Edge Collection (#20)

A Motor Tour of Lakeland If you desire to go the pace, try motoring through this lovely place !! circa 1920s

Children / Flowers 1884
A little girl sits on the edge of a rather large pot of geraniums. 1884

Princely Costume C17Th
German Princely costumes: Armour worn with a lace edge sash, falling collar & reverse cuffs; breeches & doublet trimmed with lace - even the shoe roses are made of lace. Date: 1625 - 1640

Class Scene / Coughton
Coughton Cope Junior School A teacher sits on the edge of her desk in front of the class Date: 1973

S F Edge leaving Athy control, Napier racing car, 1903 Date: 1903

Brooklands Motor Course, 24 hour endurance record, trio of 6 cylinder stripped 65 hp Napiers Date: 1907

Entrance of the (LMR) railway at Edge Hill, Liverpool, 1831 Date: 1831

Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York
Bathing, Manhattan Beach. Children and adults standing at edge of beach and boardwalk with beach in background. - Manhattan Beach (New York, N.Y.)

View of a lake in early summer
A view of a lake in early summer, with a boat moored at the waters edge

Rosa Mrs Foley Hobbs, of the Rosaceae family. Seen here in close-up, showing one flower with creamy white petals edged with pale pink

Two men and a woman picnicking in bathing suits
Two men and a woman, all in their bathing suits, enjoying a champagne picnic at the waters edge, with some rocks behind them

Music cover for Wavering Sea Waltzes by J [Isabella] Scales. The words of the song are from the Swedish of Baroness Barnekow, translated by Margaret Elenora Tupper

Georgia - Batumi - Sitting at the waters edge
Local people take in the air, sitting at the waters edge. A lovely late afternoon/early evening view in Batumi (formerly Batum or Batoum) a city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara

Denmark - Danish Lovely by the seaside
Denmark - Danish Bathing Belle by the seaside, wearing a spectacularly risque outfit for the time!!!

Tropical Sunset - Singapore
Tropical Sunset with Palm tees - Singapore

The Steep Nature of the Shore Ice Edge
View demonstrating the difficulties of landing during the 1912 expedition to the South Pole. The barrier edge is perpendicular

A house design by the Alnwick Foundry and Engineering Company Ltd. displayed at the Imperial International Exhibition at Shepherds Bush, London in the Machinery Hall

A Pond in a woodland setting
A pond at the edge of woodland near Chiselhampden, Oxford. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Scene by a Park pond
Barn Hill pond with children playing at the waters edge. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Isola Superiore, Lake Maggiore, Italy

Bathing Beauty
Latest Photographic Notes: Well Developed - a fine photographic postcard of a fetching young lady in her best pearls and favourite stripey bathing costume, perching delicately on the end of the quay

Spray Bathing - Victoria Falls
Natures Shower Bath! Spray Bathing under the rainbows at the Victoria Falls, South Africa

Greetings from Ramsgate
A jolly souvenir postcard from the Kent seaside resort of Ramsgate, depicting a pretty lady bather in the shallow waters edge, holding aloft a lifebelt

Ferry Boat on the Bosphorus at night at Moda on the Asian side. Today it is a very up market area of Istanbul. A summer resort

The Rumeli Hisari - Constantinople
View toward the Rumeli Hisari, a Fortress on the European side of the Bosphorus. Built by Mehmet II 1451-1452 prior to his conquering of Constantinople. The castle was completed in 4 months

M. Leon Coutier finishing a hand-axe of Acheulean type
How stone-age tools were made: a modern recontruction of prehistoric skill. Coutier seen striking light blows along the roughed-out edge with a boxwood hammer

Building the framework for a domed roof
A welder seam welds aluminium plate whilst sitting on the edge of a centre section of a domed roof, built to cover a liquid methane tank at Canvey Island. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Summer Afternoon in Muskoka, Canada
Children playing at the waters edge of one of the Muskoka Lakes, Ontario, Canada on a summer afternoon

Afternoon swimming at Boys Club
Five older boys in one piece swimming costume stand by the edge of a river. Two of them wear swimming hats and four look like they have not been long out of the water

White Star Line ashtray
An ashtray belonging to the White Star Line, owners of the ill-fated Titanic cruise ship, which sank on 15 April 1912. The words White Star Line can be seen round the edge

Mice eating the postcard
Some little white mice are nibbling away at the edge of this French greetings postcard! The caption translates as: We Bring Happiness

Dug in - D-Day - Machine Gun Team
A British machine gun team dug in on a Normandy beach during the assault phase of Operation Overlord - the allied D-Day landings in France on 6th June 1944

Bargains for all
Typical morning scene on the verandah of the hotel at Jaipur. Sellers come and sit on the edge of the verandah as they display their colourful wares in the bright morning sunlight

The Crevasse by Alfred Bestall
Illustration by Alfred Bestall showing mountain climbers at the edge of a steep crevasse

Luzern - Switzerland
The harbourside market at Luzern, Switzerland

Kenilworth - Elizabeth I
Have done with these busy fingers, Janet - Queen Elizabeth I, seated on the edge of her bed, instructs her handmaiden who appears to be adjusting her Queens ruff

Wilton Crescent, London
A fine photographic postcard view of Wilton Crescent in London. Number 2, Wilton Crescent SW, belonged to the Chetwode Family

Landing Craft by David Wright
A lady posed on the edge of the bed putting in her earrings. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Children paddling and finding sea creatures
Four young girls paddling at the edge of the sea and examining the crabs and starfish they have found in the shallow water and placed in their buckets. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Grandfather and Grandson go fishing
A Grandfather and his Grandson go fishing in a stream with nets on long poles. The young lad, wearing blue dungarees, catches a big one!

View of London from the Dome of St. Pauls Cathedral, 1895
Illustration showing the view of London, looking South, from the dome of St. Pauls Cathedral, 1895. Three large statues of Apostles are shown in the foreground, on the edge of the pediment

A German saw-edge bayonet in actual use in the war: The Germ
WWI, World War One, First World War, 1st World War. World War 1, The Great War

Allied Troops in the Reichswald Forest; Second World War, 19
Photograph showing British and Canadian troops, tanks, armoured vehicles and trucks on the edge of the Reichswald Forest during the Allied offensive of February 1945

Sheer Rep-Hose
The long legs of a seductive flapper girl spill over the edge of a comfortable chair into which she is sinking

Netherlands Medemblik
Plan of the town, on the edge of the Zuyder Zee, with its protective dyke and enclosed harbour

Albanian Outpost
During the on-going struggle for independence from the Ottoman rule, Albanian nationalists man an outpost at Jabliak, on the edge of lake Scutari

Ottawa, 1857
Landscape of Ottawa in its undeveloped state, showing a small number of houses and a mill at the edge of the river, c.1857

Performing Street Dogs
Two dogs in male and female roles entertain a group of well-to-do ladies at the edge of a market or shopping street. The handler also has an owl and a cat

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