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His Masters Breath - SatireHis Masters Breath Satirical play on the dog/gramophone logo for His Masters Voice, substituting the music player for a whiskey jar and funnel
A fantasy illustration of marine reptilesThe Sea-Dragons as they lived. Frontispiece by John Martin from The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons by Thomas Hawkins, 1840
Gremlin and PilotA Gremlin tries to fog the aircrafts windscreen with his breath, but the pilot foils him by chewing a carrot to improve his sight
A Breath of Fresh Air by David Wright. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s
Comic postcard, Man uses lung testing machine at the seaside Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, breathing in short pants Date: 20th century
Advert for Aertex men and womens underwear 1933Aertex underwear, little cells in the fabric that allow the body to breathe. Date: 1933
DIVING FOR PEARLSDiving for pearls in the Persian Gulf. Date: 1870
Lady bursts through Hoods Latest Newspaper full of healthLady bursts through Hoods Latest Newspaper, full of health and vitality! Hoods Saponaceaous Tooth Powder apparently cleanses the teeth, sweetens the breath, and hardens the gums. Date: circa 1900s
Nanette Newman and Michael Culver on location in CornwallThe actress Nanette Newman on location near Lands End, Cornwall, with the actor Michael Culver, in the roles of the Newlyn School artists Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857-1947)
Diagram of the Proto breathing apparatus set, WW2Exploded diagram of the Mark IV Proto (oxygen) breathing apparatus set, showing its working parts
Listerine advertisement, 1930Advertisement for Listerine mouth wash, suggesting that halitosis can lead to being left on the shelf, marriage-wise as her birthdays creep towards that tragic thirty mark. Date: 1930
Advert for Floriline liquid for teeth and breath 1897Is the best Liquid Dentifrice in the World. Prevents the decay of the teeth. Renders the teeth pearly white. Is perfectly harmless and delicious to the taste. Date: 1897
Hieroglyph. Sela of Amenemhat I. 12th Dynasty. Middle Kingdom. British Museum. London
War-Time Economies Saving Breath, WW1 Heath RobinsonWar-Time Economies from Heath Robinson - to Save Your Breath. The Penny-in-the-Slot machine for blowing out candles. Wartime savings taken to ridiculous lengths by William Heath Robinson who suggests
Breath of Spring by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in a garden with a basket of flowers. Date: 1938
A breath of air on the balcony at a London ballA couple in evening dress take a moment to enjoy some fresh air by an open window or balcony, during a ball at one of the great London mansions at the height of the London Season. 1930
Man at bar wanting clove to disguise evidence of his boozingDrunken gentleman leaning against a bar, requesting the barmaid for a clove to disguise the olfactory evidence of his boozing
Gallicolumba luzonica, Luzon bleeding-heart and another unidLarge Series plate 53, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Plate 344 from The Gleanings of Natural History by George EdPlate 344, hand coloured copperplate etching from George Edwards The Gleanings of Natural History, Vol. 3 (1764). Annotated White faced mannikin and ruby-crested hummingbird
Approaching from the air - Hong Kong - Coming into HK was spectacular and breath-taking. We came in on a level with The Peak, so everything was near ships in the harbour, commercial centre
London (NFS) firefighter in breathing apparatus, WW2Side view of the Mark IV Proto (oxygen) breathing apparatus set, showing the re-breather bag, mouthpiece, control valves and cooler
The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth Breath-taking Japanese slide for life. Circus poster showing a Japanese tight-rope walker descending a steeply angled wire. Date c1898
Stone Wall StileA country girl stops to take a breath of fresh country air as she climbs over a stile in a dry stone wall. Date: 1950s
Lady in Harem pants draws amazed reactionsA rotund lady draws breath (it appears she has been wound in to a VERY tight corset!) as she ascends some steep stares, but also draws gasps of astonishment from three gentleman
A street in Buyukdere, Istanbul, Turkey. Old traditional Ottoman houses at the end of the Sultunate. The upper rooms overhanging the street are called Cumbas
Chester City Steps 1930SThe Wishing Steps, Chester, Cheshire, England. If you want to make a wish, you must run up the whole flight of steps, then down and then up again, all in one breath!
Moonlit Ship in CalmBecalmed on a moonlit night without a breath of wind - the sails of this three-master hang limply as she hardly moves through the water
Ezekiel and the BonesGod said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones... and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, and the flesh came up upon them, and the breath came into them
Pearl Fishing / 1870Fishing for pearls in the Persian Gulf. Native divers hold their breath and drop down to the sea bed on lines