Million Collection

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs - Time of Great Change
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs - Cretaceous Period - a time of great change, about 80 Million Years ago. Illustration by Neave Parker (with the co-operation of Dr. W. E. Swinton)

Mormon Temple
The Mormon Temple, Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah built 1893 at a cost of nearly $4 million !!!

Advert / Ogdens Tobacco
Ogdens : " Suit the Million and the Millionaire"

The Millionth Ton of Supplies reaches Berlin, 1949
Photograph showing Flight Lieutenant K.J. Ryall of the Royal Air Force handing a sack, representing the millionth short ton of supplies to be flown into Berlin during the airlift, to Dr

Carboniferous L scape
A forest during the Carboniferous era Date: 360-286 million BC

One Million German Mark banknote - 1923 - testament to the hyperinflation experienced by the Weimar Republic in the early 1920s. Date: 1923

JOHN ELWES (formerly Meggott) miser, son of two misers, who nevertheless left 800 000 (equivalent of 80 million ?) to his nephew and his natural sos"

Faust in Witches Kitchen
Methinks, a million fools in choir are raving and will never tire

Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
People on the Boardwalk, Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

British merchant ship war losses by G. H. Davis
British merchant ship war losses during the Second World War: the toll of oversea supplies. Britain lost through enemy action 2570 ships and over 11 million tonnage

Little girl at a window -- No Walk Today
A little Victorian girl stands at a window, watching the rain -- a black and white reproduction of a painting by Sophie Anderson entitled No Walk Today

Water shortage and supply: Londons water stores, 1921
Seriously depleted by drought: Londons water stores in 1921 for seven million people, spread over 558 square miles.The Thames estuary is viewed looking east, towards the sea

BEN-HUR (NOVARRO)
Arguably the greatest of Hollywoods silent epics, Fred Niblos 4 million dollar film stars Ramon Novarro in the title role, Francis X Bushman as Messala. Date: 1925

Wunstorf Airfield, near Hanover, 1948
Photograph showing Wunstorf Airfield, near Hanover, in the British controlled zone of Germany, with a large number of Dakota and York airplanes lined up for use during the Berlin Airlift, 1948

Chicago Stockyards 9
Two-thirds of the 8 million pigs that enter the Chicago stockyards are destined for pork joints : the rest are used to make sausages. England is a major client

Sir James Brooke / Census
SIR JAMES BROOKE Governor of Labuan, later Rajah of Sarawak, at a time when the overseas population of the British Empire numbered 139 million

Cartoon, The Macmillion (Andrew Carnegie)
Cartoon, The Macmillion -- Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919), Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist

Wonder Well - 2375ft deep - Grosse Ile, Michigan (the largest Island in the Detroit River) - daily flow of 2 million gallons. Date: cira 1930s

Binions Horseshoe Club, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- one million dollars in cash on display in the form of one hundred ten thousand dollar bills, inside a giant golden horseshoe. circa 1964

Stationery, Lockwood & Bradley Ltd, Tailors
Stationery, Lockwood & Bradley Ltd, Londons Leading Tailors, Old Street, City Road - From the Mills to the Million. 1930

Photograph showing Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945), the Italian dictator, testing a radio set during the Italian Army manoevres of August 1936

Ocean liner books, collection of ten
OCEAN LINER/BOOKS, collection of ten, hardbound volumes including Tramps and Ladies by Sir James Bisset and Sail Ho by the same

The Military Tournament, cutting the lemon - soldier on horseback Date: 1893

Cunard Line, QE2 turbine blade limited edition
Cunard Line, QE2 turbine blade. In 1986 the Queen Elizabeth 2 underwent a £90 million refit that marked the end of her life as a steamship as her turbine engines were replaced by a diesel

Charles Laughton, Tetsu Komai, actors, theatrical portraits. Captioned, This is Charles Laughton, in "If I had a Million", and this is Tetsu Komai, the Japanese actor

