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Laying Collection (#3)

"Laying the Foundations: From Churchill Bricklaying to Sikh Troops Digging" In this captivating caption, we delve into various moments where the act takes center stage

Background imageLaying Collection: Gunners laying siege to a moated and fortified enclosure. Attackers are using earth-filled baskets

Gunners laying siege to a moated and fortified enclosure. Attackers are using earth-filled baskets called gabions to
529951 Gunners laying siege to a moated and fortified enclosure. Attackers are using earth-filled baskets called gabions to protect their guns and themselves

Background imageLaying Collection: Method of laying an artillery piece on target using Gunner's scale, paths of trajectories

Method of laying an artillery piece on target using Gunner's scale, paths of trajectories
541539 Method of laying an artillery piece on target using Gunner's scale, paths of trajectories and various ammunition shown. 18th century (engraving); Universal History Archive/UIG

Background imageLaying Collection: Ocean Cable, 1850

Ocean Cable, 1850
3479182 Ocean Cable, 1850; (add.info.: Ocean Cable. Workmen at the Western Eclectic company plant in Baltimore store a 23-mile length of armorless ocean cable in a tank for transfer to the new cable)

Background imageLaying Collection: R.R. follows British advance, 31 Oct 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

R.R. follows British advance, 31 Oct 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
R.R. follows British advance, 31 Oct 1918 (date created or published later). Railroad construction during World War I, described by the Imperial War Museum as "Battle of the Drocourt-Queant

Background imageLaying Collection: Laying the foundation-stone of Brean Down Breakwater, Weston-Super-Mare, 1864. Creator: Unknown

Laying the foundation-stone of Brean Down Breakwater, Weston-Super-Mare, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Laying the foundation-stone of Brean Down Breakwater, Weston-Super-Mare, 1864. View of...the moment when the stone was lowered from the little steam-boat the Wye

Background imageLaying Collection: Laying the foundation-stone of the Brisbane Bridge, Queensland, New South Wales, 1864

Laying the foundation-stone of the Brisbane Bridge, Queensland, New South Wales, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Laying the foundation-stone of the Brisbane Bridge, Queensland, New South Wales, 1864. The foundation-stone of the new bridge to connect the north and south portions of the city...was laid

Background imageLaying Collection: Laying the Foundation-Stone of the Fettes College, Edinburgh, 1864. Creator: Unknown

Laying the Foundation-Stone of the Fettes College, Edinburgh, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Laying the Foundation-Stone of the Fettes College, Edinburgh, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. M'Craw. A hundred boys at least will be taught in the school, fifty of them boarders

Background imageLaying Collection: Laying concrete for the dam's sluice, Beloomut, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky

Laying concrete for the dam's sluice, Beloomut, 1912. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Laying concrete for the dam's sluice, Beloomut, 1912. Workers and supervisors posing for photograph amid preparations for pouring cement for sluice dam foundation across the Oka River near

Background imageLaying Collection: Laying the Foundation-Stone of the Thames Embankment at Whitehall Stairs, 1864. Creator: Unknown

Laying the Foundation-Stone of the Thames Embankment at Whitehall Stairs, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Laying the Foundation-Stone of the Thames Embankment at Whitehall Stairs, 1864. Mr John Thwaites, chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, performed the office

Background imageLaying Collection: Prince Leopold laying the Foundation-Stone of a new infirmary at Bishop's Waltham, Hants. 1864

Prince Leopold laying the Foundation-Stone of a new infirmary at Bishop's Waltham, Hants. 1864. Creator: Unknown
Prince Leopold laying the Foundation-Stone of the Royal Albert Infirmary at Bishop's Waltham, Hants. 1864. The little town of Bishop's Waltham, in Hampshire

Background imageLaying Collection: Laying the foundation-stone of the O'Connell Monument in Sackville-street, Dublin, 1864

Laying the foundation-stone of the O'Connell Monument in Sackville-street, Dublin, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Laying the foundation-stone of the O'Connell Monument in Sackville-street, Dublin, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. W. H

