Live Collection (page 5)

Live carry-down from drill tower at Lambeth Brigade HQ
Saturday drill displays at Brigade HQ Lambeth. London firefighters performing a rescue by carrying down an extension ladder from the second floor window during the display

Garnerin descending in his parachute, Paris
Garnerin descending in his parachute, with his discarded balloon on the left. Claimed to be the first to descend from a balloon by means of a parachute

The hunters didn t expect a live lion. Illustration showing the British Lion running on a path toward Pretoria while four South African statesmen/generals (possibly among them are Louis Botha)

Excursion WPA Federal Theatre Playhouse, Tulane & Miro Sail in and see living actors in a live play. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of Excursion at the WPA Federal Theatre Playhouse

Learn more live more Free Federal adult classes in many subjects : 225 teachers - 170 centers. Poster announcing free adult education classes. Date 1937

A live wire. Illustration shows a fashionably dressed young woman talking on a telephone with multiple lines that are connected to twelve men. Date 1914 August 8

Announcing federal adult classes Learn more - live more. Poster announcing federally sponsored and conducted free adult education classes at Federal Adult Schools, 1275 Ontario Street. Date 1937

This is what God gives us - what are you giving so that others may live? Eat less wheat, meat, fats, sugar - send more to Europe or they will starve

Live and let live - grab it. Date 18--

The Great Union Stock Yards of Chicago. The largest live stock mart in the world. Date c1878 Sep. 7

The new education Theres the world before you, young man! Do you want to see it? Learn a trade and live a strong healthy life? If so enlist and be happy - you can t beat this!

Overcrowded home of workers in cotton mill, Olneyville, Prov
(For Child Welfare Exhibit 1912-13.) Overcrowded home of workers in cotton mill, Olneyville, Providence. Eight persons live in these three small rooms, three of them are boarders

Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California as migratory workers. The finest people in this world live in Texas but I just can t seem to accomplish nothin there

Ladies who live in rooming house, St. Paul, Minnesota. Date 1939 Sept

A live oak in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S. C
A live oak in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C

Live oaks at Berkely College. Date between 1898 and 1905

British soldiers showing respect for their foe
" Concerned!" Caption: Disappointed Tommy to Officer (after waiting several hours for an expected assault by the enemy which has not come off)

Barbadian Women selling piglets
Barbadian Women selling live piglets Date: circa 1910s

Live stock market. Dogs for sale in a market in the Philippines, the Igorrotes tribe of the Philippines habitually eat dog flesh Date: 20th century

Racial Types / Lapland
In summer Laplanders live in tents, moving from pasture to pasture with their reindeer. The reindeer move in vast herds, often many thousand strong. Date: 1930s

THE TALKIES
A live orchestra synchronizing music and sound to a film screen. Date: circa 1930

Slow Dancing
A young couple slow dancing at the end of a gig by London beat group The Triffids. Date: mid 1960s

Unloading Sheep
Unloading sheep at Ipswich Cattle Market, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Date: 1930s

Avalanche victim aided by St Bernards
At the Hospice du Grand Saint- Bernard (2472m), dogs are trained to rescue unfortunate travellers who lose their way in the darkness and snow on the Alpine pass

Cuckoo on the cherry tree, come down and tell me how many years have I got to live. 20th century

Elisabeth D houdetot
ELISABETH de la LIVE de BELLEGARDE, comtesse d HOUDETOT - French countess renowned for her wit; a friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Date: 1730 - 1813

Making a TV Programme
Making a programme for Southern Television inside a studio. Date: 1960s

Population Postcard 1930
French postcard encouraging population growth - If France is to live, join the Alliance against depopulation... Date: 1930s

Biscegliese / Sand / 1680
L AVARE The miser Harpagon asks whether one eats to live or lives to eat ? Date: 1668

The Struldbrugs / Gulliver
GULLIVER IN LUGGNAGG The Struldbrugs live for ever, and are exceedingly unhappy about it, becoming foolish, opinionative, peevish, unloving and unloved... Date: First published: 1726

William Peel throwing a live shell
Captain William Peel (1824 - 1858) depicted in the act of bravery that won his first Victoria Cross during the Crimean War

Prince John of Wales (1905-1919), youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, pictured here wearing a dress. Until after the First World War it was normal to dress small boys

The Duke of Edinburgh opening the Seamens Orphanage in Live
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, opening the Seamens Orphanage, Liverpool in 1870. The Liverpool Seamens Orphan Institution was established in order to provide care

Homeless Berliners walking through Nollendorf Platz, 1945
Photograph showing a group of Berliners walking past the ruins of Nollendorf Platz looking for a place to live, after the end of the Second World War, Summer 1945

Napoleon at Saint-Cloud
When in Paris, Napoleon and Josephine live at the Tuileries : but their principal residence is at the palace of Saint-Cloud, where they hold court in style

Louis Le Pieux Deposed
Growing dissatisfaction with Louis le Pieux leads to his deposition : he is packed off to live the remainder of his days in a monastery

Silesia Plebiscite 2
After a plebiscite which splits the region into German and Polish districts, people make their way to whichever district they want to live in

The Female Emigrants Home, Hatton Garden, 1853
Engraving showing the main room of the Female Emigrants Home, Hatton Garden, London, 1853. A fund was set up in 1849 to send distressed needlewomen to Australia

Floating railway bridge across the Forth River
A floating railway across the Forth between Granton and Burntisland. The route designed to carrying goods and live stock without the inconvience of unloading the trucks

Live Provisions on the deck of the emigrant ship, Indus
Engraving showing some of the crew of the emigrant ship Indus, forcing sheep and pigs to take up residence in their pens, 1872

Picuss Widow Grieves
When her husband Picus is turned into a magpie by Circe, his widow Canenta has nothing to live for : she is (literally) consumed by grief, haunting his deathplace

Apollo and the Sibyl
Apollo promises his lover Sibyl she may live as many years as she can hold grains of sand; she becomes very aged, no more than a voice - the oracular Sibyl of Cuma

French Womens Prison
Women prisoners at St Lazare, Paris, France, where young and old prisoners live in close proximity

Life on the Stars 5
Life on a planet of the giant star Betelgeuse : people live in movable homes in which they can migrate from place to place, in tall legged homes

Milk in Venice
How milk is delivered to your door if you live in Venice

The Old Man & 3 Youths
THE OLD MAN & THREE YOUTHS Three young men question why an old man is planting saplings whose fruit he won t live to enjoy; life is uncertain, he may outlive them

E. M. I camers recording a scene on the lawns of Alexandra Pal
The E.M.I camera recording a scene. The E.M.I camera was one of the methods that the B.B.C experimented with for its live broadcasts

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