Frame Collection (page 17)

Victoria, Queen of Prussia, 1861
VICTORIA, EMPRESS OF GERMANY(1840 - 1901), previously princess Vicky of Great Britain, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria. Married Friedrich of Prussia

Women with spinning wheel, Scotland
Two women and a girl sitting outside the Post Office with a spinning wheel and other equipment, Scotland. Date: late 19th century

British officers inside wrecked building, Western Front, WW1
British officers inside a wrecked building on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Sperry automatic computing gun sight by G. H. Davis
A mechanical brain: the Sperry automatic computing gun sight, in use during the Second World War. An invention which enabled US bombers to target a large number of enemy fighters. Date: 1944

Hester L Stanhope
LADY HESTER LUCY STANHOPE(1776 - 1839) Traveller to Asia, where she settled and adopted eastern manners. Date: 1776 - 1839

Park Row Building, New York. A pioneering steel framed skyscraper in the citys financial district. (119 meters tall) Date: 1910s

The bells of St Pauls Cathedral on an upward turn, 1903
The bells of St Pauls Cathedral, photographed specially with flashlight photography with the bells mouth up. Date: 1903

St Williams College, York - a fine example of a tudor building. Date: 1924

Shell of a building with parked vehicles
The metal shell of a building with parked vehicles and rubble

A silhouette of saints and sinners Date: 1896

Children queueing up for a ride on the swings, probably at a seaside resort in France

Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853 - 1920), during the time of her marriage to Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in January 1874

ON THE RIBS
A young woman demonstrates how to use the ribs, an exercise frame, at Miss Critchleys School, London. Date: early 1930s

Mary, Jesus, Donors
Mary is frequently depicted with benefactors : here, the whole family seem to have squeezed into the frame... Date: 1ST CENTURY

Nursery Playground 1930S
Lots of children on a climbing frame in the playground of a London nursery. Date: early 1930s

Girl on Climbing Frame
This little girl has taken her hat off to demonstrate her climbing skills on an outdoor wooden climbing frame! Date: early 1930s

Japanese Serving girl preparing vegetables for her Mistress - perched on a rather unusual (and uncomfortable-looking) wooden frame. Date: circa 1906

Japan - Three Japanese women washing patterned fabric strips Date: circa 1905

A Mexican Criada (House Servant) carrying a large jar on her shoulder. The caption to this card states that: " All the work about native households is performed by Such Women." Date

Southern Philippines - Typical Homestead built on stilts. The frame on the right is a shade to offer relief from the sun in the middle of the day (with a covering). Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Women drawing water from a well Date: circa 1906

Pretty Young Girl - Fresh as a Flower Just Blown. Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Vlatodon Monastery (Vlatades). Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Macedonian Weaver and loom Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Remains of German Zeppelin LZ85
Thessaloniki, Greece - A large crowd examines the remains of the German Zeppelin LZ85, brought down over Thessaloniki, Greece (Salonica)

A relief wood carver and his work
A relief wood carver seated alongside his work and the tools of his trade Date: circa 1920

Vietnam - preparing (drying) the skin of a shot panther, pictured with the French hunter who realised his demise... Date: circa 1910s

Greek Countryfolk and elaborate loom. Date: circa 1910s

East African Jewish Bedouin Musician in Jerusalem, Israel. Playing a masenqo, a single-stringed bowed lute commonly found in the musical traditions of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Date: circa 1920s

Russian Village and Villagers. The unusual tall structure to the right centre of the image is a well with a huge timber lever bucket-lifting apparatus. on a tall frame. Date: circa 1902

Scotsman shocked by expensive of the Worlds Fair in Chicago
The Chicago Exhibition McPherson - " Four Dollars for a bed! The extravangance. I canna sleep for thinking o t." Date: 1893

Two girls hold a picture of Lourdes, Pyrenees, France
Two young girls in the Traditional costume of the Pyrenees region of France, holding up a large frame containing a view of Lourdes, centre of pilgrimage. Date: circa 1910s

Indian street Gymnastic and Acobatic Display Date: circa 1910s

Remains of the German Zeppelin LZ85 - Salonica - WWI
A display of the remains of the German Zeppelin LZ85, brought down over Thessaloniki, Greece (Salonica) brought down by anti-aircraft guns of the British battleship Agamemnon on 5th May 1916

Oriental Beauty - Turkish Ottoman Flags
A veiled oriental beauty with pretty eyes set in a frame beneath two Turkish Ottoman flags - patriotic postcard. Date: circa 1910s

Madeleine, Paris, France - with Christmas Mistletoe
The Curch of La Madeleine, Paris, France - surrounded by Christmas Mistletoe Date: 1908

Irelands Mansion, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Irelands Mansion, High Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire - the most ambitious surviving 16th Century timber building in Shrewsbury, built by Robert Ireland partly as property speculation

Meigle, Scotland (from Alyth Road) Date: circa 1912

Russian peasant women sawing wood
Russian peasant women (wrapped up warm against the bitter winter cold) sawing wood outside their home. Date: 1904

Boy getting on to his new Bicycle
Interesting photograph of a boy getting onto his new Bicycle. He is obviously used to riding a Penny Farthing as his method of mounting the bicycle is akin to the way one had to mount a Penny

Madeira, Portugal - Embroidery
Madeira, Portugal - Embroiderers working on traditional Madeiran Embroidery. The hand embroidery of Madeira is generally recognised as being the finest of its kind available in the world

Still Life with Japanese Tea Set, by Jean Antoine Bail (1830-1918). Date: 1891

Under frame of motor car, London Transport, 1983 Date: 1983

Shaft brackets and stern frame transported by rail
A record feat in railway transport was accompllished when the speacial L&NER train loaded with the shaft brackets and stern frame for the new liner made its journey from Darlington to Middlesbrough

Antoinette monoplane
Propeller, engine and wing frame of Antoinette monoplane

Double-bottomed frame of the Aquitania
The double-bottomed frame of the Aquitania, looking forward

Frontispiece from George Edwards A Natural History of Birds, Part 1, (1743). Annotated Georgii Edvardi Ornithologia Nova

Avenue, Cape of Good Hope
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

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