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Attitude Collection

Background imageAttitude Collection: Nelson in his cabin on the H. M. S. Victory

Nelson in his cabin on the H. M. S. Victory
This is a painting of Nelson in his cabin. The attitude is characteristic of the Admiral who had periods of great despondency even in his hours of greatness

Background imageAttitude Collection: Florence Nightingale - Pioneer of Nursing Techniques

Florence Nightingale - Pioneer of Nursing Techniques
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) - celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing

Background imageAttitude Collection: Knight at Prayer

Knight at Prayer
An English knight in military habit in an attitude of prayer

Background imageAttitude Collection: Reform / Authorities / 1831

Reform / Authorities / 1831
Four Weighty Authorities on Reform Attitudes to the reform issue from the political spectrum. Date: 1831

Background imageAttitude Collection: Loyola Praying / Holl

Loyola Praying / Holl
IGNATIUS LOYOLA Spanish Saint, founder of Society of Jesus (Jesuits), in an attitude of prayer

Background imageAttitude Collection: Cartoon - sex before marriage?

Cartoon - sex before marriage?
"You won't marry a man who snores in bed? But darling, how are you going to find out?" An interesting comment on the question of sex before marriage. Date: circa 1940

Background imageAttitude Collection: German Nudist Beach

German Nudist Beach
AT THE FREIBAD Scene on a German popular beach where a relaxed attitude is taken to dress codes Date: 1920s

Background imageAttitude Collection: Lily Brayton as Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew

Lily Brayton as Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew
Lily Brayton as Katharina in Shakespeares comedy, The Taming of the Shrew at the Kings Theatre, Hammersmith, West London, with Oscar Asche. The couple were also performing in Othello. 1900s

Background imageAttitude Collection: Naughty Wives Exchanged

Naughty Wives Exchanged
NAUGHTY WIVES EXCHANGED A distressingly politically incorrect and nauseatingly chauvinist attitude to the wedded state

Background imageAttitude Collection: Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk N6715A

Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk N6715A
Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk N671SA (msn 67001), at the SBAC Farnborough Airshow, held between 1-8 September 1974. N6715A crashed while conducting a low-level aerobatic demonstration at the Farnborough

Background imageAttitude Collection: Qui Hi's Last March to Padree Burrows's Go Down

Qui Hi's Last March to Padree Burrows's Go Down. An illustration to The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan. A Hudibrastic Poem in eight cantos by Quiz

Background imageAttitude Collection: Cartoon, The Working-Man, Royal Westminster Exhibition

Cartoon, The Working-Man, Royal Westminster Exhibition
Cartoon, The Working-Man, from the Royal Westminster Exhibition. A satire on the Royal Academy Exhibition, where many paintings depicted working men

Background imageAttitude Collection: Marys Arithmetic Dream

Marys Arithmetic Dream -- Mary hates arithmetic, but then she has a dream which changes her mind about it. (2 of 8) Date: 1950s

Background imageAttitude Collection: SIR ROBERT HOWARD

SIR ROBERT HOWARD
Sir Robert Howard in military dress, kneeling in an attitude of prayer

Background imageAttitude Collection: Cartoon, The Optimist and the Pessimist

Cartoon, The Optimist and the Pessimist, showing two men reading the same news items about the war but reacting in very different ways. Date: 1915

Background imageAttitude Collection: WW1 - Cartoon - Jolly trench warfare

WW1 - Cartoon - Jolly trench warfare
WW1 - " The Incorrigibles" - A dark humoured cartoon illustrating trench warefare with irony. Two soldiers meeting in the trenches

Background imageAttitude Collection: Stern Egyptian Woman

Stern Egyptian Woman
The original model with attitude! A stern-faced Egyptian girl stands with her arms behind her back, wearing headscarf, necklace and immense hooped metallic earrings and a thin, revealing dress

Background imageAttitude Collection: Princess Maria of Romania, later Queen of Yugoslavia

Princess Maria of Romania, later Queen of Yugoslavia
A superb full-length portrait of the young Princess Maria (Marie) of Romania (1900-1961), the daughter of Ferdinand I of Romania and Queen Marie of Edinburgh

Background imageAttitude Collection: Two boys with teddy boy hairstyles, Winton, Eccles

Two boys with teddy boy hairstyles, Winton, Eccles
Two boys with teddy boy hairstyles and casual clothes pose under the motorway bridge in Winton, Eccles. Date: 1970s

Background imageAttitude Collection: Cartoon, German women as seen by the French, WW1

Cartoon, German women as seen by the French, WW1
Cartoon, German intellectual women as seen by the French. Date: 1916

Background imageAttitude Collection: Russia Behind Serbia

Russia Behind Serbia
The Power Behind. Austrian Imperial eagle: I don t quite like his attitude. Somebody must be backing him & indeed the Russian bear stands hidden behind the Serbian fowl. Date: 1914

Background imageAttitude Collection: Harold Macmillans Speech to the South African Parliament, 1

Harold Macmillans Speech to the South African Parliament, 1
Photograph of Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) (standing at top) delivering a speech to the South African Parliament, 3rd February 1960

Background imageAttitude Collection: Cartoon, The Interview, WW1

Cartoon, The Interview, WW1
Cartoon, The Interview. A professor on another planet gives a journalist his views on life on Earth. On the subject of the First World War, the journalist asks: Who will be the winner, people or fire

