Live Collection (page 6)

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

Jane Eliz. Ellenborough
Jane Elizabeth (nee Digby), lady ELLENBOROUGH second wife of Edward Law, second baron : they divorced and she went to live in Syria

Special motor car for transporting live fish
An illustration of a special motor car designed with a tank and other appparatus (the function of which was to create river conditions)

Live while you Live Text
Live while you live, the epicure would say... - text with formal ornamentation

Village Idyll, 1930S
An idyllic scene in the Cotswold village of Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire. Peace and quiet reigns and families live safely alongside well-behaved teenagers

Stupid Humans
Animals laugh at humans moving house with all their possessions, and wonder why we don t live as simply as they do!

Saint Ammonas in Bed
SAINT AMMONAS Egyptian ascetic, forced to wed, agrees with his bride to live in celibacy and virginity (from Wynkyn de Wordes 1495 edition of Vitas patrum )

Jews Back Revolution
Russian Jews demonstrate in favour of the Revolution, with banners proclaiming Long live the Universal Workers Union and Long Life to the International Proletariat. Date: March 1917

LEMUR FULVUS is one of the LEMURIDAE, a rarely-seen because nocturnal species who live in Madagascar. (He is not a monkey though sharing monkey-like attributes)

May Day Demo Banners
Banners at the May Day parade at Petrograd proclaim Long live the democratic republic and Long life to socialism from the United Workers Trade Institute

Theatrephone
Thanks to the theatrephone, a Parisienne could listen to Verdis Falstaff or the Oedipus Rex of Sophocles, live from the theatres

Racial / Snake Dance 1908
Snake dance of the Hopi people of Arizona, performed with live and poisonous rattlesnakes which are set free after the ceremony, intended to bring rain

Puss in Boots - 6
Happy ending ! The Marquis de Carabas marries the Princess, thanks to Pusss devious and deceitful cunning. All shall live happily ever after !

Alphabet / K for Kittens
K are the kittens, that live in the stable

Jack Dempsey, Boxer 1921
Jack Dempsey (1895 - 1983) pictured before defending his heavyweight crown against Carpentier on July 2 1921. Dempsey won in front of 90, 000 fans and a live radio audience

Dryden / Fashion Show / 106
A poster advertising a Theatre of Fashion with live models

Pontmain Witnesses - 3
Joseph and Eugene Barbedette, two of the farm children who see a vision of the Virgin Mary at the farm where they live, as the Prussian Army sweeps through France

D EPINAY (1726 - 1783)
LOUISE FLORENCE DE LA LIVE D EPINAY, French writer and saloniste, patron of Rousseau, friend of Voltaire and Melchior Grimm

Live Pigeon Shooting
Sportsmen shooting live pigeons as they are released from cages: Theres no rural sport surpasses pigeon shooting, the text says

Goose / Cries of London
Street traders with a gaggle of geese for sale: Buy a live goose! Washing hangs from an upstairs window in the background

Lobster / Cries of London
A woman tries to persuade a customer to buy a live lobster from the basket she carries on her head

Crystal Palace / Opera
In consequence of the great pressure for lodgings, the Proprietor of Her Majestys Theatre allows parties visiting the opera to live in their boxes until the next day

Myth of Kara-Shishi
Is it a dog ? Is it a lion ? No one gets close enough to The Dog Foo to find out - or if they do, they do not live to tell us

Hopi Snake Dance
Snake dance of the Hopi people of Arizona, performed with live and poisonous rattlesnakes which are set free after the ceremony, intended to bring rain

Rimsky, Snow Maiden 1
( Snegurochka ) The village of Tsar Berendey, where Snegurochka is sent to live with Bobil and Bobilicka, a peasant couple

An Indian Dhobi
An Indian dhobi or washerman. Often Dhobi wallahs will live and work at the laundry and pass their jobs down through the generations

Promerops, California
Most birds of the promerops family live in Africa, but this was observed in North California in the course of La Perouses circumnavigatory voyage

Various Cephalopoda
A selection of live and fossilised cephalopoda

Amazing Stories scifi magazine cover, 35, 000 years from now
MACHINE MAN OF ARDATHIA (Francis Flagg) A man from 35, 000 years hence travels back in time and is delighted to encounter a live prehistoric man of 1927

Seven Dials Bird Market
The Bird Fair in Great St Andrews Street, Seven Dials, in central London. A nearby shop buys and sells live rats

Feast or Flagellation
While those who live for the moment feast and frolic, others who recognise the seriousness of our life on Earth flagellate themselves to the greater glory of God

London / Cries / Poultry Man
The poultry man sells live sucks and fowl to eat and to provide fresh eggs

Rat Retired from World
THE RAT WHO RETIRED FROM THE WORLD: A rat, tired of worldly cares, retires to live in a cheese; when fellow rats request help, he says he is unable to assist

Mongoose (Bewick)
The lower creature is the lemur mongooz : the upper the TAILLESS MACAUCO - lemur tardigradus - who spends its life envying the mongoose its tail : both live in India

Lepidus Ejected
Lepidus is ejected from the second Triumvirate and begs from Octavian the right to live

Sulla Resigns
Lucius Cornelius Sulla, after three years as dictator during which he imposes many useful reforms, retires to live peaceably in the country writing his memoirs

Hunting Alphabet - W
W for Wisdom acquired in old age - that is, if you live till that ultimate stage

Napoleon II Baptised
Baptism of Napoleons son, k.a. le Roi de Rome, in the chapel of the Tuileries, He will never actually reign, and after his fathers abdication will live in exile in Austria

Vanity Fair / Live Baronet
Rebecca makes acquaintance with a live baronet

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