mail_outline sales@mediastorehouse.com
The Harem SkirtDaring fashions for women in " The Sphere" magazine, 1927. The accompanying text scathingly declares that the Harem Skirt is " what we hope it will never be"
The Gartered SkirtThe gartered skirt, " the latest stunt costume", according to The Sphere magazine, which had the " merit of convenience, but the disadvantage of ugliness". 1927
Victorian scrap - Wanted a chappie with some go in himVictorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - Wanted a chappie with some go in him. late 19th century
Victorian scrap - circus bareback rider. late 19th century
Mdlle. Alix hooping the hoop at London HippodromeHooping the Hoop, the latest sensation at the London Hippodrome - Mademoiselle Alix in her motor car in which she hoops the hoop. A health and safety disaster waiting to happen in 1903. Date: 1903
Lima-Huancayo ExpressThe Lima to Huancayo Express of the Peruvian Central Railway. This train crosses the Andes as 15, 600 feet! Date: late 1930s
Mahdist War - Sudan Campaign - Lt Langs daring exploit - Soldier (without uniform) sword in hand. Surrounded by enemy. Part of Box 244 Boswell Collection - Sudan War. Date: 1881 - 1889
Cartoon, Scene at Henglers Circus, LondonCartoon, Daring Equestrian Act, performed at Henglers Cirque -- a satire on the Licensing Act. The man jumping through the hoop is Frederick Charles Hengler (1820-1887), horseman and circus owner
A Dramatic RescueA daring rescue : when a woman stumbles on the line at Bois- Colombes she is saved by a plucky railwayman from emulating Tolstoys heroine Anna Karenina... Date: 1900
Swing RoundaboutChildren flying precariously through the air on the swing chairs of a roundabout at Hampton Court fair. Date: circa 1960
Lea Taxil, French entertainer at the Scala, Paris Date: late 19th century
Disraeli / BombastesBENJAMIN DISRAELI Dizzy as Bombastes, daring any foreign power to go against British Interests overseas Date: 4 August 1877
Hunter Shows ProwessEnglish eccentric John Mytton (1796-1834) renowned for his sporting prowess & reckless behaviour successfully negotiates some high railings. Date: 1820s
Cabinet Minister as Fireman: Winston Churchills daringWinston Churchill, then President of the Board of Trade, is shown in his pyjamas and a firemans helmet taking part in yeoman service at the burning of Burley-on-the-Hill
Lady Moss jumping a table on ice skatesLady (Penelope) Moss, the expert skater jumping a table at which sit Miss Moss and Mr Eric Muirsmith, while practising for the Murren Ice Gymkhana. Date: 1928
Title page of Great War Deeds, Illustrated London NewsTitle page of Great War Deeds, a special panorama supplement produced by the Illustrated London News in 1915, featuring heroic actions of the First World War. Date: 1915
Sopwith 1. 5 Strutter taking off from shipSopwith 1.5 Strutter, launching from a makeshift turret-top platform on board a ship. Date: circa 1916-1918
North American B-25B Mitchell -seen ranged on USS Hornet prio to Jimmy Doolittles daring Tokyo raid of April 1942
Miss Dora Dubey, one of the company appearing in Dollys Revels at the Piccadilly Hotel in London in 1924. The Bystander comments that she is
WW1 - Primitive Royal Air Force Bombers and HangarsWW1 - Primitive Royal Air Force Bombers and their targets - the Zeppelin Sheds in Dusseldorf. The picture shows 1) The Zeppelin shed at Bickendorf, 2) The Zeppelin shed at Dusseldorf, 3) An air-bomb
Sphere cover - British plane caught by German gun fireA British aeroplane, caught making a daring raid over enemy lines and flying very low to drop bombs on German entrenched troops, is fired on by a machine gun as well as several rifles
Lt George Ivan Carmichael dropping bombs - Menin StationLieutenant George Ivan Carmichael (Royal Artillery and Royal Flying Corps) dropping bombs on the rails at Menin Railway Station from a height of only 120 feet
Transatlantic flight by G. H. DavisThe transatlantic flight: the type of British machine which will attempt it. Top: dropping the chassis at the moment of setting out -- a daring device
