Beautiful Collection (page 15)

Shrine of John the Baptist - Umayyad Mosque, Damascus
The shrine of John the Baptist (or Yahya) inside the prayer hall of the Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus or formerly the Basilica of Saint John the Baptist. Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Nikko Temples and Daibutsu Buddha at Kamakura. The inset photographs sit on a beautiful decorative background featuring deer. Date: circa 1910

Mount Street Post Office - Grosvenor Square, London - incorporating Tait & Co. Bakers and Confectioners. Date: 1904

Wales - Llyn Crafnant - a lake in a beautiful valley in North Wales where the northern edge of the Gwydir Forest meets the lower slopes of the Carneddau mountains and the ridge of Cefn Cyfarwydd

Profile portrait of a beautiful Masai woman - Kenya
A stunning profile portrait of a beautiful Masai woman - Kenya. Note the elongated earlobe piercing and remarkably decorative hair braiding. Date: circa 1930s

Marthe Chenal - French operatic soprano
Marthe Chenal (1881-1947) French operatic soprano singer, in her time the most celebrated singer in France, frequently required to sing the Marseillaise on state occasions

Vietnamese Beauty from My To, Tien Giang Province
A delightful photographic study of a beautiful Vietnamese girl from My Tho (the capital city of Tien Giang Province, located in the Mekong Delta region of South Vietnam)

Dolores del Rio - Mexican Film Actress
A stunning photograph of Dolores del Rio - Mexican Film Actress (1905 - 1983). Date: circa 1930

Oriental beauty reclining on a divan
Oriental beauty (yet to open her wardrobe that morning) reclining on a divan. Date: 1914

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Oh What a Beautiful Morning
Oh What a Beautiful Morning! A young girl joins a songbird in a refrain, maintaining an entirely positive mood in a time of war Date: circa 1942

18th Century Woman with 1920s Postcard Kitch surround
18th Century Woman with 1910s Edwardian Postcard Kitch surround Date: 18th century

Gladys Cooper - English stage and screen actress
English actress of stage and screen, Gladys Cooper (1888-1971) Date: circa 1916

Fold-out Christmas Card printed on some form of synthetic vellum - featuring depictions of exotic black children from a fantasy land in the sun. Date: 1933

Jameh Mosque of Isfahan, Iran (Friday Mosque)
The ornate Mihrab at the Jameh Mosque of Isfahan, Iran (Friday Mosque) Date: circa 1920s

Taking the Waters - I hope no ones looking! A glamorous lady takes the Strong Sulphur waters and hopes nobody spots her... Date: circa 1905

Portrait of a beauty with green apples
Studio Portrait of a beauty posed with green apples. Date: 1915

Algeria - Kabyle Woman with her young infant son
Woman of the Kabyle People with her young infant son - Berbers from North Eastern Algeria - estimate population today approx. 5 million individuals. Date: circa 1908

Washington DC, USA - New Agricultural Building Date: 1920

A beautiful female Annamite flautist - Vietnam
A beautiful female flautist from the Annamite region (and former kingdom) of central Vietnam on the South China Sea between Tonkin and Cochin China. Date: 1907

A Beauty of the Island of Rarotonga, Cook Islands
A Beauty of the island of Rarotonga, part of the Cook Islands. Date: circa 1920s

Brother & Sister - London Street Children - Flotsam & Jetsam
Flotsam and Jetsam - A very elegant and emotive description and title for this beautifully-realised portrait study of two poor London street children. Date: 1895

Beautiful Carved Door - Zanzibar, East Africa. Date: circa 1920s

Pretty Young Senegalese girl with braided hair and necklace
Pretty Young Senegalese girl with braided hair and large necklace. Date: circa 1910s

Morocco, North West Africa - Ornate Doorway, Sale Date: circa 1950s

Art Nouveau - pretty girl kissing a white dove
Art nouveau postcard design by Nini Hager (Raphael Kirchner using his wifes name for certain works) - A pretty girl kissing a white dove Date: circa 1900

Art Nouveau - pretty girl kisses a green serpent
Art nouveau postcard design by Nini Hager (Raphael Kirchner using his wifes name for certain works) of a beautiful girl kissing a serpent. Date: circa 1900

Art Nouveau - pretty girl blowing bubbles
Fantastic Art Nouveau postcard - pretty blonde girl wearing a flowing red dress blowing bubbles. Date: circa 1900

Art Nouveau - pretty Spring girl with watering can
A pretty girl walks amid the spring blossom holding a watering can in this stylised scene with heavy art nouveau overtones, possibly by the famous Austrian illustrator, Raphael Kirchner

Canadian man sitting on his sled with his two huskies
A Canadian man sitting on his sled with his two huskies Date: circa 1930s

Irrawaddy River Express Paddlesteamer - Myanmar (Burma) Date: circa 1910s

Oriental Beauty - Turkish Ottoman Flags
A veiled oriental beauty with pretty eyes set in a frame beneath two Turkish Ottoman flags - patriotic postcard. Date: circa 1910s

Clavicytherium (Upright Spinet)
Clavicytherium - A fine specimen of a rare keyboard instrument - probably the oldest in existence from the early 16th century

Plain Jane to Beautiful Buxom Betty
From a cygnet to a swan... What is required to turn a girl from one thing into another... Date: circa 1910s

Sweet Little man making his case to bathing beauties
Sweet Little man making his case to three bathing beauties: " I may not be much to look at, Girls, but I m Reliable." Date: circa 1925

Karen of the Kalaallit - Qsuitsup, Greenland
The beautiful Karen of the Kalaallit people - Qsuitsup, North West Greenland Date: circa 1910s

Algerian woman behind the veil
An absolutely stunning photograph of an Algerian Veiled Woman. Her piercing gaze is the only clue to her hidden visage. A study in reserved modesty Date: 1906

Pretty French girl with roses
Pretty French girl in wide-brimmed hat clutching a large bunch of roses to her breast. Date: circa 1910s

Greece, Corfu - Gastouri
The village of Gastouri, Corfu, Greece - one of the most famous places in Corfu, thanks to the Palace of Achilleion, constructed in early 1900s by Elisabeth

Russian Boyar girl - portrait by Bobroff
Portrait of a Russian Boyar girl (high class/rank/status) with long brunette hair tied in a plait, in luxurious traditional costume. Date: 1901

Moduza nuydai, butterfly
Photograph of the Moduza nuydai, Family Nymphalidae (Limenitidinae). Photographed by Harry Taylor

Crenidomimas concordia, butterfly
Photograph of the upperside of a Crenidomimas concordia, Family Nymphalidae (Nymphalinae). Photographed by Harry Taylor

Moduza nuydai, butterfly
Photograph of the Moduza nuydai, Family Nymphalidae (Limenitidinae). Photographed by Harry Taylor

Crenidomimas concordia, butterfly
Photograph of the underside of a Crenidomimas concordia, Family Nymphalidae (Nymphalinae). Photographed by Harry Taylor

Asterope leprieuri, butterfly
The underside of the Asterope leprieuri butterfly, Family Nymphalidae (Nymphalinae). Photographed by Harry Taylor

Diaethura anna, Annas eighty-eight
A mounted specimen of the underside of Annas eighty-eight butterfly from Mexico

Stagonopleura bella, beautiful firetail
Watercolour 242 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Nitid Grosbeak

Entomological specimens of Lepidoptera
Unidentified photograph of mounted specimens of butterflies and moths

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