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Chromolithograph Devotional Card - The Virgin Mary 1911
Christmas scene with Santa Claus and yule log. There are rabbit musicians, geese pulling the log, a pudding, a boars head, and people carrying flaming torches. 19th century
Bristol Type 188Engineers Working on the Bristol Type 188 Supersonic Experimental Test-Bed Aircraft Parked at Filton, UK Preparing for Test on the de Havilland Gyron Junior Jet-Engine Date: 1960s
Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1906Front cover of The Illustrated London News Christmas Number 1906 with an illustration of a young girl trying to force feed her terrier dog Christmas pudding. Date: 1906
Ginger by BarribalPortrait of a pretty young woman with flaming red hair by the artist William Barribal. Date: 1914
Torch Ride / Greece / LiebigA ceremonial ride with flaming torches to celebrate a victory in Ancient Greece
Greek Relay RaceA relay race with a flaming torch instead of a mere baton
WW2 Valentines Card, Wartime FiremanA WW2 Valentines greetings card, You set my heart on fire! The image portrays a wartime warden hosing water on a flaming heart. Date: circa 1940s
Two dancing features from the Screen, December 1923: Lady Bancroft (Patricia Prevoss) with Lou Mason in Flaming Youth (First National) and a scene from The Darling of the Rich (Vitagraph) Date: 1923
WW2, Jackie Saves An AirmanThis illustration shows Jackie, a fictional WW2 lady of the Emergency Mobile Canteen Corps, bravely pulling a British airman away from his flaming wreck of a plane. Date: circa 1940s
The Flaming TorchThis painting depicts the back of a man, standing from an elevated position with a flaming torch in his hand, possibly a leader figure to the onlooking crowd below him
Hermes and IrisA painting depiction of what might be the Greek Goddess, Iris, with her symbolic jug of water, and Hermes, with his flaming red hair and dagger
Salvation Army AdvertisementAn advertisement for the Salvation Army, a charitable organization founded in 1865. Titled Brightening darkest England, the illustration for this advert shows a flaming torch being held
Satirical cartoon, A Senatus Consultum. Napoleon is making his will and consulting the Devil about his fate. The Devil carries a flaming plaque: Death Bonaparte Death'
CATACOMBS, ROMECVisiting the Catacombs of the early Christians, Rome, carrying flaming torches to illuminate the caverns
Link extinguishersIn Victorian times well-to-do householders would hire a link boy - a boy or young man who carried a flaming torch called a link to light the way for the traveller
Flaming sword, Vriesea splendens (Tillandsia splendens). Chromolithograph from an illustration by B. Herincq from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896
Queens tears plant, Billbergia nutans. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896
Glory tree, Clerodendrum splendens (Splendid clerodendron, Clerodendron splendens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by G
COMMUNE / ON THE BARRICADEA defiant woman Communard holds aloft the red flag as she stands on a barricade erected to defend Paris from government troops Date: 1871
GREECE / MILITARY RIDEA ceremonial ride with flaming torches to celebrate a victory Date: circa 500 BC
Milton, Paradise LostHim the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky. (Book I, lines 44, 45). Date: First published: 1667
SACRED HEART OF JESUSTHE SACRED HEART Mary and Joseph have a dramatic aerial vision of their sons heart, bleeding, flaming, wrapped in thorns but lighting up the heavens
Warehouse fire, ManchesterSimon Snorkel is used to fight a warehouse blaze at night in Shudehill, Manchester Date: circa 1969
Ancient artist at work in a cave, Kazakhstan areaAndronovo culture, ancient artist painting petroglyphs on the rocks, conveying the culture and customs of the times, Kazakhstan area. Others watch, or help by supplying light from a flaming torch
American Hot Rod postcard - for sticking on ones car bumper, luggage, walls, dens, offices and factories! " These humorous signs are easy to apply
Badge of S. H. A. E. FBadge of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (abbreviated as SHAEF, pronounced " shafe" ), the headquarters of the Commander of Allied forces in north west Europe
Link Boy, 18th CenturyA barefoot LINKBOY carries a flaming torch with which he will illuminate the path of a gentleman, in the absence of any fixed street lighting
Walpurgis NightOn WALPURGISNACHT, the eve of May Day, witches gather on the Brocken, the highest point of Germanys Harz Mountains, for their Spring Sabbat
Miss Arizona tomahawk jugglerMiss Arizona of the music hall act The 3 Arizonas, tomahawk jugglers. Also juggled knives and flaming torches. Wearing Wild West costume with fringed trousers, knotted scarf