Background imageLaying Collection: Laying the foundation-stone of the Hubberston Dock at Milford Haven, 1864. Creator: Unknown

Laying the foundation-stone of the Hubberston Dock at Milford Haven, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Laying the foundation-stone of the Hubberston Dock at Milford Haven, 1864. The foundation-stone...was laid on Thursday, the 11th August, by Mrs. Potter, the wife of Mr

Background imageLaying Collection: Ola

Ola
Dorota Gorecka

Background imageLaying Collection: Ola

Ola
Dorota Gorecka

Background imageLaying Collection: The road, my home

The road, my home
Jose Manuel Martin

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Boats
Dorota Gorecka

Background imageLaying Collection: Morning exercise

Morning exercise
Eiji Itoyama

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Deep Sea
Daisuke Kiyota

Background imageLaying Collection: Petit Choux

Petit Choux
Takaaki Ishikura

Background imageLaying Collection: be surrounded by

be surrounded by
silkandfire

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Maria
Mike Darzi

Background imageLaying Collection: Rose Laying the Table, 1914. Creator: Astrid Holm

Rose Laying the Table, 1914. Creator: Astrid Holm
Rose Laying the Table, 1914

Background imageLaying Collection: Prince Albert Laying the Foundation-stone of the New Wing of the Licenced Victuallers Asylum

Prince Albert Laying the Foundation-stone of the New Wing of the Licenced Victuallers Asylum, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Prince Albert Laying the Foundation-stone of the New Wing of the Licenced Victuallers Asylum, 1858....the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the above addition to the well-known building

Background imageLaying Collection: The Prince of Wales laying the Foundation-Stone of the Alexandra Battery, Gibraltar...1876

The Prince of Wales laying the Foundation-Stone of the Alexandra Battery, Gibraltar...1876. Creator: C.R
The Prince of Wales laying the Foundation-Stone of the Alexandra Battery, Gibraltar, from a sketch by our special artist, 1876

Background imageLaying Collection: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales laying the first stone of the Lambeth School of Art, 1860

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales laying the first stone of the Lambeth School of Art, 1860. Creator: Unknown
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales laying the first stone of the Lambeth School of Art, [London], 1860. The laying of the foundation-stone...by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales

Background imageLaying Collection: Les fetes du 9 decembre 1918 a Strasbourg; Le President de la Republique depose une gerbe... 1918

Les fetes du 9 decembre 1918 a Strasbourg; Le President de la Republique depose une gerbe... 1918. Creator: Unknown
Les fetes du 9 decembre 1918 a Strasbourg; Le President de la Republique depose une gerbe de roses devant la statue de Kleber, 1918

Background imageLaying Collection: Les fetes de la victoire en Belgique; le 22 juillet, a Bruxelles, M Poincare depose une... 1919

Les fetes de la victoire en Belgique; le 22 juillet, a Bruxelles, M Poincare depose une... 1919. Creator: Unknown
Les fetes de la victoire en Belgique; le 22 juillet, a Bruxelles, M Poincare depose une couronne au pied de Monument aux Morts, 1919

Background imageLaying Collection: Ceremony of Laying the Foundation-Stone of a Memorial to the late Marquess of... Ireland, 1857

Ceremony of Laying the Foundation-Stone of a Memorial to the late Marquess of... Ireland, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Ceremony of Laying the Foundation-Stone of a Memorial to the late Marquess of Londonderry, on Scrabo Hill, County Down, Ireland, 1857

Background imageLaying Collection: La part de la douleur; au soir du 'jour de Gloire': le pelerinage pieux des peres... 1919

La part de la douleur; au soir du "jour de Gloire": le pelerinage pieux des peres... 1919. Creator: J Simont
La part de la douleur; au soir du "jour de Gloire": le pelerinage pieux des peres et des meres, des veuves et des orphelins apportant des fleurs sur les degres du cenotaphe eleve a la

