewellery match dress

New Eastbourne Tram
One of the beautiful new double-decker trams, built to a gauge of only 15 inches, which run from Eastbourne along the Crumbles, Sussex, England

Victor Stiebel / Ballgown
An ash blue slipper satin evening dress from couture designer, Victor Stiebel. Typical full skirt of the period, with a white pleated " peau de soie"

Social / Rainy Street 60S
A typical English street in Corby, Northamptonshire, on a rainy shopping day: three women stand chatting

18th French Court Dress
Man: trunk hose, doublet, ruff & boots that reach over the knees. Woman: gown with a square neckline & tucker, voluminous sleeves & reverse cuffs & a plumed hat

The Haunted Lady, Punch
The Haunted Lady, or The Ghost in the Looking-Glass. A lady admires her new dress, but the mirror reveals the sacrifice made: the death of the wretched seamstress

Cycling Outfit of 1890S
A young woman wearing the daring new rational cycling outfit akin to bloomers

Evening Dress / Worth 1922
Dusky pink evening gown in a bold printed fabric with a low scooped neckline revealing a sleeveless grey bodice beneath. The skirt is draped up over one hip

1950S Girl and Flowers
A blonde model with typical short, set fifties hairstyle and glossy pink lipstick poses with a bunch of pink roses

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