Top Hat Collection (page 10)

Epsom Races: "Going to the Derby", 1856. Creator: Unknown. Epsom Races: "Going to the Derby", 1856
Epsom Races: "Going to the Derby", 1856. Travelling to the famous horserace in Surrey. Notwithstanding the many inducements which the railway presents to visitors eager to reach the scene

Picture Sale at Messrs. Christie and Manson's, King-Street, St. James's, 1856. Creator: Henry Duff Linton
Picture Sale at Messrs. Christie and Manson's, King-Street, St. James's, [London], 1856....one of the great attractions of every London season; for to the man of art, letters, and leisure

Eight Hours at the Sea-Side - drawn by John Leech, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Eight Hours at the Sea-Side - drawn by John Leech, 1856. Whit-Monday Bank Holiday on Brighton Beach. Great credit is due to the managers of the South Coast Railway for their determination to supply

The Reading of the Royal Proclamation of Peace and for a Day of Thanksgiving, at Edinburgh, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Reading of the Royal Proclamation of Peace and for a Day of Thanksgiving, at Edinburgh, 1856. Ceremony to mark the end of the Crimean War

The Great Naval Review: sketch on Fort Monckton, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Great Naval Review: sketch on Fort Monckton, 1856. Crowds watching a display by the Royal Navy off the Hampshire coast

Visit of the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred to Messrs. Day and Son's Lithographic Establishment, [London], 1856. Royal visit to the printing workshop of the lithographers to the Queen

Very Polite: The Party on the Grey, having invited some Strangers to Lunch...1856. Creator: Joseph Swain
Very Polite: The Party on the Grey, having invited some Strangers to Lunch, shows them the Nearest Way (by half a mile) to his House, 1856

The Band of the Royal Horse-Guards, Blue Playing in Kensington-Gardens, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Band of the Royal Horse-Guards, Blue Playing in Kensington-Gardens, [London], 1856....the band of the Blues again played in Kensington Gardens

The Common Hall on Corporation Reform, in Guildhall, 1856. Creator: Henry Fitzcook
The Common Hall on Corporation Reform, in Guildhall, [London], 1856. Political meeting...to oppose the London Corporation Bill....the proceedings commenced by the Serjeant-at-Mace calling out that

H.R.H. Prince Albert's Harriers, 1856. Creator: Harrison Weir
H.R.H. Prince Albert's Harriers, 1856. Hare-coursing in Berkshire. Prince Albert's harriers are in the strictest sense of the term a private pack

The Burning of Covent-Garden Theatre - Flight of the Masqueraders, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Burning of Covent-Garden Theatre - Flight of the Masqueraders, 1856. Illustration to a poem suggested by a theatre fire

Boston Election - Meeting in the Corn Exchange, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Boston Election - Meeting in the Corn Exchange, 1856. Long before the hour announced for the meeting the immense hail was crowded by an enthusiastic assemblage

The Manchester Three-Horse Omnibus, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Manchester Three-Horse Omnibus, 1856. Public transport in the provinces. Among [the species of public accommodation]...are several variations

Press Correspondents at Mount Vernon - Serbian Missions, Phil Patchen at Right, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Press Correspondents at Mount Vernon - Serbian Missions, Phil Patchen at Right, 1917

Pan American Scientific Congress - Costa Rican Group: Eduardo J. Pinto, Chairman; Felipe... 1915
Pan American Scientific Congress - Costa Rican Group: Eduardo J. Pinto, Chairman; Felipe Gonzales; Miss De La Guardia; Dr. Oreamuno, 1915

Pan American Scientific Congress - Costa Rican Deln.; Guillermo E. Gonzales And Joaquin F... 1915
Pan American Scientific Congress - Costa Rican Deln.; Guillermo E. Gonzales And Joaquin F. Montufar, Attache And Sec. of Leg. On Spec. Mission; Min

Je suis bien malheureux, si vous voulez... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Je suis bien malheureux, si vous voulez... 19th century. Parisian Sketches - I am very unhappy, if you want

C'est pourtant la que j'ai gravé mon chiffre... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
C'est pourtant la que j'ai grave mon chiffre... 19th century. Whatever you want - Yet it is there that I engraved my number

Nouveaux chapeaux de dames... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Nouveaux chapeaux de dames... 19th century. New Ladies Hats

Bailey, J.T. Herbert, Mr. portrait photograph, ca. 1912. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Bailey, J.T. Herbert, Mr. portrait photograph, ca. 1912

Le regulateur, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le regulateur, 19th century. Monomaniacs - The regulator

Philip Pitt Campbell, Rep. from Kansas. Center, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Philip Pitt Campbell, Rep. from Kansas
Philip Pitt Campbell, Rep. from Kansas. Center, 1914

Daughters of American Revolution - President And Mrs. Wilson, Col. Harts... 1916 Creator: Harris & Ewing
Daughters of the American Revolution [event] - President [Woodrow] And Mrs. Wilson, Col. Harts And Others Leaving D.A.R. Hall By Side Entrances, 1916

Mrs. Josephus Daniels, with Sec. Daniels Boarding Mayflower. Allied Commission, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Mrs
Mrs. Josephus Daniels, with Sec. Daniels Boarding Mayflower. Allied Commission, 1917. American suffragist leader and writer Addie Worth Bagley Daniels with her husband Josephus Daniels

Cuban War Mission To The U.S. General Jose Martin And Wife, And Dr. Decespedes, Minister To US
Cuban War Mission To The U.S. General Jose Martin And Wife, And Dr. De Cespedes, Minister To U.S.With Captain E.N. Tabio, Military Attache, Cuban Legation, 1917

