Back Ground Collection (page 8)

Italian Lake Scene
An Italian lake scene with mountains in the background, boats sailing on the calm waters & a lakeside villa. A couple walk by on a mountain road. Date: 1870s

Dunure Fishing Ropes
Fishing ropes drying in a corner of the little harbour at Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland, with its castle in the background. Date: 1950s

British Submarine
One of the earliest submarines in the Royal Navy in Portsmouth harbour, with Nelsons Victory in the background. Date: circa 1910

ILN Coronation Ceremony Number 1953
Front cover of The Illustrated London News, Coronation Ceremony Number 1953, featuring a gold background design and a miniature portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in the centre. Date: 1953

Vittoria, Spain
Ancient buildings fronting on the marketplace, with the cathedral in the background. Date: 1850

Lake Buttermere
Pine trees beside the lovely Lake Buttermere, Cumbria, England, with the towering mass of High Stile in the background. Date: 1930s

England / Rugby
Little Church Street, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, with the spire of St. Andrews church in the background. Date: 1950s

Scotland / Loch Tulla
Early morning in January, with reflections in Loch Tulla, Argyllshire, Scotland and its snow covered mountains in the background. Date: 1950s

Snowy Tarring
Winter in Sussex, England - snow-covered Glebe Road, in Tarring, with St. Andrews church in the background. Date: 1950s

Honeycombed Rocks
Rocks honeycombed by the sea, with Garsbheinn, one of the Coolin Peaks, in the background. Port na Cullaidh, Loch Scavaig, Elgol, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Date: 1950s

England / Louth
Westgate, a pleasant Georgian street in the centre of Louth, Lincolnshire, with the spire of St. Jamess Church in the background. Date: 18th centyry

St. Brides Chapel
The ruins of St. Brides (or St. Bridget s) Chapel, near Callender, Perthshire, Scotland, with Ben Ledi in the background. Date: 1950s

Brighton West Pier
A lovely study of waves rolling onto the beach at Brighton, Sussex, England, with the West Pier in the background. Date: 1950s

Pleasure Canal Boat Trip
Children on a school trip aboard a pleasure canal boat, in the lock at Stoke Bruerne, Grand Union Canal, England. The British Waterways Museum is in the background. Date: early 1960s

Trafalgar Sq. Silhouette
Silhouettes in Trafalgar Square, London. The equine statue in the foreground is George IV, with Nelsons Column in the background. Date: 1950s

Snowy Kilmahog
Snow at Killmahog, near Callander, Perthshire, Scotland, showing some pretty cottages and the peak of Ben Ledi in the background. Date: 1950s

Chodenland Costumes
Men and women of Chodenland (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia), with their lovely traditional costumes of floral embroidery against a dark background and typical dark silk head-dresses. Date: 1930s

Family in a Park
A man rests his head on his wifes lap as they both enjoy a sunny day in the park with the children who play in the background. Date: late 1960s

Springtime in Green Park
Springtime in London : Daffodils in Green Park, with Piccadilly in the background. Date: 1950s

Nursery Greenhouses
A fine row of nursery greenhouses near Wavendon, Buckinghamshire, England, with the well-wooded ground of the Bow Brickhill district in the background. Date: early 1960s

Edinburgh Steam Trains
Steam locomotives leaving Waverley Station, Edinburgh, Scotland, with Edinburgh Castle in the background. Date: 1950s

The Tibble Stone, Glos. England. Legend has it that a giant from Dixton Hill (in the background) threw it towards the River Severn, but it fell short at Teddington! Date: BC

The Sketch Christmas Number 1934 front cover
Stunning front cover design for The Sketch 1934 Christmas Number featuring a dancer in a slightly revealing fur trimmed costume kicking her leg high against a colourful harlequin diamond background

Cobbles on the road in Stockholm, Sweden circa 2008

Air Scouts with their Commissioner
Headquarters Commissioner for Air Scouts talking with Air Scouts from Cheltenham with a de Havilland Chipmunk in the background. circa 1950s

Men searching for coal on slag heap
A line of unemployed men carrying sacks search for lumps of coal on a slag heap in South Wales. In the background are railway lines and clouds of smoke and steam rising from the engines

Servant Guidelines
Servants, be obedient to them that are your Masters, according to the flesh, with fear and trembling in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

William Lord Bergavenny
William Beauchamp, lord BERGAVENNY, a partisan of John of Gaunt, at one time Captain of Calais (the background to this picture) Date: - 1411

Luca Della Robbia
LUCA DELLA ROBBIA Italian sculptor, best known for those much-reproduced ceramics depicting cute cherubs on a blue background. Date: 1399 - 1482

John Crosbie, Prior
JOHN CROSBIE, a mitred abbot, Prior of Coventry. Depicted in his robes, with Coventry cathedral in the background. Date: ? - 1436

Jesters (Smith)
In the background is a FOOL, a kind of domestic idiot : the JESTER is a more sophisticated creature, expected to be witty rather than the butt of coarse amusement. Date: 1272

Fields and Housing
A spacious field with a cow lying in the foreground and a housing development in the background. Date: circa 1960

Birds / Red Ibis
RED IBIS (Ibis species) If those are pyramids in the background, this must be an Egyptian bird, but its not the Sacred Ibis. Date: circa 1850

Stewarts & Lloyd Factory
An old man and children in a back garden, washing hanging on the line, and the smoking factory chimneys of Stewarts and Lloyds in the background. Date: 1950s

Gulls in Cornwall
A gull in Cornwall, with fishermens cottages as a background. Date: early 1950s

Muybridge Work Place
His open-air studio at the Palo Alto stock farm, California : camera shed on right, background wall left, four cameras on stands at corners of the track area Date: 1878

Steelworks / Wales / 1974
A view looking down a road in Wales with the smoking chimneys of a steelworks in the background. Date: 1974

Racial / Japan / Musicians
Three Japanese musicians playing stringed and percussion instruments, with three men listening in the background Date: late 19th century

Hawes Market 1950S
The shoe stall, a market day scene at Hawes, Yorkshire, England, with the tower and its church in the background. Date: late 1950s

Christmas Tree 1851
A Christmas tree decorated with international flags with the Crystal Palace in the background. Date: 1851

Midland Beach, Staten Island, New York
Bathing, Midland Beach. Fully dressed people standing on beach with swimmers visible in background. - Midland Beach (New York, N.Y.) | Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) | New York (N.Y.)

Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York
Bathing, Manhattan Beach. Children and adults standing at edge of beach and boardwalk with beach in background. - Manhattan Beach (New York, N.Y.)

Artist in his studio
Mr. Waddell, Interior, Studio, Mr. & Mrs. Waddell in background. H.W. Waddell, artist, in his studio, with a second man and woman

American Printing Co. textiles company. Rows of fabric, with American Printing Co. sign in the background

A biplane in the Egyptian desert, with the pyramids
Avro 504K, H. 6596. A biplane in the Egyptian desert, with the pyramids in the background

Boatloads of joyous jackies leaving Vera Cruz
US army relieving the Navy. Boatloads of joyous jackies leaving Vera Cruz for their battleship, after the arrival of the Army who came to relieve them

Music cover for The Keepsake, a Sequel to the Celebrated Song, The Cavalier, sung by Miss Poole. Words by W H Bellamy, music by Charles W Glover

Music cover for A Christmas Bouquet of Choice Dance Music, by Eminent Composers. A cameo picture of a young woman in folk costume is surrounded by holly, mistletoe and flowers

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