Strong Collection (page 8)

WWI Poster, Britains Strong Arm and YOURS
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Britains Strong Arm and YOURS will carry us through. Enlist Now. Date: 1915

American ships in harbour, Barcelona, Spain
American ships in harbour at Barcelona, Spain. They include destroyers USS Barton (DD722), USS Strong (DD758) and heavy cruiser USS Newport News (CA148). circa 1950

Overalls for Women Workers, WW1
The Agricola outfit - strong, serviceable, well cut and becoming - idea for women workers on the land and available from the Cleveland Manufacturing Company. Date: 1918

Women Munitions Workers WW1. A trio of women munitions workers, one holding 2 shell cases. The rhyme reads, Fron Sunday morning to Saturday night, munitions are going strong

Sphere cover, WW1 patriotic sailor
Front cover of The Sphere magazine featuring a sailor with a cap reading HMS Dreadnought standing in front of a Union Jack flag. Date: 1917

Suffragette N. W. S. P. U Christmas Card
Suffragette N.W.S.P.U Christmas Card. Christmas card produced by National W.S.P.U with Best Wishes for Xmas and the New Year 1908-1909 with medallion by Sylvia Pankjurst and the quotation

Still going Strong. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Gott strafe England (For I can t)
Gott strafe England. (For I can t). France. Censor stamp and signed E. B. K(itching) - see No. 4489, note on Censor. Message verso - From what I read, he is taking London by storm

Girls Friendly Society Princess Mary Caravan
The Girls Friendly Society supported young women by help in finding work, providing hostels etc. The caravan, shown here with GFS workers, was purchased in 1922 as a mobile publicity unit

Sumo wrestlers and referee, Japan
Four Sumo wrestlers and a referee, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

British soldiers breaking down German strong point, WW1
British soldiers breaking down a German strong point on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers on Hindenburg Line, WW1
British soldiers take over a German strong point on the Hindenburg Line, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

German strong point in Libyan desert by G. H. Davis
A German strong point in the Libyan desert during the Second World War. A stealthy prelude to major events: how a watch is kept by the Allies on enemy movements. Date: 1942

Advertisement for Johnnie Walker Black Label whisky. Born 1820 -- still going strong. Every drop is over 12 years old. Date: 1914

Fire in the Tower of London, rescuing the Crown Jewels
Breaking into the strong room in the Jewel Tower at the Tower of London to rescue the Crown Jewels during a fire in 1841. Date: 1841

Patriotic British postcard with bulldog, WW1
First World War patriotic postcard, showing a fierce-looking British bulldog: Who said Germany? Date: 1914-1918

Stronghold at the Chancery Lane Safe Deposit, London, 1891
Engraving showing one of the strong rooms, fitted with safes, at the Chancery Lane Safe Deposit in Chancery Lane, London, in 1891. 1891

France Dreux
Members of the Orleans family, including Louis-Philippe, lie in the Chapelle Royale at Dreux, near Chartres : the town also has a strong cricket team, you may like to know. Date: circa 1836

Spanish Woman
A Spanish woman in traditional costume, her hair ornately tied up with combs and bejewelled pins. Date: 1930s

LFB strength test for recruits
LFB strength test -- every recruit must carry a man of approximately his own weight 100 yards in one minute

Joseph Chamberlain as a Lion Tamer, taming his various opponents and enemies, named as the Radicals, the opposition Press and the Boer African Lion (bearing a suspicious likeness to Paul Kruger)

Naval Ironclad - Funny Italian card - Formidable prostitute
Corazzata - La Marina Militaire - A Naval Ironclad ! Humorous Italian Postcard of a Formidable woman available at a certain price... Date: circa 1907

Emancipated woman shows off her strength
The strong emancipated woman shows off her strength; she balances on a barbell with two red Valentines Day hearts for weights while picking up a puppet-like little man by the scruff of the neck

Valentine admiration of emancipated woman
The strong emancipated woman on a red heart Valentines Day see-saw, crushes the puppet-like little man as she rises. Date: 1910s

Personification of Hope - Turns a Moan into a song
Hope makes the careworn heart grow strong - And turns a moan into a song. Date: circa 1910s

Taking the Waters - I hope no ones looking! A glamorous lady takes the Strong Sulphur waters and hopes nobody spots her... Date: circa 1905

Young Kitchenmaid shocked by the odour of Brown Garlic - " Lovely grub - lovely grub!" Date: circa 1940s

France - Le Havre - Return of a fishing boat
France - Le Havre - Return of a lugger fishing boat into harbour on a stiff breeze. Date: circa 1910s

Market Reports illustrated - Game - Supply Strong. A Fair clearance was effected! A Butcher scares away his customers (a rather well-heeled family)

Agressive local man spots ths chance of a swift buck
Scene - Scarboro. Time - Sunday Morning. Very Muddy. Inhabitant: " Be Thoo a Strong Mon?" Amateur Weightlifter (rather proud that his fame has spread so far): " Well, yes, my friend

A Breton Fishwife
A very solid and formidable Breton Fishwife from Brittany, France. Date: circa 1890s

Medina, Saudi Arabia
View looking across Medina, Saudi Arabia toward the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi Mosque. Almost all of the historic strong walls, towers and elaborate (and beautiful)

Woman from Vietnam - Tonkin
Woman from Northern Vietnam - Tonkin region, close to the Chinese border - wearing a fantastic vertigious turban headdress and a metal circlet around her neck. Date: circa 1910s

Fishing Boats running into Peel Harbour - Isle of Man
Fishing Boats running into Peel Harbour in strong wind, Isle of Man. The ruin of the Cathedral of St German (inside the walls of Peel Castle), which fell into ruin in the 18th century

Great Dane
A Great Dane, photographed by Harry Taylor

Young Matabili warrior 1870-1871
Sketch 77 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines, (1859-1871)

Map of the coast of New Spain. Ms. 2957. Sheet 95v. and 97. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

French map of the city of Roses and Trinidad fortress. Xylography

Palma de Majorca. Walls. Engraving. SPAIN. Zaragoza. Academia General Militar (General Military Academy)

Algeria (17th c. ). Arel. The city and the harbour
Algeria (17th c.). Arel. The city and the harbour. Engraving

Map of Mah󮠷ith the San Felipe castle, 18th
Map of Mah󮠷 ith the San Felipe castle, 18th c. Engraving

SPAIN. Roncevaux. Collegiate Church of Santa
" SPAIN. Roncevaux. Collegiate Church of Santa Mar� Spain. Reconquest. Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212) with Sancho VII " the Strong"

Toulon in 18th c. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

MOROCCO. Rabat. Walls of the Chellah necropolis

United States of America. Arizona. Fort Apache
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ARIZONA. Fort Apache Indian Reservation. Cemetery of Fort Apache. Tomb of the unknown soldier

MOROCCO. Rabat. Entrance to the Chellah Necropolis

Buddha - Pegu - Strong Siamese influences of Pegu Buddha, being the starting point for endless raids against Siam. The armies, after meditation at the Shwemedaw

Horse and foal in a car park, Ireland
A horse and its foal in a pub car park in Ireland. (1 of 3) Date: 1966

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