Nearby Collection (#4)

Seaman aboard ship
A Victorian Royal Naval seaman poses on the deck of a ship. A group of sailors are rowing a lifeboat nearby. Date: 1899

St Peters Orphanage, Isle of Thanet, Essex
The garden of St Peters Orphanage, Isle of Thanet. A group of women sit on the grass, one in a deckchair. Nearby, a girl holds a rake. Date: circa 1905

Barnardos Emigrants in Canada - boy outside home
A Barnardos emigrant outside his new home. A horse and trap stand nearby. Barnardos began sending children to Canada in 1872. Date: circa 1914

Lake George, New York State, USA
A man sits beside Lake George, New York State. A rowing boat lies nearby. Date: circa 1895

Bunker Hill monument, Charlestown, Boston
Built to commemorate the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first major conflict between British and Patriot forces in the American revolutionary war

Kent VAD ambulance at Ramsgate Town Station
A Kent VAD ambulance is parked by some buildings at Ramsgate Town Station in March 1916. Two sailors are carrying a stretcher. A man and a VAD nurse are leaning over the stretcher

Patients waiting for VAD transport
Three stretchers with patients are on the ground at the back of some vehicles. The patients have probably just arrived by ambulance train at Ramsgate Town Station

Stretcher bearers waiting for ambulance train arrival
A group of civilians are standing by parked ambulance vehicles inside a station building at Ramsgate Town Station. On the ground nearby are several stretchers

Social / German Plough 20C
A farmer ploughs his field, while nearby land is bought up by developers, turning the countryside into a suburb of the city Date: 1902

Philae Temple / Approach
Temple of Philae - approach. The setting for the temple was the island of Philae, and the buildings had to be reassembled nearby when the Aswan High Dam was built. Date: 1847

Sacrificed to Idol
DAHOMEY A native is sacrificed, slowly and uncomfortably, to please the idol in the nearby hut Date: 1905

Greece / Delphi / Village
A general view of the Delphi as a group of people ride and walk past a nearby village

Barnardo Waif Saturday, Birmingham
A well-dressed woman and two children collect money at a Barnardos fund-raising Waif Saturday held in the Birmingham area. A railway station entrance is nearby. Date: 1906

Loading a train on to the icebreaker Baikal
Loading a goods train on to the icebreaker Baikal. The smaller icebreaker Angara is nearby. Date: circa 1902

Horse & Trap, Chorley, Lancashire, England. Addressed to Bolton Road, Chorley - no stamp and possibly hand delivered - and the tone of the message also suggests that they were nearby

Sicily - Woman doing the laundery, Syracuse
Black and white Victorian lantern slide of a lady washing material and a baby sat nearby. Slide number 41 of Box 106 entitled Sicily Date: circa 1890s

India - Snake-Charmer and Cobras, Jeypore
Black and white. A crouching man blowing into a pipe with a basket in front of him. A cobra nearby is facing towards him. Beside the man sits a boy, who seems to be holding two more snakes

India - Snake Charmer and Cobras
Black and white. A crouching man blowing into a pipe with a basket in front of him. A cobra nearby is facing towards him. Beside the man sits a boy, who seems to be holding two more snakes

Servants Night-time Visiting Ban at Congleton, Cheshire
Following claims, in 1842, that the practice of allowing young men to pay night-time visits to female servants in agricultural areas of the Wrexham Union resulted in many single mothers at

Strand Union Workhouse, Cleveland Street, London
A view of the former Strand Union workhouse, later part of the Middlesex Hospital, on Cleveland Street in Londons Fitzrovia District

Dulwich Home Girls at Southbourne, Dorset
A seaside trip to Southbourne for residents of the Home for Girls at 62 Overhill Road, East Dulwich. The original home, the first to be established by the Waifs and Strays Society

Printing Shop, St Aldhelms Home, Frome
Men at work in the printing workshop at St Aldhelms Home, Oakfield Road. Frome. Linked to the nearby Sunnyside Boys Home, the print works produced literature for the Waifs and Strays Society

Baumes House, Hackney
at one time the seat of sir George Whitmore : a windmill stands nearby. Date: 1795

France Strasbourg
Old houses on the river Ill, which joins the Rhine nearby. Date: circa 1860

Fontainebleau Aerial
A bird s-eye view of the palace in the early 18th century : apart from the extensive gardens, the nearby forest provide magnificent facilities for hunting. Date: 1719

