Bizarre Collection (page 2)

Suffragette The Woman Question Africa. A group of bare-breasted African women pose for the camera. Onto this photograph has been placed, the caption, The Woman Question. We Want the Vote! Bizarre

Ivan Markoff, a Russian cossack giant, early 20th century
Ivan Markoff, who was famous as a Russian cossack giant in the early 20th century. Markoff is seen in London where the caption says he was being fitted for a new suit. He was reputed to be 9ft tall

I m Some Pumpkin - a very strange postcard featuring a man with a manically-grinning carved pumpkin instead of his head, which is frankly pretty disturbing. Date: 1912

Santiago, Mexico, El Alamo - Restaurante Sombrero El Charro
Sombrero El Charro Restaurant at El Alamo, Santiago, a municipality located in the center of the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. Date: circa 1910s

Fantasy Austrian New Year Maypole - A glamorous young lady enjoys toying with her formerly-dressed suitors, all in miniature form and flying around her on champagne bottles

Kano Airport, Nigeria - Camel rider with horn (and spare camel...). Date: circa 1960s

Hop Scotch Maggie - Frae Bonnie Scotland. Comic postcard - satire on the penchant for women to wear large and enveloping hats during this period

Phillips Multiplane 1907 Unusual Multiple-Winged Design Date: 1907

Blohm & Voss BV-141 V5
Blohm & Voss B&V 141 V5 Unusual Design with Crew Positions Housed in a Wing Mounted Fuselage to Give Wide Arcs of View Backwards and Forwards Date: 1940

Little girl and her toy dog ride a model Elephant - Margate
Little girl and her toy dog ride a model Elephant - Cliftonville, Margate, Kent Date: circa 1920s

French April Fools Card - Flying Fish Aeroplane sending Best Wishes.....!! Date: circa 1909

The Nurse of the Negus Menelik of Abyssinia (Ethiopia). She certainly appears to have nursed a few in her time... Date: circa 1910s

Union Square showing the Battleship Recruit, New York, USA
Union Square showing the (wooden) Battleship Recruit, New York, USA. Date: circa 1910s

The Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire
The Passage and doorway of the Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire. During the early 19th century, mining in the area caused one side of the building to begin gradually sinking

The Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire - Doorway
The Doorway of the Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire. During the early 19th century, mining in the area caused one side of the building to begin gradually sinking

The Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire - Sitting Room
The Sitting Room of the Crooked House, Himley, Staffordshire. During the early 19th century, mining in the area caused one side of the building to begin gradually sinking

Stork-powered baby transport! Date: circa 1910s

Beira, Mozambique - Private tram-car system
Beira, Mozambique - The private tram-car system - undoubtedly one of the most unusual forms of conveyance in the world. The cars ran on tiny tracks which rose out of the sand

Three little boys go for a ride on the back of a bullock. Free Rides - Hurry up now for a ride, room for just two more outside. Date: circa 1909

St. Michan's Mummies - St. Michan's Church - Dublin, Ireland. Date: circa 1910s

Advert, Dr Lowder's Magneto-Electric Battery
Advert, bizarre medical device, Dr Lowder's Magneto-Electric Battery Date: 1889

Fantastic Adventures - The living Dead
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1941, featuring the story The living Dead by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A tiger with pincers fights a weird looking red lion while a woman climb up a tree to

Fantastic Adventures - The Lavender vine of death
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1948, featuring the story The Lavender vine of death by Don Wilcox. A huge purple monster devours a modern building

Fantastic Adventures - Death plays a game
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1941, featuring the story Death plays a game by David V. Reed. A alien is holding a futuristic gun which is directed at a blue suited terrified looking man

SCHOOL FOR SKELETONS
A bizarre school for skeletons, with two skeletons playing a piano duet, one skeleton dunce on a chair in the corner and another skeleton carrying a basket! Date: early 1930s

