Chalk Collection (page 3)

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

Cadburys Happy Families - Master Vogue
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Master Vogue the Artists Son. circa 1950

London Trade Card - Dorothy Mercier, Printseller and Stationer, at the Golden Ball, Windmill Street, facing Silver Street, Golden Square. 18th century

Monkey holding a slate on a cutout Christmas card
Monkey holding a slate on a cutout Christmas and New Year card (front). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of three snooker balls and a chalk cube. Date: circa 1890s

Glacial Striations on Chalk, Kilcoan, Islandmagee - a close in view of scrapes on an exposed chalk outcrop. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Islandmagee). Date: circa early 1900s

Magheralin, Moira, Boulder Clay Overlying Indurated Chalk - a ground level view of the rock strata with people in the foreground and horse and trap to the rear

Chalk Capped By Boulder Clay, Magheralin Quarry, Moira - a view of the quarry and exposed rock strata. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Moira). Date: circa early 1900s

Sarcophagus. Chalk. From Ar ara. 2nd-3rd century AD
Sarcophagus. Chalk. It comes form Ar ar. Roman period. 2nd-3rd century AD. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel

Chalk Cliffs, Glenarm, Antrim Coast Road - roadside cliffs with horse vehicle. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Glenarm). Date: circa early 1900s

Indurated Chalk Capped By the Plateau Basalts, Whitewell Quarry, Belfast - a close in view of rock strata. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Rhaptic and Lower Lias Clay, Below Chalk Quarry, Cavehill - a view of exposed clay marked with an X. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Dolerite Dyke Traversing the Chalk and Basalts, Cavehill Quarry, Belfast - an overview of the stratas of rock. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Chalk Boulders Slipping Over the Lias, Antrim Coast Rd. - an elevated view looking down to the coast road, with horse and trap, showing chalk boulders. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim)

Man and boys on a street, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Man and boys on a street in the Falls Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

Boys on a window ledge, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Two boys standing on a window ledge in the Falls Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

Beachy Head old lighthouse, near Eastbourne, Sussex
Belle Tout, the old, decommissioned lighthouse, a Grade II listed building on top of the cliff at Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, Sussex. Date: circa 1960s

Education in China - Teacher and Pupil
Education in China - a teacher helping a young girl with her Mathematics. Date: circa 1920s

Happy Families - Mr Teacher. circa 1940s

New Year card in the shape of a childs slate. Date: early 20th century

Caricature of John Ruskin, English art critic
Caricature of John Ruskin (1819-1900), English art critic -- a comment on his criticism of Henry Irving, seen here in a drawing on a blackboard in the character of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Mrs Chalk. circa 1935

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Mr Chalk the Schoolmaster. circa 1935

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Miss Chalk. circa 1935

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Master Chalk. circa 1935

Three boys in schoolroom on a Christmas card
Three boys in sailor suits in a schoolroom on a Christmas card -- one of them is drawing their teachers face on the blackboard. Date: circa 1890s

3-PIECE SUIT 1909
A sobre looking R G Tatlow wears a dark chalk stripe 3- piece suit with narrow trousers, waistcoat with a collar, shirt with a turn down collar, tie & black boots. Date: 1909

Morning Coat & Cigarette
Anthony Drexel wears a morning coat, trousers with a chalk stripe & front crease, all round collar, tie & black & brown half boots. He smokes a cigarette from a holder. Date: 1910

Group photo, Marylebone schoolchildren, London
Group photo, Marylebone junior schoolchildren, Class V, London. circa 1920s

Pavement artist at work. Date: circa 1960s

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