Hard Collection (page 6)

Our Coastguard (engraving)
1056273 Our Coastguard (engraving) by Staniland, Charles J. (1838-1916) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Our Coastguard)

Bazaar at Williss Rooms in Aid of Dr Barnardos Homes for Destitute Children (engraving)
1622208 Bazaar at Williss Rooms in Aid of Dr Barnardos Homes for Destitute Children (engraving) by Courbould, Alfred (fl.1831-75); Private Collection; (add.info)

His First Visit to the Barber s, "Hard or Medium, Sir?"(engraving)
1047256 His First Visit to the Barber s, " Hard or Medium, Sir?" (engraving) by Barnes, Robert (1840-95); Private Collection; (add.info.: His First Visit to the Barber s)

How Teddie and his Sister adapted a Nursery Rhyme (chromolitho)
1046865 How Teddie and his Sister adapted a Nursery Rhyme (chromolitho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: How Teddie and his Sister adapted a Nursery Rhyme)

The Prince and Princess of Wales in Denmark (engraving)
1041139 The Prince and Princess of Wales in Denmark (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Prince and Princess of Wales in Denmark)

The Serpentine, Hyde Park, London, during a hard frost (engraving)
586160 The Serpentine, Hyde Park, London, during a hard frost (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Manners and Customs of the Englishe - the Serpentine)

A new plan proposed for the punishment of highwaymen by hard labour on the roads (engraving)
608137 A new plan proposed for the punishment of highwaymen by hard labour on the roads (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Arcachon, Le Parc Aux Huitres (b / w photo)
2775228 Arcachon, Le Parc Aux Huitres (b/w photo) by French Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Arcachon, Le Parc Aux Huitres)

Calendar design - Humpty Dumpty
Design for a Calendar - Humpty Dumpty, having fallen from the wall - safe however as he had been hard-boiled. Date: 1933

Comic postcard, Pretty woman with a bicycle Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Struggling hard to earn a living Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Cockerel scratching for a living Date: 20th century

Building demolished manually, Bromley, Kent
A commercial building in Bromley, Kent, being demolished the hard way, by hand. Date: circa 1950s

Comic postcard, Lodgers and landlady - carving the poultry Date: 20th century

The Castle of Labour, from ;La voie de Povrete ou de Richesse
3112311 The Castle of Labour, from; La voie de Povreteou de Richesse (The Way of Poverty or of Wealth) by Jacques Bruyant

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - and NO matches
The Caption is ??? and NO matches. The Natzi wearing a saucepan on his head is confronted across a broken wooden fence by two boys, one with a make-shift bayonet and the other with a Union flag

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - England expects
The Caption reads - England Expects presumably evoking the Nelsonian flag signal to his fleet. It was everymans war. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1941

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Watch your step
The postcard caption reads Watch your step. The little girl is wearing white. Warime privations meant that fine materials for wedding dresses were hard to come by

Elk Hunting in India (engraving)
1616508 Elk Hunting in India (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Elk Hunting in India)

Women leaving "The Hard, "Portsea, for the Baltic Fleet (engraving)
1602142 Women leaving " The Hard, " Portsea, for the Baltic Fleet (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Women leaving " The Hard)

With the distressed hop pickers in Kent - a series of drawings by ILN Special Artist Mr H. C. Seppings Wright showing the poor conditions for hop pickers in Kent during bad wet weather

Skating, the Hard Frost and the Fire-plug. Apprentices and dandies ice skating on a frozen canal 82, woman with kettle at a frozen waterpump in a cold winter 83

Waterman, Ticket Porter, Fellowship Porter, Coachstand and New Milk from the Cow. Waterman, Ticket Porter and Fellowship Porter 79

Labourers, 1926 (oil on canvas)
SRM96545 Labourers, 1926 (oil on canvas) by Petrov-Vodkin, Kuzma Sergeevich (1878-1939); 96x106 cm; State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; eState Russian Museum; Russian, out of copyright