Pie eating contest, National Bathing Beach, Washington 1921
Female contestant in the pie eating contest, at the National Bathing Beach, Washington DC 1921

Fire walker in trance Natal south Africa c. 1920
Fire walker Natal South Africa c.1920 - man in a trance with 500 pins being inserted in his skin

Foot-shaped comic postcard, mother and five daughters
A mother (the life and sole of the family) and her five little toe daughters - a brilliant Edwardian comic postcard, open to multiple interpretations! Date: 1907

A band, most of whom are wearing disguise of heavy eyebrows and moustaches, presumably a gimmick during a performance, or just for the hell of it

Viva Paris. Pierre Cardins suit in white wool gabardine (by Fournier) single-breasted with an officer collar and a front panel of semi-circular cutouts

Man in a rather unusual fancy dress costume, probably as United Dairies as U Dees seems to be slang for the company but the bottles on his sleeves give the game away. Date: c.1910

A woman in an interesting militaristic exotic costume, holding a standard. Date: c.1915

Living Bronzes at the London Hippodrome
The Three Olympiers, who posed as some of the finest bronze figures in classical art in an act at the London Hippodrome in May 1906

Polars bears at the London Hippodrome, January 1910
Seventy polar bears, transported there to take part in the theatres Christmas water spectacular, The Arctic. Fifty of them plunged from icebergs into the water while the remaining bears roamed about

1932 Gee Bee Model R Racer Aircraft - in which Mr James Doolittle won the Thompson Trophy at a speed of 252.6 mph - built by Messrs

La Piedra Parade (bloque erratico) en el Rio Alto Chubut
The Piedra Parade (erratic block) in the Alto Chubut River (dried-out riverbed, which has slowly eroded the base of the rock)

Joseph Salomonson of Amsterdam The Apostle of Natural Life
Joseph Salomonson of Amsterdam (1853-?) - also known as MEVA The Apostle of Natural Life - a healer and advocate of a return to nature and a more simpler existence

New varieties of carnations, Dianthus caryophyllus
New varieties of carnations from the garden of Baron Pycke de ten Aerde, Dianthus caryophyllus. Rodolphe Coumont 1, President Jules Malou 2, Directeur Emile Rodigas 3, Madame J

Carnation varieties, Bizarre type, Dianthus caryophyllus. Raised by Ed. Morren and sent to Baron O. Pycke de ten Aerde. Chromolithograph by P

Franklins tartar, scarlet bizarre carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus. Handcolured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby after a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis The

A little girl wearing a rather bizarre crimpled swimsuit circa 1920s

Lady in incredible fancy dress
Photograph of a lady called Rosie dressed in an incredible fancy dress costume consisting of countless items hanging from her dress. Date: 1926

Spirit Photograph - Schemboche
A spirit photograph by Schemboche of an Italian Woman approached by a white robe-draped spirit who places his hand upon her shoulder. Date: circa 1870s

Albert E. Jamrach, London dealer in exotic wildlife
Albert E. Jamrach (?-1917) - he continued the family business started by his Father Charles, an exotic pet store on the Ratcliffe Highway in east London at the time the largest such shop in

Charles Jamrach, London dealer in wildlife, birds and shells
Charles Jamrach (1815-1891) - a leading dealer in wildlife, birds and shells in 19th-century London. He owned an exotic pet store on the Ratcliffe Highway in east London at the time the largest such

The Graphic cover - a silver gibbon as a pet
Front cover of The Graphic magazine featuring a photograph of a Mrs Davidson taking her pet silver gibbon for a walk in Hyde Park, brought back from the Riviera

Milking a fake comedy cow at the seaside
Two ladies posing for a comedy photograph at an unidentified British seaside resort. One sits on a fake cow while the other pretends to milk it from some alarmingly authentic looking udders

Water-induced rest
Designed to cause sleep, a device providing a continual flow of water across the forehead of a person suffering from insomnia

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