Hours Collection (page 7)

One of lifes happy hours. Print showing a mother with a child standing in her lap putting flowers into her mothers hair. Date between 1870 and 1890?

Golden hours. Date c1875

Working Girls of all Nationalities Making the Best of the Spare Evening Hours. Boston 1915 Exhibit. Location: Boston, Massachusetts. Date 1909 October

Working Boys of all Nationalities Making the Best of the Spa

Happy autumn hours. Date c1887 Jan. 13

Dusting plane hedge-hopping after spraying swath on beanfield. These planes can spray 100 acres an hour, can usually fly one or two hours unless it rains or storms in an average day

The great laughing success, Newmann the Great in two hours of fun! science! mystery!. Date ca. 1930

The big farce comedy, Hello Bill a whole lot of fun - in 3 hours. Date c1900

Howards sure cure for the blues in three prescriptions and 180 pleasant doses for direction see below : secure seats for The doctors warm reception at the Opera House, office hours, 8-to-10:30 p.m

John C. Heenan, Champion of the World. (The Benicia Boy.) Born in West Troy, New York, May 2 1835, Height 6 feet 1 1/2 inches, Fighting weight from 185 to 195 lbs

Poster: Buses give way to tanks. Pleasure travellers must give way to war workers! Avoid rush hours. 1940s

Climbing a Glacier
Climbing a glacier with ropes through a hazardous tangle of ravines. It takes 7 hours to advance up the 4500 feet face of the glacier. Date: 1930s

Kiwi Christmas
A typical New Zealand Christmas holiday scene, on Lake Rotoiti, North Island, which ranks high among places which enjoy more than 2, 000 hours of sunshine annually. Date: 1950s

Versailles Le Hameau
Le Hameau, the imitation farmhouse where Marie Antoinette spent her happiest hours. Date: circa 1904

Looking at the book of the lost and at news of the Titanic
In the anxious hours which followed the greatest of Maritime disasters: At Lloyd s, the famous association of Marine Underwriters. After the sinking of the Titanic. Date: 27th April 1912

Indian Penitents
What may look like headstands is really a position of penitence. These Indian girls are copying the position of the holy ascetics (Saddhus), who sit like this for hours. Date: 1930s

Three Buses at Once

Benjamin Heath
BENJAMIN HEATH town clerk of Exeter, and writer during the hours of leisure allowed him by his civic duties. Date: 1704 - 1766

Service Fitness Class
A Fitness for Service womens class attended twice a week during lunch hours. Fitness classes, keep fit Date: late 1930s

Farman Biplane Record
Henry Farman, an Englishman working in France, wins the Grand Prix for distance, at Reims, with a flight of 180 km in just over three hours Date: 27 August 1909

Richard Oastler, factory reformer
Richard Oastler (1789-1861) was a labour reformer and abolitionist, born in Leeds, Yorkshire. He fought for the rights of working children in the Factory Act of 1847

Two-relay lodging house, East End of London
A group of men stand outside a lodging house in the East End of London. This establishment employed the two-relay system where each bed was shared between two people

Quarter Boys, Rye Parish Church
One of the Quarter Boys (so called because they strike the quarters but not the hours) of Rye Parish Church of St Mary

Burns / Made to Mourn
MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN O man! while in thy early years, How prodigal of time! Mis-spending all thy precious hours, thy glorious, youthful prime!

Burns / Highland Mary
HIGHLAND MARY The golden hours on angel wings, Flew o er me and my dearie; For dear to me, as light and life, Was my sweet Highland Mary

Bma Approves Nhs
The British Medical Association special representative meeting lasts seven hours, and agrees to co- operate in the new national health service

Jersey Airways Poster
A poster advertising Jersey Airways Ltd. flights from Jersey to Paris; regular services taking two and a half hours

American Troops crossing the Rhine, Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing American troops and vehicles crossing a pontoon bridge built by American engineers on the River Rhine, 1945. This bridge was built in a record time of six and a half hours

Frustrated Teacher
A frustrated French teacher after " three hours of shouting" tells his " naughty children" that they can leave at the midday bell and study again later

Bicycle Race at the Velodrome d Hiver, Paris, 1921
Illustration showing a Six-day bicycle race held at the Velodrome d Hiver Circuit, Paris, 1921. The cyclists raced for 144 hours to see who could cover the greatest distance over a six-day period

SS Ireland, 1885
Engraving of the City of Dubin Steam-Packet Companys Mail Paddle Steamship Ireland, shortly after its launch, 1885. This ship, built in the Laird Shipyard at Birkenhead

The Magnetic Hut, National Antarctic Expedition, 1902
Photograph showing Mr. Bernacchi standing in the doorway of the Magnetic Hut during the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-4

Thermega electric blanket, used to warm the sheets
Replacing the hot water bottle. Placing a Thermega electric blanket between the sheets. This invention meant that warmth in the bed could be stored for several hours

American oli powered diesel electric locomotive
The Streamline Union Pacific Train for high speed passenger service. This oil powered diesel electric locomotive is fitted with a 900 H.P twelve cylinder diesel engine

The British Museum, 1890
Engraving showing one of the galleries of the British Museum, 1890. Electric lighting had just been installed in the museum

French Liner Normandie at sea, June 1935
Photograph of the French luxury liner, Normandie, in the Atlantic on her maiden voyage, seen from the deck of the Champlain

The Hesperian
The liner, Hesperian sunk by a German submarine off the Irish south coast on September 4th 1915 on a voyage from Liverpool to Montreal

French Revol. Clock 1790
A clock produced during the French Revolution, featuring a lower dial that divides the day into ten hours

EAGLE AIRSHIP
Designed by comte de Lennox, the Eagle is intended to fly from London to Paris in 6 hours : but it is too heavy, fails to get airborne, and will be destroyed in Paris

Nationalist Officer captured by Republicans; Spanish Civil W
Photograph showing a Nationalist officer (centre), from the Montana Barracks in Madrid, captured by Republican irregular troops, Madrid, 1936

Hms intrepid on an Iceberg, Baffin Bay
HMS Intrepid, an Arctic exploration vessel, having been driven forty feet up an iceberg, Baffin Bay, 1851. The Intrepid, under the command of Lt. J.B

Half-hours at Eton - Hair Cutting Day
A line of seated Eton schoolboys having their haircut on mass by a schoolmaster pushing a lawn mower. Robinson was a regular contributor to the Sketch

An automatic milkman
Photograph from 1909 showing a penny-in-the-slot milk-machine. The machine enabled shop owners to close at reasonable hours, and for customers to buy milk at any hour of the day or night

A Devonshire lace-maker
Lace-making was a typical cottage industry and could be carried out independently by women in their homes. The woman in the picture sits by the hearth in a cottage with a bolster-style pillow firmly

R. M. S. Queen Mary, Ocean Dock, Southampton, 1936
Photograph of the R.M.S. Queen Mary arriving at the Ocean Dock, Southampton, after winning the Blue Riband of the Atlantic on 30th August that year

R. M. S. Queen Mary Arriving at Southampton, 1936
Photograph of the R.M.S. Queen Mary arriving at Southampton after winning the Blue Riband of the Atlantic on 30th August that year

Drunken Carnival Party
Guests at a carnival party looking rather the worse for wear in the small hours of the morning

Game of chess by telegraph
A game of chess played between London and Portsmouth, through the electric telegraph of the South Western Railway on April 10th, 1845. Suggested by Mr

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