Needle Collection (page 3)

Curtis British Entomology Plate 89
Hymenoptera: Abia nigricornis = Abia lonicerae (Black-horned Sawfly) [Plant: Genista anglica (Needle Furze)] Date: 1824-39

Brochure for Seeing London by Tram
Round and about London by tram - North of the Thames. A London County Council guidebook, with an illustration of a tram travelling along the Embankment past Cleopatras Needle.. Date: circa 1930s

SPECIAL THIMBLE
A boon to all bachelors who sew, this simple device, fitted to a thimble, makes it impossible to lose the needle, and saves time, temper and trouble. Date: 1930s

A stitch in time saves nine 1866
A middle class mother sews her daugthers clothing with the little watching her. Date: 1866

LIORETS PHONOGRAPH 1897
Fig.1 Phonograph recording at the Trocadero in Paris Fig. 2 Phonograph ensemble Fig.3 Needle and cylinder Date: 1897

Embankment - Lantern Slide
A view along the river towards Embankment and Cleopatras Needle at night Date: 1910

St Dunstans-in-the-East
Severely damaged in the Fire of London in 1666, it was patched up between 1668 and 1671. A steeple was added around 1700 to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren

Mountain Climbing - Alps - Chamonix, France. Date: 1920s

The hands of sailmaker William Leitch, in his sail loft
The calloused working hands of sailmaker William Leitch, of East Loch Tarbert, Scotland. William is the third generation of sailmakers to work from the old sail loft in Tarbert on the West Coast of

The Thames Embankment with Cleopatras Needle - London. The red granite obelisk was brought to London from Egypt in 1878 - its base is flanked by two bronze statues of the sphinx. Date: 1912

Tattooing - Side or Centre parting Sir?
Tattooing - " Side or Centre parting Sir?" ! Date: circa 1920s

Bronze Sphinx on the Thames Embankment, London
One of a pair of faux-Egyptian sphinxes, designed by the English architect George John Vulliamy at the foot of Cleopatras needle on the Thames Embankment. They were brought to London in 1878

Electric telegraph receiver by Foy and Breguet
Electrical needle telegraph receiver developed in 1842 by Alphonse Foy and Louis Francois Clement Breguet (1804-1883). Back. Nineteenth century colored engraving

Belone belone, or Garfish, also known as Sea Needle, Longnose and Hornbeak. Date: 1865

Two girls with gramophone, Balham, SW London
Two little girls with an old wind-up gramophone and a 78rpm record on a pavement in a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Cornish Grandmother repairs her Grandsons Clothing
No more Flora for you my Son!. A Cornish Grandmother takes her Grandson over her knee to repair his torn shorts, the result of too much enthusiastic running through the undergrowth

Oersted Experiment 2
Christian Oersted, at the university of Copenhagen, discovers the deviation of a compass needle when subjected to an enclosed electric current

Susi - with knitting on a needle, some of it unravelling. 1950s

Snap Playing Cards - Tailor - Stephen Stitch. circa 1930s

Rainbow Wool for French Knitting circa 1930s

Mary Linwood, needlewoman and schoolmistress (1755-1845). circa 1800

Cleopatras Needle, Adelphi Arches, London (1881). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1881

Lancaster Gate - Christ Church, London - an asymmetrical gothic composition with a needle spire - the architects were F. & H. Francis

Susi and friend with knitting and sewing things, getting everything into a mess. 1950s

Greetings card in the shape of a reel of cotton
Greetings card in the shape of a reel of white cotton with a needle. Date: circa 1890s

Susi - with knitting on a needle. 1950s

London, England - Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee - Procession through London... Part of Box 177 Boswell collection - Round about London

Florence Upton playing cards - Making Clothes. circa 1900s

Cleopatras needle at dusk - Needle in mid distance, lamps lit along embankment. Part of Box 34 Boswell Collection - London Streets. Date: circa 1890s

Pinus roxsburghii, Chin pine - Coloured copper engraving by Warner based on a watercolour by Ferdinand Bauer. A.B. Lambert, A description of the genus Pinus, London, 1803, t. 21 Date: 1803

London, England - Cleopatras Needle - View of needle on Embankment in Winter.. Part of Box 23 Boswell Collection. A Day trip to London.Cleopatras Needle is the popular name for each of three Ancient

WW1 - London in wartime searchlights over the River Thames Date: circa 1917

London - The Thames Embankment by moonlight Date: circa 1910s

China - Young Street Tailor Girls. Date: circa 1906

Portrait of Manuela Camas y de las Heras, Consort to Juan Ag
Francisco de Goya (1746-1828). Spanish romantic painter. Portrait of Manuela Camas y de las Heras, Consort to Juan Agustin Cean Bermudez. C. 1785, Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Needles to mend fishing nets. 12th-13th centuries. Latvia
Fishing tools. 12th-13th centuries. Needles to mend fishing nets. Museum of history and navigation. Riga. Latvia

Tinker, Tailor playing card - Tailor, Stephen Stitch. 20th century

Johann Von Dreyse - 2
JOHANN NIKOLAUS VON DREYSE German inventor of the needle gun, in which the cartridge is exploded by the impact of a needle. Date: 1787 - 1867

Cleopatras Needle / Alex
Cleopatras Needle in its original position at Alexandria. Date: 1847

Atlantic / St Helena 1841
St Helena: basalt needle Date: 1841

Cooke / Wheatstone Telegr
The discovery of current by Volta in 1800 and the electro- magnet in 1824, led to the invention of the magnetic telegraph. This is Cooke and Wheatstones 5-needle machine. Date: 1837

Plants / Genista Anglica
NEEDLE WHIN Date: early 20th century

London / Embankment
Thames Embankment and Cleopatras Needle on a winter day. In the background carriages line the road. Date: 1890

Obelisk from Egypt to USA: a second Cleopatras needle, 1880
Preparing the second Cleopatras Needle to travel to America. Date: 1880

Transporting the obelisk: procession for Cleopatras needle
The procession, on Lord Mayors Day, with Cleopatras Needle passing down Gracechurch Street, London. Date: August 1878

Transporting the obelisk: Cleopatras needle erected, London
Breaking up the " Cleopatra" so that the Needle may be erected on the Thames Embankment, London. Date: 6th July 1878

Transporting the obelisk: positioning Cleopatras needle
Waiting for the tide to facilitate the positioning of Cleopatras Needle on the Embankment, London. Date: 30th May 1878

Transporting the obelisk: Cleopatras needle at Gravesend
Cleopatras Needle reaches Gravesend, England. Date: 1878

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