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Front CoverChatterbox Annual (1916)

The front cover of the 1916 Chatterbox annual features a picture of a crafty boy using an umbrella to shield himself from snowballs thrown at him by other children. There is also a higher resolution ( [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2007-12-08

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Snowball Fight!Chatterbox Annual (1916)

This illustration, taken from the front cover of the 1916 Chatterbox annual, features a picture of a crafty boy using an umbrella to shield himself from snowballs thrown at him by other children.

Keywords: children, people, illustrations for children, snow, umbrellas, colour, christmas

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Added: 2007-12-08

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Title PageChatterbox Annual (1916)

The ornate title page from the 1916 Chatterbox annual. There are pictures of a girl with straw on her head, a group of children reading, or perhaps singing, to a lady I take to be their teacher; a boy [...]

Keywords: title pages, children, illustrations for children, leaves, flowers, greyscale

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Added: 2007-12-08

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Children with their teacherChatterbox Annual (1916)

A group of boys and girls surround a grown-up woman, perhaps their grandmother or perhaps their teacher, or perhaps both. The children are holding books; perhaps it is a reading lesson, or perhaps the [...]

Keywords: children, people, books, illustrations for children, greyscale, christmas

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Added: 2007-12-08

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Frontispiece: Too Old for a StockingChatterbox Annual (1916)

The frontispiece to the Chatterbox 1916 Annual shows a boy sitting in bed, wearing striped pyjamas, looking at another younger boy in his dressing-gown and slippers who has entered the bedroom carryin [...]

Keywords: christmas, children, people, illustrations for children, santa claus, interiors, bedrooms, colour

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Added: 2007-12-09

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Mermaid Street, RyeChatterbox Annual (1916)

Another old street is Mermaid Street, with its famous inn of that name and its beautiful timbered hospital In this street lived Samuel Jeakes, a well-known Rye worthy, born in 1623; he was a lawyer an [...]

Keywords: drawings, streets, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Rye; Sussex; England

Added: 2008-10-30

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Ypres Tower, RyeChatterbox Annual (1916)

[in the Middle Ages] There were three strong gates, and on the south side, looking out across the sea, was a large stone watch-tower, known as the Ypres Tower (pronounced locally ‘Wipers’). It was bu [...]

Keywords: towers, castles, ruins, greyscale

Places shown: Rye; Sussex; England

Added: 2008-03-21

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They knelt on the seat, and fired deliberatelyChatterbox Annual (1916)

It’s winter, and the horses are pulling the sleigh over the snow and through the forest, with wolves in hot pursuit. The young people (teens?) in the back are firing their rifles at the wolves. “Annie [...]

Keywords: horses, carts, people, guns, weapons, wolves, winter, snow, trees, christmas, greyscale

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Added: 2009-11-16

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Panting was his heart with frightChatterbox Annual (1916)

A dog is leaping in chase after a rabbit; another rabbit looks on nervously in the background. Bright the summer morn and early,     Sweetly sang the lark on high, Meadow grass with dew was pearly,   [...]

Keywords: animals, rabbits, dogs, poems, greyscale

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Added: 2009-11-16

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