Pause Collection

Nude model on a break plays a piano
The Model rests A nude model takes a break from posing for an artist and plays a little ditty on the Baby Grand Piano just off his studio. Date: circa 1914

Proposal on a leap year
A woman proposing to her boyfriend on Valentines Day during a leap year - the only occasion by tradition that this is allowed !

Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay - popular song
Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay - the popular song in musical notation, with portraits Date: 1890s

Front cover design, For Victory Paint Book, WW2
Front cover design, For Victory Paint Book, with Allied flags, a V sign, and the first four notes of Beethovens Fifth Symphony, used as a propaganda symbol for Victory during the Second World War

Engineer Chats with Boys Date: 1950

COMICAL ROAD SIGN
A motorcyclist pauses to read a comical road sign for Much Hadham Cold Christmas. Did they indeed. Date: 1950s

Customs - Christmas - Robin
A mother and her child, walking through the wintry snow, pause to look at a robin Date: 1890s

Stag fallow deer crosses a clearing in Cannock Chase Forest
A stag fallow deer pauses with one foot held up as it crosses a clearing in Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire, England. Date: 1991

American troops resting, Argonne Forest, France, WW1
American troops pausing for a rest among shattered tree trunks in the Argonne Forest, north eastern France, during the First World War. They had just recaptured the area from the Germans

Reading Cycling Map
Which way? A group of schoolgirl cyclists and their teacher pause to look at a map, Hatchmere, Cheshire, England

A stout, jolly housewifes enjoys a mid-morning cup of tea and a chat with her cat before getting on with her daily chores

Suffrage Songsheet N. U. W. S. S
Suffrage Songsheet N.U.W.S.S. Suffrage songs raised the roof of the Royal Albert hall at the meeting held on Suffrage Saturday, 13th June 1908. Includes verses by H

Diamond Peak Ca
Two travelers pause to admire the view of Diamond Peak and the ravine of the middle fork of the Willamette river, northern California. Date: 1857

Cascade Mountains USA
Two native Americans pause during their hunt : in the distance are mounts Jefferson, Hood and Adams, though the two natives have other names for them. Date: 1857

Japan - Geisha in travelling chair taking a rest. Another Geisha girl stands to one side and the two porters are taking the opportunity to have a quick smoke. Date: circa 1903

Jerusalem Donkey
An Arab traveller and his donkey pause to take in the fine view of Jerusalem, Israel. Date: late 1960s

Lake District Ramblers
Standing on Ashness Bridge, a group of hikers pause to take in the glorious view over Derwentwater, the Lake District, Cumbria, England with Skiddaw in the distance. Date: 1930s

Irish Scouts at a wayside cross
Irish Scouts, on a hike with rucksacks, stopped at a wayside cross in Glencree, County Wicklow, Ireland. 1960s

Angelus in Canada
French-Canadian farmworkers pause in their labours when the angelus sounds Date: late 19th century

British soldiers WWI
British soldiers during World War I on the Western Front

French soldier WWI
French soldier of the French 19th Infantry Regiment on the route from Breteuil to Flers in Somme during World War I

Time for Reflection by Elsie Harding
A ballerina in a very horizontal tutu skirt pauses by a mirrored door and is reflected along with the colour Chinese lanterns hanging nearby

Rickshaw Driver from Singapore
A Rickshaw Driver from Singapore and his vehicle. He has stopped off for a puff on his pipe

Hearing the News
Red Army troops pause to learn the latest news as they advance on Baku

Camera-carrying rocket
A rocket used to propel a camera to 2600 feet to capture an ariel image. The soldiers are pictured here ready to fire the rocket from its framework

War photography - two soldiers with camera-carrying rocket
A rocket used to propel a camera to 2600 feet to capture an ariel image. Two soldiers are pictured here about to load the rocket into its framework before it is positioned ready to fire

Cyclists Rest at Bridge
A pair of cyclists pause at Malmsmead Bridge, which leads from Somerset into Devon, at the foot of the well-known Doone Valley

French at Modane
The French expeditionary force reaches Modane and pause for refreshment from the public fountain

Alps Photo 1900
A climbing party pause to have their photo taken in the snow near Grindelwald, Switzerland

Shopping on Oxford St
Two ladies pause to chat on a sunny day on Oxford Street

Rudi and Mitzi
Austrian medium Rudi Schneider with his girlfriend Mitzi Mange, during a pause in his football practice at Brunau

Schoolboys Snowballing /
Four boys pause on their way to school to pelt one another with snowballs Date: circa 1880

Climbing : Breithorn
A roped party, ascending the Breithorn on a fine sunny day, pause for a moment while the photographer records the scene for posterity

French Peasants C15
Peasants pause in their work to listen to an itinerant musician

Climbers Pause for Love
Two climbers pause for amorous refreshment on a mountainside

Renault at Chateau
A couple in a Renault pause to exchange chit-chat with a couple with gun and dogs and gamekeeper

Drapery Store Photo 1905
Two ladies pause to appraise the hats in the window of Thos. Whites Drapery Premises, High Street, Tottenham

Sightseers + Horseguard
Sightseers pause to admire a horse guard on sentry duty in Whitehall : unusually, he is carrying a gun

The River Lea
Two young men, on their way home from a days fishing, pause to admire the swans on the River Lea at Ware, Hertfordshire

French Signwriter C18Th
A French signwriter astride a wooden plank pauses from painting a carved inn sign to accept a glass of red wine from a barmaid who leans precariously from a balcony. Date: 18th century

Medicine Goes Down
A good little girl lets Mummy give her a spoonful of medicine during a pause from a bedtime story

Xmas Eve Shopping 1932
Shoppers on a cold, snowy Christmas Eve, pause to view a display in a London shop window

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