Open Collection (page 5)

Opening Oysters 1930S
A man prises open oysters at Scotts Oyster Bar in the West End of London. Date: 1930s

Queen Victoria at the railway ticket office
Queen Victoria depicted at the railway ticket office with her luggage, about to travel to London to open Parliament. Date: 1886

Pandora and Hope
When Pandora first opens her box, she lets loose all the evils that can plague mankind; but when she and Epimethus open it a second time, Hope appears

Clarinet, 19th Century
CLARINET - showing open & closed holes and keys, with cross-section of the mouthpiece Date: late 19th century

Engraving of a tree split by lightning
Engraving depicting a tree that had split after being hit by lightning at Hanwell, west London. When a lightning bolt strikes a tree

VAN GOGH: BIBLE, 1885. The open Bible. Oil on canvas, Nuenen, by Vincent Van Gogh

Pygmy Hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) adult female with young, yawning (captive)

Gordon Highlanders making kilts in the open air
A group of soldiers from the Gordon Highlanders, some smoking pipes, sit outdoors making kilts. One of them is using a sewing machine

Gardens at Tewin, Hertfordshire
View of gardens at the village of Tewin, near Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, showing many shades of tulips growing in an open, grassy area

Herring boats at St Ives, Cornwall, stored in an open space close to the beach

Grandfather welcomes his Granddaughter
A Grandfather, fishing in the shade of a tree by a quiet pool, welcomes his Granddaughter with open arms. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Fleet Street, London
A lovely view up Fleet Street, toward Ludgate Hill and St Pauls Cathedral

Kaiser Wilhelm II, Empress and Princess
Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941), with his wife the Empress Augusta Viktoria (1858-1921) and their daughter Princess Viktoria Luise (1892-1980), leaving Buckingham Palace while on a royal visit

Jealousy by H. M. Bateman
A dental patient sits prone in a the dentists chair with his mouth wide open while his dentist is momentarily distracted by the sight of workmen with much bigger drills across the road

Kings College students on buses
Kings College students in high spirits, on two buses which are about to leave the Strand campus for Wormwood Scrubs (an open space in west London, not the prison!) for a football match

Royal Irish Constabulary going by sea to enforce evictions
Members of the Royal Irish Constabulary going in open sailing boats called hookers to enforce evictions on the Islands of the West Coast of Ireland

A Fish Auction in Columbia Market
In 1869 Baroness Burdett-Coutts paid for the building of the great Columbia Market (for fish) between Hackney and Bethnal Green Roads on the site of Nova Scotia Gardens

First aid hamper supplied by St Johns Ambulance
A large first aid hamper (ie first aid kit) for ambulance station and railway purposes, supplied by St Johns Ambulance Association

Triplex Grate 1929
The TRIPLEX grate, with heated compartments on either side of the open fireplace

Nevsky Prospekt 1917
Government troops open fire on demonstrators in Nevsky Prospekt, Petrograd

Salcombe, Devon
Drinking in a pub garden, or the exterior seating area for a Hotel Bar at Salcombe, Devon. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Pleiades star cluster, infrared image
Pleiades star cluster, Spitzer infrared image. These bright young stars (blue) are surrounded by interstellar gas and dust (red, orange and green)

Man painting shutters on a house, Chinatown, Singapore, Asia

Tower Bridge open, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) yawning, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, East Africa, Africa

Henrik Ibsen / Oslo / 1898
HENRIK IBSEN Norwegian dramatist out riding with his brother in Oslo in 1898, showing the National Theatre (left) and Ibsens own statue (right)

J. H. Taylor, Golfer
John Henry Taylor. British Open champion, member of the Great Triumvirate and founding member of the PGA

George Bernard Shaw
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Irish writer standing looking in through an open window of the shed at the bottom of his garden where he used to write

Busy Fleet Street
Two labourers lift a box crate onto the back of an open carriage parked on busy Fleet Street

The Gate Open; The Gate Shut (engraving)
6010578 The Gate Open; The Gate Shut (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Gate Open; The Gate Shut)

Queen Victoria and her family, Windsor
Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children in the grounds of Windsor Castle. 1849

Euston Station, London 1837
Euston Station, London, in 1837, at the start of railway development and expansion. Showing a first-class carriage in the foreground

Ratner patent extra strong safe, fire and fall resisting, Grade 2, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

Ratner patent safe, fire and fall resisting, for registrars, Size No. 5, with details and measurements. Date: circa 1920s

An interior of the Penny Bazaar showing the open display, 1900 (colour litho)
2811012 An interior of the Penny Bazaar showing the open display, 1900 (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

From a Window at Kelmscott Manor, 1896 (platinum print)
STC176428 From a Window at Kelmscott Manor, 1896 (platinum print) by Evans, Frederick Henry (1853-1943); 18.8x12.9 cm; Private Collection; The Stapleton Collection; British, out of copyright

A Good Book, (oil on board)
651199 A Good Book, (oil on board) by Firle, Walther (1859-1929); 49.5x63.5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: A Good Book. Walter Firle (1859-1929). Oil on board

Brain Salad, caricature of Victor Hugo (1802-85) from the front cover of
CHT172465 Brain Salad, caricature of Victor Hugo (1802-85) from the front cover of Le Grelot, June 1871 (colour litho) by Bertall, Charles Albert d Arnoux (1820-82); Musee de la Ville de Paris

Meditation, (oil on canvas)
827260 Meditation, (oil on canvas) by French School, (19th century); 76.8x99 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Meditation. French School (19th Century). Oil on canvas

Opening ceremony by Queen Victoria, Great Exhibition 1851
25, 000 grangers and dignitaries with season tickets attending the grand opening by Queen Victoria on the 1st of May 1851 of the temporary glass structure, The Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, London

Party of people picnicking at Henley Regatta
A party of people picnicking at the Henley Royal Regatta, an annual rowing event held on the River Thames near the town of Henley-on-Thames, South Oxfordshire. Date: July 1888

The output of the Duke of Choiseul (1719-1785) of St. Peter
Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691-1765). Italian painter. The output of the Duke of Choiseul (1719-1785) of St. Peters Square in Rome, 1754. Gemaldegalerie. Berlin. Germany

Group of working men with a dog, France
Group of working men sitting on barrels, with a dog, France. Date: circa 1920s

Three women with a dog at an open window
Three women with a Jack Russell terrier at an open window. Date: circa 1900s

British soldiers bathing in the open air, WW1
British soldiers bathing in the open air during hot weather on the Western Front, World War One. Date: circa 1916

Man checking car engine in a field
A man in shorts, checking his car engine while parked in a field

Meissonier on Location
ERNEST MEISSONIER French artist, famous for his military scenes, sketched at work in the open air, while his dog sleeps. Date: 1815-1891

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