Correct Collection (page 3)

Cricket Wicket Keeping
A cricketer demonstrating how to wicket keep. The correct way. Date: 1888

Cricket Catching
A fielding performing the right way to catch. Date: 1888

Cricket the right and wrong way of batting
A batsman demonstrate the correct way of batting; straight play and then the incorrect way; cross play Date: 1892

Cricket The Wicket Keeper
A wicket keeper demonstrating the correct way of how to wicket keep. Date: circa 19th century

WW2 poster, Be quick in your clearance of goods inwards to stores -- make lightning speed with accuracy your motto. Date: 1940s

How your body measurements should be taken 1924
American clothing catalogue, showing where you should measure yourself, for a womans bust, waist and hip line, and also for length of skirt

Sprinting Soldiers
Young army cadets at Aldershot barracks, Hampshire, England, being coached in the correct position for a start in a sprint race. Date: 16 June 1933

How to Carve
The correct way to carve poultry, a demonstration at the London School of Carving. Date: early 1930s

Completely bizarre conversation concerning identification
Completely bizarre conversation between two cabbies concerning identification - at least the participants seem to understand one another. Overheard on a Cab Rank

NFS firefighter rolling out fire hose, WW2
A London Region NFS firefighter in an instructional photograph demonstrating the correct method of rolling out a line of hose

A mid-summer days dream - While our artist sleeps, his favorite subjects are left to do justice to themselves, and to correct his conceptions

A correct view of the battle near the city of New Orleans, on the eighth of January 1815, under the command of Genl. Andw

A Correct Likeness of Mr. H. Rockwells Horse Alexander, Bowery Amphitheatre, New York March 17th 1840 Date: March 17th 1840

BRAIN TEST
A test for the quickness of the eye and brain. A number is shouted and the person must press the correct bulb as soon as possible. London Institute of Psychology. Date: 1930s

Tea tango craze: learning to Tango, 1913
Ladies learning the tango standing in a circle, while teacher Mme Vicarni instructs and drills them in steps and movements. Here, the correct position of the arm is demonstrated. Date: 1913

Kit Bag contents - US Navy
The correct way that a member of the US Navy should pack his kit bag. A card from the US Training Center - Great Lakes, Illinois, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Whitfields Mount
A protuberance on the Heath where methodist preacher George Whitefield (correct spelling) addressed the crowds. It survives, but is less protuberant today

Preparing for Court
A prospective debutante being instructed in the correct way to approach the King and Queen at a court presentation. A sheet acts as a train and two ladies sit on " thrones"

Heathfield / Elliot
George Augustus Elliot (variously spelt but this is correct), made lord HEATHFIELD for his brilliant defence of Gibraltar during the Great Siege by French & Spanish

China / Hukou Jiangxi
Previously Hu Kew Hyen : we believe this identification to be correct, but are not 100% certain

Folklore / Bigorne
The bigorne is a sexist creature which eats men who do as their wives tell them; though no longer politically correct, it may not be extinct

Pyx Office at Mint
Ingots of silver are weighed in the Pyx office, checking that they are the correct weight

How to Hold Sheep
A farm worker demonstrates the correct way to hold a sheep before placing it in the dip

Warwick Racing Bill
A correct LIST of all the HORSES entered to RUN at WARWICK, on Wednesday 6th & Thursday 7th of SEPTEMBER, 1775. The Rt Hon Lord GUERNSEY, Steward

Treating Bow Legs
Apparatus intended to correct bow legs

Treating the Spine (4)
Oscillating chair designed to correct deformities of the spine, holding neck and body in any desired position

Treating the Spine (2)
Chair designed to correct deformities of the spine, holding it in any desired position

Bigorne / Eats Husband
The bigorne is a sexist creature which eats men who do as their wives tell them; though no longer politically correct, it may not be extinct

Pearly King in Australia
A Pearly King at Ingleburn, Australia, asks a group of Diggers to guess the correct number of buttons on his coster suit

Unarmedcherubs
Unusually, these two cherubs are depicted with wings instead of arms, instead of crediting them with both, as is customary : this of course is more anatomically correct

Art / Techniques / Device
Device used to paint or draw landscapes with the correct scale. It is made of glass marked with squares and an eye-piece on the end of an adjustable rod

Pistol Shooting - 2
The correct position for a gentleman particpating in a pistol duel : he holds his weapon level with his line of sight

CASSANDRA, daughter of Priam & Hecuba, Trojan royals : prophetess, but when Apollo failed to ravish her, he fixed it that no one would believe her correct prophecies

Machine for Tight Lacing
Satire on the fashion for tight corsets - A correct view of the new machine for winding up the ladies

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