Contrast Collection (page 3)

Where the RAF fighters score by G. H. Davis
Aerodynamic cleanliness: where the RAF fighters score during the Second World War. In very high speed aircraft small projections and even rough surface paint may seriously reduce speed

From England to India by air in a week by G. H. Davis
A service so regular that it has become matter of fact. From England to India by air in a week. An amazing contrast to the first cross-Channel flight in 1909

Food rationing comparison by G. H. Davis
Food rationing in Great Britain during the two World Wars: a comparison of the periods 1917-1920 and 1940-1946. The chief topic of conversation today -- food

Loading ships guns in 1805 and 1935 by G. H. Davis
From Nelson to Nelson : feeding a ships guns today and in 1805. Loading methods in a modern battleship and at Trafalgar: contrasts after 130 years of naval gunnery. Date: 1935

Two contrasting forms of transport, then and now. Above: a lady in a sedan chair, about to leave Hampton Court for home. Below: a rather more racy journey

Two gardeners sweeping leaves, 1889
Two gardeners at work sweeping leaves in the grounds of a stately home. Date: 1889

Womens costume c. 1600
Costumes of Burgher-women and a country woman, in the time of the Merry Wives of Windsor. Date: c.1600

The evolution of road travel: the muffled motorist of 1905. A motoring party of 1905 arriving at their destination wearing goggles, veils and voluminous wraps

The evolution of road travel: the casual motorists of 1921. Motoring as a means to an end: lawn tennis players arriving in their car, free from cumbersome goggles, veils and voluminous wraps

French and German contrasts, WW1
Postcard contrasting the French and German attitudes towards the enemy during the First World War -- German barbarity and French generosity. Date: 1914-1918

Nursery Rhymes -- two birds, man and chimney
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a white cockatoo and a black crow. Below -- a man clings to a chimney. Date: early 20th century

India - Christian Convert and a Pariah
A man from the low pariah class of Southern India converted (to English life) wearing a suit, alongside an unconverted man from the same caste - both remain outsiders to Indian society

Autres Temps; Autres - Modes By Felix De Gray
This picture shows three fashionable ladies of the eighteenth century considering a group of women dressed in fashion of the 1920

Sporting and Dramatic News VE Day
Front cover from Sport & Country showing the contrast between war time London and victory in 1945. Date: 01/05/1945

The Commissariat Camp in the Crimea, 1855
Engraving showing the part of the British Army camp responsible for stores and provisions during the Crimean War. By the end of the Crimean war the camp was running smoothly

Two extremely ragged men reading a smart fashion magazine. Bill Snooks (reading from a fashion paper) - " To be really well dressed

Morocco, North West Africa - Street Scene, Casablanca Date: circa 1950s

Interior of the Temple of Bacchus at Baalbek, Lebanon. A town in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon situated east of the Litani River, known as Heliopolis during the period of Roman rule

Istanbul, Turkey - The Grand Bazar Date: 1927

The fruits of success - A Chorus Girl visits home
The fruits of success - An all-American chorus girl visits home and is greeted by surprise and a certain element of bemusement

Marsilea quadrifolia - Four-leaf Clover
Marsilea quadrifolia (four-leaf clover). Manuscript document: Sketches of plants made at the Mauritius to accompany the report of May 1829 Date: 1829

Scorodite comprises of (hydrated zinc arsenate) and is characterized by brownish-green crystals. Specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Ammodorcas clarkei, Clarks gazelle
Photograph showing detail of the tail from a male Clarks gazelle skin specimen

Black basalt lava
This basalt lave has cooled quickly and gas bubbles have formed into balls of fragile, needle-sharp crystals of zeolite minerals

Colobus guereza, guereza
Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Sphalerite or zinc blende
Dark crystals of sphalerite or zinc blende comprised of (zinc iron sulphide). Specimen from the collections of The Natural History Museum, London

Ailuropoda melanoleuca, giant panda

Sunrise on Pitt Island
Sunrise over Mount Hakepa, Chatham Islands, February 1997

Equus zebra, zebra
Photograph of a zebra skin specimen, collection number Z 1993.149

Tokyo Shimjuku - Japan - Shimjuku former Imperial Gardens Contrast of the artful water gardens stepping stones, stone lanterns, tortuous paths, lotus. Date: 1952

Enlist On which side of the window are you?. A man looking out window at troops marching with large American flag. Date 1917

Motorcar in rural landscape
A motorcar makes its way along an open country road in a rugged landscape towards the shade of some trees. Date: 1936

Sailor and girl at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Washington, D.C. Date 1943 May

A Study in Contrasts at La Plage by Laurie Tayler
A young woman in a fashionable, sporty green swimsuit emerges from the sea at Le Touquet to be met by her elderly maid with a towel. Date: 1927

Paris International exhibition, 1867
The Japanese women in the Paris International exhibition, 1867. Date: 1867

Ships on a rough sea at Dover, Kent
Watercolour painting of ships on a rough sea at Dover, Kent, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914), mother of Robert. circa 1840s

Street music: Paris balladeer
Two fashionably dressed young women laugh at a ballad singer as he sings in a Paris street. Perhaps he is singing a comic song. Date: 1912

The Wagnerites by Aubrey Beardsley, a pen and ink drawing when Beardsley was boldly using large fields of pure black contrasted with white details

The Scarlet Pastorale by Aubrey Beardsley. A masked harlequinned pierrot on a stage with other masked characters behind. Date: 1890s

PRESTON, Lancashire
Distant view of Preston, Lancashire - a nice contrast between countryside and industrial development. Date: circa 1835

World Financial Centre, New York
World Financial Centre and classical architecture, Financial District, New York, America circa 2008

Two men on a street, one tall and slim, the other short and plump. Horace asks: Got such a thing as a spare fiver on you, old chap? The reply is unprintable. circa 1916

Coming from Lipton s... Going to Lipton s
An ingenious advertisement designed by Sir Thomas Lipton to attract customers to his shop

Aston Park viewed
Queen Victorias visit to Birmingham and Warwick. The view of Aston Park from Aston Hall, with the smoking chimney stacks of industrial Birmingham on the horizon

Stormy mountains
Mountain scene with a dark and stormy sky above. Pen & ink (with wash) drawing by Raymond Sheppard

The suffrage debate: two extreme portraits
The anti-suffragette as seen by the suffragette, and the suffragette as seen by the anti-suffragette: a coy and slightly demonic looking young woman in evening wear simpers at the viewer

Contalmaison Chateau 1917
A contrast of war, the ruins of Contalmaison Chateau, Somme, with sign saying hotel for sale in France on the British front during World War I in 1917. It was never rebuilt

From Bismarck to Buelow. A bigger task for a smaller man
Punch recalls an illustration from their magazine from September 28th, 1878(see picture number 10056473)showing Otto von Bismarck temporarily quashing the Socialist jack in the box

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