000 Collection (page 7)

Nurse in the x-ray department
Protected from the 300, 000 voltage rays by a lead lined partition, the nurse is still able to observe the patient through a 3/4 inch lead glass window

SS Carmania, 1905
Photograph of the Cunard turbine steamer Carmania, built in 1905 by the John Brown Shipyard of Clydebank. The Carmania was reputed to be the first very large turbine steamer

A Rival to the Gotterdammerung dinner: Dining in Berlin s
Two ladies and a gentleman sat around a dinner table at the Ice Palace in Berlin. The venue, complete with ice rink was built at a cost of 100, 000 and became a fashionable dining venue

The Great Wool-floor at the London Docks
The great wool-floor at the London Docks. The London Dock Company enlarged the warehouse for receiving wool imports from the colonies in the 1840 s

Overland 1919
The Model 90 - For Him ! Already more than 115, 000 have been sold !

The Normandie, the largest liner in the world
The burning of the luxury liner, the Normandie in 1942. The Normandie was the largest liner in the world. As World War II commenced the liner was taken out of service

A JACOBIN
Originally a club of Breton deputies, the Jacobins eventually number about 500, 000 members throughout France, representing the hard, uncompromising viewpoint

Two millionth telephone
The postmaster general, The Earl de la Warr (right), presents to the constable of the Tower (Lord Alanbrooke), the 2, 000, 000th telephone installed in London in 1954

Ramsay Macdonald and the 80, 000, 000, 000 letter
Photograph of J.Ramsay Macdonald, British Prime Minister, holding an envelope that needed 80, 000, 000, 000 marks postage from Berlin to London, following financial collapse in Germany

Brit Museum Elgin Room
The Elgin Room, housing the marbles and other treasures looted from Greece by Lord Elgin in 1812 and bought by the nation in 1816 for 35, 000 pounds

Germany / Inflation / 1923
1, 000, 000, 000 paper marks = 1 goldmark

Crossing the Berezina
CROSSING THE BEREZINA The retreating French army is attacked by the Russians as they cross the Berezina river, and an estimated 36, 000 bodies are recovered from the river

Buckingham House 1746
The duke of Buckinghams home in St James Park is a fine aristocratic residence. 18 years from now, in 1762, George III will buy it from the dukes son for L28, 000

Tokyo Earthquake 1923
The citizens of Tokyo flee in terror as most of their city is destroyed by the Great Kanto earthquake : more than 140, 000 people will lose their lives as a result

Treasury Carriage 2
Terrorists use a bomb to halt and rob a landau carrying treasury funds : they seize the equivalent of 60, 000 English pounds. The carriage after tha attack

Train-Bands Militia
Lord Essex leads the London train-bands militia out of London to relieve the Siege of Gloucester. The 15, 000 strong force stood firm against Prince Ruperts cavalry

Pius XI Enthroned
Pius XI is enthroned in Saint Peters : cardinal Billot places the tiara on his head, while 60, 000 spectators watch in wonder

London Ship Launched
The 15, 000 ton battleship is launched at Portsmouth

Pleistocene L scape
In an Ice Age (Pleistocene) landscape, a bear emerges from its cave to find that the world is still covered with ice and snow, just like yesterday and the day before

Battle of Fleurus
The French army of 70, 000, under general Jourdain (thats him on the horse) defeat 50, 000 Austrians under Coburg. Note the French balloon carrying out reconnaissance

Battle of Belgrade
BATTLE OF BELGRADE - Prince Eugene with 40, 000 Austrians defeats the Turkish army of 180, 000 under Ibrahim Pasha, the Grand Vizier

Battle of Cunaxa 401 Bc
The defeat of Cyrus the Younger, Persian prince by his brother Artaxerxes at the Battle of Cunaxa. The battle resulted in the retreat, under Xenophon of 10, 000 Greeks

Stone Age Carving
Stone age sculptor working with stone tools at the Laugerie Basse site, France

