Images Dated 19th July 2019

Jo Carstairs in racing boat Estella IV
Marion Joe Carstairs, pictured with her engineer Mr Joe Harris in the Napier engine racing motor boat

Phyllis Barron and her hand-block printing on stuffs
Phyllis Barron seen cutting her own hand blocks for printing fabrics

Sri Lanka - Ceylon. Her tea and other industries
A larger version of this uncommon pictorial poster map was originally published by the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board in 1933

Group watching the Henley Regatta from boat, July 1958
A group of people including; Mr Alan Adams, Mr Robin Gibbs, Mr Tony Gibbs, Miss Rachel Chandler and Mr Denis Adams

Little Miss Muffit by Lesley Butler - golf humour 1930
A nervous female golfer watched by other golfers, some encouraging, some obviously impatient. Date: 1930

Ponds Cold Cream as sun protection
Advertisement for Ponds Cold Cream, suggesting that, if applied before exposure (to the sun), prevents the skin from becoming dry and burnt. I m not entirely convinced by this claim. Date: 1930

Page from the Illustrated London News, 4th January 1947, featuring People and Events of the Week: Personalities in the Public Eye

Mlle. Loger, first girl to enter world-famous Gobelin works
Mlle. Loger, a seventeen year-old French girl seen at her loom in the Gobelins tapestry works in Paris

Margaret Kidd, first woman barrister at House of Lords
Margaret Henderson Kidd, first woman barrister to be briefed at the Bar of the House of Lords. She was the daughter of Mr. James Kidd an ex-M.P. for Linlithgowshire. Date: 1926

Gwyneth Thomson and Helena Normanton
Two of our coming Portias. Mrs. Gwyneth Marjory Thomson, accepted by the Benchers of Lincolns Inn as a student in 1920

Sheikh of Qatar shakes hands Lord Home
Sheikh Ahmad of Qatar shaking hands with Lord Home the Foreign Secretary after arriving in England on 4 July 1961 as the guest of the British government for an official visit. Date: 1961

First female jurors at the Old Bailey 1921
The empanelling for the first mixed jury, with its forewoman Mrs Taylor Bumstead. Date: 1921

First female member of Parliament, Anna Rogstad, April 1911
Front cover of the Sphere showing Anna Rogstad the first female member of Parliament in the world as she takes her place in the Nowegian Storting

Women building the elevated railway in Tokyo, October 1904
Female labourors as they carry bricks for use in the construction of the elevated railway, Tokyo. The caption describes how women working in manual labour was not uncommon in Japan. Date: 1904

Female explorer Miss Hlawaczek on expedition, January 1894
Published as part of her obituary, this illustration of Miss Hlawaczek shows her in Africa on her journey from Cape Town to Cairo with two women behind her, possibly two of her three attendants

Miss M C Dawes, Master of Arts, August 1884
Illustration of Miss M C Dawes, the first female Master of Arts in England, University of London. Date: 1884

Royal Institution Christmas Lecture - A. V. Hill
Polly and David Hill assisting their father Professor A.V. Hill at a Royal Institution Christmas Lecture: when the youngsters heart-beats were shown on a screen

Bystander front cover - Elsa Macfarlane
Bystander cover featuring a colour photograph of actress and entertainer, Elsa Macfarlane, who was a member of the revue group, the Co-optimists

Wouldn t it be awful if Augustus John became conventional
One of a series of cartoons in The Bystander caricaturing famous people by suggesting how awful it would be if they did something completely uncharacteristic, in this case

Just an old-fashioned girl - skirt lengths go down in 1930
Cartoon commenting on the sudden change in hemlines in 1930, which went down to the floor once more

Bystander cover - Marchioness of Headfort
The Marchioness of Headfort, formerly known to playgoers as Miss Rose (Rosie) Boote of the Gaiety Theatre, London. She married the Marquess in April 1901, and her son became the Earl of Bective

I don t want him, my dear by H. M. Bateman
" I don t want him, my dear - you buy him." Two sophisticated women regard an unpromising male specimen and discuss the merits of purchasing him. Date: 1930

Bystander cover - Mrs Alex McCorquodale (Barbara Cartland)
Front cover of The Bystander featuring a coloured photograph of Mrs Alex McCorquodale aka prolific novelist Barbara Cartland

Davy Burnaby caricatured by Garretto
Actor and entertainer George Davy Burnaby (1881 - 1949), caricatured by Garretto in The Bystander

London Trades: Locksmiths - The City Farrier - Gold-Beaters
Traditional London trades

Una, Lady Troubridge
Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge (born Margot Elena Gertrude Taylor, (1887 1963), British sculptor and translator

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