Dark Collection (page 17)

German trench during night action, WW1
Artists impression of a German trench and battlefield during night action, somewhere on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Laager adapted for modern warfare by G. H. Davis
Night defence: a Zareba or Laager -- old words with new meanings during the Second World War. Once a defensive enclosure against enemy attack

Sleepy-Head by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl with her doll and teddy bear is ready for bed. Date: circa 1940s

Young Victorian woman in pink crinoline
A young Victorian woman in an enormous pink crinoline evening dress decorated with roses. She has matching roses in her hair, and a fan in her hand. Date: circa 1860

Advertisement for Parker Pens -- male model (S Purvis) holding up a fountain pen. 1959

Christmas card in the shape of a feather with a London scene in the centre. Date: circa 1890s

Rural snow scene with church on a Christmas card
Rural snow scene with church on a crescent-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Tulips, engraved by Eadom after Philip Reinagle, in a book entitled The Temple of Flora by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837). The book was published between 1799 and 1807. Date: 1798

The Bridge at Crevola, by Jean-Charles-Joseph Remond
A View of the Bridge at Crevola near the Simplon Pass, by Jean-Charles-Joseph Remond (1795-1875). Date: circa 1832

Summer, 18th century French School (possibly by Francois Octavien, 1695-1736). Showing people harvesting in the fields, with a storm in the distance

Design for Dress Silk or Print in white and navy blue. Watercolour on tracing paper over detail paper. Silver Studio. 1935

Cinnabar
Twinned dark red cinnabar crystals with small quartz crystals. Cinnabar comprises of (mercury sulphide). Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London

Cat sits on fence
A cat sits on a fence while objects are hurled at it, presumably to stop it meowing at the full moon. Date: c. 1920

Scene of fire at commercial premises, Barking
Scene of fire at commercial premises, Kingsbridge Road, Barking, Essex

Firefighters at scene of fire, Langley Park School

Firefighters working at scene of fire in Carshalton, Surrey
Firefighters working at the scene of a fire in Carshalton, Surrey

GLC-LFB Shop roof fire, Dagenham, Essex
A turntable ladder at work at the scene of a fire in Dagenham, Essex, involving a parade of shops where fire had broken through the roof

LCC-LFB Major building fire in St Pancras Way, NW1
Appliances lined up the street in St Pancras Way, NW1, having responded to a serious fire in a warehouse (out of the picture)

LCC-LFB Car crash, SW London
The Brigade attending the scene of a car crash in Cromwell Road, SW London involving three vehicles

LCC-LFB Fire in Portobello Road, West London
A wheeled escape ladder in use at a fire in Portobello Road, West London, involving a cafe and dwellings

Blitz in London -- Bessborough Place, Pimlico, WW2
Blitz in London -- fire brigade heavy unit and a trailer pump in the foreground of a major fire in Bessborough Place, Pimlico, SW London following a bombing raid

Pin-up calendar girl by David Wright, 1951
Lovely pin-up by David Wright showing a dark haired beauty wearing a white off-the0shoulder dress and gazing seductively at the viewer. Date: 1951

Pericopsis mooniana, or Nandu Wood
Pericopsis mooniana (Nandu Wood, Nedun Tree), also known as Dalbergia lanceolaria, Dalbergia mooniana, Derris ponapensis, Ormosia villamilii, and Pericopsis ponapensis

A Tamil Woman from Sri Lanka holding a large banana leaf above her head Date: circa 1920s

Liliane Beaument D Erlanger
Liliane Beaumont D Erlanger (1902 - 1945). The Baron and Baroness of D Erlangers daughter, following her engagement to prince Jean Louis Faucingy Lucinge on the 26th July 1923. Date: 1923

British BE2 biplane in flight, WW1
A British BE2C biplane in flight during the First World War. It is an early type with twin-type undercarriage, and a 70hp Renault engine. Date: 1914-1918

Bermondsey Union Infirmary, Lower Road, Rotherhithe, London
The entrance to the Bermondsey Union Infirmary, Lower Road, Rotherhithe, south east London. The infirmary, originally opened in 1876 as the St Olaves Union Infirmary, later became St Olaves Hospital

Two little girls with a birthday cake
Two little girls smile at each other across a birthday cake with six lighted candles

Well dressed man on a motorcycle
A rather well dressed man sitting on a motorcycle. He is wearing a bowler hat, white gloves, a black bowtie, dark jacket, pinstriped trousers and shiny shoes

Beautiful Sheffield! A sarcastic interpretation on the skyline of dark satanic mills which characterised Sheffield from the Industrial Revolution through to the 1950s

Burma (Myanmar) - Traditional Costume (4 / 4)
Burma (Myanmar) - Traditional Costume (4/4) A Burmese lady in a beautiful outfit, her long dark hair falling down from her head surrounded by pink flowers, holding a parasol

Morocco - Girl from Tangiers
A young Arab girl from Tangiers, Morocco

Fantasy coastal scenery at sunrise
A fantasy coastal landscape at sunrise. Gulls swoop, as waves lap gently against the dark sands of a deserted and smooth beach. Airbush painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Fairy collects berries in the evening light
A fairy clad in greens, collects dark berries in a sack. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Aerial View of Tokyo, Japan, Second World War, 1945
Aerial photograph showing some of the areas (dark patches) of Tokyo destroyed by American bombing in 1945. By the time this photograph was taken General Curtis Le May was able to boast that 51 square

The Theatre on board HMS Alert, British Arctic Expeditio
Engraving showing the theatre on board HMS Alert during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876. Plays were staged aboard the ship to keep up morale during the cold, dark winter months

Tailors Sweat Shop, East End of London, 1904
Engraving showing a dark, cramped tailors sweat shop with Jewish immigrants sewing at a bench or asleep in beds in same room, London, 1904

Peter Cartwright / Wife
PETER CARTWRIGHT American Methodist preacher and abolitionist, with his wife

Blackpool Illuminations
The famous Blackpool Illuminations, Blackpool being Lancashires famous City of Light, when six miles of promenade are turned into a blaze of light

Fairy Musicians 1920
Demi-silked, dark haired musicians

Barclays lager advert for light or dark

th Huxley / W & Cockerell
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY English scientist and champion of Darwins Theory of Evolution, in 1857

Thomas Edison / Mora NY
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor as a young man

Philipp Lenard / Photo
PHILIPP EDUARD ANTON LENARD German physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905

Otto Von Guericke / Worlds
OTTO VON GUERICKE German physicist, famous for his experiment of the Magdeburg hemispheres to demonstrate air pressure

Jrm Chard / Bassano
JOHN ROUSE MERRIOTT CHARD Military, notably at Rorkes Drift

William Iii / Players / 34
KING WILLIAM III Reigned 1688 - 1702

Long Hair (Photo) 1927
The extremely long dark hair of Miss Margaret Mayer of the Ziegfeld Follies

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