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Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Duchess of Marlborough
Portrait of Consuelo Vanderbilt (1877 - 1964), American heiress and first wife of Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough

MAB First Ambulance Interior
Interior of one of the first ambulances to be operated by Londons Metropolitan Asylums Board in the 1880s for transporting fever and smallpox patients to and from the Boards hospitals

In the Famous Plug Street Wood by Matania
A relief party marching back to the trenches through Ploegstreet Wood (known as Plug Street), south of Ypres. The scarred trees lining the soldiers route bear the scars of shelling

Driver is a Novice
CAUTION : DRIVER IS A NOVICE A useful notice tied to the back of a learner drivers car as he makes a nervous hand signal

Peter Pan / Michael & Nana
Michael rides on the back of the dog Nana

Flashman and Tom

Jungle Book. Mowgli. Baloo
Baloo the bear, with Mowgli seated on his back, runs with wolves whilst Shere Khan the tiger watches in the background

Acupuncture in 17th Cent
Travellers in the East bring back accounts of different medical processes : this Chinese diagram of acupuncture points is published in a German scientific journal

The Flying Scotsman
The last run of the famous and popular steam locomotive The Flying Scotsman here leaving Kings Cross railway station, London, England, on its way back to Scotland

Alice Pulls Curtain
ALICE Alice draws back the curtain to reveal a little door

Wolseley Wasp
The Wolseley Wasp is a 10 hp family car : the de luxe saloon will set you back only L178 and ten shillings. Date: 1936

SS Norman arriving at Southampton, 1903
Photograph of the SS Norman arriving at Ocean Quay, Southampton, 14th March 1903. Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary, was on board the Norman arriving back from a foreign tour

Sailing Barge Match on the Thames, July 1864
Engraving of a sailing barge match on the Thames, from the Illustrated London News, 23rd July 1864. This match was hosted by the Prince of Wales Yacht Club over a course from Erith to the Chapman

Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Team, 1908
Photograph of the Wolverhampton Wanderers Football team of the 1907-1908 season. The players pictured are: Back row, left to right: W. Shepherd (Director), W. Wooldridge (Captain), J. Jones, K

Mary Qoss Messenger
A pigeon carries messages for Mary Queen of Scots, imprisoned at Tutbury, to Babington who is plotting to rescue her and set her back on the throne again

Chichester Market Cross
The Market Cross at Chichester, West Sussex, at 1.30pm : a helpful policeman is holding back pedestrians while the gentleman takes his picture

A Bristol Boxkite under test at Filton. Stanley White stands with his back to the camera wearing a flat cap and long overcoat. The site is now covered by the Filton Works Lab and Odeon

Alopochen aegyptiaca, Egyptian goose
Plate 5 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Callipepla californica, Californian quail
Plate 413 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Policeman and Call Box
A police officer on the beat south of Pall Mall, central London, reports back to the station using a police call box

Wurlitzer Mandolin
Wurlitzers flat-back mandolin outfit Date: 1924

Breakdancing
A breakdancer spins round on his back and stuns his teenage onlookers. Note the profusion of of white clothes and stilettos, slip-on shoes with white socks, perms and mullets

Arion on a Dolphin
A Greek poet and musician, reputed to have been cast into the sea by mariners but carried to Taenaros on a dolphins back

Joan at Orleans 1429
Joan of Arc urges the French army to attack the last English fortress at Tournelles and wins Orleans back for the French

Powder Monkey by David Wright, showing a back view of an elegantly slim woman only just covered by a fur evening coat, looking at herself in a powder compact mirror

Foreign Legionnaire
A foreign Legionnaire, carrying the flag of honour on his back

Anatomy / Muscles
First layer of muscles in the human body (back view)

Circus Clown Pointing
A young child, with a hoop decorated with flowers, rides on the back of a skewbald (brown and white) horse, while a clown stands and points

USA / Met Opera / Back View
NEW YORK back view of the newly built theatre, on Seventh Avenue

Swinging Fashions C. 1810
White robes: sleeves with a double puff, scalloped hem & worn with boots, a net cap & a fringed shawl tied at the back or with vandyked hem & pantelettes

Saint Brendans Voyage
During his voyage to the promised land of saints, Brendan and his companions celebrate mass on the back of a good-natured whale

WEREWOLF / LOUP-GAROU
Le loup-garou leaps on the back of a man walking down a country track

Thumbkinetta (Boyle 2)
Thumbkinetta (Tommelise) rides on a swallows back

Jockey and Saddle C1900
A jockey carrying his saddle on his back

September. Back to work - back to school, back to books. Poster for WPA Statewide Library Project, showing a boy holding a book in his raised hand. Date between 1936 and 1940

The Launch of R. M. S. Queen Mary, Clydebank, September 1934
Photograph of the launch of R.M.S. Queen Mary from John Browns shipyard, Clydebank, 26th September 1934. The ship is seen under the control of a number of tugs

Phrenolgical Head
De Villes Phrenological Head seen from front, side and back

Mytton / Short Cut Home
The seat of John Mytton (1796- 1834), the eccentric English squire of Halston, Shropshire. The view is from the back showing a circular garden and extensive parkland. Date: 1820s

St Louis World Fair / 1904
This postcard, which shows the Blanke Aerial Globe, was launched to promote the St. Louis World Fair in 1904, but the postmark on the back indicates it was sent in 1902!

Autumn fashions, Evening Dress
Evening wear fashions for 1916 showing two elegant ladies modelling sleeveless, plunge back gowns with high waists and full skirts typical of the World War One period

Old mother hubbard: dog standing head and smoking pipe
She went to the hatters to buy him a hat, but when she came back he was feeding the cat. She went to the tavern for white wine and red, but when she came back the dog stood on his head

Ufos / Cowichan / Kendall
In a hospital at Cowichan, Vancouver Island, Canada, nurse Doreen Kendall draws back the curtains and sees this hovering UFO with occupants

Advert, Watneys Beer, King of Ales, playing card back

Great Eastern Railways Locomotive works at Stratford
A view along the north side of the Great Eastern Railway?s Locomotive works at Stratford (East London) May 1864 with William Henry Maw, then Head of the Drawing office

Watneys Happy Families - card back design. circa 1930

Children paddling and looking out to sea
Mermaids. A back view of five children paddling at the seaside; they wear red stripey bathing drawers. Date: C.1905

Fokker FVIIa G-EBTS The Spider
Fokker FVIIa, G-EBTS, The Spider, which was flown to the Cpae and back in 20 days by Capt C.D. Barnard

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