Reading Collection (page 20)

The Student by H. M. Bateman
A particularly studious student, so engrossed in the book he is reading, accidentally strides off the edge of a cliff. Date: 1925

Girl with a book
Seated woman reading a book. (Book cover illustration) Date: circa 1908

Huntley & Palmers Girls leaving work - Reading, Berkshire Date: 1906

Waifs and Strays Society Caversham Home - Boys Packing for C
Boys at the Waifs and Strays Society Home at Caversham, near Reading - boys about to emigrate to Canada are packing their belongings. Date: 1911

Josiah Mason Orphanage, Birmingham - Recreation Room
Josiah Mason Orphanage, Birmingham - girls in the recreation room are engaged in various activities including reading, writing, playing table tennis and other games. Date: circa 1930s

A musician takes a break to read Tit-Bits
A musician takes a break from his violin practise to read Tit-Bits - perhaps the bird in the cage is breathing a sigh of relief.... Date: 1904

Girl and dog in a basket on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Fletts Happy Families - Master Mixed Pickle - A Strong Lad. circa 1930s

Bible read to David - Lady reading to David. Part of Box 79 Boswell Collection. Trap to Catch a Sunbeam. Date: circa 1900

Boy and girl reading on a chair-shaped greetings card
Boy and girl in their nightclothes, reading a book on a chair-shaped greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

German sailors on the SMS Thetis - Crossing the line
German sailors on the SMS Thetis (the fourth member of the ten-ship Gazelle class, built by the Imperial German Navy) - the crossing-the-line ceremony during the crossing of the equator

Poster, Italy. 1955

Two girls with book on a Victorian scrap
Two girls looking at a book on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Pigs sitting on a school bench on a Victorian scrap
Eight pigs sitting on a school bench on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Frogs sitting on a bench on a postcard, smoking, reading, or just thinking. Date: circa 1890s

Mr and Mrs Claud Allister reading The Tatler
Claud Allister and his wife (Barbara Fisher) pictured reading The Tatler magazine. Date: 1931

Bulletin boards, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA
Men reading bulletin boards, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: 1936

Woman in a library
In the Library. Art Nouveau style woman in outdoor garments reading a book. Date: 1902

London Life - A Pavement News Vendor, with a very wide variety of publications for sale. Date: circa 1910s

Underwater house, Plymouth
A female physicist multitasking (reading a magazine whilst knitting) in Sealab II, Britains first permanent underwater laboratory, 30 feet below the waves off the coast of Plymouth, Devon

Bulletins, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA
Man reading a bulletin of the latest news, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: 1936

The Blue Train to the Riviera - carriage interior
A quiet moment with a magazine in a single-berth sleeping compartment on the famous Blue Train down to the French Riviera. 1923

Bystander Riviera Number 1913
Masthead design for jacket front cover of The Bystander magazine in 1913 with its special Riviera supplement. The Bystander regularly brought out issues dedicated to news

Advert for Mappin & Webb wedding gifts 1935
Suggestions for wedding gifts for Mappin & Webb, Regant Street, London. 1935

Old man reading, Paris
Old man reading a large book (or has he fallen asleep?), Paris. Date: 1954

Gyp - prolific French writer
Sibylle Gabrielle Marie Antoinette de Riqueti (1850-1932) comtesse de Martel de Janville, aka Gyp prolific French writer Date: circa 1910s

Myanmar - Burmese Fortunetellers. Date: circa 1909

Henry VIII demands one hundred pounds from the Abbot
King Henry VIII pictured with the Abbott of Reading Abbey who had been imprisoned in the Tower of London. Upon hunting in Windsor Forest Henry had disguised himself as a Royal Guard as a means to

Misfitz - Dicky. early 20th century

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - library book. circa 1910s

Happy Families Animals - Mr Lion. circa 1940s

Happy Families Animals - Mr Hippo. circa 1940s

Christ reading Abgars letter. Moscow, early 17th century. National Gallery. Prague. Czech Republic

Family reading tales of Charles Perrault. Engraving by Pannemaker. 19th century

Bourgeoisie. Couple. Engraving. Colored
Bourgeoisie. Couple. Early 19th century. Engraving. Colored

Old man reading the newspaper. Engraving. 19th century. Spain

Averroes (1126-1198). Andalusian Muslim polymath. Portrait
Averroes (1126-1198). Ibn Rushd. Medieval Andalusian Muslim polymath. Portrait. Averroes in his studio. Engraving at Colliget Venetis (1530). Colored

Girls school. Engraving, 19th century. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana. Colored

Netherlands. Utrecht. St. Martins Cathedral. Cloister fount
Netherlands. Utrecht. St. Martins Cathedral. Middle Ages. French Gothic. Protestant church since 1580. Cloister fountain. Statue with a bronze figure of a monk writing (1913). Detail

Triptych by Paolo Schiavo (1397-1478)
Paolo Schiavo (1397-1478). Florentine painter. Triptych. Detail of the Annunciation. Gemaldegalerie. Berlin. Germany

The Vision of Saint Francis, ca. 1620, by Carlo Saraceni (15
Carlo Saraceni (1580-1620). Italian painter. The Vision of Saint Francis, ca. 1620. Alte Pinakothek. Munich. Germany

Saint Andrew, 1635-1640, by Zurbaran
Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664). Spanish painter. Saint Andrew, 1635-1640. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest, Hungary

Jewish community. Germany. Middle Ages. Makre Dardeki. Jewis
Jewish community. Germany. Middle Ages. Makre Dardeki. Reading book for German children, 1481. Jewish Museum Berlin. Germany

Third Council of Toledo, (589) chaired by Reccared I (d. 601
Third Council of Toledo (589), chaired by Reccared I (d. 601), Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia (586-601). Nineteenth-century colored engraving. Spain

Spain. 13th century. Monastery of Our Lady of Rueda. Stairs
Gothic Art. Spain. 13th century. Monastery of Our Lady of Rueda. Cistercian Order. Stairs leading to the pulpit of the refectory. Sastago. Aragon

Monastery of Our Lady of Rueda. Refectory. Sastago. Spain
Gothic Art. Spain. 13th century. Monastery of Our Lady of Rueda. Cistercian Order. Refectory with the pulpit to read. Sastago. Aragon

Diderot, Denis (1713-1784). French writer and philosopher. The tertulia of Diderot. Colored engraving of The Artistic Illustration, 1888

Plimoth Plantation or Historical Museum. Colonist. Plymouth
Plimoth Plantation or Historical Museum. Is a living museum in that shows the original settlement of the Plymouth Colony established in the 17th century by English colonists

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