Lives Collection (page 5)

Titanic - precisely what the sinking meant
A huge crowd scene of around 1635 people, the number estimated at the time of publication to have perished in the sinking of the White Star passenger liner, RMS Titanic. Date: 1912

Joseph Rodgers, Able Seaman
Joseph Rodgers, (b. 1830 in Malta - ?), seaman of the Royal Charter, a ship which sank off the coast of Anglesey on 26th October 1859 in terrible storms

The SS Austral, a passenger vessel which took part in the early transportation by sea of refrigerated meat between Australia and Europe

Champs Elysees
Intrepid pedestrians take their lives in their hands as cars and horse-drawn vehicles bear down the Champs Elysees. Date: circa 1904

Hand-Feeding a Puppy
A tiny premature or runt puppy is hand reared, by inserting a fine plastic feeding tube into its mouth. The lives of thousands of puppies each year are saved by this method. Date: late 1960s

Packing Poppies
Packing artifical poppies of linen or silk, at the British Legion, for Remembrance Day, in memory of those who so bravely gave their lives during World War One. Date: 1940

Making Poppies
Making artifical poppies of linen or silk, at the British Legion, for Remembrance Day, in memory of those who so bravely gave their lives during World War One. Date: 1940

Coscoroba Swans
Two Coscoroba swans, native to South America, where it lives close to wetlands and marshes. Regarded by some as a species of duck rather than swan. Date: 1960s

Silhouettes of scenes from Lives of Bengal Lancers
A series of four silhouettes depicting scenes from 1935 movie, Lives of a Bengal Lancer starring Gary Cooper. Date: 1935

Wartime leaflet, blood transfusion service
Wartime leaflet about the blood transfusion service, showing how blood, and blood transfusion equipment, are dropped by parachute behind enemy lines to save the lives of wounded soldiers. 1940s

Poster warning about safety on the airfield. Watch that prop. Careless walk costs lives. Showing a pilot losing his head by walking into a spinning propeller. 1940s

Title page of Smiths History
Title page of Smiths The History of the Lives of the most Noted Highwaymen, Housebreakers, Shop-lifts and Cheats. Date: 1714

Loss of life in World War One - Postcard
A matronly woman looks at a newspaper board with the World War One Recruitment message: Kitchener Wants More Men and replies with the chilling response: " I ve buried four and want no more

Dr Barnardos children migrating to Canada
A group of boys from one of Dr Barnardos homes onboard ship as they emigrate from Britain to Canada. Such emigration schemes aimed to give orphaned or abandoned children new lives in Canada

Wartime poster warning against careless talk. A man wishes an RAF pilot " Good luck tomorrow", he is overheard, and there are unfortunate repercussions. Careless Talk Costs Lives. 1940s

Acrobats at Tivoli Gdns
Acrobats risk their lives with fiery hoops over the heads of spectators at Copenhagens Tivoli Gardens. Date: 1888

Ballad / Mars Daughter
EARL MARs DAUGHTER She is carried off to her lover (who lives with her as a dove by day) by a a flight of swans (really her lovers brothers and their men). Date: traditional

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

Jean De Bolland
JEAN DE BOLLAND (Johannes Bollandius) - Flemish Jesuit scholar, known for his Lives of the Saints, work which is still carried on by the Bollandists today. Date: 1596 - 1665

Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? Yes, sir; yes, sir, three bags full: one for the master, one for the dame, and one for the little boy that lives in our lane

Vera Cruz harbour, to which hastened the United States battleships, Vermont, Georgia, and Nebraska, in order to protect the American lives, interests and property endangered by the revolution

Members of the rescue parties at Gresford Colliery, Wales
Equipped with oxygen apparatus, these are some of the men who battled for a day and a half to save the lives of miners who had been trapped by flames following an explosion in the mine

Wallis Simpson in 1927
Mrs Ernest Simpson (Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson), pictured in 1927 when wife of Commander Earl Wingfield Spencer of the US Navy, shortly before her divorce

