Falling Collection (page 7)

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

Cartoon, Older soldiers round the campfire, WW1
Cartoon, a group of old and middle aged French soldiers sit round the campfire near Verdun as the snow falls. Date: 1916

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, Puppy Tails, showing a white puppy about to fall into a pond. Date: 1912

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, Puppy Tails, showing a white puppy about to fall into a pond. Date: 1912

Illustration, boy sliding off a pony
Illustration, a boy sliding off his saddle when Joker the pony turns more sharply than expected. Date: 1932

Cartoon, Siege de la Colonne de Pompee [Pompeys Pillar, a Roman triumphal column], Science in the Pillory, by James Gillray

Illustration, Steeplechase at St Albans (or rather in the surrounding countryside) on 8 March 1832, with nineteen competitors. Date: 1832

Alice in Wonderland, Alice and the White Rabbit
Alice in Wonderland, Alice sticks her arm out of the window and the White Rabbit falls into a glass frame. Date: early 20th century

Pop art playing card
Brightly coloured pop art playing card, depicting a tree with autumn leaves falling. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1960s

WW1 - French and German aerial combat, 1916
WW1 - In aerial combat over Champagne district in France, a German biplane fires at and brings down a French aviator. The damaged aircraft leaves a trail of black smoke as it falls nose-down from

WW1 - Captain Hawker takes on three Germans in the air
WW1 - Captain Lanoe George Hawker VC, DSO (1890-1916), was a British flying ace, with seven credited victories. This illustration captures an occassion on 25th July 1915

Bloch 162-The sole example of this French long ranged bomber first flew in June 1940, soon falling into German hands

Horse and rider tumbling over a fence
A horse takes a tumble over a fence and throws its rider whose top hat flies off. A nasty fall. Date: 1905

Stork on the dole - falling birth rate in the 1920s
On the Dole! by David Wilson. Cartoon showing a stork feeling rather unemployed as he sits on a chimney pot above the roof tops of a snow covered town

Picture of man riding a donkey and another falling off
Slide showing a picture of a man riding a bucking donkey and another man falling off the back of the donkey. Part of Box 366. Date: circa 1900

The Persuading of the Pacifist, by W. Heath Robinson
The Persuading of the Pacifist -Even more unpleasant than swallowing his own words A William Heath Robinson cartoon depicting a falling bomb landing directly in the mouth of a speech-making pacifist

Label design, Acme Hair Vigor, Phil Eisemann, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. An excellent preparation for dandruff and falling hair. Date: early 20th century

Blitz in London -- Cavendish Road, Balham, WW2
Blitz in London -- a battered Austin taxi car, damaged by falling debris following a direct hit on sub-fire station 86W, located at Cavendish Road School, Balham, SW London, 5 November 1940

Blitz in London -- Greycoat Hospital, Westminster, WW2
Blitz in London -- damage to a wall caused by a land mine falling on Greycoat Hospital, Westminster, London, on 15 October 1940. Date: 1940

Kaiser Wilhelm falling through the air and dropped
No. 8/15. Kaiser Wilhelm falling through the air and failing to be caught in a sheet held by the Allied soldiers. Leon

WW2 safety poster, Don t Take Risks, Take Care. Use a ladder to top bins or the unexpected is just what is to be expected! Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

Zeppelin raids -- dangers to avoid. Showing how important it is to avoid falling glass (left), and the importance of taking cover behind walls (right). Date: 1915

Bonzo Quite Agrees! by George Studdy
Bonzo Quite Agrees! He falls into a hole in the road, which confirms that the maintenance work is necessary. Date: 1923

Pug Peter -- three ducklings fall into the sea
Pug Peter -- Down! Down! Down! Three ducklings fall from their balloon into the sea. Date: 1905

Pug Peter -- mice falling off a haycart
Pug Peter -- Peter lightens the load a little. Some mice fall off a haycart into the water. Date: 1905

What to do in the case of air or sea raids, WW1
What to do in the case of further air or sea raids during the First World War. Showing cross sections of buildings, and photographs of air raid damage to buildings in Kings Lynn

The aeroplane in warfare by G. H. Davis
The aeroplane in warfare: aeroplanes used for finding the range of the enemys entrenchments. Left: a fire bomb, attached to a parachute, dropped from a Taube monoplane

Battling Bonzo wins in the first round by George Studdy
Battling Bonzo wins in the first round. He tackles a black dog bigger than himself, and takes the credit when the enemy accidentally falls down a manhole

Pug Peter -- dog and ducklings on steep slope
Pug Peter -- Very upsetting. A dog and three ducklings slide or fall down a steep slope. Date: 1905

New Russian bombs by G. H. Davis
Molotovs breadbaskets: Russias new dual-purpose bomb used during the Second World War. Its false head was filled with small incendiary bombs, released by a cap propeller

Nursery Rhymes -- Jack and Jill, Polly Flinders
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- Jack and Jill falling down the hill. Below -- Little Polly Flinders sitting among the cinders. Date: early 20th century

Pinocchio -- doused with water
Pinocchio -- Watering him from head to foot. Date: 1911

Nursery Rhymes -- washday, horse and crow
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a man and a woman on wash day. Below -- a crow startles a horse so much that the two riders are thrown off. Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- monkey, horse and cart, butcher
Nursery Rhymes -- three illustrations, showing a monkey falling from a tree, a horse pulling a cart full of sacks, and a butcher who has cut his hand on a knife. Date: early 20th century

Cartoon, Italian light infantryman with Austrian eagle, WW1
French cartoon of an Italian light infantryman (Bersaglieri) during the First World War. He is holding an Austrian eagle upside down so that its imperial crown falls off

Comic event at a local fair
A comic event at a local fair, involving a wheelbarrow race and a falling bucket of water

Moldova - Old barn, well and storks
Moldova - a family of storks have nested on the top of a steep-roofed delapidated farm barn, next to a lever well. Date: circa 1920s

Snow Babies - Tumbling Down by Dorothy Wheeler
A group of cute and surprised looking snow babies tumble from the sky as it begins to snow, grabbing at a gas street light as they pass. Date: c.1925

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