Images Dated 12th December 2016 (page 6)

Miss Rachel Sanger in The Bonnie Fishwife
Miss Rachel Sanger in the role of Maggie MacFarlane in The Bonnie Fishwife, a comedietta or farce in one act by Charles Selby. circa 1880s

Miss Heath in the role of Jane Shore
Miss Heath (1835-1887), actress, in the role of Jane Shore (title role of a play by W G Wills). circa 1880s

Cartoon, One of the Lords of the Creation -- a man is angry with his wife as he doesn t think the mutton has been fully cooked. 1827

Old Maid card game - Harry Hare in a hurry. circa 1950s

Old Maid card game - card back design. circa 1950s

M Huet as Charles VII in the opera Jeanne d Arc, Paris
M Huet in the role of Charles VII in Act 2 of the opera Jeanne d Arc a Orleans by Michele Carafa di Colobrano, at the Opera Comique, Paris. 1821

Old Maid card game - Jumbo the Gardener. circa 1950s

Poultry and game seller, St Petersburg, Russia. 19th century

Paul du Chaillu, French-American traveller
Paul du Chaillu (1831-1903), French-American traveller, zoologist and anthropologist. circa late 19th century

Studio photo of a fashionable woman in profile. 1936

Paterfamilias Reading The Times. 1862

Party Invitation - La Coupe Enchantee (a story by La Fontaine). 19th century

Panama City, Panama, South America
Panama City viewed from the sea, Panama, South America. 1847

Out with the Fire Brigade -- fireman warns man to keep clear. 1894

Out with the Fire Brigade -- fireman rescues woman and child. 1894

Pageant Vehicle and Play -- people performing and watching a religious mystery play. 1827

Out with the Fire Brigade -- firemen in action at a fire. 1894

Out with the Fire Brigade -- firefighters on their engine. 1894

German poison- gas 1915
Diagrams of various kinds of apparatus employed by Germans. 1915

Capturing German news: Irish answering enemy taunts
Capturing German news designed to undermine their allegiance: Irish answering enemy taunts in 1916. The taking of the placards: Munster fusiliers cross no-mans land by night

Industrial Ireland in wartime: how Belfast is doing its bit, including with making ships and munitions, gathering sphagnum moss for wound dressings, and sending men for the front. 1916

Old London Characters - Postman with bell

Old London Characters - Bellmen

Science / Leeuwenhoek
ANTON VAN LEEUWENHOEK Dutch naturalist, depicted discovering the microbe Date: 1632 - 1723

Second wave of French troops in German trenches, WW1
A second wave of French troops in a German trench during an attack, amid gas, in Champagne. After an advance by a first wave of soldiers, a second wave would clear out any Germans remaining by

The Fighting Line in Flanders, 1915
Areas of possession between the German and Allied armies on the Western front by the autumn of 1915. Despite the advances made by the Germans at Ypres

Loot by William Heath Robinson WWI
An unsuspecting gentleman walking his dog is being robbed by a group of Germen soldiers in a zeppelin using a hook and some rope. 1916

The Enemys aircraft by G. H. Davis
The drawing depicts a few of the more conspicuous types of biplane aeroplanes in use by the Germans in the First World War. The Gotha twin-engined biplane have an unenvible notoriety. 1918

Becoming fashions combined with true economy, WW1
A double page spread from The Tatler giving examples of economical outfits which could be purchased in wartime. Extravagant evening dresses are not featured but instead coat frocks

Tatler cover - Lady in riding breeches, Rotten Row
Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring a photograph of a young woman in Rotten Row, the famous and fashionable riding thoroughfare in Londons Hyde Park

Countess Curzon & Princess Helena Victoria making clothes fo
Lady Curzon and Princess Helena Victoria of Schlewig-Holstein - just two of the numerous workers in the YMCA work-rooms at Hertford Street seen at their sewing machines making under-garments for

Kitchener inspecting troops at Mudros, WW1
Sketches at the advanced base depot in Lemnos. Lord Kitchener making a surprise inspection of reinforcements at the Advanced Base Depot in Mudros on the Island of Lemnos

Army artist making sketches of enemy lines, WW1
A British Army artist shown working from the slender cover on top of the first line trenches in order to sketch the enemy lines. 1915

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