Lines Collection (page 26)

Diaogonal Jumper 1936
A sports jumper hand-knitted in graduated horizontal stripes over which are diagonal lines of fancy open stitch following the diagonal button fastening on the back

Coaling at Jamaica
At Kingston, Jamaica (West Indies), long lines of women carry baskets of coal to enable the liner to continue on its way

Istanbul Walls
Part of the triple lines of walls which were intended to protect Byzantium against all comers - but they failed to keep out the Turks in 1453

BAIRDs TELEVISION 1927
John Logie Baird demonstrates his television, transmitted from London to Glasgow, using telephone lines

Australian Railway
The railway which connects Kalgoorlie (West) with Port Augusta (South), through the Nullarbor Plain, Australia, runs 330 miles without a curve. Built between 1925 and 1930

Mining Messines Ridge
Royal Engineers mine the Messines Ridge under German lines, and place explosives, which when detonated on 7 June 1917, assist the British in taking Ypres

Aerial View of Trenches
An aerial photograph over the German lines, showing deep trenches, mine craters, and shell-pitted ground

Lines of Latitude 1683
Showing Africa, Europe, Asia, part of Australia, the two hemispheres, the equator and the lines of Latitude. With Dutch text and listed as plate no.15 (?)

Lines of Longitude 1683
Showing Africa, Europe, Asia, South Pole and part of Australia, the two hemispheres, the equator and the lines of Longitude

Game : Nuts in May
All form two lines : each seeks to capture members of the enemy by dragging them to their side of the handkerchief on the ground

Game : King of Barbaree
All form two lines : the Kings line attempts to capture the Tower = something like Nuts in May

Whippet Tanks Ww1
British Whippet tanks ploughing through the mud- caked battlefields to penetrate the German lines at Morcourt, France

Greyhound Coach 1931
Take the GREYHOUND LINES to New York - or cross the continent to Los Angeles - the scenic, friendly, enjoyable way to go

Urbain Fardeau gallops into the enemy lines, holds his sword against the enemy commanders neck, and orders him to tell his men to lay down their arms

Darnaud in Italy
Jacques Darnaud, general in the Italian campaign, calls for volunteers to reconnoitre the enemy lines : only two men respond. They meet the enemy and have to defend themselves

Ad / United US Ship / Centur
Boarding a ship of the United American Lines

Spion Kop - Anon
At SPION KOP, the British are initially successful, but are compelled to retreat from the hilltop they have captured, failing to break through the Boer lines

Spion Kop - P. Journal
At SPION KOP, Buller and Warren fail to break through the Boer lines despite taking Spion Kop; they have to retire with heavy losses

Happy Washerwoman 1901
A happy washerwoman hanging her washing up to dry

Revolutionary War, Malta
EGYPTIAN CAMPAIGN To assure his supply lines, Napoleon takes Malta from the governing Order

Hannibal at Casilinum
SECOND PUNIC WAR : Hannibal, the Carthaginian leader, at Casilinum, sends cows with bunches of burning twigs attached to their horns, causing the Roman garrison at Callicula to flee in fear

Supposed landscape on the planet Mars
A supposed landscape on the planet Mars, showing the canals

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