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Background imageSpreading Collection: Anti-Flu Masks

Anti-Flu Masks
A man and a woman wearing anti-flu masks. These masks cover the nose and mouth and are designed to prevent germs spreading. They may work but they look very curious!

Background imageSpreading Collection: Firefighters in action with hosepipes, Shad Thames, SE1

Firefighters in action with hosepipes, Shad Thames, SE1
Firefighters in action with hosepipes at night, at a fire in Shad Thames, 19 February 1958, at the premises of Corry & Co, showing the Gainsford Street/Maguire Street corner of the building

Background imageSpreading Collection: Cephos cold and flu powder advertisement

Cephos cold and flu powder advertisement
Advert for Cephos cold and flu powder depicting a poorly looking woman, dressed rather smartly, and standing, hanging onto a strap on a bus or tube train

Background imageSpreading Collection: N. of Ireland Flax Spinning Industry, Spreading (Back of M

N. of Ireland Flax Spinning Industry, Spreading (Back of Machine) - an interior shot of machines for spreading flax in a spinning mill. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

Background imageSpreading Collection: Drying and Repairing Eel Nets at Maghery, Loch Neagh

Drying and Repairing Eel Nets at Maghery, Loch Neagh
Drying and Repairing Eel Nets at Maghery, L. Neagh - a view of a man spreading eel nets out in a field to dry. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Maghery). Date: circa early 1900s

Background imageSpreading Collection: Coat / Brandenbourg Trim

Coat / Brandenbourg Trim
Hat with spreading crown, white cravat, brown coat with Brandenbourg trim & roll collar, strapped pantaloons, red under-waistcoat, black & yellow waistcoat

Background imageSpreading Collection: Plowing and spreading manure Nebraska USA early 1900s

Plowing and spreading manure Nebraska USA early 1900s

Background imageSpreading Collection: Rope spreading, The Belfast Ropework Company Ltd

Rope spreading, The Belfast Ropework Company Ltd. Belfast, Ireland, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

Background imageSpreading Collection: Illustration, The Story of Peter Pan

Illustration, The Story of Peter Pan
Peter Pan spreading his coat to the wind, he sailed merrily Date: 1929

Background imageSpreading Collection: Music cover, The Chestnut Tree

Music cover, The Chestnut Tree, the Novelty Singing Dance Sensation. Date: 1938

Background imageSpreading Collection: The Funeral, the Charity Children and Highgate Tunnel

The Funeral, the Charity Children and Highgate Tunnel. Two children mourning their mother in a funeral procession 73, parish beadles leading a parade of children from a charity school 74

Background imageSpreading Collection: Advert for Milton against influenza 1918

Advert for Milton against influenza 1918
Advertisement for Milton sterilising fluid, recommended for preventing and relieving influenza at a time when Spanish flu was rapidly spreading across the world. 1918

Background imageSpreading Collection: Late purple American-aster, Symphyotrichum patens

Late purple American-aster, Symphyotrichum patens (Spreading hairy-stalk d starwort, Aster patens). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith

Background imageSpreading Collection: Spreading loosestrife, Lythrum diffusum

Spreading loosestrife, Lythrum diffusum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert Sweets The British Flower Garden, Ridgeway

Background imageSpreading Collection: Spreading bellflower, Campanula patula

Spreading bellflower, Campanula patula. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smiths English Botany, London, 1792

Background imageSpreading Collection: Sage or Salvia species

Sage or Salvia species
Brilliant-flowered sage, Salvia fulgens, spreading sage, Salvia patens, Mr. Grahams sage, Salvia grahami, and narrow-leaved sage, Salvia angustifolia

Background imageSpreading Collection: Pasqueflower species

Pasqueflower species
Alpine pulsatilla, Pulsatilla alpina, spreading pasqueflower, P. patens, meadow pasqueflower, P. pratensis, spring pasqueflower, P. vernalis, and common pasque flower, P. vulgaris

Background imageSpreading Collection: Vesircaria, rocket, toothwort and wallcress species

Vesircaria, rocket, toothwort and wallcress species
Globe-podded vesicaria, Vesicaria utriculata, yellow rocket, Barbaria vulgaris, rock alyssum, Aurinia saxatilis, mountain alyssum, Alyssum montanum, five-leaved toothwort, Dentaria pentaphylla

Background imageSpreading Collection: Calceolaria and achimenes species

Calceolaria and achimenes species
Crenate-flowered calceolaria, Calceolaria crenatiflora, cobweb calceolaria, Calceolaria arachnoides, long-flowered achimenes, Achimenes longiflora, spreading achimenes, Achimenes patens

Background imageSpreading Collection: Spreading violet, Viola debilis

Spreading violet, Viola debilis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1828

Background imageSpreading Collection: Spreading sage, Salvia patens

Spreading sage, Salvia patens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Mrs Augusta Withers from Benjamin Maund and the Rev

