Background Collection (page 10)

Pasadena, California, USA - Huntington Hotel Date: 1946

Nurses on bench outside hospital
Four nurses on bench in front of large tree and hospital in background. Reverse reads: Nurses Davies, Chapman, Baile and Burke, Battle Hospital, 1933-1936 Date: circa 1935

Nurse with group of servicemen
Nurse seated with group of six servicemen in a field. A tent is visible in the background Date: circa 1940

Group of nurses with toys
Informal shot of six nurses on a rooftop. All the nurses are holding teddy bears or other toys. Industrial and residential chimneys can be seen in the background

Nurses with babies in hospital nursery
Five nurses standing around a table covered with baby feeding equipment in the nursery of the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. Four of the nurses hold babies, one being bottle fed at left

Presentation of prize to nurse
Nurse receiving prize of book with matron in background Date: circa 1949

Repeating Pattern - Girl in Union Jack Flag Scarf, green
Repeating Pattern - Girl in Union Jack Flag (in green). *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

White Car on Maroon Background

Repeating Pattern - Train / Steam Engine
Repeating Pattern - Steam Engines / Trains

Repeating Pattern - Car / Motoring

Repeating Pattern - Floral Assemblage - dark blue background. *PLEASE NOTE that the magifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Tabanus aeneus Surcouf, horse fly
Plate 67 from a drawings collection of Oriental and African blood-sucking flies.. Watercolour and ink on paper, c.1906 by Grace Edwards (1875-1926). Held in the Library and Archives Date: circa 1906

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Woman of Fecamp. Like the serre-tete of le Havre, this one too is decorated only to the temples.. In the background on the hill is the church of Notre-Dame-du-Salut

Flint hand axe
Photograph of a human-made hand axe, which was discovered in 1859, and is thought to be about 400, 000 years old

Megalomys desmarestii, antillean giant rice rat. Catalogue number NHM 1850.11.30.6

Oligoryzomys victus, St. Vincent pygmy rice rat (holotype). Catalogue reference NHM 1897.12.26.1)

Tibia of Achondroplastic Dwarf
Bones of Achondroplastic Dwarf. From the tomb of King Mersekha around the fourth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt

Pleuroploca trapezium, trapezium horse conch
A pair of trapezium horse conch (Pleuroploca trapezium). This marine gastropod originates from the Indo-Pacific

Sailors relax on the deck of a British destroyer 1916
Stokers, Sailors and Gunners, have a cigarette break - and shelter from the sun - lying on the wooden decks of a British destroyer

STRAND-ON-THE-GREEN
Low tide at Strand-on-the- Green, Chiswick, Surrey, with Chiswick Railway Bridge in the background. Date: 1950s

MOROCCO / OUAZAZATE 1984
Ouazazate, Morocco, north-west Africa: aerial view of part of the town, with the desert in the background. Date: 1984

GLASS MAKING 1755 - 2
The Casting and Running of PLATE GLASS. The man in the background is breaking up lumps of raw Glass which will be melted in the furnace. Date: 1755

WATER FEATURE
A lovely water fountain, a feature in this tranquil communal park, where a black cat snoozes blissfully on a park bench in the background. Date: 1930s

ENGLAND / RIPON
The town of Ripon, with shops such as Metcalfe the Furnisher and the Unicorn Hotel with its stables and garage, with Ripon Cathedral in the background. Date: 1950s

THE NATIONAL GALLERY
An atmospheric photograph of the National Gallery, London: Three men walking into the portico on a sunny day. Note St. Martin-in-the-Fields church, in the background. Date: 1950s

BOOKSTALLS ON PARIS QUAY
Bouquinistes on the Paris quay with Notre Dame in the background Date: circa 1912

HOT CHESTNUTS FOR SALE
A vendor of hot chestnuts; a smartly dressed woman and a chimney sweep boy are among his customers, while in the background an organ grinder and monkey also look for trade Date: circa 1920

ALLEGORY OF MECHANICS
LA MECANIQUE allegorical design depicting the angel of mechanics, fire in one hand, a locomotive in the other, against a background of machinery Date: circa 1890

MACHINES ALLEGORISED
LA MECANIQUE allegorical design depicting the angel of mechanics, fire in one hand, a locomotive in the other, against a background of machinery Date: circa 1890

MAN ON RINGS
A gentleman exercises on the rings, others body-build in the background Date: 1901

DURER / SELF / HOLLAR / 1498
ALBRECHT DURER German artist and engraver, with a landscape in the background Date: 1471 - 1528

Catherine of Aragon
CATHERINE OF ARAGON Ist Queen of Henry VIII, walks tearfully along while Henry VIII chats to Anne Boleyn in the background. Date: 1485 - 1536

SOCIAL / GREENWICH PARK
Young people enjoying Greenwich Park on an Easter Monday; with the Greenwich Royal Observatory in the background. Date: 1804

CHILDREN SKIP / GLASGOW
A group of girls skipping in an East Glasgow street with some building machinery in the background. Date: 1960s

SKIPPING / 1960S
A group of girls skipping in an East Glasgow street with some building machinery in the background. Date: 1960s

CHILDREN PLAY / GLASGOW
Children playing in an East Glasgow street with some building machinery in the background. Date: 1960s

First Paris Omnibuses
The first omnibuses to ply the streets of Paris - in the foreground, an Ecossaise, in the background, a Dame Blanche Date: circa 1830

MISTLETOE / ILS 1898
Mistletoe, against a decorative background. Date: 1898

Japanese women in the snow, children snowballing in the background

Fowell General Purpose Engine AH 5456
Fowell General Purpose Engine, regn, AH 5456, number 103, Cromwell. Built in1913 by Fowell & Co. at St. Ives, powered by an 8 Nhp single-cylinder steam engine

Aveling & Porter Tractor SM 6448
Aveling & Porter Tractor, regn. SM 6448, number 11839, Oberon. Built by Aveling and Porter in 1927, powered by a 4 Nhp compound steam engine

Westland-Sikorsky WS-51 Mk. 1A G-ALIK
Westland-Sikorsky WS-51 Mk.1A G-ALIK (msn WA/H/3) at the Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party on 15th June 1952. In the background can be seen British European Airways Bell 47B-3 G-AKFB

de Havilland Firestreak Air-Air Missiles on Gloster Javelin
de Havilland Firestreak Air-Air Missiles, mounted on a Gloster Javelin F(AW)7, (XH710 or XH714) at the 1957 SBAC Farnborough Air Show

Royal Air Force Austers WJ316, at the 1951 SBAC Farnborough Air Show. First flown in August 1950 and written off on 29 September 1955

Royal Air Force Armstrong Whitworth Siskin IIIAs of No 29 Squadron RAF in the foreground (3 of) and more from No.17 Squadron RAF in the background. Date: circa 1929

Gloster Sapphire Meteor WA820
Gloster Sapphire Meteor F.8 WA820 at the 1950 SBAC Farnborough Air Show. In the background can be seen Gloster Meteor F.4 VZ389 and Avro Lincoln B.2 RA657 of Flight refuelling Ltd

Squadron Leader D. S. Don - Kings Cup Air Race
Hanworth Aerodrome, Kings Cup Air Race. Hawker Tomtit G-aLL, powered by an Armstrong Siddeley Mongoose IIIA, belonging to the then Prince of Wales (Edward VIII), flown by Squadron Leader D.S

A. S. T. High-speed Towed Target
A.S.T. High-speed Towed Target displayed at Farnborough ca 1953, with a de Havilland Sea Venom in the background. Date: 1950s

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