Pile Collection (page 9)

Date Sellers - Marrakesh, Morocco
A stall selling dates - Marrakesh, Morocco. The trader sits halfway up the immense pile of the dried fruit, which he can weigh on the suspended scales alongside his perch

The Green-grocerss Shop. A little girl examines the variety of fruit and veg for sale

Turkey - Basket Seller
A Basket Seller - Turkey

V1 bomb counter measures committee, 1944
The chairmen of the war cabinet committee on operational counter measures against the " flying bomb" or V1: Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P(centre), with leaders who directed the battle

Captured frogs bid for Freedom
A young schoolboy in his full school uniform get a nasty surprise when the frog he has captured makes a daring bid for freedom, leaping out and away as soon as the airhole-added lid has been lifted

Printing and Mind of Man
Printing and the Mind of Man: a fine example of late Twenties artwork, showing two human figures in the form of modern sculptures

L Muggleton / Wood / Kennerl
LODOWICKE MUGGLETON English Puritan, founder of the Muggletonian Sect

Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596)
Engraving of Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596), Elizabethan explorer and seafarer. In 1577 he and his crew became the first Englishmen to circumnavigate the globe

Pile of Pots / Sakara
A street in Sakara. A young girl stands close to a stall selling decorated pots

Lady Mouser at Tea
Lady Mouser takes afternoon tea at her country pile. Do call in to see her, but note that she is awfully keen on punctuality

Young Gypsy Child
A young Gypsy child with a remarkable wool hat sits atop a pile of horse tack and rags drinking from a teated milk bottle under the axel of the family caravan

Temporary Pile Bridge
A temporary bridge is built by French engineers, utilising planks laid on piles embedded in the river bed, a more solid and reliable method than laying them on boats

Mississippi Woodcutter
A woodcutter and his family outside their modest cabin by the Mississippi river. Despite the pile of logs, they do not seem happy in their work

Reading Letters
A man in a suit tries to plough his way through an enormous pile of letters

Caricature of Paul Verlaine, French poet
Paul Verlaine, French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. Seen here in a caricature, with the word Anarchy written across his forehead, playing a lyre, with an arrow stuck through a heart

Eusebius of Caesarea
EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA Palestinian church historian, depicted reading one from a pile of books, with the city of Caesarea behind him

Belvedere Mansion
The impressive mansion in Belvedere, Kent, England, seat of Sir Sampson Gideon, a fabulously wealthy financier. Sadly demolished in 1959

END OF A DEMO... 1907
At the end of a demonstration, all that is left is a pile of bloody corpses

Gambling at Monaco 1917
A rotund fellow sitting at a gambling table admires his pile of winnings

Volta and his Pile
VOLTAs PILE (battery) He demonstrates it to the Institut Francais and the consul Napoleon Bonaparte

Rail Strike / Luggage / 1891
Mountains of delayed luggage pile up at Queen Street Station, Glasgow during the rail strike of 1891

Suffolk House London
Originally Northampton House, this ponderous pile near Charing Cross was erected early 17th century; the earl of Suffolk purchased it from the earl of Northampton

Audley End House
A summer cricket match in front of Audley End House, near Saffron Walden, Essex, England. Erected 1603 to 1616 on the site of the former Benedictine abbey of Walden

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