Beat Collection (page 2)

Poster, Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, WW1
American poster, Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, designed to raise money for the war effort during the First World War. Showing a menacing German with bloody fingers and bayonet. Date: 1917-1918

Advert / Bulldog Cigars
Bulldog Cigars: Hard to Beat Date: circa 1900

Met Police officer at Piccadilly Circus, London
A Metropolitan Police officer on duty at Piccadilly Circus in Central London, speaking on his walkie talkie radio. There are neon advertisements for Coca Cola, Cinzano, Skol, Volkswagen

Ghana - Gold Coast - Ashanti War Drums
The War Drums of the Ashanti tribesmen - Gold Coast, West Africa - Ghana

The Lion & the Unicorn
The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown; The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town. Some gave them

Victorian Scrap -- Butcher. late 19th century

Heliodorus beaten with rods - 2 Maccabees 3. circa 1690

International Exhibition at Amiens - Senegalese Village
International Exhibition at Amiens, France - Cooking in the Senegalese Village. Date: 1906

Commemorative relief of an unknown gladiators ventures, por
Fragment of a commemorative relief of an unknown gladiators ventures, portrayed in several fights with his adversaries retiatii (gladiators who used the net and trident)

Music cover, Shells of Ocean or I Wander d on the Sea Beat Shore, a song written and inscribed to P Fraser Esq by J W Lake, with music by J W Cherry. circa 1850s

Miniature Egg Beater
This egg beater is small enough to beat up one egg in a cup, where the usual size would be unwieldy Date: 1930s

Beechams Pills Cycle Ad
Theres nothing to beat a play upon words for a catchy slogan - this striking advert is designed to appeal to the cycling public when this sport is enjoying a popular vogue. Date: 1900

St James Theatre 1900
Theatregoers, mostly women, leaving the theatre after a matinee. A couple of policemen are on the beat. Date: 1900

WWI Poster, Liberty Bonds
Design by F Strothmann, Beat back the Hun with Liberty Bonds, American poster. Date: 1918

Hinged brass tobacco tin - East Yorkshire Regiment
A small hinged brass tobacco tin engraved on reverse - (2856 Private) Arthur C. Stephenson and dated 1918. Together with an engraved badge of the East Yorkshire Regiment with the place names of

When your team get beat Well we let you win
When your team get beat. Well we let you win. (Ciss, with hockey stick, pictured on card). 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

An Extra-Special Romance by H. M. Bateman, WW1 cartoon
Cartoon by H. M. Bateman showing a police officer initially snobbish about the special constable who is accompanying him on his beat

Jimmy the Bulldog at the Royal Society
Jimmy, a Bulldog owned by Dr A.D.Waller, takes part in an experiment at the Royal Society, Burlington House, London. With one fore-leg

Autocar Poster -- Jenatzy beating speed record
Autocar poster -- Camille Jenatzys Jamais Contente beating the World Speed Record near Acheres in France, averaging just over 65 mph. Date: 1899

Hungarian Drummer
Barefoot children dancing to the beat of a drum in Hungary. They are rehearsing for Christmas pantomime. Date: 1930s

Bobbie on the Beat
A London policeman on the beat. Date: early 1930s

Comic Postcard - Slops removed and served
Comic Postcard - A Housemaid removes and empties the slops from a bedroom chamber pot (potty), whilst at the same time a (hopefully different type of)

Ragged Street singers - looking decidedly worse for wear
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a pair of ragged street singers singing about fair and stormy weather - the perfect illustrative template for their undoubtedly

Trafalgar Square, London at 2am - Silhouette of a Policeman standing patiently on the pavement Date: circa 1910

Blue Bird K3, Sir Malcolm Campbells Saunders-Roe built boat, beat the world water speed record on 1 September 1937 at 126.32mph

Official programme cover, The London Aerodrome
Official programme cover for the London Aerodrome, Hendon, 7th London Aviation Meeting, 9-13 April 1914 (weather permitting)

Samurai striking a beat with clappers. Print shows a samurai with a pair of clappers, a man pulling a rope, and a man fallen on the ground in front of the samurai. Date between 1830 and 1844

He won t go off his beat. Illustration showing two concerned citizens and Joseph Pulitzer imploring Uncle Sam, dressed as a US policeman

Police brutality, Satire. Spain

The new education Theres the world before you, young man! Do you want to see it? Learn a trade and live a strong healthy life? If so enlist and be happy - you can t beat this!

John C. Heenan, Champion of the World. (The Benicia Boy.) Born in West Troy, New York, May 2 1835, Height 6 feet 1 1/2 inches, Fighting weight from 185 to 195 lbs

Forging Razor Blades at a Sheffield Steel Works, Yorkshire

Metropolitan Police group photograph at exhibition
Group photograph of Metropolitan Police officers, male and female, posing with a police car on an exhibition stand. A banner bears the words: Beat crime -- join us. Date: circa 1970s

Two Metropolitan Police officers in the street
Two Metropolitan Police officers pose for their photograph in a street, with a rough stone wall behind them. They are wearing double-breasted overcoats. Date: late 19th century

Two Metropolitan police officers and their dogs
Two Metropolitan police officers walking along a street with their Alsatian dogs. Date: circa 1960s

Metropolitan Police officer and his Alsatian dog
A Metropolitan Police officer walking along a street with his Alsatian dog. Date: circa 1960s

And sent them to bed

Slow Dancing
A young couple slow dancing at the end of a gig by London beat group The Triffids. Date: mid 1960s

Retaliation, or the cudgeller caught
A cudgeller is reprimanded by three angry folk, who surround him and wave their cudgels frantically. Date: 18th Century

She beat them all soundly
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, she had so many children... She beat them all soundly -- an illustration to the nursery rhyme, showing the old woman beating one of her many children. 1899

The Lion and the Unicorn by Leslie Brooke. The lion and the unicorn, Were fighting for the crown; The Lion beat the Unicorn all around the town Date: 1922

Nursery, rhyme, The Queen of Hearts, Caldecott, 6 of 8
and beat the Knave full score

Met Police officers at Piccadilly Circus, London
Two Metropolitan Police officers, one male, one female, on duty at Piccadilly Circus in Central London, speaking to a young couple

Met Police PC and WPC, suburban scene
Two Metropolitan Police officers, a PC and a WPC, walking along a suburban pathway in a residential area of London. The woman has a large walkie talkie radio at her waist

Met Police PC and WPC, urban scene
Two Metropolitan Police officers, a PC and a WPC, walking along a busy urban street in Central London. They both carry a set of handcuffs at their waists

Met Police officer on a country lane
A Metropolitan Police officer on the beat, wheeling his bicycle along a country lane in a rural part of London

Met Police officer on a street corner
A Metropolitan Police officer on the beat somewhere in Central London, approaching a street corner

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