Hard Collection (page 8)

Oryctolagus cuniculus, European rabbit
Photograph of the left side view of a European rabbit skull from the education collection at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Sapphire crystal
Sapphire is a blue variety of corundum, which is the second hardest natural substance known on Earth. Specimen originates from Olberg, Rheinland, now at the Natural History Museum, London

Ruby is a variety of corundum, which is the second hardest natural substance known on Earth. Specimen is originally from Aust-Agder, Norway, and is now on display at the Natural History Museum, London

Orange sapphire
A rare Sri-Lankan hexagonal cut orange sapphire. Sapphires belong to the corundum group - the second hardest mineral group known

Zaedyus pichiy, pichi armadillo
Pichi armadillo collected by Charles Darwin at Bahia Blanca, Argentina, 1833 (formerly Daspus minutus)

Testudo graeca, spur-thighed tortoise
Photograph of what is probably a spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca) specimen collected by Gilbert White (1720-93)

Dendroaspis angusticeps, green mamba
Photograph of the skull of a green mamba, showing the snakes upper jaw fangs

Lonsdaleia, coral
Shown here is the Carboniferous coral, Lonsdaleia. Corals comprise a soft bodied animal called a polyp. Each polyp inhabits a calcareous skeleton called a corallum

Throne of Tutankhamun. ca. 1340 BC. Back of the throne depicting Queen Ankhesenamun putting the finishing touches to the kings toilet. Tutankhamuns Treasure

Leg rowers - Inle Lake - Leg rowers three at front, two at back, hard to photograph as they are going faster than our outboard. Date: 1952

town view - Moulmein
Town view - Moulmein - Town strung along river, backed by hills. No big ships can come up the shallow Salween River with its rip tides. Hard to see how the people support themselves. Date: 1951

Rice - threshing floor - Rangoon -.about 50 feet square, we could see what they had been watering down carefully yesterday afternoon, was cow dung, smooth and hard as cement. Date: 1952

A hard baby to bring up

Soldier of the Royal Guard. Ancient dress not yet entirely obsolete - Coat & helmet are lined with a mail of hard leather - & studded with iron buttons

A hard game of follow your leader

Hard lines. Illustration shows two businessmen sitting in an office discussing the success of the local trolley service. Date 1904 January 27

A hard job with the hogs. Illustration shows President Cleveland as a pig farmer getting tangled in leashes attached to the hind legs of several hogs, each with a distinctive brand

Marrying for Love or for Money
" Either Choice is Painful" If I marry for love I am poor, if I marry for Money I lose out on true love. This German gentleman is suffering a severe emotional quandry on this issue

Seeley s. Hard rubber. Trusses

An American pineapple, of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest, is ready to leave the hand of an infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Va. American soldiers make good grenade throwers

C. & NW RR, Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. Date 1943 April. C. & NW RR, Mrs. Dorothy Lucke, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa

Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas. Date 1942

Don t flinch, don t foul, hit the line hard!. Illustration shows a Naval Line Officer crashing through a window at the White House where he has been booted out; a small dog observes from the ground

Hard times. Illustration shows Uncle Sam working at the Free Pie Kitchen offering daily distribution of free pies labeled Long Term Franchise, Graft Tariff, Land Grant

The Town Hard, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Scene at the Town Hard (the only place in the town where small boats can be launched into the river free of charge), Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex

Shepherd bellows into horses ear
Rather Hard of Hearing A young Shepherd fails to get the message across to his trusty steed, who appears to be stone deaf. Date: circa 1910s

Silhouette of a figure in riding gear
Full-length silhouette of a figure (male or female) in riding gear, including hard hat, jodphurs and boots

Silhouette of a racehorse and jockey

Woman of the Italian Lakes with straw backpack
A woman of the Northern Italian lakes region carrying a large wicker backpack containing what apears to be hay. This traditional mode of transporting such goods is often depicted in the postcards

Labor by Charles Sprague Pearce
Labor - from the Family and Education series by Charles Sprague Pearce. Found in the North Corridor, Great Hall, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

Cartoon on Laziness
" Whats that! You ve got the sack at the Munition Works! - What for?" " I Dunno - I never done nothing!" Date: circa 1915

Coastal Scene Near Caen
Coastal scene near Caen : hard to imnagine the D-day landings on this romantic shore ! Date: 1850

Your silence is hard to bear
A bear listening to the bottom of the candlestick holder of the telephone, while the receiver is on the floor 1928

Paris Sainte Chapelle
Surrounded by law courts and government departments, the Sainte-Chapelle is hard to see as an isolated building. Date: circa 1904

Hunters and elephants in long grass, Sri Lanka
Hard at it -- hunters in the middle of a herd of elephants in long grass in Sri Lanka. 1854

50 Weeks and 14 Days
Fifty weeks hard labour... Fourteen days swank ! Date: 1920s

Busy Class / Coughton Cope
A class of children working hard at their desks at Coughton Cope Junior School. Date: 1973

British in Burma 1889
Officers relax after a hard day bashing rebels who resent British presence in their country. Date: 1889

Ancient Roman charioteer driving four horses
An Ancient Roman charioteer drives his four horses hard around the track. The prime venue for this type of sport was the Circus Maximus in Rome. Date: BCE

Art Nouveau Polka
The Art Nouveau Polka : though its hard to see how music can express the Art Nouveau style, this is certainly a reflection of popular taste. Date: circa 1900

Kitchen and inmates, Portland Prison, Dorset
A kitchen or cook-house at Portland Prison, Dorset. Inmates in arrow-patterned uniforms stand in front of a row of large steam-heated cooking coppers

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Industry
Industry. A hard working man sits busily stitching fabrics and casts a shadow of a bee hive. Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled

Gipsy womans hands
Close-up of a middle-aged gipsy womans hands, blemished with hard work. She is wearing several rings on both hands, and a man-sized watch

Technical Institute, Mining
Mining Technical Institute, Burnley, Lancashire, England. A smiling young boy in a hard hat, finishes a mug of tea before returning to class

Technical Institute, Mining
Mining Technical Institute, Burnley, Lancashire, England. A class of teenage boys in hard hats, all hopeful to be one of tomorrows miners

Metropolitan Police tin helmet
A Metropolitan Police tin helmet, as used in wartime

Miners with colliery official, South Wales
Two miners with a colliery official at a mine in South Wales

Threshing at New Moat, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
People threshing at harvest time in the parish of New Moat, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. Date: early 1920s

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