Prepare Collection (#11)

Boarding a Motor Cab
A gentleman asks the London cabbie how much the fare will be, while the two posh Edwardian ladies with him prepare to get in the motor cab with their pooch. Date: early 1900s

RFC training with Sopwith biplane, WW1
RFC (Royal Flying Corps) training during the First World War. Mechanics prepare an experimental Sopwith biplane for flight. An Avro biplane can be seen in the background. Date: 1914-1918

Air Scouts preparing a glider
Two Air Scouts lift and place the canopy on a glider with another Scout already in the cockpit. 1958

Women gut Herring - Lowestoft, Suffolk
Women gut Herring at Lowestoft, Suffolk Date: circa 1910s

St. Ives, Cornwall, gutting the catch
Gutting the catch of the day on the beach at St. Ives, Cornwall. Dinnertime for the seagulls! Date: circa 1930s

Ancient Irish Priests
A priest of the ancient Irish pagan religion, together with a heraldic bard, prepare to initiate an infant into the mysteries of their religion, watched by a symbolic dog. Date: early centuries AD

Sisters with Dolls
One sister draws the curtain as the two girls prepare to go to bed with their dolls, dressed in nighties like their owners. Date: circa 1885

Evening Dress 1912
Society people prepare for a night on the town. He wears a fur trimmed overcoat over his dress clothes, she wears a fur trimmed mantle & a toque with a vertical feather. Date: 1912

Pieter Burman
PIETER BURMAN Dutch scholar and poet - Fame trumpets his praises, a cupid carves his name on a monument while others prepare garlands to ornament his brow... Date: 1668 - 1741

Victorian Family Dress
A Victorian family prepare to look their best at church on Sunday Date: 1879

Person preparing dressed crab, Norfolk, England, july

Close-up of stone picker going over newly ploughed field, England, september

Tuna fisherman preparing bait on boat, pole and line fishing method, Pico Island, Azores, august

Woman preparing fish beside frogs in net at fish market, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

Fendt 716 tractor with stone picker, going over newly ploughed field, England, september

Comparison of cultivator prepared and not cultivated seedbeds, Kelso, Scottish Borders, Scotland, september

Person preparing cooked lobster, Norfolk, England, july

Man preparing meat and poultry at cafe, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

Bonaventure LH111 fishing trawler at harbour, preparing to go to sea, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland, july

Domestic Sheep, Scottish Blackface ewe, being prepared for show, Royal Highland Show, Ingliston, Edinburgh, Scotland, june 2011

Galileo navigation satellite launch. First Galileo navigation satellite launch. The payload on top of this rocket is GIOV-A, the first of the European Galileo navigation satellites

Nitrogen triiodide, 19th century
Nitrogen triiodide experiment. Apparatus being used to produce the sensitive contact explosive nitrogen triiodide. A feather is being used to handle the material to avoid it exploding

Tractor ploughing a field. Photographed in Wiltshire, England, UK

Sample pollen Sides in a lab
A tray of sample slides with pollen awaiting study. Photographed at the University of Haifa

Sample Sides in a lab
A tray of sample slides with pollen awaiting study. Photographed at the University of Haifa

Preparing sample pollen slides to viewe under an optical microscope. Photographed at the University of Haifa

Preparing sample slides with pollen to viewe under an optical microscope. Photographed at the University of Haifa

Mir-1 submersible at Lake Baikal
The Mir-1 submersible before a dive to the bottom of the worlds deepest lake

Spring by Adrian Hill
A ploughman guides his horses through the fields as they begin to prepare the land for crops in the spring

Salvation Army Food Depot kitchen, East London
Staff prepare food in the kitchen of the Salvation Army Food Depot on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. The depot provided basic food and shelter for as little as a penny a night

Lewisham Hospital kitchens, south east London
Uniformed catering staff prepare meals in the kitchens of Lewisham Hospital in south east London. A cook at the right is making up plates of salad. Large metal boxes carry the names of hospital wards

Arab women preparing trays of sweetmeatsm or Baklava in Iran

D Day rehearsals
Troops coming ashore during an exercise to prepare for the D Day Landings in 1944

Sri Lanka - Veddahs cooking
The Wanniyala-Aetto, or forest people, more commonly known as Veddas or Veddahs are an indigenous people of Sri Lanka - seen here preparing a meal

Preparing and spinning flax - Slovakia
Preparing and spinning flax - Kendertorok Ponikon, Zolyom County, Slovakia - formerly part of the Hungarian Empire. The woman on the right is breaking the flax

A French kitchen
A chef and maid prepare a sumptuous meal in a French kitchen. Dough has been rolled out on the side board and the chef decorates a three-tiered cake with flowers

Mexico - Tortilla Preparation
Preparing Tortillas in Mexico

Mexico - Tortilla Cooking
Cooking Tortillas fo the whole family - Mexico

Cook Doesn t Feel Like It, by H. M. Bateman
A humorous illustration showing a cook relaxing after deciding not to prepare dinner. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to the Sketch, the Tatler and the Bystander

Temporary station at Dover: the steamers prepare to start
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. After arriving in France however

Tunisia - Fritters sellers
Arab sellers of fritters, Tunisia

West Berlin Train Crew Prepare to Travel, Berlin, 1949
Photograph showing the crew of a West Berlin locomotive hoisting the banner Greetings to Western Germany onto the front of their train at the end of the Berlin Blockade, May 1949

Roman Women / Perfume
Two Roman women prepare perfume

Apache native American Indians attacking a ranch, c. 1887
Two Apache braves wearing breeches and head scaves prepare to attack a white Americans ranch. This image was made at the time of the last war between the Apache native American Indians

The Belgian Royal family
King Albert of Belgium seen with his family, the Queen Elizabeth, their daughter Princess Marie Jose (left), Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (middle) and Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant (right)

The Crew of an Emigrant Ship prepare for inspection, 1884
Engraving showing the Captain and officers of an emigrant ship checking their vessel in preparation for a Government Inspection, 1884. Date: 1884

Joffre and King Albert of Belgium
General Joffre in conversation with King Albert of Belgium (1875-1934), Commander-in-Chief of the Belgian army. Albert was credited with leading a gallant Belgian resistance against the German army

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