Spreading Collection

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Plowing and spreading manure Nebraska USA early 1900s

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Manhattan Skyline Date: 1947

Striated Hills

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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