X marks the spot, as does y and z

Xenz the artist

Xmas post office truck‏

Yvonne Mitchell in her dressing room at the Theatre Royal, Bath

Young street cricketers - Salford, 1964

Yves Saint Laurent gypsy bride dress

Yellow circa 1958

by Yap Chin Hoe

Zena Dare, actressm circa 1910

by Zuza Zochowski

Ziegfeld costume, Sydney, between 1915-1930

About these ads

Wwwwwwww?

War for warrior husbands!

willow wren

william morris

William A. Sac's Chinese Boarding House, Gulgong, 1871-1875

wind blown

water

water

women's police service during the first world war

Whale, Paris, 1909

word studies

Worm

Workers moulding sugar eggs for Easter at Fuller's Confections factory in 1904.

 

V

Vegemite - the food of champions!

Vegetable Dinner 1927 Peter Blume

Vick's

Vicomtesse de Ribes, 1956

Vendor and cart near the White House during the Easter egg rolling

vintage circa 1922

Victorian pendant

Vine

Visitors to Margate

Vogue October 1, 1924 cover, illustrated by Harriet Meserole

voices

UUUUUUUUUUU

UMBRELLA ARRANGEMENT 1928

Under the mistletoe

Ungaro spotted outfit, photo John French. London, UK, 1965

Unidentified Flying Object sightings 1969

Upside down with a ukulele circa 1920

Unknown Beauty 1905

US

Use of Ether for Anaesthesia

unicorn : Adele Jergens

The letter U

T for me, and for you

Taffeta underskirt circa 1936

Tasmania, Australia

tassel beret

Tattooing an armpit circa 1929

Taxi

Tea Revives You. Colour Offset. Anon, England, c.1939.

Teacher

Tennis anyone 1906

Tricorn hats

teddy bear magazine

Theatre Goers circa 1929

Trapped

Trumpet

thinking

TODDLERS EATING OUTDOORS 1930

S is for

Strawberry cup jelly

Save us, oh save us please from FRIGHTFULNESS!

Strapless boned corselette, photo John French 1954

Sad

School Slate Length 27.5cm Width 20.5cm

Slow. ” Karin Mossberg Nairobi Kenia, 1966. F.C. Gundlach,

Scottish fishwives circa 1930s

Seamstress with Mannequins, n.d.

soap-dispenser

Street accordionists circa 1931

Six snowmen

shepherdess feeding a Hampshire Down lamb, England (sheep!)

Stick! be still my beating heart

Servants

 

R me hearties!

ragpicker

Rand Home Computer

RAT (caption read Rat on the left has been fed on a diet of meat and potatoes)

Reader in a cigar factory

Records

Reflections, 1900

Relics of convict discipline, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 1910‏

Replica of an English suffragette's purple woven plant fibre hat

Report from The Morning Post newspaper, June 1914, on the trial of men accused of attacking militant Suffragettes

Resolution passed by the Australian Parliament in 1910

revenge

rifle team of Drexel Institute

roller skates

Russian dancer

 

 

Queue for Q!

Quad bike circa 1950s

Queen of Hearts

quiet place

QUEEN OF LIGHTS, SWEDEN

quote : mary oliver

Quayside at Norgorod where Sadko wins his bet finding golden fish among his catch (fairy tale)

Q-TIPS

QUENCH

QWERTY

Quiet moments

Perfectly perfect P!

paddle

 

pageant

Painted eggs 1956

Patent Poro Plastic Corset, circa 1873

Parlourmaid and Under-parlourmaid Ready to Serve Dinner, Bill Brandt, 1938,

peasants

puppets Selection of puppets from the Punch and Judy show 1830

Parliament House (old parliament house, Australia)

Policewoman

parents

Peace, 1968 style

paisley matador pants

prayer

phone call

poster poultry of the world

 

Ohhhh

Office 1940 : Accounting Work Room First Nat Bank of Chicago OM

Old

Operating Theatre at The Middlesex Hospital 1910

operator

Ophelia

optimism

ORANGUTAN

oranges Anne St. Marie, Harper’s Bazaar

organ grinder

Oriental : woman with tea circa 1893

outdoor oven

overdressed

Oxeye daisy