Offering Collection (page 9)

International Peasant Festival at the Royal Albert Hall, 188
Engraving showing a series of scenes from the International Peasant Festival, held at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in February 1884

Toy Salesman at Farringdon Street Station, London, 1903
Illustration showing penny toysellers offering their wares outside Farringdon Street Station, London, 1903

Toy Salesmen on Ludgate Hill, London, 1904
Illustration showing street salesmen offering penny toys to passers-by, Ludgate Hill, London, December 1904

A Flight across the Herring Pool
Pitt and Dundas encourage the flight of Irish MPs across the Irish channel offering them places and sinecures. Colour Engraving. Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1789-1856). Published 20th June 1800

Shinto priests perform an elaborate dance in offering to a god; the symbol on the drapery is the Imperial Seal of Japan

French Seller of Bouquet
French flower seller offering made-up bouquets

Shah Jahan I and Court
SHAH JAHAN I depicted offering a seat to Dara Shikoh

Castle Garden Immigration Depot, New York, 1886
Engraving showing newly arrived immigrants at the Castle Garden immigration depot, New York, 1886. The image shows a man offering a baby a drink, with everyone else looking on concerned

Safety saddle
Advertisement from 1888 for Champion & Wiltons Safety Side-saddle offering the advantage of a straight sitting position and comfort, in comparison to the old style of side-saddle (illustrated)

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

GPO EXETER
The self-service section of the General Post Office at Exeter offering change, postal orders and stamped stationery

Magazine Bins Boston
Bins offering give-away magazines on a street in central Boston

Rameses II & Nefertiti
RAMESES II (THE GREAT) with Queen Nefertiti shown making an offering to the Sun God Amun on a wall relief at the Temple of Luxor

Hawker Super Fury
The single-seat Fury fighter goes into service in 1931, and soon improved or modified models make their appearance, such as this Super Fury offering enhanced performance. Date: 1933

Festival Supreme Being
The Revolution replaces traditional religion with its own theology, offering a Supreme Being who provides the citizen with a suitable replacement for his/her former beliefs

Tribute to Heinrich II
The nations of Roma (Italy), Gaul, Germany & Sclauinia (Western Slovian states) pay tribute to Holy Roman Emperor Heinrich II

London News Boy
Victorian newspaper seller offering the paper to passengers on a horse-drawn bus

1930S Flower Market
A stall offering lots of daffodils and other flowers

Dorbon Aine Bookshop
The celebrated bookshop of Dorbon Aine, in the boulevard Haussmann, Paris, offering previously-owned and antiquarian books

Lake District / Windermere
Lake Windermere, in Englands lake district, is frozen over, offering skaters a vast expanse of ice upon which to perform

Vending Machine / Massage
A vending machine offering a rejuvenating vibrating foot massage

Selling Green Peas
The caption reads Green hasteds but this must be a variant of Green Hastings - the customary cry of street traders offering green peas

London Stand-Pipe
Fetching water from a stand- pipe in a London residential street during a frost : some households send their servant girls, others employ street boys offering their services

Postman of French Guyana
A postman of the French department La Guyane Francaise chats up two women, offering them some fruit hes picked on his rounds (?)

Plants Herbs
Doctor Bokanky, a street herbalist in the streets of Victorian London, offering the Kalibonca Root as a cure-all

Ms - Civitatis Dei
From a French manuscript of Augustines De Civitate Dei - the picture shows soldiers harassing early Christians, and donors offering gifts to the first Pope, Peter

Mary, Baby, Angels
with her child and a pair of hovering angels, one of whom is offering a flower to the baby

Augsburg Fuggerei
The Fuggerei at Augsburg, Germany, a housing project created by merchant Jacob offering low-rent housing to more than 100 families Date: 1520

San Francisco Quake 4
True Grit - a barber paints his sign on a tent set up on the ruined site of his premises, offering business as usual

STEAMSHIP BELGENLAND
Transatlantic liner of the Red Star Line, offering a photographic dark room as well as a Turkish Bath

Ghurkas Prevent Cholera
A battalion of Ghurka soldiers en route to Burma, offering sacrifices to drive away cholera

Chimneysweep (Petherick)
London characters: the CHIMNEY SWEEP walks the streets with his brushes, offering his services - for every home is heated with coal fires which clog the chimneys with soot

Glasgow Clothes Shop
A modest haberdashery, run by a nice-looking young couple in a Glasgow side street; the photographer evidently toured the city offering his services to residents and tradesmen

Faust - Liebig
FAUST Mephistopheles, summoned by magic, shows Faust a vision of Marguerite, offering him his youth restored in exchange for his soul

Dinner with a Dog C1815
A lady of the French aristocracy - thought to be la princesse de Vaudemont - dines en tete-a-tete with her dog, to whom she is offering a leg of chicken

Wagner / Puck / Leipzig
RICHARD WAGNER German composer, bowing ingratiatingly to his audience, offering them Great Art

Sin-Of-Ignorance Offered
The National Sin-of-Ignorance offering, where a cow is ritually slaughtered to atone for the ignorance of the Jews

Tourist and Touts
Visiting Paris during the short-lived Peace of Amiens, an English traveller is beleaguered by people offering every kind of merchandise or service

Holidaying in Blighty
When one holidayed in Blighty rather than Benidorm, the British seaside was the place to be, offering swimming, funfairs and occasional sunshine

Visiting the Chateau Ad
An advertisement offering a visit to a chateau for the price of six francs

Scissors to Grind
Mr J Lee pushes his barrow through the London streets, offering to sharpen your scissors and all kinds of cutlery

Market Women, Nepal
Market women offering fruit and vegetables in the market at Kathmandu, Nepal

Singers (Grandville)
A chorus of singers - but they are animals in human dress, as also the monkey conductor and the bovine accompanist

Fo Priest, China
A Fo priest makes an offering in the Temple

Abraham / Isaac / Sacrifice
Abrahams faith displayed by offering his son Isaac for a sacrifice

Burghers of Calais
Edward III, besieging Calais, receives a deputatioon of six burghers headed by Eustache de Saint-Pierre, offering themselves as hostages : his wife pleads for them, too

Judaism / Offering
Ceremonial objects : THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERING

Church Cashes In
The Catholic Church cashes in on Lourdes, offering cures (65 years of success !), the story of Bernadette, and the only brand of candles officially approved by the Virgin Mary

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