Legged Collection (page 2)

Shaftesbury Home, Bisley - Farm School Tailors Shop
Shaftesbury Home, Bisley - boys sit cross legged or at sewing machines in the Farm School tailors shop. Date: 1890s

Pyjama suit with wide brimmed hat, 1931
An elegant pyjama suit, a new fashion phenomenon in the early 1930s, featuring wide legged trousers, an easy jacket over a vest top, finished with a wide brimmed sun hat. Date: 1931

Beach pyjamas, 1931
A beach pyjama outfit, a new fashion phenomenon in the early 1930s to be worn at leisure or on holiday. The outfit comprised of wide legged trousers in easy flowing fabric such as jersey

Fur trimmed pyjama suit, 1931
A flamboyant pyjamas suit for the evening with the wide legged trousers trimmed with repetitive lines of fur down to the hem. Date: 1931

Nautical style beach pyjamas, 1931
Beach pyjamas, a new fashion phenomenon in 1931 consisting of wide-legged pants worn with a matching or complementing top (vest, halter neck or bolero)

Pigeons - Clean Legged Flying Tumblers
A portrait of three sub-variants of the Clean Legged Flying Tumbler pigeon breed. The variants shown are a Yellow-Mottled, Red-Mottled, a Black-Mottled, or a Rosewinced

Red-legged partridge, Alectoris rufa.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany 1812

Rain quail, Coturnix coromandelica, and red-legged partridge, Alectoris rufa.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology

Red-legged honeycreeper, Cyanerpes cyaneus, and wallcreeper, Tichodroma muraria.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology

Red-legged seriema, Cariama cristata, and cream-coloured courser, Cursorius cursor.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology

Red-legged or Guernsey partridge, Alectoris rufa.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Three-legged Race on Deck of Ship, England. Date: 1890s

Boys playing with bottle, Balham, SW London
A group of boys sitting in a circle, playing with an empty milk bottle, on a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

San SebastiᮮFestival 2008. Samira Makhmalbaf
SPAIN. Donostia. 56th International Film Festival. Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf receives the Special Jury Prize, for her film Asbe du-pa (Two Legged Horse), on September 27, 2008

FIRENZE, Aldebrando da. Treaty of Medicine, 1356
FIRENZE, Aldebrando da (14th century). Treatise on medicine. 1356. FIRENZE, Aldebrando da (14th century). Fol. 174. The partridges and pheasants. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. PORTUGAL. Lisbon

Woman in negligee
Woman deep in thought, sitting crossed legged with just a negligee, slip and stockings, while a wired haired fox terrier looks fondly up at her. Date: 1935

Arthur Bourchier (1863 1927), English actor and theatre manager. Appearing as Long John Silver in the stage version of Stevensons Treasure Island, at the Strand Theatre, London. 1922

Rough-legged Buzzard - young at the nest threatening a visitor - very close to leaving the nest. (Buteo lagopus). nest in low rocks in tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Rough-legged Buzzards - young at the nest - very close to leaving the nest. (Buteo lagopus). nest in low rocks in tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Dutch boy scout preparing vegetables, Holland
A Dutch boy scout preparing vegetables at camp, Holland

Paradise this Way
Someone has abandoned their motorbike, having seen the sign pointing to Paradise and legged it! Date: 1950s

Charing Cross Shoeblack
A one-legged shoeblack at Charing Cross Station yard. In 1914, within a 3 mile radius of here, there were 1000 shoeblacks, but less than 40 when this picture was taken. Date: early 1950s

The Red-legged Partridge from Barbary. Dixon, Samuel fl.1748 - 1769

Two Japanese theatrical performers (note the similarity in costume to the women depicted in picture 11005448) standing in front of a large striped banner, one holding an open fan

A Street Shoe Repairer - Izmir, Turkey, specifically working on Babouches, a form of heelless slipper, typically in oriental style. Date: circa 1910

Lebanon - Two Bedouin Musicians playing masenqo
Lebanon - Two Bedouin Musicians, both playing the masenqo. Date: circa 1910s

Spinet - this lovely example with its six-legged stand was made in London by Stephen Keene at the Sign of the Virginal on Threadneedle Street in the 17th century

Diphylla ecaudata, hairy-legged vampire bat
A hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata) photographed in Belize by Frank Greenaway

Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris, mocking cliffchat
Plate 91, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Rissa tridactyla, black-legged kittiwake
Plate 224 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Turdus plumbeus, red-legged thrush
Plate 30, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Dipetalogaster maxima, triatomine bug
This insect is a member of the Triatomine group, which are associated with the transmission of disease to humans

Scribe seated cross-legged holding a papyrus scroll. 2475 BC. 5th Dynasty. Painted limestone. Egyptian art. Old Kingdom. Sculpture on rock. EGYPT. Cairo. Egyptian Museum. Proc: EGYPT. Saqqara

Street music: French fiddler and wife
A one legged beggar playing the fiddle in the street, while his wife plays the bones. Date: 17th century

Peg-leg peddlar with his tray of items for sale
" Any article on the board a penny" A man wounded in the Boer War, his leg lost resort to life as an itinerant tinker or peddlar, peddling his wares on the street

Indian Brahmin at prayer - a fine example of religious asceticism Date: circa 1905

Cross-Legged Blonde
A blonde model strikes a provocative cross-legged pose. Date: 1960s

Disabled soldier
A disabled soldiers from WWII on his way home. Trelleborg railway station, Sweden 1943. Date: 1943

Indian man with a Pakhawaj drum
A Pakhawaj drum - essentially a north Indian version of the mridangam drum and is the most common north Indian representative of the class of barrel shaped drums known as mridang. Date: circa 1920s

The Three-legged Race. Artist: Millicent Sowerby. Happy children out in the country enjoying the traditional game Date: 1915

Paris Exhibition - Great Indian Exhibition (2 / 3)
People from the Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea) at the Grande Exposition Indienne held in Paris in 1902

American Scout Camporee
Boy scouts sit cross-legged at a low table eating food at an American Scouting Camporee. 5-6 June 1943

Four Turkish men in a room
Four men in a room with two windows overlooking a courtyard. All wear Turkish robes and turbans, and three are sitting cross-legged on the floor

Tommy Tucker song
The music and words (correct version) to the song of Little Tom (Tommy) Tucker, who had to sing for his supper. Date: 1931

TRIPOD
Three-legged support for lamps, braziers &c

Tailoring class, NIPRCC East Harling, Norfolk
Boys taking part in a tailoring class at the East Harling, Norfolk, branch of the National Institutions for Persons Requiring Care and Control

Little girl eating food out of a newspaper
A little girl sitting cross-legged by a big stone wall, eating food (possibly fish and chips) out of a newspaper

Young woman in wide-legged trousers
A young woman sitting on a step wearing wide-legged trousers, which were fashionable during the 1940s

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