Images Dated 13th August 2018

Advertising card for Thoms Castile Soap of Manchester

Advertising card by Louis Wain for the Gold Medal-winning Thom's Castile Soap - the Best in the World - manufactured by David Thom & Co. Ltd. of Pendleton, Manchester. Featuring a cheeky black cat having no bother at all with the weekly washing... Date: 1910

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

1910, Advertising, Anthropomorphic, Anthropomorphisation, Anthropomorphism, Apr18, Black, Boxes, Card, Castile, Cat, Company, David, Gold, Laundry, Limited, Louis, Medal Winning, Soap, Soaps, Thom, Thoms, Tub, Wain, Wash, Washes, Washing, Washtub

Wapisiana hunter, British Guiana, South America

Wapisiana (Wapishana, Wapixana) hunter shooting fish, British Guiana, South America (then part of the British Empire, now Guyana).
1922

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1920s, 1922, 20s, Aiming, America, American, Archer, Arrow, Book, Books, Bow, British, Empire, Fish, Guiana, Guyana, Hunt, Hunter, Hunters, Hunting, Indigenous, Male, Man, Men, People, Racial, Shooting, South, Standing, Today, Twenties, Type, Types, Wapishana, Wapisiana, Wapixana, Water, World

Holiday Beach Scene - Heacham , Norfolk

Holiday Beach Scene - Heacham, Norfolk - all the constituent features of the British beach holiday are here - multiple layers of clothing, a striped windbreak, Grandpa nodding off in a fold-out chair, a bright red lolly being grudgingly consumed, shoes worn to counteract the discomfort of walking on pebbles and a row of locked-up beach huts repeating out into infinity.... Date: circa 1960

© Grenville Collins Postcard Collection / Tom Gillmor / Mary Evans