Mar17 Collection (#5)

Lady member of The League of Health and Beauty. In 1930 Mary Bagot Stack created the Womens League of Health & Beauty. Her vision was of a league of women who will renew their energy in themselves

Woman in traditional hat - Hong Kong, China
Barefoot older Woman in traditional hat - Hong Kong, China. A pregnant Mother with her young child strolls along the quayside behind her. Date: 1950s

Littlehampton - Young man taking a breather on the beach
Littlehampton, West Sussex - Young man taking a breather on the beach (see: 11768188 for the previous shot featuring his Father and other half...) Date: 1934

Littlehampton - Young woman and her Father-in-law on beach
Littlehampton, West Sussex - A young woman and her Father-in-law reasting up against a groyne on the beach. The older gent is obviously keen to do a spot of birdwatching

Mother baby and Mothers sister - Eastbourne, East Sussex. Date: late 1930s

Mother and child standing on the beach - France Date: 1920s

Two French ladies out for a stroll in town (possiby Paris?) arm-in-arm on a cold winters day. Date: late 1950s

Benoit-Constant Coquelin - French Actor
Benoit-Constant Coquelin (18411909) - French actor. Coquelin is seen here in L Aiglon, a play in six acts by Edmond Rostand based on the life of Napoleon II. Date: circa 1905

Pair of French twins strolling downing a cobbled street in Northern France Date: circa late 1940s

Classic Seaside Family snap - Broadstairs. Date: 1938

Young lady strolling confidently along, swinging her handbag Date: circa 1950s

Father and young daughter take a stroll - Promenade, Margate. Date: circa 1930s

Osterbo Mountain Lodge - A Honeymoon Cabin - Norway
Young bride on her honeymoon sitting in the doorway of the Osterbo Mountain Lodge - A Honeymoon Cabin - Norway. Date: circa 1930s

Young Mother and baby out for a winter walk in the park - wrapped up in many layers of winter woolies! Date: circa 1930

Bessie Benson photographed in front of her Bathing Machine
A jolly Bessie Benson photographed in front of her Bathing Machine at a south coast resort. Date: circa 1920s

Archduke Otto von Hapsburg and friend - Berlin
Otto von Hapsburg (Archduke Otto of Austria) (19122011) and friend. The young Archduke, Pretender to the throne of Hungary as the eldest son of the late Emperor Charles of Austria

Modelling utility fashions
Four girls modelling utility fashions during the Second World War. Date: 1942

Vera Lynn shredding her fan mail for the war effort
Vera Lynn, actress and radio star, Sweetheart of the Forces letting a shredding machine eat up her fan mail to aid munition-making in 1942. Date: 1942

Fancy dress - An Egyptian Dancing Girl
Suggestion for a fancy dress designed by Mr Percy Anderson. The dress is of darkest brown gauze over a divided skirt of caf魡 u-lait crepe de Chine

Medieval lady with lilies
A lady of the Middle Ages wearing a form of wimple on her head breathes in the fragrance of a bunch of lilies. Date: 1934

Nautical fashion, Vivex colour photograph
Two models posing in nautical style fashions, popular in the 1930s. Date: 1934

Lyme Regis - 1930s travel
Stylised design, possibly for a poster, for Lyme Regis, the seaside town on the Dorset coast. Date: 1934

Rosa Bonheur by Harry Furniss
Rosa Bonheur, born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur, (16 March 1822 25 May 1899) French artist, an animali貥 (painter of animals) and sculptor, known for her artistic realism

Lady Curzon - Mary Leiter
Mary Victoria Leiter, daughter of the founder of Chicago department store, Marshall Field and wife of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

Lady Bagot (Miss Lillian May)
Lady Bagot, formerly Miss Lillian May of Baltimore, daughter of Henry May, one of many so-called dollar princesses, wealthy American heiresses who married into the British nobility in the late 19th

The Countess of Essex
Adele Capell (1867-1922), Countess of Essex (n饠 Adele Grant) US-born socialite who married into British nobility as wife of George De Vere Capell, 7th Earl of Essex. Date: 1904

