Wire Collection (page 9)

Sir George Elliot MP, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR GEORGE ELLIOT MP, 1st Baronet (1814-1893) Conservative Party Member of Parliament, Businessman from Gateshead, North-East England

Watercolour scene with beach and observation post
A watercolour scene showing a beach with an observation post built on stilts. A woman in a swimming costume sits on a rock looking out to sea

British soldiers WWII
British 2nd Army moving on the Western Front in Belgium during World War II Date: January 1940

David Williams Wire
DAVID WILLIAMS WIRE Lord Mayor of London in 1858. CIRCA 1858

Tennis Balls in Fence
Tennis balls lodged in a wire fence during a tennis game, England. Date: 1960s

Grooming a Terrier
A lucky wire-haired terrier is groomed on a table by two women at a private dog hotel (boarding kennel). Date: early 1930s

Wire-Haired Fox Terrier
A wire-haired fox terrier. Date: early 1930s

TOY MONKEY
A toy monkey mascot, made from wire pipcleaners and wool. Date: early 1930s

Toy Elephant
A toy elephant mascot, made from wire and wool. Date: early 1930s

Toy Cat Mascot
A toy cat mascot, made from wire pipecleaners and wool. Date: early 1930s

Toy Lion & Elephant
A toy elephant and lion, mascots, made from wire and wool, confronting one another. Date: early 1930s

WEIRD BIRD
A strange toy bird, a mascot made of wire and wool. Date: early 1930s

Doll with a Whip
A mascot doll of a man with a whip, made from wire and wool. Date: early 1930s

TOY STORK
A toy stork, a mascot made of wire and wool. Date: early 1930s

Pioneers Memorial, Gundagal New South Wales, Australia
Pioneers Memorial, Gundagal, New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1930s

American attack on the German Front line - France - WW1 Date: circa 1917

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Sandcastle with lack of barbed wire
Winston Churchill: " This is a time for everyone to stand together and hold firm!". Lady in deckchair watching her son build a sandcastle in a garden sandpit: " There

Thessaloniki, Greece - Vietnamese French Troops - WW1
Thessaloniki, Greece - Annamites (Vietnamese French Troops) fraternising with French Soldiers - WW1. All part of the Allied International force stationed at Thessaloniki during the First World War

WW1 - Whippet Tanks crash through enemy German wire - Western Front Date: circa 1917

Communication - Far easier for the younger generation, even in 1903! The little girl: " Grandmother, Dad said he did not want to kiss you, by phone" - the response is a miserable Granny

Bolshevik prisoner at Izmit, Turkey Date: circa 1920s

Parqueuse or Oyster Gatherer, France
A Parqueuse or Oyster Gatherer from the Bassin d Arcachon in south-west France. Her shoes may lack Parisian chic but are eminently practical for traversing the mudflats. Date: circa 1910s

Fernandez stand at the Salon Aeronautique in 1909. This aircraft flew at the aviation meeting at Rheims in 1909 but the designer/pilot was killed later in the year due to the failure of a wire in

Spiral wire simulating six-footed motion. Hargrave Slide 6

Spiral wire simulating leech and centripede motion. Hargrave Slide 5

Spiral wire trochoiding artificial fishes. Hargrave Slide 4

A Douglas A-4B Skyhawk 144978 takes the wire
A Douglas A-4B Skyhawk, 144978, takes the wire aboard USS Independence

Vought F-8C Crusader 6957 takes the wire
Vought F-8C Crusader, 6957, takes the wire aboard the USS Independence

R101 engine car with thrust bearing wire to airscrew hub

Malkara wire-guided anti-tank missile. November 1972. Date: 1972

Malkara wire-guided anti-tank missile on its launcher. September 1958. Date: 1958

Martin AM-1 Mauler catches the wire

Various manufactories, Birmingham: Osler glass works; Taylor & Co pin & wire works; Elkington electro-plate works; and Penny & Co steel pen works

Silver wire
Found in the Kongsberg mines in Norway, this specimen still has its long wires attached to the white calcite in which they grew

Warwick Prison - Interior View

Birds on a Wire

A live wire. Illustration shows a fashionably dressed young woman talking on a telephone with multiple lines that are connected to twelve men. Date 1914 August 8

Prospect Nakhimovsky in Sevastopol, Ukraine

A race to the wire. Date c1891

Neck and neck to the wire. Date c1884

Sells Floto circus M lle Beeson, a marvelous high wire Venus. Circus poster showing tight-rope walker Beeson prancing with a parasol. Date 1921

Japanese woman wearing wire spectacles. Ukiyo-e print illustration showing a woman seated at a table dressed in a kimono and wearing eyeglasses. Date 1897

Mr. Hood, on the elastick wire

Herr Granada, Alma Fedora in their own invention, the revolving pyrotechnic fountain marvellous sic high wire artists. Date 189-?

The original and only, Ray Burton the greatest & most novel mid-air juggler & balancer & the only swinging wire rifle shot in the world : three great acts in one. Date ca. 1892

The marvellous Bard, phenomenal trick swinging wire artist. Date ca. 1890

The French Red Cross
" The French Red Cross never forgets them..." A superb stylised postcard praising the efforts of the French Red Cross in World War Two - entering the warzone with supplies to aid

Hotel Roy - Fonda, New York State, USA
Hotel Roy at Fonda, New York State, USA Date: circa 1908

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