Lines Collection (page 7)

Martin 4-0-4 N474A (msn 14165), of Eastern Airlines Delivered May 1952 to Eastern Air Lines Mohawk Airlines December 1962 to September 19651973 with Colony Airlines Date: 1950s-1960s

Four lines in South London are being fitted with trams by the London County Council, here you can see workmen working during the night to fit the electric lines. Date: 1902

WW1 - Turkish Lancers on horseback Date: 1914

City Skyline at Night Date: 1954

Manhattan Skyline Date: 1947

Man Drives Dump Truck Date: 1947

Snow Crystals Date: 1780

Spotlight Parrotfish Date: 1743

French Commander directing operations from tree top 1917
Birds-eye view of the battle behind the lines, showing two French Commanders with periscope and map, directing operations and sending their strategy back to the front lines. Date: 1917

Peril of streets of London 1912
Photograph taken at Elephant Castle, London, showing the increase of electrical, steam and petrol transport. Date: 1912

St Johns Wood and Metropolitan railways 1868
Construction at junction of St Johns Wood and Metropolitan railways at Baker-Street, London. Date: 1868

COAL MINE IN THE CLOUDS
A coal mine in the clouds, where coal has to be sent down a precipitous drop to the plains (probably in the USA), where locomotives take it to the coast. Date: 1930s

GERMAN TRAFFIC POLICE
Traffic in Berlin, with a policeman directing the traffic from a central control box. Date: early 1930s

Loco Lord of the Isles
Great Western Railway locomotive Lord of the Isles, built on the broad gauge favoured by Brunel, so unable to run on other lines. Date: 1850

DIVING FOR PEARLS
Diving for pearls in the Persian Gulf. Date: 1870

LINING DRAWERS W / PAPER
A woman lines drawers with white paper. Date: 1930s

BLIND SASH MAKERS 1870
Blind boys making sash lines at the school for the Indigent Blind, St. George-in-the- Fields, London. Date: 1870

ANGELS / PLANET MERCURY
The angels in the Planet Mercury: So drew full more than thousand splendours towards us. (Canto V, lines 99-100) Date: First published: 1307-21?

Milton, Paradise Lost
Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky. (Book I, lines 44, 45). Date: First published: 1667

DANTE / ANGELS / PARADISE
The angelic wreaths: About us thus, of sempiternal roses, bending wreathed those garlands twain;. (Canto XII, lines 16-19) Date: First published: 1307-21?

VISION / CROSS / ANGELS
The vision of the cross covered with angels: Beamd on that cross; & pattern fails me now. (Canto XIV, lines 96-97) Date: First published: 1307-21?

MIGRATION OF SEMITES
Migration of Semites into Egypt (the lower section lines up with upper section) Date: circa 1900 BC

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - First Publication
The Martian Fighting- Machines wreck the railways. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

Stone engraving
Plum Blossom and Moon. Artist: Anon. Engraver: Anon. Rubbing from Chinese stone engraving from the period between the Han and Tang Dynasties (1st-8th centuries)

de Havilland Canada DHC-6-100 Twin Otter N63118 (msn 118) of Catalina Air Lines - Aero Commuter. Date: 1968

A large group of London Schoolgirls performing a synchronised aerobic gymnastic routine. Date: circa 1935

Fishing off the Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, NJ, USA
Fishing off the Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1930

Caldon Canal lock, Stoke
A man opens the sluice gate on a lock on the Caldon Canal, Stoke, Staffordshire Date: 1987

Longport Junction footbridge, Stoke
A young woman wearing a patterned sweater walks her dog down the steps of the footbridge at Longport Junction, Stoke-on-Trent. The Longport Junction signal box is in the centre background Date: 1987

Travel Luggage Label for Sabena Belgian Air Lines. Date: circa 1960s

La Place Gambetta, Amiens, France. Date: circa 1908

St John Street, Quebec, Canada. Date: circa 1908

WW1 - Cold German Soldiers behind the lines
WW1 - Cold-looking German Soldiers behind the lines during Winter - note the fantastic telegraph pole attesting to the complex communications systems in operation at this point on the front

Standing stones at Carnac, Brittany, France
The standing stones at Carnac, Brittany, France. There are 2000 standing stones, arranged in long lines. These pre-date the Egyptian Pyramids and Stonehenge. Date: circa 1910s

Market Reports Illustrated
Lisse is a town in the Netherlands, southwest of Amsterdam. Its known for the Keukenhof garden, which has millions of spring-flowering Hyacinth bulbs. Date: 1907

RMS Carmania, Cunard Lines
Cruise liner RMS Carmania (formerly RMS Saxonia), Cunard Lines. Date: circa 1960s

Ley lines: Radnor Vale, Wales
Map showing the eastern end of Radnor Vale, Wales, with the ley lines drawn in by hand. Date: 1925

Kursaal Casino in Cairo, Egypt
Street with tram lines in front of the Kursaal Casino in Cairo, capital of Egypt. Date: circa 1910

Manchester, England - Albert Square. The Albert Memorial (Thomas Worthington & Matthew Noble, 1869) and Gladstone statue can be both be in the centre. Date: circa 1909

LNWR (London & North Western Railway Co. ) - Euston Station
LNWR (London & North Western Railway Co.) - Euston Station - The Special Liner Express Date: 1905

Girl with traffic cone on her head
Little girl with a traffic cone on her head, amusing a man with a line-painting machine. Date: 1970s

Robert Baron
ROBERT BARON (flourished 1645) - poet and drama- -tist, notable for borrowing from other writers, without permission or acknowledgement. However, some good lines have not been traced to others

Fire at Izmir, British Dennis Pump engine in action
The Great Fire at Izmir, British Dennis Pump engine in action on the waterfront - note the railway lines, laid by the French. Date: 1922

Man from The Congo, Africa - Scarification
Portrait of a man from The Congo, Central Africa - bearing remarkable facial scarification in the form of cosses, dots, lines and zig-zags Date: circa 1920s

An Interlude, by Fortunino Matania
In a shell damaged French chateau, tired Allied officers rest pensively, listening to a British officer playing a piano and a French officer singing Date: 1917

NFS women in dispatch rider training, WW2
NFS women undergoing dispatch rider training. They were widely used to supplement the lines of communication between various headquarters

New York skyline 1937
The skark beauty of the vertical lines of the New York scrapers forms a striking pattern in this fine camera study of the famous city. Date: 1937

Quentin Roosevelt lying beside his aircraft, France, WW1
Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt (1897-1918), youngest son of the former President of the United States, lying beside his aircraft (a Nieuport 28)

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