Rival Collection (page 3)

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Rough and Tumble -- Tumble pulls Aunt Janes best hat out of its box, watched by Rough from under the bed. Date: circa 1910

Cartoon, Political Mathematicians, Shaking the Broad bottomd Hemispheres, by James Gillray. To that last Hope of the Country, the New Opposition

Rival banksia or Wallum banksia Banksia aemula (Banksia serrata).. llustration by Miss C. Curtis (Samuels daughter), engraved by Weddell

Middle East warfare by G. H. Davis
Middle East warfare during the Second World War: rival fighters, bombers and flying boats. A comparison of rival military aircraft in the Middle East

Advertisement for Dunlop tyres, WW1
A patriotic advertisement for Dunlop tyres in the early stages of the First World War. Dunlops are British-made -- avoid continental tyres made by the enemy! Date: September 1914

Italy v. Turkey, rival navies compared, by G. H. Davis
Italy versus Turkey, the rival navies compared. Showing the Italian navy (top), whose chief fighting strength was four powerful armoured cruisers, and the Turkish navy (bottom)

Lufthansa airlines in Latin America by G. H. Davis
German threat to America and Panama: Lufthansa airlines in Latin America. A map showing how German-controlled airlines, capable of a converging war movement against the Panama Canal

Islington Spa
Set to rival the waters at Tunbridge Wells - the Spa at Islington. Date: 1733

John Guthrie, Bookseller
JOHN GUTHRIE Edinburgh bookseller (on the right) encounters rival bookseller William Coke. Date: CIRCA 1810

Smug Cockney woman who has nabbed her rivals Gent
Jilted! A smug Cockney woman who has nabbed her rivals Gent, throws her a very satisfied glance! Date: circa 1890s

Grays Telephone System
A demonstration of the telephone system of Elisha Gray in New York. Gray filed a patent for the telephone on the same day as Bell, but his initial delay proved costly! Date: 1878

Hector Berlioz / Wagner
HECTOR BERLIOZ The French composer and his German rival compete to see who can put the other to sleep... Date: 1803 - 1869

China / Rival Warlords
Anarchy as rival warlords dispute territory. Date: 1924

The rival pulpiteers. Illustration shows the Democratic Donkey as a woman sitting in a pew in a church with William Jennings Bryan preaching Jeffersonian Simplicity from a pulpit

The rival gardeners

The rival Sunday shows in Brooklyn. Cartoon showing Thomas DeWitt Talmage on one side, trying to get people to come into Museum of Monstrosities, and Rev

The rival sandwich-men. Illustration shows David B. Hill placing a cap labeled Gen l Jones on an old mans head and handing him a sword labeled Baltimore Blade; the old man is wearing a sandwich board

The rival salvationists. Illustration shows an annoyed Uncle Sam sitting against a full moon with his hands over his ears, caught between the noise of the GOP. Salvation Army with William H

Butchers boy and bakers boy
A butchers boy and a bakers boy having a chat. first published 1879

Admiral Fisher and Admiral Beresford, British Navy
Admiral Fisher (left) and Admiral Beresford (right), of the British Navy. There was a lengthy dispute between them, as Fisher wished to reform

British Ballad, Lord Ullins Daughter
LORD ULLINs DAUGHTER. Popular British ballad of Scottish origin by Thomas Campbell telling of a young chieftain bearing away the daughter of a rival house

Mrs Kitty Godfree, English tennis player
A depiction of Mrs Kitty Godfree (nee McKane), English tennis player, by a rival player, the American Helen Wills. Both of them were appearing at Wimbledon. Godfree has just finished a backhand drive

Phillida Flouts me
Three rival young suitors, all dressed in Elizabethan clothes and carrying mistletoe watch their young fancy, also dressed in Elizabethan costume

Shooting Match between Rival Trenches 1914
An Anglo-German Bisley at the front. A Shooting test between British soldiers in their trench and German troops in the trench opposite

Fulbourn Churches
The churches of Fulbourn - Saint Vigors (the parish church) and Fulbourn All Saints, (seemingly a rival establishment) Cambridgeshire

Francois and Carl V
Forced to make peace, rival monarchs emperor Carl V and Francois I put on a show of friendship : Francois takes Carl to visit the royal tombs at Saint-Denis

Papal Messengers
Messengers from pope Della Luna (there were several rival popes at this time) are pilloried by the people of Flanders

Hugues Capet and Rival
Adalbert, qui t a fait comte? Hugues, qui t a fait roi ? - the famous exchange between Hugues Capet, elected king of France, and the defiant A. de Perigord

The King of Greece
Photograph of H. M. Constantine I, King of Greece. Brother-in-law to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, he insisted on Greek neutrality during World War I

A Rival to the Gotterdammerung dinner: Dining in Berlin s
Two ladies and a gentleman sat around a dinner table at the Ice Palace in Berlin. The venue, complete with ice rink was built at a cost of 100, 000 and became a fashionable dining venue

Crystal Palace Fountains
No palace is complete without fountains, and visitors to the Crystal Palace are delighted with a sight to rival Versailles

The Rival Pigs

Interior Tea Room on the Titanic
Photograph of one of the interior tea rooms onboard the Titanic. Built by the shipyard Harland and Wolff for White Star Lines, the liner was almost identical to her sister ship

Two Stagecoaches Race
THE OPPOSITION COACHES Two rival stage coaches speed along a country lane in what appears to be a race against each other

Narvaez Resigns
Narvaez, rival of Espartero, is a reforming liberal; but in 1851 he has to resign, and leaves Madrid

Anti-Pope Joannes XVI
ANTI-POPE JOANNES XVI humiliated by his rival, pope Gregorius V, who was not strong on Christian forgiveness

MOPSUS, Greek soothsayer of Apollo who defeated his rival Calchas in a trial of skill, later became king of Mallus in Cilicia, and died fighting Amphilocus

Salle, Dancer
MADEMOISELLE SALLE dancer at the Paris Opera, rival of Camargo, who had great sucess in London in the 1740s. (from a picture by Lancret.) Date: flourished 1720s-1740s

Wagner / Kladderadatsch
RICHARD WAGNER Reconciled with rival German composer Brahms, in heaven Date: 1813 - 1883

Adrienne Lecouvreur / Oval
ADRIENNE LECOUVREUR talented actress of the Comedie Francaise, who died in mysterious circumstances, perhaps poisoned by a rival

Hezekiah and the Idols
Hezekiah, king of Judah, wins favour in Gods sight by destroying the idols of rival faiths

Prince Arthur Murdered
The sixteen year old Prince Arthur is murdered by his uncle and rival for power King John at Rouen Castle

David Plays the Harp
Young David plays the harp to entertain king Saul, but later he will be perceived as a rival for the throne and the two will become enemies

John Bull has a Rival
John Bull makes a pass at Japan, but finds that he has a Russian rival who is interested in Port Arthur which has just been ceded to Japan by China

1868 / RIVAL STARS / PUNCH
Rival Stars Disraeli and Gladstone compared to rival actors. Disraeli, as Hamlet, is in work while Gladstone awaits his turn

Two American Flags
THE AMERICAN POLKA The rival flags are featured on the cover of this topical musical piece

Capture of Robert / 1106
Duke Robert Curthose is captured by Baudri after attempting to break the siege at Tinchebrai, started by the rival claimant to Normandy, his brother Henry

CASQUE D OR PAINTED
real name : Amelie Elie Noted Parisienne gigolette, gangsters moll who achieved fame after a fight between rival admirers : here she is being painted by Albert Depre

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