Woman Collection

St Marys Church, Truro, Cornwall. Around 1870
The west front of St Marys Church. View taken from the High Cross end looking towards St Marys Street. A very early photograph. The parish church of St Mary the Virgin was first consecrated in 1259

Trade Card Advertisement Food Usa
Woman Draped in American Flag, American Baking Powder, Trade Card, circa 1880. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG)

Ginger Rogers Dancing with her partner Fred Astaire
Picture taken in 1934 of US actress, dancer and singer Ginger Rogers, dancing with her partner of Fred Astaire, during the shooting of the film " The Gay Divorcee"

English suffragette, feminist newspaper, 1908. News seller, she is standing on the street not the pavement so as not to be arrested. The suffragettes published their own magazine / newspaper

Mrs. Peel and her Lotus Elan
Diana Rigg in a scene from Mission Highly Improbable

Village green cricket, Tilford, Surrey, England, UK

Jewish Refugee, Vienna, by David Jagger, 1938
Portrait of a woman, in striped headscarf

The Airpump by Joseph Wright
The Air Pump by Joseph Wright (1734-1797). This artwork was painted in 1768. Its full title is An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump

A moment from the final sequence of Ice Cold In Alex (1957)
with Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews, Sylvia Syms and John Mills

The Scales of Justice above the Old Bailey Law Courts, Inns of Court, London, England, UK

Bliss Mill in morning frost, Chipping Norton, Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

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Florence Nightingale. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century photograph

Cuban paintings, Havana, Cuba, West Indies, Central America

Ethiopian coffee ceremony, Lalibela, Wollo, Ethiopia, Africa

Statue by Tommy Steele of the eponymous woman of the Beatles song, Eleanor Rigby, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom, Europe

A glamorous publicity portrait of Diana Dors
taken for the release of Yield to the Night in 1956

The Patchwork Quilt
Artist: Calkin, Lance - Title: The Patchwork Quilt - Date: 1887 - Original Medium and Size: Oil on Canvas 86.4 x 61

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

Amelia Earhart, US aviation pioneer
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), American aviation pioneer. Earhart was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air as a passenger (1928), fly solo across the Atlantic

Mayflower passengers landing at Plymouth Rock, 1620
John Alden and Mary Chilton landing at Plymouth from the Mayflower, December 1620. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Traditional Cambodian apsara dancer, temples of Angkor Wat, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Dancing in a dingy cellar in Soho, London Cy Lauries jazz band beats it out and the fashions of the jiving girls are as traditional as the jazz

The Place de la Comedie, Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, Europe

Cuban paintings, Havana, Cuba, West Indies, Central America

Pragues Old Town Square Christmas Market viewed from the Astronomical Clock during blue hour, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Prague, Czech Republic, Europe

Tamsin Blight, the White Witch of Helston, William Jones Chapman (1808-1872)
Oil on canvas, English School, 1856. A portrait of an elderly woman wearing a bonnet and shawl, seated in a chair. Thomasine Blight (1793-1856), known locally as Tammy Blee

Lovers in Hyde Park May 1947 love couple romance romantic for valentines day be my valentine

Venus of Willendorf, Stone Age figurine, rear view. Discovered in 1908 near Willendorf, Austria, this 11-centimetre-tall limestone figurine dates from around 23, 000 years ago

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" Liberty Leading the People" by Eugene Delacroix. Printed halftone reproduction of a 19th century painting

Vucciria Market, Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Europe

Flamenco dancing by sea in full sunlight, Ibiza, Spain, Europe

Beach volleyball game, late afternoon, Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa

The Tea Table, Harold Harvey (1874-1941)
Oil painting on canvas, Newlyn School, 1920. The painting shows a mealtime scene around the kitchen table. A traditional Cornish range is pictured in the background

Muslim woman kneeling on prayer mat saying prayers, Jordan, Middle East

Holiday Haunts guide book, 1947
A 1947 edition of the popular Holiday Haunts guide books published by the GWR. A glamorous blonde poses in a white two-part swimming costume in front of a lively beach scene

The Nun
A portrait of a nun, circa 1850. Engraved by N Lecomte after a painting by J. G. Schoeffer. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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

Mrs Roy ( Marjorie ) Eccles, first woman racing driver to compete on the new course. She drove her Mercedes car over the Crystal Palace road racing circuit when she made an inspection of the track

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

Skeletons, X-ray artwork
Skeleton crowd. Computer X-ray artwork of a group of human skeletons viewed from the front

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

First settlers of Hartford, Connecticut, 1636
Thomas Hookers congregation migrates from Massachusetts to settle Hartford, Connecticut, 1636. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Dunns River Falls, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Hayley Mills as Ellie Thomsen
Mills was dressed for Endless Night (1972) by John Furniss who was nominated for an Oscar in 1974 for Daisy Miller and for a Bafta in 1971 for The Go-Between

Spain, Catalonia, Costa Brava, Tossa de Mar, Overview of bay and castle at dusk (MR)

Motor cars on Camber Sands, Sussex. 1933

La Maison Moderne c. 1902 (poster) by Manuel Orazi (1898-1934) Location Musee des Arts Decoratifs
La Maison Moderne c.1902 (poster) by Manuel Orazi (1898-1934) Location Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France ?TopFoto

