People and Personalities

with his team of favourite bulldogs circa 1910. Sir Hugh Walpole with his fox terrier Bingo Pets. Dogs. Sundial

Mary Seacole (circa 1805-81) carte de visite photograph. Jamaican, doctress, Crimea. The only known photograph of the nurse and healer. Recently voted "greatest black Briton".

Mary Seacole, Crimea, Crimean War, British Army, nurse, Greatest Black Briton, Victorian, decorations, C19, nineteenth century

Grave at Kensal Green Cemetery, London.; Doctress, nurse, Crimea, Creole, Jamaica

Cabinet photograph, Dewsbury, Yorkshire.; Shuttle, costume

Cabinet photograph Hanley, Staffordshire. Uniform, chatelaine

Cabinet photograph Southgate. Food, bread, costume, horse

Cabinet photograph. Costume. Family. Cottage garden

Cabinet photograph of young mother with newborn baby in perambulator. Costume

Cabinet studio portrait. Toy horse on wheels. Small boy unbreeched.

Cabinet photograph taken in back yard. Costume. Children Pony and trap

Photograph of family building sandcastles on Scarborough beach circa 1905. Costume.

Photograph of Mrs Knaggs the donkey woman at Bridlington, Yorkshire, 1889. Costume. Seaside holidays Donkeys

Chart Sutton, Kent, Post Office and village shop with staff. Licencee: George Coleman. Costume

Photograph of Christmas display of poultry at William Gilbert, Kings Terrace, Church Road, Mitcham, Surrey. Food. Costume

Cabinet photograph of phaeton with family and staff outside their home. Costume. Transport. Staff uniform. Architecture

Personal armorial bookplate belonging to Anthony Trollope 1815-1882, writer

Personal bookplate, armorial crest, belonging to Charles Dickens 1812-1870, writer. Heraldry

Personal bookplate, armorial crest, belonging to Thomas Coutts 1735-1822, founder of Coutts Bank, London. Heraldry.

Personal bookplate, pictorial, belonging to Arnold Bennett 1867-1931, writer. Heraldry

Cabinet photograph Scarborough, Yorkshire; Children bringing lunch baskets to workers. Food, costume, brickmaking utensils

Personal bookplate belonging to Myles Birket Foster 1825-1899, artist and illustrator

Half-plate photograph. 15 staff, costume

Personal book label for Edith Wharton (1862-1937), American novelist and short story writer. Printed by D B Updike at the Merrymount Press

Cabinet photograph Costume Wales Wool spinning 'Great' spinning wheel

Half plate photograph Home decorators holding tools of their trade. Costume

Personal book label for John Ruskin 1819-1900, writer, artist and social reformer

Personal bookplate, armorial, for Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, landscape architect. Heraldry.

Personal bookplate, armorial, belong to Humphry Repton, 1752-1818, landscape architect. Heraldry.

Personal bookplate, armorial, belonging to Lord Baden Powell 1857-1941. Soldier, founder of the Boy Scout movement.

Personal bookplate (armorial) and signature of William Wordsworth 1770-1850. Poet.

Cabinet studio photograph of Great Eastern Railway guard taken at Forest Gate, Essex circa 1885. Uniform

Cabinet photograph of railway signalman leaving his box. Uniform. Architecture

Cabinet studio photograph taken at Folkestone, Kent, of young couple in Salvation Army. Probably engagement or wedding photograph. Uniform.

Cabinet studio photograph of young sailor, London. Uniform. Photographer's props.

Cabinet photograph taken by Chertsey, Surrey photographer, circa 1885. Pharmacy. Uniform.

Cabinet studio photograph of English undergraduates in Venice on holiday April 1885. Named as Neilson, Douglas, Graham, J.C. Costume.

Annecy, France. Music Barrel organ Itinerant Pet cat

Postcard photograph of gathering lavender crop at Carshalton, Surrey. Horse and cart. Costume. Perfume. Agriculture

Postcard photograph of lavender crop workers at Carshalton, Surrey, circa 1905. Costume. Perfume Agriculture

Postcard photograph of Narcissus gathering in fields at Penzance, Cornwall. Costume. Cut flowers. Bulbs. Agriculture

Postcard photograph of Watercress beds and Artesian Springs at Bere Regis, Dorset, 1905. Food Agriculture

Gathering narcissu in Scilly Isles. Cut flowers for Market. Bulbs. Costume. Agriculture

Postcard photograph of strawberry pickers at Orpington, Kent. 1905. Costume. Fruit growing. Agriculture

Photograph Costume Food Flowers Baskets Competition

Icomb, Glos. "Stone from the Quarry for road repairs" Horse Transport Costume