Kind Collection (page 5)

Nurses and patient at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, with two nurses attending to a patient

Road obsticles / W H Robinson
Kindliness in dealing with an obstinate obstacle. Loud music is piped down one tube to irritate the offending nesting hen and corn is scattered on the opposite side of the road to entice her to move

Help for Taxi drivers / W H Robinson
Post War Britain - social reform. A kind hearted lady takes a taxi driver for a ride in his own taxi, at her own expense. Please note

Kind Thoughts, by Ethel Parkinson
Kind Thoughts -- a Christmas Greetings card by Ethel Parkinson, showing a little girl and an elderly gentleman walking down a snowy street. He is carrying a few parcels, and is using a walking stick

Model fishing boat maker, Cornwall
A model fishing boat maker in his workshop, somewhere in Cornwall. He is in the process of constructing a new boat with two masts

Henry Russell Wakefield, Dean of Norwich
Henry Russell Wakefield (1854-1933), at the time of this photograph Prebendary of St Pauls Cathedral and Dean of Norwich. He became Bishop of Birmingham in 1911

Pin-Pricks By Bert Thomas
The Lady: Would you be so kind as to show me how to pick out winners with a pin? This cartoon was specially drawn for The Sketch by Bert Thomas

Cattle in London, 1877
Engraving showing a herd of cattle passing through the streets of the city of London, 1877. These animals were probably being driven towards the citys meat and livestock market, Smithfield

W. H. Smith Office, The Strand, London, 1856
Engraving showing the exterior of No. 184, The Strand, London, in 1856. This building was being used as a kind of newspaper clearing-house for the W.H. Smith company at that time

The Handing Over Ceremony at Ordnance Wharf, Balaklava, 1856
Double page landscape engraving of Balklava at the handing over of power from the Allies to the Russians, 1856. Troops of every kind, including sailors, legionaries, Russian cavalrymen and civilians

Propaganda Tram 2
To make sure all get the Bolshevik message, every kind of propaganda tool is used - this agitation tram carries the word through city streets

Louis IX being Just
Louis IX dispenses justice to his people : doing this kind of thing will in due course get him made a saint

The Tsars Ukase
Polish villagers listen to the tsars ukase, read to them by their priest. He offers an amnesty to all who lay down their arms, but the rebels reject his kind offer

Propaganda Tram
To ensure everyone gets the Bolshevik message, every kind of propaganda tool is used - this agitation tram carries the word through city streets

The Sale of a Deserters Belongings on board a British Warsh
Illustration showing the sale of the belongings of a deserter, on board a British battleship. This rare event was held whenever a seaman deserted and left belongings on board a ship

American Indians. The American Indian rising. Pine Ridge Ag
The headquarters of the government agent in charge of the Sioux Indians Reservation in Dakota. Indian police at the Pine Ridge

(Strutt) Saxon Rustics
Three Saxon rustics engaged in the kind of activity you d expect Saxon rustics to be doing

Future Road
The road of tomorrow may be a kind of track, along which huge bubbles will run, containing accomodation - a kind of super-caravan

Travelers Refreshed
Two Russian travelers are refreshed when they encounter an itinerant vendor of liquid refreshment (presumably water or a cold drink of some kind)

Tea for Queue
A kind tea lady hands out cups of hot tea to a crowd of people waiting outside No. 10 Downing Street, London, the official residence of the British Prime Minister of the day

Johann Friedrich Kind
JOHANN FRIEDRICH KIND German writer

Girl Feeds Robin C1880
A kind-hearted girl goes out in the snow to feed a robin

Astrakhan Prayers
Tartar merchants of Astrakhan (Russia) at prayer before a kind of suspended altar containing figures, contrary to Islamic teachings

Mme Lenormand
MARIE-ANNE LENORMAND, French fortune teller - the most famous of her kind, author of several books about herself and her art

Triton's spear - Crane - Kniphofia
That, reddening on the Triton's spear, foretells the waning of the year. (The flower resembles Kniphofia or Red-hot Poker')

Rotten Row, August 1939
Spectators line the bridle path at Rotten Row, Hyde Park, London, perhaps in anticipation of some kind of military or equestrian procession

Woman Mixing
A woman pours wine into a mixing bowl, perhaps in preparation for making a sauce of some kind

Pictogram receiving apparatus
Three male operators in New York, at the receiving apparatus of a pictogram wire service, the first of its kind, to transmit images over telephone wires on May 19th, 1924, from Cleveland, Ohio

Royal Exchange 1950S
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

Constitution at Madrid
The new constitution is proclaimed at Madrid, though Spaniards are still far from being of one mind as to what kind of government they want

Foresters Certificate
Membership certificate of the Ancient Order of Foresters Friendly Society, ornamented with idyllic scenes and pictures of people being kind. Date: early 20th century

Sprinkling Bird Food
Two kind girls sprinkle crumbs for the birds

French Soldiers 1400
A VOUGIER (armed with a vouge, a kind of spear) and a CRENEQUINIER (armed with a crossbow) of the 100 Years War

ARION
Arion, a Greek poet and musician, is thrown into the sea by some sailors who don t dig his kind of music, but a kindly dolphin carries him to Taenaros on its back

Papal Audience 1898
Pope Leo XIII gives audience to a lady, while a cardinal sits nearby looking rather bored, and another religious person scratches his chin in a puzzled kind of way

Various Battlefields
Valleys, mountains, woodland, fields, water, ice - each kind of terrain calls for different military strategies, ranging from incendiary cannon-balls to invasion barges

Tom Thumb and Furmenty
He falls by accident into the Kings bowl of hot frumenty (a kind of wheat porridge flavoured with cinnamon etc)

Steamship Belvidere
The Belvidere steam-boat plied successfully on the Ohio River for several years. It appears to have some kind of internal paddle wheel

Kind-Hearted Butcher
I m a kind-hearted fellow, wouldn t hurt a fly!, claims a butcher who has just slit the throat of a lamb

Dear Robin Aint you Cold
Dear Robin, ain t you cold ? a kind-hearted girl is concerned for a robins welfare

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

Hair / Long / Evening 1897
A young woman with long, dark hair: a kind of trompe l oeil picture, suggesting a landscape as evening falls

Policeman discovering sleeping waif on a doorstep
A policeman discovering a sleeping waif on a doorstep

Eagles (Japanese)
Two eagles on a gilded perch - an embroidered fukusa, a kind of mixed media production in which some parts (such as the birds feathers) are embroidered, others painted

Penny-In-Slot Machine
A penny-in-the-slot machine presumably promising some kind of entertainment upon payment and possibly a prize

C16th French Ball Games
Old French ball games Fossette & Le jeu de Croce, a kind of hockey game Date: Sixteenth century

Crowded Air-Lanes
When air travel becomes popular, the sky routes will become as crowded as those on the surface : some kind of air traffic control will surely be needed

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