Slow Collection (page 2)

The snail of the Kings Highway -- an old, horse-drawn covered wagon struggling through the snow, in the days before the railway. It would be used to transport country produce to market. Date: 1932

Page design, make it snappy, School Silhouettes
Page design, make it snappy, in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA

Armstrong Whitworth AW 38 Whitley V -despite its slow and ponderous performance, the Whitley was the first RAF aircraft to bomb a German target

Slow-worm or blind worm and eastern glass lizard.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of Natural History: Amphibia, Augsburg, 1794

Slow-paced lemur or red slender loris, Loris tardigradus.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Indri or babakoto, Indri indri (endangered) and Sunda slow loris, Nycticebus coucang (vulnerable).. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science

Slow worm, Anguis fragilis, and Eastern glass lizard, Ophisaurus ventralis.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Graystone Bird, Bath
Hand coloured. Two women sitting in a rural area, looking out at a slow moving river.. Part of Box 365, Miscellaneous Part 1, Boswell collection. Date: circa 1900

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoises graze (Agrionemys horsfieldii). near Karahoudan village - foothills of Kopetdag mountains - Turkmenistan. Testudo - Spring - April

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoise - active during day in a desert (Agrionemys horsfieldii). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Testudo - April

Steppe / Horsfields Tortoise - desert (Agrionemys horsfieldii ). Caspian sea shore - near Krasnovodsk - Turkmenistan. Testudo - April

Steppe Tortoise - emerges from an overnight shelter under bushes (Agrionemys horsfieldii). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Horsfields Tortoise - Testudo - April

Steppe Tortoise (Agrionemys horsfieldii). Caspian sea shore - desert - sand and seashell pebbles - Turkmenistan. Horsfields Tortoise - Testudo - April

Cricket bowling a low delivery
A bowler comes on to bowl a low delivery hoping to get a wicket. Date: 1886

WW2 poster, Get this into your head, Mister! When material in short supply is received, it must be supplied to production floor at lightning speed. Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

Wartime map of Italy by G. H. Davis
The slow advance in Italy: General Alexanders candid explanation. All roads lead to Rome -- but all the roads are mined, says General Alexander

Master Quack the duckling riding a tortoise
Fast Asleep -- Master Quack the duckling stands on the back of Joey the tortoise, hoping for a ride, but is disappointed. Date: 1912

Two contrasting forms of transport, then and now. Above: a lady in a sedan chair, about to leave Hampton Court for home. Below: a rather more racy journey

British night bombers by G. H. Davis
British night bombers encounter flaming onions, as in the raid on Sylt -- a type of incendiary anti-aircraft shell used in the First World War, reintroduced by the Germans in the Second World War

Cartoon, three views of Recruiting, WW1
Cartoon, showing three views of Recruiting at the start of the First World War. As It Was (plying men with drink during the Napoleonic era)

Typhus Sufferers in Kniagin, Russia
Bedridden Typhus sufferers in the Russian provence of Kniagin. Date: 1891 - 1892

Train Transporting Typhoid Sufferers
A Russian train being used as a temporary hospital specialising in treatment for patients suffering from Typhoid fever. Date: 1920

The Wood Carver. This ancient trade is a slow, unhurried craft, and all kinds of traditional, heraldic and modern works are carried out in Fulham, London, England. Date: 1960s

Grandfather and Grandchildren at the seaside - Thackeray
Passive Resistance - A Grandfather, thoroughly enjoying his day at the seaside with the Grandchildren, curbs the speed they can reach the sea, however much they encourage him to get a move

Musical Terms Up to Date - Adagio - very Slow! A pretty young girl sits expectantly, whilst her elderly suitor takes a LONG TIME to make his move! Date: circa 1905

A French Gentleman enquires after the health of an idiot
A smart French Gentleman enquires after the health of an obvious idiot. " Vat as been ze mattare? Zey tell me you af not ad ze good ealths

Madeira - Scenes from the Island including: Loo Rock, travel via a Transporting Hammock, a sheltered nook and a traditional Oxen carriage (Carro). Date: 1900

Madeira, Funchal - Oxen carriage
Traditionally, the means of travel in Funchal, the capital city of Madeira, did not include wheeled carriages. The uneven cobbled roadways, steep hills and sharp bends

Storeria sp. brown snake
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled Little Brown Bead Snake

LCC-LFB Motorised Fire King fire engine
The Fire King was manufactured by Merryweather of Greenwich. The London Fire Brigade purchased the Fire King, one of the first going to Whitefriars fire station

London Fire Brigade Fire King appliance with crew
A London Fire Brigade Fire King appliance with crew. In 1899 Merryweather of Greenwich modified its steamer pumps to also propel the vehicle

The fiend of the road. Date c1881

Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada - Ox Sled ! Date: circa 1910s

Slowness Postcard
Everything seems Blooming Slow just now... A man complaining of a lack of speed and motion needs to check his mount - a Giant Tortoise! Date: 1918

Our Local Express (2 / 2)
A satirical look at an express train service (2/2 - see 10425389). 1907

Our Local Express (1 / 2)
A satirical look at an express train service (1/2 10429191). 1907

Thames Valley Floods
Cars making slow progress through the flooded roads near Chertsey, Surrey, England. The roads in the low-lying districts of the Thames Valley were flooded due to storms. Date: 12 December 1929

Slow Dancing
A young couple slow dancing at the end of a gig by London beat group The Triffids. Date: mid 1960s

Girl and boy sitting on a garden wall
A girl and a boy, Patty and Paul, sitting on a garden wall, where they have found two snails. Below is a windmill. first published 1879

Smiling woman on waltz music cover
A smiling woman illustrates the cover of a slow waltz called Levres Adorees (lovely lips). Date: 1906

Regal Procession by Vernon Ward
A slow procession of swans on a winters evening drifting downstream on the Thames tide

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Snail
Creeping like a Snail. Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled Shadow and Substance, 1860

Origin Species, CH Bennett, slow schoolboy - snail
Unwillingly to school. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of a unwilling schoolboy from a snail. Developing through the ages from a dunces cap

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Money saver - tortoise
Slow and sure. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of money saver from a tortoise. A stout old gentleman, patient, industrious, conscious of the true value of money

Arm signaling / W H Robinson
This particular arm signal indicates that the driver will be slowing down or stopping...if only for a better look at a passing attractive woman

Englands test match victory: Verity and Bowes
The hero of Englands victorious match: Verity(right), the Yorkshire slow left handed bowler, who took 15 wickets for 104, with Bowes, who took 4 wickets

Scooter girl
A policeman shouts out an anxious warning to a little girl who is merrily riding her scooter on the road forcing a chauffeur driven car to slow down

Lear / Nonsense / Sweden
There was a Young Lady of Sweden, who went by the slow rain to Weedon; When they cried, Weedon Station! she made no observation but thought she should go back to Sweden

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