Cuban War Mission To The U.S. General Jose Martin [sic] And Wife, And Dr. Decespedes...1917 Creator: Harris & Ewing
Cuban War Mission To The U.S. General Jose Marti And Wife, And Dr. De Cespedes, Minister To U.S. 1917. Cuban Secretary of War and Navy Jose Francisco Marti Zayas Bazan, his wife Maria Teresa Vances

Henry Prather Fletcher, Member of Parliament And Ambassador, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Henry P. Fletcher, Member of Parliament And Ambassador, 1913. Ambassador To Chile 1909; Ambassador To Mexico 1916; also served as Ambassador to Italy, Luxembourg and Belgium

Mahlon H. [sic] Pitney, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Mahlon H
Mahlon R. Pitney IV, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1913. Associate Justice 1912-1922

Andrew James Peters, Rep. from Massachusetts, Asst. Secretary Treasury; Mayor of Boston, 1915. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Andrew James Peters, Rep. from Massachusetts, Asst. Secretary Treasury; Mayor of Boston, 1915. Rep. 1907-1914; Asst. Secretary Treasury, 1914-1917; Mayor of Boston, 1918-1922

Aimaro Sato, Ambassador from Japan, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Aimaro Sato, Ambassador from Japan, 1917
Aimaro Sato, Ambassador from Japan, 1917. Japanese Ambassador to the United States

William Frederick Sapp, Lawyer, of Kansas - Right, in Silk Hat, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
William Frederick Sapp, Lawyer, of Kansas - Right, in Silk Hat, 1913

Mons. William T. Russell, Pastor, St. Patrick's Church, left, with Cardinal Gibbons, 1916. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Monsignor William Thomas Russell, Pastor, St. Patrick's Church [Baltimore], left, with Cardinal James Gibbons, 1916

Arnold Robertson, British Diplomat, with Wife, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Sir Malcolm Arnold Robertson, British Diplomat, with Wife, 1917

Arnold Robertson, British Diplomat, with Wife, 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Sir Malcolm Arnold Robertson, British Diplomat, with Wife, 1917

Vice President And Mrs. Marshall, 1913. Creator: Unknown
Vice President And Mrs. Marshall, 1913. Thomas Riley Marshall and wife Lois Kimsey

The Late Charles Stewart Parnell, M.P. 1846-1891. 1891. Creator: Sydney Prior Hall
The Late Charles Stewart Parnell, M.P. 1846-1891. 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

Ca doit être bien amusant la-dedans... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Ca doit etre bien amusant la-dedans... 19th century. Bourse - stock exchange. Small boy to top-hatted man: it must be fun in there'. Wondering if it's half-price entry for children

Sur l'Imperiale, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Sur l'Imperiale, 19th century. Voir a ses pieds grouiller la fourmilliere humaine'. Haughty passengers looking down on pedestrians

Je me dis en moi-même, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Je me dis en moi-meme, 19th century. Coquetterie...'. Wondering whether people would believe that we are from the rue des Lombards

Driving Home, 1893-1896. Creator: Hans Smidth
Driving Home, 1893-1896

La bonne prise, 1836. Creator: Honore Daumier
La bonne prise, 1836. The right catch

The Graphic, Front Cover Saturday, October 3, 1891, 1891. Creator: Unknown
The Graphic, Front Cover Saturday, October 3, 1891, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44. July to December, 1891

10 heures du matin, 1839. Creator: Honore Daumier
Singles Day (La Journee du Celibataire) - 10 heures du matin, 1839. 10 a.m

Ole Jorgen Rawert, Director of Industrial Affairs, 1839. Creator: Christian Albrecht Jensen
Ole Jorgen Rawert, Director of Industrial Affairs, 1839

Edward Graham, President, National Electric Co.; Henry Brown Floyd MacFarland, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Edward Graham, President, National Electric Co.; Henry Brown Floyd MacFarland [left], 1913

Luther E. Hall, Governor of Louisiana, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Luther E. Hall, Governor of Louisiana, 1913
Luther Egbert Hall, Governor of Louisiana, 1913. Governor 1912-1916

William F. Gude of D.C. Governors of States, 1911. Creator: Harris & Ewing. William F. Gude of D.C
William F. Gude of D.C. Governors of States, 1911

David Franklin Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
David Franklin Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, 1913. Secretary of Agriculture 1913-1920

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"From Isambard Kingdom Brunel to Fred Astaire: The Timeless Elegance of the Top Hat" Step back in time and explore the fascinating history of the iconic top hat. First popularized by English engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, this distinguished headwear symbolizes sophistication and class. In a captivating image, we see Brunel standing proudly before the launching chains of his masterpiece, the Great Eastern. But it wasn't just engineers who donned this stylish accessory. Entertainers like Fred Astaire and Harpo Marx brought their own flair to the top hat. Astaire's graceful moves in "Top Hat" (1935) left audiences mesmerized, while Marx's comedic antics in "Duck Soup" (1933) added a touch of whimsy. The top hat even found its way into political cartoons, portraying England as an imperialist octopus grabbing land across continents. Meanwhile, old sea dogs and influential figures like Mrs Lloyd George, David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, and Mr Clarke were often seen sporting these timeless hats. Literature also embraced this fashion statement; Lewis Carroll's Alice joined the Mad Hatter for a topsy-turvy tea party immortalized by Sir John Tenniel's wood engraving in "Alice Adventures in Wonderland" (1865). J. M. W Turner captured its elegance with his pencil drawing that showcased both artistry and refinement. Not limited to individuals alone, institutions such as LLOYDs OF LONDON featured grand rooms where gentlemen gathered wearing their finest attire – including their beloved top hats – as depicted in an exquisite line engraving from 1890. Even Hollywood recognized the allure of this headpiece; Marlene Dietrich exuded glamour when she wore it in Josef von Sternberg's "The Blue Angel" (1930), adding an air of mystery to her character. Through centuries and across various realms.