Laid Collection (page 5)

Girl collecting eggs from the hens
Young farm girl carrying a basket of new laid eggs. Front cover of Little Chicks Play Book. Artist: Millicent Sowerby Date: circa 1920

Cartoon on Laziness
" Whats that! You ve got the sack at the Munition Works! - What for?" " I Dunno - I never done nothing!" Date: circa 1915

Painting Pantomime Sets
Pantomime preparations - painting scenery. The huge canvasses are laid out on the floor and the sets are painted onto them using long handle brushes. Date: 1930s

Hammerblow Cure
In the Correges, France, there is a tradition that a child can be cured of certain ailments if laid on a black- smiths anvil and a mighty blow struck close to its head. Date: 1901

Turks Build Boat Bridge
In the course of their war with Russia, the Turks build a bridge of boats to enable them to cross the Danube from Tschaiten to Widdin. Logs are laid from one boat to another. Date: 1877

Inside the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps
View inside the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps, at a height of 2300 metres. Wooden planks have been laid down for tourists to walk on. Date: circa 1940

People working in a vegetable garden
People working in a neatly laid out vegetable garden in 18th century France. Date: circa 1760

The Hotel de Ville, Louvain
An Oasis in a Desert of Devestation: The Hoteld de Ville, almost untouched amid the ruins of Louvain. With the church of St

Burns / Cotters Saturday
THE COTTERs SATURDAY NIGHT His bonnet rev rently is laid aside, his lyart haffets wearing thin and bare; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide

The Goliah steamer paying out the electric wire
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. Here, the cable is laid out as the Goliah steam ship sails from England to France

Trafalgar Day, 21 October 1895
Commemorating the nineteenth anniversary of the victory of the Battle of Trafalgar. Crowds gather round Nelsons column in Trafalgar Square on 21 October 1895. Wreaths are laid on the steps

British soldiers refilling their water bottles
Photograph of British soldiers refilling their water bottles from a pipe laid alongside a light railway track

Buoys and Grapnels used in recovering the Atlantic Telegraph
Engraving showing the buoys and grapnels that were used to recover an Atlantic Telegraph Cable, September 1866. The telegraph cable, which was laid in 1865 by the Great Eastern

Orfordness Lighthouse and Telegraph Station, 1853
Engraving of Orfordness lighthouse and Submarine electric telegraph station, Suffolk, June 1853. At the end of May 1853 a telegraph cable 119 miles had been laid between Orfordness and Scheveningen

A Mine used as a Buoy, 1916
Photograph showing a German mine, which had been laid on the River Tigris, then recovered and used as a buoy for shipping

A German trap
An illustration by John de Bryan showing German soldiers firing upon a British motor after it has come upon broken wine bottle glass laid in the road by the Germans during World War I

The Great Dee viaduct in the Vale of Llangollen
The Great Dee Viaduct on the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. The viaduct crosses the river Dee in the Vale of Llangollen. The impressive viaduct consists of 19 semicircular arches of 60 feet span

California, Sacramento. General View of Sacramento
The beginnings of the City of Sacramento have been laid out in a grid, with wide avenues. The view is from the river, where sailing boats and a paddle steamer are at anchor

Rus / Jap War: over Ice
To carry troops and supplies across frozen Lake Baikal, tracks are laid across the ice to guide the horse-drawn wagons

Confederate soldiers laying torpedoes in Charlestown Harbour
Engraving showing the moonlit scene as Confederate troops laid torpedoes in the main channel of Charlestown Harbour during the American Civil War

Italian Bridge-layer on Army Manoevres, 1936
Photograph showing an Italian Army tank, which carried and laid a metal bridge, taking part in manoevres near Naples, 1936

Odysseus Laid Out
Having pleaded with King Alicinous of Phaeacia to return home, the Phaeacian men lay Odysseus (Ulysses) down on the coast of Ithaca

SS Berengaria leaving Southampton for Jarrow, 1938
Photograph of the Cunard Liner Berengaria heading out of Southampton, with tugs, to head to Jarrow to be broken up, December 1938

Cholera in Egypt
Scene in the courtyard of a house in Cairo. The patients were laid in the courtyard partly because of the cooler temperatures and also because the occupants were afraid of infection

Algeria / Timgad
Timgad was constructed as a bastion against the Berbers in the Aures Mountains by Emperor Trajan in AD100. The town was laid out in the classic Roman plan and is superbly preserved

Ivory floor at London Docks
The entire floor of one warehouse at the London Docks devoted to ivory with elephant and other tusks laid out in rows

Crystal Palace Terrace
The sloping grounds of the Sydenham site enable the re- constructed Crystal Palace to be more picturesquely laid out than in Hyde Park : this is the Second Terrace

Prince of Wales visiting the Great Eastern steam-ship
Engraving showing the Edward, Prince of Wales, visiting Isambard Kingdom Brunels Great Eastern steam-ship in 1865, prior to its voyage to lay the transatlantic cable

Coiling of the Atlantic telegraph cable
Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H.M.S Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North America

The Brighton viaduct across the Preston Road
The Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway opened to Lewes. Train crossing the Brighton viaduct across the Preston Road. The first stone was laid by W. Nash, the chairman of Midland Railway in 1845

The tunnel from the heading
View down the second tunnel beneath the Thames. (Isambards Rotherhithe Tunnel being the first) The tunnel passes from Tower Hill to Tooley Street, near the London Bridge Station

Mckinleys Tomb, Canton
WILLIAM MCKINLEY Assassinated President McKinley is laid to rest in the receiving vault at Westlawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio

Death / Funerals / Burial
When the corpse has been laid in the grave the assistants throw earth on it

Cutting the Hay
Cutting the hay on a farm near Wonersh, Surrey : the hay is laid in rows as it falls, to dry before being gathered and stacked

Drying Macaroni
Long strips of macaroni are laid out on poles to dry in the sun somewhere in Italy

Temporary Pile Bridge
A temporary bridge is built by French engineers, utilising planks laid on piles embedded in the river bed, a more solid and reliable method than laying them on boats

Pontoon Bridge
A temporary bridge is built by French engineers, utilising planks laid on boats, enabling troops to cross without getting their feet wet

Dining Room 1911
An elegant dining room with the table laid ready for dinner

Descent from the Cross
The body of Jesus is taken down from the Cross and laid on the shroud

Union Pacific Track Laid
Laying track for the Union Pacific as it extends towards the western territories

Twin puppies with hen
Twin puppies, Snip and Snap, consider shooing a hen away so that they can see how many eggs she has laid

Nurse, Girl, Cats
A child with a cat in her arms has laid aside her doll to listen to her nurse who sits sewing by the fire, watched by another cat, as she recalls past days now long gone by

House at Windermere
Mr Schneiders elegant home at Belsfield, Bowness-on- Windermere, in the English Lake District : notice too the elaborately laid-out garden and the huge greenhouse

Alexander I Nevsky
ALEXANDER I YAROSLAVICH, known as Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod from 1238. ruler of Vladimir from 1252 : a national hero who laid the foundations of Russia

Agamemnon Laying Cable
The first, unsuccessful cable is laid by HMS Agamemnon : an inquisitive whale crosses the line

London Eggs Seller
A woman with a basket of eggs on her arm cries New-laid eggs, eight a groat; crack em and try em!

Library Office 1947
A model of tidiness and application, this public library office is neatly and sparsely laid out; its female staff appear to be absorbed in their work

Interior of Tholos Tomb
A tholos tomb at Mycenae, dubbed the Treasury of Atreus by Schliemann. The stonework is known as corbelling, with successive courses laid inward

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