Blowing Collection

A Scottish Piper wearing McInnes Tartan Date: 1906

Flapper on Bonnet 1927
A girl on a bonnet: wears a skimpy sleeveless white drop waist dress hitched up to expose her thighs, T-bar shoes, a cloche hat & a scarf a la Isadora Duncan

Coach and horses in the snow on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1910s

Scottish Types - Bagpipes, Clan McDonald. 19th century

Alpine Horn
Man blowing a traditional horn in the Alps. Date: 1930s

Dandelion Clock by Muriel Dawson
Charming illustration of a small child, probably a little boy in blue smock and shorts seated on a small tuffet of grass and blowing a dandelion clock while clutching a favourite doll in his other

Pipe Major of The Scots Guards in full ceremonial dress. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Bessemer converter in Longwy steelworks, France
A Bessemer converter in the Longwy steelworks, France -- a process designed for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron

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

Glass Blowing 1930S
A female glass worker blows glass for use in lamps, chemistry equipment, etc

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - trumpeter. circa 1910s

Cold Comfort by W. Heath Robinson
An elegant device now in use in many seaside boarding houses to obviate the rather indelicate act of blowing on ones food to cool it

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

Warning Horn
A watchman at Kunszentmiklos, Hungary, blowing his horn during times of danger due to serious flooding over 200, 000 acres of low-lying acres of arable and meadow land. Date: 1930s

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

Christmas! Christmas! Jolly Season -- a girl and a boy out for a walk with their dog on a windy day. 20th century

Spring Announced 1876
Spring is announced to a pretty lady at a window

Edith Wynne in Red Riding Hood, Gaiety Theatre, Dublin Date: 1890s

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Trumpet
Blowing his own trumpet. Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled Shadow and Substance, 1860

Hunter Blowing his Horn
Huntsman blows his horn to start the hunt

Niger, West Africa - Baby receiving an enema from his Mother. Date: circa 1930s

Comic postcard, Pretty woman and vicar on the beach Date: 20th century

Blowing up the Kashmir Gate at Delhi, Indian Mutiny Date: 1857

Comic postcard, People in a charabanc for Coronation
Comic postcard, People in a charabanc, going to the Coronation Date: 20th century

Trades in Regency England: glass-blowing, colliery and tanning. Workers blowing molten glass into bottles and goblets in a Newcastle factory 67

Bottlenose dolphin, underwater, blowing heart shaped bubbles. Digital manipulation

Girl & boy blowing bubbles - Silhouette depicting girl & boy blowing bubbles. From The Book of Games published by Ward Lock. Date: 1920

Comic Valentines Postcard - Old Maid about to be blown up
Comic Valentines Postcard - Some seriously racey language punning against an image of an Old Maid about to be blown up. 1908

Kano Airport, Nigeria - Camel rider with horn (and spare camel...). Date: circa 1960s

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

WW2 American Forces comic postcard - I'm on Observation Duty Date: 1940s

WW2 Birthday Card, Fall In!
A WW2 birthday greetings card, May you fall in! For a happy time this birthday. The illustration portrays an officer blowing his bugle. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Able Seaman And Bosun Piping
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book. The left image shows an able seaman saluting on deck, while the right image portrays a boatswain blowing his pipe or whistle

Blowing Bubbles
A photograph used for advertisement purposes, portraying a young girl blowing bubbles through a toy pipe. Date: circa 1939

Men's Wear Advertisement Illustration
An advertisement illustration promoting men's wear, the image portrays a man relaxing in his armchair wearing a spotted bath robe, casually blowing smoke rings into the air. Date: circa 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

L'amant d'Une Autre
This illustration, titled Another's Lover, shows a large gentleman gracefully blowing a tendril of smoke, which trails up into the air space between himself and a finely dressed young woman

Colour Scheme For The Wind
This painting depicts a scene where a woman is walking in a woodland clearing, a mighty wind is blowing her blue dress and long, blonde hair to the left

Peter Cornelius, Danish opera singer, tenor (and baritone in his earlier career), seen here in a Wagnerian role Date: 1910

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

Apsley Pellatt Glass Manufacture, London. Date: 1852

Home Guard practise
Home Guards practise blowing up tanks: a demonstration at the school for guerilla warfare at Osterley Park, in the suburbs of west London, where Spanish Civil War veterans provide the training

Horn Blower, New Court, the Temple, London Date: 1921

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

Original Artwork - A little gnome blowing his nose
Original Artwork - A little fairy, gnome or sprite blowing his nose as he sits on a toadstool, with the sun rising behind him. Date: circa 1937

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