Hole Collection (page 10)

Two White Mice run past a brick wall
Two white mice running past a brick wall - one imagines the hole is their home... Date: circa 1905

Motor car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed
Motor car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, the Duchess of Hohenberg were murdered by Gavrilo Princip (one of a group of six Bosnian Serb assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilic)

The Devils Hole, Bermuda - a large water-filled sinkhole, close to the southeastern corner of Harrington Sound, Bermuda. A tourist attraction since the 1830s

Cat and mouse on a pot-shaped Christmas card
A cat and a mouse on a pot-shaped Christmas card with a comic verse. Date: circa 1890s

Easel and artist on a cutout Christmas card -- he has stuck his head through the canvas from the back. Date: circa 1890s

Aptenodytes forsteri, Emperor penguin eggs
Eggs of Aptenodytes forsteri (Emperor penguin) brought back from Apsley Cherry-Garrards 1911 Antarctic expedition. The holes were made to allow investigation of the embryos

Phoenicurus phoenicurus, common redstart
Plate 51 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 2 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

British Mammals Title Page
Title page of Vol. 1 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2, written and illustrated with 50 colour plates and pen and ink sketches by Archibald Thorburn F.Z.S

Dendrocopos minor, lesser spotted woodpecker
Plate 72 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 3 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Cheddar Man
The skull of Cheddar Man. This skull is approximately 10, 000 years old. The hole in the forehead may have been caused by infection and also possibly be the cause of death

Picus miniaceus, banded woodpecker
Plate 22, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Dinopium benghalense, black-rumped woodpecker
Plate 21, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Riparia riparia, sand martin
Plate 128 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Fratercula artica, Atlantic puffin
Plate 213 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Gorhams Cave, Gibraltar
A view of Gorhams Cave from the sea. Neanderthal artifacts have been found, dating from the Middle Palaeolithic inside this cave system

Sea caves at Governors Beach
Sea caves in the cliffs at Governors Beach, Gibraltar

Ardea alba, great egret
Plate 386 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Riparia riparia, Tachycineta thalassina
Plate 385 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Jackson Hole - Wyoming - Then down the valley to Jackson Lake Date: 1952

Road menders and pipe layers
People You See. Road menders and pipe layers. From Teddy Bear (23 March 1968)

Puppy on beach

Golf / Bunker 1970S
A golfer tries to get out of a bunker Date: 1970s

Peary & Cook / Assiette
Returning from the North Pole, Robert Peary returned home to find Frederick Cook claiming he had reached it the previous year. " What a hole, the Pole!" Date: 1909

Blowing Hole in Cylinder
Blowing a hole in a glass cylinder at the Creighton Works, Pittsburgh, USA Date: circa 1880

Blitz in City of London -- bomb crater, WW2
Blitz in the City of London -- devastation caused after a heavy explosive bomb caused a vast crater and opened up underground workings after an air raid during the night

LCC-LFB Fire scene in an East London street
The aftermath of a fire with clear evidence of the severity of the fire, judging by the damage to the roof covering

Blitz in London -- vehicle in bomb crater
Blitz in London -- vehicle in a bomb crater after an air raid, West India Dock Road

Satirical cartoon, Descent of the Great Balloon
Satirical political cartoon, Descent of the Great Balloon, showing ten politicians travelling in a hot-air balloon. Speech bubbles show the mens concerns about the rapid descent of the balloon

Satirical cartoon on ballooning

Tom reached and clawed down the hole after him. Date 1916

Mouse, facing front, sitting on a mallet with red ribbon through a hole in the handle. Print shows a mouse, facing front, sitting on a mallet with red ribbon through a hole in the handle

The fight for the water-hole. Illustration shows a group of Natives, four are identified as Dixon, Teddy, Perkins, and Pinchot, on horseback, circling a water hole labeled The Presidency

Troldtinderne from hole, Romsdalen, Norway. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Hog horn and Dark Hole, Helogland, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Jersey, the Devils Hole, Channel Islands, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Why open the door, coal miners child uses the cat hole. Bertha Hill, West Virginia (Note pipe in one hand, gun in other). Date 1938 Sept. Why open the door, coal miners child uses the cat hole

Hoyts A hole in the ground. Date c1900

Design drawings for circular coins with square hole in center. Date 1878 Dec

Needle Rock, Fishguard, Wales
The Needle Rock at Fishguard, Wales. It is a dolerite stack with a hole through its base, standing 130 feet high. Showing locals rowing a boat through the opening

Toba Indian, Meleta Gran Chato, Argentina
The Toba are an ethnic group in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. The Gran Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland natural region of the Rde la Plata basin

Bombs reveal underground railway in Warsaw, 1939
Following the bombardment and subsequent invasion of Warsaw, photograph revealing the citys underground railway system only a few feet below the surface. Date: 1939

Universal Ring Sundial
A Universal Ring Sundial, a French sundial which indicates the time by light passing through the pin hole onto a graduated ring parallel to the earths equator. Date: 18th century

Damage to HMS Tiger during the Battle of Jutland, WW1
Damage to the British battlecruiser HMS Tiger, hit during the Battle of Jutland, in the North Sea near Denmark, during the First World War. Date: 31 May - 1 June 1916

Torghatten, Norway
Torghatten (Trolls Hat) is a hill in Norway renowned for its distinctive hole piercing straight through the hillside (not a printing error!)

Underground Stream Grid
A blonde rambler wearing Argyll socks looks at a grate near Priddy, Mendips, Somerset, England. Down this cleft vanishes an underground stream to Wookey Hole caves! Date: 1930s

Quartermasters tent with shell hole in foreground, WW1
A Quartermasters tent on a transport field during the First World War, showing a hole in the foreground made by a shell which fell within twenty yards but did no damage. Date: 1916

New Zealand troops at Battle of Flers, France, WW1
New Zealand troops of the 2nd Canterbury Battalion resting in a shell hole near Flers during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the Western Front in northern France during the First World War

Touch and Go by W. Ralston
A mouse foils its feline foe by disappearing through a hole in the floorboard and tickling the cats paw with a stalk of wheat. Date: 1911

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