Blind Collection (page 2)

A Merry Christmas magic lantern slide, Victorian period

WW2 - Death In The Blackout
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Death In The Blackout, written by Anthony Gilbert. The image shows a skeleton pulling down his window blind during a blackout. Date: circa 1946

WW2 - R. A. F Blind Flying Instruction
A photograph of a British WW2 Royal Air Force trainer giving his pupil instruction in blind flying, he is sat in the rear seat, completely covered by the hood. Date: circa 1940s

Swansea and South Wales Institution for the Blind
Girls knitting and sewing at the Swansea and South Wales Institution for the Blind

Japan - Bamboo Blind maker
Bamboo Blind maker, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Marie Adelaide
Portrait of Marie-Adelaide. She reigned as Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1912 until her abdication in 1919. She was the first Grand Duchess regnant of Luxembourg

Annual Festival at College for the Blind, Norwood
The annual festival at the crystal palace of the Royal Normal College and Academy for the Blind in Upper Norwood, London. Various games and exercises are depicted

Institution for Deaf and Blind, Stoke-on-Trent
Frontage of the North Staffordshire Institution for Deaf and Blind, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Date: circa 1905

Bristol School of Industry for the Blind
Girls at work in the Drawn Brush Shop at the Bristol School of Industry for the Blind Date: Early 1900s

Death grabs holds of the Blind Man's stick and drags him away.. Handcolored engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's The Triumph of Death

BLIND HOPE AT LOURDES
The crowd throng to Lourdes, led by Hope - blindfolded - and a feeble priest, while Death brings up the rear... Date: 1894

Rabbits and other animals playing blind man's bluff by M. Sherborne (no title)

Trans-Canada Lockheed Aircraft, Pilots cockpit fitted for blind flying Date: 1930s

1860s Japan - portrait of a blind masseur Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China

Comic postcard, Man on the beach, almost blind! Date: 20th century

Blind Mans Buff
Artists interpretation of traditional childrens games. Artist: Helen GC Marsh Lambert. Date: circa 1916

Wife of the elite samurai class relaxing
Wife of the elite samurai class reading books, with other women writing with a pen, one looking at ukiyo-e prints, and one folding paper. Another woman delivers reams of paper and ink

Regency physician riding a horse wearing a chin piece
Regency physician riding a horse wearing a protective wooden chin piece. A bewildered family of farm labourers watch him go. Dr. Cassock F.R.S. Inventor of the Noble Puzzle for Tumble Down Horses

Russian-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Canvas lambrequin and curtains, silk window screen, armchair. Planche 20. Croisee Russe. Lambrequin toile ou serge, ton creme, applications de laine

Cartoon, Blind Mans Buff (Disraeli and Reform)
Cartoon, Blind Mans Buff -- a satirical comment on Disraelis efforts to progress his ideas for electoral reform. His Reform Bill was altered by amendments as it passed through the House of Commons

Swiss Cottage and Institution for the Blind, London
The main street at Londons Swiss Cottage, north London. The scene includes the Institution for the Blind (far left), the old Swiss Cottage inn (far right), and men and women on bicycles

Elm Court Blind School, London - Typewriting
Girls using typewriters at the London School Boards Elm Court School for the Blind, Tulse Hill. Date: circa 1903

Elm Court Blind School, London - Chair Caning
Girls at the London School Boards Elm Court School for the Blind, Tulse Hill, caning the seats of stools. Date: early 1900s

Victorian Greeting Card - Blind Mans Buff
Five kittens playing blind mans bluff. Date: circa 1890

Huge blinds used to camouflage a factory, Sept 1939
Huge dark blinds used to camouflage an entire factory on an A-road just outside of London. Blackout regulations were imposed two days before the outbreak of war to make the factory less visible to

Women making flowers 1912
Women from the John Grooms Crippleage and Blind Mission making artificial wild roses to be sold at Alexandra Day. In 1912

Two moles (Talpa Europaea). Date: 1843

Hoodman blind, or blind mans buff, 14th century. Men taking turns to be the blind man by reversing the hood, or hitting the blind man with their knotted hoods, and women playing the game (bottom)

Lazarillo de Tormes and the blind man bumping into a pillar
Lazarillo de Tormes takes his revenge on the blind beggar by forcing him to bump into a pillar. Church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in the background

George Dyball, a blind beggar in a sailor s
George Dyball, a blind beggar who dressed in a sailors uniform, and his dog Nelson with begging bowl. Another blind begging couple behind him

Black and white worm lizard, blind snake
Black-and-white worm lizard, Amphisbaena fuliginosa, earthworm blind snake, Typhlops lumbricalis, large shieldtail snake, Pseudotyphlops philippinus (Uropeltis philippinus)

Merveilleuses playing the game of blind mans buff. A blindfolded woman runs in a garden as one woman strokes her hand and another grabs her muslin dress

Seated blind mans buff. A dandy in Regency fashion guesses the identity of the woman in muslin dress who provides his chair

Blind ringlet, almond-eyed ringlet, Piedmont
Blind ringlet, Erebia pharte, almond-eyed ringlet, Erebia alberganus, Piedmont ringlet, Erebia meolans, and sooty ringlet, Erebia pluto

Earthworm blind snake, slow worm, Cape legless
Earthworm blind snake, Typhlops lumbricalis 1, slow worm, Anguis fragilis 2, Cape legless skink, Ancontias meleagris 3 and eastern glass lizard, Ophisaurus ventralis 4

Common blue charaxes and blind eighty-eight moth
Common blue charaxes, Charaxes tiridates, upper side 1, under side 2, and blind eighty-eight, Haematera pyrame pyrame 3, 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Advert, Carrs Ladder Tapes for Venetian Blinds - An Up-to-Date Policeman. 1897

Institution for the Blind, New York City, USA. 1857

The funeral of Sir Arthur Pearson, 1921
A page from The Illustrated London News detailed the funeral of Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson (1866-1921), English newspaper and magazine publisher and benefactor of the blind. Date: 1921

Training a guide dog and its owner
Illustration by Bryan de Grineau in The Illustrated London News showing stages of training a guide dog and its blind owner at the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association School in Wallasey. Date: 1937

Sun blind with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Blind boot-lace seller 1850s
Blind boot-lace seller with his little dog in the streets of London. Date: circa 1850s

Advertisement, Metallic Venetian Blinds, Hodkinson & Co Ltd, Birmingham. 1891

Battlefields Pilgrims in northern France
Battlefields Pilgrims in France -- a company of blind men from St Dunstans (B5 Party). The pilgrimage of 11, 000 people to France and Flanders was organised by the British Legion

Aerial view of Oxford Street, Central London, with traffic and pedestrians. circa 1900s

Oxford Street, Central London, with Peter Robinson on the left and Waring & Gillow in the middle distance. circa 1900s

Miss Eastlake in Hoodman Blind - The Theatre Magazine
Miss Mary Eastlake, actress, in Hoodman Blind - in The Theatre Magazine, December 1885. 1885

George Barrett in Hoodman Blind - The Theatre Magazine
George Barrett, actor, in Hoodman Blind - in The Theatre Magazine, November 1885. 1885

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