New Images May Collection (#27)

Ye Red Spider Tea Rooms, Church Street, Rickmansworth. Date: 1916

Pedestrians clamber over street roadworks in Piccadilly in a rather dangerous manner by todays standards

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Cartoon, Dora Discomfited -- when peace returns after the end of World War One, we are once again free to write what we like without fear of the censors black pencil. Date: 1919

American advert for McCray Refrigerators - Snow White Opal Glass. Food compartments with run an electric motor with nickel-plated trimmings lined with white opal glass

A German guard on night watch in the middle of winter. Date: 1916

BATTLE OF ROCROI During the Thirty Years War, Conde defeats the Spanish with heavy casualties, an event which marks the decline of Spanish military power Date: 19 May 1643

Bersaglieri. Date: 1890s

A French Letard engages two German Aviatiks in the clouds Date: 1917

Russian sentinel on a lonely country road Date: 1890s

The death of Friedrich I in Calycadnus (Goksu), River of Cilicia. Date: June 1190

FIRST CRUSADE - Godefroi de Bouillon, leader of the First Crusade, proclaimed King of Jerusalem. Date: 1100

FIRST CRUSADE Preaching the Crusade. Date: 1095

FIRST CRUSADE Reception of Gautier-sans- Avoir by the King of Hungary, who permits him to pass through his territory with the Crusaders. Date: 1095-6

FIRST CRUSADE Crusaders leave the Holy Land. Date: 1095

Men in white shirts asphalting The Strand, London, outside Boots the Chemists. Date: 1950s

RUDOLPH VALENTINO Italian-American romantic film idol who died at a tragically young age Date: 1895 - 1926

GABRIELLE REJANE French actress out walking Date: 1898

British forces occupy Guyana. Date: 1803

Exterior of the Vienna Universal Exhibition, entrance and grounds. Date: 1873

Admiral Vernon bombards Cartagena. Date: circa 1741

Russian troops abandon their guns and retreat before the advancing Germans Date: 1916

HENRY II (1133 - 1189) King of England (1154-89) with Henry I alongside

Johanna Rosina Wagner (1774 - 1848), mother of the composer (1813) ;after Wagner
Johanna Rosina Wagner (1774 - 1848), mother of the composer (1813); after Wagners father died, she married Ludwig Geyer, who thus became the composers stepfather. 1813

TOY CAT, a little girl with an enormous bow in her hair stands on a garden bench with her toy cat in order to have her photograph taken

A little girl in lacy dress and cap poses with a toy bulldog Date: circa 1915

Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882 - 1951), son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, seen here in uniform during the First World War. Date: 1916

A little girl with an enormous bow in her hair stands on a garden bench with her toy cat in order to have her photograph taken

Outside a photographic establishment - I say, sir - heave us up to have a look at them pictures ! Date: 1856

BERTHA FELICE SOPHIE VON SUTTNER, nee Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau Austrian novelist and pacifist Date: 1843 - 1914

Encouraged by Paul, the magicians of Ephesus burn their books, an act of vandalism for which it is difficult to forgive them

Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men - an act of vandalism for which it is difficult to forgive them

BATTLE OF ROCROI Louis II Conde - thats him on the white horse - inflicts a severe defeat on the Spanish under Don Francisco de Melo Date: 19 May 1643

A device used to float messages down the Seine and out of the city. Date: 1870 / 1
A device used to float messages down the Seine and out of the city. Date: 1870/1

Second Battle of Aboukir: General Abercromby leads 5000 British troops as they disembark under heavy fire. The French force of 2000 are driven from their positions. Date: 8 March 1801

AUGUSTE RODIN (1840 - 1917), French sculptor: a satirical view Date: 1898

Napoleons triumphal entry into Milan. Date: 1797

The storming of Badajoz. Date: 6 April 1812

Gustavus Adolphus lands at Peenemunde to fight for the Protestant cause against the Austrian empire Date: 1631

Gustavus Adolphus lands at Peenemunde and falls on his knees to thank God for bringing him safely to fight for the Protestant cause against the Austrian empire Date: 1631

Louis IX of France sets sail for the Holy Land which he hopes to reconquer; alas, he himself gets captured by the Saracens and has to be ransomed at great expense Date: 1248

The British, under Edward III, take Caen Date: 1346

French knights discuss with the emissaries of the Sultan the terms whereby Louis IX, captured by the Saracens, might be ransomed and permitted to go home Date: 1250

Bergerac is besieged by le duc d Anjou Date: circa 1345

After a siege lasting almost a year, Calais is forced to surrender to the English under Edward III : it will be more than 200 years before the French get it back again Date: 4 August 1347

COMBAT DE TRENTE (battle of Thirty) wherein 30 Englishmen engaged 30 Frenchman in hand- to-hand combat at Ploermel, Bretagne Date: 1350

Thomas of Woodstock, fourth earl of Buckingham, is sent with an army to assist the duc de Bretagne : they cross the Channel with flags flying and trumpets blaring... Date: 1380

DEFENCE OF PARIS Marechal Moncey organises resistance at the Barriere de Clichy, as the Allies approach and no help is forthcoming from Napoleon Date: March 1814

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