Life Collection (page 8)

Rendering Whale Oil
Rendering whale oil in Holland

Fishing with Cormorants
Fishing using cormorants in China

Friars Shot Pool Fishing
Scottish salmon fishermen fishing in the Friars Shot Pool of the River Ness. In the background is the town of Inverness with its castle, Inverness-shire, Scotland

The First Vegetarian
Surrounded by carnivores on every side, the first vegetarian decides that a meat-free life might be the way forward

Greeting a Friend
A couple wave goodbye to their friend who is about to drive off in a sparkling Ford Zodiac

Buying Fish from Boats
Buying fish from the boats

A Man Filleting Fish
A man in hat and overcoat fillets fish on a stall

Mackerel Fishing / 1847
The Brighton Boats fishing for mackerel

The Brighton Lifeboat
The lifeboat at Brighton, Sussex, is dragged into the water : the boat carries sails to assist the oarsmen if the wind is in a favourable direction

Fysshynge Wyth an Angle
A fifteenth century angler makes a catch - illustration in Wynkyn de Wordes Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle

German Country Dinner
FAMILY MEAL Three generations of an idyllic German country family partake in a family meal in a farmhouse kitchen

George Eliot / Chilvers Ch
GEORGE ELIOT Chilvers Coton Church, where she was baptised on 29 November 1819: it became a model for Shepperton Church in Scenes of Clerical Life

Rimsky-Korsakov / Postcard
NIKOLAY ANDREYEVICH RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian composer in later life

Sperm Whale from 1868
A sperm whale attacked

A RIGHT WHALE
A right whale

Bodhidattvas Tusks
The Bodhisattvas tusks. The Buddha in a previous life as the son of the Elephant chief

Boytons Water Show / Suit
Captain Paul Boyton demonstrates his life-saving suit at the Worlds Water Show at Earls Court, London

Trombonist 1890S Photo
Who is this unnamed trombonist of Bristol, posing so glumly with his instrument ? Did he perform at parties ? If so, he was doubtless the life and soul of the evening

Egan / Life in London / 1821
Corinthian Tom, Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. & Bob Logic, make the most of an evening at Vauxhall Gardens

Eskimo Hunts a Narwhal
An Eskimo fisherman pursuing a narwhal

Seaweed & other Flora
Various seaweed and other submarine flora

Sea Anemones / 1865
A selection of very colourful and decorative sea anemones

Octopus Attacks Bather
An octopus attacks a bather and wraps its tentacles around his body

Alexander Tvardovsky
ALEXANDER TVARDOVSKY Russian poet, whose subjects were peasant life, collective farms, and the spiritual growth of the soldier during the Great Patriotic War

Beatty Book Cover
When Beatty kept the seas - Captain Frank H Shaws stirring patriotic adventure yarn is based on real-life naval exploits of the war

Cruising Suit Circa 1940
A two-piece cruising suit composed of blue trousers and a blazer (double-breasted coat) of striped flannel

London Museum 1914
Starting life in 1911 in Kensington Palace, this Museum moves in 1914 to these premises at Lancaster House, St James, before going back to Kensington Palace after WW2

Flooded Market 1931
Marketing waist-deep in water, life at Hankow during the flood from the Yangtze river

Robertson Light Bulbs
Long life bulbs are nothing new - the Robertson incandescent electric lamp promises you long life and a saving of current into the bargain !

Throwing the Life-Line
A member of the lifeboat crew wearing a cork flotation jacket is about to throw out the life-line during a rescue

Molluscs / Sealife
A variety of sea-based molluscs including types of snail and clam, a large mussel and other soft-bodied sealife

Future Life Regression
A hypnotised subject is sent forward in time, and gives a description of the end of the world - which will occur in the year 46, 812, to be precise

Herring Curing Holland
People curing herrings in Holland

Royal Anglers
The younger children of king George V & Mary, fishing at Balmoral (the one holding the rod is presumably the future George VI)

Transport / Diving / Beebe
Beebes bathysphere moves between shoals of exotic marine life (very dark original)

Contemplating Emigration
An Irish farmer contemplates the prospect of a new life in America

Whaling / Faroe Islands
The slaughter Whaling in the Faroe Islands

Bedlam Patient Nicholson
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT on KING GEORGE III Mrs Margaret Nicholson who, after stabbing attempt, was sent to Bedlam for life

Embossed Victorian mourning card, James Woodhead
Embossed Victorian mourning card, with a woman and a girl grieving at a tomb in a cemetery. In Memory of James Woodhead, who departed this life January 14th, 1855, aged 80 years

Christmas 1914 Football Match Statues, Messines - Mesen
This life sized statue of a German and a British soldier shaking hands over a football, was sculpted by Andy Edwards and was unveiled on 22 December 2015

Garraways Coffee House, Change Alley, Cornhill, London
Garraways Coffee House, Change Alley, Cornhill, City of London. 18th century

Napoleon Bonaparte and the Red Man, 1815
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Red Man (the Devil), 1815. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from The Life of Napoleon a Hudibrastic Poem by Doctor Syntax, T. Tegg, London, 1815

Tom Davies bookseller
Thomas Davies bookshop in Russell Street. Tom Davies, bookseller, actor and author and friend of Boswell and Johnson, who amongst other works wrote The Life of Garrick (1780)

DAN-AIR de Havilland Comet 4C G-APDN at Gatwick Airport. DAN-AIR started life as Davies and Newman Airlines after the two founders

Laister-Kauffman TG-4A NC46324
Laister-Kauffman TG-4A, (LK-10 Yankee Doodle 2 ), NC46324 awaiting launch at a gliding club in the US. After brief use by the United States Army Air Force (USaF) during the war

The late King George VI lies in State at Westminster Hall. A Guard stands alongside the coffin, his head bowed in respect. Date: 1952

Royal Horse Guard Sentries - Life Guards, Horseguards Parade, Whitehall, London Date: 1943

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