Slightly Collection

Babe Ruth, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat. Date c1920

My First Sermon by John Everett Millais
A little girl, wearing a red cape and fur muff, sits primly alert on a church pew listening to her first sermon. See Millaiss companion picture

First Presbyterian Church, Bangor - view taken from high building across Main street looking slightly down to the front of the church. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Bangor)

BATTLE OF PRESTOPANS
A plan of the Battle of Prestonpans, part of the Jacobite Rebellion, between 2300 Royal troops under Sir John Cope and a slightly superior force of Jacobites. Date: 21 September 1745

Commodore Matthew C. Perry, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing slightly left with left hand resting on sword. Date between 1854 and 1858

Man standing on bridge in light and shade
A slightly surreal picture of a man standing alone on a bridge with shadows playing on his back and on the ground. Date: circa 1950s

Slightly Tipsy Rakish Cad attempting to play billiards, but likely to only succeeding in spoiling the baize. Date: circa 1908

Smart and Handsome British Gentleman in straw boater hat, starched collar, white tie and suit. He is boasting a well-groomed moustache and a slightly serious expression

Beauty Contest Participant and Proud Parents
A Bathing Beauty Contest Participant and her Proud (if slightly shy) Parents! Date: circa 1949

HMS Argus 149
Royal Navy - HMS Argus 149, an aircraft carrier, seen in March 1939. Argus served from 1918 to 1944. After commissioning, the ship was involved for several years in the development of the optimum

Modernist House At Wimbledon
A photograph of a modernist house located at Wimbledon, designed in 1935 by architects Rose Elisabeth Benjamin and Eugen Carl Kaufmann

Gothic Coped Tomb Designs
A lithographic plate produced by Day and Sons, showing eight similar designs for gothic coped tombs, each bearing a cross in slightly different ways. Date: circa 1855

Gothic Surface Designs
A lithographic plate produced by Day and Sons, showing four slightly different designs used for relieving the surface of stone work, in gothic style. Date: circa 1855

With Your Talent You Should Be A Millionaire
A sketch which shows a large gentleman speaking with a man whose head is slightly bowed, a lady stands behind looking towards a desk. Date: circa 1901

Lady and Cupid
This sketch depicts a scene in which a smiling young lady is bowing slightly to look down at Cupid who has arrived at her door step, apparently not for the first time

Smiling Woman
A clay model sculpture which portrays a slender, smiling woman, standing with her hand resting on her hip, her neck is craning slightly forward, giving her head a slanting tilt. Date: circa 1922

A Polish Lady
A portrait oil painting of a young Polish lady wearing a patterned dress, sat upright, with her neck slightly twisted in an elegant pose. Date: circa 1920

Head of a Woman
A portrait painting showing the head of a woman, with slightly downcast eyes, indicating a note of sadness. Date: circa 1915

Queen Of The Fairies
This sculpture shows a ballerina girl standing in an artistic pose, where her torso is bent slightly, with palms facing upwards, almost in a gesture of self protection. Date: circa 1915

RMS Titanic - cigar case recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett
RMS Titanic - from inventory of items recovered from bodies by cable ship Mackay-Bennett - a silver cigar case of rectangular outline with rounded corners

RMS Titanic - signet ring recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett
RMS Titanic - from inventory of items recovered from bodies by cable ship Mackay-Bennett - an 18 carat gold and small old-cut diamond solitaire band/signet ring, slightly tapering (1/4ins)

Britain's First Foreign Postcard
In 1875 postcards were first allowed to be sent abroad. A Congress in Berne in 1875 agreed to the formation of the General Union of Posts within which Members could send postcards to each other

The first all-decimal shop
Slightly bewildered Croydon lady, getting to grips with Britain's new decimal currency in April 1970, in the first all- Decimal shop in West Croydon

