A Hunting Cheeta
1900s
Despite the caption, this is a leopard. Cheetahs have solid black spots. Leopards have spots & rosettes (brown patches surrounded by black).
People at work
Fruit sellers, Sri Lanka
On back:
Fruit Shop
c.1920
Publisher: Plâté Ltd, Colombo
Coal Merchants, Morocco
Marchands de charbon (Maroc)
Postmarked 1924
Farrier, Tangier, Morocco
TANGER Maréchal ferrand arabe
Arab farrier
c.1910
Published: A. Benzaquen, Tangier
Cotton cart
A Cotton Cart
c.1910
Publisher: The Phototype Company, Bombay
Arab merchants, Egypt
Marchand arabe
Arab merchant
c.1910
Photo by: C. Zangaki (this might be Constantine Zangaki.
Winter forest, Switzerland
La Forêt en hiver
Winterstudie im Walde
The forest in winter
Publisher: Phototypie Co, Neuchâtel (1912-1931)
Tower of London, London
The Tower of London
1900s
Publisher: H. Vertigen & Co (1906-9)
I’ve marked the locations of the cards below on this map. (Click for larger version.) The base map comes from Hipkiss’s Scanned Old Maps
Historic Royal Places: Tower of London (aimed at visitors)
Authorised Guide to the Tower of London, 1904 (on Project Gutenberg)
The Tower of London, officially Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill. It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest of England. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by William the Conqueror in 1078 and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new ruling elite. The castle was used as a prison from 1100 (Ranulf Flambard) until 1952 (Kray twins), although that was not its primary purpose. A grand palace early in its history, it served as a royal residence. As a whole, the Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat. There were several phases of expansion, mainly under kings Richard I, Henry III, and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout established by the late 13th century remains despite later activity on the site.
Wikipedia
The Tower of London was founded by King William the Conqueror. After his coronation on Christmas Day, 1066, William hastily ordered the erection of a wooden fortress between the Thames and the ancient Roman wall which then surrounded London. William began the building of what is now termed as the White Tower ten years later. A rectangular stone keep of Caen stone, designed as an impregnable fortress and as an impressive and awesome demonstration of his power to the Londoners. With ramparts which were fifteen feet thick at the base and walls soaring ninety feet high, the dominating shadow of the Tower loomed forebodingly over the huddled wooden buildings of medieval London, a visible expression of Norman power.
English Monarchs: The Tower of London in the Middle Ages
On the back:
TOWER OF LONDON
The Middle tower
The Middle Tower forms the principal entrance to the Tower of London, and protects the bridge across the most. It is the only Tower outside the moat.</em?
MT on map
Google Street View.