Stern Collection (page 6)

Russo-Japanese War - Lai-Yuen damage - Damaged stern of ship. Part of Box 168 Boswell Collection - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904 - 1905

David mending a shoe - two stern ladies approach. Part of Box 79 Boswell Collection. Trap to Catch a Sunbeam. Date: circa 1900

Elaborately carved stern of a Burmese Boat / Barge. Date: circa 1908

Trevithicks Later Car
Trevithicks improved passenger- carrying steam carriage is kept going by a stoker on a little platform at the rear, or stern, of the vehicle. Date: 1803

18Thc Seated Gentleman
A rather stout man with a stern expression on his face sits in a chair clutching a cane and with his feet on a cushioned foot-rest Date: 18th century

Lew Wallace - Sarony Photo
General Lew Wallace (Lewis Wallace) (1827 - 1905) American soldier and writer, best known for his novel, Ben-Hur (1880)

Sir William Read / Grave
SIR WILLIAM READ Quack doctor and oculist Date: - 1715

Mechanical Power 1827
A machinist demonstrates the scale of the new industrial machinery as he operates a huge vice. Date: 1827

Armada / English Attack
THE SPANISH ARMADA The English attack the Spanish from the stern as they sail up-Channel towards Calais, where fireships will disperse them Date: July 1588

Mother and daughter at the seaside - bucket and spade
A rather serious (yet smartly-dressed) Mother and daughter on holiday in Torquaye - bucket and spade at the ready. The girl is wearing a fabulous polka dot summer dress

Rothenthurmstrasse, Vienna, Austria
Rothenthurmstrasse (Red Tower Street), Vienna, Austria, with flooding in the foreground. Date: circa 1900

Young man with surly expression - candid street photograph
Stylish young man (note the fantastic voluminous trousers and co-respondent sytle shoes - London brogues) with a rather surly expression striding purposely along the pavement. Date: 1939

Platform of Bank Underground Station
Central Line series. A variety of passengers awaiting their train on the platform at Bank - two cheeky children, a battleaxe Grandmother-figure, a glamorous lady in red and white ensemble

The icebreakers at Port Baikal
The Baikal in dock at Port Baikal. The stern of the smaller Angara can be seen at the left side. Date: circa 1912

Queen Mary Ocean Liner, in construction
John Brown & Company in Clydebank in Scotland, begin the major task of constructing Queen Mary Ocean Liner then know as Hull Number 534, which began in December 1930 on the River Clyde

A Fair Cop by Edmund Blampied
A small cupid is led away by a stern looking female police officer. Date: 1919

Hotel Stern with dogs, Fluelen, Uri, Switzerland
Hotel Stern with St Bernard dogs and cart, Fluelen, Uri, Switzerland. Date: circa 1930s

Maori Ornamental Wooden Carvings - New Zealand. They are an image of Rangihaeata carved by himself, the stern-post of a large canoe, carved boxes for tail feathers, the head of a carved wooden spear

Launch of Cunarder, Aquitania, by G. H. Davis
The launch of the year. First drawings of the gigantic Cunarder, the Aquitania, in the process of being built on the Clyde. Above: a cross section

Suggested life-saving devices at sea by G. H. Davis
For those in peril on the sea: suggested life-saving devices at sea. Above: a proposed life raft for liners which could be fitted into the stern quarters

Alice Joyce - American film actress
Alice Joyce (18901955) - an American actress, who appeared in more than 200 movies during the 1910s and 1920s. Date: circa 1915

Alice Joyce - American actress
Alice Joyce (18901955) - an American actress, who appeared in more than 200 movies during the 1910s and 1920s. Date: circa 1915

William Stern Palmer
WILLIAM STERN PALMER nonconformist churchman, working in London Date: CIRCA 1838

King Ferdinand and Queen of Bulgaria
King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861-1948) and his (rather terrifying-looking in this unfortunate pose) second wife Princess Eleonore Caroline Gasparine Louise Reuss of Kostritz (18601917) Date

Woman wearing the trousers
" What material would you like for your trousers, Sir?" " Oh! The same as my Wife s." !! A comment on a strong woman, most definitely wearing the trousers in this relationship

Jean Sibelius - Finnish composer of classical music
Jean (Johan Julius Christian) Sibelius (1865-1957) - Finnish composer of classical music Date: circa 1909

Minister questions Scotsmans non-attendance at Church Minister - " Hoo is t, Sandy, I never see you at the Kirk, the noo

Father O Flynn unconvinced by drunks claim to sober
Father O Flynn - " Pat, you re dhrunk again." Pat - " Oi m not, Yer Riverence." Father O Flynn - " Yis ye are, Pat; an if ye were not, you wouldn t deny it." !!

Streetwise young scamp talks back at an admonishing woman who is criticising him for smoking." Do you know its very wrong for little boys to smoke tobacco

Virgin Vinegar - Cruel labelling of a stern Victorian lady
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a late middle-aged woman with a severe expression, placed somewhat pointedly on a pavement as a horse omnibuspasses

A pair of rather stern-faced brothers
A splendid photograph with a real air of mystery about it - depicting a pair of rather stern-faced brothers Date: circa 1920s

Mrs Caudles Curtain Lectures - Mr Caudle late to bed
" Pretty Time of night to come to bed Mr Caudle. Ugh! Enough to give any woman her death. I m sure." (Mrs Caudles Lectures) First published in " Punch" in 1845

Algerian Moorish beauty " Antinea la Charmeuse", dressed in headscarf, earrings and not a lot else... Date: circa 1910s

A Burmese Paddy Boat - moored on the Irrawaddy River, Burma (now Myanmar). These boats were used to transport rice downriver - the main export crop of Burma. Date: 1895

Short SB6 Seamew over the stern of an aircraft carrier

48-band stern screw machine. Hargrave Slide 22

Bow and stern screw dihedral angle machines. Hargrave Slide 21

Stern view of ?Hilda?, showing canal-boat propellers. IMechE Procs 1894. pl. 86 Date: 1894

Shaft brackets and stern frame transported by rail
A record feat in railway transport was accompllished when the speacial L&NER train loaded with the shaft brackets and stern frame for the new liner made its journey from Darlington to Middlesbrough

Galleon (16th c. ). Engraving
Galleon (16th c.). Engraving

LCC-MFB Recruitment strength test
There were many applications to join the MFB and there were about 99% rejections. A stern standard of physical fitness was laid down by the LCC and the Brigade

The Victory (Nelsons Flagship), stern, Portsmouth, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. The Victory (Nelsons Flagship), stern, Portsmouth, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

James River, Va. Deck and turret of USS. Monitor seen from the bow (i.e. stern). Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy - the Federal

RSS Discovery moored at Westminster Bridge, London
RSS Discovery (stern view) moored at Westminster Bridge, London. circa 1950

Sea Scout patrol leader in a gig

Bystander Royal Wedding Number - Duchess of York
Lady Elizabeth Angela Margeurite Bowes-Lyon (1900 - 2002), Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, specially drawn for The Bystander Wedding Number by Alan Stern in her bridal veil

The Deck of the Fram, 1912
Photograph showing the deck at the stern of the Fram, the ship used by Roald Amundsen in his Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12

MERSEY TUG
Heaving a stern line to a tug before proceeding down the River Mersey, Merseyside, England. Date: 1950s

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