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3 Wise Monkeys / JapaneseHear no evil See no evil Speak no evil
Simeon in the Temple, c. 1668-1669, by RembrandtRembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669). Dutch painter. Simeon in the Temple, c.1668-1669. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden
Shirland Road, Maida Vale, London, with the Shirland Hotel (pub, now the Truscott Arms) on the left. Date: circa 1910
Jesus Heals BartimaeusJesus heals blind Bartimaeus (Bartimeus)
BRAILLE, Louis (1809-1852). French pedagogue and inventor, creator of the writing system for the blind. Braille alphabet. Photography
Helen Keller with her Great DaneHelen Keller (1880-1968) born blind deaf mute. Thanks to her governess she overcame these handicaps, studied and created in 1921 the American Foundation for the Blind. Pictured here on the S.S
Louis Braille / ThiriatLOUIS BRAILLE French inventor of system of raised-point writing for the blind
Buddy, Seeing EyeBuddy, guide dog of Morris Frank of Tennessee, the first dog trained in Switzerland by Mrs Dorothy Eustis, founder with Morris Frank, in 1927, of The Seeing Eye organisation
Guide Dog Crossing RoadGuide dog Buddy I with Morris Frank. Buddy was his third seeing eye dog. He was the first guide dog in the USA. Date: 1930s
Homer / Profile / ChapmanHOMER Blind Greek poet with the Iliad and the Odyssey below
Mrs Bryan Guinness (Diana Freeman Mitford) as VenusFront cover photograph from The Sketch of the Hon. Mrs. Bryan Guinness, formerly the Hon. Diana Mitford, cast as the role of Venus at the Olympian Party
Universal Rescue Mission Caravan - E. H. Smith of SheffieldUniversal Rescue Mission Caravan and its owner, Mr E. H. Smith of Sheffield (on the right) - a local Christian Evangelical preacher, known as the Blind Evangelist
D H Evans, Oxford Street, LondonD H Evans department store, Oxford Street, London. circa 1910s
Dom Perignon, French monk known for wine-makingDom Perignon (1638-1715), French Benedictine monk who is often (incorrectly) credited with the invention of sparkling champagne
John Grooms Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission. Blind and Crippled Girls making artificial flowers. John Grooms vision for orphaned and disabled girls
Helen Keller reading BrailleHelen Adams Keller (1880-1968), American author and lecturer, blind, deaf and mute from the age of 19 months; sitting in a chair, reading a book
Milton DictatingJOHN MILTON English writer, depicted after he had become blind, dictating to his daughter
Blind Mans BuffChildren playing Blind Mans Buff at a Christmas party
Walton Street Police Station, Knightsbridge, SW London. Date: circa 1900s
Tranquil Vale, Blackheath Village, south-east LondonView down Tranquil Vale, Blackheath Village, south-east London. Date: circa 1900s
Appius Claudius the Censor (340-273 BC). Engraving. ColoredAppius Claudius the Censor (340-273 BC). Roman Censor. Engraving by Sabattini after a fresco by Cesare Maccari. The Iberian Illustration, 1898. Colored
John Lewis, Oxford Street, LondonJohn Lewis department store, Oxford Street, London. Date: circa 1905
Oedipus and Antigone. EngravingOedipus. Hero of Greek mythology. The Delphic oracle predicted that he would kill his father and marry his mother. When they discover the truth
Blind soldiers regatta at Putney, WW1Blinded soldiers from St. Dunstans home for blinded sailor and soldiers in Regents Park, rowing in the boat they rowed to victory over the students of Westminster College
Elgin Avenue, West London, looking towards Edgware Road. Date: circa 1910
Upper part of Regent Street, London, looking towards Langham Place and All Souls Church. Date: circa 1910
The Blind Harper, Patrick Quin c.1745-1812 (c.1800). Unknown 19th century. Date: 1800 (circa)
Homer / Bust / BaiaeHOMER Blind Greek poet
Chocolate box design, 18th century scenesChocolate box design, featuring various 18th century scenes, with people boating, on a swing, playing blind mans buff, and playing the guitar. Date: 20th century
