500 Collection (page 5)

Burning of Zeppelin shed at Dusseldorf by G. H. Davis
The burning of the new Zeppelin shed at Dusseldorf, by an officer of the Royal Flying Corps. How the giant flame, 500 feet high, leapt up after the bomb had exploded in the shed

Air battles at 500 mph by G. H. Davis
Air battles at 500 miles an hour: possibilities of the new jet- and rocket-propelled aircraft. A pictorial outline of some problems likely to face pilots

Britains bomb progress by G. H. Davis
Britains bomb progress during the Second World War: from 500-pounder to a 12, 000-pound factory buster. Date: 1944

English public schoolboys at Bisley
Boys from Harrow School and University College firing at 500 yards as volunteer marksmen at Bisley. The National Rifle Association was established in 1860 to encourage

Conseil Des 500
Napoleon is assailed as Tyrant and Dictator by the Conseil des 500 in the Orangerie de Saint-Cloud : he dissolves the assembly and assumes power as First Consul Date: 9-10 November 1799

Athlete / Tavernari
The Italian runner TAVERNARI, who won another World Record at Budapest, Hungary, on 15 June, covering 500 metres in just 1 minute and 2/9ths of a second! Date: 1930s

Pythagoras and Students
PYTHAGORAS Greek philosopher with his students at Crotona Date: 580? - 500? BCE

PYTHAGORAS Greek philosopher Date: 580? - 500? BCE

Dover Coal Elevation
Men working on the travelling chute of the new coal elevation at Dover harbour, Kent, England. It will be able to shoot coal into boats, 500 tons per hour Date: 1932

BAC One-Eleven 500 of BEA

Hendon c 1913
Hendon c.1913. From left: Breguet, Avro 500 and Morane. Date: circa 1913

Airship Industries Skyship 500-03, over the Niagara Falls in July 1983

Airship Industries Skyship 500, G-BECE

Dornier Merkur D-711 of Lufthansa
Dornier Merkur, D-711, of Lufthansa, after completing 500, 000km

British-built Deperdussin monoplane powered by a 100hp Anzani, entered for the British Military Aircraft Competition, August 1912, piloted by J.C. Porte. It won a 500 prize. Date: 1912

WW2 - Water Pollution 500 fine and two years imprisonment Date: circa 1941

John Harrison standing by gramophone, 1906 Date: 1906

Festival at 500 Arhats Temple. Print shows a parody of words (mother breast feeding her child beneath a mosquito net and the words for the demons being cast out during the festival)

Centreville and Black Douglas: Centreville Course L. I. July
Centreville and Black Douglas: Centreville Course L.I. July

George M. Patchen, Brown Dick and Millers Dansel: in their splendid trotting contest for a purse of $500 - over the Union Course L.I. July 7th 1859. Date c1859

The iron steam ship Great Eastern 22, 500 tons: constructed under the direction of I.K. Brunel, F.R.S. -- D.C.L. commanded by Capt. William Harrison. Date c1858

500 miles world record beaten at Brooklands, 1931
J. Dundee finishing first driving the Bentley of Captain Woolf Barnato, which averaged a speed of 118.39 miles per hour over the 500 mile race at Brooklands race track in 1931. Date: 1931

FIAT 500
Usefully compact for the crowded streets of Milano and Torino, the Fiat 500 convertible saloon is an ideal 2-door urban runabout. Date: 1937

ST. NONs WELL
St. Nons Well, said to have sprung up during a thunderstorm when St. David was born. Its waters are said to cure infirmities, Pemrokeshire, Wales. Date: 500 A.D

1903 Locomobile Steamer
Automobile (Cars). Catalog advertisement for a 1903 Locomobile Steamer automobile; Stanhope B, $1, 500 in type below image

Follett Trophy for the BRDC 500 Mile Race
The " Follett" Trophy for The British Racing Drivers Clubs 500 Miles Race, won by the Talbot 105 single seater, 1932. The trophy was sold at Bonham s, London in 2008 for 6, 900"

Lt. -Colonel Jimmy Doolittle on the deck of the Hornet; Sec
Photograph showing Lt.-Colonel Jimmy Doolittle attaching a Japanese medal to the fin of a 500-lb. bomb on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet in April 1942

Citizens of West Berlin outside the Schoeneberg Town Hall, 1
Photograph showing up to 500, 000 West Berliners gathered outside the Schoeneberg Town Hall to celebrate the end of the Berlin Blockade, 12th May 1949

Tunnel in St. Davids Mine, Wales, 1911
Photograph showing two miners pushing a cart of ore along a tunnel in the St. Davids mine, near Carnarvon in Wales, 1911. This mine, 500 feet deep

Elizabethan Warship, 1588
Illustration of an Elizabeth warship, circa 1588, from the Illustrated London News, 2nd March 1929. This image depicts a typical warship of 500 tons, mounting 28 guns

India Bhubaneswar
One of some 500 temples in this sacred city

Salvaged Luxury Liner Normandie, New York Harbour, Novembe
Photograph of the Normandie in New York Harbour, November 1943. The Normandie had just been refloated and was being towed to dry dock for repairs

Anchorage at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, 1846
Engraving showing the anchorage at Yerba Buena in the bay of San Francisco, Alta-California, with several ships and sea birds, 1846

Recruiting for the War in 1914
Photograph showing the recruiting offices at Whitehall besieged by crowds of young men hoping to serve King and country, shortly after the outbreak of World War I in 1914

Sainte Genevieve
This remarkable picture depicts Genevieve tending her flocks in the centre of a pagan stone circle

SS Lusitania, 1907
Photograph of the bows of the Cunard Liner, SS Lusitania, in dry dock 1907. Lusitania was then the largest liner afloat, weighing 32, 500 tons and capable of twenty-six knots

A JACOBIN
Originally a club of Breton deputies, the Jacobins eventually number about 500, 000 members throughout France, representing the hard, uncompromising viewpoint

Lorimer automatic exchange
Photograph of the Canadian Lorimer automatic telephone exchange, a system which dispensed with the need for telephone girls

Battle of Morat - 2
The Burgundians under Charles le Temeraire are decisively defeated by the Swiss under Hans Waldmann, losing - say Swiss chroniclers - 8000 men to the Swiss 500

Battle of Morat - 1
The Burgundians under Charles le Temeraire are decisively defeated by the Swiss under Hans Waldmann, losing - say Swiss chroniclers - 8000 men to the Swiss 500

Greek Family Meal
A Greek family at mealtime

Battle of Zenta
Battle of ZENTA : the Austrians under prince Eugene defeat the Turks under Elwas Mohammed : the Turks lose 29000 men, the Austrians only 500

Gulliver Transported
Gulliver is transported by the Lilliputians: " We rested at night with 500 guards on each side of me, half with torches, & half with bows & arrows."

Clovis Becomes Christian
Clovis, pagan king of the Franks, invokes Gods help in defeating the invading Germans. He converts to christianity after victory

Bronze Age Man & Woman
A German man and woman of the Bronze Age; they wear shoes, and a lot of ornament : both are armed with daggers

Ancient Greek Traders
Sea traders from ancient Crete

Greece / Playing with Ball
A girl playing with a ball

Puynipel (Bonibai), Caroline Islands, Pacific Ocean
View of Puynipet (Bonibai), in the Caroline Islands, a group of around 500 coral islands in the Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea. Seen here with surrounding coral reef and natives in boats

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