Women Collection

Wedding of Lady Edith Stopford and Major Walter Brooks at St Paul s, Knightsbridge 23 October 1923

Women on a street in Italy Women on a street in Italy. Women sit on a street in Italy. Undated picture., 01.01.1950-31.12.1959

Austria, Vienna, painting of total eclipse of sun of July 8th, 1842
Johann Christian Schoeller (1782-1851), The Total Eclipse of the Sun of July 8, 1842

With the restoration of power to industries in the Midlands, hundreds of thousands of workers who have been idle during the fuel crisis clocked in again at their places of employment

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Renoir
Luncheon of the Boating Party 1881 Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919 French) Oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. USA

Hungary, Budapest, The Green donkey (Metaphysics), 1924
Sandor Bortnyik (1893-1976), The Green Donkey (Metaphysics), 1924

Italy, Florence, The Solaria group at the caffe Giubbe Rosse, Florence, 1942-68
Baccio Maria Bacci (1888-1974), The Solaria Group at the CaffA

Amy Johnson with her De Havilland Gipsy Moth Jason
Amy Johnson in Australia, 1930. She was one of the first women pilots to make headline news and held many records

Weston-super-Mare, BR poster, 1948-1965
The Smile in Smiling Somerset. Poster produced by British Railways (BR) to promote train services to Weston-super-Mare in Somerset. Artwork by an unknown artist

Italy, Desdemona, Othello and Iago, illustration for the opera Otello (1887) by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), oleograph 19th century, Civica Raccolta Delle Stampe Achille Bertarelli (Library)

Frau im Mond advert, 1929
Frau im Mond advert

Stone therapy
MODEL RELEASED. Stone therapy. Woman lying on her front with stones placed along her spine. The stones are heated to warm the muscles of the back

Picture No. 10767726
Great Hammerhead Shark - With diver Valerie Taylor (Sphyrna lewini) Date:

Sheffield buffer girls buffing forks, 1968
Colourised from a black and white original. Original at Sheffield Libraries: s42792

Sixties model, Pattie Boyd wearing fur hat

Dancing in the teachers room
The cast of Carry On Teacher in one of the most famous scenes from this classic comedy

Solidarity of Labour: Labours May Day, dedicated to the workers of the world. Cartoon of 1890 by Walter Crane (1845 - 1914)

Blackrock, Salthill, Galway Ireland Art Print
Charlotte Trudgett

Mobile midwifery med01_01_0490
Queen Charlottes Maternity Hospital And Midwifery Training School, Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith And Fulham, Greater London

Preparations for the Easter (Dublin) Rising of 1916 Mary Spring Rice and Molly Childers on the yacht Asgard bring guns from Germany to the Irish Volunteers, July 1914

The London Blitz An ARP warden rescues a young girl from the wreckage of a building bombed by Germany. V1 attack Buckingham Gate, Victoria

Wedding of Mr F Edward Bullmore and Miss Adeline Roscow at St Dunstans in the West, Fleet Street 23rd December 1925

Picture No. 10767981
JAWS, Mechanical Great White shark - Valerie Taylor with the shark used in the making of the film Jaws Date:

Italy, Como Province, Bellagio. Salita Serbelloni stairs area

Five young ladies, Polperro, Cornwall. 1860-1870s
Five young ladies in their Sunday best clothes. Photographic print from the manuscript The History of Polperro by Thomas Q

Arbroath fishwives in Glamis, Scotland, 1930s

National Womens Social and Political Union - Suffrage Sunday excursion to London
Original at Sheffield Local Studies Library: MP 1229 S

Sheffield Association in aid of the Adult Deaf and Dumb was established in 1862 with the aim of promoting the wellbeing of the deaf and dumb and assisting them in obtaining employment

Non-stop ! The famous Windmill Theatre girls work hard, but they know how to play when they get a brief break between shows

Manufacture of cork balls at Chingford General view of the house 28 November 1922

Nursery congress at Phillip Ladds Nursery on Goldsel Road in Swanley, Kent. 1936

London slum scenes East End housewives took their Sunday dinners to the bakehouse to cook. Limehouse - 1933

A Couple Swing Dancing
United States: c. 1957 A couple swing dancing at a party

Ballerina Margot Fonteyn
New York, New York: September 15, 1950 Ballerina Margot Fonteyn in a production of Swan Lake

