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Tibetan dancers, Hotel Mount Everest, Himalayas. Date: circa 1930
Market building in Manama, Bahrain, Persian GulfMarket building (Souk) in Manama, capital city of Bahrain, Persian Gulf. Date: late 1940s
The Queen Victoria Memorial by Sir Thomas Brock - ModelA model of the Queen Victoria Memorial, situated at the end of The Mall in front of Buckingham Palace, designed by sculptor Sir Thomas Brock. Designed in 1901 and unveiled in 1911 (see: 11065794)
The King Charles Tower on the City Wall, Chester Date: 1909
Moorish Musicians and Snake Charmer - Morocco. The seated musicians are playing a pipe flute and a Bendir Frame Drum. Date: circa 1910s
Imperial Court at the Balkan States Exhibition, Earls Court, London Date: 1907
Hotel Great Central - Paddington, LondonThe Landmark London, a five-star hotel on Marylebone Road on the northern side of central London, England. It was originally opened by the Great Central Railway
Luzern, Switzerland - the SchweizerhofquaiLuzern (Lucerne), Switzerland - the Schweizerhofquai. There are pleasure boats for hire on the left! Date: 1910s
The Queen Victoria Memorial by Sir Thomas Brock - ModelA model of the Queen Victoria Memorial, situated at the end of The Mall in front of Buckingham Palace, designed by sculptor Sir Thomas Brock. Designed in 1901 and unveiled in 1911 (see: 11065793)
Dancing Frock 1909A dancing frock with square lace yoke threaded with ribbon tied to make a rosette with sash ends, pleated skirt with ruched ribbon trim, sandal slippers with ribbon ties. Date: 1909
Girls Coat & Muff 1909Girls double-breasted coat with 2 rows of buttons & outlined in velvet, broad brimmed hat with velvet bow & buckle, ermine muff & gaiters. Date: 1909
Funicular at Lynmouth Cliff 1904The Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway, Devon, saves holidaymakers a very long walk down to the sea. Date: 1904
Wwi Refugees 1917A mother and her children, with their meagre possessions wrapped in three bundles, shelter in a ruined building from the battle raging close by. Date: 1917
Advert for Clarks Anchor Threads 1925Clarks Anchor Threads Date: 1925
Canon Lyttelton (1855 1942), British cricketer and Head of Eton. Date: 1909
John Milton Janssen (1608 - 1674) English poet and puritan as a young man
The Old Order Changeth" Flight-Sergeant, in future when we go up, just give the order Let Go, instead of Let go the guys, " Date: 1918
H. I. M, Hymn of Hate, 1915The hymn of hate, allegedly sketched at Wilhelmshaven by The Bystander Special Spy-Artist: a humorous depiction of Kaiser Wilhelm taking a choir practice of German soldiers. Date: 1915
Displaced by war: news stories no longer being covered, 1915A humorous cartoon imagines other news stories usually enjoyed by the press(child prodigies, enormous vegetables, the activities of militant suffragettes)
No. 3: People We Don t Envy by George Studdy, 1915No. 3: The German postman trying to deliver a letter to a ruined Belgium village. Date: 1915
WW1 recruitment: employers encourage servants to enlist, 1915" 5 questions to those who employ male servant" s: an advertisement intended to encourage employers to get their servants to enlist during World War One. Date: 1915
No. 2: People We Don t Envy by George Studdy, 1915No. II: The Army Service Corps subaltern compelled to deliver a lecture on Supplies to a contingent of men recruited from grocers, butchers, provision dealers etc. Date: 1915
Kaiser as a waiter: a WW1 peace conference imagined, 1915Taking orders: a forecast of the peace conference. Kaiser Wilhelm II is re-imagined as a waiter, taking orders from George V, Theodore Roosevelt and other leaders. Date: 1915
Jessie Woodrow Wilson, 1915Daughter of American President Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. F. P Sayre, (nee Jessie Woodrow Wilson), pictured here in The Bystander to celebrate the birth of her son, Francis B. Sayre, Jr
Cut out for the job: WW1 recruitment humourCivilian: " Most of my pals are either in the Guards or the Bantams. I m too short for the Guards, and too tall for the Bantams
