Things Collection (page 5)

The atoms power for peace by G. H. Davis
The atoms power for peace: the shape of things to come. Showing an atomic-driven locomotive, power house and liner, based on an expert forecast. 1945

Tolstoy & Family
TOLSTOY dining with his family at Jasnaia Poliana. It doesn t look a very merry gathering, but perhaps things will liven up when they ve had a little more to drink. Date: circa 1900

William Nichols
WILLIAM NICHOLS (or Nicholls) churchman and theological writer whose Discourses on the Common Prayer are of interest to those who are interested in such things. Date: 1664 - 1712

Riviera Beach Games
The bright young things of the French Riviera, amusing themselves with beach games. Date: early 1930s

French Riviera 1930S
The bright young things of the French Riviera beach scene. Date: early 1930s

Robert Huish
ROBERT HUISH Writer, about bees among other things. Date: 1777 - 1850

Francis Grose, Pensive
FRANCIS GROSE Antiquary, depicted in the act of musing pensively on the mutability of things whereby time transmutes mans proudest artifacts into antiquities... Date: 1731 - 1791

Poster advertising Trufood -- Put breakable things out of reach. Date: circa 1949-1950

Book On the Properties of Things (15th c. ). Translation
Book On the Properties of Things (15th c.). Translation by Jean Cordichon of the encyclopedic work by the Franciscan Bartholomaeus Anglicus

Two things he can t stop on sunday. Illustration shows an old man labeled Sabbatarian Bigot dressed as a Puritan, holding a book labeled Blue Laws and standing in front of Niagara Falls

Seeing things at night. Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt wearing buckskin and raccoon hat, sitting by a campfire at night, holding a knife

The novelty of the cabaret meal has worn off; it is time other things had a cabaret accompaniment. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon where Cabaret Accompaniment is introduced into various social

Things we see at the National Academy of Design. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon depicting artists, laymen, paintings and sculpture, and in the quiet of an empty gallery

Don t blame the motorist for all the automobile accidents in city streets. Look at some of the things he is up against. Illustration shows an automobile driver trying to negotiate workmen in

Good Things to Know - Woolworths booklet
A booklet produced by high street retailer Woolworths, entitled Good Things to Know and including numerous tips on how to clean your house, save money and of course

Changing times bring unseen things - true picture of a tiger. Japanese print shows a leopard with a dead rooster, turning to look at another rooster sitting on a rail behind it

American agriculturist. Good things for everybody. Date c1875

Hypnotist directing a group of people to do unusual things: men pretending to race while seated on man suspended between two chairs and audience volunteering for military duty with brooms as rifles

Some things Mr. Bryan might do. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon offering several possibilities for employment for William Jennings Bryan

This is the storekeeper He sells the things that are good for you to eat : He must keep the food clean. Poster about retail food markets, merchants, and healthy eating. Date 1936 or 1937

Just As it Used to Be by Fred Purvis
A lively scene of revelry in a Chelsea artists studio showing some Bright Young Things of the 1920s dancing, drinking and smoking at a party

Henry Beaufort Deathbed
HENRY BEAUFORT, bishop of Winchester and cardinal, a worldly political prelate, is exhorted on his deathbed to turn his mind to Higher Things. Date: 1374 - 1447

Wheelchairs &c
Two wheelchairs, one for patients who can sit up, the other for those who need their legs raised : and Triumph lounger for those who need to take things really easy... Date: 1900

Italy - Sorrento - The Lace House and Useful Things Emporium - also includes a inset photograph of the Imperial Hotel Tramontano and the House where the great poet Tasso was born. Date: circa 1910

Good Wives - 3
Meg and John Brooke have just quarreled about her jellies : they sit sulking, she with her sewing, he with his paper - but soon a kiss will put things right. Date: first published 1869

Llywelyn Banqueting
LLYWELYN THE GREAT after a banquet, he listens as a bard with a harp tells of old forgotten far-off things and battles long ago. Date: ? - 1240

Children Study Pondlife
Children catching things in a pond during a biology lesson Date: 1950s

Female Type / Georgia B
She just got here yesterday, Things are hot here now they say... Date: 1922

Habakkuk, Prophet
Prophet who was chiefly concerned with the imminent invasion of the Chaldeans (Babylonians); he said things would be bad for the Jews and lo ! they were indeed bad Date: probably 7th century BC

After Party / Asleep 1911
A waiter starts to clear things away, while all the guests seem to have fallen asleep or passed out... Date: 1911

Paris Kite Flying

French Confiserie
A French CONFISERIE selling cakes, sweets, and other nice things Date: circa 1870

British / German Fight
At Milwall Docks, London, a fight breaks out between English and German sailors - a foretaste of things to come! Date: 1892

1927 by Lewis Baumer
A quintessentially twenties young woman with an Eton crop, a short skirt and a cigarette holder, posed nonchalantly by a stylised picture of Adam and Eve hanging on the wall

The dream of a French Tommy (WWI)
France - The dream of a French Tommy (WWI). All of the aspects of his pleasant dream, from his lady love to the Gates of Paradise - Enter without knocking, but please wipe your shoes!

1920S Fancy Dress Party
A group of revellers smoke, dance and wear fancy dress at a typical Bright Young Things party of the twenties

Dog Tears Things Up
Towser is very naughty, tearing things to pieces

Puppy Goes Upstairs
Towser decides to be helpful, and takes his masters slippers upstairs

Shore Things
The caption below reads: The sea birds migrate. Two women leaving a hotel after a holiday by the sea

The Young Visiters
Some of the Bright Young People arriving for the second childhood party, hosted by Rosemary Sanders

Bright Young People
Group photograph of William Acton, Mrs Arthur Bendir, Elizabeth Ponsonby, Harry Melville and Babe Plunket-Greene taken at the fancy dress ball hosted by David

HELL
A number of sinners are subjected to a variety of punishments for the naughty things they did during their earthly lives...and fresh victims arrive continually

Russian Guards
The Polish frontier is heavily guarded by Russian forces, who make the best of things by relaxing in taverns

Sir Henry Morton Stanley and his men exit a forest, Central
Engraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) (centre with walking stick), the Anglo-American journalist and explorer, and his companions leaving a dense forest, Central Africa

France Condom
The town of Condom, in southwestern France, is famous for its armagnac, among other useful things

Parisians Go to Premiere
Bravely, Parisians make the best of things despite the shortages caused by war : here they arrive for a fashionable premiere by any means available to them

Brawl at Madrid
All Spain is divided as to which of the contending regimes should prevail : this brawl in the Cafe de Paris, Madrid, is characteristic of things throughout the country

Breakfast Tray Pattern
A design for the little mat which you will want to put on a breakfast tray when serving breakfast in bed to an invalid relative. After all, one must have things nice !

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