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Background imageKind Collection: Captain Woolf Barnato with his Bentley

Captain Woolf Barnato with his Bentley
Captain Woolf Barnato with his Speed Six Bentley fitted with a racing body. Woolf Barnato had just beaten the Blue Train from Monte Carlo to Calais in this (or similar) car

Background imageKind Collection: Sharing Rations - The Troopers Christmas-Box

Sharing Rations - The Troopers Christmas-Box
A British trooper shares his Christmas rations with his horse on the Western Front during WWI. 1916

Background imageKind Collection: QUEEN MARY

QUEEN MARY
Cunard White Star liner - at the time, both the largest and the fastest ship of her kind in the world, with accommodation for 5000 passengers. Date: launched 26 Sept. 1934

Background imageKind Collection: Freddie Mercury and Queen recording music video, London

Freddie Mercury and Queen recording music video, London
Freddie Mercury and Queen recording a video for Friends Will Be Friends, London Date: 1986

Background imageKind Collection: University of Oxford. College of the University

University of Oxford. College of the University and Queens College. Illustration in Vues d Optique (Perspective Views). Images to be seen through a zograscope

Background imageKind Collection: Folio of Codex of the Usages depicting the Catalan Parlia

Folio of Codex of the Usages depicting the Catalan Parlia
Alfonso IV of Aragon called the kind (1299-1336). King of Aragon and count of Barcelona as Alfonso III, from 1327 to his death. Son of James II and Blanche of Anjou

Background imageKind Collection: 18th C French Kitchen

18th C French Kitchen
Several cooks work in a French kitchen to prepare and bake pies and pastry, a hare and a bird pie of some kind, perhaps pigeon

Background imageKind Collection: Supermarine stranraer

Supermarine stranraer
One of the last of the stately biplane flying boats, the Stranraer is the first of its kind with an enclosed cockpit : it will be obsolete by WW2

Background imageKind Collection: Gurneys Steam Carriage

Gurneys Steam Carriage
Goldsworthy Gurneys steam carriage is one of the most successful of its kind and 15 are built : tested by the War Office one averages 15 mph on the round trip London to Bath

Background imageKind Collection: Macmillan Bicycle

Macmillan Bicycle
Macmillans lever-driven bicycle is the first to be fitted with a drive mechanism of any kind

Background imageKind Collection: Japanese Horse

Japanese Horse
A horse tied to a tree - an embroidered fukusa, a kind of mixed media production in which some parts (such as the horses body) are embroidered, other parts painted

Background imageKind Collection: Talbot Heraldic Dog

Talbot Heraldic Dog
The TALBOT, a symbolical heraldical mythical kind of hunting dog

Background imageKind Collection: Doing Laundry 1940S

Doing Laundry 1940S
A housewife uses a kind of dolly leg with a rubber plunger on the end of it to wash her clothes in a metal tub. Date: 1940s (re-enactment)

Background imageKind Collection: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White makes herself useful in the home of the Seven Dwarfs

Background imageKind Collection: Maria Letizia Bonaparte

Maria Letizia Bonaparte
MARIA LETIZIA RAMOLINO BONAPARTE Mother of Napoleon I and his brothers and sisters, most of them royals of some kind, if only temporarily. Date: 1750 - 1836

Background imageKind Collection: Royal Exchange 1940S

Royal Exchange 1940S
The third building of its kind erected on the same site, the Royal Exchange (1842-44), was built by Sir William Tite at the junction of Cornhill and Threadneedle Street. Date: late 1940s

Background imageKind Collection: England / Wells

England / Wells
The Vicars Close, adjacent to the famous Wells Cathedral, Somerset, was originally built to house the clergy. Claims to be the oldest complete street of its kind in Europe

Background imageKind Collection: Dryden / Bugatti / 27

Dryden / Bugatti / 27
Three types of Bugatti are shown with the kind of person the artist thinks would be likely to buy this sort of car

Background imageKind Collection: New Year, Imperial China

New Year, Imperial China
IMPERIAL CHINA At the Chinese new year, the emperor plows a furrow, symbolising the activities which, if nature is kind, will lead to abundant harvests

Background imageKind Collection: Oxford Street Congestion

Oxford Street Congestion
Buses and cabs fill Oxford Street, London, as far as the eye can see : only one of the buses is an open-top kind

Background imageKind Collection: Bloomers in Hyde Park

Bloomers in Hyde Park
A view of things to come - women wearing the trousers. All of female kind take to wearing bloomers. A kilted scotsman chats to a newly emancipated lady

Background imageKind Collection: Ferret (Bewick)

Ferret (Bewick)
Mustela furo. A kind of polecat, used by hunters to drive rabbits from their burrows

Background imageKind Collection: Commedia dell arte Characters

Commedia dell arte Characters
Four Characters from Commedia dell arte, an improvised kind of popular comedy in Italian theatres in the 16th18th centuries, based on stock characters

Background imageKind Collection: The Tale of Dick Whittington

The Tale of Dick Whittington
Dick Whittington - Dick lying in the doorway of the house of a kindly merchant (2 of 12) Date: circa 1900

Background imageKind Collection: The Comet

The Comet
A painting which depicts some kind of celestial spirit, or being, female in nature, her face is warped among the swirling sky. Date: circa 1917

Background imageKind Collection: A Message to the Nation from The Queen Mother, 1910

A Message to the Nation from The Queen Mother, 1910
A Message to the Nation from The Queen Mother (Queen Alexandra) - May 10, 1910 following the death of her husband Kind Edward VII. Date: 1910

