Write Collection (#11)

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

Boy counting on his fingers
MODEL RELEASED. Boy counting on his fingers to complete his maths homework. He is six years old

Hands-free telephone, 19th century
Hands-free telephone. This telephone represented an advance on earlier models as it included headphones. It was known as a bi-telephone

Reading a DVD, artwork
Reading a DVD. Computer artwork of a laser being used to read (or write) a DVD

Nib of a ballpoint pen. Ballpoint pens have an internal chamber filled with a viscous ink that is dispensed at the tip during use by the rolling action of a small metal sphere (blue)

Nib of a ballpoint pen, SEM
Nib of a ballpoint pen, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). Ballpoint pens have an internal chamber filled with a viscous ink that is dispensed at the tip during use by the rolling action of

PROY2A-00033
Napoleon dictating to his secretaries. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

BUSN2A-00155
Writing master using a quill pen. Hand-colored engraving of an illustration

Art and literature in the Augustine Age, ancient Rome
Augustine Age, ancient Romes flowering of art and learning under Caesar Augustus. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Schoolgirls in ancient Rome
Girls with writing implements in ancient Rome. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut of an ancient illustration

Metropolitan Police car with smashed bonnet
A Metropolitan Police car with a smashed bonnet and its door falling off

Spur to a guilty conscience - not writing to friends
All these write regularly - Why the Devil don t you? Spur to a guilty conscience - not writing to friends! This card illustrates those individuals who will oft communicate with the written word

Britannia and Eve cover January 1939
Front cover illustration by Carl Shreve for Britannia and Eve depicting a young woman deciding what to write in her diary

Mrs Thomas Hardy
Emma Gifford, first wife of Thomas Hardy. She died in 1912, inspiring Hardy to write some of his most moving love poems

Classroom Scene - North London School
An absolutely delightful photograph of a mixed class of school children, learning to write. They have each had to write the word cab, accompanied by a drawing of a horse-drawn cab

The Write of Way
Cartoon, The Write of Way. Love at first sight as a couple propose and accept by writing in the sky with an plane and on the ground in a car

I Remember that in 1870
Indignant members of a gentlemens club line up to write to the papers during World War I, no doubt to expound their views on the mishandling of the war

Children Write on Wall
Two naughty children draw a cartoon of a grumpy old man unaware that he is observing their graffiti just behind them

Jewish Voter at the Polling Station, London, 1910
Illustration showing an elderly orthodox Jew, at a polling station, London, 1910. This gentleman is shown indicating, to the presiding officer

China / Reading & Writing
Chinese peasants are taught to read and write as part of Chairman Maos Great Leap Forward

A Reminder to Write
Heres a pencil... heres a pen... heres a stamp... nows your chance to write

Woman Writes at Table
A lady leans forward to write a letter using a pen which she dips in an inkwell from time to time

Ladys Work Table
A ladys work table where a lady can write a letter or paint a watercolour!

Illiterate Workers Bill
An exact copy of a bill for 10s. 10d. sent by a bricklayer who could not write, to a gentlman for whom he had worked. The symbol for settled is very dramatic! Date: late 19th century

Writing home - Vietnam
A young, captured North Vietnamese soldier is allowed to write a letter home

Girl Writes in Snow 1890
A Victorian girl sets down her basket of holly to write a Christmas message in the snow with her umbrella

Calligraphy artist in a local neighbourhood hutong, Beijing, China, Asia

Busy street in Seoul, South Korea, Korea, Asia

Lamayuru gompa (monastery) seen through prayer flag, Lamayuru, Ladakh, Indian Himalayas, India, Asia

Fading painted writing on back street wall, Bayeux, Basse Normandie (Normandy), France, Europe

Cartouche of the pharaoh Seti I, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Scribes record crop in harvest scene, Tomb of Menna, 18th dynasty, Sheikh Abd el-Kurna, Valley of the Nobles, Thebes, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China, Asia

Walled village, Kam Tin, Hong Kong, China, Asia

Japanese Paper Prayers
At Ishiyama-dera, Japan, people write prayers on pieces of paper which they attach to the black rocks, following the example of two legendary lovers

Composing a Letter 1940S
A woman sits with her pen in her mouth whilst thinking about what she should write in her letter

Churchyard by Moonlight
The moonlit churchyard of Stoke Poges, where the poet Thomas Gray was inspired to write his famous Elegy Date: circa 1860

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