Images Dated 3rd August 2015 (page 36)

Yachting Terms Illustrated - A Spanker!"
Yachting Terms Illustrated - " A Spanker!" A housewife reacts with furious anger to the indiscretions of her younger son, who has spilt black ink all over her pressed white tablecloth

Making pith helmets for the German Afrika Korps - WWII
Making Type I pith helmets for the German Afrika Korps - WWII. Insertion of the ventilation cap on the top of the helmet. Date: 1942

Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt - Finely Decorated Fountain
Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt - Finely Decorated Multi-storey Fountain. Abbassia contains the seat of Coptic Orthodox Church. Date: circa 1907

Battersea Power Station - First Phase Operational
Battersea Power Station, London - on the banks of the River Thames - built in two phases. This is the coal-fired power station in 1934, with the first phase operational (two towers - the A Station)

Cartagena, Colombia - Old City Walls
Cartagena (de Indias), Colombia on the Northern Caribbean Sea Coast. The stone walls of the old city. Date: circa 1920s

Rex Motorcycle and Sidecar - on the beach at Margate. This particular model, launched after the end of WWI was powered by a new Blackburne engine

Medina, Saudi Arabia, featuring the old city walls
Medina, Saudi Arabia - Panoramic View, featuring the old city walls and a distant view of the Al-Masjid al-Nabawi Mosque. Almost all of the historic strong walls

1922 British Mount Everest Expedition - the first mountaineering expedition with the express aim of making the first ascent of the worlds highest peak

A Shilluk Warrior - Upper Nile, Sudan, Africa Date: circa 1920s

Barbizon, France - Bas-Breau Hotel
Barbizon in the Seine-et-Marne department in north-central France - Former home of Jean Baptiste Georges Gassies (French painter 1829-1919) and Charles-Emile Jacque (French painter 18131894)

The Beach at Famagusta, Cyprus, during the period of British rule (between 1878 and 1960) - now the capital of the Gazimagusa District of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Date: circa 1940s

Teacher Training College and Hostels / Halls - Bingley
Teacher Training College and Hostels - Bingley, West Yorkshire. The reverse of this card is from a student in residence at Alcuin Hall (named after the Yorkshire Educationalist) in 1912

Soviet Armenia - Kurdish Girls - Traditional Dance Date: circa 1930s

Lady from Vaud, Switzerland - Singer Sewing Machine
Lady from Vaud, Switzerland using a Singer Sewing Machine Date: 1894

Saudi Arabia - Mountains near Abha Date: 1976

Group of Edwardian Children - Clearly one family
Group of Edwardian Children - Clearly all related! The youngest is seated on a lovely turned wooden rocking chair. Date: circa 1908

The Bull Inn at Rochester, Kent. The setting for the opening scenes of The Pickwick Papers. Dickens himself stayed here. Note the Worlds largest chicken in the street, close to the coach entrance

Smoking Baby in a cigar box wearing a silk top hat. Not the best start in life health-wise... Quite bizarre. Date: 1904

Sri Lanka - An Early Chocolate Factory
Sri Lanka - An early Chocolate Factory - P. C. C. (Peradeniya Chocolite Company) Pure Chocolates & Confectionary. Date: circa 1910s

Miss Jose Collins - Ziegfeld Follies Singer
Miss Jose Collins (1887-1958) - Ziegfeld Follies Singer and actress. Date: 1923

Forth Rail Bridge, Scotland - spanning the Firth of Forth. The Bridge became a UNESCO World Heritage site in July 2015. Date: 1907

A Presidential Memorial Certificate - USA
A Presidential Memorial Certificate - presented to members of the US Armed Forces as a token of their service to their country

Tibetan fat-tailed sheep
A Tibetan fat-tailed sheep Date: circa 1910s

The bodyguard of the Sultan of Ternate in Singapore. The Sultanate of Ternate is one of the oldest Muslim kingdoms in Indonesia, established by Baab Mashur Malamo in 1257

Uruguay - Montevideo Fire Department and their engine Date: circa 1908

Sami People - Norway - with antlers and dogs Date: 1930

Queen Virginia II - Manila Carnival, The Philippines. Held from 1908-1939, the Manila Carnival was a two-week fair, organized as a goodwill event to celebrate harmonious U.S.-Philippine relations

Old Course - Moray Golf Club, Lossiemouth, Scotland
The Old Course at Moray Golf Club, Stotfield Road, Lossiemouth, Moray, with Beach and lighthouse visible - Scotland. Date: circa 1908

Edinburgh Marine Gardens, Portobello, Scotland. Marine Gardens Pleasure Park was constructed at Seafield, Portobello in 1909

Crathie Bridge over River Isla near Meigle, Scotland (extensively re-modelled in 1939). Date: circa 1910s

Large Flowering Sensitive Plant, engraved by Stadler after Philip Reinagle, in a book entitled The Temple of Flora by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837)

The Superb Lily, engraved by W Ward after Philip Reinagle, in a book entitled The Temple of Flora by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837). The book was published between 1799 and 1807. Date: 1799

Hyacinthus Orientalis (Hyacinth)
Hyacinthus Orientalis, also known as common hyacinth, garden hyacinth and Dutch hyacinth, drawn by Basilius Besler (1561-1629)

Snowy Heron, by John James Audubon
Snowy Heron, or White Egret, Ardea Candidissima, by John James Audubon (1785-1851). A colour plate in The Birds of America: From Original Drawings. Date: 1827-1838

Black-Billed Cuckoo, by John James Audubon
Black-Billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus Erythropthalmus, by John James Audubon (1785-1851). A colour plate in The Birds of America: From Original Drawings. Date: 1827-1838

A View of Blackfriars, attributed to Francis Smith
A View of Blackfriars and Saint Pauls from Somerset Gardens, attributed to Francis Smith

A View of a Fortified Aqueduct, by Joseph August Knip (1777-1847). Date: early 19th century

View of the Roman Campagna, by Franz Knebel
View of the Roman Campagna with a Claudian Aqueduct and a Distant View of St Peter s, Rome, by Franz Knebel The Older (1789-1822)

Miss Auras: The Red Book, by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941). The model was a German girl, Mary Auras -- she was a family friend who posed for several of Laverys paintings. Date: circa 1908

A West Wind, by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941). Date: 1911

Portrait of King James I, by John de Critz the Elder
Half length portrait of King James I, by John de Critz the Elder (c.1552-1642)

Pierrot and Harlequin, by Philippe Mercier (1689-1760). A scene from the Commedia dell Arte, in which Pierrot and Harlequin protect the honour of the doctors daughter

The War Baby published in The Sphere, No. 2071 on the 30th September 1939. Fortunino Matania, Ri (1881-1963). One of the most accomplished realistic illustrators and artists of his time

Trinket Box lined with velvet. On lid - a relief after Caton Woodville's painting of a battle scene, signed by the artist

A repouss鬠chased and engraved jardini貥 entitled Die Wiedereroberung, Lembergs (The reconquest of Lemberg). Extensively embossed with battle scenes, the town of Lemberg

A repouss鬠chased and engraved jardini貥 entitled Die Wiedereroberung, Lembergs (The reconquest of Lemberg). Extensively embossed with battle scenes, the town of Lemberg

A repouss鬠chased and engraved jardini貥 entitled Die Wiedereroberung, Lembergs (The reconquest of Lemberg). Extensively embossed with battle scenes, the town of Lemberg

Memorial Scroll and letter - 2nd Lt Edward James Knight
Memorial Scroll and letter commemorating the death of 2nd Lieutenant Edward James Knight, 7th Battalion, attached 10th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, died 12th May 1917

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