Assistants Gallery

Woollands store in Knightsbridge by Matania

The Christmas Shopping Season - A Sphere artist visits a West-End House. A scene in the costume salon of Messrs. Woolland's well-known house in Knightsbridge, the centre of fashion. A busy scene captured by the Sphere's special artist, Fortunino Matania, who visited the store of what was once one of London's great shopping establishments. A stream of lady customers, accompanied by their offspring playing with Christmas toys, move about this scene of feminine fashions. Date: 1922

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

I Bought Her a Sealskin Jacket and a Diamond Ring (colour litho)

982459 I Bought Her a Sealskin Jacket and a Diamond Ring (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: I Bought Her a Sealskin Jacket and a Diamond Ring, written and composed by W Bint, sung with immense success by Fred Coyne. Published by Francis Bros & Day, Belnheim House, Oxford Street, London. Drawn by W Spalding, lithograph by T Packer. With an image of a man and a woman being served by a shop assistant, who displays a woman's coat.); Look and Learn / Valerie Jackson Harris Collection; English, out of copyright

© Look and Learn / Valerie Jackson Harris Collection / Bridgeman Images

Wellington, New Zealand - Oriental Bay

Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India - A Bamboo Merchant and two young assistants/apprentices (his sons?) stringing a charpoy. A Charpoy is a bed or cot used in India. It has a wooden frame with woven webbing for the top. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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