String Collection (#11)

Alytes obstetricans, midwife toad
This male midwife toad is carrying an egg string. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Castanospermum australe, Moreton Bay chestnut
Photograph of the seed pod of a Castanospermum australe tree

Minstrel playing his lute as he wanders along 15th Century

BARTOK, Bela (1881-1945). Hungarian composer. String Quartet number 2, op. 17. First movement score. Photography

Salvation Army Elevator - Sorting Paper and String
A man at work sorting paper and string at one of the Elevator depots run by the Salvation Army to provide work for destitute men. Date: 1938

Tales from Many Lands: The Three Wishes

Russian soldier on horseback, carrying a sword in right hand, a spear in left hand, and a rifle mounted on his chest with a string extending from the trigger to his mouth. Date 1904 or 1905

Japan holds the string when Russia reaches to grasp. Print shows a string held by a Japanese man about to ensnare the hands of a Russian man reaching to grab a Chinese or Korean man lying

Famed American pianist Myrtle Elvyn Date: 1907

New Year Greetings card
Colourful New Year Greetings card from Germany - featuring two jolly German ladies in bonnets, one playing the trumpet and the other beating a large side drum. Date: 1906

Romanian Royalty - Princess Ileana (1909-1991) - daughter of Queen Marie. She became the Archduchess of Austria. Date: circa 1910s

At the school for Strafing
At count zeppelins evening classes for bomb droppers. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Date: 1916

Hungarian beauty in striking pose, wearing fine art nouveau headdress, strings of pearls Date: 1904

Sergeant Dooley and the Puccaun - armed policeman getting into a pickle with a rowdy goat, whilst two maidens and a bull take amusement in his plight from the other side of the hedge

Miss Betty Compson - American Actress
The Heroine of " Woman to Woman" The American actress Betty Compson photographed before her debut in a British Production of Woman to Woman produced by Graham Cutts featuring Betty in

Indigenous American Baby in a papoose
Indigenous Americans Baby in a decorated papoose Date: circa 1910

Yvonne Printemps (Madame Sacha Guitry)
The Wittiest and Prettiest Light-Comedy Actress in all of France The actress Yvonne Printemps (1894-1977) photographed from the front and in profile

Three Boys playing with Soldier Marionnettes - World War Two era. Date: circa 1940

Tramp on Embankment in dressing gown
A tramp asleep on a bench on the Thames Embankment in London. He is wearing an old dressing-gown as an overcoat and his shoes are held together with string. Date: circa 1926

Little girl playing with her diabolo. early 20th century

Ajaccio - Corsica, France
A street stall selling vegetables on a corner of Napoleon Way ( Cours Napoleon ) at Ajaccio - Corsica, France Date: circa 1910s

A String of Pearls
A stylish woman shows of her pearl necklace. Date: 1940s

Violin accessories, Wurlitzer
Violin bows

Old man working on the street
An old man (possibly Spanish) working on the street. He wears a scruffy overcoat, a beret, and his glasses on a string round his neck. He has a small wooden work bench and a box of materials

Skiing on a Shoestring with Thomas Cook
A poster or handbill advertising Skiing on a Shoestring, new low-cost holidays through Thomas Cook. Ski boots, ski poles and skis are arranged in a cartoon-style image

The Rag and Old Iron Sellers
The Rag Sellers. " Rags, old iron for sale!". A scruffy street urchin wheels a pram jam-packed with rags and old iron - her baby sibling atop the pile - through the streets of Paris

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Street Scene with German Soldier
Bosnia & Herzegovina - Street Scene with an onion and garlic stall and including a German Soldier (World War One era). The centre of the shot is dominated by a rather heavily-laden donkey

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Market Scene
Bosnia & Herzegovina - General Market Scene

Buddhist Priest in Northern India (Tibet)
Buddhist Tibetan Monk/Priest

An empowered American Woman
Card from Maryland, USA. An empowered American Woman (in cowgirl attire) has her man just where she wants him. You look good to me.... And you have me on a string !

Learning to avoid obstacles / W H Robinson
Illustration by William Heath Robinson. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

The new wheel lift for avoiding obstacles
Illustration by William Heath Robinson. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

Boy playing cats cradle
Boy in rocking chair playing cats cradle with wool. Pen & Ink (with watercolour wash) drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Algerian Chieftain
A affluent Algerian chief, with high headdress, hand on belt knife and a long string of dark beads around his neck

Moving hay on a pulley system - Hardanger, Western Norway
West Norway - Hardanger. Moving a large bundle of hay up and down a steep slope on an elaborate and rather remarkable string and pulley system

Sanapana Youth with parakeets
A Sanapana youth with string bag and holding two parakeets. The Sanapana were one of many nomadic tribes inhabiting the lower Gran Chaco of western Paraguay

Bead Seller, Constantinople
A seller of strings of beads, Constantinople

Turkish Beggar - Albanian / Macedonian region
Turkish Beggar in the Albanian / Macedonian region of the Ottoman Empire

Turkish Professor reading a text
A Turkish professor, wearing a large white turban, lies down to readi a text on a fine Turkish carpet (or four!) with a Hookah Pipe on a small hexagonal Mother-of-pearl inlaid table behind him

Turkish woman from Smyrna (Izmir) clutching an umbrella

Reclining Turkish Woman
A fine photograph postcard depiction of a reclining Turkish woman, holding a string of prayer beads (Tesbih)

Indian Street Entertainer with two monkeys
A seated Indian street musician/entertainer/beggar holding a small double-ended drum with attached string beaters, with two performing monkeys tethered by two ropes

Lady leads her sheep to Market - Constantinople
An elderly lady leads her sheep to Market on a string, along a cobbled street - Constantinople, Turkey

Thus you Wind Yourself Round my Heart by Florence Hardy
Two young lovers demonstrate their love with a ball of string by the river

Railway Sleeper - Kings Cross Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing tramp at Kings Cross Station dreaming of wealth as he clutches a copy of the Financial Times. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Education, girls, music
A music lesson for girls. Teacher conducts a small string section of violins and cellos and a couple of recorders through a piece by Mozart

Japanese juggler at St. Martins Hall
The Japanese performer and famous peg-top-man, Ja-En-See, spins his top with a string wound round it and contrives to make it go through such nimble

Men and women collect and tie reed bundles
Collecting and tieing reed bundles by a stream in a province formerly part of India and now wiithin modern Pakistan. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

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