Guests Collection (page 27)

Fashionable Bowling
Bowling is very fashionable this year - all the best hotels in Switzerland and the Riviera offer their guests an alley

REDOUTE, 1875
A redoute at the Paris home of fashionable writer Arsene Houssaye : the guests include many celebrities - Theodor de Banville on the lower left, Gautier to the upper right

Dinner Party Guests 1878
Dinner guests sit at table before the meal; the old fellow in the middle seems to be hard of hearing

Wurlitzer Piano in Home
A lady delights her fellow- guests with her piano playing, enhanced by the tones of the Wurlitzer instrument her hosts have the good taste to choose

Buck House State Ball
A State Ball at Buckingham Palace - Oriental guests look on with astonishment at a Royal Quadrille

Commons Terrace / 1893
MPs and their guests take tea on the terrace of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster

Guests Take Places
The guests take their places

Meal at Time of Jesus
This is a probable depiction of a meal around the time of Jesus : guests would more likely have been lying than sitting up at table

Stately Austin and Home
A stately Austin brings guests to a stately home. Its a surprise party but fortunately they ve brought their food with them

Taking a French Cab
English guests leave their hotel in a cab, assisted by three of the hotel staff and the dog

A Boarding House
Dagnall Lodge is a typical English boarding-house, probably in a seaside resort, though whether this couple are the proprietors or guests we do not know

Social / Tango Demo 1914
A professional couple demonstrate the tango - still an exotic novelty - to supper guests at the Savoy Hotel, London

Pontins Holiday Camp
The guests outside the chalets at Pontins Holiday Camp, Osmington Bay, Dorset, include a remarkable proportion of pretty girls and an even more remark- able absence of noisy kiddies

Ball on French Warship
Guests are rowed out to the beflagged French warship Formidable in the roadstead of Villefranche, to attend a ball on shipboard

Social / German Mask Ball
Guests at a German masked ball

Bride Cuts Cake
As the bride rises to cut the cake, the guests think how much rather they would be eating Huntley and Palmers Superior Balmoral Biscuits

STAG PARTY
Guests at a stag party welcome the arrival of the unicorn

The Wassail Bowl, Ancient
A dwarf stirs the punchbowl at a lively Christmas party, while other guests amuse themselves with snapdragon, a jester jests, musicians play, and the host presides as Father Xmas

AULD LANG SYNE
Guests at the Savoy Hotel, London, join hands and sing Auld Lang Syne as the clock strikes midnight and the Old Year gives way to the New

Wedding Party at Pub
Happy couple, family and guests pose outside the pub where the wedding party is held

Ship Inn, Greenwich
The Ship tavern on a summer evening : guests enjoy the panoramic view of the Thames

British at Dinner
The British dine while a punkah-wallah cools the air : the servants seem to outnumber the guests

Sleeping Beauty Spell
The thirteenth fairy, who has not been invited to celebrate the princesss birth, casts a spell on the baby

Chateau Gaillon
A view of part of the chateau with guests by a balustrade overlooking the gardens, also a man with a pack of hounds & a coach & six with a running footman & postillion

Picnic Spoilt
A country party in the grounds of a stately home is spoilt by some unwanted & unwelcome guests including a boxer & a hungry dog that secures itself a roast fowl

Mayfair Hotel Interior ?
Possibly one of the general rooms open to guests at the MAYFAIR HOTEL, Berkeley Street. Comfortable chairs & settees are arranged at the edges of the room

Attila Feasts
Attila, king of the Huns, takes time off between conquests to entertain guests to supper

Smart Party Guests
Female party guests eye each others creations by Paul Poiret, Doucet and Premet; the one man just wears clothes

Scene at a feast of Hortensius, Ancient Rome
Scene at one of the many lavish feasts laid on by the rich orator and advocate, Quintus Hortensius Hortalus (114-50 BC), in Ancient Rome. He was the first to include peacocks on the menu

A wedding banquet at a long table

Wedding in an English church
A wedding service taking place in an English church, complete with bridesmaids

Chinese Emperor Wu Wang entertaining with gunpowder
The Chinese Emperor Wu Wang (Zhou Dynasty) uses gunpowder to make loud noises to entertain his guests

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