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Consciousness Collection

Background imageConsciousness Collection: If you knows of a better 'ole - go to it! McGill postcard

If you knows of a better 'ole - go to it! McGill postcard
If you knows of a better 'ole - go to it! A humorous seaside postcard by Donald McGill showing two rotund Peeping Toms voyeuristically peering through a crack in the door of a bathing machine

Background imageConsciousness Collection: Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist in South Africa

Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist in South Africa
Steve Biko (Stephen Biko, 1946-1977), anti-apartheid activist in South Africa during the 1960s and 1970s. He founded the Black Consciousness Movement, and died in police custody. Date: circa 1960s

Background imageConsciousness Collection: ADVENTURE MACHINES

ADVENTURE MACHINES
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (L Manning and Fletcher Pratt) people who have given up their consciousness to live the false life of the Adventure Machines... Date: 1930

Background imageConsciousness Collection: Some Clerical Types by John Kendal, Self-Consciousness

Some Clerical Types by John Kendal, Self-Consciousness. 1901

Background imageConsciousness Collection: ADVENTURE MACHINES

ADVENTURE MACHINES
In time to come, some will give up consciousness to live the false life of the Adventure Machines, anticipating our virtual reality machines Date: 1930

Background imageConsciousness Collection: Woman saving child by walking narrow ledge

Woman saving child by walking narrow ledge
To save her child from fire, Madame Pauquelin of rue St Maur, Paris, walks a narrow ledge from her 5th floor apartment, which she could not have done in her normal state of consciousness. Date: 1906

Background imageConsciousness Collection: Fantastic Adventures - The involuntary immortals

Fantastic Adventures - The involuntary immortals
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1949, featuring the story The involuntary immortals by Rog Phillips. A scientist is standing in a laboratory in front of a tube filled with a golden liquid

Background imageConsciousness Collection: Suit to prevent pilot blackout by G. H. Davis

Suit to prevent pilot blackout by G. H. Davis
Beating the fighter pilots problem: a suit to prevent blackout. Details of the American Berger G2 suit, designed to keep pilots conscious in high-speed air battles during the Second World War

Background imageConsciousness Collection: Salvation Army Hostel - Evening Service

Salvation Army Hostel - Evening Service
Men, in varying states of consciousness, attend an evening service at a London Salvation Army Hostel. Date: 1938

Background imageConsciousness Collection: View of journalist Joseph Croce-Spinelli, naval officer Henr

View of journalist Joseph Croce-Spinelli, naval officer Henri Sivel, and Gaston Tissandier in the basket of the balloon, Zenith

Background imageConsciousness Collection: Golden statues at Wat Si Saket, Vientiane, Laos

Golden statues at Wat Si Saket, Vientiane, Laos
Golden statues of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas (enlightened beings) at Wat Si Saket (or Sisaketh), a Buddhist temple in Vientiane, Laos


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