Rise Collection (page 4)

Queens Building the Europa Terminal & central control tower
Queens Building, the Europa Terminal and central control tower rise up out of a sea of gravel at Heathrow Airport in the early 1950s. Just above the control tower can be seen the road tunnel

Spain (1909). Tragic Week of Barcelona. Le Petit
" Spain (1909). Tragic Week of Barcelona. " Le Petit Journal". FRANCE. Paris. National Library."

Colonel Redvers Buller
SIR REDVERS HENRY BULLER British military, when a Colonel, awarded the VC. He will rise to be one of Britains leading generals. Date: 1839 - 1908

LCC-LFB Hornsey Rise fire station, North London
Hornsey Rise fire station was only operational for 13 years. Located at 45-51 Calverley Road, North London, it was opened in 1907

LCC-LFB fire, 11 Richmond Avenue, Islington
Interior of a low rise sleeping area at Richmond Avenue, Islington, North London, with possible obstructed window opening and metal container by a wooden chair

The rise of the kitchen tyrant; - and how she may fall. Illustration shows the evolution of the domestic servant from country housewife to an employed domestic through seven scenes beginning with

Too far gone, John! - That balloon will never rise again. Illustration shows Joseph B. Foraker holding a hot air balloon fashioned from shirts stitched together

Strange adventures in The fall and rise of Humpty Dumpty. Date c1899

Business Notes Illustrated - Receiving an Unexpected Rise A Gentleman is accidently lifted aloft by a warehouse crane outside a warehouse. Date: circa 1909

Hotel Commonwealth, New York City, USA Date: circa 1910s

Silhouette, Early to Bed, Early to Rise
Early to Bed, Early to Rise -- silhouette showing a little boy standing in front of his bed, stretching and yawning

Twelve proverbial silhouettes given a literal depiction: the fat is in the fire, to have a finger in the pie, sending coals to Newcastle, one sows and another reaps

Iran - Teheran - Avenue Nasser Khosrow

Flooding in Lyon in 1910
Flooding in Lyon in January 1910 caused a great rise in the water level of the River Rhone. Here a baker and his boys in his traditional bateau boat

Johannesburg 1970S
The high rise buildings of modern Johannesburg, South Africa. Date: early 1970s

King George V Silver Jubilee celebrations, 1935
St Pauls Cathedral, Wrens masterpiece, chosen as the scene of the Silver Jubilee Service of Prayer and Thanksgiving on the 25th anniversary of the accession of King George V to the throne. Date: 1935

Student Fees Demo
An pensioner takes time out from her shopping trip to read the banners of the a group of female students, who are protesting against a rise in student tuition fees. Date: 1960s

Johannesburg - Modernist Architecture
Crossley Mansions, Johannesburg - built in the Modernist style for the Empire Exhibition of 1936

Saray Burnu, Constantinople at sunrise
The Saray Burnu, Palace Point, Constantinople at sunrise, with the silhouette of the Topkapi Palace and the Mosques of the city

Dictating a Letter
A secretary ensures her next pay rise by assuming an elevated position on the desk of her boss to take a letter. She rests her feet upon his legs

Jablochkoffs electric light apparatus
Diagrams showing Jablochkoffs candle lamp. Paul Jablochkoff (1847-1894) was a Russian telegraph engineer who would rise to the post of director of telegraphs between Moscow and Kursk

The new mechanical man
The first British robot, invented by Captain Richards and Mr. A. H. Reffell, whose first duty was to open a Model Engineering Exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Hall in London in 1928

The Old & New Conductor
The Old Conductor and The New Conductor as The Regular and The Opposition, A satire on the popular rise of younger preachers, casting these leaders as bus conductors

Knight of Golden Fleece
A knight of the Golden Fleece (Toison d Or) : this was originally a Burgundian order, but thanks to the rise of the Hapsburgs, it was adopted by the Austrian empire

Animal Rebellion - 2
The rebel animals rise the standard of revolt against the tyranny of the Lion

Egan / Rise of the Curtain
The premature rise of the curtain - a scene not contemplated by the author of the play

Noahs Ark Afloat
Noahs Ark on the face of the waters as the rain falls and the waters rise

Family in a cottage garden
Cottage or tenement? A family stand in an idyllic cottage garden

Mary Brown, words and music
Here we all stand around the ring, And now we shut poor Mary in. Rise up, rise up, poor Mary Brown, And see your poor mother go through the town

The Deluge Comes
The waters rise, the land is flooded, one by one the sinful people are drowned, until only Noah and his family are left alive, sole representatives of the human race

Midir & Etain in the Air
Midir and Etain rise up in the air

Lenticular Clouds
Seen under favourable conditions, lenticular clouds can look very solid, giving rise to misidentification as UFOs : these were photographed over Marseille, France

Uprising against French
The populace of Naples rise up against the French

Indian with Girl / Myth
Algon, a hunter, captures a Star-maiden & carries her off to his village; he is unaware of her lamentations as she sees her own people rise out of sight in the Osier basket

Heroes Rise from Ganges
The heroes slain in battle rise again from the river GANGES, proof if proof were needed of the magical power of the life-giving river, personified as goddess Ganga

Protective Fashions
The Prussians are shelling Paris, but the couturists rise to the occasion with this tasteful protective clothing, with matching outfit for dear Toutou

Yoritomo, First Shogun
The decline of the Imperial court during the Fujiwara era leads to the rise of the Minamoto clan, Yoritomo establishing himself as the first Shogun (generalissimo)

William Dean Howells - 2
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS American writer, author of The rise of Silas Lapham and many other novels, also verse and criticism : regarded as the dean of American letters

Archduke at Meeting
All the audience and orchestra rise to their feet when the Erzherzog (archduke) Johann von Ostreich makes his appearance in the Stadttheater at Frankfurt

Birmingham / 1830(Harvey)
A general view of Birmingham from the south. In the background chimney stacks show the rise in industry

Judgment (Blake)
The Day of Judgment - God presides, an angel sounds the last trump, the virtuous (on the left) rise to their eternal bliss, the wicked fall to endless misery

C16 Alchemists
An alchemist and his assistant heat the substances whose essence will collect in the flasks at the top of the apparatus, shedding impurities as they rise up the column

Palladino 1892 Milano
Eusapia causes a table to rise at Milano, 1892

Home Levitates
A demonstration of levitation by D D Home, who on several occasions was perceived to rise to the ceiling

Le Besniers Device
LE BESNIER, of Sable, France, could not rise from the ground, but launched from a height could cross a river with his flapping paddles

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