Claim Collection

Ufos / Louisiana Bigfoot
In the town of Louisiana, Missouri, witnesses claim a connection between UFO sightings and Bigfoot

Three people who claim to have seen the Loch Ness Monster
Mr Alexander Ross, Mr Arthur Grant and Miss Janet Fraser, all of whom claimed to have seen the Loch Ness Monster between 1933 and 1934

SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, 1900
Photograph of the North German Lloyd Liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse at sea, 1900. This liner was built by the Vulcan Shipyards at Stettin with the aim of winning the Blue Riband

Compton and Edrich leave the Oval pitch, 1953
Photograph showing the two English batsman, Denis Compton and Bill Edrich, leaving the pitch at the Oval Cricket Ground, London, 19th August 1953

William I the Conqueror
WILLIAM I THE CONQUEROR Defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 to claim the English throne

Ufos / Abductions / Allagash
Four men on a canoeing trip in Maine, USA encounter a UFO and claim shared abduction on board a spaceship as well as many related incidents

Sverre & Birkebeiners
Sverre on discovering that he is the son of Sigurd II (Mund) goes to Norway to make his claim. He travels through Vermeland seeking help

Behind the Flying Saucers, book cover
BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS, a book by Frank Scully, and the first to claim that a flying saucer had crashed in the American desert

Christmas 1914 Football Match Statues, Messines - Mesen
This life sized statue of a German and a British soldier shaking hands over a football, was sculpted by Andy Edwards and was unveiled on 22 December 2015

A Christmas Day Coronation: William the Conqueror rides to Westminster Abbey to receive the Crown of England - December 25, 1066 Date: 1066

William of Orange (King William III), statue, Brixham, Devon
King William III (1650-1702) - statue of William of Orange at Brixham in Devon, England, commemorating his landing near there on 5 November 1688 to claim the English throne

Lambert Simnel working in the Royal Kitchens
Lambert Simnel (circa 1477circa 1525) - pretender to the throne of England. His claim to be Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, in 1487 threatened the newly-established reign of King Henry VII

Canada Newfoundland land prospectors early 1900s

Maria Pita - Spanish heroine. Memorial of Maria Pita
Maria Pita (Maria Mayor Fernandez de Camara y Pita) (1565-1643). Spanish heroine. King Philip II awarded her the rank of ensign for the defense of Corunna in 1589 against the attack of the English

Martin de Cavalar with Maria Pita on the ordinary writ concerning the place of Ledono (Lendoiro), 1616. Mayor Fernandez Pita claimed some properties that Martin de Cavalar had acquired from Francisco

RMS Titanic - compensation claim of Mrs Herman
RMS Titanic - Second Class passenger and victim Samuel Herman (1862-1912). Letter dated 7 May 1913 from the Public Trustee Office, Strand, London

A page from Opal's precocious childhood diary which backs her claim to be a French princess who had emigrated to the U.S. : though truly extraordinary, not all believed it. Date: 1920

Mediumship - a spirit perplexed 1853
A spirit perplexed. A woman visiting a medium requests she asks the spirit of her deceased husband Augustus where he put the receipt for a repaid claim. Date: 1853

Plan and elevation for a Gothic cottage. Floorplan shows parlor, dining room, hall, kitchen, larder and scullery. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermanns Repository of Arts

Female royalist Spanish troops 1875
Three sketches of female Alphonsist vivandieres from different regiments, shortly after the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy under Alphonso XII in Spain, December 1874. Date: 1875

I claim my perjured lover, Nanki Poo - The Story of the Mikado by Ws Gilbert. 1921

HQ General J Lawton Collins Haras la Hubert Normandy
An Advance HQ was set up here by General Eugene Landrum on D Day for V11 Corps. Plaques on the gatepost claim that General Collins established The first Command Post of the American Army in France

The Kitchener Coffin Hoax: Frank Power, freelance journalist
The Kitchener Coffin Hoax: Frank Power (real name Arthur Vectis Freeman), freelance journalist. who earned notoriety as the author of the Great Kitchener Yarn - Power claimed to have brought

Columbus First Sight of Land
Christopher Columbus stands on the deck of his ship at night, looking off into the distance with his hand on a map. A sailor named Rodrigo de Triana spotted the land first

Members of Dail Eireann - the Sinn Fein Parliament
The Men who claim to rule Ireland - Members of Dail Eireann - the Sinn Fein Parliament. Date: 1920

