Tripod Collection (page 3)

Posing at the Pyramids, 1908. Artist: Lance Thackeray
Posing at the Pyramids, 1908. From The Light Side of Egypt, 1908

Herbert Ponting, British photographer, in the Antarctic, 1910-1912. Ponting (1870-1935) with a cinematographic camera on the Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913) to the South Pole led by Captain Scott

James Brindley, 18th century English civil engineer and canal builder, (1836). Artist: JT Wedgwood
James Brindley, 18th century English civil engineer and canal builder, (1836). Brindley (1716-1772) rests a hand on a theodolite

Look Pleasant, Please!, London, c1903 (1903). A street photographer takes a photograph of a young couple. From Living London, Vol. II, by George R. Sims

Firing The Rocket, c1880. Volunteer Life Brigades (VLBs) were set up to assist the Coastguard. They used shore based rocket equipment which was used to fire a line to distressed ships

Unhappy the Caproni They Happen to Spot, 1941. Allied soldiers in the Western Desert during World War II. From The War Illustrated: Volume 4 edited by Sir John Hammerton

The Battalion Signallers of the First Battalion, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Poona, In
The 1st Battalion took part in the Egypt Intervention in 1882, fighting in the second battle at Kassassin on 9 September and the Battle of Tel el-Kebir a few days later

How a girl should dress, 1907. A print from The Girls Own Paper, 27 April 1907

Albert Borlase Armitage, Scottish polar explorer, c1894-c1897 (1899). Artist: Frederick George Jackson
Albert Borlase Armitage, Scottish polar explorer, c1894-c1897 (1899). Armitage (1864-1943) using a sextant while on the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz-Josef Land in the Arctic

The Shackleton camp, Antarctica, Christmas Day, 1908. A photograph from British explorer ErnestShackletons (1874-1922) expedition of 1908-1909 on board the Nimrod

Five inch theodolite, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson, Volume II, Virtue and Co, London, 1866

Stand camera, 1904. A print from The Girls Own Annual, 22 October 1904

Bronze candlestick, late 13th-early 14th century, (1843). Artist: Henry Shaw
Bronze candlestick, late 13th-early 14th century, (1843). Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843)

Merchant at the Photographer, 1860s. Artist: Petr Mikhailovich Shmel kov
Merchant at the Photographer, 1860s. Found in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Le Garde Nationale aux Remparts, 1870-1871. Cartoon depicting a scene during the Prussian Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)

James Brindley, English civil engineer and canal builder, c1770 (1835). Brindley (1716-1772) rests a hand on a theodolite and points to the aqueduct over the Irwell on the Worsley to Manchester

Portrait photographers studio, c1880. The photographer, with his head under a black cloth, is focusing on his sitter. He is using a plate camera on a tripod

Photographers studio, c1895. The photogapher is focusing on his sitters. Above is a bank of arc lights. The use of bright artificial light meant that exposure times could be reduced to a few seconds

Portrait photography as a fitting career for a young woman, 1884. A female photographer uses a plate camera on a tripod to take a childs portrait in her studio

Street scene in Athens

Sculpture from the pediment of the Siphnian treasury, 6th century BC
Sculpture from the pediment of the Siphnian treasury. Apollo and Artemis prevent Heracles from stealing the Delphic tripod, 6th century BC

Portrait photographers studio, 1871. Taking a photograph using natural light only from the large window and skylight

Pottery Tripod Bowl with three rattle-legs in the form of Alligators, Chiriqui, Panama. At Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh

Wonderful Instinct of The Giraffe, 1865. Artist: George du Maurier
Wonderful Instinct of The Giraffe, 1865. By which it Escapes Diphtheria during The Winter. (N.B. A Positive Fact.) This cartoon pokes a little gentle fun at the giraffes at London Zoo

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