Background imageSpreading Collection: Spreading penstemon, Pentstemon diffusum

Spreading penstemon, Pentstemon diffusum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Walter Fitch from William Jackson Hookers Botanical Magazine, London, 1838

Background imageSpreading Collection: Craftsmen at floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London

Craftsmen at floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London
Craftsmen at work in the printing room of the Smith and Baber floor cloth factory, Knightsbridge, SW London. They are spreading paint on printing blocks

Background imageSpreading Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 656

Curtis British Entomology Plate 656
Hymenoptera: Rhopalum tibiale = Rhopalum coarctatum [Plant: Torilis arvensis (Caucalis infesta, Spreading Hedge-parsley)] Date: 1824-39

Background imageSpreading Collection: Curtis British Entomology Plate 407

Curtis British Entomology Plate 407
Hymenoptera: *Lampronota crenicornis Hal. mss. (According to Fitton et al. Lampronota Curtis = Lissonata, but they do not list this specific name) [Plant

Background imageSpreading Collection: Manhattan Skyline Date: 1947

Manhattan Skyline Date: 1947

Background imageSpreading Collection: Striated Hills

Striated Hills

Background imageSpreading Collection: Prices Patent Candle Companys Works 1849

Prices Patent Candle Companys Works 1849
No. 1, Candle manufacturing process at Prices Patent Candle Company: Spreading and stripping department. Date: 1849

Background imageSpreading Collection: Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh

Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh
SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1554 - 1618) - spreads his cloak before Elizabeth I

Background imageSpreading Collection: Plants - Tagetes Patula

Plants - Tagetes Patula
FRENCH MARIGOLD, or SPREADING TAGETES Date: 1791

Background imageSpreading Collection: BLEACHING LINEN

BLEACHING LINEN CLOTH by spreading it out in the sunlight in fields near the factory which can be seen in the distance Date: circa 1870

Background imageSpreading Collection: Muck cart, Cantabria, Spain - 3

Muck cart, Cantabria, Spain - 3
A Spanish farmer using a horse drawn muck cart in the foothills of the Picos de Europa mountains, Cantabria, Spain Date: 1989

Background imageSpreading Collection: Muck cart, Cantabria, Spain - 2

Muck cart, Cantabria, Spain - 2
A Spanish farmer using a horse drawn muck cart in the foothills of the Picos de Europa mountains, Cantabria, Spain Date: 1989

Background imageSpreading Collection: Muck cart, Cantabria, Spain - 1

Muck cart, Cantabria, Spain - 1
A Spanish farmer using a horse drawn muck cart in the foothills of the Picos de Europa mountains, Cantabria, Spain Date: 1989

Background imageSpreading Collection: Michaelmas Daisy

Michaelmas Daisy
Decorative flower study by Jeannie Foord, of a Michaelmas Daisy spreading bushy perennial, flowers in autumn. 1899

Background imageSpreading Collection: Wheel of Fortune. Miniature, 15th century. France

Wheel of Fortune. Miniature, 15th century. France
Wheel of Fortune or Rota Fortuane. Concept in medieval and anceint philosophy referring to the capricious nature of Fate. Miniature, 15th century. France

Background imageSpreading Collection: Spreading the News by Lady Gregory

Spreading the News by Lady Gregory
Promotional postcard for Spreading the News by Lady Gregory, a one-act comic play which was written for the opening night of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, 27th December 1904

Background imageSpreading Collection: Interior of a printing press in the early modern

Interior of a printing press in the early modern age. Illustration by Lluis Bargall󮠗 atercolour

Background imageSpreading Collection: Thornton Hough Smithy

Thornton Hough Smithy
The Village Smithy (blacksmith), with its spreading old chestnut tree, at Thornton Hough, Wirral, England. Date: 1930s

Background imageSpreading Collection: Brown Coat 1821

Brown Coat 1821
Wellington hat with spreading crown, blue silk cravat, brown frock coat with roll collar, kashmir under-waistcoat, light brown strapped pantaloons & red waistcoat with roll collar

Background imageSpreading Collection: Spreading Pollan Nets, Lough Neagh

Spreading Pollan Nets, Lough Neagh - a view at the edge of the Lough showing a man spreading out pollan nets to dry. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Lough Neagh). Date: circa early 1900s

Background imageSpreading Collection: Couping the Turf (Spreading It to Dry)

Couping the Turf (Spreading It to Dry) - a view of a lady with a turf barrow emptying the turf to air dry. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Background imageSpreading Collection: Spreading Sunbaked Mud Turf to Dry, Co. Antrim

Spreading Sunbaked Mud Turf to Dry, Co. Antrim - a view of a man and lady laying out turf to dry. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim). Date: circa early 1900s

Background imageSpreading Collection: Spreading Flax, Toome

Spreading Flax, Toome - a view of women in a field overlooked by a man spreading out flax to dry. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Background imageSpreading Collection: Cartoon, Communism and women

