Women Collection (page 4)

Advert for Mappin & Webb Ermeto Movado pocket watch 1934
Ermeto Movado watches a new model at a new price. Built for a life-times service, they have strong outer cases ensuring double glass breakage. Date: 1934

Warpaint by David Wright
An attractive woman wearing a fur stole that has slipped to reveal a shapely back, glances behind her as she applies her make up using a compact mirror. c.1950

Pin up in Pink by David Wright
A lovely pin-up by David Wright featuring a blonde woman in a pink dress with a matching pink flower in her hair against a black background. c.1947

Russian - Zascha The Colossal Woman
Zascha - The Colossal Woman from Russia Date: circa 1910s

Elizabeth Ann kitchen units advertisement
Advertisement for the Elizabeth Ann kitchen unit in stainless steel for the aristocrat of kitchen equipment for...a bright, easy kitchen. c.1955

Three cockle women of Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Three cockle women of South Wales, in a posed photograph. They are probably from the coastal village of Llangwm, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Welsh women road builders, South Wales
A group of twenty Welsh women road builders in Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales, holding their spades. They built the road to Hook in 1903-4 to facilitate transport to the colliery

London Life front cover 1966 featuring Julie Christie
Front cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London

Twenties flapper girl sitting at a cocktail bar
A flapper girl from the 1920s sitting at a cocktail bar on a high stool. She is slim, wears a slinky dress, and has a cigarette in a holder in her mouth. On the bar is her glass of champagne

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Large fig factory
The scale of the fig industry at Izmir is demonstrated in this postcard showing a huge warehouse with a multitude of baskets and workers

English Rose Corsetry advertisement
Advert for the new corselette from English Rose corsetry, exquisitely styled and entirely without bones. It is described as a corselette with wired

The Tatler Autumn Fashion Number 1955
A stunning, bold front cover design featuring a tall and elegant woman wearing a simple black strapless evening dress and a sumptuous lime green wrap with matching choker necklace

The Skye crofters Land League Agitation
Sketches in the Isle of Skye: the Crofters Land League. 1.Staffin, from the Bay. 2.Crofters huts in Portree. 3.Women of the crofters. 4. A Skye landlord. 5

Front cover from the Bystander
Front cover illustration for The Bystanders Summer Number showing two sun tanned and swimsuit-clad women running on a beach

CARMENTA
Roman goddess of prophecy, protectress of women in childbirth

Understudy by David Wright, showing a model posing in a negligee. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Night Shift by David Wright featuring a cheeky red-haired woman wearing a diaphanous night dress, seated on a luxurious satin bed

Hanways Umbrella / Anon
JONAS HANWAY Traveller, philanthropist, and umbrella enthusiast

Fat Lucy Moore
Lucy Moore, the American Fat Girl, weighs 292 kg (46 stone) and is still growing. Where will it end ?

EMILY DAVISON Died after throwing herself in front of the King's horse at the Derby in June 1913, She is wearing a prisoner's brooch & another medal. 1872 - 1913

Victorian silk birthday card, Girl with dog and flowers by a stream. 19th century

Kate Carew self-portrait
Mary Williams (1869 1961), who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was a caricaturist self-styled as " The Only Woman Caricaturist"

Suffragette Womens March 1912
In October 1912, six women left Edinburgh to walk 400 miles to London, gathering signatures en route in support of Womens Suffrage. The march was organised by Mrs

London Trade Card - William Johnson, Wig Maker
London Trade Card - William Johnson, Peruke (Wig) Maker, in Castle Alley near Royal Exchange. Wigs for men and women. 18th century

Music cover, Thats Amore, words by Jack Brooks, music by Harry Warren. Showing Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Donna Reed on a golf course in the film The Caddy. 1953

English Rose kitchen advert, woman with desserts
Advertisement for English Rose Kitchen Equipment featuring a young housewife with a tea trolley and a selection of desserts, cakes and tea. Date: 1952

Cheery Families - Mrs Butt the Brewers Wife. 1890s

Margaret Thatcher on the campaign trail
Margaret Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, on the campaign trail, waving from a coach. Date: 1970s

Hampstead Heath 1939
Two women walking together up Sandy Lane, an avenue of huge trees leading to Spaniards Lane, Hampstead Heath, north London, England, during winter snow. Date: January 1939

Dorothy Pilley, English climber in Glacier National Park
Dorothy Pilley Richards (1894 - 1986) was a prominent female mountaineer. She began climbing in Wales and joined the Fell and Rock Climbing Club

WW2 poster, Don t be fuel-ish
WW2 poster, The worker who left the lights on -- Don t be fuel-ish. Wasted electricity means less fuel to make the weapons we need for victory

WW2 greetings card, Corporal Joan Pearson
WW2 greetings card, Corporal J.D.M. Pearson, official war picture by Laura Knight, official war picture from the National Gallery

Circus scene. Illustration by G鲡rd Laplau (1938-2009)
Circus scene. Illustration by G鲡 rd Laplau (1938-2009). Naive art. Painting

Raphael Kirchner - Art Nouveau Girl playing the harp from the Greek Virgins postcard series. Date: 1900

Harriet Quimby getting ready for flight 1912
Harriet Quimby (1875 1912), American airwoman and a movie screenwriter. In 1911, she was awarded a U.S. pilots certificate by the Aero Club of America

Advertisement for Elspeth Phelps, 1920s fashion
Advertisement for Elspeth Phelps of Albemarle St, London, part of a series depicting tongue in cheek scenes of society ladies (in this case the fictional Miss Coloothorne Coppit)

Advertisement for Cadburys Golden Key -- male and female models (Barry Trengove and Geraldine Hill) posing. 1959

WW2 - Chef cooking in a bombed-out street - Blitz, London
WW2 - His restaurant and kitchen destroyed by German bombing, a Chef continues to cook al fresco in a bombed-out street - Blitz, London. Date: circa 1941

Lady golfer looking down the fairway for her drive, which appears to have travelled a decent distance. Date: circa 1920s

SOROLLA, Joaqu�(1863-1923). Walk on the beach
SOROLLA, Joaqu� (1863-1923). Walk on the beach. 1907. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Madrid. Sorolla Museum

Vigee-Lebrun, Elisabeth (1755-1842). Marie-Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France. 1783. Rococo. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Versailles. National Museum of Versailles

Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases, Wanted for Sneezing.. Date: circa 1940

Any Girl, Any Station, Anywhere by S. Van Abbe
A fashionable young woman from the 1920s wearing a fur trimmed coat and a green cloche hat, rest her sore feet while sitting on a very large trunk at a railway station. Date: 1927

Topless woman by David Wright
A lovely pencil sketch of a topless woman, peering over her shoulder at the artist. Date: c.1944

Pifco electric vibratory massager
Beauty that is yours sincerely: 1950s electric vibratory massager, claiming to help you keep slim and trim, promotes a healthy scalp, affords relief for tired feet and many muscular aches and pains

Young Lady doing a pedicure on herself (before getting dressed!). Date: circa 1920s

Goodwins toilet soap, 1930s
An advert for Goodwins toilet soap, featuring a smiling young woman holding a tennis racket. 1937-1938

Sweet Lavender by Emily Stride, nee Mitchell - a bucolic portrait of a girl in a bonnet with a large bunch of sweet-smelling lavender. Date: 1900

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