Poster, 4th Monza Lottery Grand Prix, Monza Autodrome, 13 May 1951 Date: 1951

Holy Trinity Church, in Marylebone, Westminster, London, is a Grade I listed former Anglican church, built in 1828 by Sir John Soane

Vlamertinghe Chateau, subject of Edmund Blunden poem
Blunden wrote the poem, On Passing Vlamertinghe Chateau in July 1917 in which he describes Poppies by the million. The Chateau survived the war

Cartoon, John Bull with William Gladstone as dentist
Cartoon, John Bull with William Gladstone as a dentist who has just extracted an eleven million pound tooth - And this is what you call painless dentistry, is it, William? 1885

Advert, William Younger & Co, Breweries, Edinburgh
Advert for William Younger & Co Limited, Abbey & Holyrood Breweries, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1905

Joe W Browns Horseshoe Club, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Joe W Browns Horseshoe Club, Fremont Street, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA -- one million dollars in cash on display in the form of one hundred ten thousand dollar bills, inside a giant golden horseshoe

Dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous Period - Alberta, Canada
Dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous Period (which began 100.5 million years ago, and ended 66 million years ago) found in the region of Alberta, Canada. Date: circa 90 Million Years BC

The Dolly Sisters and director Leonce Perret on the set of the film The Million Dollar Dollies, 1918 Date: 1918

Fishing off the Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, NJ, USA
Fishing off the Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1930

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Banknote 500000000000 Dinar
The Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Banknote - 500000000000 Dinar, bearing the portrait of Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj (18331904) - Serbian poet. Date: circa 1990s

Police Tea Break
A Metropolitan Police officer drinking a cup of tea break on Derby Day. In 1947 over 16 million cups of tea were drunk by the Metropolitan Police

Homo heidelbergensis. Skull number 5. Atapuerca, Spain
Homo heidelbergensis. Skull number 5. Discovered in the Pit of Bones Site of Atapuerca (Spain). European Middle Pleistocene. Atapuerca. Spain

Skull of Paranthropus aethiopicus with prominent sagittal crest. Pliocene. Located in Lomekwi, Kenya. Natural History Museum. London. United Kingdom

London & North Western Railway engine, Charles Dickens
London & North Western Railway passenger engine, Charles Dickens (LNWR 955), built in 1882. It covered more than two million miles over twenty years on the London-Manchester service

National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. Deputation to Mr. Asquith on Womans Suffrage. Cartoon shows the male voter in a lock, captioned, Good Heavens, if she opens that lock, I shall be drowned

Cartoon on postcard, Kitchener news, WW1
Cartoon on a postcard, showing a skinny woman in the early stages of the First World War, reading a news bulletin: Kitchener gets half a million men in a month

100000000 Mark Note
The hyperinflation the Weimar Republic 1921-1923. Charity banknote on 100 000 000 Mark edited in Altona 1/10 1923 during the hyperinflation the Weimar Republic. Front. Date: 1921-1923

The Edge of the American Sector, Berlin, 1949
Photograph showing German men and women removing the rubble barricades between the American Sector and the Soviet Sector of Berlin at the end of the Berlin Blockade, May 1949

Cranium of Paranthropus boisei, named Dear Boy. 1, 8
Reproduction of a Cranium of Paranthropus boisei, named Dear Boy. 1, 8 million years. From Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain

WW1 poster, Americas food pledge
Poster, Americas food pledge, 20 million tons, save food. US Food Administration. circa 1918

WW1 poster, United War Work Campaign
Poster, United We Serve, United War Work Campaign, fundraising by a group of charities: YMCA, YWCA, National Catholic War Council, Jewish Welfare Board, War Camp Community Service

WW1 poster, Red Cross recruitment and fundraising
Poster, Red Cross recruitment and fundraising, aiming for ten million members by Christmas. circa 1918

Tour of the Colonies - Adelaide - Degree Ceremony - Degree Ceremony. Part of Box 246 Boswell collection - Tour of the Colonies

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