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Mushrooms
A large number of mushroom varieties. Date: 1913

Blacksmith Tools 1875
A range of tools used by a blacksmith or ironsmith, including pincers, a hook, files, a hammer and a mallet. 1875

Crustaces - crustaceans
A variety of crustaceans including some rather fierce looking crabs and lobsters. Date: 1930

Spring-Heeled Jack winged monster
Winged man-monster who terrified residents of Blackheath and other London suburbs from 1837 for many years but was never caught Date: 1830s

Moloch
MOLOCH the Phoenician deity to whom live children were sacrificed by fire Date: 7th century BC

Algues - algae
Illustration of many varieties of algae. Date: 1930

Poissons - fish
A variety of fish. Date: 1930

Oiseaux - birds
Page of birds including birds of prey and tropical birds. Date: 1930

Papillons - butterflies
Variety of butterflies and moths. Date: 1930

Titanic at Cherbourg
The SS Titanic seen at night whilst visiting Cherbourg on the evening of 10th April 1912. Date: 1912

Tarot Card 22 - Le Fou (The Fool)
Tarot Card 22 - Le Fou or Le Mat (The Fool)

Hms Invincible
British battle cruiser which distinguished herself in World War One in the battle against Von Spees squadron off the Falklands. Date: 1915

Women outdoors 1881
Two women in walking dresses at the seaside. 1881

Irish sea serpent off Kilkee, Ireland
A large and frightening sea monster seen by several people off the coast of Kilkee, Ireland. 1871

Lord Barrington, Vanity Fair, Spy
GEORGE WILLIAM BARRINGTON, 7th Viscount Barrington (1824-1886) British Conservative politician

Fruit Tree Culture
A decorative page showing fruit trees, and ways to cultivate them. Date: 1900

Beeton Cheeses
Various cheeses in Household Management book Date: 1907

Latest Paris Fashions 1888
Three women gossiping outside. 1888

E. W. Beckett MP, Vanity Fair, Spy
ERNEST WILLIAM BECKETT MP, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe (1856-1917) born Ernest William Denison. British banker and Conservative politician. Caption: Whitby Date: 1856-1917

Miners Dancing Together
A miners ball in California Date: 1849

Marie Lloyd - Oh Mr Porter
MARIE LLOYD Music hall entertainer singing Oh! Mr Porter Date: 1870 - 1922

Scottish Wedding Costume
A Scottish couple dressed for their wedding Date: circa 1820

Music - Dancing - Vauxhall Gardens
Music and dancing at Vauxhall. The band play music from an illuminated bandstand which people dance all around

Rugby School with pupils playing rugby
Exterior view of Rugby School with pupils playing rugby in foreground. Date: 1906

Children in 1864
Latest Paris fashions for Victorian children, girls from two to eight years of age wearing three quarter length frocks and the older boy wearing knickerbockers. 1864

Wedding of Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of Battenberg
Marriage of Princess Beatrice (1857 - 1944) youngest child of Queen Victoria, to Prince Henry of Battenberg at Whippingham, Isle of Wight. 23 July 1885

Society women at Cowes Week 1907
During early August, society gathered on the Solent for regattas and royalty. Two women wearing white linen and blue serge sailor styles suits. 1907

Hubert Lathams Antoinette in Blackpool 1909
Hubert Lathams Antoinette monoplane in Blackpool, England

Paddling at Heyst
A group of children in striped bathing costumes paddle happily in the surf at Heyst sur Mer, Belgium. Date: circa 1905

Women - Carpet Factory
Women working the Crompton Axminster Loom at Richard Smith & Sons, Kidderminster, England. Date: 1902

Cyril Maude
CYRIL MAUDE (1862 - 1951), English actor-manager 1897

Feather Flapper headband 1912
Woman wearing a flapper style headpiece, with feathers and beaded detail at side. 1912

Flapper headpiece 1912
Woman wearing a flapper style headpiece with cabochon stone and plumes in the centre. 1912

Scrap : Guardsmen
Two British guardsmen with their rifles shouldered. Date: late 19th century

Steamships - Asturias
Turbine passenger liner of the Royal Mail Lines employed on the South American run Date: 1934

17th century Rope Maker
Two cordwainers - rope makers - wind the twisted fibres. Date: 17th century

GOOD KING WENCESLAS
Good King Wenceslas

Girl Undressing - Bed - 1905
A little girl undressing for bed. Date: 1905

Illustration, La Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland), Battle of Roncevaux (778). Charlemagne hears Rolands horn, calling for help, but they will arrive too late to save the hero. Date: 778

Machine for Tight Lacing
Satire on the fashion for tight corsets - A correct view of the new machine for winding up the ladies Date: circa 1830

Futuristic dinner party
A futuristic chemical dinner party -- a few tablets are served for each guest. Just think -- no washing up! Date: 1899

Witch Airborne by Florence Mary Anderson
A witch flies through the air with her companions by Florence Mary Anderson. 1915