Impressions of Cambridge during World War One, 1915Arms and the Varsity Man: some impressions of Cambridge in wartime, 1915. Date: 1915
WW1 women volunteers distracted by sales, 1915Trying experience of a contingent of the Womens Volunteer Defence Corps in the course of a route march. Date: 1915
The Oldest British Regiment? The East KentOfficers of the Second Battalion of the East Kent regiment, known as The Buffs. Pictured here on the steps of Winchester College
Malvina Longfellow, 1915American actress Malvina Longfellow(1889-1962), pictured in The Bystander in 1915 at the time of her London debut in Lady Levers play The Torches of Fate
Some Attrition, 1915Austrian Civilian: " Hullo, old man, you look a bit dicky" Austrian Army: " So would you if you d been annihilated about a hundred and twenty-two times" Date: 1915
Garments for Women Who Work, WW1First World War advertisement for clothing from Mrs Oliver Ltd of 39 Old Bond Street, featuring some suggested, garments for women who work
The season in Cairo: January crowds even bigger and smarterEgypt during WW1: Cavalry parade along a Cairo street. The Bystander jovially reports as if they are present for the holiday season, " The fact that Egypt is a seat of war
The watch on the Nile by the ship of the desert, 1915The first British Super-Dreadnought for use against the Turks in Egypt, designed on behalf of the British Government by a friendly Viennese cartoonist. Date: 1915
5th Baron Huntingfield, 1915Captain Charles Arcedeckne Vanneck(1883-1969), captain of the 13th Hussars, at the time he had succeeded to the title of the 5th Baron Huntingfield in 1915
Viscount Helmsley becomes the 2nd Earl of Feversham, 1915Charles Duncombe(1879-1916), MP known as Viscount Helmsley, at the time he had succeeded to the title of the 2nd Earl of Feversham in 1915
Chinese beauty westernised, 1915Two young Chinese women in western costume: Misses Amy and May Leu Yuk Lin, daughters of the Chinese ex-Minister, pictured in 1915
The Countess of Lisburne, 1915Our first Chilean peeress: the Countess of Lisburne(-1944). Formerly Mlle Regina Bittencourt, eldest daughter of the minister of the Chilean Legation to London
Costumes of the Red Cross: an English nurse, 1915Ministering angels and what they are wearing: varieties of the Allied Red Cross headgear. An English nurse, portrayed in 1915. Date: 1915
People We Don t Envy: No. 1: The first German salesmanPeople We Don t Envy: No.1: The first German commercial traveller in England after the war. An imagined senario featured in The Bystander in 1915
WW1 FootballJohn Bull, in the garb of an English Army officer, appears in the changing room after a football match in an attempt to shame the players into joining the armed forces
Goatskin shortages in 1915: humourous alternatives suggestedHirsuitabilities: A humourous suggestion from Edwin Morrow in responce to the possibility of a shortage in supply of goat skins for soldiers winter overcoats. Date: 1915
Costumes of the Red Cross: an Russian nurse, 1915Ministering angels and what they are wearing: varieties of the Allied Red Cross headgear. A Russian nurse, portrayed in 1915. Date: 1915
Costumes of the Red Cross: an Japanese nurse, 1915Ministering angels and what they are wearing: varieties of the Allied Red Cross headgear. A Japanese nurse, portrayed in 1915. Date: 1915
Costumes of the Red Cross: an French nurse, 1915Ministering angels and what they are wearing: varieties of the Allied Red Cross headgear. A French nurse, portrayed in 1915. Date: 1915
Advert for Wrights Coal Tar Soap 1915A patriotic advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar Soap from the First World War with childish depictions of the six allies - Russia, Italy, Britain, France and Japan. Date: 1915
Advert for Turnbull and Asser military outfits 1916For the comfort of our soldiers. Chamois leather drawers, ensure perfect comfort with absolute warmth. The most suitable garment for all those exposed to damp, wind and cold