Encounter Collection (page 2)

Comic postcard, Supply and demand - the price of poultry Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Fight the good fight! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Future fathers-in-law Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Elegant woman and scruffy man selling sheet music in the street Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Teddy bears in the street. I m waiting for a bus. Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Edinburgh Exhibition - invitation to flip-flap Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Temperance woman and drunkard Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two drunks in the street and water board worker Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Policeman and two drunks in the street Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Stone Age attractions Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man and woman in the street - no cash to buy her a drink! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Stone Age attractions Date: 20th century

John o Arnha choking a monster, beating him with a cudgel while other demons fly above and three witches stir a cauldron. The Kelpy tried we John to grapple, But Arn caught him by the thrapple

Street brawl between two men in a 19th century town
Street brawl between two men boxing, knocking over a woman with wheelbarrow, 19th century. Spar d neither man nor mothers Son - Yea clawed the back o Horner John

Cartoon, The Whitebait Dinner... at Greenwich
Cartoon, The Whitebait Dinner; or, Parties at Greenwich -- rival politicians encounter each other at the traditional summertime Whitebait Dinner in Greenwich, SE London

Jean Froissart presenting book to King Richard II
Jean Froissart presenting his book of Amours and Moralities to King Richard II. 1395

Giuseppe Acerbi on a Finnish boat encountering
Giuseppe Acerbi and others on a Finnish boat encountering Sami people on the river Rostijocki (Lapland). A noble woman moves forward to welcome them, while others grill fish on a fire

Interior of a Kamchatka dwelling, eastern Russia. Date: circa 1779

Natives of Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada, visited by Captain Cooks expedition. Date: circa 1770s

Captain Cook receives gifts from Sandwich Island natives
Captain Cook receives gifts from natives of the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii). 1770s

Visit of Captain Sir Thomas Staines and Pipon to Pitcairn
The visit of Captain Sir Thomas Staines and Philip Pipon to Pitcairn Island. 1814

Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold with Dame Bewley
Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales and her husband Prince Leopold of Belgium finding Dame Bewley at her cottage door reading her old Bible. circa 1816

Two kittens meet a frog on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Some Clerical Types by John Kendal, Self-Consciousness. 1901

A Destroyer on a night time encounter, by Harold M Brett, WW
A Destroyer on a night time encounter, painting by Harold M Brett, First World War. circa 1917

Naval Encounter, by Charles Pears, WW1
Naval Encounter (possibly the Battle of Dogger Bank, 24 January 1915, a British victory), painting by Charles Pears, First World War. 1915

Home Sweet Home -- a tumble on the ice. (2 of 5) Date: circa 1890s

Title page, The Poetical Works of Robert Burns, with an illustration to the poem The Twa Dogs. Date: 1866

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, The Red Puppy Book. Poppy the red puppy visits the rabbits in their hutch and pulls faces at them because they wont come out and play. Date: 1910

MEXICANS, MOUNTAIN LION
Three Mexicans encounter a mountain lion, and hope that their gun, backed by two daggers, will save them from its claws and jaw. Date: 1880

3 JOVIAL HUNTSMEN 2
The three huntsmen encounter a millstone and are much puzzled by its appearance and whence it came

HARPIES / DORE
Dante and Virgil encounter these sinister harpies in Inferno, though traditionally there were only three of them

SATYRS & NYMPHS SATYRS & NYMPHS
Three Satyrs - who appear to be vegetarians - encounter a bunch of hunting nymphs, who are manifestly carnivorous

Surveyors for the Trans-Australian Railway meet Aboriginals
Aboriginal Tribesmen met by Surveyors for the Trans-Australian Railway. The railway ran from port Augusta in the East to Kalgoorlie in the West. Date: 1914

Sir Roger de Coverley and the Gypsies. The gypsy woman appears to be reading his palm. Sir Roger de Coverley was a fictitious English squire in the reign of Queen Anne who appeared in Spectator

Cartoon, Family man, WW1
Cartoon, Family man. A middle aged French soldier reprimands a young German soldier for shooting at him. He says if he didn t have a boy of his age, he would give him a couple of slaps. Date: 1916

Alice in Wonderland, Gryphon and Mock Turtle
Alice in Wonderland, Alice dancing the Lobster Quadrille on the seashore with the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle. Date: early 20th century

Alice in Wonderland, Alice and the gardeners
Alice in Wonderland, Alice meets some playing card gardeners painting the white roses red. Date: early 20th century

Boy encounters two cows in a field
A boy encounters two cows in a field -- the nearest cow takes a liking to his stripy teeshirt. Date: circa 1960s

Ufo / Hopkinsville / 1955
At the Sutton Farm near Hopkinsville eight adults and three children were terrorised by small glowing aliens who were immune to gun shots

Ufos / Foo Fighters
During World War Two, American bombers encounter foo fighters during a bombing raids on Germany; at first they are thought to be secret weapons

Elizabeth Woodville imploring King Edward IV to reverse the attainder of her late husband. early 1460s

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. 14th C. Engraving by Gusta
Divine Comedy. Epic poem written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) between 1308 and his death in 1321. Paradiso Canto III. Piccarda Donati and souls whose vows had been broken

Elephant and circus arriving on a New Year card
A little boy on a donkey meets an elephant and circus arriving -- We know not what is coming in the New Year. Date: circa 1890s

Illustration, The Cotters Saturday Night
Illustration to The Cotters Saturday Night, a poem by Robert Burns. Date: 1866

Illustration, Tam O Shanter
Illustration to Tam O Shanter, a poem by Robert Burns. Date: 1866

Rescue of McClure during Arctic expedition
Rescue of Robert McClure during his unsuccessful Arctic expedition to discover the fate of the Franklin expedition of 1845

Bonzo meets a road hog by George Studdy
Bonzo (together with Chee-Kee, a Bonzoline pup and a black terrier) meets a road hog (actually a harmless little hedgehog)

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