Pointing Collection (page 3)

Light and Variable 1931
Humorous illustration showing a young woman perched on top of a weather vane, her short skirt revealing a lace garter from her breezy vantage point. Date: 1931

Linda Darnell, American film actress, on set during filming
Linda Darnell (Monetta Eloyse Darnell, 1923-1965), American film actress. Seen here on set during filming. 20th century

Scene at British Needle Mills, Redditch, Worcestershire
Scene at the British Needle Mills, Redditch, Worcestershire -- needle pointer at work. Date: 1843

Poster, You can help to build me a plane, WW2. You can learn quickly and you will be working to win. Ask at any employment exchange for advice and full details. A job is waiting for you. 1940s

Scotsman with map of Scotland, pinpointing Pitlochry, Perthshire. Date: circa 1910s

Fortune Teller and two Ballet Dancers. circa 1900

Washington Monument, New York City, USA. 1857

Armillary sphere with zodiac. Date: 1719

America - General Rogers Clark Crosses The Wabash
General George Rogers Clark And His Soldiers Crossing The Wabash During The American War Of Independence Date: 1778

Patriotic poster, Buy British and protect your job
Patriotic poster, Buy British campaign -- John Bull says: Buy British and protect your job! Part of a government campaign to tackle a balance of payments crisis

U. S. Navy Recruitment Office, New York
The recruitment office for the US navy in New York. Four men sign papers at a table, with a naval officer standing over them pointing. To the right is a line of men waiting to sign up

Santa Anna and his aide-de-camp Arista
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna and two men sit on horseback. Santa Anna is in profile staring off to where his aide-de-camp Arista is pointing. Date: 1843

Drakes men at Santiago
Thomas Moon, captain of the Francis, part of Francis Drakes fleet, stands on the deck of the ship with his sword, pointing at two men on the floor as others look on. Date: 1585

Balboa sights the Pacific
Vasco Nunez de Balboa stands with his men, looking off into the distance where a native Aztec man is pointing, presumably towards the Pacific ocean. Date: 1513

Balboa discovers the Pacific
Vasco Nunez de Balboa stands in the water holding a flag, pointing his sword up, claiming the land and ocean in the name of the King and Queen of Castile. Date: 1513

Columbus outlines journey to the Scientific Commission
Christopher Columbus outlines journey plans to the Scientific Commission at Salamanca. Columbus explains his project of discovery, pointing at a globe. Date: 1492

Poster, take care! Official Secrets Acts
Poster, take care! you must not lose documents or drawings, see the notice, Official Secrets Acts, it concerns you. circa 1950

Music cover, The Lily of Laguna sung by Eugene Stratton
Music cover, The Lily of Laguna, written and composed by Leslie Stuart, sung by Eugene Stratton. 1898

Santa Claus with sack and suitcase on a Christmas postcard
Santa Claus with sack and suitcase, walking through the snow on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Some Clerical Types by John Kendal, Rectitude. 1901

Burning of the Floating Batteries before Gibraltar - Siege of Gibraltar, 1782. 1782

Lookout -- design for Zambrene Trench Coats, WW1
Lookout -- design for Zambrene Trench Coats, by Frank Brangwyn, First World War. The London-based Zambrene were makers of officers trench coats. 1914-1918

The Barrister - " And peers through all things with his half-shut eyes." Date: 1840

King Cnut commands the tide to retreat (unsuccessfully)
Cnut the Great (circa 985 or 9951035), (or Canute), King of Denmark, England, Norway, and parts of Sweden. Henry of Huntingdon, the 12th-century chronicler

United States Air Force - Lockheed F-4 Lightning 41-2145
United States Air Force - Lockheed F-4-1-LO Lightning 41-2145 Foto Jo, call-sign A45, of the 9th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron / 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Group at Barrackpur, India

Head and shoulders portrait of a smartly dressed man with a bushy moustache pointing. Date: late 1960s

Santa over Town Date: 1950

Four Rest Homes Behind the Front Date: 1915

The Money Lenders Date: 1600

Entrance to the Enchanted Island - Chicago Worlds Fair
Entrance to Enchanted Island - Chicago Worlds Fair A Century of Progress - Chicago, Illinois. Date: 1933

FIELD HOSPITAL
A British Red Cross encampment (field hospital) on the Western Front, showing baskets of medical supplies, soldiers carrying a stretcher and an officer giving direction. Date: 1918

CHAUCER ON HORSE
Chaucer depicted as the narrator of the Tales Date: First published: circa 1387

CLAUDE PERRAULT / LANGLOIS
CLAUDE PERRAULT Physician and architect, a founder of the Academie des Sciences (1666) Date: 1613 - 1688

THEATRE / EXOTIC / CHINESE
A Chinese actor makes his entrance. Date: 1885

EGYPT / BAS RELIEF / CHEPREN
An ancient Egyptian bas- relief, cut into the rock, near the Pyramid of Chephren. The bas-relief is on the same rock face and same line as the entrance to Santons cave

POINTING FINGERS 1933
Villagers suspect a girl of sin : Cast off by the husband she loved, Margaret stumbled past the prying eyes of the neighbours : they, too, believed the wicked lies Date: 1933

GALILEO / JUPITER-MEDICI
Galileo shows the satellites of Jupiter to Cosimo de Medici

Tourists - Rhine - Kronheim
Tourists admire the Rhine. Sitting on a rock they look along the valley at the Rolandseck, the Drachenfels and the Island of Nonnenwerth. Date: 1864

Fantasy Animals - Neptune
Hippocampi, beasts who were half horse, half fish, draw Neptunes chariot across the sea. Date: circa 1860

BUROUGHS / WARLORD OF MARS
Jacket illustration. Date: First published: 1920

Fishermen, Algarve, Portugal
A group of shore fishermen chat beside the wind-whipped Atlantic waves of the Algarve coast, Portugal. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989

Comment on Womens Fashion for wearing trousers / culottes
German Comment on Womens Fashion for wearing trouser suits / culottes - " You are in here if you are wearing trousers

USA - Montana Cowboys have a little disagreement over cards. The Actors are playing it straight with Poker faces, although the cowboy on the draw is looking a little bit flush-ed

A Damsel in Distress by Ian Hay and P. G. Wodehouse
A Damsel in Distress by Ian Hay (17 April 1876 22 September 1952) and P.G. Wodehouse (15 October 1881 14 February 1975), based on Wodehouses novel written in 1919

German propaganda poster, War Bonds, WW1
German propaganda poster, encouraging people to buy war bonds to support the war effort and sink enemy ships. 1914-1918

The Disrobing of Christ (El Expolio) by El Greco
El Greco (1541-1614). Cretan painter. The Disrobing of Christ (El Expolio), 1580-1600. Detail. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Raymond IV of Toulouse (1041 or 1042 -1105), also known as Raymond of Saint-Gilles, Count of Toulouse, Duke of Narbonne, Margrave of Provence and one of the leaders of the First Crusade

Little girl teaching elephants in a field
A little girl standing in front of a blackboard on an easel, apparently teaching elephants maths. They are in a field with a circus van and tent. Date: circa 1960s

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