Women Collection (page 23)

Poster, Four Years in the Fight, WW1
YWCA Poster, design by Lucien Jonas, Four Years in the Fight, The Women of France, We Owe Them Houses of Cheer, United War Work Campaign, First World War. circa 1918

Costume June 1886
Hand-coloured page of the latest Paris fashion of 1886, dinner dresses with drapped swags and flower arrangements, ball dresses with long gloves and fans and traditional garden party frocks

Advert for Gorringes womens bathing dresses & capes 1924
Selection of womens exclusive bathing dresses with separate knickers and capes. Date: 1924

Advertisement for Michelin bicycle tyres. 1916

Poster for Mother Goose, advertising a pantomime. Date: circa 1930s

Young Native American woman drinks at a stream

East End Street Market, London, 1909
Preparing for bank holiday, showing a street market in the East End of London, with women at a stall trying on array of hats. Date: 1909

Cockle gathering at Penclawdd 1857
Eight miles from Swansea on the Loughor river, women gathering and preparing cockles for market. Date: 1857

CORNISH TIN ORE DRESSERS
Cornish ore-dressers. Date: 1869

JERUSALEM / WAILING WALL
Jerusalem: women at the Wailing Wall Date: circa 1910

Women riding side saddle 1895
Two women riding in th countryside, side saddle. Date: 1895

Priscilla and the Profligate, Duke of Yorks Theatre, London
Priscilla and the Profligate, a play by Laura Wildig, at the Duke of Yorks Theatre, London, produced by Charles Hawtrey. circa 1920s

Playing Card Back - Bathers - Green and White - Art Deco Date: 1920s

Playing Card Back - Bathers - Orange and White - Art Deco Date: 1920s

South Devon Foxhounds, Cockington, near Torquay
South Devon Foxhounds with huntsmen and horses at Cockington, near Torquay, Devon, getting ready to set off. Date: circa 1960s

Young women in fancy dress costumes
A group of young women dressed in fancy dress costumes preserve the moment for posterity with a photograph in studio. Three are dressed in variations on clown outfits

Evening clothing with pearls and lace 1912
Fashionable evening clothing using detailed embroidered lace and decorative pearls. 1912

Frocks and thrills: Gowns and headdresses from Paris 1913
Women models wearing a selection of different style evening wear, including the lamp-shade skirt, Turkish trousers, low scaft-belt cloak and the knee skirt. 1913

Advert for Gorringes womens bathing costumes 1927
One piece swimsuits and separate tunics with knickers in a variety of styles in different colours and patterns and also rubber caps with flowers, available at Gorringes, Buckingham Palace Road

Fashion for October 1913
Women models wearing the latest fashion in fox fur coats and accessories. Date: 1913

The Lady Lloyd of Dolobran by Glyn W. Philpot
Lady Lloyd of Dolobran, formerly Blanche Lascelles, painted by Glyn W. Philpot. 1929

Advert for Pianola Piano 1913
Social gathering around Pianola Piano, pre-war ladies and gentlemen in their evening attire being entertained by the piano. Date: 1913

Queen Margaret with son and robber
Queen Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI, fleeing into a forest after the Battle of Hexham (15 May 1464, Wars of the Roses) with her son, Prince Edward, meets a robber and asks for protection

Nuns in Venice, Italy
Nuns walking along a narrow passageway in Venice, Italy. circa 1969

Servants at Reipole House, Loch Sunart, Argyll, Scotland
Group of six servants at Reipole House, Loch Sunart, Argyll, Scotland. circa 1895

Family on a 1906 motorcycle & sidecar combination in the road circa 1906

Watneys Happy Families - Mrs Reid, the Brewers Wife. circa 1930

Shakespeare - Alls Well That Ends Well - Bertram: This to my mother. circa 1830

Les Elegances Parisiennes by Jenny -- three women in dresses and coats in shades of blue. circa 1916

Habit of a Young Woman of Otaheite Dancing
Habit of a Young Woman of Otaheite (now Tahiti) Dancing, encountered by Captain James Cook on one of his expeditions. circa 1793

Studies in Femininity, The Minx, by Suzanne Meunier. 1928

Covenanting women: signing the anti-Home-rule pledge
Women take part in the demonstration by signing the anti-Home-rule declaration at Belfast. 1912

Printed Fortnum & Mason dresses for the Riviera casinos
Elegant evening dresses in print crepe-de-chine, among the styles seen in the casinos of Southern France according to The Sketch magazine in which this photograph was featured

Sarah Grand, Irish feminist writer
Sarah Grand (real name Frances Elizabeth Bellenden Clarke, 1854-1922), Irish feminist writer. circa 1900

Strip tease card game - Theatre suit - Dresser. A game which features characters involved in performing (and subsequently prosecuting and defending) a striptease

The Kissing Ceremony by Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky
The Kissing Ceremony by Russian painter Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (1839-1915). Date: late 19th century

Happy Families - Mrs Jack Tar. circa 1940s

French Customs officers X-Ray for smuggled goods 1897

Two early women police officers -- one of them is Millicent Duncan (right). Date: 1910s

Advert for Gorringes womens wool lace for coats 1937
Dainty unlined coat of wool lace. 1937

Chic Vs False Chic 1914
True chic - elegant young woman wears the latest fashion to good advantage: hobble skirt & long belted fur trimmed jacket, the skirts of which create a tunic & a fur muff. Date: 1914

Cartoon, Two emancipated women
Modified wartime silhouette: skirts begin to evoke the barrel-line shape being narrower & court shoes are vying with high boots. Hats: tam-o shanter or high crown. Date: 1918

Cartoon, French soldier and his mother, WW1
Cartoon, French soldier and his mother, taking a borzoi and a lapdog for a walk. He says that people will think she is his fiancee

Nurse in British Red Cross uniform
The British Red Cross regulation uniform for trained nurses. Date: 1914

Tango Dress Trailing
If shes not careful, she is going to get her feet caught up in that trailing dress of hers... Date: 1914

Equal Rights Campaign
Campaign for equal rights for women. The woman speaking is unidentified, but may be Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Bengals Joan of Arc. Freedom movement in India

Advert for Gorringes inexpensive summer frocks 1929
Three charming floral frocks, available from Gorringes. Date: 1929

People in the Lion House at London Zoo. Date: circa 1910

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