Bubble Collection

South Sea Bubble 1720
The South Sea Bubble. A satirical image showing a goat sitting atop the human wheel of fortune with a sign saying Who l I Ride just below

Algeria - Woman smoking a nargile pipe
Algeria - woman smoking a nargile (Hookah Pipe)

South Sea Bubble / 1721
THE SOUTH-SEA BUBBLE A satire on Mr. Knight, the cashier of the South -Sea Company, who fled the country as the situation became too hot

Hogarth / British Stage
A JUST VIEW OF THE BRITISH STAGE or Three heads are better than one, scene Newgate

Turkish Lady on a settee smoking
A Turkish lady reclining quizzically on an Ottoman settee, smoking a narghile pipe, whilst drinking coffee

Scuba Diver
A scuba diver inside a large metal water tank. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Market Jew Street with Davy statue, Penzance, Cornwall
Market Jew Street with Humphry Davy statue, Penzance, Cornwall. The name of the street comes from the Cornish Marghas Yow, meaning Thursday Market. The scientist Humphry Davy was born in Penzance

John Law (1671 1729). Scottish economist. Dutch satirical
John Law (16711729). Scottish economist. He was appointed Controller General of Finances of France under King Louis XV. In 1716 Law established the Banque Ge?ne?rale in France, a private bank

Interior of the Harem with a scribe. Date: circa 1910s

Egyptian Lady of the Harem
An Egyptian Lady of the Harem, reclining on a couch and smoking a nargile pipe Date: 1910s

Poster, The Magic of Soap and Water. Coo... is that me with the dirt off? Showing a boy admiring his nice clean face in a soap bubble. Issued by the Health and Cleanliness Council. circa 1940s

Iran - Royal Feast
A group of Iranian men (in a variety of states of sobriety!) following a Festan Persan or Royal Persian Feast in Tehran, Iran

Blonde in Bath 1960S
A blonde model sits in a trendy, but miniscule bubble bath, covering her embarrassment with a sponge whilst taking a phone call

Junction - Angel Street and High Street, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Date: 1964

Bottlenose dolphin, underwater, blowing heart shaped bubbles. Digital manipulation

A man sits in a back street tea shop in Cairo, Egypt and smokes a hookah, or hubble bubble. His white clothes are spotted with red stains

Incredible hallucinations brought on by smoking Opium
Seeing Everything - The wild and incredible hallucinations brought on by smoking Opium. Date: 1905

Children are wafted in a magic bubble or sphere
The children are wafted in a magic bubble or sphere - by Florence Mary Anderson

Ocean liner watch, Rolex Oyster Perpetual, Queen Mary
OCEAN LINER WATCH: Extremely rare Rolex 14 carat gold self-winding waterproof bubble back wristwatch with sweep centre seconds and Queen Mary dial

Poster, Austria Date: 1950

Hie away neath shades of night to the castle of delight - fairies and bubbles Date: circa 1920s

Cover design, Super Science Stories, science fiction pulp magazine, November 1949 Date: 1949

Roy Hattersley and Neil Kinnock at a Party conference
Roy Hattersley (Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, b 1932), British Labour politician, writer and journalist, served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party 1983-1992

Poster Pageant - Advert for Pears Soap, Bubbles 1920
The pageant was to promote the up-and-coming International Advertising Exhibition at White City, London. Over a mile long in the West End, well known familiar bill board posters

Comic postcard, Conversation in the blackout, WW2 Date: 1940s

Comic postcard, Conversation in the blackout, WW2 Date: 1940s

Aberdeens bubble. How long will it last? Satirical cartoon about Lord Aberdeen s
Aberdeens bubble. How long will it last? Satirical cartoon about Lord Aberdeens coalition government. Date: 1853

A young (possibly) Italian couple standing proudly next to their Messerschmitt KR200, or Kabinenroller (Cabin Scooter), a three-wheeled bubble car designed by the aircraft engineer Fritz Fend

Childrens Fashions, boy and two girls Childrens Fashions, boy and two girls
Childrens Fashions, boy and two girls -- for schooltime or playtime. 1926

Roger Crab, English soldier, writer and vegetarian
Roger Crab (1621-1680), English soldier, haberdasher, herbal doctor, writer and vegetarian. 17th century

Beadlet anemone, barrel bubble snail, long-horn
Barrel bubble snail, Acteon tormatilis 1, beadlet anemone, Actinia equina 2, yellow-barred long-horn, Nemophora degeerella 3, brown hawker, Aeshna grandis 4. Acteon austral, actinie de Ste

Common Bottlenose Dolphin, two facing each other

Labrador and Dachshund, Bubble and Squeak. Date: circa 1950s

Glass blowing 1872
A boy sitting on the ground holding a pot of liquid glass or metal, which has been melted from soda, sand and other substances by heat of a great furnace

Cartoon of W E Gladstone as Bubbles
Cartoon of W E Gladstone as John Everett Millais Bubbles. 1887

Women smoking a Chibouk Pipe - Southern Algeria. Date: circa 1901

PEEP FROM BEHIND CURTAIN
A Peep behind the curtain at Drury Lane Showing a caricature associated with Sheridan. Date: 18th century

Food and drink: diners and their sayings
The habits and sayings of various eaters. Date: 19th Century

LONDON STREET, C18
A street scene in London at the time of the South Sea Bubble Date: circa 1720

Cocoonery - Silk Manufacture - Syria. Date: circa 1905s

Bottlenose dolphin - blowing air bubble (Tursiops truncatus). Distribution: Worldwide except polar regions. Complex play / creative behaviour

Messerschmitt KR 175 three wheeler car, (Ian Fraser in car). Date: C.1955

Hydatina physis, rose-petal bubble shell
Watercolour 399 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Kallee dere, from the Watling Collection

Tobacco smoking boatman silhouette, Dal Lake, Kashmir
Silhouette of a young man sat in a shikara boat smoking a hookah on Lake Dal, Kashmir Date: 1986

Portrait of dancer Grace Christie, London, 1921 doing her Bubble dance which is a feature in Charles Cochrans League of Notions at the New Oxford Theatre, 1921 Date: 1921

John Law (1671 A?i? 1729). Scottish economist. Dutch satiri
John Law (1671A?i?1729). Scottish economist. He was appointed Controller General of Finances of France under King Louis XV. In 1716 Law established the Banque G?n?rale in France, a private bank

Common Bottlenose Dolphin - with air bubble rings (Tursiops truncatus). underwater in dolphinarium. controlled conditions

Common Bottlenose Dolphin - with air bubble ring (Tursiops truncatus). underwater in dolphinarium. controlled conditions

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