Hitting Collection (page 2)

Florence Upton playing cards - Weg Drumming. circa 1900s

The gushing of water from the smitten rock - Exodus 17. circa 1690

Man hit by football on a greetings card
Man hit on the head by a football on a greetings card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Hand-drawn and painted postcard featuring a cricketing Duck
Rather unusual hand-drawn and painted French Birthday Greetings postcard featuring a cricketing Duck, dispatching the ball out of the ground! circa 1920s

Startling Stories - Sci Fi Mag - Shadow Over Mars
The front cover of Startling Stories magazine, showing a man and a woman (in skimpy gold costume) being attacked by three red ape-like monsters with fearsome teeth

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - Run Out
Run-It-Out card game - Run Out - Hows That? mid-20th century

Tinker, Tailor playing card - Tinker, Peter Pan. 20th century

Domestic fight between husband and wife. circa 18th century

Cheery Families - Mrs Grub the Gardeners Wife. 1890s

Alice, Where Art Thou, Christmas card
Alice, Where Art Thou, comic interpretation of a popular song on a Christmas card, with two frogs in the moonlight. (1 of 3) Date: circa 1890s

Suffragettes Tease Lion
Suffragettes teasing the British lion. Date: 1914

Edwardian golfer and observers. Date: early 1900s

Edwardian golfer taking a swipe at the ball -- his caddy cowers, afraid of being hit by the club. Date: early 1900s

Three cherubs fighting on a New Year card
Three cherubs fighting and breaking things on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Cricket the right and wrong way of batting
A batsman demonstrate the correct way of batting; straight play and then the incorrect way; cross play Date: 1892

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

Men fighting on the streets of London
Randulph defending himself against Philip Frewin and his myrmidons. Date: C18th

Japan - Geisha girl holding a badminton racquet (about to hit a ball) Date: circa 1904

Three little boys play cricket at school. Date: 1898

The New Compensation Act of 1906
" The New Compensation Act" - " Never mind Bill, we re insured!" - a pair of labourers are not unduly concerned at the blocks of stone falling on their heads

Old Yokel extols the fighting qualities of his son
" My Laad Garge as bin feaghtin t Booers. If e only whopped em like e did is did is Old Woman, ed mak em sit up, I tell ye." Date: 1900

A ginger-haired young lady golfer, completing her swing
Winsome - A ginger-haired young lady golfer, completing her swing having driven down the eighth hole. The tight short blue jumper and thin red and white stripe mini-skirt seem par for the course

Fiscal Inquiry - Free Trade versus Protectionism
Illustration of the political and social argument between Free Trade and Protectionism, which rumbled along in Britain throughout the first decade of the 20th century

Biarritz, France - Big wave hitting the Virgins Rock Date: 1909

Fierce shot blasts Goalkeeper into his own goal
A fearsome shot from an opposing striker smashes into the face of a hapless Goalkeeper, carrying the ball and the keeper back over the line

She Thumps Him
A wife goes for her husband with a kitchen utensil, he protects his head as best he can Date: circa 1630

British sailor on a mule, pushed by Egyptian man
Push on with it, Mohamed -- a British sailor riding on a reluctant white mule, being pushed by a thin Egyptian man. Date: 1916

Silhouettes of the horse as an entertainer -- from the top, the Royal Tournament at Olympia, Polo at Hurlingham, and a Meet of the Coaching Club in Hyde Park

Silhouette, To Hit the Nail on the Head
To Hit the Nail on the Head -- silhouette showing three children watching their father hammer a nail into the wall

Rough Sea at Staithes, Yorkshire
A fabulous wave hits the quayside at Staithes, Yorkshire Date: 1908

Rough sea hitting the East Pier at Whitby, Yorkshire
A rough sea hitting the East Pier at Whitby, Yorkshire Date: circa 1909

Dispute in a rail carriage
A fight breaks out among business men in a train carriage, who are debating fiscal retaliation. 1903

Hercules strikes Cacus
Page of text with marginal drawing, showing Hercules with a large club about to strike at Cacus (the bearded man on the right) who is pulling a bull backwards by the tail. 1543

Croquet Winner 1913
A woman wins the game by hitting the ball against the peg. Date: 1913

Edwardian golfer on the Pembrokeshire coast
An Edwardian golfer in action in his shirtsleeves on the Pembrokeshire coast, South Wales

Five people playing a ball game in a field

Tourist hassled by locals - Egypt
A cartoon postcard depicting the troubles encountered by tourists in Egypt, entitled The Battle of the Nile !

A batsman exhibitis four different shots
A combination action photograph of a batsman, in full cricket kit, plays four different shots, from the classic forward defensive shot (left) through to a cover drive (right)

Government Critics
Its a thankless task stopping a Punch ball - The harder you hit it, the harder it comes back. Cartoon showing the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George

Titanic In Memoriam card
An In Memoriam card for RMS Titanic, which sank on her maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg, 15 April 1912

Shipping Casualties HMSO report, Inquiry booklet
Two items relating to the sinking of the Titanic. 1. Front cover of the HMSO report of an official investigation, entitled Shipping Casualties (Loss of the Steamship Titanic)

Shipping Casualties HMSO report
Front cover of the HMSO report of an official investigation, entitled Shipping Casualties (Loss of the Steamship Titanic)

This Night Club Evil by W. Heath Robinson
Cartoon, This Night Club Evil. The sort of silly errors our Bright Young People make by keeping up their amusements after lighting up time

The Civil war in America: Midnight storm on the Missippi
Federal flotilla at anchor, off Fort Pillow. The storm occurred on the night of May 20th 1862, when lightning just missed hitting the amunition boat with 25, 000 pounds of gun powder on board

R a Duff - Cricketer
Reggie A Duff - Australian Test cricketer shown here hitting an on-drive

P F Warner - Cricketer
Pelham F. Warner hitting an on-drive. Cricketer for Middlesex and England

Seal Slaughter
It was too much like hitting a man when he is down

Encounter with a sea lion near San Francisco, USA
Bathers near San Francisco, California, USA, are alarmed when they encounter a sea lion

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