B. B. C. Aerial
The new B.B.C. Broadcasting House television aerial, dwarfing a nearby church. Date: early 1930s

Sick of the property tax or ministerial influnza, Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist, engraving 1816, ministers, among them Vansittart and Castlereagh

Jacob rotates the stone pit, Claes Jansz. Visscher (II), Nicolaes Visscher Jan van Londerseel (I), 1585 - 1625

Jacob and the men of Haran at the well, print maker: Jan van Londerseel, Gillis Claesz. de Hondecoeter, Claes Jansz. Visscher II, 1601 - 1652

Ueki fukujusAc uri, Plant seller. Torii, Kiyonaga, 1752-1815, artist, [between 1780 and 1820, printed later], 1 print : woodcut, color

Taira no Kanemori, Suzuki, Harunobu, 1725?-1770, artist, [between 1767 and 1769], 1 print : woodcut, color; 27 x 20.5 cm. Print shows a mother reclining next to her child

Azumabashi o wataru ichikawa omezAc to sawamura gennosuke, Ichikawa OmezAc and Sawamura Gennosuke crossing Azuma Bridge. Utagawa, Toyokuni, 1769-1825, artist, [between 1804 and 1810]

Engawa no wakashA to onna, A young dandy and a woman on a veranda. Suzuki, Harunobu, 1725?-1770, artist, [between 1767 and 1769], 1 print : woodcut, color; 28.3 x 20.9 cm

Shodan, First scene. Katsukawa, ShunshAc, 1726-1793, artist, [ca. 1785], 1 print : woodcut, color; 23.4 x 18.3 cm. Print shows a confrontation between a court official

Mino no kuni yAcrAcnotaki, YAcrAc waterfall in Mino Province. Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849, artist, [between 1890 and 1940, from an earlier print], 1 print : woodcut, color; 37.9 x 26.2 cm

HyAcgo chikutAc hitobashira no zu, Marking the new site for the capital at HyAcgo. Utagawa, Yoshikazu, active 1848-1863, artist, 1852

NakanochAc no hana, Blossom of Nakanocho. Ikeda, Eisen, 1790-1848, artist, [between 1818 and 1825], 1 print : woodcut, color; 36.2 x 25.4 cm

Komakata, Komagata near Asakusa. RyA'ryA'kyo, Shinsai, approximately 1764-1820, artist, 1810. 1 print : woodcut, color; 19 x 13.4 cm

Kinuta no tamagawa, Beating cloth (Kinuta) of The Six Jewel Rivers. Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849, artist, [between 1801 and 1805, printed later], 1 print : woodcut, color; 21.3 x 18.4 cm

TakuhatsusAc to araihari wo suru onna, Washing clothes. [between 1818 and 1830], 1 print : woodcut, color; 21.7 x 27.2 cm

Kesagozen, Kesa Gozen of the Heian Period. Torii, Kiyonaga, 1752-1815, artist, [1783 or 1784], 1 print : woodcut, color; 24.5 x 18.6 cm

1797-1858 1844 1858 23. 4 35. 4 Ando Hiroshige
Sumida gawa no tsuki, Moon over Sumida River. Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858, artist, [between 1844 and 1858], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 23.4 x 35.4 cm

1797-1858 1855 25. 4 37. 5 Ando Fuji Hiroshige
Yoshiwara, Andō, Hiroshige, 1797-1858, artist, [1855, printed later], 1 print : woodcut, color ; 37.5 x 25.4 cm. Print shows boats on a lake with trees and huts nearby

Tako ni noboru otoko, A boy flying a kite. [between 1830 and 1870], 1 print : woodcut, color; 22.8 x 16.9 cm. Print shows a man, hovering over nearby trees

Mino no kuni yAcrAc no taki, YAcrAc waterfall in Mino. Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849, artist, [1832 or 1833, printed later], 1 print : woodcut, color; 37 x 25.4 cm

Hagoita to takarabune, New Years badminton and ship of treasures. [between 1818 and 1830], 1 print : woodcut, color; 20.7 x 18.7 cm

Sarasikubi no zu, Beheading. [between 1800 and 1868], 1 drawing : ink and color over underdrawing; 38 x 27.9 cm. Drawing shows a head resting on a small platform on a post

Chidori no tamagawa, Plovers. Utamaro II, -approximately 1831, artist, [between 1806 and 1809], 1 print : woodcut, color; 21.6 x 15.8 cm

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