Things Collection (page 12)

Future Flying Machine
Two years before the Wright brothers flight, illustrators were already predicting that flying machines like this would be among things to come

Country Dancing C18Th
A crowd enjoy a range of activities at a village fair. There is music and dancing, there are things to buy, games for the children to play and food and drink for everyone

Family on Washing Day
A French blanchisseuse leans over the tub while her daughter pegs things out to dry and her little boy blows bubbles

Gibraltar Workers
Gibraltar : Spanish workers are blindfolded as they go to work, so they won t see things which they might report to the Germans and Italians

Knickers 1935
A lady models one of the many styles of undies available from this company. Others include a girls knicker with a pocket for keeping safe all manner of things

Sir Herbert Croft
SIR HERBERT CROFT clergyman and literary figure, detained in France by Napoleon, wrote many and varied things, imprisoned for debt, dictionary compiler

One Room home Earlyc20
A mother and her three children make the best of things in their one-room lodgings in a tenement house at Lisburn Street, Bethnal Green, London

Chinese Bazaar
A Chinese bazaar selling an assortment of things from pictures to baskets

Abbe and Housemaid 1780
A French Abbe, whose mind should be on higher things, takes a close interest in a servant girl who wears a sack-back gown hitched up to form a bustle/polanaise

Nice French Inventors
Unlike their nasty German counterparts, French inventors create nice peaceful things

Work for the Tinker?
Any work for the tinker? He works in a London street with the fires burning on his cart, waiting for people to bring him things to mend. A woman obliges

Greece / Costume / Objects
Various Ancient Greek things, such as necklaces, instruments, shoes, vases, fans &c

Couple in Deck Chairs
Two holidaymakers take things easy in their beach chairs, while their dog takes it no less easy at their feet

Bear Baiting C 14
To make things fairer on the dogs - besides, they are valuable - the bear is muzzled so that he cannot bite them. Still, he can use his claws if not his jaws

City Men at the Races
Jones I say, Brown, things are deuced bad in the city Brown Then I m deuced glad I m at Epsom!"

A Prawn and other Things
An Aesop prawn and some other sea creatures

Little Women / Meg / Packing
Meg goes to Vanity Fair - packing her things

Martha Hatfield
11-year old prophetess of Leighton, Yorkshire, one of many who foretold things, true or false, during the Commonwealth. She is depicted in an ecstatic trance

Searching under Bed
Searching under the bed

India Museum, London
The newly-opened India Museum, in Whitehall Yard, is rich with nice things acquired and brought back from India by our soldiers and administrators

Girl on Chairs
GIRL STRETCHED ON CHAIRS In the hypnotic state, general muscular contraction can be induced, enabling the body to do things it couldn t do in the normal state

Harvesting in the USA
UNITED STATES - In the land of sunshine and plenty, harvesting, like all other things, is done on a large scale, and machines cutting a wide swath are necessary

Bartholomew Fair Colour
A panoramic view of the Fair, showing swings and roundabouts in the foreground, the stage in the background, and all manner of hawkers, tricksters and vendors of things to eat

Sir Charles Barry - 3
SIR CHARLES BARRY Architect of - among other things - the Houses of Parliament

Haymarket, St Petersburg
The Hay market, St Petersburg - where many things are on sale, except hay : the lady lower right may have passed out with the excitement, but is more probably drunk

Mystery - No other Tiger
NO OTHER TIGER by A E W Mason... Fantastic things may happen to anyone

Dishing up Pudding
A girl, seated in an armchair and with her feet on a footstool, dishes up some pudding to her little sister. Their doll has been abandoned in favour of sweet things

Children Swing on Gate
Happy as a King. Country children find pleasure in the simple things in life - swinging gleefully on a 5-bar gate. The littlest sibling falls off!

School Prize 1864
A small prizewinners certificate or bookplate awarded to Charles Cooper for his improvement in Common Things 3rd class in hope that it will spur him on

Large Rough Water Dog
(canis aviarius aquaticus) (Buffon : le grand barbet) This clever, hardy dog is carried on board ships, thanks to its ability to retrieve things fallen overboard

Pyne - Bill Sticker
BILL STICKER - One of the innumerable advantages of printing is the being enabled to advertise the public of such things as are essential to be known - and others

Naval Victory Column
The Romans love to erect monuments in honour of things - this column celebrates the naval victory of Caius Duilius over the Carthaginians

Girl with Stocking
This spoilt French girl seems to have not one, not two, but THREE stockings overflowing with nice things !

Carrying Things
Two servants carry their burdens upstairs - the footman carries a letter on a tray, the housemaid carries a scuttle full of coals

COMETS &C
The Shepherd who sleeps in the fields sees many more things than those who sleep in their beds - sometimes a comet like a dragon, sometimes bearded stars

Girl, Doll and Tree
A girl in her nightie gives her doll a close-up view of the nice things on the Christmas Tree

Girl on Toboggan
A girl in a muff sits on a toboggan holding some greenery and other things

Glosso Polish Advert
GLOSSO POLISH A maid stands behind a pile of things she has just polished with Glosso

Mrs Alexander
MRS ALEXANDER Hymn writer, writer of " All Things Bright and Beautiful" etc

Young Things at Beach
Young men and women smoking and enjoying themselves on the beach

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