Our Adventures Collection of Images

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn book cover

Front cover of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain featuring silhouettes.
1888

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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The Golliwogg's Bicycle Club - Surrounded by Cannibals

Surrounded by Cannibals! The book charts Golliwogg's adventures with his dutch peg doll friends Peggy, Weg, Meg, Sarah Jane and the dinky little Midget. This is the 2nd title in a 13-book series of Golliwogg books written by mother Bertha and illustrated by daughter Florence. The tale revolved around their travels around the globe on homemade bicycles (and the disasters that befall them!). These books gave the origination of the term golliwogg, now seen as highly un-PC and socially-unacceptable for reasons of supposed racial stereotyping and changing political attitudes, despite the innocent intent of the original creation, set in a time of wildly different social 'norms'. Date: 1896

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, music sheet

Music sheet cover design, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written and sung by Mr Harry Clifton. Various scenes are depicted, with the discovery of the footprint in the sand at the centre, and Harry Clifton's portrait at the top.

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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