Kathleen Clifford - Who is Number One?Still from Paramount Picture Production Who Is Number One? - starring Kathleen Clifford (1887 - 1962) in the role of Aimee Villon
Fantastic Adventures - Secret of the flaming ringCover of Fantastic Adventures, March 1951, featuring the story Secret of the flaming ring by P. F. Costello. A young beautiful woman and a futuristic looking warrior are surrounded by flames
Four oval vignettes on a Christmas card, with Cupid kneeling by a flaming altar, Venus in a shell, Cupid again with doves, and a young man planting a tree
Snow scene with skaters on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
The Still Alarm by Joseph ArthurInside page of a promotional flyer for The Still Alarm by Joseph Arthur. (fourteenth Street Theatre, New York, 30th July 1887). First produced in England Princesss Theatre, 2nd August 1888
WW1 - Zeppelin downed over Potters BarWW1 - An illustration depicting the four stages of a Zeppelin raider bursting into flames, and its fall through the starry night sky over Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England
The great Sylt raid by G. H. DavisThe great Sylt raid: a bomber attacks in the glare of searchlights, flaming onions and bursting star shells. Attacking Hornum, the seaplane base on the southern end of the German island of Sylt
British night bombers by G. H. DavisBritish night bombers encounter flaming onions, as in the raid on Sylt -- a type of incendiary anti-aircraft shell used in the First World War, reintroduced by the Germans in the Second World War
Elijah taken to heaven in the chariot of fireElijah taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire. circa late 19th century
Cupid with flaming torch and flower. Engraving, probably by (or after) Thomas Holloway, from Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden: a poem in two parts. Page viii, Proem of Vol. 2. Date: 1791-94
Advertisement for a Guiel AutomobileThe first poster design from the French Car Manufacturer Delahaye. Date: 1899
Mythological Buddhist or Hindu figure, full-length, standing, facing front, with long green sash and flaming green halo behind his head. Date 1878?
Wedding of Prince Wilhelm of PrussiaState Entry into Berlin of Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (1858-1921) and Prince Wilhem of Prussia (later Kaiser Wilhelm II) (1859-1941)
Patriotic Italian postcard featuring an athletic barely-clad man before a flaming altar and a crown of thorns, definitely stressing the importance of some form of personal sacrifice being beneficial
Greek fire on lanceAn infantryman carries a flaming lance
Greek fire launcherMachine for attaching Greek fire to fortress gates
Greek fire shipA 13th century covered galley, equipped to drop barrels of Greek fire
The war in America: a night alarm in the Federal campNight scene with Federal soldiers signalling with a flaming torch over the river banks of the Potomac to Headquarters at Washington
Maid Brings in PuddingThe maid brings in the flaming pudding
Sweyn Tricked by ScotsThe Scots drug and then attack their Viking invaders. The Viking leader Sweyn of Norway, however, escapes thanks to his two attendants
Paris Catacombs (Mono)With flaming torches, sighteers marvel at the subterranean catacombs of Paris
Zeppelin Shot DownThe end of the " baby-killer" ; a flaming Zeppelin plunges earthward
Cresset Carried InstreetTwo men walking through the night carry a flaming cresset - a basket on a pole, containing flammable material - to show them where they are going
Digging in the CatacombsEarly Christians, with pick, shovel, and a flaming torch, dig themselves secret places for their meetings in the Roman catacombs
Electric Fire BrochureA uniformed maid carries a flaming plum pudding into the dining room where the family sit in formal dress, warmed by the glow of a Creda electric fire. Date: 1933-4
Indian and HookahAn Indian nobleman talks with a friend while he smokes his hookah, accompanied by music from two female performers : another servant holds a flaming torch to light it
Fitzgerald CoverCover of a paperback reprint of the famous novel of flaming youth
Iln / Foggy London / 1867A foggy night in central London - boys with flaming torches offer to guide pedestrians, while horse-drawn buses and carts find their way as best they can
SNAPDRAGONMama presides over the snapdragon bowl while the children snatch the raisins from the burning brandy & try to eat them before they stop flaming
Carrying Flaming PuddingCook carries in the flaming pudding
Hannibal at CasilinumSECOND PUNIC WAR : Hannibal, the Carthaginian leader, at Casilinum, sends cows with bunches of burning twigs attached to their horns, causing the Roman garrison at Callicula to flee in fear
