Skills Collection (page 9)

Mettray / General View
Birds eye view of the Agricultural Colony at Mettray, France, where street children are taught farming and occupational skills

Learning Riding Skills
Cadets at the French military academy of Saint-Cyr learn the finer points of riding

Repairing Flags
Flags deteriorate either from the weather or by hostile gunfire: French sailors with the necessary skills make repairs to their flags

Street Fighting
Street fighting calls for different skills than pitched battles in open country : French infantry advance cautiously through the streets of a town

Two women potting plants
Two women learning the skill of potting plants

Leather work and tannery
Various stages of leather work and tannery

Various tools used in cartwrights trade
Various tools used in the cartwrights trade, including a mallet, a hatchet, a file, a plane and a set square

Workshop of a cartwright
A cartwrights workshop, with the finished product being assembled outside in the street

Barnardo Girls Ironing
Barnardo girls learning domestic skills at Dr Barnardos Girls Village Home, Barkingside (on the outskirts of London)

Laying a Fire 1893
Laying & lighting a fire is one of the domestic skills taught to board school girls

Ewell Millstone
Chipping out the cutting edges (dressing) a millstone at the old flour mill at Ewell, Surrey

Womens Work Team China
China : women on a communal farm form a Mutual Aid Team, the better to use their individual strengths and skills for the public good

Zimbabwe / Great Zimbabwe
The massive conical tower in the amazing Iron Age site of Great Zimbabwe, the greatest expression of the building skills and trading wealth of the Shona empire

The War-Skills Contest
A war-skills contest is arranged for the Kauravas and Pandavas : the rivalries displayed by the princes will subsequently lead to war

Scheharadze and Sultan
Scheherazade (variously spelt) entertains the Sultan with her native Skills

Obstacle Course 1930
A driver tests her skills on an obstacle course, with a little help from her co- driver

Monkeys Agility
The monkeys acrobatic skills entertain the crowd

Pascal as a Schoolboy
BLAISE PASCAL As a boy, he impresses not only his fellow-pupils but even his teacher with his mathematical skills

Lily Damita, French dancer and film star of silent films and early talkies more famous for brawling with husband Errol Flyn (married 1935 - 1942) than her acting skills

Satire on Puritan Milit
A satirical view of a Puritan and his military skills.s W Waller looses two armys yet getts by ye bargaine

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