Craft Collection (page 18)

German Explosive Motorboat; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a German explosive motorboat being craned into the water, 1944. Controlled by one man, these craft were steered towards the target

Mine-sweeper
A pair of trawlers sweeping for mines in the North Sea with a weighted wire rope stretched between the craft

Christmas on Board a British Battleship, 1894
Engraving showing the scene on the deck of a Royal Navy Warship in the Mediterranean, at Christmas. The women have come onto the warship to sell figs, nuts, apples

Futuristic Space Robots
CATs EYE by Harl Vincent. A many-limbed robot approaches three other metallic robots (or possibly humans in space suits?) below the decks of a futuristic craft

Space Ship Station
When mankind start to explore space they will find it practical to anchor space ship stations at convenient locations, where travelers can transfer to smaller craft

Aspinalls Enamel
An advertisement for Aspinalls Enamel, used by the Prince of Wales and recommended by various duchesses

Lace-Cleaning & Repair
A photograph showing a woman at work restoring and cleaning lace, a possible occupation a lady could do from home in the early 20th century

Making Frilling
Photograph depicting a woman making a frill, perhaps to trim a hat

EMBROIDERY
Photograph of a young woman sitting working on an embroidery ring

A Surf-Boat, Sri Lanka, 1887
Engraving of a Sri Lankan (then Ceylon) surf-boat, under sail, riding the waves, from The Graphic, 1887. With an outrigger and fairly large sail, this vessel looks a stout craft

Basket Making
A man weaving willow baskets by hand

Lace-Making / Malta / Coates
Lace making at Fontana on Gozo, Maltese archipelago

Ufos / New Berlin, NY
A New Berlin housewife looks out of her window at night and sees beings working on a mysterious craft : alas, our artist has taken generous liberties with the facts !

Irish Woman Spinning
Scene inside a cottage in the west of Ireland, showing an Irish girl spinning while a pipe-smoking older woman watches a pot on the fire

Carpenter at Work / Sawing
A carpenter uses a large frame saw to split a thin piece of wood held tightly to his bench

New Orleans / Mississippi
Paddle-Steamers and small sailing craft occupy a busy stretch of the Mississippi at New Orleans

Mexico Chalco
General view of Chalco from the canal on which a steamboat and other river craft are plying to and fro

Peru Trujillo
European vessels and native craft in the harbour of Trujillo (formerly Truxillo)

Reynolds / Miniature / Craft
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS English portrait painter and President of the Royal Academy

Mulberry Harbour
The prefabricated MULBERRY HARBOUR enables Allied troops to pour into France as in a regular port

Operation Dragoon / 1944
Operation Dragoon, the successful allied invasion of Southern France. Within 30 days it had linked up with the Normandy invasion forces

Allied Troops Land
Allied troops alighting from their landing craft, some with bicycles, onto the beaches of Normandy, France. A tank of the 50th Division is in the background

Making Jews Harps 1932
A woman and two children making Jews Harps, a primitive musical instrument, in the Steyr valley, Austria. They are bought by a Birmingham firm for export to Aborigines

C19 Sampler
A beautiful sampler by Susannah Hephzibah Haydon, depicting the alphabet in both lower and upper case, and bordered with flowers, hearts and animals

Stolzenfels by Bartlett
Stolzenfels, an ancient robber-fortress on the Rhine. Small river craft with sails (barges) make their way on the river

Wayland the Smith
At a cromlech in Ashbury, called Wayland Smiths Cave, a traveller could get his horse magically re-shod. It is said that Wayland learned his craft from the dwarfs of Iceland

Evans Oruktor Amphibolis
An early steam-powered amphibian craft, Evans Oruktor Amphibolis

Space Service Station
Service Station in Space for Refuelling and Repairing Interplanetary Craft

Satire on Monopolies
Monopolies, octopus-like, threaten to founder the frail craft of business

Canton from Nieuhof
A view of the city possibly from a craft in the Pearl River showing the busy port. An 18th century engraving from a 17th century original

Lisbon Circa 1600
A view of Lisbon from the sea showing the docks and many types of sailing craft. Some ships can be seen in dry dock

Twickenham 1750
A curious sailing-boat, with oarsmen as well as a sail, is one of the craft on the Thames at Twickenham, Middlesex

A Chiltern Carpenter
A Chiltern woodworker shaves a piece of wood, probably a chair or table leg

Offa at Sea
Offa crosses the sea to Rome in a small sailing craft

Bushnells Sub / Section
BUSHNELLs TURTLE the first submersible craft to be used in action, attacking a British ship at New York on 7 September 1776; the one-man crew provided the power manually !

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