Split Collection

Mills Bomb No 5 hand grenade, used during World War One, 1915. Oval cast iron segmented body with handle and split pin. Marked on base plate with grenade number and maker?s name P B and Company

Splitting Slates
A workman uses a hammer and chisel to split slates in the biggest slate quarry in the world at Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, Wales

Shell Fountain / Costume
Tunic dress by Paquin: draped tango skirt with front split & train, translucent flared tunic & pearl adorned corsage, toque / turban with feather trim

Ethiopia / Cartoon / Italy
French comment on Ethiopian defeat of Italy - Italy receives a poke in the eye from a long split bread or " pain fendu

Croatia Split
General view of the harbour

Market Day in Yugoslavia
Market day in Split (now in Croatia) on the Dalmatian coast. Date: 1925

Comic postcard, Large woman exercising on the beach, with warning from inspector Date: 20th century

Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk N6715A
Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk N671SA (msn 67001), at the SBAC Farnborough Airshow, held between 1-8 September 1974. N6715A crashed while conducting a low-level aerobatic demonstration at the Farnborough

Mao Zedong meeting Che Guevara
Chinese Communist leader, Mao Zedong (1893-1976), also known as Chairman Mao. Seen here meeting and greeting Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967), the Argentinian Marxist revolutionary

Comic postcard, Two girls discuss little boy Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little boy keeping fit Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Pretty woman in solicitors office Date: 20th century

Diocletians Palace, now part of the old town of Split, Croatia. Parte del Palazzo di Diocleziano. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Nasi from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient

Greek women dancing in Istanbul. Band of musicians with lute, violin, horn and drun. La romeca. Danse des femmes greques. Il ballo la Romeca

Spotted toughshank and split gill mushroom
Spotted toughshank, Collybia maculata, and split gill mushroom, Schizophyllum commune. Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A

Patriotic poster, Buy British - Look at it from Both Sides
Look at it from Both Sides - One the one hand employment, on the other - moneu to spend. - Buy British and be self-supporting

BEMBERG STOCKINGS 1931
Three lovely ladies show a leg through the split in their skirts, revealing their Bemberg stockings. 1931

TUNIC DRESS 1934
Platinum blonde wears a halter neck long line tunic in pale blue satin with scarf-like drapery attached at the shoulder. Worn over a black velvet skirt. Date: 1934

Costume - Diabolo 1817
Man: blue coat with gold buttons, lapels & split cuffs; light coloured pantaloons (trousers). Woman: white muslin dress with ruff, hem decorated with lace & rouleaux Date: 1817

Leather splitting machine at a leather factory, south London
Man operating a leather splitting machine (used for splitting one skin into two thinner skins) at the Neckinger Mills leather factory, Bermondsey, south London. Date: 1842

Paris, France - The River Seine upstream of Notre Dame (view from the Cathedral) Date: circa 1940

UFO splitting and changing colour, Hessdalen, Norway
This UFO is observed as it changes colour and splits into several smaller parts against the black night sky. Mysterious lights appear regularly over Hessdalen, Norway, and have never been explained

Making Japanese Paper Chochin lanterns - one used as a sign
Making Japanese Paper Chochin lanterns and an example of one being used as a sign. Date: circa 1930s

The American Twins, or North and South
North grapples with south as America is depicted at war with its own flesh and blood. Date: 1856

Hurdle making -- a range of scenes. 1899

Two Gentlemen from Burkovina - a territory now split between Romania and the Ukraine. Date: circa 1907

Poster advertising ERBOS hat makers of Cherbourg, France. Date: circa 1930

Battered old boot-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

English Costume C16Th
Royal Costume. Men: flat caps, fur-lined gowns, doublets, heavily embroidered sleeves, duck-bill toed shoes. Woman: ruff split at the front under the chin. 16th century

Lilac Tunic Dress 1914
Brimless hat with feathers, mink scarf & muff, tunic dress & jacket with flaring skirt, short cape & collar, split tunic & military trim. Girl: gaiters & D-B coat with capes Date: 1914

Costume of 1890S
Beige & green: cape collar, gigot sleeves, belt, gored skirt, inverted triangular panels at hem. Purple & grey: corselet bodice, skirt with side split, embroidery & bows Date: 1890s

Park Wear 1898
Narrow sleeves, slight puff at shoulder, d-b jacket bodice, pointed revers, border of machine stitching, scallop edge over-skirt with side split, 3/4 rounded cape. Date: 1898

Splitting of the Atom - apparatus used by Dr J D Cockcroft
Dr John D Cockcroft listening for sounds indicating atomic disintegration brought about by the bombardment with high-velocity protons of the lithium nucleus

Cartoon, Split Pea Soup, Valley Inn, California, USA
Cartoon, Little Known Occupations, Splitting Peas for Split Pea Soup, advertising Andersens Valley Inn, Buellton, Santa Barbara County, California, USA. Date: circa 1940

Illustration, The Youth who could not Shiver or Shake -- The Youth took the axe and split the anvil at one blow, catching the Old Mans beard in it. Date: 1909

Favourite Sayings - Scatter and Increase
Black and white lantern slide of split scene. Left hand side shows a man scattering seed into broken earth. Right hand side shows the painted image of sheaves of stacked corn

Suffragette, Split Red Faced Man. A fat smiling red faced man reads the newspaper placard announcing Great Suffragette Split Remarkable Disclosures Wonder how she did that - at the skating Rink Is

Senior NCO, most probably a CSM or SNCO Acting Officer
A portrait of a senior NCO, most probably a CSM (Feldwebel) or SNCO Acting Officer (not commissioned), known as an Offizierstellvertreter

The Imminent, Deadly Breach by Bruce Bairnsfather
The Imminent, Deadly Breach " Mind you don t fall through the seat of yer trousers, Arry!" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, in The Bystander Date: 1916

Ruins of the Palace of Diocletian, Split (1855). Haag, Carl 1820 - 1915. Date: 1855

The Diocletian Palace, Split, Croatia
The Diocletian Palace in Split, Croatia. Date: circa 1950

Russo-Japanese War - Captured Wagons, Office and Train
Russo-Japanese War - Captured Russian baggage wagons, The Head Office of the Military Railways at Dairen (now Dalian, formerly Dalny)

Old Venetian Tower at Split, Croatia
Venetian Tower, Vocni Trg (Fruit Square), Split, Dalmatia, Croatia Date: circa 1910s

WW2 - Little girl searching for her home
This charming comic social commentary card from WW2 is either a little girl pondering where her new home will be (following her evacuation from the big city) or (potentially)

CROATIA. SPLIT. Split. Cathedral of St. Duje. Entrance gate into the cathedral. Lions

ferry landing - Moulmein
Ferry landing - Moulmein - Two days ago a river ferry was heavily laden with rubber and seventy passengers. In midstream suddenly split open with rot. None survived the ebbing tide

Split bamboo screen with silk binding. Drawing shows a split bamboo screen with patterned silk binding, includes hook with cord and tassel. Date 1878?

Split Rock Rapids, St. Lawrence River. Date c1901

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