Blind Man and Guide DogA German Shepherd leads a blind man in a street, steering him between a lamp- post and a carelessly parked bicycle. Date: 1935
Kenya - Masai man with extended earlobe ornament (weighed to increase the distension of the skin). Date: circa 1910s
Blind Italian soldier - WWIItalian soldiers blinded during World War One - a poem explaining their fate. Date: circa 1918
Homer / PhillipoteauxHOMER Blind Greek poet singing to sailors
Sunshine Home for Blind Babies, Southerndown, GlamorganTwo children and a woman in the garden of the Sunshine Home for Blind Babies, Southerndown, Glamorgan. Date: circa 1950
French women visting the Cossack bivouac in Paris, 1814Woman in fur-lined coat with fur muff visting the Tatar and Kalmyk Cossack bivouas in Paris after the fall of Napoleon. Cossack encampment on the Champs Elysees, 1814. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V
Regency physician riding a horse wearing a chin pieceRegency physician riding a horse wearing a protective wooden chin piece. A bewildered family of farm labourers watch him go. Dr. Cassock F.R.S. Inventor of the Noble Puzzle for Tumble Down Horses
Nelson turns a blind eye - Battle of CopenhagenAdmiral Lord Nelson ignoring the signal from Sir Hyde Parker to stop fighting. He is looking though his telescope with his blind eye (popularising the phrase to turn a blind eye )
An old woman holds out a cup to beg on a Venice bridgeAn old woman holds out a cup to beg for money. She sits and half-lies on the stone steps of a bridge in Venice, Italy. People walk by Date: 2013
de Havilland DH-106 Comet CIIR / C2RRae Blind Landing Experimental Unit Dh-106 Comet Airliner Flying on Final-Approach Date: 1958
Blind ex servicemen learning anatomy and massage after WW1 Date: circa 1916
Servicemen blinded during WW1 learning to make baskets and nets - 1920s Date: circa 1916
Servicemen blinded during WW1 learning anatomy and massage - 1920s Date: circa 1916
Blind ex-servicemen learning to make nets and basketsBlind ex servicemen learning to make nets and baskets after WW1 Date: circa 1916
A blind bible reader, Victorian period
Blind bible reader
WW1 - Battle of Albert - British troops, blinded by gas, helping each other to the dressing station at Croisilles, France - 21st August 1918
Children playing in China in the early 1900s
The Blind Beggar Bethnal Green London Victorian period
The Blind Beggar pub, Bethnal Green, London
A Merry Christmas magic lantern slide, Victorian period
WW2 - Death In The BlackoutAn illustrated front cover for a WW2 story book, Death In The Blackout, written by Anthony Gilbert. The image shows a skeleton pulling down his window blind during a blackout. Date: circa 1946
WW2 - R. A. F Blind Flying InstructionA photograph of a British WW2 Royal Air Force trainer giving his pupil instruction in blind flying, he is sat in the rear seat, completely covered by the hood. Date: circa 1940s
Swansea and South Wales Institution for the BlindGirls knitting and sewing at the Swansea and South Wales Institution for the Blind
Japan - Bamboo Blind makerBamboo Blind maker, Japan. Date: circa 1920s
Marie AdelaidePortrait of Marie-Adelaide. She reigned as Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1912 until her abdication in 1919. She was the first Grand Duchess regnant of Luxembourg
Annual Festival at College for the Blind, NorwoodThe annual festival at the crystal palace of the Royal Normal College and Academy for the Blind in Upper Norwood, London. Various games and exercises are depicted
Institution for Deaf and Blind, Stoke-on-TrentFrontage of the North Staffordshire Institution for Deaf and Blind, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Date: circa 1905
Bristol School of Industry for the BlindGirls at work in the Drawn Brush Shop at the Bristol School of Industry for the Blind Date: Early 1900s
Death grabs holds of the Blind Man's stick and drags him away.. Handcolored engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's The Triumph of Death
