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Course Collection (page 15)

Background imageCourse Collection: Commune Damage 8

Commune Damage 8
The remains of the ponts d Asnieres, destroyed in the course of the fighting for the Commune

Background imageCourse Collection: Police Cycle Proficiency

Police Cycle Proficiency
Metropolitan Police officer from the Road Safety Unit carrying out a cycling proficiency course for children on bicycles at a school

Background imageCourse Collection: Japs Fighting Chinese

Japs Fighting Chinese
Japanese soldiers swim a river in the course of an attack on the Chinese lines

Background imageCourse Collection: Jovial Judge, Winner of the 1926 Waterloo Cup

Jovial Judge, Winner of the 1926 Waterloo Cup
Photograph of the greyhound Jovial Judge, owned by Mr. J.L. Jarvis and trained by Mr. Denny Smith; the Winner of the 1926 Waterloo Cup

Background imageCourse Collection: Boat of Tartary 1787

Boat of Tartary 1787
Boat of Tchoka, Tartary, observed by La Perouse in the course of his famous voyage

Background imageCourse Collection: Republican Outbreak - 5

Republican Outbreak - 5
In the course of disturbances following a demonstration by Republican extremists, Suchet, one of the leaders, is arrested by the authorities

Background imageCourse Collection: Republican Outbreak - 4

Republican Outbreak - 4
In the course of disturbances following a demonstration by Republican extremists, the minister of public works is assailed by the insurgents

Background imageCourse Collection: Uprising in Naples - 2

Uprising in Naples - 2
In the course of the uprising in Naples, liberals set fire to the palazzo Gravina

Background imageCourse Collection: Emperor in Italy

Emperor in Italy
Guns salute Ferdinand I, emperor of Austria, as he steams into Capodistria, in the course of a visit to his Italian possessions

Background imageCourse Collection: Scranton Curtains 1919

Scranton Curtains 1919
A lady relaxes contentedly over her breakfast, secure in the knowledge that her curtains - by Scranton, of course - reflect her elegance and good taste

Background imageCourse Collection: Mallaby-Deeley, Golfer

Mallaby-Deeley, Golfer
Sir Harry Mallaby-Deeley, course architect and designer of Princes Golf Club, Kent

Background imageCourse Collection: Trouble at Grenoble - 1

Trouble at Grenoble - 1
Not everyone welcomes the Restauration of the Bourbons : at Grenoble, Didier heads an insurrection in favour of the Republic, but of course it is soon suppressed

Background imageCourse Collection: The loss of HMS Victoria the flagship after being rammed by

The loss of HMS Victoria the flagship after being rammed by
The loss of the flagship H.M.S Victoria showing the boat sinking after being rammed by H.M.S Camperdown. 436 men died as a result of an Admiral sending the two ships on a collison course

Background imageCourse Collection: Registering the finish of a horse race by photograph

Registering the finish of a horse race by photograph
A photograph of how the finish of a horse race is photographed. In order to terminate any dispute about the winner in a race, the first horse breaks a tight wire operating the apparatus

Background imageCourse Collection: Jean Bart Threatens

Jean Bart Threatens
NAVAL BATTLE OFF TEXEL In the course of his victory over the Anglo-Dutch fleet, Jean Bart boards a Dutch vessel and threatens to blow her up unless she surrenders

Background imageCourse Collection: African Tribal Chief

African Tribal Chief
Kannema, a chieftain encountered by explorer Heinrich Barth in the course of his travels in west and central Africa

Background imageCourse Collection: Club Des Feuillants

Club Des Feuillants
A body of moderates splitting from the Jacobins to pursue a less extremist course, the Feuillants make their home in an old convent near the Tuileries (now destroyed)

Background imageCourse Collection: The Thames flooded after unprecedented rainfall. The area ar

The Thames flooded after unprecedented rainfall. The area ar
The flooded area about Weybridge, after unprecedented rainfall the Thames burst its banks. The course of the river untraceable where the banks of the river have merged into the land

Background imageCourse Collection: Erichthonius

Erichthonius
The daughters of Cecrops are told to guard a box but not to open it; of course they do, and out pops the snake-child Ericthonius, scaring them so they jump off the Acropolis

Background imageCourse Collection: Boy into Lizard

Boy into Lizard
Demeter, desperately seeking her abducted daughter, gets thirsty : the boy Stellio mocks her for drinking so quickly, so of course she turns him into a lizard

Background imageCourse Collection: RAIL / TUNNEL / 1831

RAIL / TUNNEL / 1831
LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER RAILWAY Inside a tunnel along the course of the historic rail link, opened in September 1830

Background imageCourse Collection: Payta Bombarded

Payta Bombarded
Anson, in the course of his round-the-world voyage, bombards and nearly destroys the town of Payta in northern Peru

