Write Collection (page 4)

The Padres room, Posen, 1941
Padres room in a British prisoner of war camp during World War Two. The sketch was made in Stalag XXI D in Posen, Poland, by Lieutenant J F Watton of the 4th Border Regiment who was captured near

Dog and Blank - 3
A bloodhound invites you to write your own message on this greeting card. late 19th century

Dunderpate in his dunces cap, sitting on a stool with a slate in his hand, wondering what to write. Date: 1938

Maillardets automaton: an drawing and a verse produced by the doll. Date: 18th century

Dog and Blank - 1
A labrador (?) invites you to write your own message on this greeting card. Date: late 19th century

Child Learns to Write
Instruction is the first good deed - a mother (or is she a muse ?) instructs a child in the use of the alphabet. Date: circa 1820

Dog and Blank - 2
A terrier invites you to write your own message on this greeting card. Date: late 19th century

Lady Brassey on Deck
LADY ANNA BRASSEY, first wife of Thomas Brassey, on the deck of the Sunbeam, of a voyage aboard which she will write an account. Date: 1839 - 1887

Scottish Highlander writing home
A Scottish Highlander writing home to his beloved. The postcard carries the byline: " Oh! Hang the Censor." Date: 1917

Letter to Mother

Bicycle / Girl Falls Off
A girl comes right off - and her bikes a write-off ! Date: circa 1900

Mother Hubbard / Writing
Mother Hubbard/Writing

Man Writing at Desk 18Th
A French gentleman writing at his desk with a quill-pen in the appropriate position : the elbow laying on the table and the light coming from the left-hand side. Date: Circa 1760

Metropolitan Police car with smashed bonnet
A Metropolitan Police car with a smashed bonnet and its door falling off

Spur to a guilty conscience - not writing to friends
All these write regularly - Why the Devil don t you? Spur to a guilty conscience - not writing to friends! This card illustrates those individuals who will oft communicate with the written word

Britannia and Eve cover January 1939
Front cover illustration by Carl Shreve for Britannia and Eve depicting a young woman deciding what to write in her diary

Mrs Thomas Hardy
Emma Gifford, first wife of Thomas Hardy. She died in 1912, inspiring Hardy to write some of his most moving love poems

Classroom Scene - North London School
An absolutely delightful photograph of a mixed class of school children, learning to write. They have each had to write the word cab, accompanied by a drawing of a horse-drawn cab

The Write of Way
Cartoon, The Write of Way. Love at first sight as a couple propose and accept by writing in the sky with an plane and on the ground in a car

I Remember that in 1870
Indignant members of a gentlemens club line up to write to the papers during World War I, no doubt to expound their views on the mishandling of the war

Children Write on Wall
Two naughty children draw a cartoon of a grumpy old man unaware that he is observing their graffiti just behind them

Jewish Voter at the Polling Station, London, 1910
Illustration showing an elderly orthodox Jew, at a polling station, London, 1910. This gentleman is shown indicating, to the presiding officer

China / Reading & Writing
Chinese peasants are taught to read and write as part of Chairman Maos Great Leap Forward

A Reminder to Write
Heres a pencil... heres a pen... heres a stamp... nows your chance to write

Woman Writes at Table
A lady leans forward to write a letter using a pen which she dips in an inkwell from time to time

Ladys Work Table
A ladys work table where a lady can write a letter or paint a watercolour!

Illiterate Workers Bill
An exact copy of a bill for 10s. 10d. sent by a bricklayer who could not write, to a gentlman for whom he had worked. The symbol for settled is very dramatic! Date: late 19th century

Writing home - Vietnam
A young, captured North Vietnamese soldier is allowed to write a letter home

Girl Writes in Snow 1890
A Victorian girl sets down her basket of holly to write a Christmas message in the snow with her umbrella

Japanese Paper Prayers
At Ishiyama-dera, Japan, people write prayers on pieces of paper which they attach to the black rocks, following the example of two legendary lovers

Composing a Letter 1940S
A woman sits with her pen in her mouth whilst thinking about what she should write in her letter

Churchyard by Moonlight
The moonlit churchyard of Stoke Poges, where the poet Thomas Gray was inspired to write his famous Elegy Date: circa 1860

Mozart Requiem Request
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART commissioned by the steward of Count Walsegg to write the Requiem

Hogarth Distressed Poet
The Distressed Poet A poor poet wonders what to write, while his wife is unable to pay the milkmaids bill

Boys Write on Wall 1894
Two naughty boys draw a caricature of their teacher on the wall, unaware that she is watching them

All-Purpose Feminist
A useful all-purpose card for feminists of all persuasions - just write your own slogan on the board, and you re in the protest business !

Thomas Kempis Inspired
German monk THOMAS A KEMPIS (Thomas Hamerken von Kempen) in inspired to write his Imitation of Jesus-Christ by no less than Jesus in person

Soldiers Dog Mourns
A German Shepherd Dog lies above the grave of its master, a casualty of World War One

Hunter and Buffalo
Eyeball to eyeball with a buffalo - Adulphe Delegorgue, travelling in South Africa, has a close encounter with a buffalo but lives (somewhat scarred) to write his memoirs

Hogarth Poor Poet
The Distressed Poet and his wife both have problems : he wonders what to write, while his wife wonders how to pay the milkmaids bill

Population / Census 1911
East London schoolgirls are taught how to fill in census returns for parents who are unable to read or write English

Dante / Saccagi
DANTE ALIGHIERI At age 18, he meets his beloved Beatrice again and walking with her in the garden inspires him to write

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