Falling Collection (page 6)

Two pigs skiing on a German New Year postcard. Date: circa 1920s

WW1 - Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson, awarded the V. C
WW1 - " Going!, Going!!, Gone!!!" Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson (1895-1918), awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to

Fantastic Adventures - Nine worlds west
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1951, featuring the story Nine worlds west by Clee Garson. Green skinned weird looking man watches a young screaming woman falling into a burning abyss. Date: 1951

American Superfortresses bombing Burma, WW2
American 20th US Bomber Command Superfortresses bombing a Japanese supply depot near Rangoon, Burma, in March 1945 during the Second World War. Date: 1945

RAF parachutists pouring beer while in freefall. Date: 1960s

Phaethons Fall, 1678, by Johann Heiss (1640-1704)
Johann Heiss (1640-1704). German painter. Phaethons Fall, 1678. National Gallery. Prague. Czech Republic

France. Par?=?s. Notre Dame cathedral. Portal of St. Anne. Synagogue. AllegorycaI statue depicted with his eyes covered, her crown falling on the floor, the tables of the law reversed

Cartoon, The course of the Deutschmark, WW1
Cartoon, The course of the Deutschmark. The nymphs of the goldmine have deserted the waters (a parody of Ovid). Two classical female figures walk away as a group of German civilians look despondently

Cartoon, Dr Hellferich, WW1
Cartoon, Dr Hellferich [Helfferich], German finance minister. He says: Its strange! The higher the costs rise, the lower the Mark falls

Hiroshige woodcut - Shisaku in Snow
Reproduction of a woodcut by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) entitled Shisaku in Snow'. Date: circa early 19th century

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Wing the Airmans Wife. circa 1930s

Happy Families Playing Cards - Master Swift the Runners Son. circa 1930s

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Mrs Wood. circa 1935

Snap card - Humpty Dumpty
Nursery Rhyme Snap card - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. early 20th century

Domestic fight between husband and wife. circa 18th century

Cheery Families - Miss Clamp the Carpenters Daughter. 1890s

Cheery Families - Master Clamp the Carpenters Son. 1890s

Another Down - WW1 dogfight. 1914-1918

Cheery Families - Mrs Grub the Gardeners Wife. 1890s

Man on a donkey on a bridge on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Boy dropping pudding on a Christmas and New Year card
Boy dropping a pudding, with a cat chasing a mouse, on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Football match - Some popular songs for footballers
Page from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News depicting various scenes of rugby and football linked to humourus songs of the period Date: 1909

Four frogs on bicycles with flowers on a greetings card
Four frogs on (or falling off) pennyfarthing bicycles with flowers on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Frog and duckling on a Christmas card
Frog and newly hatched duckling on a Christmas card -- Consternation. (4 of 4) Date: circa 1890s

People on the ice on a comic Christmas card
Two men on the ice on a comic Christmas card by Ernest Griset, with the thin man falling through and the plump man being saved by his dog. Date: circa 1890s

German Noblewomen C15Th
German ladies of rank: gown with deep fur hem & falling collar over an ornate kirtle. A loose belt is worn. Or a gown with a square neckline, wide funnel sleeves & girdle. Date: late 15th century

English Costume 1620
Man: doublet with overlapping, pointed tabs, cloak, shoes with roses, transitional collar between ruff & falling band. Woman: ruff, bodice with pointed waist, triple cuffs. Date: 1620

English Costume 1675-80
Woman: simple, yet elegant gown with ornamented bodice & long cloak. Men: lace falling collar or cravat, vests which replaced doublets, fur- lined coat with half sleeves. Date: 1675 - 1680

German Costume C. 1650
Farmer: doublet, bag attached to his belt. Gentleman: lace edged falling band (collar), cloak with cape collar, doublet with pointed front. Woman: elaborate petticoat. Date: circa 1650

German Nobles Circa 1650
German nobles: bucket-top boots & boot hose tops or shoes with roses, ruff or lace falling collars, doublet with pointed front, side fastening breeches, Brandenburg coat. Date: 1650s

Falling Off Scaffolding
A builder falls off scaffolding Date: 1906

Falling from Skyscraper
Two workmen fall when scaffolding breaks on a New York skyscraper, but they are hauled to safety Date: 1933

Fauntleroy Dress 1889
Cavalier costume (a style that pre-dates the 1886 Hodgson Burnett novel): velvet tunic & knickerbockers, lace falling collar & cuffs, sash with bow on one hip & buckle shoes. Date: 1889

Zig-Zag Blue Dress 1899
Tunic dress with points at the front, a high throated sac like lace bodice, V shaped falling tucker, sleeves with shoulder puffs & inverted cuffs, flounce at the hem. Date: 1899

Niagara Bridge Stunt
Laurence Donovan drops 200 feet from Niagara Bridge Date: 1886

Aberdeen Snowballed
George Hamilton Gordon, fourth earl of ABERDEEN Statesman - but not, it seems, a very popular one; as prime minister during the Crimea War he was much criticised Date: 1784 - 1860

Dinorah / Meyerbeer 1859
A dramatic scene from Meyerbeers opera Dinorah: a branch has broken and the heroine is in danger of falling into a raging flood. Date: 1859

Practical joke in university town, c. 1820
Students at Oxford or Cambridge play a practical joke on their professors by stretching a rope across a staircase and tripping them up, c.1820 Date: C.1820

First wooden house, Monterey, California, USA
First wooden house in California, Monterey, California, USA, brought by sailing vessel from Australia. Date: circa 1910

Hypnotism, the falling forward test Date: 1900

Man and boy falling over in snow on a Christmas card
Man and boy falling over in the snow on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Toddler with nursery rhyme scene on a Christmas card -- Bye baby bunting, Fathers gone a-hunting, To get a little rabbit skin, To wrap the baby bunting in

Little boys birds nesting on a Christmas card, with a warning about greed. Date: circa 1890s

A mysterious Fall of Frogs Date: 19th century

Two cats on a greetings card by Louis Wain -- one of them has fallen down a grassy slope. Date: circa 1900s

Clown falling from a donkey on a greetings card, with accompanying verse. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Six children with elephant on a Christmas card
Six children with an elephant on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Four cats having a picnic, by Louis Wain. Date: circa 1900s

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