Mary Evans Picture Libraryさんのイラストまとめ

On #NationalFitnessDay we remember Prunella Stack, leader of the Women's League of Health & Beauty, an organisation founded by her mother Mrs Bagot Stack. Dubbed "the perfect girl" she pioneered fitness regimes for countless women around the world. https://t.co/2L7JC1YAjj

Librans, your time is now. Wills' cigarette card from 1923 telling us that an opal is your gemstone if you're born under the seventh sign of the #zodiac. Nice.

Elegant autumn shoe designs from André Camy's La Chassure d'Art, September 1930. #newshoes

So long summer. No avoiding the fact it's now autumn with the #AutumnEquinox today. Here's some seasonal art to take your mind off it - "The Passing of the Seasons" by Byam Shaw

It's that time of year when magazines are urging us to invest in the new season of fashion, but it's also #secondhandseptember so take your inspo from our array of vintage autumn fashion instead.

#otd 1759, though the British army takes Quebec from the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, General James Wolfe is fatally wounded and dies on the battlefield. Kronheim print in 'Pictures of English History from the Earliest Times' circa 1892 @Mary_Evans

From our #archives, #otd 1924, Albert, Duke of York - later King George VI - at the controls of a Glasgow Tram, which he drove for more than a mile to the depot. Photo in The Coronation Book of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth ©Grenville Collins Postcard Collection @Mary_Evans

#otd 1939, British illustrator Arthur Rackham died. He was one of the leading literary figures during the Golden Age of British book illustration, & famous for illustrating Alice s Adventures in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol and many more. Here's just a few of his beautiful works

From our #archives, gorgeous front cover illustration showing a lady in a typical 1920s cloche hat eating an apple from an apple tree. It is #September after all. Illustration by Helen Dryden for The Delineator, September 1928 ©Peter & Dawn Cope Collection @Mary_Evans #fashion

#otd 1952 from our #archives, colour photo from Picturegoer magazine of debonair and swoon-some actor Cary Grant running through the surf with his second wife Betsy Drake, who also co-starred in a couple of his films. Courtesy of The Land of Lost Content Collection @Mary_Evans