Write Collection (#10)

CHINA: PROFESSOR, c1919. A theatrical tableau of a Chinese professor writing in a book, surrounded by four onlookers, China. Stereograph, c1919

AD: WATERMAN S, 1919. American advertisement for Watermans Fountain Pen, 1919

Japan - Geisha writing a letter Date: circa 1902

A wealthy Chinese lady writing in the traditional style with brush and ink. Date: circa 1910

Different approaches to personal slights
" You Engleeshe you do not fight ze duel. Vat d you do ven you air insult?" " Oh, we write to the newspaper." Date: 1895

Young Russian Girl writing
I write to you, what else? Young Russian Girl writing a letter with a fountain pen. It looks as if quite a lot of blotting paper will be required... Date: 1910

Petroglyphs at Writing on Stone Provincial Park in Alberta Canada

Thailand, Bangkok. Shop owner writes tahi script into notebook at sunset

The Baroness De Beck, who in addition to starting a wine business in the City, has started a club for city men in Aldermanbury, London. 13 January 1926

Young men learning A TopFoto
Young men learning eTopFoto

A woman verger in Chelsfield, Kent. 1936

Territorials at camp at Lympne. A Territorial writing home. 1939

Matthew the Apostle was, according to the Bible, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus and, according to Christian tradition, one of the four Evangelists. Pictured with an angel. circa 18th century

Mr Tulliver ordering Tom to write a bitter condemnation of lawyer Wakem in the front of the family Bible. Illustration by Walter James Allen (active 1859-1891)

Boarding House Life: 1. Sometimes There Is A Great Scarcity Of Men (on One Occasion The Proportion Was 7 To 1), The One Being In Great Request Until It Was Discovered That He Was Married. 2

Knotted pencil, artwork F006 / 3778
Knotted pencil, computer artwork

Computer hard disk read / write head, SEM
Computer hard disk read/write head. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the read and write electromagnetic device (head) of the hard disk of a computer

Vocational teaching, 1916 C017 / 7864
Vocational teaching. Youths taking notes and being shown a demonstration on a course for student mechanics and millwrights

Teenage girl studying C013 / 4896
MODEL RELEASED. Teenage girl studying. Teenage girl studying using written notes and a laptop computer (left)

Children writing Merry Christmas on a board
A little girl writes Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year on a board, while her little brother looks at her, clearly very impressed at her writing skills. c. 1920

Detail of Arabian writing in an Ottoman illuminated manuscript about Muhammads life (16th c.). Miniature Painting. TURKEY. Istanbul. Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul

Scenes from Vie de St. Denis. Saint Santin and
" Scenes from " Vie de St. Denis". Saint Santin and "

Girls in Class / Iln 1911
East London schoolgirls are taught how to fill in census returns for parents who are unable to read or write English. Date: 1911

Watching outside. Cafe Literario is a comfy coffee place with a nice literary atmosphere in downtown Asuncion: Mariscal Estigarribia at calle Mexico. Asuncion is the capital of Paraguay

The cult inscription built by King Antiochus I Theos in honor of his father Mithridates, Arsameia Ruins, Adiyaman, Turkey

Prince Philip signing a register at the new LFB HQ
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, signing a register at the opening of the new London Fire Brigade Headquarters at 169 Union Street, London SE1 by Queen Elizabeth II

Learning to write. Drawing shows a boy, seated at a low table, writing with a brush. Date 1878 Dec

Free classes in English! Learn to speak, read, & write the language of your children.... Special classes for educated foreign born

Can vegetables, fruit, and the kaiser too - Write for free book to National War Garden Commission, Washington, D.C. Poster (reproduction) showing jars of canned goods, including Tomatoes, Peas

Two young carrying-in boys in Alexandria (Va. ) Glass Factory
Two young carrying-in boys in Alexandria (Va.) Glass Factory. Frank Clark (on left) 702 N. Patrick St. could neither read nor write, having been to school only a few weeks in his life

Advert for Swan fountain pens 1914
For the Naval men and Admiral to A.B. A necessity for the Paymaster, Doctor and writer. Date: 1914

Dog and Blank - 3
A bloodhound invites you to write your own message on this greeting card. late 19th century

Dunderpate in his dunces cap, sitting on a stool with a slate in his hand, wondering what to write. Date: 1938

Maillardets automaton: an drawing and a verse produced by the doll. Date: 18th century

Dog and Blank - 1
A labrador (?) invites you to write your own message on this greeting card. Date: late 19th century

Child Learns to Write
Instruction is the first good deed - a mother (or is she a muse ?) instructs a child in the use of the alphabet. Date: circa 1820

Dog and Blank - 2
A terrier invites you to write your own message on this greeting card. Date: late 19th century

Lady Brassey on Deck
LADY ANNA BRASSEY, first wife of Thomas Brassey, on the deck of the Sunbeam, of a voyage aboard which she will write an account. Date: 1839 - 1887

Scottish Highlander writing home
A Scottish Highlander writing home to his beloved. The postcard carries the byline: " Oh! Hang the Censor." Date: 1917

Letter to Mother

Bicycle / Girl Falls Off
A girl comes right off - and her bikes a write-off ! Date: circa 1900

Mother Hubbard / Writing
Mother Hubbard/Writing

Man Writing at Desk 18Th
A French gentleman writing at his desk with a quill-pen in the appropriate position : the elbow laying on the table and the light coming from the left-hand side. Date: Circa 1760

VCR head drum. This device is employed within a VCR to read and to write to the videotape. Data from the tape is converted into signals for the television

Autism spelled out using alphabet blocks. Autism is a condition in which a child does not display the normal responses to words, faces and toys

Alphabet blocks. Toy blocks depicting the first three letter of the Roman alphabet

Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist
A reproduction of a portrait of Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov

Boy with pens and exercise book
MODEL RELEASED. Boy with pens and exercise book. He is six years old

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