Workmen on oil rig supply ship off The Lizard, Cornwall
Workmen on the supply ship of the oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Winchman on oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles off The Lizard
Winchman on the oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Paysans (coloured engraving)
6016125 Paysans (coloured engraving) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Paysans. Illustration for Costume du Moyen Age, D Apres les Manuscrits, les Peintures)

A Diligent Boy (engraving)
6010502 A Diligent Boy (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A Diligent Boy. Illustration for The Infants Magazine (1876).); © Look and Learn

Bicycle in Daks 1940
Advertisement for the Daks suit from Simpson of Piccadilly, ideal for wartime wear in clean, dust-resisting whipcord, hardy corduroy or practical grey flannel. Date: 1940

Manufacturing hard steel rails for the railway. Date: 1880

Cartoon, John Bull and William Gladstone - Now, William, if you don t get on a little faster, I shall have to put somebody else on the job

The King of Belgium together with his staff officers digging out the trenches
486934 The King of Belgium together with his staff officers digging out the trenches, front cover illustration from Le Petit Journal, supplement illustre

Mr Arthur James (colour litho)
612736 Mr Arthur James (colour litho) by Ward, Leslie Matthew (Spy) (1851-1922); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mr Arthur James, A hard rider, 26 May 1904, Vanity Fair)

Men playing the Roman game of La Ruzzica, Italy
Men playing the Roman game of La Ruzzica (or La Rotuola, similar to throwing the discus), Italy. The circular object is made of heavy, hard wood. Date: early 19th century

Blue rush, Juncus inflexus (Hard rush, Juncus glaucus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany

Peat Mining, 1869 (oil on canvas)
474333 Peat Mining, 1869 (oil on canvas) by Wade, Thomas (1828-91); 90x70 cm; Private Collection; Photo ePeter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries, London; English, out of copyright

Soapmaker cutting hardened soap with a copper
Soap boiler making soap in a factory. A man stirs a vat of boiling fat and ley, while another cuts the hardened soap with a copper wire in wooden frames

A hard winter, feeding the deer at Chatsworth (engraving)
2788382 A hard winter, feeding the deer at Chatsworth (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A hard winter, feeding the deer at Chatsworth)

The Unemployed (colour litho)
3641684 The Unemployed (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Unemployed. Postcard, early 20th century. Signed: Elley (?).); © Look and Learn

Peat Carriers (b / w photo)
3103955 Peat Carriers (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Peat Carriers. Postcard)

Advert, James Mellis & Co, Prestonpans, Scotland
Advert for James Mellis & Co, Soap Manufacturers, Prestonpans, Scotland. 1905

Emigration - A melancholy prospect. 19th century

Front cover of How to be Happy though Married, E J Hardy
Colour front cover of How to be Happy though Married, Being a Handbook to Marriage by Reverend E J Hardy. Published by T Fisher Unwin, London, 1885. Date: 1885

Front cover of Manners and Rules of Good Society, or Solecisms to be Avoided, By a Member of the Aristocracy, published by Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1887 Date: 1887

Front cover of Manners for Men By Mrs Humphry
Colour front cover of Manners for Men by Mrs Humphry, " Madge" of " Truth", showing a lady and gentleman greeting each other cordially

"It is rather hard bread"(engraving)
966074 " It is rather hard bread" (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: " It is rather hard bread")

Young Kayan man making a blowpipe, Borneo, SE Asia
Young Kayan man shaping a piece of hard jagang wood to make a blowpipe, Borneo, SE Asia (then part of the British Empire). (1 of 6) Date: 1922

The War in Egypt, Action in front of Kassassin, 9 September, the Mountain Battery hard at it (engraving)
1622071 The War in Egypt, Action in front of Kassassin, 9 September, the Mountain Battery hard at it (engraving) by Dadd, Frank (1851-1929) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: The War in Egypt)

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