Level Collection (page 9)

Key Buildings 1850 / World
A comparative view of the principle buildings of the World in 1850 including the High Level Bridge - St Peters Rome - The Great Pyramid - The Porcelain Pagoda in Nanjing

Iron Mine Sweden
The open-cast iron mine at Dannemora, Sweden, is state of the art for its day : the ore is hauled up a lift to ground level

St Hildas Colliery
In county Durham : the mined coal is hoisted above ground level, then the tubs slide down a gradient to be tipped into wagons which take it to the ships

Knitted Paletot 1924
Shapeless knitted jacket with raglan sleeves, wrap-over front, long roll collar & cuffs in a contrasting shade, & single button at hip level

Social / China Junks C1840
Junks passing an inclined plane on the Imperial canal in China; citizens mill around, one man smokes a pipe on his boat, others buy and eat rice from a stall

Stukas over Norway
Norway : German JU-87 Stukas make a low-level attack over the snow-covered landscape of Norway, preparatory to the invasion

Commandants Dug-Out
Compared with what his men have to put up with, the French commandants dug-out is a luxury palace - theres a roof, and its above water level, and theres light !

Air Attack on Allies
East Africa : low level attack on Allied forces, including camel- mounted cavalry, by Italian planes

Sheffield / Harpers 1884
Sheffield, Yorkshire: viewed from the high level at Victoria Station

Levelling Mountains
Massive mobile drills mounted on caterpillar tracks will blast at rock to level inconvenient mountains

Gambling / Roulette
To insure absolute accuracy of the roulette game, the roulette wheel on each table is tested each morning with a spirit level

French Oil Lamps
A French lamplighter replenishes the oil in a street lamp, which he has pulled down to ground level for the purpose

Costume / Photo 1860S
Middle aged woman in a dress composed of a fabric with horizontal stripes. Much of her clothing is obscured by a fringed shawl which reaches almost to ground level

Costume Parisiens 2622
Hair: Grecian style ornamented with red bandelettes. Gown: embroidered band of detail at knee level, corsage uni with horizontal revers, cleft on the shoulders

How Bombs are Dropped
At the start of the war, the technique of dropping bombs was primitive, and even flying at low level, precision was out of the question

Lamp Timekeeper
The LAMP TIMEKEEPER is used by Felipe II of Spain, and his contemporaries, to mark time at night, the level of liquid dropping slowly through the night, measured against marks

Six Horse Power Team
Six horses pull a wagon - whatevers inside must be pretty heavy, or else the road isn t all as level as this stretch

At a Level Crossing
A country wagon waits at a level crossing while a train headed by a Schools class locomotive is waved at by a boy on the gate

Abbott / Flatland 1
Subtitled A Romance of Many Dimensions, but Flatland itself has only two, so there are no ups and downs in a Flatlanders life, and every thing is on the level

Squirrel Fur Coat 1922
A 3/4 length coat in grey squirrel fur with a high stand collar, hip level seam, full sleeves, decorative shoulder panels, cuffs & border. A brimless fur hat is worn

Tin Miners / Camborne
Miners climbing from the sixty- to the fifty-fathom level in King Edwards mine, near Camborne, Cornwall

Bearded Man 1860S
A bearded man with one hand on his hip wears collarless waistcoat & jacket with braid on the cuffs, broad silk faced lapels & with the fronts sloping away from above waist level

Viennese Fashion 1830
Viennese fashion: Ankle length skirts with a flounce at knee level, worn with gauze blouses with a double flounce at shoulder level extending round the entire garment

French Waiter & Waitress
A trim waitress & smartly turned out waiter walk across a paved yard each bearing a fully laden tray in each hand carried at shoulder level

Pistol Shooting - 2
The correct position for a gentleman particpating in a pistol duel : he holds his weapon level with his line of sight

Drainage / Peckham Sewer
Tunnelling for a sewer in Peckham, London : The bottom of a shaft in the southern high-level sewer

Raising Water Level
CHINA Wang-che-tchen, who learnt the magic secret of how to raise the water level of rivers - he is depicted raising the Yellow River (Hwang Ho)

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