Key Collection (#56)

The General Strike - food convoys leaving docks
The last food convoy to leave the Royal Albert Docks before the termination of the General Strike. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts

The General Strike - peeling potatoes in Hyde Park
A Snap-Shot of Striketime Society: Lady Mary Ashley-Cooper and Lady Carmichael-Anstruther peeling potatoes in Hyde Park. Front cover of The Sketch emergency issue produced during the General Strike

The General Strike - a food convoy
Armoured convoy leaving Hyde Park at daybreak during the General Strike. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts

The General Strike
Cartoon sketch of a society lady helping out during the General Strike, accompanied by her pet poodle. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts

British and American troops singing beside a Sherman Flail T
Photograph showing British and American troops having a sing-song in front of a Sherman Flail tank, near Geilenkirchen, late 1944

Sebastopol Defences
Interior scene in the Mamelon Vert, a key position overlooking the city, during the siege of Sebastopol

Taking the Malakoff
The French take the Malakoff, the key position in the Russian defences of the city

Sebastopol - the Redan
British flags fly over the Redan, a key position in the attack on the besieged city

China / Capture Hill Pass
During the Korean War, the Chinese Peoples Volunteers take a key mountain pass

Early Stonehenge Drawing
A wonderful early drawing of Stonehenge, not too over-elaborate in detail, and showing some early 17th century archaeologists and the bones that are digged up !

American Civil war. Confederates trapping a boats crew of t
The Potomac River, Virginia, was one of the key battle grounds during the Civil War. This scene shows a Confederate soldier shooting towards the shore from where the Unionists were firing at

Fashions for Feb. 1861
Green: wrap-over dress, Greek key border; grey & purple: d.b bodice, revers, ribbon centre & floating ends; blue plaid dress with braces, Swiss belt, habit-shirt & ankle boots

Knight of Golden Key
Knight of the Golden Key Spain

Key Buildings 1850 / World
A comparative view of the principle buildings of the World in 1850 including the High Level Bridge - St Peters Rome - The Great Pyramid - The Porcelain Pagoda in Nanjing

Crossness Opened
J W Bazalgette opens the Southern Pumping Establishment at Crossness, a key item in his Main Drainage system for Metropolitan London

Nerve-Soothing Cigarette
Are you a key juggler? Camel cigarettes advertised as soothing to the nerves

FITZGERALD (1896 - 1940)
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY FITZGERALD - American writer

Dame Marjorie book, Dedication
Dedication: Dame Marjorie is about to open up the cupboard and show the treasures inside to the children

Popes balcony and statue of St. Peter outside St Peters Basilica, Vatican, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

A key frozen in ice
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Chocolates
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Saint Peter with Key
SAINT PETER, apostle and first pope, depicted holding the Key of the Kingdom, entrusted to him by Jesus

Spanish Prisoners
SPANISH PRISONERS The first group of Spanish prisoners are taken from Cuba to Key West, Florida

Newgate Prison 1735
Prisoners in Newgate prison

Boer War; Lombarskop
LOMBARDSKOP The destruction of the Boer Long Tom gun on Wagon Hill, the key to the defence of Ladysmith

Saint Peter (Butler
SAINT PETER the first Pope, depicted holding the key of the kingdom, the Vatican (though not built till much later) in the background

Cross Paris Street 1815
White robe with sleeves en bouffants, high ruff & multiple flounces at the hem, a Kashmir shawl & a black high crowned hat with ostrich plumes. Her key is tied to a handkerchief

Bluebeard warns her about the key to the room she is forbidden to enter

A Merchants Ship
A merchants ship with a key in English and Latin

Revelations Chapter 20
Revelations, Chapter XX, Ver.2 Satan is bound for a thousand years

Dream Chart
The key to your dreams : a sorcerer and a witch, with their sinister familiars, reveal your destiny when you tell them your dreams, for everything has a meaning !

Actors and Audience
Monkey actors perform to a box of snakes, one of whom holds a key... what for ?

Mourning Dress 1844
Mourning Dress: black lace dress with two deep flounces beneath small puffings (bouillon); dress with caraco bodice & ruched trim open to reveal a chemisette

Joe Willet Leaves
Joe Willet bids farewell to Dolly Varden in the workshop of the Golden Key, watched in secret by Simon Tappertit

Castle & White Cliffs
Dover Castle & environs with a key marking out various new roads, two churches, signal house & Guildford Battery which is linked to the castle by a passage through the rock

Dartmoor Warders 1910
Group photograph of warders at Dartmoor Prison, outside the front entrance. We trust the inmates were safely under lock and key at the time

The Gates of Hell
Saint Michael turns the key in the gates of Hell, locking the damned inside to be punished for ever, and ever, and ever

Morse / Electric Telegraph
Morse telegraphic apparatus Card 2 of 2 B - the receiving end C - the " key" which produces the break of contact

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