Turns Collection (page 2)

MAN TURNS INTO TREE
A man turns into a cypress tree

Skier turning back - Switzerland - 1900s Date: circa 1907

Stylish French Girl in revealing negligee with hand mirror
" Please Come" - a pretty ginger-haired girl with bright red lipstick, wearing a large hat with green feathers and a brown fur, makes a forward invitation... Date: 1913

Mcclary Monoplane 1929
Designed by Earl E McClary of Long Beach, California, this unusual design comprises a single wing with cabin below : the propeller turns in an opening in the wing. Date: 1929

Coronation coach 1937 for George VI
The Coronation Coach carrying King George VI and Queen Elizabeth turns on to the Embankment with Westminster Abbey in the background

King Midas / Daughter / Gold
King Midas turns his daughter to gold

Dryope into Tree
Dryope, wife of Andraemon, is gathering flowers when she unwittingly picks one that is actually the nymph Lotis, in disguise, who angrily turns poor Dryope into a tree

Circe and Swine
Circe the sorceress turns Odysseus men into swine

Athene & Spider Arachne
The goddess Athene turns the maiden Arachne into a spider for boasting that her embroideries were better than hers

Kiyohime, Japanese Myth
She is the personification of Disappointed Love, and as such is a frequent character in the traditional No plays; her love turns to hate and she becomes a she-devil

Ww1 / 1915 / Gallipoli Light
A mysterious light on the battlefield turns out to be the body of a New Zealand soldier, burning through the night

Japan - A Country Watermill. Date: circa 1910s

Grinding wheat - Deir Mar Yaqoub Monastery, Qara, Syria
Two seated Women grind wheat using a rotary hand quern at Deir Mar Yaqoub, a monastery dedicated to Saint Jacob near Qara, Syria. Date: circa 1910s

WW2 - Land Girls working the land. Date: circa 1943

Nursery Rhymes - My Memory turns
My Memory turns - Words of My Memory turns. Part of Box 52 Boswell collection. Nursery Rhymes. Date: circa 1890s

Dutch Potter C17
A Dutch potter turns a pot on his wheel in his country workshop Date: 17th century

Nottingham Brewery - mash turns Date: 1889

Refused
Dutch girl with a bunch of flowers turns away from her suitor with a disdainful look. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1915

Aristocratic ladies, circa 1770
- Ha! Le joli petit chien! One lady turns from her embroidery to admire the little lapdog carried by her visitor. Date: circa 1770

WW1 - Entertaining the Troops - Open Air Concert, France Date: 1915

Tippoo Tib (1837-1905)
Photograph of Tippoo Tib, then Chief of the Manyema, c.1887. His real name was Hamid ibn Mohammed and he was an African-Arab adventurer and warrior, who controlled a large section of Central Africa

Battle of Nieupoort 2
After the battle : Dutch general Maurits van Nassau is surprised by archduke Albrecht van Osterreich at Nieupoort, but turns imminent defeat into an important victory. Date: 2 July 1600

Battle of Nieupoort
Dutch general Maurits van Nassau, prince of Orange, is surprised by archduke Albrecht van Osterreich at Nieupoort, but turns imminent defeat into an important victory. Date: 2 July 1600

Armand De Rance
ARMAND JEAN BOUTILLIER de RANCE Frenchman who, when his mistress madame de Montbazon is murdered, turns to God and becomes a Trappist monk. Date: 1626 - 1700

Iakovos Pitzipios
IAKOVOS PITZIPIOS Greek satirical novelist : in one of his books a character turns into an ape... Date: 1802 - 1865

Shy Baby and Horse
A shy baby in its pram, out for a walk with mother and the dog, turns its head away from a curious horse. Date: early 1930s

A Cat Drinking
A cat turns its nose up at a saucer of water. Date: early 1930s

Piano Lesson 1930S
A female piano teacher turns over the pages of the sheet music as little girl pupil plays the piece. Date: early 1930s

Barbara McHss. Hastings
BARBARA marchioness of HASTINGS (nee Yelverton) wife of George, second marquis, watched by her little dog as she turns the pages of a portfolio. Date: ? - 1858

Raphael Kirchner - Art Nouveau lady by the sea
Raphael Kirchner - Art Nouveau lady in pretty white summer dress (with gold circular decoration/pattern), with white flowers in her hair

Comic postcard commenting on the length of womens skirts - " Its a funny thing, but womens skirts are looking so short that they make men look very long!" Date: 1918

Irish Girl at her spinning wheel Date: circa 1903

Rotary hand quern for grinding corn - Palestine, Middle East. Date: circa 1920s

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

Shahnameh. The Book of Kings. 16th c. Sohnab turns up in Rostams tent. 16th c. Persian art. Safavid period. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Chantilly. Mus饠 Cond頨 Cond頍 useum)

The Fox Turns
The fox turns - the hounds turn - and the riders must follow... Date: early 19th century

Tornado over turns house, 1886
The overturning action of tornadoes on buildings in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The neighbours, who took the precaution of boarding their windows up, seem to have come off better. Date: April 15th 1886

Alice Holds the Baby Pig
Alice holds the baby which turns into a little pig Date: First published: 1865

French Country Vet
The village doctor in this French country district turns his hand to veterinary work, purging a cow as he might do its owner Date: 1837

Children Walkers
A little boy playing in the nursery turns his younger brothers in their baby walkers into horses, just for fun. Date: late 19th century

Midas / Flowers Turn Gold
King Midas turns flowers to gold

King Midas / Turns to Gold
Everything King Midas touches turns to gold

Wood Turning, Tunisia
A carpenter turns wood supported using his feet

Turning a Cam shaft
An engineer turns a cam shaft on a large piece of complex mechanical and elctronic machinery. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Period musical instrument making
A company specialising in the production of period musical instruments. A man turns a piece of wood on a lathe which will eventually form part of a recorder

Our Costly Arms
A recruiting sergeant is shocked to discover that a volunteer for the Army turns out to have a wife and eleven children and comments that he will cost as much as the Colonel in army pay

Glaucus the Sea-God
Glaucus - fisherman turned into a sea- god by accident - meets the water-nymph Scylla and instantly falls in love with her, but Circe, jealous, turns her into a monster

Herakles & Periclymene
To outwit his enemy Herakles, Periclymene keeps changing shape, but when he turns himself into an eagle, Herakles is able to shoot him down

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