Blow Collection

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One o Clock, Two o Clock by Muriel Dawson
A little girl sits in a field accompanied by her pet dog and blows a dandelion clock

Gas Blow-out - Bolivia
Gas blow-out - Bolivia - the Yacimentos oilfield region Date: circa 1910s

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - trumpeter. circa 1910s

Filling the Air with Fairy Forms -- a little girl blows a dandelion clock and in her imagination it turns into a flight of fairies. Date: circa 1920s

The Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes and conspirators
Early 19th century impression of the main protagonists in the conspiracy to blow up Parliament in 1605. From left, Tesmond, Garnet, T. Percy, Catesby, I. Wright, Guy Fawkes, I

The French Resistance - WWII (1 / 3)
Thanks to the parachute drop of plastic explosive, the French resitance were able to blow up the track. This enabled them to intercept a German train heading for the border on the line from Marseille

1920S Jazz Band
Experienced players in a West End (of London) workshop, who daily repair instruments belonging to famous bandsmen, have formed a band, thoroughly testing all the instruments! Date: 1920s

Fairy Time - A seated fairy blows a dandelion head
Fairy Time - A seated fairy queen blowing the seeds off a dandelion seed head, whilst two sprites rest nearby under two toadstools Date: 1939

Dandelion-Puff Balloon Club by Thomas Maybank Date: 1920

Cartoon, Nearly Out This Time! Irish Home Rule
Political cartoon, Nearly Out This Time! Gladstone and Harcourt, Irish Home Rule Date: 1891

On The Road To Callao
A painting entitled, On The Road To Callao, Where The Trumpet Fishes Blow, which shows a shoal of red fish in the ocean. Date: circa 1915

Only A Penny, Try Your Lungs! - fairground scene Date: 1879

Sailing with a top hat, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson
Sailing wih a hot hat, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936

Poster, Edinburgh International Festival, August 1959 - make your reservations here. Royal Opera Stockholm, Czech Philharmonic, The Thrie Estaites, Seefried Fischer-Dieskau, The Old Vic, Courbet

Sievert gas blow torch kit. Date: circa 1960

Calliphora, bluebottle
A bluebottle laying eggs on carrion

Nationalist Artillery; Spanish Civil War, 1939
Photograph showing a battery of 15.5 cm howitzers, used by the Nationalist army during their offensive against Catalonia; Spanish Civil War, 1939

The head of a blow fly. Date: August 1963

Comic postcard, A blow on the Hindenburg Line, WW1 - a satirical comment on the German defensive position on the Western Front, showing a German soldier with a line of washing. Date: circa 1916-1917

Comic postcard, Large woman at the seaside - bath chairs for hire Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man uses lung testing machine at the seaside Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, A pair of bellows Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple at the seaside on a windy day Date: 20th century

The Walls of Jericho by Alfred Sutro. First produced at the Garrick Theatre, London, 31 October 1904. The walls of London Society crumble in as the angel blows her trumpet

Oh! I Say!! by Sydney Blow and Douglas Hoare, at the Pavilion Theatre, Weymouth, from the Criterion Theatre, London Date: circa 1914

Comic postcard, Little girl at the seaside on a windy day Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Older man with pretty woman on the beach. If the wind had only blown the other way! Date: 20th century

Birthday Card, 2 Years Old, Little Boy Blue. (front cover, 1 of 2) 20th century

The Dream Pedlar - Blow in the Faces of the Stars
Blow in the Faces of the Stars - illustration in The Dream Pedlar by Lady Margaret Sackville. Florence Mary Anderson / Molly MacArthur (1893-1972) had two distinct styles of illustration

Dead horse arum lily, Helicodiceros muscivorus (Dracunculus crinitus) with blow flies. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens

Cover design, clown with Christmas cracker
Cover design, clown blowing through a Christmas cracker. 1937

Bugler blowing All Clear after Zeppelin air raid, WW1
Bugler blowing the All Clear after a Zeppelin air raid during the First World War. 1914-1918

Child blowing a shell, riding on the head of a sea monster. 19th century

Postman with trumpet, horse and cart. 19th century

Cartoon, Another Blow for Oxford - a delivery boy in fashionable Oxford bags (trousers). Date: 1925

Channel Islands - Sark - Port Gorey - A Souffleur (blow hole, blowhole). Date: 1935

Musicians of Bornu, Yola Province, Nigeria, West Africa
Musicians of Bornu, Yola Province, northern Nigeria, West Africa. One blows a trumpet while the other accompanies him on a drum. 1922

Turkish troops during WW1
Turkish troops during the First World War. 1914-1918

Victor G Ginn catalogue, Carnival Novelties. 1939

Two cats blowing bubbles on a greetings postcard
Two cats blowing bubbles with a pink feather fan in the background on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Girl Makes a Wish Date: 1950

POSEIDON RULES THE WAVES
Poseidon / Neptune tames the waves, and orders Triton to blow his conch-shell

MARAT A LA TRIBUNE
Marat, in the Convention, styling himself the friend of the People, threatens to blow our his brains if his fellow revolutionaries do not support him. Date: 25 September 1792

METAL WORKER 1960S
A young man welds metal with a blow torch Date: 1960s

SOCIAL / WASHING DAY 1920
Washing day in a workmans home: maman bends over the tub, her elder daughter pegs out the washing, the younger children blow bubbles Date: circa 1920

CHILDREN BLOWING BUBBLES
Three smocked youngsters blow bubbles from a dish of soap suds Date: 1886

ENGLISH KNIGHTS FIGHTING
Two mounted Knights in mortal combat. Date: circa 1260

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