Opportunities Collection

Young women university graduates, Copenhagen, Denmark
Young women university graduates linking arms in a street, Copenhagen, Denmark. Date: 1922

Sewer hunter 1860s
Sewer hunters who made their money by combing through the sewers beneath London streets, sieving through the raw water for a small opportunity of finding something valuable like a ring that somebody

Ballast-heavers 1850s
Ballast-heavers or also named as mudlarks at work, labourers dredging the River Thames for the opportunity of finding something valuable amongst the mud

Cartoon, The Mistletoe Bough (Leap Year)
Cartoon, The Mistletoe Bough -- Being Leap Year, the ladies take the initiative. Date: 1852

Ruskin Hall, Oxford
Ruskin College, originally known as Ruskin Hall, Oxford, an independent educational institution in Oxford, England. It is named after the essayist and social critic John Ruskin (18191900)

Warden and students of Ruskin Hall, Oxford
The warden (Mr Dennis Hird M. A.) and students of Ruskin Hall, shortly after it had opened in 1899. Ruskin College, originally known as Ruskin Hall, Oxford

Patients race, Quex House garden
Four patients are seen taking part in a race in the garden of Quex House, two nurses and a lady civilian are in the background watching

Bedmaking race, Quex House garden
Three nurses are taking part in a bedmaking race, watched by Hannah Powell-Cotton (VAD Commandant) and a male civilian. The beds are positioned against the line of a tennis court marked out

Hospital Sports, Quex House garden
Patients in shirtsleeves are playing the game of trying to eating an apple hanging from a string tied to a horizontal line

Apple Bobbing, Quex House garden
Seven patients are gathered around at least one chair and some buckets. Five amused nurses are watching. The men are apple bobbing - trying to grab, using only their mouths

Lady Sarah Wilsons bomb-proof shelter at Mafeking, 1900
Lady Sarah Wilson (1865 - 1929), formerly Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, youngest child of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough

Poster advertising Trans-Canada Airlines -- opportunities unlimited

American Explorer program
Young men and women sit listening as one of them plays the guitar. In the newly revised Explorer program, a Learning for Life subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America

Begging for Mercy
The Revolution provides artists with countless opportunities for tear-jerking scenes : a well- dressed lady begs for her life from two hard-faced officials

Girl in the Job Centre
A young woman wearing a belted blouson jacket and smoking a cigarette, doesn t seem interested in looking at the jobs on offer in her local Job Centre

Flying over Volcano
The aeroplane provides the scientist with unequalled opportunities for the investigation of natural phenomena

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