Great Scot, Some Growth
A comment on the impressive growth of contribution by Canada to the Allied effort during World War I. The towering Canadian soldier here is a symbol of numerical force

Blown up at Sheerness with the loss of between 700 and 800 lives: H. M.s Bulwark
Blown up at Sheerness with the loss of between 700 and 800 lives: H.M.S Bulwark

Driving cattle for rent in Ireland
A mans livestock is being driven away in lieu of outstanding rent. The owner and his family can only stand by and watch. Two young women carrying wood and water stand sadly

Birthplace of Sir John Franklin, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, 1859
Engraving showing the house in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, where the British naval commander and explorer, Sir John Franklin, was born in 1786

The Lost Cunarder
Photograph of the Lusitania, a floating palace, torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915 with the loss of 1200 lives

The Promenade Deck
The promenade deck of the Lusitania showing passengers reclining on deck-chairs. The Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915 with the loss of 1210 lives

Torpedoed ship
Front page photograph from the Illustrated London News showing torpedoe damage to a Norwegian oil-tank steamer, Belridge. The picture was intended to show the damage suffered by the Lusitania

Lusitania - an American fatality
An American victim of the sinking of the Lusitania being stretchered through Queenstown covered in the American flag. The Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915 with the loss of

The Smoking-Room of the Lusitania, the liner torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915, with the loss of 1200 lives

Cemetery for Australian officers at Gallipoli
A cemetery for Australian officers at Gallipoli. As part of the British Empire, Australians rushed to join up after the announcement of war in 1914. 8000 Australians lost their lives at Gallipoli

Guinea Worship
People of Guinea, West Africa, place gifts and dance before a sacred tree in hope that the god who lives in it will give them what they want

Peruvians Honour the Sun
Peruvians feast in honour of the Sun, an occasion on which a number of animals lose their lives

Corsica Ile Rousse
A charming seaside port on the northern coast of the island : Hilarys sister lives here, if you re interested

Right-Wing Menace
The Third Republic lives in constant fear of a right-wing coup : police raid the headquarters of the Ligue des Patriotes, a royalist organisation

Hypocrite English
When the British sink a German U-boat, they are always concerned for the lives of its crew, offering prayers to the Almighty to look after them

WILD CAT
Do not attempt to tickle this cute little pussy-cat under its chin : you might end up with fewer fingers than when you started - for this cat lives up to its name !

Effect of the San Francisco earthquake
Effect of the earthquake on a typical frame house. The San Francisco earthquake occurred on the 18th April 1906, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale

Creswell colliery, where eighty men perished in a fire. Aeri
Creswell colliery where eighty miners perished in a fire at the junction of two conveyer belts. An aerial view showing ambulances approaching the pithead and anxious families gathered at the offices

Large clouds of smoke from the spreading fires. The aftermat
Fires spreading through San Francisco, completing the ruin of the city. The business distract was completely devastated, with only the steel structures of modern buildings still standing

The bursting of the Bilberry Reservoir, spreading destructio
The bursting of the Bilberry Reservoir. Much destruction was caused by the flooding, bridges lost and buildings demolished

the fires that spread across the city of San Francisco from
The conflagration which swept across the city from the harbour shore. The San Francisco earthquake occurred on the 18th April 1906 and measured 7.9 on the Richter scale

Rescue workers on the way to the rest hut, Gresford Colliery
Gallant rescue workers on the way to a rest hut accompanied by a nurse. Over 260 miners lost their lives as a result of an explosion that orphaned nearly 800 children

Explosion at Regents Canal, a barge covered in petroleum and gun powder blew up as it passed underneath the bridge on the night of1st of October 1874

A burning street after the San Francisco earthquake
A burning street in San Francisco, a few men try to reach their offices to salvage what they can. The San Francisco earthquake occurred on the 18th April 1906 and measured 7.9 on the Richter scale

Clearing up after the explosion at Regents canal
Clearing up the debris after a massive explosion caused a bridge over the Regents Canal to blow up. A barge covered in petroleum

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