Illuminating Collection

RAINBOW
A magnificent rainbow arch seems to form a bridge from land to sea, illuminating the foreground fields in iridescent light while the rain clouds disperse

Lighting up the face of the Clock Tower, London 1900
Every night the caretaker climbs the spiral steps of the the Clock Tower (Elizabeth Tower) to ignite the gas lights behind the dials of the infamous clockface so that London can see the time

Early electric light illuminating a fountain Rome, Italy
c.1900 century vintage photograph: early electric light illuminating a fountain near the terminus, Termini station, Rome, Italy

Lune Date: 1683

Destroyers attacking a Battleship by night. Date: circa 1910s

Ufos / Moreno Ranch
An isolated ranch at Trancas, Tucuman, is the focus of UFO activity, seemingly hostile : other witnesses testified to six discs, illuminating the ground with their searchlights Date: 21 October 1963

Royal visit to India: preparations in Bombay 1875
Royal visit to India: preparations for illuminating Bombay. Students of the Jamsetjee Jheejebhoy school of art putting up decorations to welcome Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII)

The Torch of Night
A woman flies through the air carrying a torch to light her way in the darkness. 1899

Lightship on Lake Garda illuminating a yacht in the night sky. Date: circa 1910

Spotlights on Stage
Eight spotlights are projected onto the serpentine dancer on stage, illuminating her so that she seems to be performing in mid-air. Date: 1901

Illuminating 15c & 16c
Examples of fifteenth and sixteenth century illuminating. Ornaments and large initials, ornamented with raspberries, daisies, and a butterfly

English Illuminating 12c & 13c
Initials by English illuminators, 12th and 13th century

Illuminating 13c
Examples of thirteenth century illuminating

Seam welding aluminium plate
Two welders seam weld aluminium metal plates onto the curved framework of a large domed liquid methane tank at Canvey Island. Photograph by Heinz Zinram Date: 1966

Chicago by night 1911
As the sun goes down, the electric lights go on, illuminating shop fronts in Chicagos commercial centre. Empty tram lines run down the middle of the street

An oil field at night - Middle East
A view across an oil field at night with fires and explosions of light illuminating the scene - definitely in the Middle East, likely to be in Iran or Iraq

Colour transparencies being viewed on a lightbox book
A colour photograph album invented by M. P Duchenne. In 1910, technology had not enabled colour images to be printed on paper, only as glass plates

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