World war 2, senior sergeants v, mityoshina and n, zalko, former students of the moscow state theatrical institute have been at the front from the first days of the war

Portrait of baker Terentius Neo and his wife in formal clothes from Italy
Roman civilization, 1st century A.D. Portrait of baker Terentius Neo and his wife in formal clothes, 55-79 A.D. painting on plaster, 65x58 cm. From Pompei

Italy, Milan, Scene from Valkyrie (1870) by Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Germany - 19th century. Scene from The Valkyrie (1870) by Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Underground Golders Green London public transport, color engraving, 1900s
Posters, England, 20th century. Underground Golders Green. London public transport, color engraving, early 1900s

AFS women training, Highgate, London, WW2
AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service) women training in Highgate, North London, in July 1942

Palestinian women in Jerusalem, 1800s
Arab women getting water from a fountain in Jerusalem, 1800s. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

Women of Tudor England
City women and a country-woman in Elizabethan England, 1500s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

De Havilland Gipsy Moth of Jean Batten
Jean Batten had a short but spectacular career between 1934 and 1937, becoming the first person to hold the record for solo flights between Australia and England in both directions

WAAF tractor driver
A WAAF tractor driver with a train of full bomb trolleys, RAF Mildenhall 1942

Women walking on path amid tea estate in the Anaimalai Hills near Valparai, Tamil Nadu, India

Maldives, Couple walking on beach

Waiters, chefs and kitchen hands at Londons Savoy hotel went on strike early today, it was decided that tables were to be left bare and underserviced in the private suites, restaurant and Grill room

Carts and boxes full of fruit and vegetables in Covent Gardens flower, fruit and vegetable market. A sign giving directions to St Pauls Church, Covent Garden, London, is seen on the building

R36 Ready for launching at Inchinnan Woman workers putting the finishing touches to the airship 19 March 1921

At the Highland Games at Inverness, Scotland; Lady Marjorie Mackenzie and Mr Seton Gordon 23 September 1923

At Waldershare Park near Deal in Kent; left to right; Major Wykeham Musgrave, M C, Mr V Hardwicke, Mr J J Pawson, Mrs Flower, Lord North, Countess Guilford, Hon Charles North, Lady Cynthia North

WWII Land Army Girls - October 1943
Group of girls in their land army uniform sit together in their Club. George Garland Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref. No. Garland N22519

Rosa Luxemburg (1871 - 1919) Polish - born German revolutionary and political agitator, addressing a meeting after the Second International Social Democrativ Congress, Stuttgart, 1907

Germany, Berlin, Set design for performance The Magic Flute, the Queen of the night
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute), 1791. Set design by Simon Quaglio (1795-1878), the Queen of the Night. Performance at Berlin, 1818

Italy, Milan, engraving, Il noce di Benevento, costume sketch for ballet
Theatre, Italy, 19th century - Il noce di Benevento. Costume sketch by Giocosi for the ballet. Engraving

Halleys comet, 19th Century artwork. 1835 woodcut print depicting the 1835 appearance of Halleys comet

Women dispatch riders in training, WW2
Women dispatch riders in training during the Second World War

Roman mosaic

The Pharmacy, 1912 artwork
The Pharmacy (1912). Oil painting by the Swiss artist Marius Borgeaud (1861-1924) titled La Pharmacie (The Pharmacy). The signature and date (1912) are at lower left

Russian boyars, 17th century
Russian boyars, or nobles, during the time of Peter the Great, 1600s-1700s. Antique hand-colored print

Burmese womens native attire
Women of Burma (now Brunei) in traditional dress, 1800s. Antique hand-colored print

Asia, Japan, Tokyo. Geishas on the Ginza

The Flowers of Capri
Artist: Simi, Filadelfo - Title: The Flowers of Capri - Date: c.1887 - Original Medium and Size: Oil on Canvas 162.5 x 128.3

The Naiads
Artist: Pagliei, Gioacchino - Title: The Naiads - Date: 1881 - Original Medium and Size: Oil on Canvas 144 x 213

Paddington Telephone Exchange, London, 1906
An image of a female operator connecting callers to the railway system at Paddingtons Telephone Exchange, London, 1906

