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Background imageWays Collection: 8 Immortals Cross Sea

8 Immortals Cross Sea
The Eight Immortals cross the sea, each using their own particular magic charm. The story is used as a proverb for there being many ways to accomplish a task

Background imageWays Collection: Elephant Shrew

Elephant Shrew
Macroscelides typicus. In most ways this cute creature is easily distinguished from the elephant, but its true its nose is rather long

Background imageWays Collection: Grapefruit Dishes

Grapefruit Dishes
Grapefruit can be served in many ways, but most people prefer them in their natural state. When served as a first course, they should be topped with a cherry. Date: 1930s

Background imageWays Collection: John Clavel

John Clavel
JOHN CLAVEL English highwayman who saw the error of his ways and recanted his ill-led life. Date: 1603 - 1642

Background imageWays Collection: Jane Barlow

Jane Barlow
JANE BARLOW (1856-1917) Prolific Irish author, Irish idylls, Irish neighbours, Irish Ways and A Creel of Irish Stories - for example. At her writing table. Date: 1895

Background imageWays Collection: How to Wrap Baby 1881

How to Wrap Baby 1881
The right and wrong ways of wrapping a baby: the one on the right will restrict movement and impede limb development. Date: 1881

Background imageWays Collection: Sodomites Go Blind

Sodomites Go Blind
The people of Sodom are punished for their wicked ways by being struck blind

Background imageWays Collection: Samuel Best

Samuel Best
SAMUEL BEST. alias Poor-Help Translator of the Scriptures, which he interpreted in wonderfully prophetic ways. Date: 1738 - 1825

Background imageWays Collection: Poster, A Griffiths, jeweller, Cradley Heath

Poster, A Griffiths, jeweller, Cradley Heath
Poster, A Griffiths, jeweller, Five Ways, Cradley Heath - for the best wedding rings, largest selection in the district. Date: circa 1920s

Background imageWays Collection: Illustration by Cecil Aldin, My Pets and Their Ways

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, My Pets and Their Ways. A little girl carries a large dish of food for five puppies. Date: 1907

Background imageWays Collection: Cover design by Cecil Aldin, My Pets and Their Ways

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, My Pets and Their Ways, showing a little girl with two dogs, a cat and a gosling. Date: 1907

Background imageWays Collection: Frontispiece design by Cecil Aldin, My Pets and Their Ways

Frontispiece design by Cecil Aldin, My Pets and Their Ways, with two dogs and a gosling looking up at the To box, and a cat drinking milk from a dish. Date: 1907

Background imageWays Collection: Title page design by Cecil Aldin, My Pets and Their Ways

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, My Pets and Their Ways. Date: 1907

Background imageWays Collection: De Havilland DH 89 Dominie used by the US Army Air Forc

De Havilland DH 89 Dominie used by the US Army Air Force, who also used Mosquitos, proving that lend-lease worked both ways

Background imageWays Collection: Suffragette W. S. P. U Holiday Campaign Kent

Suffragette W. S. P. U Holiday Campaign Kent
Suffragette W.S.P.U Holiday Campaign Kent. Eight members of the Womens Social & political Union or Gypsy Wanderers set off from Lincolns Inn on 9th August 1913

Background imageWays Collection: Repairs to Petrograd Tramways, 1923

Repairs to Petrograd Tramways, 1923
Repairs underway on tramlines in central Petrograd (St Petersburg) in 1923. Date: 1923

Background imageWays Collection: Whittington Statue

Whittington Statue
A statue depicting young Dick Whittington when he first came to London : who would guess that one day he would be Lord Mayor.. but such are the inscrutable ways of destiny. Date: ?1358 - 1423

Background imageWays Collection: Prohibition Stunt

Prohibition Stunt
During the Prohibition era in the U.S.A. drinkers had to go to great lengths to think of new and ingenious ways and places to hide their booze! Date: 1930s

Background imageWays Collection: COTO Y MALDONADO, Luis (1830-1891). Train in

COTO Y MALDONADO, Luis (1830-1891). Train in Mexicos valley. 1869. Painting. MEXICO. Mexico City. National Museum of History (Chapultepec Castle)

Background imageWays Collection: Plate showing hunters and various ways to trap birds

Plate showing hunters and various ways to trap birds.. From: The ornithology of Francis Willughby. Date: 1678

Background imageWays Collection: Buffalo Bill Dam - Wyoming

Buffalo Bill Dam - Wyoming - A wonderful big structure which slopes and holds back tons of blue-green water of Shoshone Reservoir. A big power plant is a ways below it

Background imageWays Collection: It works both ways

It works both ways. Illustration shows a man labeled Labor Union raising a large club labeled Boycotting over his head, about to strike a man labeled Manufacturer sitting behind a desk

