Breaking Collection (page 2)

WW2 - She Must Be A Dago
A photograph of a submarine breaking the surface of the water, relative to a true to life novel, Seven Pilots written by Charles Patrick Ranke Graves. Date: 1942

General Ernst Udet sat in the cockpit of Heinkel He 100 V2, after breaking the World 100km closed-circuit speed record at 634 Km/h, on 5 June 1938. Date: 1938

Daily Mirror - loss of the Lusitania, WW1
The Daily Mirror breaking the news of Lusitania's demise, 8 May 1915, Torpedoed by German Pirate. Date: 1915

Gales, mouth of Tyne
Huge storms hitting the North pier at the mouth of the Tyne. Sea breaking over the wall in this Gale. Date: 1925

Jim Mollison and Kangeroo
Scottish aviator James Allan Jim Mollison (1905-1959) was greeted by a kangaroo in Croydon, at the end of his record breaking flight from Australia to England

Easter chick hatching from egg - 1950s printer's block Date: 1950s

Advertisement for Castrol motor oil. Showing Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948), his record breaking Bluebird'car, and details of all six of his land speed records

Photograph of Rugby match, Twickenham, outdoor sporting live action portrait. Captioned, The first big Rugger match of the season: Harlequins vs Old Merchant Taylors at Twickenham'

HMS Hornet, Acheron-class Destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Hornet, an Acheron-class Destroyer that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet

Stunt woman rides her motorbike through a glass plate, shattering it as she speeds through. Date: circa 1970s

Sheila Scott, English record-breaking aviator
Sheila Scott (Sheila Christine Hopkins, 1922-1988), English aviator who broke over 100 aviation records through her long distance flights

Ursula Packe, daughter of Sir Edward and Lady Packe, before her marriage to Mr Peter Clifton, Grenadier Guards. Madame Yevonde was a prolific and ground-breaking society portrait

A Madame Yevonde portrait of Miss Meum Stewart
Miss Meum Stewart is amusingly posed as the stained-glass window angel, complete with halo- and smoking a cigarette with rather unangelic gusto

TOMB OF MME LANGHANS
The dramatic design of Madame Langhans tomb, representing the soul breaking out of the tomb on the day of judgment. (Sorry, we do not know where it is located.) Date: 1782

Douglas DC-1 NR223Y of Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) Flown by TWA as a flying laboratory and for occasional scheduled passenger flights

An artistic representation - Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb
An artistic representation of the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun by (on right) Archeologist Howard Carter (1874-1939) and his backer (on left) George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923)

The Torbay forcing the boom at the Battle of Vigo Bay, Galicia, Spain, 23 October 1702, part of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). Date: 1702

Columbus breaking the egg
Christopher Columbus breaking the egg - an apocryphal story, supposed to be his response to those who belittled his discovery of the New World. Date: 15th century

Comic postcard, Man uses lung testing machine at the seaside Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Plump woman weighing herself on the beach and breaking the machine Date: 20th century

The Royal Opening of the new Dry Dock at Southampton on Wednesday, July 26, 1933 by King George V, accompanied by the Queen and the Duke and Duchess of York

Provence rose or cabbage rose, Rose a cent feuilles, Rosa centifolia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by D.G. after an illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Charles Malos Guirlande de Flore

The Trenches of Death Museum by the River Izjer, Dixmuide
The Trenches of Death formed a Belgian defensive line along the west bank of the River Izjer which was pivotal in preventing the Germans breaking through to the Channel Ports

2nd Worcesters Memorial, Geluveld Mill
This commemorates the famous battle of 31 October 1914 when the Worcesters, together with the 1st South Wales Borderers, stopped a German attack that was close to breaking through to Ypres

Break, Break, Break - illustration by Florence Harrison of Tennysons poem. Date: c.1920

Mr Fords arrival at the Hippodrome in 15 hp Darracq car
Mr A. Ford appearing in the arena of the London Hippodrome where he finally came to a stop after completing a record-breaking non-stop drive of 2, 390 miles between Liverpool, Brighton

Houdinis act at the London Hippodrome 1904
Impression of Houdini performing his famous escapology act at the London Hippodrome in 1904 where he was manacled with handcuffs allegedly made by a locksmith over several years

Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator
Jean Batten (1909 - 1982), New Zealand aviator. She made a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world, including the first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936

Moses breaking the Tablets, by Parmigianino
Moses breaking the Tablets, detail from a fresco in the Shrine of Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma, Italy, by Parmigianino, or Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (1503-1540)

Alder buckthorn, Frangula alnus (Rhamnus frangula). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

Illustration, Fisherman about to fall into the water. first published 1838

America - The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16th 1773. 6 December 1773

Derby-Miller racing car breaking records, France
The Derby-Miller racing car breaking records at Linas-Montlhery, France, from a drawing by F Gordon Crosby. 20th century

Rudolf Caracciola during record-breaking run
Rudolf Caracciola during a record-breaking run in a Mercedes-Benz. 20th century

Hans von Stuck breaking the World Hour Record, Avus
Hans von Stuck breaking the World Hour Record on the Avus Track. 1934

Malcolm Campbell in Bluebird, Land Speed Record
Malcolm Campbell in Bluebird, breaking the Land Speed Record at Daytona Beach, USA. 1931

Cartoon, The Irish Church Bill, 1833. Date: 1833

Ballast-heavers 1850s
Ballast-heavers or also named as mudlarks at work, labourers dredging the River Thames for the opportunity of finding something valuable amongst the mud

A Critical Moment by Alfred Schwarz - a woman runs her bicycle (no doubt a Christmas present) into a table, breaking some crockery. circa 1898

A young woman daydreaming, kicks over a basket of eggs, which break on the floor. early 19th century

Postcard booklet, seawall at Galveston, Texas, USA, with waves breaking near the Crystal Palace. Date: 1942

Cartoon - Going down to a watering place, for the benefit of Bathing. early 19th century

Window broken by suffragettes 1912

Mrs John Barron by Madame Yevonde
Date: 1934

Bethnal-Green Employment Relief Association 1868 Bethnal-Green Employment
Labour-yard of the Bethnal-Green Employment and Relief Association, in East London. The stagnation of trade which followed on the commercial crisis of 1866

Flint grinding, Staffordshire Potteries 1843
A steam-powered vertical hammers breaks up flint into small fragments, pieces are then finely ground in a mill and mixed with clay for use in pottery. Date: 1843

GLASS MAKING 1755 - 2
The Casting and Running of PLATE GLASS. The man in the background is breaking up lumps of raw Glass which will be melted in the furnace. Date: 1755

NEW YEAR CAKE, IRELAND2
Breaking the New Years cake on New Years Eve, Ireland Date: 1850

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