Hundreds Collection (page 2)

Enlisting in Kitcheners Army at the start of World War I
On 6th August 1914 the House of Commons unanimously sanctioned an increase of the Army by 500, 000 men and recruiting for the first 100, 000 men of Kitcheners army began on 7th August

Russo-Turkish War, Russian Troops Camping
Hundreds of Russian Troops lined up outside their campsite near Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) during the Russo-Turkish war (April 24, 1877 March 3, 1878). Date: circa 1877

Red Square Palm Sunday Market, Moscow
Palm Sunday is a Christian feast that falls on the last sunday before easter. It is celebrated by hundreds of people on Red Square in Moscow every year. Date: circa 1900

Building the Fergana Canal in 1939
Hundreds of dust covered men heed the call of musicians atop a crumbling hillock and head to work at the construction site of the Fergana Canal formerly in Russia (now part of Uzbeckistan). Date: 1939

Camel Caravan at the Caravaniserai Landikotal - NWFP
Camel Caravan at the Caravaniserai, Landikotal, NWFP en route from Afghanistan to Peshawar, Pakistan. Date: circa 1920s

Bathing Tents on the beach at Grado, Italy - situatedbetween Venice and Trieste. Date: circa 1950s

Hundreds are receiving free instruction Drawing, painting, weaving, lithography, sculpture, etching, metal craft, photography, costume illustration at Harlem Community Art Center

Two lifeboat coxswains, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Retiring lifeboat coxswain John Byford (left) and new coxswain Thomas Bloom, pictured at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. John Byford had been cox from 1929 and Thomas Bloom, known locally as Puggy

King Alfred defines the county boundaries
King Alfred the Great devises administrative reforms, redefining the division of England into Counties, Hundreds and Tithings Date: Circa 885

England / Honiton
England/Honiton

A car by the Diamond T Motor Corporation, Chicago
An electric car by the Diamond T Motor Corporation, Chicago

Harbour Scene, Panama City, Panama

Ancient Spanish Bridge at Old Panama

Birds eye view of Panama City with National Institute in the left foreground, 1900s

Ruins of Old Panama destroyed by Morgan 250 Years ago

Church at Nata, oldest in the republic of Panama

Construction of the Panama Canal
View from the top of Bas Obispo Cut, Looking South, Panama Canal

Panama Canal
Location for permanent docks at Balboa, Panama Canal

Mitford and Launditch Union Workhouse, Gressenhall, Norfolk
The Mitford and Launditch Union workhouse at Gressenhall, Norfolk, originally opened in 1777 by the Mitford and Launditch Hundreds Incorporation

Flying Fortresses at an airfield near Munich, August 1945
Aerial photograph showing hundreds of Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers parked on an airfield near Munich in the summer of 1945

Group Meeting of the Family Colonisation Loan Society, 1852
Mrs Chisholm set up the Family Colonisation Loan Society to enable poor families to save regularly to cover the cost of emigration. Donations were also made by the wealthy

Departure of the Great Britain from Liverpool, 1852
Engraving showing the busy scene at Princes Pier, Liverpool, as hundreds of onlookers cheer the steam ship Great Britain upon its departure for Australia, 1852

Passengers claiming luggage at Liverpool Railway Station, 18
Engraving of the crowded Liverpool railway station, with children sitting on baggage in the foreground, and a huge luggage trolley holding hundreds of trunks in the background

The Civil War in America. Train with reinforcements for Gen
Hundreds of Confederate soldiers leap from the train, as it derails in the Mississippi forest

BRAMSHOTT - 1916
View of Bramshott Hampshire. Known locally as Tin Town because of the hundreds of tin shacks built for the Canadian army camped threre

The Bear and the Bees
THE BEAR AND THE BEES The bear is stung by a bee and in retaliation overturns the hive whereupon hundreds of bees attack and sting him

Straw Hats Drying
Hundreds of straw sun-hats being dried in the open air at a Luton factory

Pearly King / Funeral
Hundreds of people watched the funeral of Henry Croft, Londons Pearly King. It was attended by other costers in their picturesque uniforms

Handbag Manufacture
A scene in the workrooms of a large handbag factory where womens handbags of exclusive design for the coming season are being turned out in their hundreds

Leaving Antwerp
Hundreds of thousands of Belgians retreat to Antwerp before the German advance, making their getaway as best they can : in a few hours, the city will be deserted

Wind Carries Women Away
Two Alabama women are in bed when a violent wind carried them several hundreds of metres

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