Pointing Collection (page 9)

Cuba Independence War (1898). Gun pointing to Santiago de Cuba. Engraving

Galileo points to the heavens

Denmark
Thomas Cook Brochure Cover - Denmark. 1938

Pig entering a restaurant

Boy with Genie (?)

Family group - Smith, his wife and six children pointing at examples of their work. Date between 1809 and 1849

Pointing a bevy. Date c1866

Phil Sheridans New City Sports Company woman in lowcut dress pointing at man holding chair and cane. Date 1899?

Choosing Christmas dinner, Manchester
A woman choosing her Christmas dinner goose at one of many stands at the Central Market in Manchester. It was customary in many of the markets of the North of England for geese

Street music: French psalm singer
A French psalm singer performs in the street, pointing to a visual aid as he sings. Passers by stop to listen, including a woman supporting a tray of pears. Date: 18th century

Sea Scouts receiving sailing instruction from Eric Evans, Master of RSS Discovery. circa 1950

Italian Patriotic postcard - WWI - Irredentist Movement
In Gorizia we are! To Trento and Trieste, we re going.. Italian patriotic postcard from World War One urging Italy to rise up and reclaim Trieste and Trento (having already captured Gorizia)

Sea Scouts receiving training on sailing rigs
Sea Scouts receiving training on different styles of sailing rig. circa 1950

Poster: You can help to build me a ship
Poster: a British sailor says You can help to build me a ship. You can learn quickly and you will be working to win. Ask at any Employment Exchange for advice and full details

Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury
Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth (1887-1972), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961. Presided over the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

Metropolitan Police officer and child
A Metropolitan Police officer helping a little boy who is temporarily lost. (2 of 3) Date: 1970s

Starter caught at the Tote
The Starter who was Caught at the Tote by Patrick Bellew. The massed ranks of punters, jockeys, policeman and even a horse react with undiluted horror at the sight of the race starter placing a bet

Poster requesting Rags for salvage
Poster: request for Rags for salvage. Rags are needed to make engine wipers, blankets, uniforms, overcoats, gun wadding, charts, roofing felt, maps, etc

Police officer giving directions
A friendly police officer directs two of his colleagues in the right direction as they travel along in their open-top car

New Zealand Prime Minister - Rt. Hon. R J Seddon
New Zealand Prime Minister - Rt. Hon. Richard John Seddon P.C. (1845 - 1906) - a memorial card published on his death. Sometimes known as King Dick

Advertisement for Swan Pen
An advertisement for the Swan fountain pen, as recommended by a rather serious-looking young man: " We are bosom friends my Swan pen and I". Date: 1913

Kazakhstan - Cossack standing on horseback Date: circa 1906

Italian Patriotic Card - Do your Duty, do your best! - extolling the national virtue of contributing to a bank savings scheme to aid the underwriting of the Italian war effort. Date: circa 1910s

Man Pointing a Gun
A male model points a gun at the camera. Date: 1960s

Heswall Windmill
The remains of the old windmill at Heswall, Wirral, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Callow Hill Trackway
A Prehistoric trackway on Callow Hill, near Winscombe, Somerset, England, pointing to Wavering Down, across the valley. Date: BC

General Sir Arthur Currie directing a practice attack
General Sir Arthur William Currie (1875-1933), Canadian general, directing a practice attack near the Canadian Front, Topart Mill, during the First World War. Date: June 1917

Belgian civilians on a quayside, WW1
Belgian civilians on a quayside during the First World War. Some of them are looking upwards, and a soldier at the centre is pointing a rifle. Date: 1914-1918

Russian children learning the alphabet
Three Russian boys learning the alphabet Date: circa 1910s

Gracie Fields and her dog Ming
The English singer and actress, Gracie Fields (1898-1979), with her dog Ming, sitting at the top of a slide. Date: 1938

Contents page design, A Day in a Childs Life. Showing two little girls, the taller one pointing to the list of contents with a rolled red parasol. first published 1881

Susan tries to help Dunderpate put his best leg foremost, saying it will get easier with practice. Date: 1938

French poster, V for Victory
A French wartime poster or cartoon illustrating V for Victory, showing a soldier holding his hands up on a map of Greece, with a bayoneted rifle pointing at him. Date: 20th century

Poster, Keep Broken Glass off the Roads, it ruins tyres. circa 1940s

Clarissima Plane by Balthasar Prasberg
The title page of Clarissima Plane by Balthasar Prasberg. Date: 1504

The Ice Maiden, a story by Hans Christian Andersen. 20th century

Woman and Liverpool derelict house
A woman points at a terraced house with boarded-up windows in Liverpool, possibly one of the buildings destined to be demolished in the slum clearances of the 1950s and 1960s. 1960

Cubs learning about the Royal Navy
A young Naval Officer explains aspects of a Royal Navy ship to a group of Cub Scouts in Aden, Yemen. They lean over a piece of equipment and the officer points at one of the boys. circa 1968

Painting by William Rothenstein, The Watch on the Rhine
A painting by William Rothenstein, entitled The Watch on the Rhine, first exhibited in Canada in 1920. The painting is a comment on the defeat of Germany and the triumph of the Allies

Cyrus commanding the boys to seize the rebel
" Cyrus commanded the boys to seize the rebel" -- an illustration to the childrens story, Harry and Herodotus, or Tales of an Old Traveller

Bohm-Ermolli command post, Czernowitz (Chernivtsi)
Soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian Army at the command post of army commander General Eduard von Bohm-Ermolli (1856-1941) (seen here behind the table, wearing the darker cap)

Poster, Drury Lane Pantomime, The Babes in the Wood, by J Hickory Wood and Arthur Collins. early 20th century

Elizabeth & Charles
ELIZABETH II with Prince Charles and others at the Royal Windsor Horse Show Date: 1974

Young girl pointing
victorian child points Date: 1885

Ordering from Trolley
A man orders his food by choosing from a trolley in a hotel restaurant. Date: 1950s

Toussaint-L / After Kay
FRANCOIS-DOMINIQUE TOUSSAINT Haitian general and liberator Date: ?1743 - 1803

Toussaint-L / John Kay
FRANCOIS-DOMINIQUE TOUSSAINT Haitian general and liberator Date: ?1743 - 1803

Shakespeares 1st Folio
A professor and two graduate students look at Shakespeares first folio in the library of Durham University. Date: 1950s

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