The Academy picture of the year: Why War?
Advertisement for prints of The Academy Picture of the Year: Why War? by Charles Spencelayh. In response to many requests this appealing picture, which was reproduced in The Tatler

George Grossmith (1847 - 1912) - English comedian, writer, composer, actor and singer. Grossmith wrote (in collaboration with his brother Weedon), the 1892 comic novel The Diary of a Nobody

Leslie Ward (Spy) at work
Sir Leslie Ward (1851 - 1922) English caricaturist on Vanity Fair (from 1873), and portrait painter. 1912

A stately court gown, Debenham & Freebody 1912
A stately gown for presentation at court of ivory tinted charmeuse designed and carried out by Debenham and Freebody. 1912

Lady Rosabelle Bingham
Lady Rosabelle Brand, nee St. Clair-Erskine, daughter of the Earl of Rosslyn. Lady Rosabelle married Lieutenant David Bingham of the Coldstream Guards who was killed in action in 1914

Mrs Leopold Albu in fancy dress costume, Cleopatra
Mrs Leopold Albu, formerly Adelaide Veronica Elizabeth Burton, wife of Leopold Albu, mining magnate. Pictured in the costume she wore at a small dance she gave at 4 Hamilton Place

Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton
Theatrical couple, Oscar Asche and Lily Brayton, at the time they departed the UK for a tour of Australia. Date: 1912

Prince Projatipok of Siam at Murren
Prince Pojatipok, heir to the Siamese throne, learning to ice skate at society ski resort, Murren in the Swiss Alps. The Tatler reports that

Margot Asquith & Lady Lytton at Murren
Margot Asquith with Lady Lytton (Pamela Bulwer-Lytton) and the latters daughter, Lady Hermione Lytton skating at Murren in Switzerland and wearing a variety of interesting knitwear! Date: 1912

Tatler cover - Lady Desboroughs Masque
Front cover of The Tatler, reporting on a fancy dress masque organised by Ettie, Lady Desborough at Taplow Court. Photograph features Rosemary Levenson-Gower, daughter of Millicent

Lady Massereene & Patrick Shaw Stewart- costume masque
Lady Massereene, formerly Jean Barbara Ainsworth, pictured in costume with Patrick Shaw Stewart at a masque arranged by Lord and Lady Desborough at their home, Taplow Court, in January 1912

Lady Desborough & Billy Grenfell - costume masque
Ettie, Lady Desborough, pictured in costume at a masque she and Lord Desborough held at their home, Taplow Court in January 1912

The Duchess of Westminster learning to ski
Constance Edwina (n饠 Cornwallis West), Duchess of Westminster (later Mrs James Fitzpatrick Lewes) (died 1970), First wife of 2nd Duke of Westminster

Princess of Pless - amateur dramatics, Eaton Hall
Daisy, Princess of Pless performing with her brother George Cornwallis-West in some amateur dramatics at Eaton Hall, the Cheshire seat of the Duke and Duchess of Westminster

Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire - View from Clarence Pier
Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire - View looking inland from Clarence Pier with trams Date: circa 1906

Skagway, Alaska. In 1896, gold was found in the Klondike region of Canadas Yukon Territory. On July 29th, 1897, the steamer Queen docked at Moores wharf in Skagway with the first boat load of

Lima, Peru - Torre Tagle Palace - a Spanish Baroque palace, currently the home to the Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Date: circa 1920

See India advert - Imperial Indian Mail train
See India advertisement from the Indian Railways Bureau. From Bombay to Calcutta the Imperial Indian Mail runs its weekly journey carrying first class passengers only with their servants. Date: 1935

Lima, Peru - Cripta de los Heroes Date: circa 1920

Madame Karina and Dancing School Pupils - Karina was a Russian Ballet dancer at the Royal Opera House, and founder of the school of dance at 123 ladbroke Grove under the patronage of Queen Alexandra

Lima, Peru - Tribunas del Hipodromo (de Santa Beatriz) - Grandsh=tand of the Racecourse / Race track Date: circa 1920

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