Life Collection (page 100)

Train-Passing Project
By enabling trains to pass each other on the same track, the cost of building railways could be substantially lower. So could the life-expectancy of rail travellers

Boys Fishing 1930S
Boys fishing for tiddlers with a fishing net under a canal bridge

Devilish Funny Ha Ha
In Vienna statuettes of the devil are sold on 1 December but when an artist makes a life-size one for a client, returning late one night, he jumps from the window

C16 German Village Life
A wide variety of activity in a German village

Black Stele / Shalmaneser
This obelisk of black marble was found by Layard in the centre of the mound of Nimrud, and it is now in the British Museum. The four sides depict the life of Shalmaneser III

Guinevere a Nun
Guinevere at the end of her life becomes a nun at Amesbury

Tuna Fish / Fries / 1838
A tuna fish

Marine Life / Whaling
Whaling in the Arctic

Stripping Whale Blubber
A whale is caught and stripped exposing its blubber

Art / Classic Cartoons
Irish juryman - - Ah, then, eleven more obstinate men I never met in all me life !

Concepts / Reincarnation
Making reparation in this life for sins committed during a previous existence

Satire Early US Farmer
Satirical view of a farmers life in the Old West

SHRIMPING, 1867
SHRIMP - A Victorian fisherman shrimping below cliffs

ALCIBIADES (450 - 404 BC
ALCIBIADES Athenian general; though a friend of Socrates, he was dissolute in private and a traitor in his public life; assassinated by the Persians

Fishing Off Jersey
Jersey fishermen

Mackerel / Scomber Colias
SCOMBER COLIAS

Saint Peter (Mosaic)
Church and Empire are depicted as equal partners, under the aegis of Saint Peter (in other words, the Pope has the last word...)

Leipzig Sinking 1914
During the Battle of the Falkland Islands, German vessel Leipzig sinks with great loss of life after a relentless British attack

Brit. Recruitment Poster
The Army of Today and Yesterday - Join the Army and See the World - Good pay - Fine Prospects - A Good Life

Sea Anemones / Lackerbauer
An assortment of sea anemones

Woman and Fish Tank
An elegant woman and her aquarium

Whaling / Crew in Danger
The crew in danger A small whaling vessel is overturned by a whale

Collision / Whale & Ship
A collision between a steamer, Waesland and a sleeping whale between Antwerp and New York. The 80 foot whale was cut in two

17th Century Whales
Two whales

Whale Caught / Marseille
Transporting a captured whale through the streets of Marseille on a trolley. The whale was caught in the waters of the Chateau d If

Whaling / Sir John Ross
Sir John Ross on his first expedition: a whale hunt in Melville Bay. Date: 1818

Whales Skeleton in Paris
A whale skeleton on display in Paris

Lord Kelvin Speculates
Lord Kelvin speculates that life may have come to Earth on the moss-grown ruins of another world - brought here on a planetary fragment

Fishing Floats
Floats, holding up fishing lines

Religious card with quotation from Revelation 2: 7
A religious card with a quotation from the Book of Revelation, Chapter 2, Verse 7 -- " To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of

New York Life Insurance Company, New York, USA
Scene inside the principal office of the New York Life Insurance Company, 346-348 Broadway, New York, USA

Marine Life / Fishing
The manner of taking the Basking Shark in Loch-Ranza Bay in Scotland

Salmon Flies
Method of making a salmon fly

Whaling / Newfoundland
Whaling on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland

Five types of sea creature: Harbour Seal, Fur Seal, Sea Lion, Walrus, and Sea Cow

Lighthouse Afternoon Tea
At Norah Head lighthouse (Australia), social life is limited and founded solidly on the teapot! Here are a group of keepers and their wives taking afternoon tea

Colour plate showing the coronation of Queen Victoria
This vibrant colour plate shows the coronation of the young Victoria as well as a portrait of her later in life as Queen Victoria. This is no doubt to celebrate and commemorate the Queens jubilee

Oratas Fish Farm
Sergius Orata demonstrates his artificial preserves for sea- fish - illustration to Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta Memorabilia, done in France about 1475

Scenes of Davids Life
Above - young David, minding sheep, saves one from a lion Beneath - David is anointed by Samuel while his family watch : in an English psalter

Manuscript / Joseph
Two scenes from the life of Joseph, depicted in an English psalter

Jesus Revives Widows Son
At Nain, he brings a young man - the sole support of his widowed mother - back to life

Samuel Given to Priests
Samuel, as a baby, is dedicated to the priestly life by his mother Hannah; but God later tells Samuel of the priests sins and warns of misfortunes to come

Angler on Riverbank
An angler on the bank of a river

Monkeys Reincarnated
Two Japanese monkeys, anxious to know the life of Buddha, help a scholar to copy the Buddhist bible, and the senior, later reincarnated as a man, completes the task

Canon / St Denis / 14th C
A canon of the Abbey of St Denis in red and white vestments

Dominican Monk / 14th C
A Dominican monk from Spain

German Monk / 12th C
A German monk in dark red habit and white cloak and hood

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