Telescope Collection (page 2)

Boy with telescope probably 1940s Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Greetings Card, Wagging Tail
A WW2 greetings card, the illustration shows a dog dressed in a Royal Navy uniform, holding out his telescope. The card has a red, white and blue ribbon attached

Russia - Tsar Nicholas II - Military manoeuvres at Ropcha
Russia - Tsar Nicholas II attending military manoeuvres at Ropcha, a village in Chernivtsi Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine. Date: circa 1912

WW2 Yeoman Signaller And Celebrating Sailor
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book. The left image shows a Royal Navy petty officer yeoman signaller, looking through his telescope

Captain Scott looking for pack ice, Antarctic
Captain Scott looking for pack ice in the Antarctic Date: 1910s

The King's Navy, by John William Allison - an old sailor shows two children the fleet in the bay. Date: circa 1890

The Astronomy Lesson
This oil painting portrays a young lady wearing a pink dress, looking out at the starry, night sky through a telescope from a seated position, aided by an astronomer behind her. Date: circa 1923

Greenwich Observatory - Telescope Date: 1925

HSH Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854-1921) in naval uniform, with telescope, on board ship. Captioned, The Sea's Loss and the Land's Gain'

The Telescope Seaside Holidays Children's Postcard
The, Telescope, Seaside, Holidays, Children's, Postcard, design, Watercolour, painting, Cicely, Mary, Barker, 12022013

Nelson and the Signal, Battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801 - the famous incident when Nelson held the telescope up to his blind eye in order to ignore a signal to retreat. Date: 1801

Comic postcard, The Astronomers - Venus, Jupiter and Mars Date: 20th century

Girl with a Telescope
Patriotic child in naval uniform carrying a telescope. Artist: Joyce Averill Date: circa 1917

Anthropomorphic jumbos
Jolly Days. A humorous scene depicting two anthropomorphic elephants looking out to sea with a telescope. Artist: William Henry Ellam Date: 1914

Fashionable woman in the Square of the Tuileries, 1870
The Square of the Tuileries, 1870. Woman in green dress with train, mantelet lined with fur, black hat. Families and children play behind her

Worker, soldier and queen termites, Macrotermes bellicosus
Worker termite, Macrotermes bellicosus of Guinea 1, head of worker 2, soldier 3, head of soldier 4, female, winged state 5, and pregnant queen 6

Planktonic crustaceans: Limnadia hermani and Branchinecta
Planktonic crustaceans: Limnadia hermani 1 and fairy shrimp, Branchinecta paludosa 2. Limnadia d Hermann, Brachipo dei paduli. Lofiropi. Branchiopodi

Woman with a telescope, era of Marie Antoinette
Woman in dress decorated with large ribbon raising a telescope, era of Marie Antoinette. Jeune dame en Bergere seduisante

Woman in promenade dress, era of Marie Antoinette
Woman in promenade dress with straw hat and stick, era of Marie Antoinette. Copperplate etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot from Costumes et coiffures du XVIIIe siecle

Woman in chapeau and redingote, era of Marie Antoinette
Fashionable woman in flowery chapeau and veil, wearing a fichu and green velvet redingote over a grey silk dress and holding a cane. Era of Marie Antoinette. Handcolored engraving by A

Woman in yachting outfit holding a telescope
Woman in yacht outfit with wool jacket, toile skirt and leather hat, holding a telescope. Costume de Yacht: veste de drap, jupe de toile, chapeau de cuir

Woman in fine wool suit with striped pekin-silk
Woman in fine wool green suit with striped pekin-silk taffeta tunic. Veste de drap fin sur jupe de meme a tunique de taffetas pekine

Royal Institution Christmas Lecture - Hartridge
Christmas lectures for children at the Royal Institution: Professor Hamilton Hartridge who lectured on Colours, and How To See Them, showing a cat s-eye telescope, 1946. Date: 1946

Hudibras, mock-heroic poem by Samuel Butler -- Hudibras and the astrologer Sidrophel. Date: 1845

Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1834). circa 1820s

Greenwich Observatory - Great Equatorial
The great equatorial telescope in the dome, Greenwich Observatory. 1880

Looking at the moon -- Evening Hours. Date: circa 1850s

Valentine card, sailor boy - From one Valentine to another. 20th century

Advert, Dollond Opticians, Ludgate Hill, London -- binoculars, opera and field glasses, etc. 1880

Burning of the Floating Batteries before Gibraltar - Siege of Gibraltar, 1782. 1782

Admiral Samuel Barrington (1729-1800), British Admiral. 18th century

Saturn and his rings! only a penny 1856
Street telescope exhibitor in London. Attracting passers by to have a look through the telescope on a clear night for a penny. Date: 1856

Zeppelin airship shot down, Southfields, WW1
Zeppelin (Schutte-Lanz) airship shot down by Captain William Leefe Robinson VC, as seen through a telescope from Southfields, 3 September 1916, First World War. Painting by Walter Hunt. 1916

Anglo-French fleet entering the Sea of Marmora
The Anglo-French fleet entering the Sea of Marmora, Crimean War. 1854

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells - First Publication
The narrator is invited to an astronomical observatory at Ottershaw, where he meets astronomer Ogilvy and they observe Mars. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G

The brainchild of Sir Bernard Lovell, the Lovell Radio Telescope is in Cheshire, England. Here are shown part of its supports and track. Date: 1960s

In 1935 the 88 year old, Edwin Crocker, known as the Telescope Man, had completed 40 years at his pitch in front of the Boadicea and Her Daughters, bronze monument, at Westminster

Admiral Sir Day Hort Bosanquet
Date: circa 1903

Prince Albert onboard HMS Collingwood
Prince Albert, Duke of York, later King George VI (1895-1952), as a midshipman on HMS Collingwood, in the summer of 1914. Prince Albert was the only child of George V, other than Prince Edward

Pasadena, California, USA - Mount Wilson Observatory Date: 1946

Hastings in October 1857
Victorians having an enjoyable day at Hastings. Date: 1857

Solar eclipse of 1851
Men, women and children in the streets of Paris looking through a telescope up at the solar eclipse. Date: 28th July 1851

Greenwich Observatory - Great Equatorial 1861
The Great Equatorial telescope in the dome, Greenwich Observatory. Date: 1861

LORD ROSSES TELESCOPE
Built by the 3rd Earl of Rosse in 1842 and known as the Leviathan of Parsonstown. It was the largest telescope in the world for three-quarters of a century. Date: 1888

BRITISH SAPPERS 1854
Sappers and Miners in working dress Date: 1854

EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI Italian mathematician and physicist; he improved the telescope and invented the barometer Date: 1608 - 1647

DUTCH DYKES RUPTURE / 1861
The king of Holland inspects the damage when dykes rupture and massive flooding occurs Date: February 1861

CHICAGO EXHIBITION - 7
The Yerkes telescope Date: Summer 1893

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