Skill Collection (page 2)

Late 19th century - young Japanese woman, hair down
Vintage 19th century studio portrait, Japan

1940s East Africa - street scene, Nairobi, Kenya Photograph by a British army recruitment officer stationed in East Africa and the Middle East during World War II

c. 1880s India - fakir or holyman, beggar
c. 1880s India - image from an album of Indian types and trades designed to illustrate India to a British viewer - fakir or holy man

Market place in Jaffa, Palestine, Israel Holy Land
19th century vintage photograph: Market place in Jaffa, Palestine, Israel Holy Land

Rodeo - Carl Olson on Rimrock - Pendleton Round-up
Rodeo Rider - Carl Olson (1914-1982) on Rimrock - Pendleton Round-up - 1948 - Oregon, USA. He was the World Champion Saddle Bronc Rider in 1947 with an astonishing $8

Men playing the royal game of croquet or pall mall, 1717
Men playing the royal game of croquet or pall mall, le jeu royal de la passe, designed for Louis XV in 1717. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)

Ghent (Gand), Belgium - Statue of / Monument to Lievin Bauwens (by sculptor Pieter De Vigne)
Ghent (Gand), Belgium - Statue of/Monument to Lievin Bauwens (by sculptor Pieter De Vigne) in the Lieven Bauwensplein Square

French engravers workshop, men working on wood blocks Date: 1897

The Engravers Workshop, Engraving and Printing on Copper Date: 1853

The engraver Felicien Rops in his Studio Date: circa 1888

The Military Tournament, cutting the lemon - soldier on horseback Date: 1893

Fine Country House
This photograph shows an elevation of a fine country house, highlighting the skill of craftsmen of the time, executing the flint walls and herring-boned brickwork. Date: circa 1929

Lace Making - first three processes
Lace Making - Winding and Threading, Bobbin Winding, Warping (1 of 2) Date: 19th century

Lace Making - last three processes
Lace Making - Making Lace, Dressing Lace, Winding and Embroidering (2 of 2) Date: 19th century

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Production and Combat
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Excellence in Production as well as excellence in combat Date: circa mid-1970s

Royal Tournament Rehearsal
Life Guards rehearsing a display of bare-back horse-jumping for the Royal Tournament, to be held at Olympia the following week. Date: 1932

Advert, The Burlington Engraving Co Ltd, London
Advert, engraver engraving a printing plate for the Burlington Engraving Co Ltd, Goswell Road, London EC1 Date: 1928

Mr Tryon the Tailor

Mr Pots the Painter

Mr Chips the Carpenter

White Flowers
Painting of an array of white flowers, by the Queen of Roumania who is keenly interested in all the arts. She writes poems and novels, and, as seen here, is an artist with skill and a personal touch

Blue Chaise Longe
Oil painting of a grand interior. The variations of light in a fine interior have attracted artists and tested their skill since the Interior genre was invented by the Dutch painters in

Minnie Thompson, Dallas cowgirl in New York
Minnie Thompson from Dallas, Texas, performs horse riding feats outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, New York. She had won many prizes as a trainer of unbroken horses. Date: 1910

Violin and stringed musical instrument maker's workshop - Johann Reiter, Mittenwald, Germany, creator of the octave violin. Instruments on display include violins, violas, cellos and lutes

Woodwork classroom for boys who continued their education at Acland County Council School, Kentish Town, London. Date: 1906

Royal Philanthropic Society at Redhill, Surrey was set up to help homeless boys that were begging or would have entered into crime, a skill that they could apply into adulthood. Date: 1872

Legal Wig Maker in the Temple, London Date: 1921

Huguenot Hand-loom Weaver, Alma Street, Bethnal Green, East London Date: 1921

c. 1880s Japan - two geishas, studio scene, shamisen and tea set
c.1880s Japan - two geishas, studio scene, shamisen and tea set

c. 1880s Japan - swimming, diving and boats, young Japanese men
c.1880s Japan - swimming, diving and boats, young Japanese men

c. 1880s Japan - putting up telegraph poles and wires along Kobe bund
c.1880s Japan - putting up telegraph poles and wires along Kobe bund

c. 1880s Japan - soldier with swords and armour
c.1880s Japan - soldier with swords and armour

c. 1880s Japan - geishas with a kettle and stove
c.1880s Japan - geishas with a kettle and stove

c. 1880s Japan - geishas, flowers and a shamisen
c.1880s Japan - geishas, flowers and a shamisen

c. 1880s Japan - carpenter with tools at work
c.1880s Japan - carpenter with tools at work

c. 1880s Japan - pipe maker

c. 1880s Japan - geisha with flowers in her hair
c.1880s Japan - geisha with flowers in her hair

c. 1880s Japan - two geishas with baskets and flowers
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c. 1880s Japan - barbers at work
c.1880s Japan - barbers at work

c. 1880s Japan - geishas with sewing clothes
c.1880s Japan - geishas with ornate hair, sewing clothes

c. 1880s Japan - newspaper delivery boy vendor
c.1880s Japan - newspaper delivery boy vendor

c. 1880s Japan - Japanese Kabuki actor
c.1880s Japan - Japanese Kabuki actor - this would appear to be Ichikawa Danjuro IX, one of the most famous actors of the Meiji period

Actor Charlie Chaplin on his return to the UK in 1931, see signing autographs

Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw Dominion Theatre 1931
Charlie Chaplin meets George Bernard Shaw at the Dominion Theatre for the UK premiere of City Lights, February 27th 1931

Noble Sissle and his band members in the UK
Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 - December 17, 1975) was an African-American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921)

Film actor Charlie Chaplin from the 1920s
Studio portrait of film actor Charlie Chaplin from the 1920s

c. 1890s Turkey Istanbul - ships on the Bosphorous
c.1890s Turkey Istanbul Constantinople photochrome - ships on the Bosphorous, view of the city

c. 1880s Japan - castle and army barracks Tokyo
c.1880s Japan - castle and army barracks Tokyo

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