Speaking Collection (page 12)

First Anglo-French telephone
Illustration showing the completion of the first Anglo-French telephone with callers in London speaking to Paris. Insert picture no

Fd Roosevelt / Nachkriegsz
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT 32nd US President elected in 1932

Blind Man and Dog
A blind man walks with a dog - not strictly speaking a guide dog - on a loose leash

Pope Infallible
Pope Pius IX announces that the Pope is infallible when he is speaking ex cathedra

Gladstone Speaks
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE speaking on his Home Rule (for Ireland) bill in 1886; to his left is John Morley, to his right Campbell-Bannerman, leading liberals

Roman Orator
A Roman orator stands speaking in the forum, supported by some but heckled by others

Lenin Speaking 1919
VLADIMIR LENIN Soviet statesman, making a speech at the Razin Monument, Red Square, Moscow, Russia

Well Say Something
Dog to cat - Are you still not speaking to me?

British Farmer, 1867
A Victorian gentleman farmer speaking to one of his farm labourers

Passionate Orator
A passionate orator

Huxley at London School Board meeting
A meeting of the London School Board in the Council Chamber, Guildhall, London -- Professor Huxley addresses his colleagues

Street in Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen Canton, Switzerland
View of a street in the town of Schaffouse, Schaffhouse, Schaffhausen or Sciaffusa, a mainly German-speaking town in the Schaffhausen Canton, in the north of Switzerland

A Chamberlain Speaking
Austen Chamberlain warns against German power; the Germans ask, is it hate or fear?

Thomas Edison / French
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor speaking into his perfected Phonograph

Robert Peel(Y) / Dickinson
SIR ROBERT PEEL (THE YOUNGER) British statesman in the 1830s

Rutland / 7th Duke / Manners
7TH DUKE OF RUTLAND JOHN JAMES ROBERT MANNERS Conservative MP and writer

Austen Chamberlain / 1904
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN British politician making his budget statement as Chancellor of the Exchequer

Chamberlain / Commons 1901
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN Liberal politician speaking in the House of Commons on 2 August 1901: it is the Governments policy to bring the Boer War to an end

Churchill / Epping Electio
WINSTON CHURCHILL Electioneering at an open-air gathering of voters in Epping High Street in 1924

Thomas Edison / Tube Speak
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor speaking through his Perfected Phonograph in America

Pas De L ours Dance
Is it known as the Bear Trot in the English-speaking countries ? Or is it a purely French phenomenon ? Whichever, a nice illustration by cubist artist Gris

Couple in Conversation
Speaking ill of the absent

An Unpopular Orator
An unpopular candidate at election time gets pelted with a variety of vegetables and an unfortunate cat by the hostile crowd

Flora Drummond / Tank
Flora Drummond speaking from a tank in Liverpool

Positions for Speaking
This chart illustrates the various mouth positions suited to producing a variety of sounds when speaking

Selling Clever Birds
Hindu street-traders offer clever birds for sale - presumably speaking birds

Advert. Bells Phone
Baxendales specialitites: Blacks patent Bell signalling speaking tube apparatus

Politicians Speak
Politicians clamour to make themselves heard above their rivals

Guizot Speaking
FRANCOIS-PIERRE-GUILLAUME GUIZOT - French statesman, depicted in Napoleonic stance, addressing an audience. When he fell from favour, he took to writing history

Dickens Dulwich Adelphi
CHARLES DICKENS Dickens speaking at the Dulwich College Charity Meeting at the Adelphi Theatre

Randolph Churchill Spks
LORD RANDOLPH SPENCER CHURCHILL speaking in the Birmingham Town Hall

Jean Jaures, Speaking
JEAN JAURES depicted singing the revolutionary song La carmagnole, which contains the words Tous les bourgeois on les pendra ! (we shall hang every bourgeois)

Edmund Burke Speaks
EDMUND BURKE speaks out against Governor-General of India, Warren Hastings

Lenin Speaks at Meeting
VLADIMIR LENIN Russian statesman stands up to address a large meeting

Mother Knitting with Kid
Mother knitting whilst speaking to her daughter

KYMOGRAPH
Coovers KYMOGRAPH, designed to test the independence of alleged psychic voices, speaking through a medium, from the mediums own voice

Womens Rights / Demo
Christabel Pankhurst at Trafalgar Square

Farmer and Farmworker
A Victorian gentleman farmer speaking to one of his farm labourers

Fashionable Frenchwoman planning her day
A fashionable Frenchwoman plans her day from her bed, speaking on the telephone while her maid carries a breakfast tray

Patrick Henry speaking against the Stamp Act
Patrick Henry, in the Virginia House of Burgesses, introduces radical resolutions opposing the Stamp Act, warning King George III that he could go the way of Caesar and Charles I

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