Task Collection (#2)

Air crash investigators with sniffer dog
Three air crash investigators with a sniffer dog in an indoor location with pieces of wreckage from a plane crash set out on the floor. Date: 1960s

Air crash investigator examining debris
An air crash investigator examining a vast pile of wreckage following a plane crash. Date: 1960s

Air crash investigation, clerical staff at work
Air crash investigation, three clerical staff at work in an office. Date: 1960s

Air crash investigator at work
An air crash investigator at work in an indoor location with pieces of wreckage from a plane crash set out on the floor. Date: 1960s

Dominique Joseph Garat
DOMINIQUE-JOSEPH, comte de GARAT : French statesman from Bayonne, whose task it was to tell Louis XVI he would be guillotined. He later served Napoleon in various functions. Date: 1749 - 1833

Scouts / Telegraphy 20C
Two boy scouts using wireless telegraphy in a rural setting. Date: early 20th century

Hancocks Enterprise
Mr Hancocks Enterprise well deserves its name, for his is a valiant attempt to harness the mighty power of steam to the task of propelling a public conveyance. Date: 1833

Ladies working in a Russian soldiers home under Bolsheviks
Those who suffer under the revolutionary regime - Russian ladies earning their living as cleaners I a home for soldiers. Scene showing upper class women employed in scrubbing

German boy scouts with camp loom
German boy scouts operating a camp loom

Firewood Receipt, Settle Union, Yorkshire
A receipt issued by the Settle Union for a payment for firewood. Chopping wood for firewood was a common task given to workhouse inmates. Date: 1912

British midget submarine attack by G. H. Davis
One of the Second World Wars most daring exploits: the British midget submarine (XE3) attack which gained VCs for Lieutenant Ian Fraser RNR and Leading Seaman James Magennis

Advert for British Railways 1943
The ever rising tide. War production is rising like the tide and the need for rail transport rises with it. But this increase in traffic is only one of the Railways many wartime loads

Ferrying a New Bridge
The rather precarious task of ferryimg the component parts of an iron bridge into position. Date: early 1930s

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Can it be true? Churchill Quote
" We shall continue steadfast in faith and duty till our task is done." - Winston Churchill, The Prime Minister A little farmers boy is delighted that a reluctant hen has finally produced

Queen and the Huntsman

Firefighters doing productive work in lull period, WW2
During the longer lulls in firefighting activities, NFS firefighters took part in industrial production for the countrys war needs

A herculean task. Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt as Hercules wearing a lion skin and holding a sword, facing a nine-headed hydra, each head identified as that of a senator

Marrying for Love or for Money
" Either Choice is Painful" If I marry for love I am poor, if I marry for Money I lose out on true love. This German gentleman is suffering a severe emotional quandry on this issue

The Doveholes
The Dove Holes caves, Dovedale, Derbyshire, England. Between 1860 and 1865, Midland Railways built a tunnel here. It was an arduous task and the navvies lived in these caves. Date: 1950s

Mystery Household Task
A young housewife pours something from her teapot through a strainer into a bowl - but why? Is she removing stains from garments? Date: 1940s

Kensitas cigarettes advertisement, 1953
Advertisement for Kensitas cigarettes showing a domestic scene where a man, engaged in the masculine task of hanging a picture, is offered a Kensitas cigarette to steady his nerves. Date: 1953

Polish Scouts carrying turf. circa 1930s

Cubs painting lines on ship
Four Cub Scouts being shown how to paint lines on a Royal Navy ship in Aden, Yemen. 1968

The Nemean Lion
One of his seven labours of Herakles was to slay the Lion of Nemea, which is said to have come from the Moon

Eberts Heavy Task by Heine
Friedrich Ebert (1871 - 1925) rows through a stormy sea to the saftey of a distant island:a metaphor for the difficult task Ebert faced as the first president of the newly formed Weimar Republic in

Government Critics
Its a thankless task stopping a Punch ball - The harder you hit it, the harder it comes back. Cartoon showing the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George

From Bismarck to Buelow. A bigger task for a smaller man
Punch recalls an illustration from their magazine from September 28th, 1878(see picture number 10056473)showing Otto von Bismarck temporarily quashing the Socialist jack in the box

A Soleful Task
A new exercise for encuoraging confidence in fishing from an open boat. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Reserved for New System
A Japanese lady engaged in a clothes making task in a decorative interior

2 Adventurers & Talisman
THE TWO ADVENTURERS AND THE TALISMAN: one knight takes up the profferred task of fording the river, lifting a stone elephant and carrying it to the mountain top

The Strawberry Trade - pottling
Engraving by Ebenezer Landells showing a rural scene with women pottling strawberries. Pottles were small, basket-like containers which would be carried in great quantities by women from Middlesex

Polishing a Silver Tray
An Edwardian butler polishes a silver tray until he can see his face in it

Radar navigation at a glance- a new device
Diagrammatic illustration of radar navigation. This was designed by the Admiralty Research Lab (mainly by Mr.J. Home Dickson)

Butter Making 1886
The Churn: The housemaid and a little girl share the task of making butter

Monkeys Reincarnated
Two Japanese monkeys, anxious to know the life of Buddha, help a scholar to copy the Buddhist bible, and the senior, later reincarnated as a man, completes the task

Tani San in Washing Tub
O Tani San, hoping to win the love of a priest who has set her this task, tries to sail across Lake Biwa in a wash- tub, but sadly she drowns and her ghost causes storms

Rus / Jap War / Linievich
Russian general Linievich contemplates the hopeless task before him in Manchuria

French Work at Panama
French operations - giving some idea of the enormous task challenging the engineers : later this year the French will abandon the project

Gargantua & Pantagruel
The gargantuan task of feeding the baby Gargantua

Boy Scouts 1930S
Washing up does not seem such an irksome task after all, to this group of boy scouts. They are part of a scout camp at Selhouse Broad, Wroxham, also attended by Lord Baden Powell

Dainty Repast
The dishes of dainty repast were soon in order A group of men and women set about the task of laying out a picnic

Pyne - Butter Churner
CHURNING BUTTER She is working a barrel churn, which makes the task of churning milk into butter relatively easy

Hotel Porter
A hotel porter escorts a woman (elegantly clad in a woollen afternoon ensemble by Jean Patou) to her taxi, an onerous task for which he will expect to be handsomely rewarded

Pilgrim Fathers Land
The landing of the Pilgrim Fathers : their first task is to gather firewood to keep warm !

Peyramale Portrait
Monseigneur PEYRAMALE, the French cleric who was cure of Lourdes at the time of Bernadettes alleged visions, and had the difficult task of directing Church policy

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