Time for a Cuppa

A cup of tea with people of the past!

From various sources.

Walter Sanders, LIFE © Time Inc.

Actors Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard take a break from skiing for tea, St. Moritz, Switzerland, 1946. Source

Hans Wild, LIFE © Time Inc.

Lady Astor serving tea to family members at the Waldorf Astor estate, UK, 1943. Source

© IWM (D 2161)

A volunteer serves tea to a man who has been bombed out of his home, 1941. Source

State Library of Queensland

The Mcintyre family at tea, Toowoomba, Australia, 1913. Source

© IWM (Q 109828)

A tea break for the workers of the British Oil Cake Company, Manchester, WWI. Source

Nat Farbman, LIFE © Time Inc.

Painter Afro Basaldella having tea with some students at Mills College, California, 1958. Source

William Vandivert, LIFE © Time Inc.

An Oxford student with tea at a club meeting, UK, 1939. Source

National Library of Ireland

A group of behatted men having tea after a cricket match, Galway, Ireland, c. 1900. Source

State Library of Queensland

Afternoon tea, Gympie, Australia, c. 1907. Source

National Library of Scotland

A nurse with a tea trolley giving tea and biscuits to patients at a convalescent hospital, WWI. Source

Nina Leen, LIFE © Time Inc.

A group of young women having tea, US, 1945. Source

Hansel Mieth, LIFE © Time Inc.

A Japanese woman serves tea to sailors in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 1942. Source

Galt Museum

Southminister United Men's Club Tea. I don't know either. Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 1954. Source

Alfred Eisenstaedt, LIFE © Time Inc.

Figure skating champion Barbara Ann Scott at fashionable resort St. Moritz in Switzerland, 1947. Source

State Library of Queensland

Tea in the garden, Brisbane, c. 1890. Source

Allan Grant, LIFE © Time Inc.

Shirley Maclaine and her 2 1/2 year old daughter sharing tea, California, 1959. Source

See Also:

Tea, the Soldier's Drink

Or, if you prefer coffee: Another Cup of Coffee

A Return to the Battlefield

A photo series from 1947 following an ex-GI and his new wife re-visiting the battlefields of France where he fought in the war. I find it so striking that he felt compelled to do this, and especially that she felt compelled to do it with him. 

By Tony Linck for LIFE magazine. From the LIFE archives. 

The ex-GI, Ernest Kreiling, and his wife overlook a valley where he fought in WWII. Source

The woman puts a helmet on her husband in the foxhole where he first heard an enemy shell. Source

The man gives his wife a demonstration of how he washed his socks during the war. Source

The man shows his wife the hayloft where he spent Thanksgiving  night, 1944. Source

A battlefield tour. Source

The couple bicycle past a German grave. Source

The couple talk with a French farmer. Source

The couple visit a French family the man met during the war. Source

Source

The pair walk a train station platform. Source

The couple look at a wrecked jeep on the battlefield. Source

The couple walk a cemetery. Source

A visit to the grave of the man's best friend, killed in the war. Source

Shadow and Light

A showcase of incredible photographs by Hungarian-born photographer Gjon Mili. Unless otherwise specified, taken in Mili's studio in NYC. 

From the LIFE archives. 

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

Skaters of the Hollywood Ice Revue at Madison Square Gardens, NYC, 1948. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

A model in raincoat, umbrella and galoshes, 1943. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

A little girl watching soap bubbles, 1941. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

Contestants dancing in a Caribbean dance contest, NYC, 1950. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

A car being driven through deep water at a Ford test site, Detroit, 1948. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

Three models and a dog, 1945. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

A double exposure of a woman in a hat, 1946. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

A woman powdering her face, 1943. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

A model in a pleated dress and hat, 1950. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

The hands of jazz pianist Eddie Heywood reflected in a keyboard, 1943. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

Picasso "painting" with light, Vallauris, France, 1949. (more in this series here). Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

A woman modelling rainwear, 1941. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

Director Billy Wilder and screenwriter I. A. L. Diamond, Hollywood, 1960. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

A woman's eye, 1945. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

A double exposure of a woman in a full draped coat, c. 1946. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

Dancers demonstrating the lindy hop, 1943. Source

Gjon Mili, LIFE © Time Inc.

Model Elise Daniels standing on a New York street, 1956. Source

Life in a London Hospital

A series of photographs capturing the experiences of workers and patients at a busy hospital in London, 1941.

From the Imperial War Museum.  

© IWM (D 2312)

Stretcher bearers carry a casualty into the hospital, while a 'tally man' (usually a student doctor) assigns a number. Source

© IWM (D 2322)

A view of the hospital reception ward, with a doctor in the foreground preparing to take a x-ray with a mobile machine. Source

© IWM (D 2317)

A doctor and nurse tend to a patient, while an almoner takes personal details. Source

 © IWM (D 2325)

A nurse lays a blanket over a heated frame to quickly warm a patient. Source

© IWM (D 2328)

A view of the busy operating theatre. Source

© IWM (D 2324)

A nurse collects a tray with blood and plasma transfusion equipment. Source

© IWM (D 2333)

Porters transport a patient through hospital corridors. Source

© IWM (D 2330)

Doctors examine an x-ray during an operation. Source

© IWM (D 2314)

A tally man takes details about a casualty from a policeman. Source

© IWM (D 2321)

A forehead marked 'M' indicates the patient has received a dose of morphine prior to arrival. Source

© IWM (D 2315)

Stretcher cases are rushed to the surgery, where nurses and doctors attend to them. Source

© IWM (D 2329)

To save time, patients are prepared for surgery and anaesthetized behind a screen in the corner of the operating theatre. Source

© IWM (D 2335)

A nurse gathers the belongings of a patient. Source

© IWM (D 2342)

Porters bring a patient down a staircase-- a temporary one, as the original was destroyed in an air raid. Source

 © IWM (D 2343)

Porters slide a patient down a ramp alongside the stairway, intended for those whose injuries may be worsened by the jolting of the stairs. Source

© IWM (D 2340)

A nurse gives American donated clothing to a patient whose belongings were destroyed in an air raid. Source

© IWM (D 2323)

Nurses x-ray a patient with a mobile machine. Source

 © IWM (D 2334)

A ward in the early morning. Source

 © IWM (D 2326)

Patients only 'slightly injured' settle down for the night in a waiting area. Source

 © IWM (D 2336)

Nurses get well-earned cups of tea from canteen workers. Source