Background imageAttitude Collection: Jos Chamberlain / Vfair 77

Jos Chamberlain / Vfair 77
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN Liberal MP in a defiant pose Date: 1836 - 1914

Background imageAttitude Collection: Byron / Palazzo Mocenigo

Byron / Palazzo Mocenigo
Byron strikes a romantic attitude in his Italian home, the Villa Mocenigo

Background imageAttitude Collection: Cartoon, Victory singing, WW1

Cartoon, Victory singing, WW1
Cartoon, Victory singing, with happy soldiers walking along a road. A pessimistic civilian man watches them, and comments: Its unbelievable

Background imageAttitude Collection: Ye Anti-Suffrage League

Ye Anti-Suffrage League. The title suggests the antedeluvian views of The Antis and shows the self satisfied attitude of the wealthy leadership. We have all we want

Background imageAttitude Collection: Suffragette Attitude of Politicians

Suffragette Attitude of Politicians. Contrasts the, Attitude of Politicians towards womens Suffrage, At Election time, and At Westminster Date: circa 1908

Background imageAttitude Collection: Cartoon, Polish view of German reservists, WW1

Cartoon, Polish view of German reservists, WW1
Cartoon depicting a satirical Polish view of the German reservist army (or Landsturm) with makeshift weapons including pitchforks during the First World War. Date: September 1914

Background imageAttitude Collection: Cartoon, Men from The Moon, WW1

Cartoon, Men from The Moon, WW1
Cartoon, Men from The Moon, commenting on three neutral powers in the early weeks of the First World War (Holland, America and Italy), and how they are regarded by the German government

Background imageAttitude Collection: French views of German ambitions, WW1

French views of German ambitions, WW1
A fold-out item expressing French views of German ambitions during the First World War. At the centre, the French cockerel crows, proclaiming the dawn of liberty

Background imageAttitude Collection: French and German contrasts, WW1

French and German contrasts, WW1
Postcard contrasting the French and German attitudes towards the enemy during the First World War -- German barbarity and French generosity. Date: 1914-1918

Background imageAttitude Collection: L hospital Praying

L hospital Praying
MICHEL DE L HOSPITAL (or L Hopital) French statesman, chancelier, depicted in an attitude of prayer. Date: 1507 - 1573

Background imageAttitude Collection: Hawker Nimrod II K3654 immediately after launch

Hawker Nimrod II K3654 immediately after launch
Hawker Nimrod II, K3654, immediately after launch from the catapult at RAF Leuchars, showing the trolley in its collapsed attitude

Background imageAttitude Collection: Drawings 32-36 from the Watling Collection

Drawings 32-36 from the Watling Collection
32. The sitting attitude of women from New South Wales. 33. Untitled. 34. Nanbree. 35. Dirr-a-Goa. 36. Wearring, known as Mr Long, and Karra da

Background imageAttitude Collection: Frontal of the Altar of Saint Bernard. 13th c

Frontal of the Altar of Saint Bernard. 13th c. Saint Bernard in majestic attitude. Romanesque art. Tempera on wood. SPAIN. Palma de Mallorca. Mallorca Museum

Background imageAttitude Collection: Spain (1923). Primo de Riveras Dictatorship

Spain (1923). Primo de Riveras Dictatorship

Background imageAttitude Collection: Beauty in the 1880s

Beauty in the 1880s. changing fashions. The caption reads: " The beauty that conquered in the Eighties". Date: 1928- 1929

Background imageAttitude Collection: Beauty in the 1920s

Beauty in the 1920s. Changing fashions. The caption reads: " would not walways win nowadays!". Date: 1928- 1929

Background imageAttitude Collection: A satirical look on changing fashions

A satirical look on changing fashions
" How can mother say its short? Its below my knees!" Satirical look on changing fashions. Date: 1928- 1929

Background imageAttitude Collection: Sir Thomas Bazley

Sir Thomas Bazley
SIR THOMAS BAZLEY French bishop of Caesarea, historian, in an attitude of prayer. Date: 1797 - 1885

Background imageAttitude Collection: Thomas Basin, Bishop

Thomas Basin, Bishop
THOMAS BASIN (or Bazin) French bishop of Caesarea, historian, in an attitude of prayer. Date: 1412 - 1491

Background imageAttitude Collection: Namibia - Adaptation to Western Costume

Namibia - Adaptation to Western Costume
A very interesting card produced by the German Catholic Mission to Namibia, showing the before and after result of the adoption of a western style of clothing to the native populace

Background imageAttitude Collection: Indian Dancing Girls

Indian Dancing Girls in traditional pose or attitude. The two musicians to either side are playing the bowed stringed instrument known as a Sarangi

Background imageAttitude Collection: The Rose of England

The Rose of England
A stylish woman walks her bulldog and clasps a red rose to her throat in an attitude of fervent but fashionable patriotism

Background imageAttitude Collection: Emma Hamilton / Oval Mini

Emma Hamilton / Oval Mini
EMMA, LADY HAMILTON Wife of Lord Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson

Background imageAttitude Collection: Wellington Cartoon

Wellington Cartoon
THE WATERLOO COCK WOTs LOST HIS COURAGE - the Lord Mayor of London reproaches the Duke for his anti-reform attitude

Background imageAttitude Collection: Racial / Kickapoo C1830

Racial / Kickapoo C1830
Two Kickapoo men in an attitude of prayer



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