Physical Collection (page 2)

Physical Chart of Pacific Ocean (Currents, Temperatures ?)
Physical Chart of Pacific Ocean (Currents, Temperatures, Trade Routes)

Early x-ray equipment in the laboratory of Henry Augustus Rowland, the first president of the American Physical Society, Victorian period

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, A. T. S. Exercise
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image depicts a group of Auxiliary Territorial Service girls following a physical exercise routine. Date: circa 1940s

French Artillery Regiment in Training - Gymnastics on the high bars. Date: circa 1910s

Advert, Binyon's Elastic Chest Expander - avoid stooping of the shoulders and contraction of the chest. Date: 1848

Army Physical Exercises, WW2 preparations Date: 1939

Don Welsh, Charlton footballer, serving in the army, WW2
Don Welsh, Charlton footballer who became a sergeant-instructor at the Army School of Physical Training during the Second World War Date: circa 1940s

Don Welsh and Joe Mercer sparring
Joe Mercer of Everton (R) sparring with Don Welsh of Charlton (L), Army Physical Training sergeant-instructors, watched by Bruton, Davidson, Tremelling, Smith, Taylor Date: 1946

The Press Gang - forcing men to join the navy Date: 1879

Tableau of Hope
Mrs Ernest Platt performing a tableau of Hope at the Ritz Hotel in London. She is representing a painting of the same name by the artist George Frederic Watts, painted in 1886. Date: 1910

A physician, his patient, a coffin and two skeletons
Frontispiece of Robert Poole's A physical vade mecum (1741). Depicting a physician, his patient acoffin and two skeletons

Spain. Civil War. Camp of Union of Girls, sponsored by the National Committee of Physical Education, attached to the Ministery of Education and Health. Poster by Juana Francisca. SPAIN. Salamanca

Spirit head and shoulders sketch of D. D. Home
Daniel Dunglas Home (pronounced Hume') (March 20, 1833 June 21, 1886) was a Scottish Spiritualist, famous as a physical medium with the reported ability to levitate to a variety of heights

Soul leaving the body, c. 1850
The astral body(the soul) leaves the physical body at the moment of death, as seen by the American visionary Andrew Jackson Davis. Date: circa 1850

Comic postcard, Two women discuss illness Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Large woman hiking Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Plump couple, Daily Dozen on holiday Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Large man running on the beach Date: 20th century

Fyfield Residential Open Air School, Essex
Physical Exercise at Fyfield Residential Open Air School, Essex Date: 1935

WW2, Army Exercise Instruction hanging cards, three double-sided for Monday to Saturday (visible here are Thursday, Friday and Saturday). Date: circa 1940

Alda and Doret, acrobatic performers, sensational, unique, and thrilling, the act without duplicate Date: 1934

Les Terrianos, acrobatic troupe, really sensational Date: 1934

Comic postcard, breathing in short pants Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, exercising on the beach Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Soldier joining the British Army, WW2 - medical examination Date: circa 1940s

Comic postcard, Soldiers in the British Army, WW2 - physical training in the camp Date: circa 1940s

Testing aeroplanes - The National Physical Laboratory
The British Air-Office: A Place of wind-towers, whirling-tables and gales made to order. The testing of aeroplanes at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington

Manual and sedentary workers, 1942
Exercises for manual and sedentary war workers, 1942. Date: 1942

Advanced Swimming Certificate, Reading Schools
Advanced Swimming Certificate, Reading and District Elementary Schools Swimming Association, for swimming 40 yards in 50 seconds. 1924

Fayne, Milton and Tod in Will o the Whispers
Greta Fayne, Billy Milton and Quentin Tod in Will o the Whispers at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London. 1928

Portrait medallion of Joseph Priestley, clergyman and physical scientist. Chromolithograph by W. Griggs from Frederick Rathbones Old Wedgwood

Kitcheners new recruits, physical drill in Hyde Park, Londo
Kitcheners new recruits doing physical drill in Hyde Park, London. 1914-1918

Women in a gymnastic wheel, a new craze. 1930

George Frederick Watts, statue Physical Energy
George Frederick Watts RA, painter and sculptor, posing in a garden with his large statue, Physical Energy. circa 1900

Some Clerical Types by John Kendal, Physical Energy. 1901

Comic Spanish postcard -- Look through that window, you ll see an elegant woman, but don t get too close, because of asphyxiating gases! Date: circa 1930s

WEBBER LIFTS TABLE
Jack Webber (1907-1940), English physical medium, raises a table above shoulder height, by manipulating gravity and etheric forces Date: 1939

MEDIUMSHIP / WEBBER
Jack Webber (1907-1940), English physical medium, uses ectoplasm to send objects round the seance-room Date: 1939

Children hanging from a pole, doing excercises during a gym class. Date: 1960s

Children doing leg exercises on a mat in the school gym. Date: 1960s

Royal Tournament - Physical Training - Royal Air Force
circa 1930

Members of the German gymnastics club at Chodov
circa 1910s

Womens physical exercise 1906
Two Edwardian women exercising with rings, using all of their upper muscles, particularly those of arms, back and shoulders. Date: 1906

NOISE POLLUTION TESTER
This man measures noise pollution - street traffic, excessively loud speakers, motor vehicles, machinery etc, at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. Date: 5 October 1932

LADY RIDING ASTRIDE 1913
Its 1913, and women riders have decided that they can ride astride without physical or moral harm : a lady gallops determinedly. Date: 1913

Cartoon, A Physical Force Chartist Arming for the Fight. Satirical comment on Chartism. Date: 1848

Cripples Home and industrial School for Girls 1900
Cripples Home in Marylebone Road, photograph showing girls doing needlework. Date: 1900

The Silver Jubilee Aldershot Military Tattoo. An annual event dating back to 1894. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo held at the Rushmoor Arena presented displays

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