Background imageLaying Collection: His Royal Highness Prince Albert laying the Foundation-Stone of the Strangers Home

His Royal Highness Prince Albert laying the Foundation-Stone of the Strangers Home, near Limehouse Church, 1856. Founding of a building...affording all the comforts

Background imageLaying Collection: Ceremony of Laying the Foundation-Stone of the New School-House at the Philanthropic Society's Farm

Ceremony of Laying the Foundation-Stone of the New School-House at the Philanthropic Society's Farm, Red-Hill, [Surrey], 1856. The new School-house is the gift of Mr

Background imageLaying Collection: Her Majesty the Queen Laying the Foundation-Stone of Wellington College, near Sandhurst, 1856

Her Majesty the Queen Laying the Foundation-Stone of Wellington College, near Sandhurst, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Her Majesty the Queen Laying the Foundation-Stone of Wellington College, near Sandhurst, 1856. Founding of a college...for the education of the orphan sons of officers of the Royal Army

Background imageLaying Collection: Her Majesty laying the Foundation-Stone of the New Military Hospital at Hamble, near Southampton

Her Majesty laying the Foundation-Stone of the New Military Hospital at Hamble, near Southampton, 18 Creator: Unknown
Her Majesty laying the Foundation-Stone of the New Military Hospital at Hamble, near Southampton, 1856. Ceremony at the Royal Victoria Hospital

Background imageLaying Collection: The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone laying the Foundation-Stone of the School in Golden-Lane, 1856

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone laying the Foundation-Stone of the School in Golden-Lane, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone laying the Foundation-Stone of the School in Golden-Lane, 1856. Future British prime minister presides at the founding of a school for poor children in London

Background imageLaying Collection: Ceremony of the Commencement of the Great Puglia Railway, by the Neapolitan Minister of Public

Ceremony of the Commencement of the Great Puglia Railway, by the Neapolitan Minister of Public Works Creator: Unknown
Ceremony of the Commencement of the Great Puglia Railway, by the Neapolitan Minister of Public Works, 1856. From west to east it is intended thus to traverse the whole width of the peninsula

Background imageLaying Collection: The Lord-Lieutenant laying the Foundation-Stone of the New Museum, at Dublin, 1856. Creator: Unknown

The Lord-Lieutenant laying the Foundation-Stone of the New Museum, at Dublin, 1856. Creator: Unknown
The Lord-Lieutenant laying the Foundation-Stone of the New Museum, at Dublin, 1856. Ceremony on...the lawn of the Royal Dublin Society's premises

Background imageLaying Collection: Rosen, Walter T. Mrs. baby of, portrait photograph, 1915. Creator: Arnold Genthe

Rosen, Walter T. Mrs. baby of, portrait photograph, 1915. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Rosen, Walter T. Mrs. baby of, portrait photograph, 1915

Background imageLaying Collection: Alexander the Great on his Sickbed, 1806. Creator: CW Eckersberg

Alexander the Great on his Sickbed, 1806. Creator: CW Eckersberg
Alexander the Great on his Sickbed, 1806

Background imageLaying Collection: The Greek Poet Anacreon and Bathyll;Anacreon and Amaryllis (Bathyll), 1808

The Greek Poet Anacreon and Bathyll;Anacreon and Amaryllis (Bathyll), 1808. Creator: Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard
The Greek Poet Anacreon and Bathyll;Anacreon and Amaryllis (Bathyll), 1808

Background imageLaying Collection: Niels Klim thinks he hears the Deacon when he is awakened by a Bull, 1785-1787

Niels Klim thinks he hears the Deacon when he is awakened by a Bull, 1785-1787. Creator: Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard
Niels Klim thinks he hears the Deacon when he is awakened by a Bull, 1785-1787

Background imageLaying Collection: Ain Pehamss verheiss sich gen Zell... c. 1503. Creator: Master of the Legend Scenes

