Land Collection (#52)

Cadiz, Spain - Puerta de Tierra ( The Land Gate ). This marble monument was designed by Torcuato Cayon in the eighteenth century. Date: circa 1910s

Labor by Charles Sprague Pearce
Labor - from the Family and Education series by Charles Sprague Pearce. Found in the North Corridor, Great Hall, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C

The Queen returns from Scotland There is a breezy arrival at Heathrow airport, London, as the Queen and Prince Andrew end their holiday in Balmoral, Scotland. Date: 9th October 1980 1980

Sopwith seaplane, Balkan Front, WW1
A Sopwith seaplane about to set off on a flight on the Balkan Front during the First World War. Seen here with the pilot in the cockpit and men wading in the sea around it. Date: 1914-1918

Buck Balfour. Cartoon of Arthur Balfour (later British Prime Minister) when he was Chief Secretary for Ireland on the cover of Funny Folks

Ireland / Glengarriff
Glengariff, the lovely land- locked harbour in County Cork, Ireland, where the vegetation luxuriates in the warmth of the Gulf Stream and the growth is almost tropical. Date: 1950s

The Land Gate, Rye
Built by King Edward III, the Land Gate is one of the many ancient structures that remain in the quaint old town of Rye, Sussex, England. Date: circa 1400

American machine gunners, Villers-Tournelle, France, WW1
American machine gunners firing on Germans across no mans land, near Villers-Tournelle, Somme, northern France, during the First World War. Date: May 1918

Scene during Battle of the Falkland Islands, WW1
Scene from the land during the Battle of the Falkland Islands, First World War. Showing a sinking ship. Date: 8 December 1914

Zadar - Croatia - Porta Terraferma (" Kopnena vrata" - Landward Gate) Date: circa 1910s

Manchester Wasteland
Waste land in Manchester, England long before it was redeveloped into the cosmopolitan city it is today. Date: 1960s

The amphibious periscope 1915
Different ways of using a periscope in The First War World. British soldier looking through periscope in the trenches, an officer using a periscope on board a german submarine. Date: 1915

Card Series 7
He sights land ! Date: 1446 - 1506

Reverend Samuel Schor as an eastern scribe
Postcard published by the London Society for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews - this is a picture of the Rev. Samuel Schor - dressed as an eastern scribe

Land Girls Awake
Happy Land Girls stretching their arms out in their beds as they awake! Date: early 1940s

Lands End Wave Study
A dramatic study of waves crashing against the rugged coastline, clouds looming above, Lands End, Cornwall, England. Date: 1950s

Gwydyr House, London
Gwydyr House, Whitehall, London, was built c. 1796 for Lord Gwydyr, Surveyor-General of the Land Revenues. Now a Government building. Date: 1950s

Viewing a Lighthouse
A family looking out to sea at Longships Lighthouse, using some pay binoculars, Lands End, Cornwall, England. Date: 1960s

Land Girls with Logs
Two Land Girls, part of the Womens Land Army during World War Two, sawing large felled trees into logs with manual saws. Date: early 1940s

Albert Medal 1877
ALBERT MEDAL: Introduced on 7th March 1866. A Royal Warrant of 1867 created two classes of medal & in 1877 was altered to allow the saving of life on land to be eligible. Date: 1877

Morden Hall Park
A quiet backwater of the River Wandle, in Morden Hall Park, Surrey, England. This land was once owned by millionaire tobacco merchant Gilliat Hatfield. Date: 1960s

No Mans Land Common, near Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, England; a favourite parking place on any summer afternoon. Date: 1930s

Strawberry Fields
People (including a little girl with plaited hair), picking strawberries in a field. Date: 1990

Egberg Borchgrevink - 1
CARLSON EGBERG BORCHGREVINK Norwegian explorer, one of first to land on the Antarctic continent and the first to winter there. Date: 1864 - 1934

