Bend Collection (#2)

Cataracts of Maypures map
Engraving by Alexander Humboldt, April 1800. This map depicts an area of the Orinoco river in South America. Date: 1800

Diagram of scouting knots -- Reef Knot, Sheet Bend, Bowline, Middlemans Knot, Sheepshank. Other items are three kinds of camp candlesticks, a camp toothbrush, a camp fork

Elevated Railroad, 110th Street, New York City, USA
Elevated Railroad at the 110th Street Curve, New York City, USA. Date: circa 1898

Switzerland - Switchback turn on the Sustenstrasse, built between 1938-1945 - in the Cantons of Bern & Uri. Date: circa 1940s

Scene at a busy country racecourse. Date: circa 1910s

The Comber River, Co. Down - a view of a bend in the river with a boat visible. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Comber). Date: circa early 1900s

Catt the The Bend on the Vaal River, South Africa, circa 1888 (Robert Harris studio). Date: circa 1888

Bend on R. Erne at Belturbet - a view across the river with a boat moored in the foreground. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Cavan; Belturbet). Date: circa early 1900s

Motor race
Two racing cars negotiate a tight bend on a mountain road. Date: circa 1903

The Quadrant, Regent Street, London. Date: 1930s

Traffic on a main road -- not a jam in sight! Date: early 1960s

George Ernest Studdy, self-portrait with Bonzo puppy
George Ernest Studdy, a self-portrait of the artist bending right down to observe a Bonzo-like puppy. Captioned Studdy employs no models

Open Robe 1908
The S-Bend silhouette in the year when the new straighter line was introduced. An open robe: flaring, swirling skirt, embroidery, volan trimmed sleeves & lace. Date: 1908

De Long / Hayes River Camp
George De Long (USA), in his ship Jeanette, proved that the Arctic Sea ice is moved by ocean currents. Scene on Hayes River, Big Bend. Date: 19 May 1879

Conejo Grade coast road, Ventura County, California, USA
Scene on the Conejo Grade coast road, Ventura County, California, USA. Date: circa 1915

Racing, State Fair Grounds, Syracuse, New York State, USA
Motorcycle racing at the State Fair Grounds, Syracuse, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1912

Womens clothing in 1910
Photographs of women, wearing the latest fashion in 1910 1910

BAe Systems Hawks RAF Red Arrows Apollo bend Mildenhall
RAFAT RAF Red Arrows BAe Systems Hawks perform the Apollo bend at Mildenhall in 1989 Date: 1989

Picnic Bend - Mount Macedon, Macedon, Victoria
Picnic Bend - Mount Macedon, Macedon, near Gisborne, Victoria, Australia. Date: 1927

Horseshoe Bend - River Wye, Herefordshire
Horseshoe Bend - River Wye, Ross-On-Wye, Herefordshire, England. Date: 1910s

Favourite Sayings - Bend the sapling
Black and white lantern slide showing a young man on a ladder leaning against a mature tree tying a length of wood to the tree with a rope

River Sinara bend - birch trees on the high bank bear traces of wild fires - evening - midsummer - June. South Ural Mountains - Russia

LFB firefighters adjusting back of vehicle
LFB firefighters in traditional brass helmets adjusting the back of a vehicle

Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg, exercising
Boys of Hillbrow Scout Troop, Johannesburg, South Africa, doing physical exercises

Bending armour-plates by hydraulic pressure
The new iron-clad fleet: bending armour-plates by hydraulic pressure at Chatham Dockyard. Date: 1863

Ballet Move / Plie
A ballerina performing a PLIE (pronounced Plee-ay ), which simply means a bend. The dancers arms during the plie are doing a Corps de bras in unison with the body. Date: 1930s

The Mahmud II dam in the Belgrade Forest - Istanbul, Turkey
The Mahmud II dam in the Belgrade Forest (Belgrad OrmanAn) lying 15km north-west of Istanbul, Turkey. Built in 1839 as one of the three dams that were constructed in the Taksim water conveyance

Shanghai, China - The Great Racecourse. Date: circa 1940s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Porters Loading up Date: circa 1904

Reduced facsimile of a Chart of Physical Exercises (supplied with Cassells Physical Educator). Date: circa 1910s

London, England - Regent Street Date: 1904

Moccasin Bend from Lookout Mountain. Date c1902

Rounding a bend on the Mississippi: the parting salute. Date c1866. Rounding a bend on the Mississippi: the parting salute. Date c1866

Birth place of President Benj. Harrison. North Bend Ohio 1840. Date c1889 Feb. 27

Bend in the Susquehanna

Girl at Gees Bend. Date 1937 Apr

Inhabitants of Gees Bend, Alabama. Date 1937 Apr

Old man Moseley, now blind, Gees Bend, Alabama. Date 1939 May?

Conducting school in the church. Gees Bend, Alabama. Date 1937 Apr

The Grecian Bend, Fifth Avenue Style.;

Lassoing a cattle thief Date: 1926

Stoke Bruerne Locks
A pair of narrow boat, converted for holiday cruises by Messrs. Street of Leighton Buzzard, swinging round a bend in the Grand Union Canal, near Linslade, Buckinghamshire. Date: 1960s

Oxford Canal Cruiser
A young couple in a motor cruiser, rounding a bend on the Oxford Canal, near Lower Shuckburgh, Warwickshire, England. Date: early 1960s

Panorama of Hastiere, Belgium and the River Meuse Date: circa 1910s

Greyhounds at White City
Greyhounds racing round the first bend at the White City greyhound racing track while a packed crowd looks on. 1936

The Bend, Thega River, Kenya. circa 1930s

Railway track at Landore, near Swansea, South Wales
View of the railway track at Landore, near Swansea, on the Great Western Railway, Glamorgan, South Wales

The bending body / W H Robinson
Larger, longer cars may find negotiating a small roundabout quite difficult. To overcome this, a car body jointed in the middle

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