British midget submarine attack by G. H. DavisOne of the Second World Wars most daring exploits: the British midget submarine (XE3) attack which gained VCs for Lieutenant Ian Fraser RNR and Leading Seaman James Magennis
Daring Ice JumpStuntman HOPE BRAIN peforming a daring ice jump at the Ice Palais, Sydney, Australia. He was impressed with this photograph, taken with a new high speed camera. Date: 1940s
French Ladies Striped Swimming Costume, worn with bathing robe and some remarkable laced greek sandals, matching the design on the costume
Gentleman not at all aghast about the Harem Skirt" Everyone is up " in arms" against the harem skirt" ! This very contented Gentleman certainly is, although not in the way one may initially read! Date: 1912
Coupon Wedding - Cloth in short supply leads to a rather daring wedding gown! Date: 1943
Sweet Little man making his case to bathing beautiesSweet Little man making his case to three bathing beauties: " I may not be much to look at, Girls, but I m Reliable." Date: circa 1925
New York Worlds Fair - The Parachute Jump - a 200 ft tower - one of the highest buidlings at the fair Date: 1939
The daring of Martincho in the ring at SaragossaGOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco de (1746-1828). The daring of Martincho (probably Antonio Ebassum) in the ring at Saragossa. Plate
The daring Lt. General Tachimi. Print shows Lieutenant-General Tachimi, a Japanese officer, taking a nap against a leaning tree as Japanese soldiers hold his horse and secure the area. Date 1895
Great victory for the daring Awaya, regimental commander, at
Pawnee Bills Historic Wild West. Beautiful Daring Western Girls & Mexican Senoritas... Cowgirls on horseback. Date c1898. Pawnee Bills Historic Wild West
Loop the Loop - Pegoud - AviatorAdolphe Celestin Pegoud (1889-1915) - a pre-WWI French aviator who became a fighter ace. On 21st September 1913, as a test pilot for Louis Bleriot (in a Bleriot model XI monoplane)
Belgian Air Force 4Michel Donnet and Leon Divoy, after the German defeat of Belgium, find and repair an old aeroplane and make a daring escape to England where they fight with great success. Date: 1916+
Turkish Trousers 1911A daring young lady wears the fashionable yet scandalous harem pants or Turkish trousers with a sleeveless bolero & turban or toque. 1911
Female Type / SignorinaAn Italian signorina shows a daring glimpse of thigh. Date: circa 1920
Ballad / Young Bekie 2YOUNG BEKIE Young Bekie, thrown into prison for daring to love the kings daughter, Burd Isbel, shares it with mice and rats, but she will rescue him. Date: traditional
Hunter and Daring Lion
Folies Bergere - dancerA dancer from the Astronomers Revue at the Folies Bergere, Paris. The dancer is Mademoiselle Geczy, a name that hints of an Eastern European origin
Bobby Leach and his barrel - Niagara FallsBritish former stuntman Bobby Leach (1858 - 1926) and his barrel, in which he survived passage over Niagara Falls, Canada, at severe detriment to his future health
Lady checks her appearance in a dressing table mirrorA glamourous lady in fur trimmed spotted wrap, stockings and high heels, checks her appearance in a slender dressing table mirror, draped with a scarf in a similar fabric to the wrap
Dicing with deathA group out motoring encounter a broken bridge but the daring driver puts his foot on the accelerator and the car jumps the gap
The ascention of an Ice Pillar, SwitzerlandThe ascention of an Ice Pillar (formed by the intersection of crevasses), Switzerland
Captured frogs bid for FreedomA young schoolboy in his full school uniform get a nasty surprise when the frog he has captured makes a daring bid for freedom, leaping out and away as soon as the airhole-added lid has been lifted
Looking for the daring German sniper: British soldiers engaged in locating one of the enemys sharpshooters
THE GREAT AEROPLANEThe Essex Ghost - a daring conception of a futuristic flying machine from Edwardian England