True Collection (page 7)

Lassoing a cattle thief Date: 1926

Cook and Peary
- and PEARY : the card features both explorers, but discreetly doesn t indicate which of the two is the true discoverer of the North Pole. Date: 1908 - 1909

England / Rye 1939
This beautiful half-timbered building in Mermaid Lane, Rye, Sussex, England, is the Old Hospital. A true gem of Old England which has slumbered throughout the centuries. Date: 1939

Singing Surfer
Singers are not softies : Our cameraman caught Gay just as he was flat-diving into the surf and called him a song- and-surf man. Gay is a true athlete, muscular and lean. 1940s

Ballad / Erlinton

Ballad / Lord Randal
LORD RANDAL O yes, I am poisoned, mother, make my bed soon, for I m sick at the heart, and I fain wald lie down (His true love gave him eels boiled in broth.) Date: traditional

Origin Species, CH Bennett, Money saver - tortoise
Slow and sure. Satire on Darwins Origin of Species showing the evolution of money saver from a tortoise. A stout old gentleman, patient, industrious, conscious of the true value of money

Sand-filled mould - Metalworking
A factory worker slides a sand-filled mould into position beneath an industrial molten-metal dispensing machine. The man has a tattoo on his forearm which reads True = Love and Mam = Dad

London Cheapside
The church of St Mary-le-Bow whose bells (destroyed by bombing 1941) are supposed to be the hallmark of a true London Cockney, born within their sound

True British Sportmanship under Difficulties
The Lightning Service. A Safety First device for lawn tennis in a thunderstorm Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Randolph Churchill
Lord RANDOLPH SPENCER CHURCHILL depicted as a versatile actor capable of roles from Red Republican to True Blue Patriot, by way of the Artful Dodger !

Jos Chamberlain / Sourire
A perfidious John Bull in league with Jack the Ripper - this is the true nature of England. Satire on Cecil Rhodes and Chamberlain at the time of the Entente Cordiale

JOHN XV: 1, 2 I am the true vine and my father is the husbandman... Text decorated with grape vine and grapes & fruiting and flowering passion flower vine

Gyrostatic Compass, 1912
Photograph of a new Anschutz gyrostatic compass, February 1912. This type of compass was expected to significantly outperform previous compasses in its ability to give a consistantly strong true

Bow Bells 1850
Ringing the Bow Bells of St Mary-le-Bow church, Cheapside, London : they were destroyed in the Blitz but recast 1961 : to be born in their hearing makes you a true Cockney

Looting in Poland
The wife of Von Hindenburg personally supervises the looting of a Polish castle. (True, or merely propaganda ? It doesn t seem probable !)

Nurses Abducted
On the Russian front, Germans carry off Russian nurses - true or propaganda ?

Cergy Pontoise Book
CERGY PONTOISE - UFO author Guieu, believing the abduction of Fontaine by aliens to be true, writes this book about the affair, in collaboration with the three men involved

HERMES CARRIER
The Royal Navys Hermes is the first true purpose- designed aircraft carrier : her configuration will set the pattern for all later carriers

Patriotic Demo Moscow
Patriotic demo in Red Square, Moscow : but who are the true patriots - Kerenskys provis- -ional government who staged this demo, or the bolsheviks waiting in the wings ?

Different Kinds of Snow
Every Scandinavian knows there are many different kinds of snow - as true in the 16th century as it is today

Generous Beggar / 1833
TRUE GENEROSITY " When I see anyone worse off then myself I pity them" ( Where will he find one ) A ragged yet forthright beggar offers a generous view on life

The Palace of Sleep has two doors, one of ivory - notice the elephant - whence come false and flattering dreams, the other of horn (cow) whence issue true and noble dreams

Anon Spirit Photo
When this young man is photographed, the image of his lost true love manifests to comfort him in this world and tell him she hopes to meet him in the next

Pope Gregorius V
POPE GREGORIUS V (Bruno) first German pope : although there were rumours that he was murdered, they are probably not true

Pope Felix IV / III
POPE FELIX IV / III (number depends on whether anti-pope Felix II is regarded as a true pope)

Pope Felix III / II
POPE FELIX III / II (number depends on whether anti-pope Felix II is regarded as a true pope)

Maid Marian Rescued
Ripping Guy of Gisbornes sword from his grasp, Robin Hood rescues Maid Marian in true swachbuckling fashion

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Jehan De Varennes / Froiss
Jehan de Varennes, French nobleman and religious reformer, preaching : devout and ascetic, he claims to be the true pope, and attracts a numerous following

Wilde / Nightingale / Cupid
His lips are sweet as honey. - the Nightingales vision of the True Lover

Ross / Magnetic Pole
John Rosss arctic expedition: Ross planting the British Standard on the true position of the Magnetic Pole

St Antony / Egypt / Miniatur
SAINT ANTONY OF EGYPT hermit who managed to remain true to his faith despite all temptations to do otherwise

Atahualpa & Pizarro 1532
The last true Inca emperor of Peru, Atahualpa, is carried with much pomp and ceremony on a huge throne to meet Pizarro for the first time, at Caxamalca

Cake Walk, Reznicek
An elegant German couple lean over backwards to perform the dance in true plantation style

Racial / True Eagle / Missou
True Eagle: Chief of the Missouria tribe

Puritans / Bellini Opera
Elvira loves a cavalier, but her puritan father intends her to wed a supporter of Cromwell - so she goes mad, of course, but finally returns to her senses and her true love

Part of the True Cross on which Jesus was crucified, ornamented with pearls and other precious stones and preserved in the cathedral at Tournai

Notre Dame De Liessee
Pilgrims at the shrine of Notre-Dame de Liesse pray before the miraculous statue of the Virgin; note the man on the left in true pilgrims garb, cockle shells and all

Rama Weds Sita
After many adventures and misadventures, RAMA, the 7th avatar of Vishnu, is finally wedded to his one true love, SITA, and all ends happily ever after

Cuckoo Tell me True
Cuckoo, cuckoo, tell me true, Tell me fair and fine, How long shall I Unmarried pine ?

Popovs Radio Invented
Alexander Popov demonstrates his radio receiving set to the Russian Physico-Chemistry Society in St Petersburg : he is claimed in USSR as the true inventor of radio

Martha Hatfield
11-year old prophetess of Leighton, Yorkshire, one of many who foretold things, true or false, during the Commonwealth. She is depicted in an ecstatic trance

Highland Ornaments
A collection of ghastly ornaments with which the true Highlander would never desecrate his home but which the Sassenach tourist carries home enraptured

Sleeping Beauty Spindle
The princess, at the age of 15, finds an old lady spinning: the witchs prophecy is about to come true... she will prick her finger and fall into a long sleep

William Earl Pembroke
WILLIAM HERBERT earl of PEMBROKE statesman, described as the true effigy of nobility with his autograph

Henri III Rejected
The crimes of Henri III lead two assemblies, one of nobles and the other of doctors of the Sorbonne, to declare him an enemy of true religion and undeserving of loyalty

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