Background imageKind Collection: Music cover, Kind Regards! Intermezzo

Music cover, Kind Regards! Intermezzo by Synney Baynes Date: 1912

Background imageKind Collection: Roads and Vagabonds

Roads and Vagabonds
An illustration depicting numerous men on horseback pulling a stagecoach, in some kind of disarray with some farmers nearby with their dog. Date: circa 1931

Background imageKind Collection: Portrait Drawing of a Man

Portrait Drawing of a Man
Portrait drawing of a man's head, looking to the left, his identity is unknown, but seems to be a professional of some kind. Date: circa 1931

Background imageKind Collection: Francisco Goya (1746-1828). Caprices. Plaque 5. Two of a kin

Francisco Goya (1746-1828). Caprices. Plaque 5. Two of a kind. 18th century. Prado Museum. Madrid

Background imageKind Collection: 1890s Late 19th Century Lantern Slide Slides

1890s Late 19th Century Lantern Slide Slides
1890s, late, 19th, century, lantern, slide, slides, indian, india, Cawnpore, Massacre, Hand, coloured, Illustration, Caucasian, woman, blue, dress, standing, room, some, kind, awning, over, She

Background imageKind Collection: Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violin virtuoso

Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violin virtuoso
Isaac Stern (1920-2001), Ukrainian-born violin virtuoso. Seen here with a young pupil. Date: circa 1980s

Background imageKind Collection: HASTINGS TRICK

HASTINGS TRICK
The cunning Norsemen use all kind of subterfuges in their invasion of France : their leader Hastings feigns death to gain entry into a besieged city. (Doubtless a legend !) Date: circa 880

Background imageKind Collection: ORGANIST & CHOIRBOY 1904

ORGANIST & CHOIRBOY 1904
A choirboy rushes in to Monsieur Achille, the organist, who is playing the wrong kind of music: "Stop, it's not a funeral, it's a wedding!" Date: 1904

Background imageKind Collection: Mr Goldsworthy Gurney's tractor, drawing a carriage as a kind of trailer

Mr Goldsworthy Gurney's tractor, drawing a carriage as a kind of trailer, has the advantage that if it breaks down, horses can be harnessed to the back bit. Date: 1829

Background imageKind Collection: JEANNE-MARIE ROLAND

JEANNE-MARIE ROLAND French revolutionary who, having the misfortune to be the wrong kind of revolutionary, dies by the guillotine Date: 1754 - 1793

Background imageKind Collection: CALANDER SAYS NO

CALANDER SAYS NO
The CALANDER (a kind of lark) knows if sick people will recover ; held over the sickbed, if it turns towards the patient s/he will recover, if not (as here) s/he won't

Background imageKind Collection: Christmas Fold-out Greetings Card - Melting Snowman

Christmas Fold-out Greetings Card - Melting Snowman
Christmas Fold-out Greetings Card - Snowman meets his demise thanks to rain and the kindly gift of a hot water bottle from a little girl. Date: circa 1937

Background imageKind Collection: Comic postcard, Little girl with cat Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl with cat Date: 20th century

Background imageKind Collection: Lady Clara Vere de Vere

Lady Clara Vere de Vere
Lady Clara Verede Vere is an English poem byAlfred Tennyson, part of his collected poems published in 1842. The poem is about a lady in a family ofaristocrats

Background imageKind Collection: Portrait, The Late Mr Flowers, Bow Street magistrate

Portrait, The Late Mr Flowers, Bow Street magistrate - Mercy seasoned his justice. 1886

Background imageKind Collection: Little Women - Mr Laurence and Beth

Little Women - Mr Laurence and Beth
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott - Mr Laurence and Beth. He has just offered the sisters the free use of the piano in his house, and Beth in particular is interested. 1880

Background imageKind Collection: Patriotic poster Buy British - I want the kind my Daddy Made

Patriotic poster Buy British - I want the kind my Daddy Made
" I want the kind my Daddy Made" - make Buy British the watchword of every family and create employment. Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis

Background imageKind Collection: The Kind Old Fairy Godmother on a Christmas card

The Kind Old Fairy Godmother on a Christmas card, designed by Robert Dudley -- May a Christmas dole of fair things be yours, good friend. Date: circa 1880s

Background imageKind Collection: Tupolev Tu-104A CCCP-L5445

Tupolev Tu-104A CCCP-L5445 (SSSR-L5445, msn 8350401), of Aeroflot, at Keflavik Naval Air Station in Iceland. This Tu-104A was the second of its kind to visit the USA in September 1959

Background imageKind Collection: Cow & Gate Happy Family Game - Miss Nice Cow & Gate Happy Family Game - Miss Nice

Cow & Gate Happy Family Game - Miss Nice Cow & Gate Happy Family Game - Miss Nice
Cow & Gate Happy Family Game - Miss Nice the Nurse. Date: 1928

Background imageKind Collection: OSTRICH HUNT WITH BOLAS

OSTRICH HUNT WITH BOLAS
Three men pursue an ostrich across the pampas of South America, hoping to catch it with a bolas - a kind of weighted lasso. Date: 1894

Background imageKind Collection: NATURE VERSUS SCIENCE

NATURE VERSUS SCIENCE
SCIENCE DEFEATED BY NATURE A train is halted by snow. - Ah, but its because its the wrong kind of snow, the railwaymen explain... Date: circa 1850



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