Uphill Struggle Collection

The ideal tourist bike, Brossard, 3 speeds, 1903

Forward with the Tricolour: French Infantry advance to Meet the Enemy, 1916. From " The War Illustrated Album De Luxe - Volume IV. The Summer Campaign - 1915", edited by J. A. Hammerton

Building a Pyramid, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Building a Pyramid, 1890. Most Ancient Egyptian buildings were made of mud brick and limestone as readily available materials. Monumental buildings were made of post and lintel

Brough Superior and sidecar of W Allan competing in the MCC Edinburgh Trial, 1930
Brough Superior s/car 980 cc. Event Entry No: 46. Driver: Allan, W. Place: M.C.C. Edinburgh Trial. Date: 6/7.6.30

Austin Chummy of CWB Marshall getting a tow at the NWLMC London-Gloucester Trial, 1931
Austin Chummy 747 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. GK57?. Event Entry No: 40. Driver: Marshall, C.W.B. Award: Silver. Place: NWLMC London-Gloucester. Date: 12.12.31

Horse towing a car up Ibberton Hill, Dorset, MCC Exeter Trial, 1930. Artist: Bill Brunell
M.C.C. Exeter Trial. Date: 26/27.12.30

Swift of JF Smeaton competing in the MCC Exeter Trial, Ibberton Hill, Dorset, 1930
Swift Vehicle Reg. No. YX8637. Event Entry No: 178. Driver: J.F. Smeaton. No award. Place: Ibberton Hill, Dorset. M.C.C. Exeter Trial. Date: 26/27.12.30

The Road of Victory - Stage VI, c1920. Artist: Bernard Partridge
The Road of Victory - Stage VI, c1920. From The Art of the Illustrator - Bernard Partridge and his work, by Percy V Bradshaw. [The Press Art School, London, c1920]

The Devonport Mail Near Amesbury, 1907. Artist: William Havell
The Devonport Mail Near Amesbury: Going Post through an Avalanche of Snow. Engraving by Robert Havell after a drawing by Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851). From The Connoisseur 1907-8

British infantry charging German positions, East Africa, World War I, 1914-1918. Stereoscopic card detail

Riding to Daijingu Temple, for Shinto festival of worship of the Sun Goddess, Yokohama, Japan, 1904. People travelling in two-wheeled rickshaws known as jinrikishas. Stereoscopic card. Detail

From the series Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets: Yamabe no Akahito, c1830. Hokusai, Katsushika (1760-1849). Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

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