Running Collection (page 8)

Boy flying a kite on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Advertisement for Wood Milne rubber heels. Date: early 20th century

Turkey escaping the poulterer on a Christmas card -- He that fights and runs away may live to fight another day. Date: circa 1890s

Comic German postcard -- toilet malfunction
Comic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- a man ties his dogs to the outside of a ramshackle outdoor toilet, but the toilet collapses when the dogs decide to chase after a rabbit

Comic German postcard -- health spa toilets
Comic German postcard -- desperate men and women run towards the health spa toilets. Date: early 20th century

Comic German postcard -- health spa toilets all engaged
Comic German postcard by Franz Whonpfeng -- desperate, overweight men discover that all the toilets at the health spa are engaged. Date: 1909

Comic German postcard -- paying for access
Comic German postcard -- desperate, overweight men paying for access to the toilet at a health spa. Date: early 20th century

Cover design, Jacob & Co Biscuit Alphabet Book. circa 1930s

Mycenaean art. Greece. Funerary stele in stone. Relief depicting a lion chasing a deer. From the tomb V of Circle A at Mycenae. Dated in 16th century B.C. National Archaeological Museum. Athens

Suspected Brit Smuggler
A British yachtsman suspected of rum-running throws an American customs man off his ship. Date: 1922

The Waste of it! by John Hassall
Maid feeling exhausted after running up and down with jugs of water instead of using the tap! Date: 1906

Children in Jane Street, Weaste, Salford
Children running up Jane Street, in Weaste, Salford. In the background is a Union flag mural, painted for the Queens Silver Jubilee in 1977. Date: circa 1977

Derby Lane greyhound track, St Petersburg, Florida, USA
Night scene at the Derby Lane Kennel Club and greyhound track, St Petersburg, Florida, USA, with crowds of spectators. Claimed to be the worlds oldest greyhound track. Date: 1940s

Sketch of a hound in action. Date: 1936

Studio portrait, little boy crying
Studio portrait of a little boy crying, with tears running down his cheeks. Date: circa 1960s

Three Wheeled Morgan Vintage Car, Britain. Showing running repairs - Northampton registration. Date: 1920s

German soldiers fleeing from a firing tank, WW1
Frightened German soldiers fleeing from a firing tank during the First World War. Date: 1916

Bonzo saves a goal by George Studdy
Bonzo saves a goal -- he races onto a football pitch, receives a large, heavy ball in the stomach, and is dragged away practically unconscious

Lord Burghley winning the 400m hurdles at 1928 Olympics
The final of the 400 metres hurdles at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games, showing Lord Burghley silhouetted against the concrete banking of the stadium racing his way to a gold medal victory

Douglas Lowe winning 800m Olympic final in 1924
Douglas Gordon Arthur Lowe (7 August 1902 30 March 1981) was a British double Olympic Games champion, winning gold medals in 1924 and 1928

Olympic marathon runners, 1924 Paris Olympics
Competitors in the marathon during the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, with their heads protected from the sun. The race was won by Stenroos of Finland. Date: 1924

Three people sitting on running board of car
Three people, a man and two women, sitting on the running board of a rather smart car

Three people with a car
Three people, a man and two women, posing alongside a car with an a badge on the front

Roger Bannister
SIR ROGER GILBERT BANNISTER CBE, neurologist and athlete best known for being the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. Date: 1929 -

NFS firefighter under-running a fire hose, WW2
A London Region NFS firefighter in an instructional photograph demonstrating the correct method of under-running (which removes the water from inside the hose) prior to rolling the hose up after use

Russian troops running from German attack, WW1
Russian troops running from a suspected German cavalry attack, on the eastern front during the First World War. By 1917 the Russian army was becoming increasingly demoralised. Date: 1917

Swedish Beaver Scouts and Leader
A group of Swedish Beaver Scouts and leader playing a game together. circa 1980s

Eleanor Malby, wife of Reginald Malby, photographer
Eleanor Malby (1886-1956), wife of Reginald Malby, official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society, seen here as a young Edwardian woman with a baby

Family running across sand dunes
A family of four -- mother, father and two children -- running happily across the sand dunes on a beach in Cornwall

A Cheetah in full flight
A Cheetah running at full speed. Pen, ink and wash drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Enamel sign for Redex Petrol service
A tin/alloy sign for Redex Service, an engine supplement to be added to petrol, sump, gearbox or rear axle to improve the overall performance of a vehicle. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

Advertisement (enamel sign) for Veedol Lubricants
A fine tin/alloy cutout sign advertising Veedol oils and lubricants. *EDITORIAL USE ONLY*

The Flying Scotsman
Man who is running late for a train

YOICKS
Bonzo the dog crashing into toy animals after running too fast and not looking where he was going. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948) was the creator of Bonzo

Colonel Archie Christie, c. 1926
Photographic portrait of Colonel Archie Christie, first husband of Agatha Christie, pictured in his flying gear, c.1926. The Christies divorced in 1928

RMS Tartar, 1883
Engraving showing the Union Steam-ship Companys Royal Mail Steamer Tartar and, inset, the Dining Saloon on board the ship

Aryan Types / Running
The Aryan race : " nobility of blood, incomparable beauty of form and mind, and a superior breed". Men and women running along the beach demonstrate strength and beauty

Sports Day Sprint 1950S
Four very determined-looking boys take part in a sprint relay race at a school sports day

Zulu & Cleft Stick
A Zulu courier running, carrying a message in a cleft stick

Rail Strike / Crowded Tram
RAIL STRIKE An overcrowded tram on the Thames Embankment, packed with Londoners struggling to get home on a day with no trains or tubes running

Shooting buffalo from a train in Kansas
Shooting buffalo from a train, on the Kansas Pacific Railway

Telegraph lines crossing the Great Plains of America
Telegraph lines running alongside a railway track at a remote station on the Great Plains of America

Rabbits playing football on an Easter postcard, with a chick as goalkeeper. Date: circa 1900s

Como - Electric Tram Station and Swiss / Italian Border post
Como, Italy - The electric Tram Station (the line running between Como and Cernobbio), Cafe Restaurant Nazionale and the Swiss/Italian Border post at Ponte Chiasso. Date: circa 1910s

French Railway Alphabet - O for Omnibus (omnibus, bus). 19th century

Poster, The Passing Show Banishes the Blues. It was a weekly paper of humour and short fiction, published by Odhams Press, London. circa 1930

Two African-American boys run through a wood Date: circa 1880s

Woman running on a beach, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

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