Experience Collection (#2)

Jack London and Bert hop picking
The writer Jack London (right) and a companion in Kent to experience hop-picking. London was in England for several weeks, living incognito amongst the poor in the East End of London. Date: circa 1902

Mapparium - Stained Glass Globe - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
The Mapparium - a three-storey tall glass globe of stained glass that is viewed from a 30-foot-long (9.1 m) bridge through its interior

Andre Jacques Garnerin, first man to descend in a parachute, standing in the gondola of his parachute waving a French flag after release from his balloon (shown at left)

Gulliver / Lilliputians
The Lilliputians clamber all over Gulliver: he compares the experience to an army of rats walking on their hind legs

Ufos / British Columbia /
Domed disc seen by Frank Slotta near Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia, leading to a missing time experience

Fate Magazine cover, Bridey Murphy in Ireland
Cover of Fate Magazine, depicting Bridey Murphy (alias Ruth Simmons, alias Virginia Tighe) -- the subject of a reincarnation experience visiting Ireland, home of the supposed Bridey Murphy

Art deco sketches of the dining experience, London, 1921 Date: 1921

Tiny passageway at the base of a column - Nara, Japan
Tiny passageway at the base of a column within the Todai-ji (Eastern Great Temple), a Buddhist temple complex located in the city of Nara, Japan

Experiments on the phone from Dr. Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), to transmit the human voice over long distances. Boston, 1877. United States. 19th-century colored engraving

Advert for Parkinsonism cooker 1929
The Parkinson New Suburbia Gas Cooker - experience plus experiment equals success Date: 1929

Paranormal apparation: shining infant & Viscount Castlereagh
Robert Stewart(1769-1822), Viscount Castlereagh, staying in an Irish castle, is visited by this shining infant, known to appear there; later he sees it in the Commons. Date: circa 1800

The jockey Stephen Donaghues racing dramas (1926)
Frank Bullock (Australian jockey champion- seen left) visited the Islington studio one day to see how his colleague Stephen Donoghue (far right) was enjoying his film experience

AEG G III German three-man bomber which made its prototype debut in December 1916, and was delivered to KG I in spring 1917

Experiments with the phonograph in the Royal Institution, 1878. Professors John Tyndall and W.H. Preece Speaking into Phonograph. Engraving

Naval Recruiting Officer and Actor - WWI humour
Naval Recruiting Officer: And what experience have you had. Actor (wishing to join): Quite considerable. I was two years a midshipman in HMS Pinafore

French soldiers - an old hand and new recruit by Georges Sco
Piou-Piou the veteran and Piou-Piou the recruit: Tips from the Lips of Experience. An old, experienced hand takes a new recruit under his wing in the French trenches. Date: 1915

Thomas Kent, gardener from the west of England, who underwent a conversion experience on hearing a sermon on the Prodigal Son, and turned over a new leaf

Russian Peasants Experience Electricity
Russian Peasants experience the first Electricity in their village in 1925. Date: 1925

Edward Howard, Writer
EDWARD HOWARD British naval officer who put his experience to good use in a series of nautical novels. with his autograph. Date: ? - 1841

Liverpool and Manchester Railway - First Class Carriage. Date: 1838

A. D. Nineteen Fifty
Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, originally published in The Bystander magazine on 29 September 1915 and subsequently issued as part of his Fragments from France, and, as here

An old actor lays down the law to a journalist
Old actor (laying down the law to Journalist) - " And let me tell you that when I speak, I know what I m talking about, I ve seen the world - Peckham - everywhere!" Date: 1900

The Conversion of Paul the Apostle / King Saul
The Conversion of Paul the Apostle - told as the conversion of King Saul. circa 19th century

Experience Aerostatique de Mrs Robert
Plate showing Expe

Experience Aerostatique Faite ࠌyon
Plate showing Expe

Experience of globe of the brothers Anne-Jean and Marie-No묠 Robert in the Tuileries Garden (19th September 1784). First hydrogen balloon.. Engraving

Book cover design, Through the Air: a Narrative of Forty Years Experience as an Aeronaut, by John Wise, Philadelphia: To-day Printing & Pub. Co, 1873. Showing a balloon over the sea. 1873

Grande experience aerienne par MM Thibault, Gourier & W. de Fonvielle esplanade des invalides dimanche 28 juin 1885 a 2 heures Grande experience aerienne par MM Thibault, Gourier & W

La quatorzieme experience aerostatique de M. Blanchard accompagne du Chevalier Lepinard faite e Lille en Flandre, le 26 aout 1785 Dediee e Messieurs les Magistrats de la ville de Lille en Flandre

A consultation. Date c1871

Experience aerostatique faite Versailles le 19 sept. 1783. Vue d optique shows the balloon launched by the Montgolfier brothers ascending from the Palace of Versailles, France

3eme et derniere experience de descente en parachute par Melle. Garnerin, au Champ de Mars, dimanche 21 avril, a son profit

Experience du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert, au Jardin des Thuileries le 1er decembre 1783. Print shows Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles

Experience de la machine areostatique. Vue d optique shows the Montgolfier brothers balloon, The Globe, ascending from Champ de Mars, Paris, France, August 27, 1783. Date 1783

Experience aerostatique faite e Lyon; d un ballon de cent pieds de diametre le 10 i.e. 19 janvier 1784, e midi 48 minutes

Seconds voyageurs aeriens, ou experience de MM. Charles et Robert faite a Paris dans le parterre du Jardin royal des Thuilleries le I. decembre 1783. Vue prise du Pont Royal

Arenes du sport aeronautique sous la direction de Eugene Godard, aine, lundi de Paques, 6 avril 1885, e 2 heures. Experience publique de navigation aerienne, systeme A. Brisson (Brevete SGDG)

Nouvelle experience de Mlle. Elisa Garnerin. Avis. Broadside announcing a parachute jump at Rouen, France, by Elisa Garnerin, who made many parachute descents between 1815 and 1836

Scout in cockpit of Miles Magister
Scout wearing an aviator hat sitting in the cockpit of a Denham Flying Club Miles Magister. circa 1950s

Scouts with Elliotts Primary EoN Glider
One Scout of the 18th Walsall Group sits at the cockpit of a Elliotts Primary EoN Glider, demonstrating how to fly it, while two other scouts sit on the ground watching. 1940s

Air Scouts taking off in glider
A Slingsby T.21 Glider taking off with Air Scouts at the controls at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Scout glider in flight
Slingsby T.21 Glider flying with Air Scouts at the controls at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Sea Scout training ship
The Irish Lightvessel Albatross which was used as a Sea Scout training ship in Dun Laoghaire harbour. 1970s

Air Scout in glider
An Air Scout sits smiling in the cockpit of a glider at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

Cubs learning about the Royal Navy
A young Naval Officer explains aspects of a Royal Navy ship to a group of Cub Scouts in Aden, Yemen. They lean over a piece of equipment and the officer points at one of the boys. circa 1968

Sea Rangers learning about Royal Navy
A young Royal Navy officer talks to a group of Sea Rangers about the work of the Royal Navy, pointing to aspects of the ship in Aden, Yemen. circa 1968

Scouts and Guide with a glider
Two Air Scouts and a Girl Guide sitting in the cockpit of a Slingsby T.21 glider at Lasham Gliding Centre. 1960s

P. M. Scott, National Gliding Champion
P.M. Scott, winner of the 1963 National Gliding Championships, sitting in an Olympia 419 glider at the Lasham Gliding Centre

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