Straight Collection

Grandstand at Saratoga Race Course, NY State, USA Date: 1906

London Map / Roman Period
Map showing Roman London (Londinium) with its grid of straight roads

Aerial view of Wanstead from a balloon - 1909
Perhaps the chief interest in this photograph is the actual passing of a balloon under the basket of the one from which this picture was taken

Cover design, Western Airways timetable
Cover design, Western Airways summer timetable, showing a map with destinations: Manchester, Birmingham, Swansea, Cardiff, Bristol, Weston, Barnstaple, Newquay and Penzance. 1939

Advert / Goodyear Tyres
Showcard for GOODYEAR Straight Side Tyres

Edward Iv / Players / 16 / 50
KING EDWARD IV Reigned 1461 - 1483

Midhat Pasha Souq at Damascus Straight Street, Syria
Midhat Pasha Souq inside an arcade at Damascus Straight Street (Street Called Straight; today Midhat Pasha Street) in the historic district of the city, Syria. Date: circa 1940

View of Houses in Delft, c. 1658, by Johannes Vermeer (1632
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). Dutch painter. View of Houses in Delft, Known as The Little Street, c. 1658. Rijskmuseum. Amsterdam. Netherlands

Damascus Street 1933
Straight Street, Damascus, Syria, where, in the New Testament of the Bible (Acts 9; 11), the blinded St. Paul was cared for by Judas. Date: 1933

Advert for William Whiteley, womens underwear 1906
Elegant corset cut very low at the bust and rounded at the hips. 1906

French Grand Prix of 1921
The first road race to be won by an engine powered by a straight-eiggt engine was the French Grand Prix of 1921 in which J Murphy averaged 78.1 mph for 322 miles at Le Mans

A. F. Wilding, Wimbledon Champion
Photograph of New Zealand tennis player, Anthony Frederick Wilding, Wimbledon Mens Champion in 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913. His championship run came to an end in 1914 when he was beaten by Australian

School Milk 1960S
A rather contented looking boy drinks his free school milk straight from the bottle, using a straw

Miss A. A. Windle who flew Miles Magister, G-AKUA, and Wh?
Miss A.A. Windle who flew Miles Magister, G-AKUA, and Whitney Straight, G-AFGK, at the 1956 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Wisley on 15 July

Soviet Tank Parade
Tanks leave Moscow after a parade, going straight to the front-line. This is a view of Gorky Street

Iron Founder 1827
Founding molten iron straight from the furnace into a mould

Rue Droite, Straight Street, Damascus, Syria
Vintage 19th century photograph: Rue Droite, Straight Street, Damascus, Syria

The Sinking of the the Scharnhorst at the Battle of North
Illustration showing the German Battlecruiser Scharnhorst listing to starboard as she sank at the end of the Battle of North Cape, approximately 7.30pm on 26th December 1943

Bristol Buckingham B Mk. I KV335
Bristol Buckingham B Mk.I KV335. A victim of failure to meet the original specification and the success of Mosquito day raid and night strategic bombing

The Furness Line railway near Grange over Sands, Cumbria
The Furness Line railway near Grange over Sands, Morecambe Bay, Cumbria, England Date: 2012

Old man in trilby hat, Stoke
A senior man in a felt trilby hat looks directly at the camera. He has a serious, unsmiling face and wears a zipped-up anorak

Ley lines: Bristol
A page from the book The Old Straight Track by Alfred Watkins, with an illustration showing ley lines at Bristol. Date: 1925

Street called Straight, Damascus, Syria, hand
Street called Straight, Damascus, Syria, Victorian period, hand coloured photo

Street called Straight, Damascus, Syria

WW2 Royal Navy Birthday Card
A WW2 birthday greetings card, You're steering straight for a happy birthday! The illustration portrays a boy dressed as a Royal navy sailor steering his ship. Date: circa 1940s

Dunfermline Abbey Roadway From Tower Hill
This architectural perspective sketch shows the proposed return to the original disposition of the ancient roadway from Tower Hill, i.e

Street View
A watercolour painting of a straight street road, stretching alongside a row of buildings, with a church steeple visible at the back, a woman is walking down the road. Date: circa 1918

Motorsport - Le Mans winning Jaguar XJ9 rear racing wheel and front tyre from the Tom Walkinshaw Silk Cut Jaguar racing team, 1988

Douglas Straight, Lawyer and MP, studio portrait
Douglas Straight, lawyer, journalist and MP (1844-1914) studio portrait with signature. From an article, Journals and Journalists of Today'

Whitney Straight (1912-1979) was an American born racing driver, aviator and businessman. He went on to develop the Miles Whitney Straight aircraft. Date: 1933

The Country Road
A landscape etching of a wide, straight country road, running over a hill, in Australia. Date: circa 1925

Ira L. & A. C. Berk Packard Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Ira L. & A. C. Berk Ltd, promoting the Packard Straight Eight car, seen in the illustration, boasting high power, four wheel brakes

Duke of Kent with model aircraft
Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902-1942) with motorist and aviator Whitney Straight (1912-1979) and V. J. G. Woodson at a model aircraft factory. Date: 1940

Miles M. 11A Whitney Straight ZK-AXD
Miles M.11A Whitney Straight ZK-AXD (msn 506, ex G-AFZY, ex U-0227), at Hamilton NZ. in December 1963. Date: 1963

HMS Kale, E-class - River-class destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Kale, a Hawthorn Leslie type River-class destroyer ordered under the 1903-1904 Naval Estimates and named after the Kale Water in the Scottish Borders

Miles M. 11A Whitney Straight G-AFGK
Miles M.11A Whitney Straight G-AFGK (msn 509) Date: 1976

Italy Palermo Corso Calatafimi Street Road Dead
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Advertisement for William Whiteley elegant straight fronted corset. Date: 1906

Douglas-Long Beach B-17G - PB-1W Flying Fortress N7227C
Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-95-DL / PB-1W Flying Fortress N7227C Texas Raiders (msn 32517, ex 44-83872, ex BuAer 77235), of the Confederate Air Force at Midland Airport on 28 September 1992

Comic postcard, Man hit by football Date: early 20th century

Peter Henry Emerson. River bank scene, Norfolk?
Vintage 19th century/1900s photograph by Peter Henry Emerson. Emerson was a British writer and photographer. His photographs are early examples of promoting straight photography as an art form

Delightful colour photograph of two little girls, possibly sisters, seated together. Date: c.1950

Battle over the corpse of Patroclus outside Troy
Greeks and Trojans battle over the naked corpse of Patroclus outside Troy. Menelaus and Ajax protected the body until Achilles could retrieve it. Combattimento pel Cadavere di Patroclo

Zutka, the mystery turn at the London Hippodrome
Zutka, one of the latest turns at the London Hippodrome in 1904. But is he a live man or a mechanical boy? asks The Bystander

Varieties of Water Newt or Eft -- Common water newt (Triton cristatus), Common smooth newt (Lissotriton punctatus), Straight lipped water newt (Triton bibronii)

Francisco Aresa, Pueblo Indian, Cochiti, New Mexico, USA
Francisco Aresa, Pueblo Indian Chief of Cochite (Cochiti), Sandoval County, New Mexico, USA. Date: circa 1920

Three Young girls with their Mother and their Aunt (?)
Three Young girls (sisters) posing for a formal studio photography between their seated Mother and (possibly) their Aunt. circa 1920s

The Sketch, 1938 Motor Dicta
The weekly motoring column in The Sketch magazine, 1938, with this one showing comedian Claude Dampier with his new Chrysler, Mrs Joseph Mackle with her Daimler Straight Eight and, at the bottom

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