Cartoon, Communism and women. Husband and wife at the dinner table. He reads in the newspaper about how women are shared around the community under Bolshevism

Background imageSpreading Collection: Green parrot on a Christmas card

Green parrot on a Christmas card, sitting on a branch. Date: circa 1890s

Background imageSpreading Collection: Page design, subjects, School Silhouettes

Page design, subjects, School Silhouettes
Page design for the subjects of drama, music, arts and sciences in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA

Background imageSpreading Collection: Spreading-flowered encyclia orchid, Encyclia patens

Spreading-flowered encyclia orchid, Encyclia patens.. Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine

Background imageSpreading Collection: Crimson ixia or spreading-flower d ixia with

Crimson ixia or spreading-flower d ixia with deep crimson flowers. Ixia patens.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtiss Botanical

Background imageSpreading Collection: Suffragette, Simple Life - Caravanning

Suffragette, Simple Life - Caravanning. The couples caravan lands in a stream and frightens the horse. This results in damage to the vehicle. Its decorated with ribbons in suffragette colours

Background imageSpreading Collection: Concealing a British hospital from enemy, WW1

Concealing a British hospital from enemy, WW1
Spreading mud on a hospital marquee at Salonika in order that it shall not form an easy target from the sky by enemy bombers. Date: 1916

Background imageSpreading Collection: British soldiers advancing on Western Front, WW1

British soldiers advancing on Western Front, WW1
British soldiers advancing on the Western Front during World War One. They are spreading out to minimise the effects of hostile shelling. Date: circa 1916

Background imageSpreading Collection: Growth of big German liners by G. H. Davis

Growth of big German liners by G. H. Davis
The growth of the big German liners: how they are spreading into the great ocean passenger routes. A comparison of German and British examples

Background imageSpreading Collection: To the right hon ble... trustees of the linen manufacture

To the right hon ble... trustees of the linen manufacture... this view taken in the County of South representing taking the flax out of the bog when it has lain a sufficient time to separate the rind

Background imageSpreading Collection: Seagulls Wings

Seagulls Wings
A seagull spreading its wings. Date: 1960s

Background imageSpreading Collection: Dodman Point Cross

Dodman Point Cross
Dodman Point, the highest granite cross in Cornwall, England, erected to honour the men of Cornwall who are spreading the (Christian) Gospel worldwide. Date: 1930s

Background imageSpreading Collection: British field hospital marquee, Salonika, WW1

British field hospital marquee, Salonika, WW1
Greek workmen spreading mud on a British field hospital marquee to camouflage it from enemy aircraft at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: circa 1916-1917

Background imageSpreading Collection: Spreading out their little wings

Spreading out their little wings to dry them in the sun (Have You Watched the Fairies). 1920s

Background imageSpreading Collection: Muck Spreading

Muck Spreading
Spreading muck on a field in Essex Date: April 1957

Background imageSpreading Collection: America, The Chinese in San Francisco. Pulverising shrimps

America, The Chinese in San Francisco. Pulverising shrimps
Chinese in wide brimmed hats spreading shrimps with a rake for drying and crushing

Background imageSpreading Collection: Cholera precautions in England

Cholera precautions in England
A sketch of the sailors hospital. Fires were used to prevent the infection spreading from the hospital. In September 1892, Dr R

Background imageSpreading Collection: Saracens in Sicily

Saracens in Sicily
Saracens from the east ravage Sicily, spreading fire and desolation as they go

Background imageSpreading Collection: Large clouds of smoke from the spreading fires. The aftermat

Large clouds of smoke from the spreading fires. The aftermat
Fires spreading through San Francisco, completing the ruin of the city. The business distract was completely devastated, with only the steel structures of modern buildings still standing

Background imageSpreading Collection: The bursting of the Bilberry Reservoir, spreading destructio

The bursting of the Bilberry Reservoir, spreading destructio
The bursting of the Bilberry Reservoir. Much destruction was caused by the flooding, bridges lost and buildings demolished

Background imageSpreading Collection: Artificial Manuring

Artificial Manuring
Distributing artifical manure on a Norfolk farm, England

Background imageSpreading Collection: Noblewoman 1520

Noblewoman 1520
A wide-spreading skirt, huge fur sleeves, distinguish the state gown of this lady of the court of Francois I

Background imageSpreading Collection: Striped Cossacks 1823

Striped Cossacks 1823
Straw hat with broad brim & spreading crown, loosely tied plaid cravat, grey frock coat with roll collar, blue striped cossacks with fly front, white waistcoat, yellow fob ribbon

Background imageSpreading Collection: Hysteria runs riot in a Brooklyn cigarette factory

Hysteria runs riot in a Brooklyn cigarette factory
At Brooklyn, New York, a female employee in a cigarette factory has a fit of hysterics which spreads to the entire work force. As a result the factory has to be closed for the rest of the day


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