Sir Edward Elgar, English composer
Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934), English composer at the time of the performance of his oratorio The Dream of Gerontius at the Worcester Music Festival. 1905

Children wearing Swimeesy Buoy, invented two before in 1907. Date: 1909

City Street of Future
A city street of the future... Date: 1930s

Children - Water - Reflect
Two little girls gaze at their reflections in the water. Date: 1905

Marriage, Ancient Greece
Eager groom, shy bride

Irish Guards Band
The band of the IRISH GUARDS, with their mascot Brian Boru, marches through Hyde Park, London Date: circa 1914

Wun-nes-tou, Medicine Man of the Blackfeet tribe
Wun-nes-tou, Medicine Man of the Blackfeet (Blackfoot) tribe of American Natives. Date: circa 1830

Sheep Shearing in Australia
In an Australian sheep shearing shed Date: 1910

Cartoon, Railway Undertaking. An undertaker offers a puzzled traveller a business card: a comment on the dubious safety of rail travel. Date: 1852

Queen Victoria's coffin at Paddington station
Queen Victoria's funeral: King Edward VII, (left) chief mourner, German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II

Puss in Boots - the Ogre - Nursery Tale
The ogre glares at Puss in Boots as he bows and scrapes before him; a platter of dead babies and a calf's head stew are on the table Date: circa 1870

Tear Bottles 1930s
A young woman creating a tear bottle display, a mourning custom dating from Ancient Rome and Egypt, when mourners would bottle their tears for burial with their loved ones. early 1930s

Fable - the Young Widow
THE YOUNG WIDOW A widow who inconsolably mourns the death of her husband finds in time that she is ready to meet suitors and wed again Date: circa 1870

Daphnis - Alcimadura
DAPHNIS AND ALCIMADURA Daphnis dies of love for the beautiful but haughty Alcimadura, but she stills disdains him Date: circa 1870

Fable English Fox Myth Fables La Fontaine Circa
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Fur Animals
Selection page of animals. 1913

USA Train in Street 1885
A train passes through the streets of an American city. Horses panic, but fortunately there is a man with a flag to save the residents from accidental death. 1885

Admirers - Crinoline 1850s
Promotional music sheet for A Few Words About The Crinoline, by Thomas Walker

Ironworks - Schlesien
The ironworks of Die Konigshutte at Schlesien, Germany. Date: circa 1835

Kaiser Wilhelm Ii 1903 Cartoons Caricatures German
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Funeral Invitation
An elaborate funeral card. Though sent out as late as 1914, this is a typically Victorian card of traditional design. 1914

William Henry Harrison
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (1773 - 1841), President of the United States for one month: the first to die in office

Dante - Virgil - Purgatory
Dante & Virgil encounter the shadowy forms, that seem'd dead & dead again of souls in Purgatorio. Date: First published: 1307-21?

Vampire of Vinezac
LE VAMPIRE DE VINEZAC Janssouint, gravedigger of Vinezac, is caught doing things that our pen refuses to recount Date: 1883

Duel - Saint-Beuve
Duel with pistols between Saint-Beuve and Dubois of The Globe - the former insisted on retaining his umbrella, prepared to die but not catch a cold!

Demons - Dagobert
When the Frankish king DAGOBERT dies, demons take him by sea to Etna, where the entrance to Hell is located, but a posse of airborne saints rescue him just in time 638

Child labour working in the fields
Farming under the gang system - work contracted out to entrepreneurs who worked their labour force often under harsh conditions. Date: 1867

Sir Alfred Downing Fripp, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR ALFRED DOWNING FRIPP (1865 - 1930), surgeon at Guys Hospital, London. Appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and to his successor King George V

The Sweaters Furnace or the Real Curse of Labour: an unscrupulous boss works blood, sweat and tears from his employees in the textile industry Date: 1888

Father Time
Time, the Grim Reaper, sits with his scythe atop the globe

Carting Decorations
Three children bring home a cart-load of decorations 1889

People of Celebes and Sumatra
Group of people from Sumatra and the Celebes Date: circa 1880

Metropolitan drinking Fountain and cattle trough association, set up in London by Samuel Gurney, a Member of Parliament, and philanthropist to supported by voluntary contributions

Boys at workbenches learning how to use plane

Girls in a cookery lesson, learning to cook tarts and a joint of beef which a group of teachers will buy for their dinner

Titus Oates (1649 - 1705), convicted of fabricated the Popish Plot, a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II

Teacher at the front of the class and two at the back, teaching a mixed class about model drawing

Paris in danger from communards

A view of the entrance to the Wapping-Rotherhithe tunnel under the Thames, the worlds first underwater tunnel, completed by Marc Brunel in 1843

Woman sitting in her own home in South London, making the hat boxes for a supplier that make silk hats for the richer society

The new G. Stimpson Brewery in London, in the courtyard with the carthorse 1904

A bell founder, 16th century Germany
The interior of a 16th century German bell foundry

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