Dropped Collection (page 4)

How bombs are dropped from a Zeppelin. Sectional view of the central bomb-dropping cabin of a German Zeppelin in World War One, 1915. Date: 1915

British troops collecting air-dropped supplies into the Admi
Photograph of British troops collecting air-dropped supplies into the Admin Box in Feb 1944; from collection covering Middle and Far East, World War Two. Date: 1944

French womens fashion 1926
Three-piece blue and white afternoon dress in crepe by Worth. Chiffon sun dress by Bernard. Date: 1926

George Ernest Studdy, Bonzo and the wool trade
George Ernest Studdy, Bonzo with a man at a pillar box. The man has dropped a book entitled The Wool Gatherer. From a series entitled Bonzo and the Bradford Wool Trade, painted for Ackroyd Bros

Man with umbrella in the snow on a Christmas card
Man with a black umbrella blown the wrong way, in the snow on a Christmas card. He has dropped some of his shopping, and two children are laughing at him. Date: circa 1890s

Clown and jester on a Christmas card -- the clown has dropped all the food and drink from his tray. Date: circa 1890s

Two boys snowballing on a Christmas card, when they should be making deliveries. Date: circa 1890s

Supplies dropped at Bastogne
American troops in the besieged Belgian town of Bastogne watch as Douglas C-47 aircraft drop supplies. Date: December 1944

Ammunition Supply By Air
The Last Days of Fighting: Ammunition-Supply By Air Ammunition is dropped from the air, by parachute, from a British biplane to keep troops in the front line supplied

Boeing B-29 of 509th Composite Grp, 20th Air Force dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima, 5 Aug 1945

WW1 - Ad for repirators - threat of gas attack by Zeppelins
WW1 - Advertisement for Freers Repirators from Cooper & Son of King Street, Gravesend, to counter the threat of attack by poison gas bombs, dropped from Zeppelins during an air raid. Date: circa 1915

Killed by German Bombs dropped in Poperinghe, Dec 1915
Killed by German Bombs dropped in Poperinghe, Dec. 1915. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

German Zeppelin over Antwerp 1914
A German Zeppelin airship over Antwerp, illuminated at night. The diagram shows how it dropped and fired its bombs on the Belgian city. Date: 1914

Enemy aeroplanes attack British steamer by G. H. Davis
Enemy aeroplanes attacking a British steamer. Bombs and bullets from above -- the Avocet attacked by three German planes during the First World War

Zeppelin raid over London by G. H. Davis
The Zeppelin raid over London during World War One, with a sectional view of a Zeppelin, showing the curving flight of a bomb when dropped from a rapidly moving airship. Date: 1915

The aeroplane in warfare by G. H. Davis
The aeroplane in warfare: aeroplanes used for finding the range of the enemys entrenchments. Left: a fire bomb, attached to a parachute, dropped from a Taube monoplane

Allied Forces activity in German territory, WW1
Two examples of Allied Forces activity in German territory during the early stages of the First World War. Above, debris from a German motor convoy

Buy Victory Loan leaflet
A Message from the Skies - a Victory Loan leaflet dropped from British air balloons during the World War One war savings campaign. Date: 1917

French happiness English misery, Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756?-1811?, engraving 1793, on the left, four ragged and starving sansculottes fighting over a frog, a cat has dropped dead at their feet

Women carrying coal to the surface in East Scotland mines, from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts
KW468242 Women carrying coal to the surface in East Scotland mines, from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures by Charles Tomlinson (engraving) by English School

Feeling, Pieter Pickaert, 1680 - 1715

Rippled water
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Concentric rings on water surface. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Girls pink party shoe discarded on top of a black bin liner

Picture No. 10735071
Bones dropped by Bearded Vultures / Lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus) Date:

Picture No. 10768053
Carnivorous Anemone - the fish is being eaten alive buy a large sand dwelling anemone. It seems the fish was dropped from a canoe along with several others as there were other small herrings lying

A de Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth is bombed-up at Hatfield during anti-invasion preparations in 1940. Trials were completed over Hatfield airfield but no bombs were dropped in anger. Date: 1940

The first test of the first goreless wonder, dropped in stick with a standard parachute for comparison in descent. The vintage Virginia, the last of its line

Mazeppa, Byrons poem published 1819, based on passage in Voltaires Charles XII. Mazeppa, discovered in intrigue, is stripped and bound to a wild Ukrainian horse which was lashed into madness

World War II: Paul Tibbets standing in front of the B-29 Enola Gay, the plane he piloted to Hiroshima and dropped the worlds first atomic bomb on 5 August 1945. Warfare Aerial Nuclear

Afghanistan: Reverse of leaflet showing man opening a relief supplies packet dropped by US aircraft, and its contents being enjoyed by his family

French Happiness English Misery, Cruikshank, Isaac, 1756ja-1811ja, Engraving 1793, On The Left, Four Ragged And Starving Sansculottes Fighting Over A Frog, A Cat Has Dropped Dead At Their Feet

Broken biscuit with crumbs, view from above

Leaf on ice C018 / 2308
A leaf resting on ice in a skating rink, Moscow

Spain (1893). Fear scene at the exit of the Gran

Common Reed (Phragmites australis) reedbed, showing low water level due to lack of rain, Norfolk, England, february

Red Kite (Milvus milvus) four adults, in flight, three kites attempting to catch meat forced from and dropped by other kite above feeding station, Gigrin Farm, Powys, Wales, march

D Annunzios propaganda drop over Vienna, WW1
Aerial view of the centre of Vienna, Austria, with thousands of propaganda leaflets dropped by the Italian poet and nationalist Gabriele d Annunzio from his Ansaldo SVA biplane

Wartime leaflet, blood transfusion service
Wartime leaflet about the blood transfusion service, showing how blood, and blood transfusion equipment, are dropped by parachute behind enemy lines to save the lives of wounded soldiers. 1940s

Exhibits in Dome of Discovery and Shot Tower, London
Various exhibits in the Dome of Discovery and the Shot Tower at the Festival of Britain, South Bank, London. Top left shows a reconstruction of Captain Cooks ship, Endeavour

Diamonds & Toads by Kate Greenaway. Two toads and two vipers dropped from her mouth. Illustrations attributed to Kate Greenaway (her first book). A fairy tale by Charles Perrault Date: circa 1870

Lady Bends in Corset
A lady bends to pick up the soap tablet she has dropped - thus demonstrating the remarkable flexibility of her Guzzi girdle Date: 1928

Low water level at reservoir, Fewston Reservoir, North Yorkshire, England, may

Peat bog fire. Mars aircraft dropping water on a fire in a raised peat bog. Peat bog fires often burn below the ground making them particularly difficult to extinguish

Nelsons arrival in Goldfield, Nervada, Battling Nelson vs Joe Gans, Boxing, Gans dropped Nelson repeatedly during the bout, but could not knock him out

Invention - Carrons Cone
Mr. Carron, an engineer from Grenoble, France, invented a contraption that allowed humans to experience the sensation of a free fall of 300m

Face Powder / Sparrows
The sparrows don t seem to mind that they are feeding on face powder dropped by this lady who sits crossed legged on a chair

How the Torpedo is dropped from the air

Toby Xmas Number 1922
Front cover illustration for Toby childrens magazine or comic, featuring Father Christmas driving through snow on a motobike

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