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Tango craze: British ballroom version imagined, 1913
" The tango untangled, and made suitable for use in British ballrooms." The Bystander imagines a sanitised version of the tango, suitable for dancing in respectable British ballrooms

Douglas DC-3S N1R (msn 4129) of the BROOKLYN DODGERS (Brooklyn National League Baseball Club), marked with Dodgers World Champions just behind the entry door

An ammunition column passing through Ypres, 1917. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

Racial / Dodge / Comanche
Colonel Dodge meets with a Comanche war party

Electric Rail Dinner
Still another use for electricity: a miniature railway that brings food from the pantry to the table, removing the need for contact with troublesome servants

Photographs of Harry Price at Work. Full length photograph of Harry Price seated demonstrating the electrical control under which Rudi Schneider was tested

Soccer Action
Coventry City's goal-keeper colliding with a Fulham player during a soccer match at Craven Cottage. Date: 1931

Gates Learjet 35 D-CONI (msn 35-007), of Contact Air, at the Paris Air Show held at Le Bourget in June 1975. Date: 1975

HMS Kale, E-class - River-class destroyer
Royal Navy - HMS Kale, a Hawthorn Leslie type River-class destroyer ordered under the 1903-1904 Naval Estimates and named after the Kale Water in the Scottish Borders

Ypres, The City of Death, Cloth Hall and St Martin's Church
Ypres - The City of Death showing the shelled Cloth Hall and St. Martin's Church. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holiday'S Early Life Was Spent In St

Laurence Olivier and Dorothy Tutin
Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) and Dorothy Tutin (1930-2001), British actors, during rehearsals for John Osborne's play The Entertainer. Date: 10 April 1957

Hermes as a Pankration fighter
Statue of the Greek god Hermes as a Pankration fighter (Pancraziaste). From Hadrians Villa at Tivoli. Copperplate drawn and engraved by G

NUN IN THE RAIN
Taking the veil may protect her from contact with sin, but even a nun needs an umbrella to keep off the rain... Date: 1900

NOBILE IN RADIO CONTACT
As snow falls amid the Arctic wastes, he Italian explorer Nobile, establishes radio contact with his own country Date: 1928

Buddhist monk - Temple of the Emerald Buddha
A young Buddhist monk in saffron robes looks directly at the camera as he passes through arches in the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Wat Phra si Raftana, Bangkok, Thailand Date: 1986

Ware butterfly bombs - A passing despatch rider
Photograph: Ware butterfly bombs - A passing despatch rider [... ] of Dower Street, Flatbridge, [... ] read a unique road sign wa[... ] beach-head against ?butterfly? bombs. Picture issued April ?

The Observation Post No reply, Sir - line cut again
The Observation Post. No reply, Sir - line cut again. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

Skeleton of horse. Running. Contact with the ground. Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse running. Date c1881

Bethurums Contact
Aura Rhanes, from the planet Clarion, encountered by Truman Bethurum in the California desert

Tableware. 1-375 AD. Roman import objects. Germanic Tribes
Germanic Tribes. Tableware. Early Roman Imperial Period (1-375 AD). Roman import objects. From Lubsow Graves, Pomerania (now Poland). Neues Museum (New Museum). Berlin. Germany

Contact with Ganymede
Space travellers from Earth try to explain where they come from to an inhabitant of Ganymede, a satellite of Jupiter Date: 1937

Ufos / Bethurum Contact
The scow - an alien spacecraft from the planet Clarion, with whose occupants Truman Bethurum became quite friendly Date: 1952

The Spook Suspected by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
Old Bill has always felt that there was something reminiscent of Bert about the way he got that nasty crack over the head from a tambourine at that little bit of a seance they had theother night

American and Canadian troops, WW1
American and Canadian troops during the First World War. Although America did not join the war officially until April 1917, an American Legion had already gone into action, consisting of 16

Emma Murray, actress. as Susanna in an unidentified production. 1839

Photographer at work, checking through contact sheets. Date: 1972

Loom weights. 2nd-3rd centuries AD
Germanic settlements in Berlin. Objects of Roman origin. Loom weights. Pottery. 2nd-3rd centuries AD. Neues Museum (New Museum). Berlin. Germany

Trading between Canadian
French-Canadian coureurs du bois trading with native Canadians Date: 19th century

Edwardian yard scene in Blisworth, Northamptonshire, identified as Perkins yard by the photographer Ernest Battersby who stands at the right makingeye contact with one dog

Boxing match by Higgins
Black and white illustration of a boxing match with the two opponents in full flow. Date: 1919

Meeting in Golden Gate Park 1969
Young black students meeting at a hippy gathering in Golden Gate Park, 1969 Date: 1969

Ypres - Artillery convoy on road passing St Martins Church
Ypres - Artillery convoy on road passing St. Martins Church with the Cloth Hall behind them. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

The Ammunition Column Mule loose again
The Ammunition Column. Mule loose again. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

The Gun Lines Os The Salvo
The Gun Line S.O.S. The Salvo. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

Field Artillery on the Western Front, c 1917
Field Artillery on the Western Front, c. 1917. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

Horse-drawn transports passing the Cloth Hall, Ypres. New Years message to every Officer, Warrant Officer, Non-Commissioned Officer

Horse-drawn ammunition column and artillery towed
French Reinforcements on the road to This drawing is inscribed G.H. to F.S. Horse-drawn ammunition column and an artillery piece being towed by a traction engine

Led along the street in a long string of horses. This pencil drawing was an illustration in Moyra Charltons book Three White Stockings - Chapter V. The book was published in 1933

The Gun Line SOS - The Salvo
The Gun Line S.O.S. The Salvo. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

The Battery, Wagon Line - A Nocturne
The Battery, Wagon Line. A Nocturne. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St

Mines from the Crimean onwards by G. H. Davis
Mines, from the infernal machine used by the Russians during the Crimean War to colossal barrages employed during the Second World War. 1940

Refuelling aloft by G. H. Davis
Refuelling aloft -- a device which enables transatlantic flying boats to carry a much increased payload. How Imperial Airways transatlantic flying boats are refuelled in the air

Lady Mander & Indians
Lady Mander is greeted by Native American Indians. Date: early 1930s

Ammunition Up. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holidays Early Life Was Spent In St. Johns Wood And From His Window He Was Able To Watch The Royal Horse Artillery

A MISS 1933
Despite being dressed to the nines, the golfer fails to make contact with the ball Date: 1933

Skeleton of horse. Leaping. Contact with the ground. Photograph shows a skeleton of a horse leaping. Date c1881

The first 2 years consult a reputable physician 91% of syphilitic infections relapse in this period : The disease may be transmitted to others who contact the lesion

The Titanics first contact with the iceberg
An illustration depicting the moment that the Titanic first came into contact with the iceberg. Date: 27th April 1912

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