Street scene, Spitalfields, London, England, Uk

Peckham Health Centre or the Pioneer Health Centre was opened in 1935 in Peckham, south London. It was a social experiment to monitor the effects of environment on health

First woman member of Society of Engineers. For the first time since its formation the Society of Engineers has elected a woman member, Miss Annette Ashberry works manager of Atalanta, Ltd

Rye Beach, New Hampshire Postcard. ca. 1903, Rye Beach, New Hampshire Postcard

France, Lyon, Ricotta-Eaters
Vincenzo Campi (1536-1591), The Ricotta-Eaters

Female workers at Rip Bits factory, Sheffield during Second World War, 1941
Rip Bits were based at Hill Street and made drill bits.Includes Ethel May (Rose) Fletcher

Put Away for the Duration by David Wright
A glamorous blonde woman in skimpy black underwear and stockings by pin-up artist David Wright

Peeling Off by David Wright
Pin up by David Wright featuring a blonde woman unfastening her jacket, while her slip and stockings are already visible. Date: 1943

Edgar Degas (1834-1917). French painter and sculptor. Women Ironing (1884-1886). Orsay Museum. Paris. France.

JOHN AND PRISCILLA ALDEN GOING TO CHURCH BY GEORGE HENRY BOUGHTON

Suffragette magazine gives angelic status to Emily Davison

War time work in Q Shop at Swindon Works, 1942
This image was taken in March 1942 and shows four women operating a large pressing machine in Q Shop

Maori village in New Zealand, 1800s
Maori fortified village, or pah, in Taranaki, New Zealand, mid-1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

The Blue Sea by the Canadian artist, Helen McNicoll (1879-1915), oil on canvas, c. 1914

Winter Scene with Ice Skaters and Birds 16th Century Pieter Bruegel the Younger (ca)
Winter Scene with Ice Skaters and Birds 16th Century Pieter Bruegel the Younger (ca.1564-1638/Flemish) Painting

Female wartime workers, 1943
This line up of women at Paddington Station shows the varied jobs female GWR employees undertook during the Second World War

Production line for wartime shells in No. 24 Shop, Swindon Works, 1942
No.24 Shop, on the Carriage and Wagon side of Swindon Works was fitted out with two production lines for 25-pounder shells

1940s style Navy pin-up girl posing with a vintage Corsair aircraft
Beautiful 1940s style Navy pin-up girl posing with a vintage Corsair aircraft

A scene from Trial by Jury, 1875. Artist: David Henry Friston A scene from Trial by Jury, 1875

France: Art Nouveau advertising poster for Bieres de la Meuse
Alfons Maria Mucha (24 July 1860 - 14 July 1939), often known in English and French as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, celebrated for his distinctive style

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EDITORS COMMENTS

"Women: A Celebration of Strength, Resilience, and Empowerment" From the ancient Minoan civilization to modern-day heroines, they have always been at the forefront of history. Just like the vibrant Fresco Three Minoan Women in Knossos, their presence is undeniable and influential. On PGA/GA Induction Day 22JUL23, women from various backgrounds came together to break barriers and shatter glass ceilings. They showcased their skills with grace and determination, just like a woman waterskiing fearlessly across turbulent waves. In times of adversity, they have consistently shown compassion and healing powers akin to Jesus Healing The Sick. Their nurturing nature knows no bounds as they extend love towards those in need. The iconic Weston-super-Mare BR poster from 1948-1965 epitomizes the timeless beauty that transcends generations. It symbolizes how women's style has evolved over time while still embracing individuality - much like Biba Style's influence on fashion trends. Just as Hungary's Green Donkey painting explores metaphysics beyond conventional understanding in 1924, women constantly challenge societal norms by breaking free from stereotypes imposed upon them. Amy Johnson soared through the skies with her De Havilland Gipsy Moth Jason – a testament to female pioneers who defied expectations in male-dominated fields. Their achievements inspire future generations to dream big and reach for the stars. PGA/GA Induction Day 22JUL23 brought together extraordinary women who exemplify strength through unity. Like a bustling fair in Truro around 1900, these remarkable individuals create an atmosphere filled with joyous laughter and shared experiences. During The London Blitz when chaos reigned supreme, an ARP warden emerged as a guardian angel rescuing a young girl from wreckage. This act of bravery showcases how women rise above challenges during even the darkest times.