Pierce Collection (page 2)

Illustration, Shaving a horse -- an event which led to an entertaining court case. Date: 1832

Illustration, Pierce Egans Book of Sports
Illustration to the opening page of Pierce Egans Book of Sports, showing people on a stagecoach on their way to the Epsom Races. A copy of Egans book is handed over. Date: 1832

Illustration, Hawking and falconry
Illustration, hawking and falconry -- people in Elizabethan costume on horseback with falcons and dogs (probably an early 19th century reenactment). Date: 1832

Illustration, Monkey on board ship
Illustration, A monkey on board ship entertains the sailors by running off with someones hat. Date: 1832

Illustration, The Jolly Anglers, showing a happy group of men fishing and relaxing on a riverbank. Date: 1832

Illustration, scene at an archery event
Illustration, Scene at an archery event of the 1790s, featuring the Bowmen (and Women) of Kent in historical costume, apparently held on Blackheath (which was then in Kent)

Illustration, The Corinthians at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, starting to join the Hunt. Date: 1832

Illustration, The Evergreen Sportsman of Woodford Wells
Illustration, Tom Rounding, The Evergreen Sportsman of Woodford Wells, a sporting club in Essex. Showing a foxhunter on horseback with hounds below. Date: 1832

Illustration, Tattersalls after the Derby Race
Illustration, Tattersall s, or, a Glance at the Settling Day after the Derby Race -- Felix Qui Nihil Debet (happy the man who owes nothing). An auction scene at the famous horse dealers. Date: 1832

Illustration, Steeplechase at St Albans (or rather in the surrounding countryside) on 8 March 1832, with nineteen competitors. Date: 1832

Illustration, Birmingham, winner of the St Leger Stakes
Illustration, Birmingham, a thoroughbred racehorse owned by Mr Beardsworth, winner of the St Leger Stakes at Doncaster in 1830. Date: 1832

Illustration, the late John Howell, the Sporting Tailor, driving his horse-drawn carriage through Margate, Kent. Date: 1832

Illustration, Castle Tavern, Holborn, London
Illustration, a group of men in the Castle Tavern, a public house in Holborn, London, popular with sporting people. Date: 1832

Illustration, Paul Pry watching sporting events. Paul Pry was a character in a popular play of the same name, by John Poole, first performed in 1825

Title page, Pierce Egans Book of Sports and Mirror of Life, published by William Tegg, London. With various vignettes of sporting scenes from all over the world. Date: 1832

Pierce Arrow Vintage Car - Auto
Pierce Arrow Vintage Car/Auto, Germany. Date: 1910s

Pierce Cunningham Homestead
The log cabin with sod roof built by the trapper John Pierce Cunningham 1n 1885 near Jackson Hole in what is now the Grand Teton National Park

Edward & Edward Pierce
EDWARD PIERCE the elder (died 1698) and EDWARD PIERCE the younger, who presumably lived into the 18th century... the younger, like his father, was a sculptor by profession. Date: ? - 1698

Lunardis new balloon 1785
Lunardis new balloon. 1785. [C.F.A. Pierce Collection]. Bottom half

The Aerostatic Stage Balloon (1783) [C.F.A. Pierce Collection]

General Alarm of the Inhabitants of Gonese, occasioned the Fall of the Air Balloon on M. Montgolfier (1783) [C.F.A. Pierce Collection]

Grand Aerostatic Balloon - Blanchard
Grand Aerostatic Balloon in which M. Blanchard ascended from the Royal Military Academy at Little Chelsea, 16 October 1784. [C.F.A. Pierce Collection]

Portrait engraving of Jean Pierre Blanchard [1785] [C.F.A. Pierce Collection]

Franklin Pierce 5
FRANKLIN PIERCE American statesman, President 1853-1857 Date: 1804 - 1869

Franklin Pierce 6
FRANKLIN PIERCE American statesman, President 1853-1857 Date: 1804 - 1869

Franklin Pierce / Chappel
FRANKLIN PIERCE U.S. president Date: 1804 - 1869

Gen. Franklin Pierce. Franklin Pierce in uniform, on horseback, in foreground; Mexican War battle scene, showing Chapultapec castle and Popocataepetl volcano, in background. Date c1852. Gen

Genl. Franklin Pierce. Date c1852

The Birth Place of General Frank Pierce. Hillsboro New Hampshire. Date: 1852

Richmond Park, Surrey
Holidaymakers patronising a fortune teller in Richmond Park, Surrey (now in the London Borough of Richmond). Date: 1839

Grandville Snowdrop 1847
PRIMEVERE-PIERCE-NEIGE snowdrop (galanthus) Date: 1847

1921 Pierce Arrow van
Automobile. A circa 1921 Pierce Arrow moving van parked on the street, buildings visible behind; broadside reads New York Haulage Co. Inc./Daily Service/1780-82 Broadway, N.Y.C./New York

1905 Pierce Great Arrow
Automobile (Cars). 1905 Pierce Great Arrow Suburban parked at the steps of Columbia Universitys Morningside Heights Campus library

The Mayors of Liverpool and Birkenhead Meet under the Mersey
Margaret Beavan (centre), the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, shaking hands with the Mayor of Birkenhead (right) at the meeting of the two halves of the Mersey Tunnel, 1928

Stalin Line Pierced
German armoured divisions pierce the Stalin Line, destroy Russian tanks and munition carriers

Franklin Pierce 4
FRANKLIN PIERCE American statesman, President 1853-1857

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Franklin Pierce, President of the United States
Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (1853-1857)

Franklin Pierce / Scrap
FRANKLIN PIERCE 14th US President (1853-57)

Holy Lance Discovered
Crusaders on their way to the Holy Land, stopping off at Antioch (in todays Turkey) are thrilled to discover the lance that was used to pierce the side of crucified Jesus

PIERCE-ARROW 1913 - 2
A Pierce-Arrow saloon drives through an English village, giving greater satisfaction to its owners than a native car on its native heath

Pierce-Arrow 1931
Saloon, parked outside a stately mansion

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