Branch Collection (page 42)

Motor racing breakdown at Brooklands
A competitor at Brooklands motor race is towed into the paddock with the aid of a branch. Date: April 17th 1920

Costume / Women / China 19C
A rich Chinese lady in traditional dress, holding a decorated fan in her hand

Male Gorilla
A male gorilla stakes out his territory by whooping whilst hanging from a branch

Factory Interior 1925
Women working at the Ilford (Essex, England) branch of the Drayton Paper Works

DRAYTONs PAPER 1925
A male worker at the Ilford (Essex, England) branch of the Drayton Paper Works

Spooky Evening Scene
A bleak winter mist settles over field in Blackburn, Lancashire, England

Alphonse De Rothschild
ALPHONSE DE ROTHSCHILD Member of the French branch of the international banking family

Mayer a De Rothschild
baron MAYER AMSCHEL DE ROTHSCHILD Sportsman and art collector, member of English branch of international banking family

Sir Anthony Rothschild
SIR ANTHONY ROTHSCHILD philanthropist, sportsman, member of English branch of international banking family

Robins on Bough
Two robins perch on a branch in a country setting

Robins on a Branch
Several robins on a snowy bough

Witches as Animals
Witches, transformed into animal shape, fly to the sabbat on a tree-branch

Christmas scene at the Evelina Childrens Hospital
Christmas comes but once a year -- a scene at the Evelina Childrens Hospital, founded in Southwark, London, in 1869. A sick little girl is visited by her mother and younger sister

Bank closes its doors in Brooklyn, USA
Following the Wall Street crash of 1929, the Brooklyn branch of the Bank of the United States closes its doors. A crowd of people have gathered outside, no doubt wanting their money back

Ornamental Cherry
Oriental style depiction of pink cherry blossom showing the branch, buds and open flowers. A small brown butterfly makes for a choice flower

Camellia & Insect
Oriental style depiction of a pink peony-form camellia showing the branch, leaves, bud and fully opened flower plus a strange black insect

Meyerbeer / Robert Liebig4
Act 4 scene 2 : Robert breaks the magic branch, destroying the spell set by Bertram, the Devil

Glass Pedlar C15 France
A man sells glass bottles, ingeniously using a vertical tree branch as a bottle rack

William IV A Windsor Pear
King William IV and Queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. A Windsor Pear (not Pair). Daily seen at the Royal Table

Union of Railwaymen
Members of the Bermondsey branch of the National Union of Railwaymen pose for a photograph with their Workers of the World Unite banner and their marching drums

Siamang Monkey / Jck
A siamang monkey sitting on a branch

Everetts Langur / Jck
Everetts langur sitting on a branch

Girl with Daisies 1886
A little girl has draped a daisy chain on the bare branch of a tree

Almond / Turpin Painting
Some almonds still on the branch

Walnut / Leaves / Branch &c
Showing the leaves and fruits of English and French walnuts as they appear at various times of the year plus two illustrations of the black mulberry

COCKATOO (1910)
(Cacatuidae family) Two cockatoos on a branch.`

Kingfisher / Morris
A kingfisher sitting on a thin branch. (Alcedo ispida)

Fire Motor-Cycle / Sidecar
A motor-cycle fire-fighting unit, with a sidecar accommodating 500 feet of hose standpipes, branch-pipes, turncocks and tools

Hodges Manual Engine
Hodges manual Fire-engine. It was presented by the inhabitants of Lambeth to Mr F Hodges, a local distiller who maintained an efficient fire- brigade at his own expense!

Blunt / Cassiopeia / Pl 30
The constellation of Cassiopeia, a woman seated on a chair, lightly clothed, with both hands raised, holding a palm branch

Female Centaur & Thyrsus
A centauress gallops with a friend who holds a thyrsus (an ornamental staff), which - with the branch she holds - suggests that they are taking part in Dionysian revelry

Francisco Borgia (Later)
FRANCISCO DE BORJA (BORGIA) Noble of Spanish branch of the family, Viceroy in Peru, poet. (Do not confuse with Jesuit saint Francisco Borgia)

Band of Hope Prize
C.E.T.S Church of England Temperance Society ? All England Challenge Competition for Band of Hope, Diocese of Canterbury, Herne Bay Branch. Claude Watkins wins a prize

Nathan Meyer Rothschild
NATHAN MEYER ROTHSCHILD Head of the English branch of the international banking house

Gladstone Fells a Tree
Gladstone was renowned for his fondness for felling trees : psychiatrists would no doubt get to the roots of this and and show why it drove him to branch out into politics

Noahs Ark (Holbein)
Dove brings olive branch to Noahs Ark

Folklore / Casseur De Bois
LE CASSEU DE BOIS (= branch-breaker) of Berry, central France, entity who breaks tree branches and may challenge the peasant as he gathers his firewood

Mistletoe Branch
SEIZING AN OPPORTUNITY passing under a mistletoe branch while walking in the snow

German farmer pruning his birch trees
A German farmer prunes his silver birch trees after the winter storms, while ploughing goes on in the field below

Rome making peace with Latium
Rome makes peace with Latium (the modern name for the area is Lazio), the tribe of the Latins in central western Italy

Five shrikes perched on a bush -- lanius rufus (1, 2 & 3) and lanius collurio (4 & 5). The shrike is also known as a butcher bird, because it skewers the insects

Rattlesnake attacked by birds
A rattlesnake meets with opposition when it goes birds nesting

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