Conditions Collection (page 9)

Woman bathing baby, Falls Road, Northern Ireland
A mother dries her baby after its bath, living in squalid conditions in a slum bedsit on the Falls Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Date: 1969

Civil Defence Handbook, what to do and life after attack
Civil Defence Handbook, what to do immediately after attack and life under fall-out conditions

Civil Defence Handbook, continuation of life after attack
Civil Defence Handbook, a continuation of life under fall-out conditions

Advert for Homocea, babies medicine 1894
Homocea touches the spot in croup and all similar ailments Available from Hooper, Chemist, King William Street, London. 1894

Canadian Voyageurs
Two French-Canadian voyageurs negotiate a rapid on the Saguenay river : settlers adopt the native boats as the most suitable for local conditions. Date: 18/19th century

Uckingen Ironworks / 1899
Change of shift at Uckingen Ironworks, Germany. Date: 1899

Registering Unemployed
Registering the unemployed at Chelsea, London, 1887. Date: 1887

Terms and Conditions
A lodging-house keeper names her terms and conditions to a potential guest - no unaccompanied female visitors, no alcohol, no cooking in the rooms... Date: 1842

London Messenger Boy
A London messenger boy Date: 1908

Strikers Stop Train
The wives & children of strikers at the Cummings Nail Mills in Chicago stop a train as a protest. Date: 1886

Pit Brow Girls
Pit brow women Date: circa 1905

Artificial Flower / N. York
Making artificial flowers at 12 cents per gross, New York. Date: 1891

John Hamilton (Naval)
JOHN HAMILTON naval commander, known for his courage and humour : instigated reforms in seamens conditions, drowned in shipwreck Date: ? - 1755

COLLIERY LASSES / 1890 S
Colliery Lasses, probably in Lancashire. Date: 1890 s

Pit Bank Women / 1904
Pit bank women, Wednesbury. Date: 1904

Artificial Flower Making
A group of women sit around a large table making artificial flowers, London. Date: 1882

Ross in Pack Ice
The Erebus and Terror in pack ice, in gale conditions, off the South Polar Ice Barrier, in the course of James Rosss 1839-1843 Antarctic expedition Date: January 1842

Cigar Lighters
Two lighters, including the Chronometer Automatic lighter, which will ignite in all conditions of wind and weather. circa 1909

Well-Equipped British
British troops suitably equipped for fighting in North American conditions - Rogers Rangers in the snow picture 2 of 2 Date: 1757

Festiniog Railway 1
FESTINIOG RAILWAY - snowy conditions create problems for Fairlie engine Princess Date: 1880

Swedish glassworks
People at work in a Swedish glassworks. Date: 17th century

Bessemer converter in a steelworks
A Bessemer converter in a steelworks -- a process designed for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron, removing impurities by oxidation by blowing air through the molten iron

London water carrier in Hampstead
A London water carrier in Hampstead. He is carrying two wooden buckets hanging from a yoke across his shoulders. Date: 1850

London bus strike 1891
Front cover of The Penny Illustration Paper showing the first strike by London transport workers in 1891, over working conditions and pay. Date: 1891

Saint Elisabeth, Princess of Hungary (1207-1231), wife of Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia. She spent vast sums of money improving the conditions of the poor, and died at the age of 24

Frozen-out-gardens 1850
Bitter cold winter months were very harsh for men from the country-side, usually digging vegetables. The winter season and frozen grounds made it hard to find work

Fisherman with pollock, Lands End, Cornwall
Fisherman landing a four pound eight ounce pollock near Lands End, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Reverse of card sent from Essex Boys Industrial School, Chelmsford, complaining about conditions in the institution. (Front of card is a separate image in this collection.) Date: circa 1906

Spinal cases, Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home, Alton, Hamp
Children with various spinal conditions in wheelchairs, beds etc. at the Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home, Alton, Hampshire. Date: early 1900s

Oxo advertisement, WWI
Advertisement for Oxo, an inestimable boon to the fighting forces at this time of the year. Advert is illustrated by two scenes showing British soldiers manning a machine gun on the front line

Things We Vow We Will Do, When Peace Breaks out
Cartoon by George Studdy showing a gent purposefully indulging in wasteful behaviour, a welcome relief after years of food control, shortages and rationing. Date: 1918

Fishery workers on a quayside
Fishery workers engrossed in their work, surrounded by barrels on a quayside. Date: circa 1920s

Man with two horses in a field. Date: circa 1920s

The Three Musketeers - Canadian sharpshooters, WW1
" The Three Musketeers" of Princess Patricias Own (Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry) firing from a mound with a fine view of the German first line trenches

After a meal in a British trench 1915
A peaceful pipe before another spell of duty. 1915

The Irrespressibles by J. H. Thorpe
Xmas 1913 - and 1914, but still smiling. The irrepressible spirit of the British Tommy illustrated by J. H. Thorpe in December 1914. Date: 1914

WW1 - Russian soldiers brew tea - Galicia (once a small kingdom that currently straddles the border between Poland and Ukraine) - 1916 Date: 1916

Cottage at entrance to Haddon Hall, Derbyshire
Little changed to this day, this buildinghas stood at the bottom of the slope leading to Haddon Hall for centuries. The chimney smoke gives an idea of the exposure time

Northern Red-backed Vole - emerges from a hide in wood-store (Myodes rutilus Pallas). Wildlife reserve Denezhkin Kamen - North Ural Mountains - Russia

Red Squirrel - feeds actively on sunflower seeds left by people in bird-feeders (Sciurus vulgaris L.). parkland woods near Ekateringburg - Ural Mountains - Russia

Red Squirrel - feeds actively on frozen berries in freezing weather (Sciurus vulgaris L.). parkland woods near Ekateringburg - Ural Mountains - Russia

A researcher outside of a hut of hunters and fishermen on a Kara sea shore, in a blizzard. Such blizzards in Russian Arctic may go on for a week, and visibility is restricted to a few metres

Fence-fishing, North Siberia, Russia. Selkup (Northern minority) fishermen pull burbots with hooks from traps, built in river Hudosey, covered with ice; winter (Polar Night), snowing

Rainbow after evening rain over river Negustyah (typical Siberian river). tributary of river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nat. reserve, Siberia, Russia; spring

Morning mist over river Negustyah, a tributary of river Bolshoi Ugan. Spring. near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nat. reserve, Siberia, Russia

Illustrated War News - Canadians on the Western Front
Front cover of The Illustrated War News featuring a photograph of Canadian soldiers having their lunch in a trench on the Western Front. Date: 1916

Illustrated War News - Tommy at the Front
Front cover of The Illustrated War News with a photograph of typical British Tommies at the Front with blankets over their uniform to ward against the cold. Date: 1916

Big gun going forward across waterlogged battle zone, WW1
British soldiers moving a big gun forward across a waterlogged battle zone in Flanders in 1918 - demonstrating the famous mud and flooding of the Western Front. Date: 1918

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