Dangerous corner... Brands Hatch, Kent, England; Unidentified speed car driver
Dangerous corner..... Brands Hatch, Kent, England; Unidentified speed car driver negotiates what appears to be a " dangerous corner " at the Brands Hatch motor circuit here today

Two ladies in blue and gold masks, Venice Carnival, Venice, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Veneto, Italy, Europe

Mrs. Smith wakens the dockers of Limehouse, London, with her peashooter in 1927 TopFoto
Mrs. Smith wakens the dockers of Limehouse, London, with her peashooter in 1927 © TopFoto

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

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

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

Daughter of soviet kirghizia 1948 painting by semyon chuikov, socialist realism

Halsted, Cushing and Young operating C014 / 1090
Halsted, Cushing and Young operating. Pioneering American surgeons William Halsted (1852-1922), Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) and Hugh Hampton Young (1897-1941)

A man and woman carrying out work on a steam hammer during WW2, 1942
A man and woman carrying out work on a steam hammer during WW2 in the GWR Swindon Works, 1942. The man is wearing a blacksmiths apron

Full body scan, MRI scan
Full body scan of a female swimmer. Her brain is purple (top), her heart and arteries are red/orange (upper centre), her kidneys are pale green (centre)

Mother getting her daughter dressed, early 1900s
Mother putting on her daughters socks and shoes, a morning ritual, early 1900s. Printed color halftone of Jessie Willcox Smith illustration

Woman carrying coconuts to market, Peliatan, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Shiva Mandir temple, Bengaluru (Bangalore), Karnataka state, India, Asia

Carnaby Street, London, England, UK

Half Moon Bay, Antigua, Caribbean, West Indies

Portrait of a lady, Polperro, Cornwall. 1860-1870s
Full length portrait of a lady holding a book. Philip M. Correll (1992) identified the woman as " The school lady of the day"

Irene, Bryan Pearce (1929-2007)
Oil on board, 1975. Bryan Pearce was born in St Ives in 1929 and suffered from the then unknown condition Phenylketonuria, which affects the normal development of the brain

Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine, Fushimi ward, Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Kansai region, Japan

Punch and Judy Man (The) (1963)
A laughing Tony Hancock and Sylvia Syms in a scene from The Punch and Judy Man directed in 1963 by Jeremy Summers

Force-Feeding Suffragettes 1912

Mrs Roy ( Marjorie ) Eccles making her circuit of the race track. The first woman racing driver to compete on the new course

Person photographing the Angel of the North sculpture by Antony Gormley, Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Hong Kong street scene, 1890s C016 / 4499
Hong Kong street scene. Pedestrians, carts, rickshaws and signs in both Chinese script and English on a hill street in Hong Kong in the 1890s. At the time, this area was a British colony

Halleys comet, 19th Century artwork. 1835 woodcut print depicting the 1835 appearance of Halleys comet. Halleys Comet is the only naked-eye comet certain to return within a human lifetime

Uterus lining during menstruation, SEM
Uterus during menstruation. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the lining of the uterus being shed during menstruation

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

Saint Clare statue, St Francis of Assisi churchyard, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. Digital photograph

Amazon warrior, statue at Versailles
Statue of an Amazon warrior in a garden of the Palace of Versailles, France. Digital photograph

Clara Schumann
Pianist Clara Schumann, wife of Robert Schumann. Digitally tinted halftone reproduction of a photograph

Carolina colonist refusing to pay taxes, 1700s
Tax-collector beaten off by an angry Carolina colonist. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Darley illustration

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

Ladies in Florence during the Renaissance
Noble ladies of Florence during the early 1400s. Antique hand-colored print

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

Battistinis Zred Bike

North Wales, Snowdonia. A man and woman stop to look at their map whilst hiking in Snowdonia. (MR)

Women practising tai chi in front of a pavilion on West Lake, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, Asia

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"Unforgettable Women: Celebrating their Legacy and Strength" Ginger Rogers Dancing with her partner Fred Astaire: A mesmerizing duo, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire waltzed into our hearts, showcasing the grace and talent of women in the world of dance. Mrs. Peel and her Lotus Elan: Stepping out of traditional gender roles, Mrs. Peel from The Avengers series captivated audiences as a stylish secret agent, proving that women can be both fierce and fashionable. English suffragette, feminist newspaper, 1908: In an era when women fought for their rights to vote and have a voice, this image represents the brave pioneers who paved the way for equality through activism. Jewish Refugee, Vienna by David Jagger (1938): This poignant artwork captures the strength of a woman amidst adversity during one of history's darkest times – reminding us of resilience in even the most challenging circumstances. Amelia Earhart - US aviation pioneer: Breaking barriers in aviation, Amelia Earhart soared above societal expectations to become an inspiration for generations to come; she proved that dreams have no limits. Statue by Tommy Steele depicting Eleanor Rigby from Beatles song fame: A symbol of loneliness immortalized in stone reminds us to cherish human connections while highlighting society's impact on individuals' lives. Vucciria Market - Palermo, Sicily: Amidst vibrant colors and bustling energy at this Italian market lies stories untold – where strong-willed women navigate life's challenges with determination etched on their faces. A moment from Ice Cold In Alex (1957) final sequence: As war raged on around them, courageous women played pivotal roles behind enemy lines – embodying bravery amidst chaos while leaving an indelible mark on history. Village green cricket - Tilford Surrey England UK : On tranquil village greens across England stands evidence that cricket is not just a man's game.