Common Collection (page 34)

An avalanche in Piedmont, Northern Italy. Great destruction
An avalanche in Piedmont. Avalanches are common in the Piedmontese side of the Alps, much destruction is caused by the falling boulders and snow

The Sultan of Morocco, 1906
Photograph showing the Sultan of Morocco wearing a Russian uniform, 1906. Owing to a prejudice against foreigners, common in Morocco at this time

Landing at the Lighthouse, 1895
Illustration showing the arrival of visitors, by boat, at a lighthouse. As is shown in this picture, the most common way to reach offshore lighthouses in Victorian times was by landing small rowing

Cow on a P&O steamer, 1890
Illustration of several passengers admiring a P&O ships cow. Livestock was a common feature on board at this time, as this creatures purpose built stable testifies. Date: 1890

British soldier in a new gas-mask
A British soldier wearing a new gas mask. Following the German use of poisonous gas at Ypres on April 22nd, 1915, it became a common feature of World War I warfare

Sheffield United Football Team, 1902
Photograph showing the Sheffield United Football team of the 1901-1902 season. That year they beat Southampton to win the F.A. Cup. The players photographed were: Standing, left to right: B

Fur / Ermine
Unfortunately for the ermine (putorius ermineus) its fur is much valued, being traditionally associated with royalty, while common folk had to make do with rabbit

The Wave Hairstyle, 1926
A permanently waved hairstyle by Feminix salon, Piccadilly, London, 1926. Shingled or bobbed hair became universally popular during the 1920 s, a reflection of womens new-found freedom

Buying a House 1960S
A happy family stand outside their brand new home, Sold by Hugh Howard of Wimbledon Common, London

Diphtheria at Woolwich
Sketches of the diphtheria huts on Woolwich Common. The huts were used to confine those infected by the epidemic

Sir Henry Hobart, Judge
SIR HENRY HOBART Judge, Lord Chief Justice in his Majestys Court of Common Pleas

Art Journal Catalogue
The allegorical title page of the Art Journal Catalogue to the Great Exhibition shows how the artist and the artisan unite their endeavours for the common good

Inventions great and small: shaving in public
Amusing photograph of a man shaving in a train carriage captioned How to beguile the morning journey, or shaving in public; a sight which may become common if a recent automatic dry-shaving apparatus

Royal Graves Vandalised
Hatred of the ancien regime is carried to extremes when vandals break into the crypt at Saint-Denis, take the royal corpses from their coffins and throw them in a common ditch

Ficus (Fig)
Common fig figuier commun

Common Hamster
(cricetus cricetus) The Common Hamster is very different from the charming Golden Hamster which so cheerfully entertains us with its party tricks

Eurasian Badger
(meles meles) The common or Eurasian badger

FROG / 1857 (BUCKLAND)
A common frog

Frozen Feet
A little girl sitting on a bench in the snow, crying because shes got frozen toes! Earlswood Lakes, Redhill Common, Surrey, England

8-Horse Rolling Wagon
A team of eight horses pulls a heavy wagon with an undercarriage mounted on four rollers. The text below gives instruction for the operation and loading of the wagon

Customs / Cheese Rolling
Cheese Rolling at Coopers Hill. For over 400 years this Whit-Monday ceremony has taken place to preserve rights of common as grazing-ground

Lace Advert & Samples
An advertisement for Urlings Lace, depicting their offices at 392 The Strand, London and giving samples of common lace, Urlings lace, Cotton and Urlings patent thread

Owen Jones Flowers 93
Ivy Palmata and Common Ivy: full-sized leaves, traced from nature

Plants / Rumex Acetosa
COMMON SORREL

Plants / Solanum Nigrum
Common or Garden Nightshade

Ferns Athyrum Filix-F
COMMON LADY-FERN

Lenin / Red Square / May Day
VLADIMIR LENIN Russian statesman, talking to men in Red Square, Moscow, Russia, while his car waits for him

Robert William Thomson
ROBERT WILLIAM THOMSON Scottish engineer, invented the locomotive traction engine for use on common roads

Common and Angora Goat
Common goat (top) Angora-goat (bottom)

Oxford Uni Marg Hall
Women undergraduates in the Junior Common Room of Lady Margaret Hall

Autumn Walkers
A mother and child enjoy a walk through the Autumn mist in the woods on Horseshoe Common, Bournemouth, Dorset, England

Plants Juniperus Communi
Common juniper

Race Day Fashions
Race-goers in black velvet coats, V -neck dresses & silver fox fur stoles. N.B the wrist watch & fur muff & hat with chin strap. One dress has floral panels on the corsage

Curtis / Common Gladiolus
Gladiolus or Common Cornflap Gladiolus Communis

Golf / Minchinhampton
On the Ladies Course on Minchinhampton Common, Gloucestershire

Marxism Good for Leaders
Satire : Marxism is great for the party leaders but not so hot for the common people. Marx and some party leaders fly through the air above the common people

Garlic Head 19C
Common garlic

Motoring in the Bois in style in 1900: Vis-a Vis style
This is a vis-a vis (face to face) style of seating for the motor car common to the little, slow, primitive cars of Victorian motoring

Caxton / First Pawn
THE FIRST PAWN - representing the common man and labourer without whose work the nobles cannot rule. He stands on the board before the Rook (officer of the king) whom he serves

Drover with Cows, Sheep
A drover & his donkey leads his sheep & cattle to graze on common land

Children Listen to Radio
Three children at the Babies Hotel, Clapham Common, London, listen intently to the radio at home, whilst Teddy seems distracted

Sri Lankan Boy Scouts
A party of boy scouts from Ceylon (Sri Lanka), rehearsing at Clapham, London, on their way to the World Jamboree in Hungary

Wimbledon Common 1907
Wimbledon Common, with sheep and a distant windmill

Kitty Discards Crinoline
Forced to her senses Kitty abandons extremes of fashion to preserve her love with the long-suffering Adolphus, who with Fido the dog trample the collapsed hoops in triumph

Various Egyptian Costume
Various Egyptian costume: Left to right - Women & men of the common people, ladies of rank, men of rank and a royal fan-bearer

Bible Accessible
Miles Coverdale translates the Bible into english, so for the first time it is accessible to the common woman and man

Sabines Snipe (Morris)
SABINEs SNIPE (Gallinago gallinago) This is not a separate species, just a darker form of the Common Snipe

Common Gulls on Beach
COMMON GULLS on a beach (Larus canus)

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