Con Collection

The first colored senator and representatives - in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States. Group portrait of African American legislators: Robert C. De Large, Jefferson H. Long, H.R

The Shield of Achilles, used in his battle with Hector. Scenes include the earth, sky and sea, the sun, the moon and the constellations, two beautiful cities full of people, a field being ploughed

Brewster F2A Buffalo -unlike other Buffalo users, the Finnish enjoyed con (side view)rable success against their Soviet invaders

French Street Conjuror
A French street magician with his trestle table set up ready to perform the cup and ball trick and con some punters out of their money Date: circa 1805

Reynard the Fox 1572
Reynard the Fox, also known as Reynke de Vos and Reineke Fuchs, playing a trick on an unsuspecting cockerel

Musical Terms Up To Date - Running Down the Scales An altercation between a market barrow boy and a irate smart lady shopper regarding the setting (and accuracy)

Pope -s Natale Dress
THE POPE con Coppa nella notte di San Natale (dressed for the night of San Natale)

Bandit / Shot / France / 1891
Ex-con Boissin, resists arrest & is shot by the gendarmes

HMS Furious 47 aircraft carrier, a modified Courageous-class battlecruiser, seen in December 1931, with the removable con seen raised on the flight deck. This was removed for flying operations

Spanish civil war. Todos con un pensamiento unico: ganar la guerra (We all with one thought: to gain the war). Propaganda poster by the Republicans. Junta de Defensa de Madrid

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Este dolor no se cura con resignacion (This Sorrow doesnt get over with resignation). Picture from the series Galicia martir (Martyr Galicia)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Campesino, defiende con las armas al gobierno que te dio la tierra (Farmer, defend with arms the government that gave the land to you). Poster. SPAIN. Barcelona

WATERING THE WINE
The wine-merchant in his cellar at dead of night... 1905

Species of ostracods. Cypris fusca 1, Cypris ornata 2, 3, Cypris vidua 4, Cypris unifasciata 5, 6, Cypris monacha 7, Cythere lutea 8

Agate nodules. Ovoid nodule of agate 1, aphanite with agate geode 2, and nodule of agate 3. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze

Tages and Etruscan monsters
Etruscan bronze statue of Tages as a noble boy with bracelets on his arms and legs 1, and bas-relief of the monster Volta with the muzzle of a dog emerging from a tomb 2

Etruscan warriors hit by Greek arrows at the siege of Thebes. Etruscan warriors attempt to scale the walls of the city with ladders, shields. From an alabaster urn in the Volterra museum

Wall painting from a room in the Domus M. Asellini or House of Adonis or House of Venus and Adonis or Casa di Ione or Casa con Xystus, Reg. VI.7.18

A thimble-rigger in a London street tries to trick members of the crowd with clever sleight-of-hand Date: 1853

A Mass of White Contrails of Bomber at High-Altitude Dur?
A Mass of White Contrails of Bomber at High-Altitude During a Battle-Of-Britain Dog-Fight in the Sky over Southern England, UK in 1940 Date: 1940

Food adulteration, 1845
London improvements : adulteration of food in 1845. Sand is added to sugar, milk is watered down, bone dust and plaster of paris is added to dough and Vitriol is mixed into gin. Date: 1845

Great Temple of Amon-Re. 16th-4th c. BC. EGYPT. Karnak. Thebes. Temple of Amon - Ra. Courtyard ofl templo con avenida de esfinges con cabeza de carnero (crisoc馡 las)

The Follies by Con Lomax
Promotional postcard showing Harry George (H G) Pelissier manager and leading performer of " The Follies", a pierrot troupe founded in 1895 during their run at the Empire Theatre

A clay reconstruction of the face of Piltdown Man
A clay reconstruction of the face of the paleoanthropological hoax Piltdown Man, discovered in the grounds of Barkham Manor at Piltdown, East Sussex

Diego de Torres Villarroel (1693-1770). Scene of his Sue?o
Diego de Torres Villarroel (1693-1770). Spanish writer, poet, dramatist, doctor, mathematician, priest and professor of the University of Salamanca

Nicholas Hart, the Great Sleeper
Nicholas Hart, known as the Great Sleeper, who slept from 5 to 11 August 1711, though he was suspected of shamming with a view to earning money. Date: 1711

Music cover, Ma sung by Miss Daisy Wood
Music cover, Ma, words by Sidney Clare, music by Con Conrad, sung by Miss Daisy Wood. 1921

The show is over - Music Sheet Cover by Sam Coslow, Con Conrad and Al Dubin, featured by Miss Elsie Prince. An illustration of the title and a drawn woman

Con Moto Perpetuo, by Bairnsfather
Con Moto Perpetuo Our Bert (going on leave - having asked a question, and having listened to three minutes unintelligible eloquence): " And ow does the chorus go

TORRES VILLARROEL, Diego de (1693-1770). Spanish writer, poet, dramatist, astrologer, doctor, mathematician, priest and professor of the University of Salamanca

Jefferson Randolph Soapy Smith II, American gangster
Jefferson Randolph Soapy Smith II (1860-1898), American con artist and gangster. He was shot in a gunfight in Skagway, Alaska, on 8 July 1898. Date: late 19th century

Skagway, Alaska - Grave of J R Soapy Smith II
Skagway, Alaska - Grave of Jefferson Randolph Soapy Smith II (1860-1898) - con artist, saloon and gambling house proprietor, gangster and crime boss. Date: circa 1930

Political Prisoners in Jail on Con Son Island
Con Son Island, the largest island of the Con Dao archipelago, off the coast of southern Vietnam. In 1861, the French colonial government established a prison on the island to house political

Panel de madera decorado con bajorrelieves con motivos vegetales. s.VIII. Islamic art. Relief

Edad con desgracias
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Edad con desgracias. Paintbrush and sepia ink drawing. Drawing

Un diestro entrando
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). Un diestro entrando a matar con un sombrero en la mano en lugar de muleta (Bullfighter)

Japanese navy department tests balloons in front of the American Consulate. Date 1867

Piazza con Mercato

Veduta di piazza colonna con in mezzo la magnifica colonna di Antonino pio

Street music: A bird mimic, 1816
A street musician who mimics the notes of common English birds by means of a folded bit of tin, which is held between the teeth; but in order to engage the attention of the credulous

Mussolini and Family
Il Duce con la sua famiglia Date: 1930

Around the world in an iron mask
An extraordinary postcard of a man who for a wager of 21, 000 pounds, walked around the world. Harry Bensley alledged to have pushed his perambulator all around the globe wearing this mask

Poster advertising The Million Dollar Girl, a theatre production by Con Conrad and Alfred Zeitlin

Mary Robinson Buttermere
MARY ROBINSON, known as the Maid of Buttermere, daughter of the landlord of the Fish inn, seduced by Hatfield, con man, hanged for forgery 1803. Celebrated by Wordsworth

A CARD SHARP / C. 1850
A card sharp tries to con two naive country folk at an inn; they are using a barrel as a playing surface

Beggar / Owen Clancey
Owen Clancey. A noted London beggar, who it seems is not quite as bereft of the use of his legs as it may appear at first glance

Latin Bishop
VESCOVO LATINO CON PIVIALE Latin bishop with cope

Three Card Trick
THE THREE CARD TRICK (or Spot the Lady ) The other passengers watch while the trickster and his confederate fleece a victim in a railway carriage

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