Observation Collection (page 10)

Observation post 1918
A soldier in a canvas and steel observation post near Souchez on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1918

Observation Balloon 1915
Photograph taken from an observation balloon, Thelus near Arras on the Western Front in France during World War I on 26th September 1915

Observation Post 1914
British soldier at an observation post on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1914

British artillery observation post at Outtersteene Ridge on the Western Front in Belgium during World War I on 18th August 1918

Observation Post
A steel tree used as an observation post by the Australian forces at the Battle of Messines, Western Front, Belgium during World War I in 1917

Scottish medium Helen Duncan during a sance
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan during a sance with her head covered with " ectoplasm" reaching down to her lap, May 1931. HPG/1/4/2 (xv)"

French soldier in a trench 1915
French soldier in a listening post in the French line on Vimy Ridge using a periscope on the French front during World War I in December 1915. This post was retaken by the Germans in 1916

Benares - Banks of the Ganges, India
Bathing on the banks of the River Ganges at Benares. This card also shows the Raja Jai Singh Observatory. The massive structure was one of a number of astronomical observatories built by Maharaja

Lear / Nonsense / Sweden
There was a Young Lady of Sweden, who went by the slow rain to Weedon; When they cried, Weedon Station! she made no observation but thought she should go back to Sweden

Battle of the Aisne 1918
French artillery observation post near Vendresse during the Battle of the Aisne on the Western Front in France during World War I in 1918

A periscope field glasses and their use in observation

A German artillery observation post in a haystack

British Observation Post; Second World War, 1940
Drawing showing an advanced Observation Post in the British sector of the Maginot line, March 1940. This observer, using a telescope

A British observation-officer testing his communications equ
A British observation-officer testing the communications equipment which allowed him to speak to the ground when aloft in his kite-balloon

A British observation-officers parachute being tested
Photograph of a British observation-officers parachute being tested prior to his take-off in a kite-balloon. Such balloons remained tethered to the ground

An observation balloon being filled
A photograph of an observation balloon being filled from a small nurse, balloon

A French observation post mounted up a tree
Two soldiers are seen up a tree used as a French army look-out post on the Western front, August 1916

Portable trenches
French observation soldiers sheltering behind imitation trenches made from iron plates covered with painted canvas and grass

Russian observation-officers
Observation officers at work in a Russian trench on the Eastern Front in August 1915

French Military Balloon
Balloons first proved their use during the war with Prussia, and are extensively used by the French army for observation purposes. Here a balloon is inflated

Georg Agricola Bauer
GEORG AGRICOLA BAUER Considered the father of mineralogy, basing writings on observation and enquiry rather than received opinion

Keeping Watch Etc
The Tchenomorski keep watch on their Circassian neighbours from lofty observation posts : they fill their homes with smoke to drive away their other enemies, mosquitoes

Leif Havik on site at Vaarhus Kjoelen, Norway
Hessdalen Project member Leif Havik tests observational equipment at Vaarhus Kjoelen, Norway. Mysterious lights appear regularly over Hessdalen, Norway, and have never been explained

Different aspects of the planet Mars, showing the variations in the character of its surface

Louis Pasteur / Graphic 85
LOUIS PASTEUR French chemist and microbiologist in his laboratory

1918 / Observation Balloon
An observation balloon spotting for the artillery position below

Observation Balloon 1918
An observation balloon on an American battleship in British waters

1918 / Observation Post
A British observation post in a windmill

BRITISH BABY AIRSHIP
The British Armys Baby intended for observation and reconnaissance

How ll Ya Keep home Pa?
HOW YA GONNA KEEP EM DOWN ON THE FARM AFTER THEY VE SEEN PAREE ? - a perceptive social observation concerning those young Americans who fought in Europe during World War One

Observing Sea Depths
Observation of the Sea-Bed from Transparent-Bottomed Boats, Using Atom-Ray Illumination

Pyne - Parish Beadle
THE PARISH BEADLE A kind of policeman, whose job is to make sure everyone behaves properly in church and enforce the proper observation of the Sabbath

Smoke Trail, 1st Ww
The trail of smoke from the burning remnants of a German observation balloon

First Glimpse of the Sea
An elderly couple from the country make a dim-witted observation regarding the amount of water at the seaside. Typical example of sneering middle class humour

Zeppelin Brought Down
An observation car from a Zeppelin brought down by British airmen at Cuffley in Essex

Windmill Observation Wwi
A French soldier in Flanders climbs a windmill for observation work during World War One

Napoleon / Horse Ali 1800
NAPOLEON I riding Ali, at the battle of Marengo, 14 June 1800

SHEPHERD
A French shepherd calculates the south at midnight, from observation of the stars

Emile Aubrun spotting submarines from his aeroplane
The French aviator Emile Aubrun (1881-1967) at Cherbourg demonstrates that submarines under water can be detected from aircraft flying at a height of 500 metres

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