Shawls Collection

The Cotton Famine: operatives waiting for their breakfast in Mr. Chapman's courtyard..., 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: operatives waiting for their breakfast in Mr. Chapman's courtyard, Mottram, near Manchester, 1862. Unemployed mill workers. Engraving of a photograph by Mr. Gothard

Indians of Peru and Bolivia, South America, 1864. Creator: Joseph Austin Benwell
Indians of Peru and Bolivia, South America, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. C. L. Rowsell of Valparaiso, of indigenous people belonging to '...the half-civilised part of the native South

The Cotton Famine: distributing tickets for bread, soup, meat, meal, coal etc, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: distributing tickets for bread, soup, meat, meal, coal etc, at the office of a district provident society, Manchester, 1862. From "Illustrated London News", 1862

The Cotton Famine: provision-shop...Manchester and Salford Provident Society, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: provision-shop where goods are obtained for tickets issued by the Manchester and Salford Provident Society, 1862. Unemployment in Lancashire

The Cotton Famine: the Society of Friends' soup-kitchen...Lower Moseley-street, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: the Society of Friends' soup-kitchen, Ball-street, Lower Moseley-street, Manchester, 1862. Unemployed Lancashire textiles workers queue for food

The Cotton Famine: group of mill operatives at Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: group of mill operatives at Manchester, 1862. Lancashire Textile workers. 'The Carder's business is to see that machinery is kept in perfect working order...The Jack Tenter

The Cotton Famine: distributing coal at the Castle-field old coal-wharf, Manchester, 1862. Creator: Unknown
The Cotton Famine: distributing coal at the Castle-field old coal-wharf, Manchester, 1862. Charity for unemployed Lancashire textiles workers

"Saved", by F. W. Topham, in the exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1864. Engraving. 'We must sympathise with the terror through which these humble Irish folk have

Les Étrangers dévisagés par eux-mêmes, 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Les Etrangers devisages par eux-memes, 1844. La Dame de Carpentras - C'est singulier...ces Parisiennes ne sont pas si elegantes qu'on peut bien le dire!'

Interview at Sealkote, on the 9th March, between the Maharajah Runjeet Singh of Cashmere... 1860. Creator: Unknown
Interview at Sealkote, on the 9th March, between the Maharajah Runjeet [sic] Singh of Cashmere and His Excellency Lord Canning - from a sketch by Mr. Simpson, 1860

Traditional costumes of the island of Gozo, 1778. Creator: Louis Ducros
Traditional costumes of the island of Gozo, 1778. Drawing from the album Voyage to Italy, Sicily and Malta

Housekeeper's Alliance, early 1900s. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Housekeeper's Alliance, early 1900s
Housekeeper's Alliance, early 1900s. USA. Group portrait of women wearing elaborate hats, and dresses embellished with lace, ruffles and velvet ribbons

Newhaven fishermen and fishwives, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Newhaven fishermen and fishwives, 1862....the fisheries are one of the chief natural resources of Scotland...At Newhaven, near Edinburgh

Dagestani types, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Dagestani types, between 1905 and 1915. Group of women (from the Caucasus) posed outdoors. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944)

The International Exhibition - M'Dougall's Stall... 1862. Creator: Unknown
The International Exhibition - M'Dougall's Stall - the Highlands of Scotland, 1862. Display of...choice specimens from their Royal tartan warehouse in Inverness

Killarney - 3 Irish women going to a funeral in a horse-drawn cart, (1899?). Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston
Killarney - 3 Irish women going to a funeral in a horse-drawn cart, (1899?)

Russian Prisoners, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Russian Prisoners, 1854. Russian women in Britain during the Crimean War. The wives of the Russian soldiers, who have been brought to England along with their husbands

A Kitchen in the Tierra Caliente; A zigzag journey through Mexico, 1875. Creator: Thomas Mayne Reid
A Kitchen in the " Tierra Caliente" ; A zigzag journey through Mexico, 1875. [Women cooking tortillas. Note metate for grinding the maize in the foreground, and Christian image behind]

Shawl Strap, c. 1938. Creator: Grace Halpin
Shawl Strap, c. 1938

Fashions for September, 1845. Creator: Unknown
Fashions for September, 1845. Straw bonnets for country residence, for the sea-side, and watering-places, are universally worn, as best adapted to such purposes

Two Indian Women, One Seated, 1860s. Creator: Unknown
Two Indian Women, One Seated, 1860s

Young women in traditional costume, Styria, Austria, c1935. Creator: Unknown
Young women in traditional costume, Styria, Austria, c1935. Young women from the state of Styria (Steiermark), wearing elaborate ribboned headdresses, shawls, and patterned dresses

Harriet and Caroline Montagu, Rome, 1815, (1943). Creator: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Harriet and Caroline Montagu, Rome, 1815, (1943). Portrait of Lady Harriet Mary Montagu (1805-1857) and her sister Lady Catherine Caroline Montagu (1808-1833), daughters of George

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