Roller Collection (page 6)

Cuckoo roller, Leptosomus discolor, and Sunda coucal, Centropus nigrorufus (vulnerable).. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science

European roller, Coracias garrulus, and broad-billed roller, Eurystomus glaucurus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croixs Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology

European roller, Coracias garrulus.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by George Graves from his own British Ornithology, Walworth, 1821

Aveling Porter Steam Roller, England. Showing men mending the road Date: 1900s

Council Crest Amusement Park, Portland, Oregon, USA, with various mountains visible. From left to right: Mount Rainier, Mount St Helens, Mount Adams, and Mount Hood

Roller Chairs, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
People in their Roller Chairs, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. The chairs were used to ferry tourists around the city. Date: circa 1920

Rolling Chair Parade, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. People who don t wish to walk are wheeled along a boardwalk. Youngs Million Dollar Pier can be seen in the distance. Date: circa 1910

Trade card, Keystone Wringer, Best in the World, manufactured by F F Adams & Co, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA

Lighter side of Life on an Armed Liner, WW1 by Arthur Watts
Sketches of scenes on board an armed liner during the First World War by the artist Arthur Watts who was in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Tango craze: a tango on roller skates, 1913
Mrs Philips Roberts and Mr S. H Easton embrace the latest dance craze by perform the notoriously complicated tango, but on rollers skates, at the Holland Park Hall Rink. Date: 1913

Out of Doors -- children looking at wrens nest
Out of Doors -- three children with their father take it in turns to look at a wrens nest in a hedge. Date: 19th century

Laundry at Girls Home
The laundry at a girls home, possibly a Magdalen home, location unknown. Nuns are supervising the work. Sheets are being ironed in a roller press. Date: Date unknown

Man in textile industry operating machine, Scotland
A man in the textile industry in Scotland, operating a machine with many rollers

Two women in a factory operating machinery. A barrel of green paint is part of the process. The Factoru produced (among other things) lead shrapnel for use in explosive artillery shells (WW1)

Advert for Gamages garden furniture 1926
A wide range of garden furniture including wicker and cane tables and chairs, couch hammock, folding cane lounges, bathing tents and gaden shelters. Date: 1926

The Great Monohan - Record-breaking Roller Skater
G.S. Monohan ( The Great Monohan ) showing off his skills on his roller skates - here jumping cleanly over three chairs. Date: circa 1909

Cricket Club, Singapore - with extended stands Date: 1922

Owner and Staff of a Rollerskating rink
A wheely great photographic postcard of the owner and principal staff of a Rollerskating Rink in Northern England. The floor is marked showing that the participants performed very neat circles around

Roller Tumbler, domestic pigeon
This pigeon is from the collection of domestic pigeons donated to the Natural History Museum by Charles Darwin in 1867. The bird probably came from Darwins own aviaries

Coracias garrulus, european roller
The European Roller, Coracias garrulus, is the only member of the roller family of birds to breed in Europe

Manufacturing metal sheets with electric lighting. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. Instituto Geol󧩣 o y Minero de Espa񡮠

Steam Roller Driver

LCC-LFB Lee Green hose laying lorry at Lambeth HQ
Lee Green fire stations hose laying lorry at Lambeth HQ. The side roller shutter doors are open, showing the stored hoses which can be easily layered out from the rear access door while the lorry is

LCC-LFB hose laying lorry
A hose laying lorry from Lee Green fire station, SE London, with its side roller shutters closed

Sunny side: the residence of the late Washington Irving near Tarrytown, N.Y. Date between 1856 and 1907

Ethiopia - A corner of Dire Daoua Date: 1905

Disc Rolling Plough
A disc-rolling ploughing scene in a farm in Suffolk, England. Date: 1960s

Dog & Bone on Skate
A butcher gives a dog a bone, only its on a roller skate. How does that work? Date: 1960s

Grand Centrifugal Railway
Advertising flyer for the Grand Centrifugal Railway, an Extraordinary Novelty, 200 feet long, with a Virtical (sic) Circle, upwards of 40 feet in circumference

Convicts working in garden, Millbank Prison
A warder supervises male convicts working in garden at Millbank Prison, London. They are pulling a large roller. A small dog is in attendance. Date: 1862

Roller (Hyde Park)
A massive Aveling & Porter roller astonishes the natives in Hyde Park, London Date: 1866

Gellerat steam road roller model 1881, constructed by Cherry Hill Date: 1881

Doe Lea Village, Mining
Village life in Doe Lea in the 1960 s, a mining village in Derbyshire, England. A young girl on roller skates on a street of Victorian terraced housing

Girls Naval Training Corps
A group of girls from the Girls Naval Training Corps (similar to that of the Sea Cadets for boys, and later to be joined) competing for the Blue Peter Cup in 1952; a 24 hour expedition using as many

Happy Days / W H Robinson
A series of happy folk, dancing, playing music, roller skating in their new world. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture

Kissing on a Steamroller
We are coming on a slow train ! A couple share a lingering kiss on their transport of choice - an enormous steamroller!

Winter sports on the Riviera by W. Heath Robinson
The terrible effect of our recent Winter Sports Number on an overworked artist. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Relaxing in the garden, reading, gardening
Two young women in similar white blouses and long dark dresses spend an afternoon relaxing in the garden. One sits on the lawn and reads, the other stands with a lawn mower. A lawn roller sits behind

Over the Garden Wall by H. M. Bateman
Humorous illustration by the artist H.M. Bateman showing neighbours in adjacent gardens simultaneously rolling their lawns

Children Costume 1937
Clothing styles available for little French boys and girls including coats, dresses and shorts

Ww1 Steam Roller
The French and English look on in despair as the Russian Steam-Roller runs out of steam and ceases to roll

Rosenkavalier 1st Night
Richard Strauss with Max Reinhardt (3rd from left, back), librettist Hoffman- sthal (behind the composer) and other VIPs, on the first night at Dresden, 26.1.1911

Roller (Robinson)
Steam roller in a suburban street

Roller-Skating / Margate
Young girl on roller-skating rink at Dreamland, Margate

Inking a Roller
A boy inking a roller

Walpole / Strawberry 1774
HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE FOURTH EARL OF OXFORD Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham: home of the English gothic novelist and man of letters

France Flattens Britain
France flattens her old ally. Britain was forced by external pressure in 1931 to abandon the Gold Standard

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