Ground Collection (page 50)

Aerial View of Trenches
An aerial photograph over the German lines, showing deep trenches, mine craters, and shell-pitted ground

Iedo, Japan Mallet 1683
A view from high ground of the city of Iedo showing a systems of fields under cultivation, a winding river and a densely packed town in the background

Dublin from the North
A view of the City of Dublin seen from the north showing hills in the background and two windmills in the fore ground

Man Escapes Fire C17Th
A man takes a running jump, flames licking his heels, as he makes a bid to return to a ship that awaits him below. His musket & pike lay on the ground

Boys in Trouble
Naughty boys are chided. A clerical looking gentlemen scolds three boys for some misdemeanour. Disgraced, they look bashfully at the ground

Freedom to Distil
A man lies on the ground, drunk, beneath posters defending the right to distil ones own alcoholic spirits

Game : Nuts in May
All form two lines : each seeks to capture members of the enemy by dragging them to their side of the handkerchief on the ground

Bewick / Chipmunk
(tamias striatus) Bewick calls this the dormouse or ground squirrel but it seems to be identical with the North American Eastern Chipmunk

Silver Mining / Peru 1879
Bringing silver ore above ground by rail at Cerro de Pasco, Peru

The Iron Stove
The princess rides on a plough wheel over the three swords which are being wielded through holes in the ground. (Grimm story)

Korean Postman
A Korean postman kneels on the ground as he takes his mail from the basket on his back and hands it to a high official

Leturrs Birdman Project
Leturr cleverly solves the problem of getting airborne by releasing himself from a balloon : alas, his design is not so clever, and he plunges fatally to the ground

LORDs NETS
Practising in the nets

Dancing for Rain, Serbia
RAINMAKING, SERBIA In times of drought, young Dodoles go from village to village in costumes garnished with foliage, dancing while the peasants water the ground

Gulliver & Emperor
He visits Blefuscu & lies on the ground to kiss the Emperors hand

Whitman / Leaves of Grass
We are Nature, we are bedded in the ground, we are rocks

Gladiators / Sword & Net
A swordsman versus a net- thrower on open ground

Le Besniers Device
LE BESNIER, of Sable, France, could not rise from the ground, but launched from a height could cross a river with his flapping paddles

Sport / Football
Supporters leaving the ground after a game at the home of Notts County

Punic War / Carthage Burns
PUNIC WARS Scipio blockades Carthage, and perfidiously obtains its surrender; the city is razed to the ground

Eton Vs Harrow 1864
The Harrow and Eton cricket match at Lords Ground

Wedding ceremony at Malabar, India
A wedding ceremony at Malabar, in south western India

Shaman of Lapland in a divinatory trance
A Shaman of Lapland lying on the ground with a magical drum on his back, in a divinatory trance, about to foretell the future

Futuristic aeroplane dropping bombs
A futuristic scene showing an aeroplane dropping bombs on the ground below

Solanos staff produces a spring
In Mexico, Francisco Solano strikes his staff into the ground and, lo! a spring of water gushes out

Paris / Aerial View 1871
aerial view just before the Commune; the caption states that the facade of the Tuileries Palace, in the fore- ground, has just been reported destroyed

Rail Construction
Work on the Great Central Railway, near Lords cricket ground, north London Date: 1897

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