BLIND HOPE AT LOURDESThe crowd throng to Lourdes, led by Hope - blindfolded - and a feeble priest, while Death brings up the rear... Date: 1894
Rabbits and other animals playing blind man's bluff by M. Sherborne (no title)
Trans-Canada Lockheed Aircraft, Pilots cockpit fitted for blind flying Date: 1930s
1860s Japan - portrait of a blind masseur Felice or Felix Beato (1832 - 29 January 1909), Italian-British photographer working mostly in India, Japan, China
Comic postcard, Man on the beach, almost blind! Date: 20th century
Blind Mans BuffArtists interpretation of traditional childrens games. Artist: Helen GC Marsh Lambert. Date: circa 1916
Wife of the elite samurai class relaxingWife of the elite samurai class reading books, with other women writing with a pen, one looking at ukiyo-e prints, and one folding paper. Another woman delivers reams of paper and ink
Russian-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Canvas lambrequin and curtains, silk window screen, armchair. Planche 20. Croisee Russe. Lambrequin toile ou serge, ton creme, applications de laine
Cartoon, Blind Mans Buff (Disraeli and Reform)Cartoon, Blind Mans Buff -- a satirical comment on Disraelis efforts to progress his ideas for electoral reform. His Reform Bill was altered by amendments as it passed through the House of Commons
Swiss Cottage and Institution for the Blind, LondonThe main street at Londons Swiss Cottage, north London. The scene includes the Institution for the Blind (far left), the old Swiss Cottage inn (far right), and men and women on bicycles
Elm Court Blind School, London - TypewritingGirls using typewriters at the London School Boards Elm Court School for the Blind, Tulse Hill. Date: circa 1903
Elm Court Blind School, London - Chair CaningGirls at the London School Boards Elm Court School for the Blind, Tulse Hill, caning the seats of stools. Date: early 1900s
Victorian Greeting Card - Blind Mans BuffFive kittens playing blind mans bluff. Date: circa 1890
Huge blinds used to camouflage a factory, Sept 1939Huge dark blinds used to camouflage an entire factory on an A-road just outside of London. Blackout regulations were imposed two days before the outbreak of war to make the factory less visible to
Women making flowers 1912Women from the John Grooms Crippleage and Blind Mission making artificial wild roses to be sold at Alexandra Day. In 1912
Two moles (Talpa Europaea). Date: 1843
Hoodman blind, or blind mans buff, 14th century. Men taking turns to be the blind man by reversing the hood, or hitting the blind man with their knotted hoods, and women playing the game (bottom)
Lazarillo de Tormes and the blind man bumping into a pillarLazarillo de Tormes takes his revenge on the blind beggar by forcing him to bump into a pillar. Church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in the background
George Dyball, a blind beggar in a sailor sGeorge Dyball, a blind beggar who dressed in a sailors uniform, and his dog Nelson with begging bowl. Another blind begging couple behind him
Black and white worm lizard, blind snakeBlack-and-white worm lizard, Amphisbaena fuliginosa, earthworm blind snake, Typhlops lumbricalis, large shieldtail snake, Pseudotyphlops philippinus (Uropeltis philippinus)
Merveilleuses playing the game of blind mans buff. A blindfolded woman runs in a garden as one woman strokes her hand and another grabs her muslin dress
Seated blind mans buff. A dandy in Regency fashion guesses the identity of the woman in muslin dress who provides his chair
Blind ringlet, almond-eyed ringlet, PiedmontBlind ringlet, Erebia pharte, almond-eyed ringlet, Erebia alberganus, Piedmont ringlet, Erebia meolans, and sooty ringlet, Erebia pluto
Earthworm blind snake, slow worm, Cape leglessEarthworm blind snake, Typhlops lumbricalis 1, slow worm, Anguis fragilis 2, Cape legless skink, Ancontias meleagris 3 and eastern glass lizard, Ophisaurus ventralis 4
