Strength Collection (page 6)

Advertising sheet music, Plasmon biscuits
Advertising sheet music, Plasmon cocoa and chocolate oat biscuits. A popular song, Humpty and Dumpty, by Charles Wilmott and Hermann E Darewski. 1907

Caricature, Henry Irving as The Lyceum Lion
Caricature, Henry Irving, English actor -- The Lyceum Lion. With a quotation from Tennysons play The Cup, in production at the time

Women police officers in a tug-of-war contest, Hyde Park
Women police officers having fun in a tug-of-war contest as part of a training exercise in Hyde Park, London. Instructing them is Sergeant Ridley of A Division. Date: circa 1919-1920

Irish Strongman Paddy Kelly
Paddy Kelly from Dundalk, Ireland - he frequently sat full-grown people in the palm of his hand. Date: 1795

Francis of Assisi Music
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI on his sickbed, has his strength renewed by the sound of celestial music. Date: 1182 - 1226

Colgate Dental Cream / Adv
An advertisement for Colgate Ribbon Dental Cream - for strength and happiness...good to taste and good for the teeth. Date: 1919

Strong Man & Aircraft
Hans Packer, an American strongman, proves his strength by resisting the attempt of two aircraft to tear him apart Date: 1931

Shakespeare / Hector(T&c)
Act V, Scene III Cassandra & Andromache plead with Hector not to fight: A: " Consort with me in loud & dear petition, " Date: 1795

We Gladstone / Sword Dance
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Liberal MP and Prime Minister depicted as a Scottish sword dancer, on the strength of his Scottish parentage Date: 1809 - 1898

Strike / Military Strength
Armoured cars on Londons streets provide protection for food convoys and evoke cheers from the watching crowds Date: 1926

George Stephenson - Hammer
George Stephenson (1781 - 1848) Engineer as a young man, throwing the hammer

Illustration, A Song of the English, British Empire
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine). My arm is nothing weak, My strength is not gone by

Stiff by H. M. Bateman, WW1 cartoon
Hilarious sequential cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing a French soldier unable to move the crank on the front of an officers car

European Bison - adult male - birch forest (Bison bonasus L.). Okskii Wildlife Reserve - near Ryazan - central Russia. autumn - September

European Bison - adult male bull - ruminates after feeding - mixed forest (Bison bonasus L.). Okskii Wildlife Reserve - near Ryazan - central Russia. autumn - September

European Bison - pair of adults - supplementary feeding - enclosure in a forest (Bison bonasus L.). Okskii Wildlife Reserve - near Ryazan - central Russia. autumn - September

Sphere cover - British gunners turning German gun on enemy
A British artillery team with a captured German gun (a 77), using all their strength to turn it upon the fleeing enemy. 1918

Paris, France - Place du Chatelet. Date: 1830

Suffragette N. W. S. P. U Christmas Card
Suffragette N.W.S.P.U Christmas Card. Christmas card produced by National W.S.P.U with Best Wishes for Xmas and the New Year 1908-1909 with medallion by Sylvia Pankjurst and the quotation

Votes for Women Unity is Strength. The fight for the vote unites women of all ages and all classes who dance together under the chorus Votes for Women. Date: circa 1908

Defeat of the Graf Spee by G. H. Davis
The fight with the Admiral Graf Spee: factors in a classic example of naval battle tactics pictorially explained. Elements that played a part in the defeat of the ship by three British cruisers

Naval strength of Argentine Republic by G. H. Davis
Naval strength of the Argentine Republic. Showing a range of ships, including gunboats, destroyers and torpedo craft. Date: 1913

Two hundred policemen test stands before Coronation
Two hundred policemen test the strength of the viewing stands along the processional route for the Coronation of King George V in 1911

Italy v. Turkey, rival navies compared, by G. H. Davis
Italy versus Turkey, the rival navies compared. Showing the Italian navy (top), whose chief fighting strength was four powerful armoured cruisers, and the Turkish navy (bottom)

Blood and Iron 1914
On 4th August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany, marking the beginning of the First World War; a few days later this illustration appeared in The Graphic. Date: 1914

Pedal powered well
An engraving of a 1588 pedal powered well designed to use human strength to lift large quantities of underground stored water. Date: 1588

Building the Baghdad Railway, Iraq
The Baghdad Railway (German: Bagdadbahn ), built from 1903 to 1940, was planned to connect Berlin with the (then) Ottoman Empire city of Baghdad with a 990 mile line through modern-day Turkey

The Baghdad Railway, Iraq
The Baghdad Railway (German: Bagdadbahn ), built from 1903 to 1940, was planned to connect Berlin with the (then) Ottoman Empire city of Baghdad with a 990 mile line through modern-day Turkey

LFB strength test for recruits
LFB strength test -- every recruit must carry a man of approximately his own weight 100 yards in one minute

I m not afraid of the Germans - Boy & Patriotic Bulldogs WW1
WW1 - I m not afraid of the Germans - Boy sat between two Patriotic Bulldogs. Date: circa 1916

Joseph Chamberlain as a Lion Tamer, taming his various opponents and enemies, named as the Radicals, the opposition Press and the Boer African Lion (bearing a suspicious likeness to Paul Kruger)

John Bull standing at the parting of the ways
The Parting of the Wats - John Bulls Rival Guides. John Bull standing at the parting of the ways - a choice for Britain between the Path of Prosperity offered by the Tariff Reform of Joseph

Highland Bull - Scotland Date: circa 1910s

Transport by wheelbarrow, Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1908

Emancipated woman shows off her strength
The strong emancipated woman shows off her strength; she balances on a barbell with two red Valentines Day hearts for weights while picking up a puppet-like little man by the scruff of the neck

Valentine admiration of emancipated woman
The strong emancipated woman on a red heart Valentines Day see-saw, crushes the puppet-like little man as she rises. Date: 1910s

WW1 - The South African General Service Badge
The South African General Service Badge - Union is Strength - Eendracht Maakt Macht - Good Luck to the Badge of the Brave Date: circa 1915

Agressive local man spots ths chance of a swift buck
Scene - Scarboro. Time - Sunday Morning. Very Muddy. Inhabitant: " Be Thoo a Strong Mon?" Amateur Weightlifter (rather proud that his fame has spread so far): " Well, yes, my friend

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

Trafalgar Square Lion at Night - The Night Watch Date: 1924

The Swedish Fleet
Swedish propaganda postcard - The caption reads: " The fleet is Swedens strength" Date: 1913

Testing the strength of a wooden plane 1795
Testing the strength of a wooden plane. 1795. From Cayleys original notebook

Great Dane
A Great Dane, photographed by Harry Taylor

Doctrine Chretienne. French school. 18th century. Miniature painting in gold. Page 66. Depicting in different squares: Strength (a woman with a lion)

SPAIN. L Escala. Emp�. Roman city. Walls (1st c.BF). Phallus carved in stone, symbolising strength and prosperity. Roman art. Early Empire

London Fire Brigade - Tug of War Team
London Fire Brigade - Tug of War winning team (F District) group photo

LCC-MFB Recruitment strength test
There were many applications to join the MFB and there were about 99% rejections. A stern standard of physical fitness was laid down by the LCC and the Brigade

Franklin. E. Smith hose coupling, WW2
A firefighter demonstrating the strength of a Franklin.E. Smith hose coupling

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