Background imageWays Collection: Set in their ways

Set in their ways. Illustration shows an old man labeled Republican Reactionary and an old woman labeled Democratic Reactionary standing together

Background imageWays Collection: Your blood is bad means you have syphilis You can give it to

Your blood is bad means you have syphilis You can give it to others through sexual intercourse and in other ways : You must keep up treatments for at least six months to one year following infection

Background imageWays Collection: Combing Cotton 18th C

Combing Cotton 18th C
Various ways to comb cotton in France in the 18th century Date: Circa 1760

Background imageWays Collection: Old and New Charity

Old and New Charity
Bestowing charity; old and new ways Date: 1830

Background imageWays Collection: Different ways of dealing with the scarcity of oil

Different ways of dealing with the scarcity of oil
Illustration by W. Heath Robinson. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Background imageWays Collection: Many Ways to Fall 1919

Many Ways to Fall 1919
Ice skaters can fall down in so many different ways!

Background imageWays Collection: Jonah at Nineveh

Jonah at Nineveh
After his ordeal with the whale, Jonah reaches Nineveh and tells its people the city will be destroyed 40 days later, but they mend their ways and the city is spared

Background imageWays Collection: Temperance - Two Ways

Temperance - Two Ways
The Two Ways: a temperance concert exercise by George Thayer promises to guide you away from the evils of drink and towards righteousness

Background imageWays Collection: Heath / Ball Dresses / 1830

Heath / Ball Dresses / 1830
Ways of dressing for a ball, the old way and the new way - a satirical perspective

Background imageWays Collection: Abraham and Lot Quarrel

Abraham and Lot Quarrel
The shepherds of Abraham and Lot quarrel, and they decide to go their separate ways - Lot goes to Sodom

Background imageWays Collection: Australian Initiation

Australian Initiation
AUSTRALIA Their heads covered, young men of the Bora people are initiated as full members of the tribe by elders who instruct them in tribal ways

Background imageWays Collection: Spanish Exorcism C1800

Spanish Exorcism C1800
A noble Spanish lady is exorcised by a priest in her own home, while her family register their concern in various ways and even the servants show interest

Background imageWays Collection: Joseph in Prison

Joseph in Prison
In prison due to Potiphars wifes false accusation, he interprets the dreams of the chief cup-bearer and the chief baker - both will have their heads lifted in differing ways

Background imageWays Collection: Violin, Old & New Ways

Violin, Old & New Ways
The old way of playing the fiddle and the new way! Note the type of bow and how the violin is held by the 18th century violinist

Background imageWays Collection: Pelagia the Penitent

Pelagia the Penitent
PELAGIA THE PENITENT actress of Antioch who after hearing a Christian sermon repented of her wicked ways and became a hermit on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem

Background imageWays Collection: Anglo-Saxon Mantles 2

Anglo-Saxon Mantles 2
Examples of the variety in style and ways of wearing Anglo-Saxon mantles. Other garments include hose and a short tunic with side vents & an ornate border

Background imageWays Collection: Anglo-Saxon Mantles 1

Anglo-Saxon Mantles 1
Examples of the variety in style and ways of wearing Anglo-Saxon mantles including a draped mantle worn over a long square-necked tunic. Also short tunics with borders

Background imageWays Collection: American Methodists

American Methodists
NORTH AMERICA Black Methodists at Cincinnati behave in ways that Wesley would have recognised

Background imageWays Collection: Korean Lion Dance

Korean Lion Dance
Japanese children react in all kinds of ways when a street dancer enacts the role of a Korean Lion

Background imageWays Collection: Lot Parts from Abraham

Lot Parts from Abraham
Because the terrain is not adequate to support both their flocks, Abraham and his nephew Lot go their separate ways

Background imageWays Collection: Riding the Stang 1814

Riding the Stang 1814
A herald carried aloft the stang makes rough music & alerts the neighbourhood to a husband-beater. Natural justice aiming to get wrong- doers to mend their ways

Background imageWays Collection: Newgate Chapel 1809

Newgate Chapel 1809
The Chapel of Newgate Prison, where prisoners were exhorted to repent of their evil ways

Background imageWays Collection: Ways of Reading

Ways of Reading
Ways of reading : young read assiduously, older they will be distracted; older still they will need spectacles or magnifiers; yet older, they will doze over their books

Background imageWays Collection: Old / New Promenade / Heath

Old / New Promenade / Heath
Old & New ways of promenading are contrasted - a satire on the manners & fashions of 2 generations. N.B The overblown proportions of tiny waists, huge hats & gigot sleeves!

Background imageWays Collection: Flames of Hell

Flames of Hell
A 12th century vision of judgment - amid the flames of hell, various sinners expiate their crimes in various ingeniously devised ways

Background imageWays Collection: 12th Century Hell

12th Century Hell
A medieval conception of Hell, with the sinners being rounded up and punished in various unpleasant ways



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