Harold swears fealty to Duke William
Allegedly after being shipwrecked on the French coast in 1064 (a date highly disputed amongst historians), The Bayeux Tapestry, and other Norman sources

Serbian Crown Prince Alexander (1888-1934) photographed upon a arrival to London in 1916. The Prince was the second son of King Peter I whose elder brother Prince George renounced his claim to

Advert for Royal Exchange Assurance 1905
An event of accidents, burglary, employers liability, marine, fidelity guarantees. Date: 1905

DUNMOW FLITCH COUPLE
THE DUNMOW FLITCH Thomas and Ann Shakeshaft win a gammon of bacon, when their claim to be a happily married couple is honoured Date: 20 June 1751

Henry Vi Sacre at Paris
The 8-year old Henry VI receives the sacre (= coronation) in Paris, by way of emphasising Englands claim to much French territory Date: 1430

Miss Daisy Markham sues Marquess of Northampton
Mrs Daisy Annie Moss, otherwise known as Miss Daisy Markham, actress, who successfully sued the new Marquess of Northampton for breach of promise of marriage in 1913

Map showing Dr. Frederick Cooks route to the North Pole, 19
Map showing the route taken by Dr. Frederick A. Cook and his Inuit companions, Ah-welsh and Etukishook, to the North Pole, in 1907 - 1908. The chart has been signed by the doctor, at top left

Perkin Warbeck at Beaulieu Abbey in the New Forest
Perkin Warbeck (c.1474-1499) takes refuge at Beaulieu Abbey in the New Forest. By claiming to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (the younger of the two Princes in the Tower)

Lady Wilmot Horton
I am lady WILMOT-HORTON, wife of sir Robert (1784 - 1841) and that is my claim to fame and the reason for having my portrait in these files. Date: circa 1810

Attack by Montenegran forces at Tuzi
An Austrian Military Postcard, depicting an attack on Tuzi, Montenegro. Tuzi was the last city to surrender to the Turks and the first to claim independence under the leadership of Ded Gjo Luli

Loudun - Possessed Nuns
The nuns of the convent of Saint-Ursule develop convent hysteria and claim to be possessed by demons

Lumiere Cinematograph
LUMIEREs CINEMATOGRAPH : a contemporary depiction of the French device which has the best claim to be the worlds first practical film projector

Advert for Dr. Scotts electric hair brush 1881
Dr. Scott s, (George Augustus Scott), electric hair brush made from pure bristles, no wires, supposedly producing an electric current

Frederick Albert Cook - American Polar Explorer
Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) - Polar Explorer, physician, and ethnographer, noted for his claim of having reached the North Pole on April 21st, 1908

Robert Edwin Peary - American Polar Explorer
Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920) - American Polar Explorer who claimed to have reached the geographic North Pole on April 6th, 1909

Judgement of Solomon. Engraving, 16th century

Peter IV (1319-1387), called the Ceremonious. Entry of Pedro
Peter IV (1319-1387), called el Cerimoni??s ( the Ceremonious ) or el del punyalet ( the one of the little dagger ). King of Aragon, King of Sardinia and Corsica (as Peter I)

Austria 19th century. Labour movement. Charge of Austrian hussars against the strikers mutineers in the neighborhood of New-Lerchenfeld (Vienna), April 8, 1890. Colored engraving

History of France. Decazeville strike. Military patrols crossing the Duke of Decazes square occupied by the strikers in the coal mines and steel mills. Engraving in 1886 by Comba. Colored engraving

Meeting held on May 1890 in Barcelona. The civil governor gr
Labor movement. Meeting held on May 1890 in Barcelona. The civil governor greets the demonstrators after requesting the reduction of working hours. Catalonia. Spain. Colored engraving

13th Earl of Eglinton
ARCHIBALD WILLIAM, thirteenth earl of EGLINTON, Scottish statesman whose chief claim on our attention was the famous tournament (of which we have splendid illustrations). Date: 1812 - 1861

John Dethick
JOHN DETHICK Beyond the fact that he lived at West Newton, Norfolk, neither we nor the British Museum know what is this gentlemans claim to fame. Date: 1567 - 1657

ANNE BACON daughter of the artist John Bacon - but did she have any other claim to fame ? Date: 1768 - 1809

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