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Patent Manning Wardle & Co, locomotive engineers, steam road roller designed in Paris and was contracted in England. Boyne Engine Works, Leeds and is the patent of E. Gellerate and Co
Burmese women rolling leaf tobacco into cigars. Date: 1908
Women making Valentine gifts, made from paper, ribbons and glue. Date: 1908
Satirical cartoon, A Senatus Consultum. Napoleon is making his will and consulting the Devil about his fate. The Devil carries a flaming plaque: Death Bonaparte Death'
TILBURY (ALKEN)This light open two-wheel vehicle is fashionable in the early 19th century. Date: circa 1825
Woman in a long dress with a fan, or making other movements. Date: 1887
Michel in the air 1909As financial reform the German authorites squeeze the common man dry and then utilise his skin for balloon- making, thus flying Germany's future in the air Date: 1909
Making up for the Stage'. Date: 1909
MAGELLANFernao de Magalhaes dies at the hands of Philippine natives, after making an alliance with a treacherous native chieftain Date: 27 April 1521
Making funeral wreaths in a factoryMaking funeral wreaths, France. Date: 1899
Legal Wig Maker in the Temple, London Date: 1921
Father Christmas a peace-maker: "Come, come Russ! You are a ChristianFather Christmas a peace-maker: " Come, come Russ! You are a Christian, set a good example to the Turk!" Comment on Nicolas I of Russias aggression in the Crimean War against the Ottoman
Original Artwork - A child making a snowman Date: circa 1937
Bristol Freighter of Channel Air Bridge, making a delivery to RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. Date: circa 1960
Comic postcard, Making money on the horses, one way or another Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, woman sewing underwear Date: 20th century
Making raw silk, Japanc.1900 vintage photograph: making raw silk, Japan
Captioned Marquess of Queensbury, John Sholto DouglasVintage 19th century photograph: captioned on the back as Marquess of Queensbury. John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (20 July 1844 - 31 January 1900), was a Scottish nobleman
Milkmen in Charlotte Street, LondonMilkmen making early morning deliveries, Charlotte Street, London. Date: circa 1930s
Milkman and milk float, LondonMilkman with his electric milk float making early morning delivery to Bloomfield Place, Westminster, London. Date: circa 1950s
Chain stores, Woolworths, Boots, Liptons, etcChain stores making an inroad into towns in the thirties, including Woolworths, Boots, Freeman Hardy & Willis, and Liptons. Date: circa 1930s
Comic postcard, man making rabbit hutch Date: 20th century
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Coupon shortage and making doThe long Caption gives the little girls excuse for having patches. The Home Front War Effort was helped along by cryptic slogans such as Make do and Mend and Making do
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Whos making the Brave New WorldThe Caption verse is Whos making the Brave New World - lets see - Whos making the Brave New World? You-and-Me! This is a reference to Aldous Huxleys dystopian novel Brave New World - a world that you
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Making a StirThe war is just over and on the back of the card Mr Churchill says Advance Britannia! Long live the cause of Freedom! God save the King
Advertisement for All-In suet puddings of various kinds - the new way. Made by Dunragit Food Products of Wigtownshire, Scotland. Date: c.1924
Cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather in the style of Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Showing British soldiers making sandbags, bringing in ration supplies and ready to fight in the trenches. Date: 1916
Housewives Conference, 1947Page from The Sphere, 20 September 1947 reporting on the Housewives League Meeting at Central Hall
Bonzo has a go at cocktail making. Date: c. 1930Bonzo has a go at cocktail making. Date: c.1930
(conversation over the garden fence) - "The War ll be over in a fortnight now(conversation over the garden fence) - " The War ll be over in a fortnight now, cos my ole mans joined the Army an I know e never keeps a job longer n that!" Date: circa 1944
Nelson Keys, Dorothy Gish and Will Rogers on set making the Herbert Wilcox film Tip-Toes, 1926 Date: 1926
Napoli Naples, making spaghetti pasta19th century vintage photograph: Napoli Naples, making spaghetti pasta
Matmakers, Japan19th century vintage photograph: matmakers making straw mats, Japan
Making Toys at a Fire Station. Date: circa 1942
To Absent FriendsHeres Health to Them Thats Awa Young girl in a floral dress making a toast to absent friends. Artist: Ethel Larcombe
Old Haymarket TheatreThe Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre on Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720
A cosmetics and accessories seller making a house call. The customers are a geisha madam and two young geisha in an okiya
Trades in Regency England. Hop picking, South Down sheep and effects of gunpowder. Man cutting hops, women and children picking off the hops in Farnham 19
Trades in Regency England: china painting, pin makingTrades people in Regency England. Artist painting a porcelain vase in a Worcester china factory 7, girl using a foot-driven anvil to add heads to pins in a pin-making factory in Gloucester 8
Trades in Regency England: Cheese making, check manufacture and cotton printing. Dairymaid making cheese in Cheshire 55, man selling check cotton aprons door to door 56
Trades in Regency England: Spar ornaments, pottery ware and salt refiner. Alabaster stone ornaments made in the Peak District on a mantlepiece 52, shop window with pottery from Etruria
Trades in Regency England: basket making, geese plucking and whips. Basket-maker weaving willow into baskets and hampers on the Isle of Ely 34
Trades in Norfolk, Regency England. Barley, turnips and game. Farm laborers on a straw bail after a barley harvest 34, sheep eating turnips 35, and hunter poaching for game rabbits 36
Trades in Regency England. Brick making, butter churning and rabbit warren. Brickmaker with bricks, hod, kiln and wheelbarrow in Woolpit 31, woman churning butter in an urn in Bury dairy 32
Trades in Regency England: cable making, straw workTrades in Regency England. Men twisting rope in a cable making factory in Deptford 1, women and children making straw hats in Dunstable 2 and a woman making lace outside a cottage in Buckingham 3
Historical views of Japan. Japanese woman riding in a sedan chair on wheels 22, Japanese Christians forced to step on a crucifix (fumie) in Nagasaki, 17th century 23
English huntsman making a dangerous jump over a stone wall beneath a low branch, 19th century. Facey Romford hitting his head on a branch during a fox-hunt. Rot the beggar, exclaims Romford
Ernest Bevin giving speech at East WoolwichErnest Bevin giving a speech to socialist workers at his East Woolwich constituency after a period of illness. Continuing as foreign secretary