Task Collection (page 3)

Kensitas cigarettes advertisement, 1953
Advertisement for Kensitas cigarettes showing a domestic scene where a man, engaged in the masculine task of hanging a picture, is offered a Kensitas cigarette to steady his nerves. Date: 1953

Polish Scouts carrying turf. circa 1930s

Cubs painting lines on ship
Four Cub Scouts being shown how to paint lines on a Royal Navy ship in Aden, Yemen. 1968

The Nemean Lion
One of his seven labours of Herakles was to slay the Lion of Nemea, which is said to have come from the Moon

Eberts Heavy Task by Heine
Friedrich Ebert (1871 - 1925) rows through a stormy sea to the saftey of a distant island:a metaphor for the difficult task Ebert faced as the first president of the newly formed Weimar Republic in

Government Critics
Its a thankless task stopping a Punch ball - The harder you hit it, the harder it comes back. Cartoon showing the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George

From Bismarck to Buelow. A bigger task for a smaller man
Punch recalls an illustration from their magazine from September 28th, 1878(see picture number 10056473)showing Otto von Bismarck temporarily quashing the Socialist jack in the box

A Soleful Task
A new exercise for encuoraging confidence in fishing from an open boat. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Reserved for New System
A Japanese lady engaged in a clothes making task in a decorative interior

2 Adventurers & Talisman
THE TWO ADVENTURERS AND THE TALISMAN: one knight takes up the profferred task of fording the river, lifting a stone elephant and carrying it to the mountain top

The Strawberry Trade - pottling
Engraving by Ebenezer Landells showing a rural scene with women pottling strawberries. Pottles were small, basket-like containers which would be carried in great quantities by women from Middlesex

Polishing a Silver Tray
An Edwardian butler polishes a silver tray until he can see his face in it

Radar navigation at a glance- a new device
Diagrammatic illustration of radar navigation. This was designed by the Admiralty Research Lab (mainly by Mr.J. Home Dickson)

Butter Making 1886
The Churn: The housemaid and a little girl share the task of making butter

Monkeys Reincarnated
Two Japanese monkeys, anxious to know the life of Buddha, help a scholar to copy the Buddhist bible, and the senior, later reincarnated as a man, completes the task

Tani San in Washing Tub
O Tani San, hoping to win the love of a priest who has set her this task, tries to sail across Lake Biwa in a wash- tub, but sadly she drowns and her ghost causes storms

Rus / Jap War / Linievich
Russian general Linievich contemplates the hopeless task before him in Manchuria

French Work at Panama
French operations - giving some idea of the enormous task challenging the engineers : later this year the French will abandon the project

Gargantua & Pantagruel
The gargantuan task of feeding the baby Gargantua

Boy Scouts 1930S
Washing up does not seem such an irksome task after all, to this group of boy scouts. They are part of a scout camp at Selhouse Broad, Wroxham, also attended by Lord Baden Powell

Dainty Repast
The dishes of dainty repast were soon in order A group of men and women set about the task of laying out a picnic

Pyne - Butter Churner
CHURNING BUTTER She is working a barrel churn, which makes the task of churning milk into butter relatively easy

Hotel Porter
A hotel porter escorts a woman (elegantly clad in a woollen afternoon ensemble by Jean Patou) to her taxi, an onerous task for which he will expect to be handsomely rewarded

Pilgrim Fathers Land
The landing of the Pilgrim Fathers : their first task is to gather firewood to keep warm !

Peyramale Portrait
Monseigneur PEYRAMALE, the French cleric who was cure of Lourdes at the time of Bernadettes alleged visions, and had the difficult task of directing Church policy

WW1 / 1915 / RUSSIAN TASK
Like Sisyphos, the Russians have an impossible uphill task in the Carpathians

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