Female Collection (#40)

Woman gardening
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Woman standing in garden, smiling, arms full carrying watering can, garden tools and potted plants, portrait. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Portrait Of Chippewa Indian Woman
Portrait of Madame Cadotte, an elderly woman from the Chippewa Indian tribe living in Duluth, Minnesota, 1874. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Princes Skating Rink
Skaters take to the ice at Princes Skating Rink, London, 1909. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Billie Holiday Sings
American blues singer Billie Holiday (1915 - 1959) singing with an orchid in her hair, early 1950s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Crawlers
A beggar paid to look after a baby sitting at the side of a street, circa 1877. From Street Life in London by John Thomson and Adolphe Smith - pub. 1877 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Vision Of Hell
An engraving depicting Hell and its wretched inhabitants, circa 1650. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Wicked Witchcraft
Witches prepare themselves for a journey by broomstick to the Black Mountain, circa 1650. From a 17th century Dutch copperplate by Adrianus Hubertus. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Londons Covent Garden
Rich and poor, young and old, man and woman, come to shop and sell at Londons Covent Garden Market in this engraving after Hogarth from 1720. (Image by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Central-Park, Winter; The Skating Pond
In a Currier & Ives print titled Central-Park, Winter; The Skating Pond, couples, individuals, and children skate on a pond, New York, New York, 1863

Hideous Harpies
Virgil leads the author through a wood filled with Harpies and miserable souls transformed into trees. An engraving by Gustave Dore, illustrating Canto XIII of Dantes Inferno, written circa 1310

Victorian Maid
A Victorian maidservant carrying a tray with a decanter and two glasses on it, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Petticoat Duellists, a print depicting two women fighting a duel with pistols, published in 1792. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Illustration Of Susquehanna Indian Woman
Illustration of American Indian woman from the Susquehanna tribe in Delaware, holding a club and a bow and arrow, 19th century. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Emily Bronte
circa 1835: English poet and author of Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848). Original Artwork: Painting by Charlotte Bronte. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Street Vendors On Lower East Side, New York
Street vendors carry their goods in baskets on a sidewalk on the Lower East Side, New York, 1900s. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Getty Images)

Dark Passage separating Birminghams tunnel-back houses
6th February 1954: One of the dark passages which separate Birminghams tunnel-back houses. Original Publication: Picture Post - 6979 - The Best And The Worst Of British Cities 4: Birmingham - pub

Engraving of Suffragettes
Fine Art Storehouse Vintage Photo Art: Suffragettes

The Harlots Progress
The young harlot Moll Hackabout is apprehended by a magistrate in Plate 3 of The Harlots Progress by William Hogarth, 1732

Whites Chocolate House
An english gaming house, Whites Chocolate House, London depicted in one of a series of cautionary engravings, entitled The Rakes Progress, by english satirical artist William Hogarth, 1733

Salesman At Door Of A House Wife Showing Her A Bro
UNITED STATES - Circa 1930s: Salesman At Door Of A House Wife Showing Her A Brochure Of His Product He Is Dressed Ia A Suit She Is Wearing A White Apron Over A Dressey Dress. (Photo by H)

Zoo Mayhem
circa 1825: Popular Gardens - Tom, Jerry and Logic laughing at the bustle and alarm occasioned amongst the visitors by the escape of a kangaroo, the Fat Knight down on the subject

Victorian women asking advice of each other
Vintage engraving of Victorian women asking advice of each other, The Leisure Hour, 1872

Portrait of a young victorian woman
Vintage engraving of a Portrait of a young victorian woman smelling a flower, 19th Century

D Alberts Quadrille
circa 1775: The cover of a score for the Court of St James, a quadrille by composer Charles d Albert (1864 - 1932). (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Queens Armoury
circa 1850: A Yeoman or beefeater shows a group of tourists some of the exhibits on display in Queen Elizabeths Armoury, in the Tower of London. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Becky Sharp
1847: An illustration by William Makepeace Thackery from the first edition of Vanity Fair. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Plantation Life
circa 1825: A black slave on a plantation announces a visitor to his master. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

Pleased To Meet You
1878: A little girl in a pinafore shakes hands with a butler in the butlers pantry. Every Girls Annual - pub. 1878 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Chinese Dress
circa 1870: Chinese men and women in traditional dress. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Chinese Merchants
circa 1870: Two Chinese merchants and a merchants wife wearing traditional dress. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Neopolitan Sedan
circa 1850: A woman and baby being carried in a sedan chair. A sign on the side of the chair says Napoli 78. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

On Stage
1871: Actors on stage during a rehearsal for a pantomime. Original Artwork: Engraving by Gordon Thomson (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

In Fashion
February 1856: Fashions for the man about town and his wife. Gazettete of Fashion - pub 1856 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

What Do You Want
circa 1870: A well built cook holds a griddle behind her back as she confronts a group of lady helpers invading her kitchen. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Aleutian Islander
1842: Woman of the Aleutian islands. Her hair is in a pigtail and she wears a cross round her neck. Dr Prichards Natural History of Man - pub. 1842 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Eton College
circa 1835: Eton College, a public school in Berkshire. Original Artwork: Engraving by Redway after William Evans. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Unladylike
circa 1830: Men at a dining table rise in horror upsetting the dishes as a woman gets up to pull on a bell rope. Entitled, Company shocked at a Lady getting up to ring the Bell

Refinement
October 1836: A couple sitting at a table with the husband carving a bird. He asks his wife if she would like some breast, she is shocked and says, No I ll take a little bosom

Brighton Bathhouse
circa 1820: Mahomeds Indian vapour baths on the seafront at Brighton, Sussex. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

British Beauties
1st December 1836: Cecilia, Rosa and Rebecca, three of Heaths British beauties - unprepossessing caricatures published by Thomas McLean in The Looking Glass. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

First Class Travel
First passengers arriving on an early French railway. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hydro-Track
An early French, hydraulically-powered railway. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)

Fleeing Cholera
People rush for trains in an effort to flee a cholera outbreak in the south of France after the arrival of a ship from the east. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rushing Punters
As the Casino at Monte Carlo opens for business, eager gamblers rush to secure their lucky seat at the gaming tables. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Bear Pit
Visitors around the bear pit at the Zoological Gardens in Londons Regents Park. Original Artwork: Engraving by George Scharf (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Patent Cabriolet
The Tribus, a two-wheeled, horse-drawn street carriage which accomodates up to three passengers. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Getty Images)

Poor Weavers
The inside of a weavers cottage in Ilay, France. Original Artwork: Engraving by Grignion. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Morning Gowns
Women wearing the latest in morning dresses with draped bodices, gigot sleeves and belted waists. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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