Costly Collection

New York Snow Scene
Parked vehicles, abandoned in deep snow during bad winter weather which has lasted for over 2 months. A costly headache for snow removers in New York, U.S.A. Date: 1960s

Banquet Still Life, 1644, by Adriaen van Utrecht (1599-1651 /
Adriaen van Utrecht (1599-1651/52). Flemish painter. Banquet Still Life, 1644. Detail. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Consolidated B-24D Liberator of 93rd Bomb Group flew the costly 1 Aug 1943 Ploesti raid

Cartoon, Croesus, WW1
Cartoon, Croesus (Cresus). A comment on the food shortage in France during the First World War - a man hides his egg in a safe

Vanderbilt Biltmore
George W Vanderbilts mansion at Biltmore, near Asheville, North Carolina, the most costly and magnificent country place in America. Date: 1903

Grays Telephone System
A demonstration of the telephone system of Elisha Gray in New York. Gray filed a patent for the telephone on the same day as Bell, but his initial delay proved costly! Date: 1878

Sunbeam Sedanca
The stylish and costly (close on L1500) Sunbeam Twenty Sedanca De Ville is a brave bid for the up-market buyer. Date: 1937

Our Costly Arms
A recruiting sergeant is shocked to discover that a volunteer for the Army turns out to have a wife and eleven children and comments that he will cost as much as the Colonel in army pay

The patent Impoulsoria, horse powered engine
An ingenious means of applying animal power to the working of railways, to supersede the costly locomotive engine. The engine, called Impulsoria

The Civil war in America. Positions of the Federal and Confe
Positions of the Federal and Confederate pickets on the Rappahannock, at Fredericksburg, December 4th 1862. Later in December, Fredericksburg was the scene of a costly Union defeat at Maryes Heights

Electric light on the Thames Embankment
Illustration showing crowds admiring the electric lighting on the Thames Embankment, London in 1879. When the Victoria Embankment was opened in 1870 it was lit by cast iron gas lamps

Battle of Lauffeld 1747
BATTLE OF LAUFFELD The French under le Marechal de Saxe gain a costly victory over a much larger Austrian and British force

Jesuss Feet (Rubens)
While he is dining with Simon the Pharisee, a sinful woman - generally identified as Mary Magdalen - washes his feet with her tears and anoints them with costly ointment

Jesuss Feet (Hamilton)
While he is dining with Simon the Pharisee, a sinful woman - generally identified as Mary Magdalen - washes his feet with her tears and anoints them with costly ointment

Jesuss Feet (Barlow)
While he is dining with Simon the Pharisee, a sinful woman - generally identified as Mary Magdalen - washes his feet with her tears and anoints them with costly ointment

Making Fans, Japan
Japan. - The fan is an indispensable item of Japanese life, carried everywhere : these simple fans are for everyday use, others are more ornate and costly

Jesuss Feet Washed
While he is dining with Simon the Pharisee, a sinful woman - generally identified as Mary Magdalen - washes his feet with her tears and anoints them with costly ointment

Roman Senate refuses to ransom prisoners
SECOND PUNIC WAR: The Roman Senate refuses to ransom prisoners taken by the enemy in battle, because to do so would not be honourable, and to pay so many ransoms would be very costly

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