Hard Collection (page 6)

Music cover, Seventy Two and Hard as Steel, sung by Harry Clifton. circa 1870

Building A Ship, Torre Del Greco Italy
Four young gentlemen thought of the beach, in front of a church in Torre Del Greco, to be the perfect spot to build their ship on. Date: 1904

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, Dogs of Character
Cover design (hard cover) by Cecil Aldin, Dogs of Character, with a head portrait of Cracker, Aldins own bull terrier. Date: 1927

Cartoon, Consequences of a Successful French Invasion, Me teach de English Republicans to work. Scene, A Ploughed Field. By James Gillray. Date: 1798

Consolidated B-24D (aft) aloft from hard above of 32

Lance-shaped blechnum or hard fern, Blechnum lanceola.. Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine

Rock climbing near Porthcurno, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Children on a cycling trail, Somerset
A group of children having a fun day out on a cycling trail, Somerset. Date: circa 1980s

Face workers in a tin mine, Cornwall, with the seam of tin visible on the right. Date: circa 1980s

David playing hard. Date: circa late 19th century

Huntsmen and hounds at an open gate, West Country. Date: circa 1960s

Favourite Sayings - Empty Sacks
Black and white lantern slide of a man holding an empty sack. Painted background of interior of a barn with sacks along one wall.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

Crew on board USS Frederick, American cruiser, WW1
Crew on board USS Frederick, American cruiser, on the warmest day experienced, August 1918. They look tired, and their clothes are very dirty. Date: 1918

Womens War Work WW1. Shows a woman station porter, beside the caption, A credit to their country. The accompanying rhyme states

Webley 455 Mk VI eight-shot double action service revolve
A Webley & Scott, Webley.455 Mark VI eight shot double action service revolver, Serial No. 32104, 6 inch barrel with chequered hard rubber grips. Firearms & Equipment

Pony trekking, Exmoor, Devon
A young girl pony trekking on Exmoor, Devon

British refashioning a German trench, WW1
Illustration showing British soldiers working hard to put a German first line trench, just taken at Hulluch, into a proper state of defence for their purposes

The Mustang plane by G. H. Davis
The Mustang: fastest army cooperation plane in the world, in use during the Second World War. A hard-hitting, amazingly fast reconnaissance aircraft. Date: 1942

Master Quack the duckling finds a tough morsel
A Tough Morsel -- Master Quack the duckling struggles to eat some very hard food. Date: 1912

The Savoy, 1223 Oliver Avenue, Indianapolis. Showing, " Hard Cider", " Atonement", " European War Pictures" and " Beppo" Date: C. 1914

Womens Royal Air Force -- Coal Fatigue
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing two women on Coal Fatigue, ie shovelling coal. Date: 1919-1920

Fencing Girls
Girls of the L.N.E.R. Recreation Club at Liverpool Street, London, enjoying a bout of fencing after a hard day on the railways! Date: 27 June 1933

Firmin Gemier
FIRMIN GEMIER French actor and theatre manager who worked hard for popular theatre presenting classics at low cost. Photo 1910. Date: 1869 - 1933

Farmers Coming Home
Farmworkers returning to the farm after a hard days graft in the fields, England. Date: early 1930s

Sir Ric Hard Malins
SIR RICHARD MALINS Statesman Date: 1805 - 1882

Henry Hawkins, Judge
Sir HENRY HAWKINS judge, described as master of the hard sentence. Date: 1817 - 1907

One Encore too many - Boy performer collapses backstage
One Encore too many - A young boy performer collapses backstage and is tended to by his female co-star, a kindly clown and another older member of the ensemble

WW1 - Austrian, German and Turkish Prisoners put to work on Italian streets. Postcard issued by the Y.M.C.A. Hut Fund Date: circa 1917

The honesty of an Elderly Irish Woman - Mortality
Mrs Murphy - " Shure its goin to be a moighty hard winter, Father dear; there ll be a moighty lot av us owld Folks Nipped in the BUd, oi m thinking." Date: circa 1890s

Result of losing a game of Buttons
The Game of Buttons - a philosophical response from victor to loser. Winner (to the ruined one) - " Well, dash it all, old man

Burglar in disguise - not the most convincing transformation
Extract from an interview with a celebrated burglar - " The Old style of Crib Crackers is all done away with now-a-days

Scruffy Street Tough advertising The Ladies Idol
Humorous ironic cartoon by Phil May, depicting a scruffy, unattractive street tough advertising The Ladies Idol at The Vaudeville Theatre. Date: 1895

Hard Luck Sir - Young lad lets in a goal
" Hard Luck Sir" - Young lad lets in a goal... Date: 1906

Why Get Married?
" Why Get Married?" The Joys of Bachelor Life illustrated quite clearly in this humorous German postcard illustration! Date: circa 1910s

Etretat, France - working a beachside capstan
Etretat in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France - French Fisherfolk working a beachside capstan to draw in a fishing boat

Diamond in pebble
A solitary diamond in conglomerate, from Golconda, India

Crystal balls are produced by grinding and polishing quartz (silicon dyoxide) cystal into spheres

Natural ruby in marble
From the mines of Mogok in Burma (Myanmar). Ruby is the red variety of the mineral corundum with small impurities of chromium that turn it red

Microchiroptera (suborder), microbat
Photograph of the left side view of the skull of a microbat, measuring 4cm, with its relatively short snout and lower jaw

Acronychia laevis, hard aspen
Finished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outine drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Ursus speleaus, great cave bear
Fig. 28 from A History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds, by Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892), published in 12 parts, 1844-1846

Geochelone carbonaria, red-footed tortoise

Plate 97 from the John Reeves Collection (Zoology)

Corundum group
A collection of crystals including ruby and sapphire particolor, ruby rhomboid, and hexagonal cut sapphire

Pteropus livingstonii, Comoro black flying fox
Photograph showing view from above and left side of two Comoro black flying fox, or Livingstones flying fox, skull specimens

Sarcophilus laniarius, Tasmanian devil
Jaw of a Tasmanian devil from the collections at the Natural History Museum

Amblyomma sp. hard backed tick
Scanning electron microscope view of a hard backed tick from the family Ixodidae. Coloured artificially on computer

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