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Jessie M King
Illustration for greetings card showing a ship at sea guarded by angels. Artist: Jessie Marion King (1875-1949) Date: 1926

Book of the Dead / 34
Scene of the sepulchral chamber : the mummy guarded by Anubis, Isis kneels at the foot and Nephthys at the head - four children of Horus at each corner

Ammunition Bus, First World War
Motor bus loaded with ammunition and well guarded leaving the magazine in Hyde Park during World War I

A knight who guarded The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the city was captured during the Crusades. 12th century

A knight who guarded The Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the city was captured during the Crusades. 12th century

Edward VII lying-in-state in Westminster Hall
A very brief illness ended the life of Edward VII, who passed away on 6 May 1910, at the age of 69. The King's body lay-in-state in Westminister Hall, guarded by officers of the Household troops

Queen Victoria Lying-in-State 1901
Queen Victoria's coffin draped with state robes, guarded by Ist Grenadier Guards, at Osborne House for ten days. Date: January 1901

SAINT PRISCA, a Roman virgin and martyr, may have been the wife of Aquila. Thrown to the lions, one licked her feet, and after her death her corpse was guarded by an eagle. Date: 3rd century

The Ex-German Battleship Goeben being guarded by the Sirdas and Sparrowhawk (Destroyers) before being handed over to the Turks again as proposed in the Near East Treaty

Beefeater
A painting of a Yeomen Warder of Her Majestys Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, and Member of the Sovereigns Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary, popularly known as a Beefeater

King Edward VII, Lying-in-State 1910
Page of two photographs of King Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, top photograph, Lying-in-State in Westminster Hall, coffin guarded by Gentleman-at-Arms and Yeomen

MAHOMET & SPIDER MYTH
Myth of Mahomet & the spider: the Koreishites pass the cave which Mahomet, having fled from Mecca, is hiding in. The entrance to the cave is guarded by a spider & her web

The young Prince Arthur, Duke of Brittany, imprisoned at the Chateau de Falaise, is guarded by Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent. Arthur had at one time been Richard Is preferred successor

Every village in France guarded at night by men asking for identification from strangers. Date: 1914

The Women of Versailles; Paris Commune 1871
French prisoners guarded, with women looking for loved ones, during the Paris Commune. Date: 1871

A mobile, military washing machine being guarded by troops
Horse-drawn machine was designed to rid a soldiers bedding from lice and infectious diseases. Steam is used to clean the bedding and uniforms. Straw-filled mattresses can be seen in the foreground

WW1 era Comic Postcard - Little girl threatens her boy... " If I ever catch you at it" ! Date: circa 1916

A beflagged Uncle Sam blows a bugle for recruits
The scene is outside a Recruiting Office with a sign Recruits Wanted guarded by an armed soldier. A dominant Uncle Sam has a small boy standing in front of him holding a US flag

German Prisoners, Normandy; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a group of German prisoners guarded by a Canadian soldier, in Normandy, June 1944. In the background casualties are visible, being brought to an emergency dressing station

Elizabeth Cowell at the BBC
Given its access to sensitive information, the BBC had to be on the lookout for potential spies during the Second World War

A portrait of Jenny Hasselqvist, film actress in Swedish Biograph productions and lately in Gaumonts Guarded Lips, London, 1923 Date: 1923

Tomb Lion. Corinth. 600-550 B. C. Limestone. Sculpture. Greec
Tomb Lion. Corinth. 600-550 B.C. Limestone. Sculpture. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark. Europe

Reconstruction of a Lion from a greek tomb. C. 570 B. C. Pain
Reconstruction of a Lion from a greek tomb. C. 570 B.C. Detail. Painted cast, 2003. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark. Europe

Tomb Lion. Marathon. 330 B. C. Marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Tomb Lion. Marathon. 330 B.C. Marble. Sculpture. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Memnon Colossi / Thebes
Amenhotep III (18th Dyn) built a mortuary temple in Thebes that was guarded by two gigantic 75ft high statues on the outer gates. These have survived nature and relocation Date: 1848

People queueing for bread with police guard, Russia, WW1
People queueing in a street for bread at a time when food supplies were low, guarded by the imperial police, Russia, March 1917, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Railway strike 1911: London lines being guarded
Great Western Railway was being protected by Grenadiers against any vandalism coursed by protesters. August 1911

Messerschmitt Bf 109E -guarded by British Tommy

Cartoon, They get what they deserve, WW1
Cartoon, They get what they deserve, showing a group of pessimists, as if in a lunatic asylum, with a sign warning others against approaching or speaking to them. Date: 1915

Suffragette-Proof House of Commons. A suffragette-proof palisade or bunker guarded by a policeman is erected at the House of Commons

Fire safety -- baby playing near guarded coal fire
Fire safety -- a baby playing near a guarded coal fire

Fire safety -- correctly guarded electric fire
Fire safety -- a correctly guarded electric fire

Fire safety -- correctly guarded coal fire
Fire safety -- a family in their sitting room with a correctly guarded coal fire

Fire safety -- paraffin oil stove
Fire safety -- a Valor Junior paraffin oil stove with a safety guard around it

A study of German prisoners being guarded by French sentry
A study of German prisoners being guarded by a French sentry. Jean-Jacques Berne-Bellecour (1874-1939)

German prisoners captured by Belgians, WWI
The transportation to the detention centres of German prisoners captured by the Belgians in World War One. The prisoners are detraining at a dock, and are guarded by the Belgian Civic Guard

Cartoon, Matinee de Novembre, WW1
Cartoon, Matinee de Novembre, showing Kaiser Wilhelm shivering in the sea at Calais, with Dover guarded by battleships in the far distance during the First World War

French biplane being guarded at Belfort, WW1
A French biplane being guarded at Belfort, north east France, in the early stages of the First World War. Date: September 1914

HMS Illustrious - Patriotic British Naval postcard
The third HMS Illustrious of the British Royal Navy was a Majestic-class pre-dreadnought battleship - commissioned in 1898

Spain. Francos dictatorship (May 1952). 35th International Eucharistic Congress, Barcelona. Francisco Franco and the Mayor of Barcelona Antonio Simarr󠩠 Puig (right)

Sarcofagus following a crystalline style (Roman art), 4th c. It was Alfonso III the Greats sarcofagus. From left to right, the scenes are: 1. - The resurrection of Lazarus, 2

Well guarded. Illustration shows a bulldog wearing black tie and formal naval dress sitting on the shore with the Americas Cup behind him; a yacht labeled Shamrock III sails just offshore

Well at Jasur, Egypt, guarded by British troops

Chicago State Street
State Street, North from Madison, crowded constantly during the day with throngs of humanity, surging up and down and guarded at the street crossings by giant policemen. Date: 1916

Java Textiles Factory
Young girls working in a textiles factory, Java, Dutch East Indies, guarded by foremen. Date: 1930s

Children and Bulldog
Two children pass nervously through a gateway, guarded by a bulldog whose kennel is a barrel. 1890s

Imprisonment of General Digenis
Greco-Turkish War - 1919-1922 - General Digenis being led away by Turkish soldiers following the capture after the Greek surrender to the Turkish Cavalry at Karaja Hisar on August 1922

WW1 - French Turkos troops - Prisoners of War
WW1 - Captured French Turkos (or Turcos) troops - the nickname of the Algerian and Tunisian rifles of the French army, which were officially known as Tirailleurs Algeriens and Tirailleurs Tunisiens

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