Ain Pehamss verheiss sich gen Zell... c. 1503. Creator: Master of the Legend Scenes
Ain Pehamss verheiss sich gen Zell... c. 1503

Background imageLaying Collection: The laying of the Memorial stone of the New Tower Bridge by the Prince of Wales, 1886

The laying of the Memorial stone of the New Tower Bridge by the Prince of Wales, 1886. Creator: Unknown
The laying of the Memorial stone of the New Tower Bridge by the Prince of Wales, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886"

Background imageLaying Collection: The Queen laying the Foundation Stone of the New Medical Examination Hall on the Victoria

The Queen laying the Foundation Stone of the New Medical Examination Hall on the Victoria Embankmen Creator: Durand
The Queen laying the Foundation Stone of the New Medical Examination Hall on the Victoria Embankment, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33

Background imageLaying Collection: All Souls Church - Laying of A Cornerstone, Washington DC, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing

All Souls Church - Laying of A Cornerstone, Washington DC, 1913. Creator: Harris & Ewing
All Souls Church - Laying of A Cornerstone, Washington DC, 1913. Ceremonies At 16th and R. Church Not Built There, Later Built At 16th And Harvard St. Front, 3rd From Left, Samuel R

Background imageLaying Collection: The South London Technical Institute at Battersea, 1891. Creator: Unknown

The South London Technical Institute at Battersea, 1891. Creator: Unknown
The South London Technical Institute at Battersea - The Prince of Wales laying the Foundation Stone, 1891. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 44

Background imageLaying Collection: Laying cobblestones in Montmartre (landscape with a cart), 1889. Creator: Maximilien Luce

Laying cobblestones in Montmartre (landscape with a cart), 1889. Creator: Maximilien Luce
Laying cobblestones in Montmartre (landscape with a cart), 1889

Background imageLaying Collection: Two Roman Bulls Resting, from Die Zwiete Thierfolge, 1800. Creator: Johann Christian Reinhart

Two Roman Bulls Resting, from Die Zwiete Thierfolge, 1800. Creator: Johann Christian Reinhart
Two Roman Bulls Resting, from Die Zwiete Thierfolge, 1800

Background imageLaying Collection: Two Dogs Resting, from Die Zweite Thierfolge, 1800. Creator: Johann Christian Reinhart

Two Dogs Resting, from Die Zweite Thierfolge, 1800. Creator: Johann Christian Reinhart
Two Dogs Resting, from Die Zweite Thierfolge, 1800




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"Laying the Foundations: From Churchill Bricklaying to Sikh Troops Digging" In this captivating caption, we delve into various moments where the act takes center stage. We start with a historical reference to Churchill bricklaying, symbolizing the importance of building a strong foundation for success. Moving forward, we are transported back to the First Remembrance Day in 1919, where solemnity and reflection lay heavy on our hearts. Next, an athletic young man lies on a stone floor with a ball nearby - perhaps contemplating his next move or finding solace in stillness. Picture No. 10887817 captures this moment perfectly, freezing time and inviting us to ponder its significance. Shifting gears, we encounter GLC-LFB's emergency tender fleet at work - their expertise lying in saving lives during critical situations. The mention of Brunel's SS Great Eastern reminds us of the monumental achievements that lie within human capabilities when determination meets innovation. Our journey then takes an exotic turn as we find ourselves on Goanabo Beach in Cuba. Here, a 1950s American car rests against the backdrop of the Caribbean Sea - showcasing how relaxation can be found even amidst vibrant surroundings. The caption also highlights Sikh troops diligently digging - emphasizing their commitment and dedication towards serving others and creating better tomorrows. Lastly, we encounter a heartwarming scene where man's best friend finds comfort while lying peacefully in a garden. A Goldendoodle named DOG embodies tranquility as it basks in nature's embrace. And just like that, from bricklaying to remembrance days; from athleticism to emergency response; from historic ships to idyllic beaches; from dedicated soldiers to loyal companions – "Laying" reveals itself as an intricate tapestry woven by diverse experiences that shape our world every day.