Women Collection (page 8)

Golf / French Lady
A French lady golfer prepares to hit the ball

Rebecca Riots / 1843
REBECCA RIOTS during which toll gates were attacked in South Wales. Many of the male rioters dressed as women & called themselves Rebecca & her daughters

Ladies by Sea / France / Fem
A dress and coat set designed along the same lines with interesting angular panels and button detailing designed by Chantal

Reform Club / Saloon / 1840
Gentlemen and women in the corridor of the saloon

Group of Bridge Players
Men and women playing the fashionable game of bridge

Cycling in Battersea Park, London

Female high jumper in orange costume
A female high jumper in an orange costume leaping over a pole

Tarot Card 6 - L'Amoureux (The Lover or Lovers). Date: 20th century

Advert, Overland Whippet Car, designed especially for women. 1926

Suffragette W. S. P. U Sash Votes for Women
Sash produced for the Womens Social & Political Union, in the colours of purple, white and green. The sash is made in a heavy woven cotton material with white central panel and borders

Patons knitting wools advertisement, WW1 comforts
Advertisement for Patons Alloa knitting wools during the First World War featuring a Red Cross nurse busy knitting and the words, Every Woman Can Help. Date: c.1915

Suffragette Badge Womens Freedom League
Badge produced for the Womens Freedom League in tin with celluloid (?) covering, in W.F.Ls colours of green, gold and white

Book of patterns: Women & War - How to knit and crochet
Book of patterns: Women & War- How to knit and crochet, articles neccesary to the Health and Comfort of our Soldiers and Sailors. Associated with World War One, Home Front (1914-1918). Date: 1918

Sheet Music Suffragettes Humorous One or Two Step. Written by Montague Ewing, cover illustration by Reginald Rigby with suffragettes in the colours, one holding a hammer

Kuwait - The Women Folk - the taker of this shot writes: " Note the anklets they wear and the amount of clothing despite the shade temperature being about 98 degrees". Date: 1933

Malta - Lacemaking
Lacemaking in Malta during WWI. Malta was not on the front line of World War I (unlike World War II) but did participate in many ways nevertheless

Portrait of Anne Page Croft in Red Cross uniform, WW1
Portrait of Anne Page Croft in Red Cross uniform. She was War Treasurer and Secretary to the Ware Division of the British Red Cross until 1919. By Florence Kate Upton (1873-1922)

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

The Festival of Reason, created by the French

Kashmir Shawl Dress 1810
Red evening shawl dress created from a Kashmir shawl has short puffed sleeves & is worn over a habit shirt. She carries a green shawl & wears a pearl bandeau in her hair. Date: 1810

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

Saved by a female Bather
A gentleman bather who has found himself in trouble, is rescued by two extremely glamorous lady bathers. One has him firmly In Tow

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

A coat by Moorcott to drive a Triumph sports car
A girl wearing a green and white Scottish tweed coat with deep raglan sleeves and slit pockets designed by Moorcot, sits in a Triumph 2 litre sports model capable of well over 100 mph! Date: 1953

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

Ballet dancers training
A group of ballet dancers training in a rehearsal studio. circa 1940s

De Vere, Earl Oxford
AUBREY (ALBERIC) DE VERE 2ND EARL OF OXFORD Lord High Chamberlain of England, with Adelizia, his consort. He is depicted in full suit mail. Date: - 1215

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

Prestatyn Holiday Camp brochure
A Prestatyn Holiday Camp brochure -- Look! Heres your 1955 Holiday -- showing two women and a man in swimsuits standing on the deck of a ship, looking out

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

Surf riding at Muizenburg on the Cape Coast
A contrast to the grey days at home: surf-riding at Muizenburg, the Queen of Cape Coast Watering Places. A universal summer pastime of the South African coastal resorts, surf-riding

Mossel Bay poster
Travel poster for Mossel Bay in South Africa, advertising safe bathing, excellent golf, unsurpassed fishing, and illustrated by a sandy beach scene with three ladies in bathing costumes enjoying

Poster advertising Union Castle cruises for South Africa, East Africa and around the African coast

Poster advertising Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Poster advertising Port Elizabeth, a holiday resort on the coast of South Africa. Two young women in swimsuits dip their toes in the sea

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

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

Victorian Women Cyclists Pushing their Bicycles, c. 1898
Photograph showing a group of women pushing their bicycles up a hill; probably somewhere in England in the summer of 1897

England / Lyme Regis
A glimpse of Lyme Regis High Street, Dorset, England, showing a young man on a bicycle outside Cox & Humphries radio shop and the church in the background

Anne, Lady Byron (Anon)
ANNA ISABELLA MILBANKE Lady Byron (1815 to 1816)

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

Soviet Women Read Pravda
Soviet women factory workers read Pravda on the day the Anglo-Soviet Agreement is announced

Racial / Japan / Women / Snow
Japanese women in the snow, children snowballing in the background

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