Euston Arch
The great Doric arch at the entrance to Euston Station, designed by Philip Hardwick, it was completed in 1838 at a cost of 35, 000. Tragically demolished in 1962 - 1963"

Coal Exchange, London
The Coal Exchange is where the 960, 000 chaldrons of coal (each of 36 bushels) imported from Newcastle etc each year to keep Londoners warm, are regulated and, of course, taxed

Jack Dempsey, Boxer 1921
Jack Dempsey (1895 - 1983) pictured before defending his heavyweight crown against Carpentier on July 2 1921. Dempsey won in front of 90, 000 fans and a live radio audience

Greece / Crimisus / 339Bc
Sicily : Timoleon, with only 10, 000 Sicilians, defeats 70, 000 invading Carthaginians at the Crimisus river, but the Carthaginians continue to hold Sicily

Thames Ferryboat
A traveller waits to be ferried across the Thames, at a time when London Bridge is the only bridge over the river; at this time there are some 40, 000 Thames watermen

James Craggs
JAMES CRAGGS English politician who accepted 30, 000 in South Sea Company stocks. Deeply implicated in bursting of South Sea Bubble"

Italians Emmigrate / Libya
20, 000 Italian peasants land at Tripoli to embark on Il Duces resettlement plan in Libya, North Africa

French Defeat Flemish
The French defeat the Flemish at Rosebecque where Philip van Artevelde died with 30, 000 of his men. The white dove hovering above the king of France, was an omen of victory

Anti-Strike Demo 1926
Approximately 20, 000 women take part in a protest procession through central London, against the suffering caused by the industrial strikes and lockouts

Cambridge Uni. Library
Putting the last rivets into the framework of the great tower - the new Cambridge University Library. Sir Giles Scott designed this 17 storey tower which cost 500, 000."

Wwi / 1916 / Turkish Retreat
Defeated Turks retreat after Russian forces had seized Erzerum Fortress on 16th February, capturing over 13, 000 Turks

Marshall Plan, Postcard
THE MARSHALL PLAN The European Recovery programme whereby the U.S.A. gives 13 000 billion dollars of aid to Europe, to strengthen resistance to Communism

Edinburgh Miners Gala
The Annual Miners Gala in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, Scotland. At the beginning of May each year, 100, 000 coal miners take a well-earned holiday

Alcock & Brown - 4
Captain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown receive their prize of 10, 000 pounds from Winston Churchill, for their successful first crossing of the Atlantic by air

Primitive Sculptors
Primitive sculptor of the Reindeer Period (part of the palaeolithic era) carving an antler

Earthquake in Japan 1923
Over 140, 000 people lose their lives when a great earthquake (the Great Kanto Earthquake) devastes South East Japan including the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama

Amazing Stories scifi magazine cover, 35, 000 years from now
MACHINE MAN OF ARDATHIA (Francis Flagg) A man from 35, 000 years hence travels back in time and is delighted to encounter a live prehistoric man of 1927

Battersea Power Machine
BATTERSEA POWER STATION, London Electricians at work on a stator for one of the 80, 000 kilowatt turbo-alternators, supplying power to London

The Battle of Mons
The Second Army Corps (about 80, 000 men) under sir Horace Smith-Dorrien defend their trenches against an attack by 100, 000 German infantry, supported by artillery

Lisbon Quake / Ruins
Part of the ruined city after the earthquake, which destroyed immense numbers of buildings besides causing the deaths of some 60, 000 people

Hatter at Work C. 1850
A London hatmaker at work on a hat made from beaver fur, obtained from the Hudsons Bay Company who supplied about 60, 000 furs a year to their Fenchurch Street salerooms

Hatters at Work
Hatters at work round their kettle, a heated workbench, each occupied with a different stage of manufacture. Some 60, 000 beaver furs were bought from Canada every year

Les Eyzies Bison (2)
Painting of a bison in a palaeolithic cave (2 of 2)

Les Eyzies Bison (1)
Painting of a bison in a palaeolithic cave (1 of 2)

Altamira Wolf Painting
Painting of a wolf in a palaeolithic cave

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