Ends Collection (page 4)

Dog Bites Man
The dog, to gain some private ends, went mad, and bit the man... circa 1887

Britannia Cunarder 2
Cunard passenger liner which starts the first regular transatlantic mail service; in 1849 she is sold to Germany and ignominiously ends her career sunk as a target ship. Date: launched 1840

Ballad / Young Bekie
YOUNG BEKIE The Billy Blind tells Burd Isbel that Young Bekie is getting married that day - to another girl. She quickly dresses and all ends well. Date: traditional

Burdett Silhouette
SIR FRANCIS BURDETT Radical statesman : Hes the staunch patriot Whose noble soul No parties sway No private ends control... firmly Freedoms friend. Date: 1770 - 1844

Wars Transmutations by Helen McKie
A cartoon showing how World War One flipped roles. A youthful clerk is bullied by a manager, who then ends up as a private while the clerk becomes an officer

Treaty of Rijswijk
Bird s-eye view of the chateau and gardens of Nieuburg, at Rijswijk (or Ryswick etc), scene of the treaty of R which ends the None Years War or War of the Grand Alliance

Alls Well that Ends Wel

Play / Mills / Rainbow Ends
WHERE THE RAINBOW ENDS Will o the Wisp tunes his pipe to the wind song while sitting on a mushroom

Housemaid Dusting
A housemaid in a large Edwardian house dusting the dressing table and polishing the brass bed ends

WOMEN & GIRL 1860
White evening dress worn with a Swiss belt with long fringed ends. Purple & white spotted dress with a black lace shawl. The girl wears a white dress with scallop & bouillon trim

Costume / Women&girl 1864
Child: white dress, red plaid sash with floating ends. Grey: jet tablier trim, jacket with jet epaulettes. Purple & white: rotonde with tassels, black cord trim

Fashions for Feb. 1861
Green: wrap-over dress, Greek key border; grey & purple: d.b bodice, revers, ribbon centre & floating ends; blue plaid dress with braces, Swiss belt, habit-shirt & ankle boots

Fashions in Garden ?1864
Pink: flounces & ruched trim, sash with floating ends at rear, white under-bodice with threaded black ribbon at neck & cuffs. Mantle: blue lining, emroidery & flounce border

The Leap Frog Railway
An amusing illustration of the latest sensational railway design, the Leap Frog railway. The railway consists of a track about five hundred feet long

Cooking & Baking 1940S
The grandmother of the house struggles to make ends meet and cooks the best meals she can with the rations she has. Her daughter rolls out pastry for baking with a rolling pin

Herse and Mermes
Hermes/Mercury falls madly in love with Herse, daughter of Cecrops, and bribes her sister Aglaura to help him achieve his amorous ends

Devon / Countisbury Hill
Countisbury Hill, Lynmouth, Devon - starting innocently enough the road ends in a steep 1 in 4 gradient - the cause of many a motoring mishap

Vegetable Seller, Japan
A Japanese street trader of vegetables carries the produce in baskets suspended from the ends of a long pole

Rosepetal Fag-Ends
Cigarettes Primerose from the Regie Francaise (French state tobacco monopoly) - tipped with rosepetals to appeal to the fashionable lady

Petit-Gris Cloak 1922
A cape with a large tubular stand collar made using rectangular pieces of petit- gris (a type of squirrel) fur & fastened with a silk cord with tassel ends

The Thundering Herd
THE THUNDERING HERD by Zane Grey, the Master Writer of the West. (All ends happily, you ll be glad to know.)

Tartan Trim Dress 1865
Evening: short, puffed sleeves, pointed waist, over- skirt with demi-train caught up at one side. Grey dress: tartan collar, cuffs & ribbon ceinture with floating ends

Blanchard Flies Channel2
Jean-Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jefferies are the first people to cross the English Channel by air : their flight from Dover ends in the forest of Guines, near Andres

Catherine / Aragon / Trial
The trial of the marriage between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon which ends in divorce

Crystal Palace Odds / Ends
ODDS & ENDS A greedy gentleman who has lost his party; a rather large lady who cannot get through the entrance and the said party minus provisions

Borodin - Igor - 5
Kontchakovna, daughter of Khan Kontchak and beloved by Vladimir, friend of Igor whom Kontchak is attacking... amazingly, all ends happily !

Mozart / Nozze / Liebig 6
(The Marriage of Figaro) The Countess forgives the Count for his infidelities and all ends happily

Rossini / Comte Ory
The final scene, where the perfidy of the Count is revealed and all ends more or less happily

Two Girls Reading Books
Two girls sprawled at opposite ends of a sofa engrossed in their books

Fashions May 1868
White paletot with peplum points. Girl: habit shirt with a puff at the sleeve top, skirt with pyramid trim, tunic with peplum skirt ends. N.B use of broad ribbon trimmings

Fashions October 1868
Girl: pleated skirt, front buttoning tunic, cape collar & skirt ends caught up. Blue dress: double skirt, train, pelerine cape, over skirt with diagonal rows of puffings

Britannia Cunarder
Passenger liner of the Cunard Line which starts the first regular transatlantic mail service; in 1849 she is sold to Germany and ends her career sunk as a target ship

Le Follet Fashions 1850S
NB: Bows arranged on the bodice like echelles & fringing; open bodice with a habit shirt; a waistcoat body; white dress with plaid sash crossed over the bodice & floating ends

BLERIOT 1910
The distinctive pigeon tail on this, one of the last Bleriot monoplanes, is a marked advance on the box-like tail-ends he has used till now

Blind Woodcutter
A wodcutter, struck blind, is directed in a dream to go on pilgrimage. He ends up at Windsor where Edward the Confessor brings back his sight

As the Picture Ends
Just as the moving picture ends

Thomas / Mignon / Liebig 6
Act 3 scene 9 : Mignon recognises the Italian castle whence she was kidnapped, Lothario is her father, and all ends happily

Opera Dress with Turban
Black robe with deep single flounce at the hem worn with a pink edged white opera cloak tied with a long cord with tassel ends & a colourful turban with a gold pin

Musical Ladies 1851
Skirt with 5 flounces, black lace jacket & broad floating ribbon ends descending from the waist. Green redingote: bow trim, undersleeves with reversed vandyked cuffs

Chiffon Frocks 1929
Pretty chiffon frocks: rose print with flounces from shoulder to hem, blossom print with pleated skirt & hanging scarf ends, chrysanthemum print with train & cape back

Frock Coat Photo
Young man in frock coat, high stand-fall shirt collar with rounded ends, slim patterned tie, pale coloured waistcoat, dark narrow trousers, top hat, cane & leather gloves

Crowd / New York Peace
New Yorkers celebrate in the streets when the war with Japan ends

Rama Weds Sita
After many adventures and misadventures, RAMA, the 7th avatar of Vishnu, is finally wedded to his one true love, SITA, and all ends happily ever after

WHERE THE RAINBOW ENDS
Rosamund, tied to a tree in Hyena-Full Wood, is saved when the tree un-gags her, thus enabling her to cry for help...etc

Dinner Dress 1912
Doeuillet Empire-line revival gown: column like silhouette, with a high waist, impossibly decollete with a V -neck, belt with pearl clasp & floating sash ends

Church Altar
Harvest Festival in Bicknoller church, Somerset. The carved screen and bench ends are 500 years old

Elegy on a Mad Dog / C18Th
The dog & man at first were friends, But when a pique began, The dog to gain his private ends, Went mad & bit the man

Vicar of Wakefield
All ends happily - George weds Arabella, Sophia weds Mr Burchell (revealed as a nobleman), Olive lives & the Vicars losses are less than feared

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