Surrey Gardens
View of Surrey Gardens in 1860. Royal Surrey Gardens opened in 1856, as pleasure gardens in Newington, Surrey, London in the Victorian period, slightly east of The Oval

Music Hall
View of the Music Hall Surrey Gardens. Royal Surrey Gardens opened in 1856 as pleasure gardens in Newington, Surrey, London in the Victorian period, slightly east of The Oval

The Four-in-Hand Club
The Four-In-Hand Club, a coach driving club, was founded in April 1808, by Charles Buxton, the inventor of the Buxton bit, along with some friends

Motor trip in a slightly charabanc, Bournemouth, Dorset
Motor trip (in a slightly squat charabanc) - Bournemouth - August, 1915. Date: 1915

Training from a tower
One of the slightly more hazardous aspects of training was from the tower. The Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters (also known as the Volunteer Corps of Canadian Fire-fighters and simply as CCCF)

BOXER / TWO HEADS / 1953
Two unidentified boxer heads, slightly tilted. Date: 1953

Slightly Louche Girl in a Studio portrait pose in rather unusual boyish attire. Date: circa 1908

Le Petit Trianon - Versailles Palace, France - slightly overgrown. Date: circa 1910s

15th century English ladies
A noble lady receives a slightly less noble lady who kneels submissively : perhaps she is being ticked off for not wearing a pointed hat like the rest of them... Date: 15th century

Aucklands advance from its battalion headquarters
This drawing relates to an incident on the 14th/15th September 1916 and is described in a book entitled A Saga of the Sword by Austin F. Britten, published by Arrowsmith, London 1928

Hare Street Roman Road
A Roman road at Hare Street, Cottered, Hertfordshire, England. Slightly curved, it appears to point ultimately toi Braughing Camp, an old earthwork. Date: 1930s

Platform of Queens Road Underground Station
Central Line Series. A slightly shifty-looking young man with boater and newspaper keeps a watchful eye on a very glamorous lady strolling along the platform at Queens Road. Date: 1904

Animals at a French Zoo - Buffalo cart - buffalo pulling cart. Part of Box 209 Boswell collection - Old and New French Zoo..The African buffalo or Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer)

Fletchers House - a view of a detached house taken from the railings at the front, taken from slightly further back. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

White Linen Hall - a copy of an engraving looking slightly down on the building with horse vehicles and people. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Garron Tower - a view of the building looking slightly down. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Garron). Date: circa early 1900s

R. C. Chapel, Castlewellan
R.C. Chapel, Castlewellan - a view looking slightly down on the Chapel and adjacent buildings. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Castlewellan). Date: circa early 1900s

Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare - a classical view of the famous cliffs, slightly misty. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Clare: Moher). Date: circa early 1900s

Bathroom Water Heater
A new gas heater that provides instant hot water to bath and handbasin. A hot bath in approximately five minutes in summer or slightly longer during winter months - wow! Date: 1960s

George Dempster
GEORGE DEMPSTER Scottish writer and agriculturist, MP for Forfarshire. (The British Museum suggests slightly different dates) Date: 1732 - 1818

Doublet, Hose & Points
The man holding stones wears hose & a doublet attached by means of laces called points (poins). His boots have a slightly pointed toe. Another man wears a full length gown. Date: 15th century

Big Hair of 1917
A slightly exaggerated view of the vogue for tall hair during this period. Hats also had high crowns - no doubt to accommodate " do s" such as this. 1917

1920 / Russia / Rural Unrest
A small and slightly wistful Bolshevik demonstration in rural Russia... a distant echo of the grand parades in the streets of Moscow ! Date: circa 1920

Advert for Woollands of Knightsbridge womens hats 1937
Two models wearing smart straw hats tilted slightly to the one side. Date: 1937

Switzerland - Berne. From Schaenzli
Coloured lantern slide of a view across Berne. The city lies on the Swiss plateau in the Canton of Bern, slightly west of the centre of Switzerland and 20 km (12 mi) north of the Bernese Alps

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