Sea battle in progress, WW1
A sea battle in progress during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British troops landing at Rendine Bay, Gallipoli, WW1
British troops of the 5th Battalion Connaught Rangers landing at Rendine Bay, Gallipoli, during the First World War. Date: 28 November 1915

Ship firing towards the coast, Middle East, WW1
A ship firing towards the coast, probably somewhere in the Middle East during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Illustration, To Mystery Land, showing two girls climbing a ladder to who knows where. 1885

View of the Narrows, Dardanelles, Turkey
View of the Narrows, the narrowest section of the Dardanelles straits, connecting the Mediterranean with the Black Sea, Turkey. Date: 20th century

Biplane coming in to land on HMS Argus, WW1
A biplane coming in to land on the flight deck of HMS Argus, one of the first aircraft carriers, launched 1917, watched by crew during the First World War. circa 1917-1918

Biplane landing on HMS Argus, WW1
A biplane coming in to land on the flight deck of HMS Argus, one of the first aircraft carriers, launched 1917, during the First World War. Date: circa 1917-1918

Italian torpedo boat crew occupying a port, post-WW1
An Italian torpedo boat crew occupying the port of recaptured territory just after the end of the First World War. Date: December 1918

SS Saxon off Gibraltar, WW1
The British SS Saxon, a cruise ship used for transporting troops during the First World War, seen here off Gibraltar on the way to Egypt. Date: spring 1917

Derelict ship being blown up, WW1
A derelict ship being blown up during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Poster, The Castle of Cleanliness in the Land of Good Health, defended by the soap and water brigade. Issued by the Health and Cleanliness Council. 20th century

Wallingford Farm Colony
Wallingford Farm Training Colony was set up in 1911 by William Henry Hunt. It took unemployed young men off the streets and trained them on the land prior to helping them emigrate to one of

Oiling and Coaling on land
Light labour and hard labour: oiling and coaling on land. The new method and the old- a contrast. The top image shows a torpedo boat taking in oil fuel through a hose linking her with a tank in

From The Wild Swans by Katharine Cameron. Cameron was a Glasgow born illustrator and an associate of Jessie M King and the Mackintoshes. 1904

Aerial photograph of battle area near Verdun, France, WW1
Aerial photograph (German) of a battle area near Verdun, France, showing trenches, mine craters and shell pitted ground during the First World War. Date: circa 1916

Typical aerial photograph taken during WW1
A typical aerial photograph (British) of terrain taken during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Portrait of a girl on a postcard by George Ranstead
Portrait of a young girl in a bonnet (a style often worn as as sunhat during the Great War). Drawn by amateur soldier artist of the period, George Ranstead. circa 1916

Railway staff laying track in South Africa, WW1
South African railway staff laying track across scrub land to join up with the Windhoek line (now in Namibia, but then in German South West Africa) to Kaalfontein and Upington (South Africa)

Aerial photograph of La Chaussee, France, WW1
Aerial photograph (German) of the area around La Chaussee, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 17 September 1916

Scene off the coast of Durban, South Africa, WW1
Scene off the coast of Durban, South Africa, during the First World War. Date: 1917

Proclamation of martial law by General Allenby, Jerusalem
Proclamation of martial law, read in English to the inhabitants by General Sir Edmund Allenby, outside the Tower of David in Jerusalem during the First World War. Date: 11 December 1917

Defending German officials house, Windhoek, SW Africa
Five men (three white and two black) ready to defend a German officials house at Windhoek, in German South West Africa (now Namibia)

Herbert Kitchener and others in Western Palestine
Herbert Kitchener (later Lord Kitchener, 1850-1916) and others inside their tent whilst on a mapping survey of Western Palestine (Israel, West Bank and Gaza today) for the Palestine Exploration Fund

Aerial photograph of Zonnebeke, Belgium, WW1
Aerial photograph (British) of the area around Zonnebeke, including Zonnebeke Lake and Church, Belgium, on the western front during the First World War

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