Images Dated 8th August 2019

Sheffield City Libraries: Your help is needed - a few readers are stealing books and periodicals, c. 1930

From an original at Sheffield Libraries: y13767

© Sheffield City Council

Libraries, Sheffield, Yorkshire

Cocktail dress

Pattern for Art Deco style cocktail dress from MABS FASHIONS. Yellow georgette dress with maribou trimmed accordion pleated skirt and diamante belt and shoulder strap. Date: 1924

© Mary Evans / Peter & Dawn Cope C

1924, Accordion, Anon, Art, Belt, Cocktail, Deco, Diamante, Dress, Fashions, Georgette, Mabs, Maribou, Pattern, Pleated, Shoulder, Skirt, Strap, Style, Trimmed, Yellow

Pigeon fancier - kabooter baz - Old Delhi, India

A pigeon fancier on a rootop in Old Delhi India. He calls to bring his birds back to the loft, and uses a net to catch them. Pigeon racing has been a passion in India since the Moghuls themselves kept the birds centuries ago. Thousands of rupees can be won or lost on each race, and the pigeon fanciers - kabooter baz - often try to kidnap other fancier's birds to hold them to ransom. Part of a feature for Saga Magazine Date: 1982

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library