Background imageCourse Collection: Scientist Loves Cadburys

Scientist Loves Cadburys
An archetypal scientist, with a flowing beard and surrounded by apparatus, studies a sample of Cadburys Cocoa; he of course concludes that it is the finest available

Background imageCourse Collection: Epsom on Derby Day

Epsom on Derby Day
A spectacular birds-eye view over the expanse of the Epsom race course during the running of The Derby. Horse Buses and carriages line the track as the crowd follows the racers

Background imageCourse Collection: Social / Blackpool Cabaret

Social / Blackpool Cabaret
A cabaret interlude in the Spanish courtyard of the Blackpool Winter Gardens - and the dance is of course Spanish in style

Background imageCourse Collection: London Dog Show 1861

London Dog Show 1861
Dog shows at this period are often informal affairs, held in the back rooms of hostelries; they are exclusively male occasions, of course

Background imageCourse Collection: Sisters Sleep with Dolls

Sisters Sleep with Dolls
Two sisters prepare for bed - and of course their dolls come to bed with them

Background imageCourse Collection: Two Ladies at Cannes

Two Ladies at Cannes
Two women on the Croisette at Cannes - the one in the centre is, of course, wearing MONDIA stockings - the most becoming and the most perfect from every point of view

Background imageCourse Collection: Moscow Funeral

Moscow Funeral
The funeral of those who gave their lives fighting for the revolution in Moscow is of course the occasion for a massive propaganda exercise

Background imageCourse Collection: Ansons Naval Victory

Ansons Naval Victory
Anson, in the course of his round-the-world voyage, encounters and takes the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Cabadonga

Background imageCourse Collection: Quatre Bras Casualty

Quatre Bras Casualty
BATTLE OF QUATRE BRAS - in the course of the battle the duke of Brunswick, an officer in the Allied army, is shot

Background imageCourse Collection: St Bartholomew Flayed

St Bartholomew Flayed
SAINT BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE depicted in the course of being flayed alive on the orders of a barbarian king, though the legend may have no basis in fact

Background imageCourse Collection: Dragon (Mandeville)

Dragon (Mandeville)
Sir John Mandeville encountered flying dragons in the course of his unbelievably remarkable travels

Background imageCourse Collection: Pope Leo VIII

Pope Leo VIII
POPE LEO VIII deposed and restored in course of conflict with rivals

Background imageCourse Collection: Magic Versus Sanctity

Magic Versus Sanctity
A magical contest between Simon Magus, representing magic, and the saints Peter and Paul : the saints won, of course, so Simon converted to Christianity

Background imageCourse Collection: Man & Woman at Court

Man & Woman at Court
A gentleman and his wife at the court of Louis XV, seen from the rear - something Louis, of course, never saw

Background imageCourse Collection: Helen Fourment

Helen Fourment
HELEN FOURMENT second wife of Rubens, who of course painted the original of this engraving

Background imageCourse Collection: The Castle by the Sea

The Castle by the Sea
Parsifal, Galahad and Bors in the course of questing for the Grail, come to the mysterious Castle by the Sea

Background imageCourse Collection: Harry & Norah Run Away

Harry & Norah Run Away
Cobbs the gardener puts his hand on his hips as he asks young Master Harry and Miss Norah why they are running away together. To get married, of course!

Background imageCourse Collection: Golf / in a Bunker

Golf / in a Bunker
In a bunker sand trap taking a golfing swing

Background imageCourse Collection: Golf / Putting

Golf / Putting
Putting on the green Date: 1909

Background imageCourse Collection: Coal Exchange, London

Coal Exchange, London
The Coal Exchange is where the 960, 000 chaldrons of coal (each of 36 bushels) imported from Newcastle etc each year to keep Londoners warm, are regulated and, of course, taxed

Background imageCourse Collection: Golf Silhouette

Golf Silhouette
Silhouette golfer teeing off

Background imageCourse Collection: Exhausted Soviet Men

Exhausted Soviet Men
Exhausted Russians resting in Prague in the course of their advance towards Germany

Background imageCourse Collection: Exploration / John Byron

Exploration / John Byron
Commander Byron, in the course of his circumnavigation of the world, encounters a giant race in Patagonia

Background imageCourse Collection: Christmas Fare 1935

Christmas Fare 1935
A wonderful spread of Christmas fare, including turkey, pudding, cake and of course, the most modern cooker of the day

Background imageCourse Collection: Serving Goose at Banquet

Serving Goose at Banquet
Serving the Christmas dinner in a grand mansion - the dance of the fools accompanies the second course of pheasant

Background imageCourse Collection: Female Type / Naughty

Female Type / Naughty
A smiling young American woman tells someone off, in the nicest possible way of course, for being naughty



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