Carefully Collection

Sri Lanka - Ceylon. Her tea and other industries
A larger version of this uncommon pictorial poster map was originally published by the Ceylon Tea Propaganda Board in 1933

No enemy sub will dare lift its eye if you lend your Zeiss or Bausch & Lomb binoculars to the Navy pack carefully, include your name and address : send to Naval Observatory Washington D.C

Hand Manicure
A hand manicure. Nails are carefully clipped and a choice of stylish nail varnishes in little bottles is offered. Date: 1930s

Shahnameh. The Book of Kings. 16th c. Sohrab looks carefully at some of the tents in the camp. 16th c. Persian art. Safavid period. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Chantilly

Learning to Lunge 1930S
A group of children have a fencing lesson and watch the teacher carefully as she demontrates how to lunge!

Vietnam War - Patriotic Poster - Colonialists Beware!
Vietnam War - Vietnamese Patriotic Poster. Colonialists and International Traitors! - You should think carefully before you take on Vietnam Date: 2nd half of the 20th century

Hochst Group
An example of a Hochst group figurine, comprising of some men carefully tending to the appearance of the seated woman, one is holding a mirror

Road sign, drive carefully
A road sign in English and German: Death is so permanent, drive carefully. Date: 1940s

Old Clothes Exchange, Phils Buildings, Houndsditch 1882
The court of Phils buildings was found directly opposite St Mary Axe. A barrier was placed across steps leading up to the court, as there was an admission fee of one penny

ROAST PARSNIPS
Carefully buttering up large parsnip slices and adding salt and pepper before roasting them in the oven. Date: 1930s

WASHING UP IN A BOWL
A housewife carefully washing up her china in an enamel bowl, with plenty of Lux soap suds! Date: 1930s

INDIAN CLOTH MERCHANT
A white European woman looks carefully through piles of fabrics, brought to her home by a cloth merchant in colonial India. Date: 1930s

The War of the Worlds - Quietly observing a martian
" I began to closely observe this fighting machine, making sure, first, that the hood (cap) contained a species which was actually Martian." Date: First published: 1898

Advertisement for M&B All Bright beer -- male model pouring beer from a bottle into a glass. 1959

Mirror Lapper. Machine designed by Leonardo. Codex Atlanticu
Mirror Lapper. Machine by to the manufacturing of concave mirrors. During the Renaissance, mirrors are obtained by smoothing carefully bronze, copper or silver surfaces until they reflect perfectly

WW2 poster, Work carefully, avoid scrap
WW2 poster, Accidents sometimes happen... Work carefully, avoid scrap. HMSO, Ministry of Aircraft Production. Date: 1940s

Girl with Kitten 1940S
If you are going to let your children keep pets, you must spare the time to see that they learn to treat the animals properly. This girl feeds her kitten carefully. Date: 1940s

Disraeli / Cricket Innings
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Lord Derby advises Dizzy to bat carefully against the Liberal opposition (Gladstone, Russell and Bright are waiting to bowl) Date: 7 July 1866

Girl Carries Bowl 1884
A small German girl, with her hair in a plait, carefully carries a bowl. Date: 1884

Rice - threshing floor - Rangoon -.about 50 feet square, we could see what they had been watering down carefully yesterday afternoon, was cow dung, smooth and hard as cement. Date: 1952

Your binoculars could prevent this Loan your 6 x 30 or 7 x 50 Zeiss or Bausch and Lomb binoculars to your navy : Pack carefully and send to Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C

Visibility zero unless you lend your binoculars to the navy 6 x 30 or 7 x 50 Zeiss or Bausch and Lomb : Pack carefully and send to Navy Observatory, Washington, D.C

Varnishing Nails
Nail varnish should be applied very carefully, with a small brush, first horizontally from left to right, then vertically from the fingertips downwards. Do not smear the varnish! Date: 1930s

Knitting Boffin
A bespectacled boffin attempts a spot of knitting, carefully following the knitting pattern! Date: 1930s

Vivid Varnish

Victorian Farmyard (The harvest). Workers on a coastal field carefully load the precious corn on to a cart while women tie up the sheaves. Unattributed illustrator Date: circa 1870

Nanny and Child
A small, rather solemn-looking child sits on their carers lap, staring out into the distance. The nanny holds the child carefully, stroking one of the childs tiny, chubby feet

O what a tangled web we weave
Cartoon, O what a tangled web we weave. One of those little society scandals which are always carefully hushed up. A woman attached to a spiderweb

Bourgeois Working
A carefully posed photo showing members of the bourgeoisie forced to clear snow in the streets of Petrograd

Excavated houses unearthed at Herculaneum
An ancient Roman town unearthed beneath thirty feet of solidified mud from the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D

Professional Packer
A professional packer at work carefully laying clothing and linens into a trunk of a wealthy client

Butler Ladles Soup
Mr. Edgar, the stuffy butler of the Edwardian Country House, carefully ladles out the soup into bowls during a formal dinner

Driving Past Animals
Drive carefully past animals

Fitting shop at the Grand junction railway works
The fitting shop at the Grand Junction railway engine works at Crewe. Repairs of locomotive engines and the completion of new engines

Baby in Incubator
A nurse carefully handles a premature baby, holding its head in the incubator

Blue-Flowered Shrub
A shrub with blue flowers is carefully arranged to form a striking jugendstil composition

Attacking the Police Hq
An episode of the February Revolution - insurgents fire on the police headquarters, Petrograd - a carefully posed photograph, with spectators enjoying the show

Making Model Trains
Two skilled young women making toy locomotives in a British factory. The engines are carefully cut and bent into shape and then hand painted

Racial / Japan / Girl / Bridge
A girl walks carefully across a bridge opening her parasol against the rain. She is wearing the distinctive kimono, shoes and hair of a geisha

Aristocratic Couple 1780
She watches from beneath her parasol while he helps himself to a pinch of snuff; she moves her head carefully so as not to endanger her elaborately high-piled hair-do

Atlantic Cable Coiled
At Greenwich the cable is carefully coiled in tanks before loading aboard the Great Eastern - enough to stretch from one side of the ocean to the other !

German Anti-Aircraft
Carefully camouflaged, these Germans wait with a large calibre gun to fire on enemy aircraft such as the one about to fly past them

Judge Checks Appearance
A newly appointed judge contemplates his reflection, before taking his place on the judges bench, presiding over a court : his wife and clerk inspect him carefully

Pince-Nez Spectacles
Negretti & Zambras spectacles, made with finest Brazilian pebbles or the purest glass, carefully adapted to any sight

Storing Printing Plates
Original Plates are Stored in Fireproof Vaults and Carefully Indexed

Racial / Arabs / Bedouin
A Bedouin camp in the desert with carefully tended livestock

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