Foe Collection

Ancient Greek Battle
ANCIENT GREECE The soldiers, some in chariots and some on foot, use spears and swords against their foe

Knights Tale, Joust
Palamon desireth to slay his foe Arcite

Stag and his Reflection
THE STAG SEEING HIMSELF IN THE WATER: A stag admires his antlers in a stream, and considers his legs not worthy but when he has to outrun a foe his legs prove more useful

Down with the Foe, Boys having a Pillow Fight by Ruth Cobb - from unknown Childrens Annual

The Flag of the Foe by Ruth Cobb - from unknown Childrens Annual

Chivalry of the air by G. H. Davis
The chivalry of the air: the courtesy of foe to foe. Showing a British pilot dropping a wreath for a comrade's grave in the German lines during the First World War

Identification Silhouettes of Aircrafts WWI
Double page spread showing on the left-hand page silhouettes of British military aeroplanes including fighters and bombers seen from underneath

Comic postcard, Rent collector hit by sailor Date: early 20th century

Policeman
London characters: the POLICEMAN, friend to the well- behaved, foe to the miscreant, protector of the peaceful, upholder of law and order... Date: circa 1870

FINN / RUSS BAYONET MELEE
Finland : a bayonet melee between Finns and Russians in the snow - both sides in white uniforms, which must make it difficult to distinguish friend from foe ! Date: January 1940

Transvaal Postman
A postman rides his horse urgently across the veldt, uncertain whether strangers are friend or foe. Date: circa 1900

Searching for the foe. Date: circa 1910s

Gorilla and Victim
The gorilla does not go out of its way to attack men: but if it is itself attacked, it is a formidable foe. Date: 1870

Frances Cleveland - 2
FRANCES CLEVELAND, wife of President Grover Cleveland : a political foe said I detest him so much, I don t even think his wife is beautiful ! - he was alone in his view. Date: 1884 - 1947

Frances Cleveland
FRANCES CLEVELAND, wife of President Grover Cleveland : a political foe said I detest him so much, I don t even think his wife is beautiful ! - he was alone in his view. Date: 1884 - 1947

The Invisible Foe by Walter Hackett. First produced at the Savoy Theatre, 23rd August 1917. The photo shows the stars, H. B. Irving and Fay Compton. Date: 1917

Saluting the Vanquished Foe, WW1 in the air by C Clark
A German monoplane, forced to descend with the British lines on the Western front. The plane was forced to alight owing to the tactics of the British aviators in the neighbourhood where the aerial

Suffragette Prime Minister H. Asquith. Herbert henry Asquith (1852-1928) Prime Minister from 1908-1916 and implacable foe of the suffragettes. Date: circa 1909

Winter conditions in Yser, 1914
Winter conditions in the Yser country : how the cold is affecting friend and foe. German prisoners and British soldiers alike frozen in the icy winds and snow in winter 1914. Date: 1914

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese pay respects at Russian Graves
Russo-Japanese War - Japanese pay respects at Russian Hilltop Graves, marked by a Russian Suppedaneum Cross. Date: circa 1905

WW1 - In Picardy - Tommy, the Vanquisher of the Hun
WW1 - In Picardy - The Noble British Tommy, the Vanquisher of the Hun... A British soldier stands over the body of a dead German soldier in a trench on the Western Front

Madagascar - Antsiranana
An Antemoro Warrior (or Antaimoro - an ethnic group of Madagascar living on the southeastern coast, mostly between Manakara and Farafangana) - at Diego Suarez (now Antisanana)

Touch and Go by W. Ralston
A mouse foils its feline foe by disappearing through a hole in the floorboard and tickling the cats paw with a stalk of wheat. Date: 1911

Saxon Chief Ca 800
A Saxon chief rests a foot on the body of a slain foe - he is characteristic of the Teutonic invaders of Britain in the early Middle Ages. Date: circa 800

Manius Curius Dentatus
MANIUS CURIUS DENTATUS Roman general and consul, in action against the foe - maybe the Samnites, maybe the Sabini, maybe the Senones, or even Pyrrhus and the Lucani

William Fulke
WILLIAM FULKE Puritan churchman, master of Pembroke College, Cambridge - See here the face of Romes renowned foe, grave, learned Fulk

Cross Country Cartoon
2nd Event - International Sports 1914- CROSS COUNTRY RACE. Which is the crossest country? - a sharp satire depicting a Britsh soldier chasing his German foe

Fraternisation
In Seville, army officers fraternise with the insurgents - whatever their political views, almost all are glad to see Isabela go

Burns / Bannockburn March
ROBERT BRUCEs MARCH TO BANNOCKBURN Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled.Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe!

Clan Ferguson
Clan FERGUSON a warrior awaits the onslaught of the foe with raised shield and drawn sword - and bare feet

French Avant-Garde
When a French regiment is on the march, the avant-garde precede the main body, and are themselves preceded by eclaireurs who look out for obstacles and signs of the foe

Racial /s Africa / Boer
A Boer postman in the Transvaal rides his horse urgently across the veldt, uncertain whether strangers are friend or foe

House that Jack Built 5
Bulldogs are well known to be brave, fearless and a match for any foe - but when it comes to geese, they are not quite sure of themselves

Jeanne Hachette / Lafitte
Jeanne Lamme, or Fourquet, known as JEANNE HACHETTE who, when the Burgundians besieged Beauvais in July 1472, roused her fellow citizens to resistance

Charming Foe
Ein anmuthiger Feind (a charming opponent)

Sci Wonder Stories / 1930
The Vapor Intelligence (Jack Barnette) The invading foe from out of space

Art / Greece / Vase 2
A mythological scene (details not known)

Art / Greece / Vase 3
A mythological scene (details not known)

Cross Talisman
CROSS TALISMAN For Christians, this symbol, representing the cross on which Jesus was crucified, offers powerful protection against his foe, the Devil

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