Hard Collection (page 10)

Kirghiz Courtship
Courtship custom of the Kirghiz people - the would-be groom rides in pursuit of his prospective bride who may not try so very hard to escape

Drury Lane Panto. School
Children working in the pantomimes at Drury Lane Theatre, receive lessons at the theatres school

Playing Shuttleboard
DECK SPORTS The open space and smooth hard surface of the ships deck fit it admirably for the popular game of SHUTTLEBOARD

Olympics / 1932 / Hurdles
Mens 3000 metre hurdles: Evenson (Great Britain) wins the heat, but comes 2nd in the final

Harthouse & Gradgrind
Mr Harthouse and Tom Gradgrind in the garden

Street Kids
Every child in the street wants to be in the picture - I make it 64, but its hard to tell sisters from mothers. We are probably in Limehouse

Knife Grinder in London
Knives and scissors to grind? : a knife grinder hard at work in a London street sharpening a cleaver for a customer

Westminster / Dore / 1870
A night-time view across Westminster Bridge, with the Houses of Parliament in the distance, and a number of hard-up men sleeping rough under the stars

Dinner Party Guests 1878
Dinner guests sit at table before the meal; the old fellow in the middle seems to be hard of hearing

Egan / Workhouse
An actor visits an old colleague, fallen on hard times, in the workhouse

Hard Times / In Sickroom
Stephen and Rachel in the sickroom

Hard Times / Old Hell Shaf
Stephen Blackpool rescued from the Old Hell shaft

Hard Times / Mr Bounderby
Mr Bounderby

Italian Camp for Women
A summer camp for women members of the Italian Alpine Club, high in the mountains but with comfortingly solid buildings to sleep in after a hard days climbing

St Bernard and Milk Cart
A Saint Bernard and his owner struggle to pull the milk cart up a hill in Switzerland

Morden College Blackheat
This fine building was built by Turkey merchant Sir John Morden for decayed Turkey merchants who fell on hard times. It is still in use to house elderly retired folk

Woman Carrying Fern 1848
A woman carrying fern, Scotland

Hunting Dress 1813
Single-breasted green coat cut away below the waist, cuffs unbuttoned, stand-fall collar & leather belt, red waistcoat, cravat, breeches, top boots, spurs, velvet hard hat

Street Market Dakar
An extremely uninformative photo of a street market at Dakar - almost everyone is turning their back on the photographer and its hard to see what is being sold

Monk with St. Bernard s
A monk and with one of the famous St. Bernard dogs which have saved many lives from peril and whose winter work in the Swiss Alps is both hard and dangerous

Yaks in Tibet
Yaks do much of the hard work in Tibet, fetching and carrying in a patient and obliging manner

Confederate Forces
After Gettysburg, the Confederate forces are increasingly hard-pressed by the Union; this corps is forced to march at night through burning woods

Napoleon at Rivoli
At the battle of Rivoli, hard- pressed by the Austrians, Napoleon reprimands his men and turns the near-defeat into a crushing victory Date: 14 January 1797

Three Women on Wash Day
Three women hard at work on washing day

Battle of Lake Champlain
BATTLE OF LAKE CHAMPLAIN A hard-fought naval battle ends in an American victory, decisive for the outcome of the war

Punic Wars: Ecnomus
PUNIC WARS Naval battle of ECNOMUS :the Roman fleet won a hard-fought victory over the Carthaginians nearly 700 vessels took part

Hypnosis
A hard interview made easy

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