Hiding Collection (page 5)

Hiding from bills and debt
A nursry verse wtih a grown up curse! The homeowner hides as various men he owes bills to come a knocking. Date: 1928- 1929

Hunt the slipper
All dressed up for the evening, just about to go out when she can t find one of her shoes. The maids look everywhere, and when asked, they just shrug their shoulders

Girl with snowballs. 20th century

Young Oxford Student, College Master and Bulldogs
A young Oxford student greets the Master of his College with all due deference (making sure to hide his smoking pipe behind his back)

Two British soldiers shooting from behind a wall, WW1
Two British soldiers shooting from behind a brick wall, somewhere on the Western Front during the First World War. Debris from ruined buildings can be seen across the road from them. Date: 1914-1918

Ned Kelly kills Police Officer Lonigan
While the Kelly gang were in hiding, the police launched a mission to find them, setting up camp at Stringbark, near where they suspected the gang were staying

H Miller. Hide & seek 2
Children playing Hide and Seek in a formal garden. 20th century

Seaching the cellars: Looking for the Hidden enemies
During the Great advance, German soldiers, cut off by the British curtain of artillery fire, without food for several days, surrender from the cellars knowing that the British troops are approaching

Soviet Counter Attack
Soviet counter-attack by hiding among cattle - as did Odysseus... Date: October 1941

Blind Mans Buff 1905
Five children playing Blind Mans Buff at a party, one hiding behind a door. circa 1905

The Two Sisters

Luther in Disguise
MARTIN LUTHER After being proscribed by the Diet of Worms, he has to go into hiding, protected by the Elector of Saxony : he is disguised as Junker George Date: 1483 - 1546

Mr Prickles by Muriel Dawson
A sweet little blonde girl wearing a smart matching red coat and hat, comes across a little hedgehog which has curled itself up into a ball

Boy with cigarette behind the garden shed
A boy having a crafty cigarette behind the garden shed

Charmouth, Dorset - Hiding place of King Charles
Charmouth, Dorset - The Queens Armes Hotel, an early 16th century house, re-faced in the 18th century. After the house became an Inn (it was formerly part of Forde Abbey)

An Attack in the Rear
A mischievous young boy hides behind a pillar waiting to throw the snowballs that hes carrying at the next unsuspecting passer-by

Observation post 1918
A soldier in a canvas and steel observation post near Souchez on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1918

Pigs and man
A bearded man sits uncomfortably in the corner of a pigsty, his arms wrapped round himself for warmth, while piglets suckle at a sow. Perhaps he is a fugitve

Balloon Barrage by Renee Charron
A young woman, rumpled stockings just visible, hides beneath an eiderdown quilt with a bunch of balloons while a baby Cupid flutters above her bed waiting to strike. Goodness knows what is going on

A quick change of front
A German Shopkeeper hides his origins following the outbreak of war with Germany

The Peril of Queen Henrietta Maria
During the English Civil War, Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I, flees England to the safety of the continent. She hides with her supporters from Parliamentarian ships off the coast

Queen Henrietta Maria flees
During the English Civil War, Henrietta Maria, queen of Charles I, escapes from England. She is sheltered by a bank from the Parliamentarian forces

The Golf Ball That Didn t Want To Play
Lazy golf ball that resorts to hiding down a hole to avoid playing

A play at the Theatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris
The Crocodile, a play by Michel Sardou, is performed at the Theatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin in Paris. The scene shows the moment when Lieutenant Lotus discovers Richard Kolt

Where Did That One Go To
Worried group of soldiers hiding from gun fire in a bunker

Native Family - Egypt
A touching family group photograph of a heavily-veiled native Egyptain Mother and her two young children, one sitting on her shoulders. The roll above the veil is to hide the nose from sight

Lancers returning from burning kraals, Zulu War, 1879
Engraving showing British cavalry returning from burning Zulu homes, 1879. This arson was designed to prevent the Zulu from hiding their leaders, who were fugitive from the British

The Zulu war. The End of the Zulu war. The Siege of Morosi s
The final skirmishes of the Zulu war, showing British and native soldiers hiding out in the Morosi mountain in a natural embrasure in Saddle rock

Manhunt in Catacombs
Government troops hunt for Communards hiding in the Catacombs of Paris

Social / Japan Yoshivara
Scene in the Yoshivara : a passer-by, right, chats up the girls while hiding his face, a masked buffoon hails a young man who is doubtless seeking female companionship

Edith Cavell
EDITH CAVELL - nurse in Belgium who helped some 200 Allied servicemen to escape by hiding them in her hospital : the Germans, not surprisingly, disapproved, and shot her

Charles Ii / Royal Oak
Charles II is advised to hide amid the branches of the Royal Oak in Boscobel Wood, part of the park of Boscobel House following the Battle of Worcester

Partisan Reconnaisance
A partisan reconnaisance unit in Briansk. A member hides in the undergrowth and signals to his comrades

Demosthenes in Disgrace
DEMOSTHENES Athough later regarded as the greatest of Greek orators, he is seen here hiding his face after the failure of his first badly delivered speech

Duck shooting with decoys, hoping they will encourage other ducks to alight on the water and be slaughtered

Anarchist Leader, Most
The influential anarchist leader, Johann Most, is discovered in hiding under a bed, and arrested

Charles II in Hiding
Charles hides in the Oak tree at Boscobel during his flight from England

British Soldiers Capture
North Africa : Italians capture British troops, who had been hiding in a cave on the Sollum front

Mozart / Nozze / Liebig 1
(The Marriage of Figaro) Count Almaviva discovers Cherubino hiding, and realises he has overheard his attempt to seduce Susanna

Female / Leaning 1930S
A young woman leaning against the wall of a low arch stares impassively into the distance

Aslaug & Heimer
Aslaug (Aslog), the daughter of the Volsung Sigurd & the Valkyrie Brynhild, with her foster father Heimer who saved her, hiding her in the sound board of his harp

Attacking Rabid Dog
Citizens take up arms against a dog afflicted with rabies, or hydrophobia, or canine madness : a street pedlar falls, trying to escape, while women run into hiding

Luther at Diet of Worms
At the Diet of Worms, Luther defends his opinions before the emperor and an assembly of notables from church and state; proscribed, he goes into protective hiding

Myth / Tibet / Glass Pillars
STORY OF ROOM, BACHA & BAKI The glass pillars dance for the ogre, except the one where Baki is hiding

Jap Dogs Hunt Russians
During the war between Russia and Japan, Japanese forces use dogs to hunt out Russians : a soldier, seeking safety beneath a rock, is sniffed out of his hiding- place

Girl Hiding, Garden 1880
When one is a small girl, one can hide in the smallest of places without being found!

Woman & Mice in Cellar
A woman hiding from a German zeppelin raid in a coal cellar finds a worse danger

Grimm / The Owl / Barn Fire
The townsfolk burn down the barn in which the Owl is hiding

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