Chalk Collection (page 2)

Comic postcard, Little boy doing multiplication Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little boy and teacher - grammar lesson Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two little girls and teacher. Now what is it that elephants have that no other animal has? - Please Miss - Baby Elephants!! Date: 20th century

Birling Gap, near Eastbourne, East Sussex
circa 1910s

Photograph of Railway Tavern, Chalk Farm, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub

Photograph of Monarch PH, Chalk Farm, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details

Photograph of Lansdowne PH, Chalk Farm, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details: Trading Record 1929

Photograph of Haverstock Arms, Chalk Farm, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub

Photograph of Eton Hotel, Chalk Farm, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details

Sketch of Engineer PH, Chalk Farm, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Sketch of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details: Nothing for the Engineer

Photograph of Engineer PH, Chalk Farm, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details: Trading Record 1934

Photograph of Chalk Farm Tavern, Camden Town, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Right face on view of the pub

Portrait of Sir Thomas Lawrences father, innkeeper Thomas Lawrence. Portly man in wig seated on a chair. Hand-tinted engraving by Frederick Christian Lewis after an illustration by Sir Thomas

Leptogium biatorinum (Chalk lichen, Lichen cretaceus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1800

Walls of the Convent of St. Clare or Minoresses, 1797
Parts of the north and east walls of the Convent of St. Clare or Minoresses, founded 1293. After the fire of March 23, 1797. Walls of Caen stone and chalk, timber oak and chestnut

Geological sections and plan of a coal mine
Plan of a coal mine and mode of ventilation, 19th century. Geological sections of metallic veins, chalk, basalt, and limestone

Working Soldier, by Frank Brangwyn
Working Soldier, study drawing by Frank Brangwyn, First World War. circa 1925

Study for Exodus, by Frank Brangwyn, WW1
Study for Exodus, by Frank Brangwyn, depicting Belgian civilian refugees fleeing their homes during the First World War. Brangwyn was Belgian by birth. circa 1918

Children playing on London streets 1900s
Edwardian children playing on the empty streets with nothing more than some chalk, rope and wheel and hoop. 1900s

Pavement artists at work, Bonn, Germany. Date: circa 1960s

The famous chalk stag on the hillside, Rheidol Valley, north Wales. Date: 1939

HIGHDOWN CHALKPIT
West Chalkpit, on Highdown, near Worthing, Sussex, England. Date: 1950s

Frock Coated Gent 1909
Sir A Osmond Williams wears a frock coat, chalk striped trousers with front creases, spats, a fawn coloured waistcoat with watch chain, all round collar & black tie. Date: 1909

English Yokel practising maths on slate 1858
An English Yokel practising his maths on a slate. Date: 1858

Performing Fleas - Street Entertainment - North East London. Date: circa 1907

From the Western Front To Willie with compliments 1916
Sergeant seen lying down beside a large shell bearing the message To Willie with compliments on the side. During WWI gunners often sent massages etched in chalk on shells. Date: 1916

Design for Textile or Wallpaper with yellow roses. Pencil, coloured chalk and Gouache on detail paper. Silver Studio. 1894

Wilmington Long Man
The Wilmington Long Man (or giant), cut in the chalk on the South Downs, between Lewes and Eastbourne. This figure is about 230 feet high and was reset in bricks in 1874. Date: 1950s

Kuda Bux and one of his experiments
Undated photograph of Kuda Bux and one of his experiments with " eyeless sight" : with head bandaged, he is duplicating shorthand characters drawn on a blackboard by Lucie Kay

Piece of string with comic verse on a Christmas card
Piece of string with comic verse instructions on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

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

Bakers with bread on a Christmas card -- He knows which side his bread is buttered. Date: circa 1890s

Sky diver practising in a field. Date: circa 1963

Chislehurst caves during WWII
Chislehurst caves, Kent, during WWII. Mothers in bunks and babies in cots deep underground in their cave shelter. 1944

Fossils of diatoms, foraminifera, ferns and mollusks.. Chromolithograph from Dr. Fr. Rolles Geology and Paleontology section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schuberts Natural History, Schreiber, Munich, 1886

Boys playing football in Balham, SW London
Three boys playing football in front of a concrete wall in a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boy keeping goal in Balham, SW London
A boy keeping goal in front of a concrete wall in a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Fire at Chinacraft store, Oxford Street, London
LFB firefighters in attendance at the Chinacraft store, 499 Oxford Street, London, on 28 July 1958. A fire had occurred in the basement area. A policeman keeps pedestrians and traffic moving past

Blitz in London -- Cannon Street fire station, WW2
Blitz in London -- Cannon Street fire station in the City damaged by bombing, 16 April 1941. The words dangerous wall have been chalked up. Date: 1941

Cretaceous chalk seafloor
An artists impression of a Cretaceous (144 to 65 million years ago) hard chalk seafloor, where an ammonite floats above crinoids, sea urchins, brachiopods, molluscs, and a lobster

Macropoma lewesiensis, an extinct coelacanth fish
Restoration of one of the last coelacanth fishes (Macropoma lewesiensis). It lived in the clear water chalk seas of sourthern England 85 mya, and grew to about 60 cm in length

Coccolith
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a Folkestone chalk surface with Cretaceous coccoliths (x2500 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Chalk sea diorama
Diorama of Cretaceous (144 to 65 million years ago) sea floor chalk deposits, and various cephalopods

Sketch of a little girl reading a book
Sketch of a little girl sitting on the floor reading a book

Little girl teaching maths to circus elephants
Unusual Friends - little girl teaching maths to circus elephants. 1950s

Attack on Logeast Wood, appropriate the battalions trophies
During the advance on the Western Front there was a race amoung men near a captured enemy gun for the honour of making upon it the name of the battalion to which it fell. Date: 1918

Cock fighting on board a P&O cruise liner -- two men tied up inside a chalk circle, with other passengers watching in amusement. Date: circa 1905

Upper Vth Form, Sidcot School, Winscombe, Somerset
Upper Vth Form with a class in progress, Sidcot School, Winscombe, North Somerset, an independent Quaker school. Date: circa 1920s

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