Dropped Collection (#2)

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

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

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

German propaganda leaflet for American soldiers, WW1
A German propaganda leaflet dropped behind enemy lines for American soldiers during the First World War, giving a few persuasive reasons why they should stop fighting

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

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

1957 nuclear test: The men who dropped Britains H-bomb
Britains first nuclear weapons test took place on May 15th 1957, when a nuclear device was successfully exploded high in the air over Christmas Island in the Central Pacific

War Loan Campaign in Trafalgar Square, London, 1918
Photograph showing the War Loan Campaign exhibition in Trafalgar Square, London, in March 1918. Inset, top right, is a picture of the British airship from which the Countess of Drogheda dropped

Corradinis Descent on Horseback, 1898
Illustration showing (Frank) Corradinis horse-riding act, which he displayed in Berlin, Paris and Copenhagen in 1898. Corradini

British 10-ton Bomb on the production line; Second World War
Photograph showing a 10-ton bomb being moved along the production line at an ordnance factory in Britain, 1945. This was one of the largest types of high explosive bombs dropped by the Royal Air

Three Baseball Fans Enjoy the Highs and Lows of the Game, 19
Cartoon showing three spectators at a Baseball match enjoying the feeling of success (top image) and the crushing sense of defeat (bottom image)

The Great Wool-floor at the London Docks
The great wool-floor at the London Docks. The London Dock Company enlarged the warehouse for receiving wool imports from the colonies in the 1840 s

Cockings Parachute
Robert Cockings parachute descent above the Vauxhall Gardens, London. Dropped from Charles Greens Royal Vauxhall the inverted cone failed and Cocking hit the ground fatally

Manna Explained
explained by H N Grimm as not miraculous at all, but a substance that is dropped by insects such as these which are found in Ceylon

Here we dance Lubin, Lubin, words and music
Here we dance Lubin, Lubin I wrote a letter to my Love, And on the way I dropped it, But one of you has picked it up, And put it in your pocket!

Letter Flown to Liner
A Philadelphia businessman with an urgent letter for a passenger on the outgoing transatlantic liner Olympic has it flown and dropped onto the ships deck

How Bombs are Dropped
At the start of the war, the technique of dropping bombs was primitive, and even flying at low level, precision was out of the question

English Fashions C. 1815
English fashions had diverged from those of the French during the years of war. The waistline of the woman on the left has dropped & the style is more romantic

Pippin Hill / Greenaway
As I was going up Pippin Hill, Pippin Hill was dirty : There I met a sweet pretty lass who dropped me a curtsey

Ww2 Leaflets
In the early stages of the war, propaganda leaflets are dropped over Germany from an RAF Wellington bomber. (We also have a collection of actual propaganda ephemera.)

Picking up his Cap
An incident of the street fighting - a boy who has dropped his cap runs to pick it up though guns are firing all around him !

Verne / Mysterious Island
DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS [The mysterious island-part 1] The travellers balloon lands on the island

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