Difference Collection

Girls with their books in Balham, SW London
Four girls with their books and drawings, sitting on a pavement in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Female jockeys riding gentlemen like horses
Two women jockeys with riding crops, spur on their steeds - not horses, but top-hatted and tailed gentlemen who wear bridles in their mouths

Christmas Day in the Workhouse
Illustration and opening verses of In the Workhouse: Christmas Day - better known as Christmas Day in the Workhouse, written by George R Sims in 1877

Tarot Card 6 - L'Amoureux (The Lover or Lovers). Date: 20th century

Princess Helenas wedding day
Princess Helena (1846-1923), third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert pictured on her wedding day

HOGARTH / THE BENCH
The difference between character and caricature. The central figure is Sir John Willes, Chief Justice, lecher and scourge of rioters

Titanic panoramic image
A panoramic image of RMS Titanic, with a tug, a sailing boat and a rowing boat alongside to show the difference in size. The luxury cruise liner sank on her maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg

Two babies with comic greeting on a Christmas card
Two babies (hidden under a pair of gloves) with comic greeting on a Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Soldiers of a West Indian Regiment, Western Front, WW1
A group of soldiers from the British West Indies Regiment, ready for action on the Western Front in France during the Somme offensive, World War One. Date: 1916

Watching the tape or watching the wheel - what is the difference morally?. Illustration shows a two panel cartoon, on the left, anxious businessmen are gathered around a ticker tape machine

Figureheads, May 1890
Engravings of ships figureheads from Ancient Etruscan and Roman times through to the 18th century, from The Graphic, 17th May 1890

Measles Compared
The left boy has MEASLES (rougeole), the middle one SCARLET FEVER (scarlatine), the right SMALLPOX (petite verole volante) Can you spot the difference ?

Comparison of British & German skull shapes, WW1
Long-head versus short-head: Opposite types of humanity which are fighting for opposite ideals. A diagram to demonstrate the inherent differences in skull shapes between the British

Comic postcard, The beaver and the otter Date: circa 1918

Mlle. Anita, the Doll Lady, and her brother
Mlle. Anita, measuring about twenty-six inches in height, and known as The Doll Lady or the Living Doll, pictured with her ordinary-sized brother, Herr Ignatz Zachowly during a visit to England

Lady Malcolms Great Servants Ball, Albert Hall, London
Lady Malcolms Great Servants Ball, Royal Albert Hall, London. Wife of Sir Ian Malcolm, she is seen here welcoming her guests to the annual ball

Effects of strikes upon the working class and the capitalist
The effects of a strike upon the capitalist and upon the working man Date: 1852

Wartime Alasil Advertisement
A wartime advertisement promoting Alasil tablets, aspirin with a difference. Date: circa 1940s

Cartoon, A Noble Example, Lord and Lady Overbury having a vegetarian lunch in front of their house in Belgrave Square to set an example of frugality to the carnivorous poor Date: 1919

Cartoon, L'Etat, C'Est Moi! or, History Burlesques Itself -- dictatorship of the proletariat, showing a left-wing extremist just as detached from the common people as King Louis XVI was

Comic postcard, Boss and workman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman falls from window into dustbin Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women argue in street Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Socially superior - two women Date: 20th century

Leaves from life: a new series of studies by Edmund Blampied. The workers hard-won weekly leisure in A cobblers Sunday morning

Comic postcard, Neighbours chatting at the gate Date: 20th century

Cartoon, Bravo, Chelmsford! (Battle of Ulundi)
Cartoon, Bravo, Chelmsford! A satirical comment on the Battle of Ulundi (4 July 1879), during the Anglo-Zulu War, won by Lord Chelmsfords forces against those of Cetewayo

Cartoon, Don t Touch the Queen (Irish Church)
Cartoon, Don t Touch the Queen -- a satirical comment on Gladstones Irish Church Suspensory Bill, which was carried against the Conservative government by a large majority

Cartoon, Amusement Combined with Instruction (Reform)
Cartoon, Amusement Combined with Instruction -- a satirical comment on parliamentary disagreements between Gladstone and Disraeli over the latters Reform Bill. 1867

Cartoon, Lodger Franchise v Dual Voting! (Disraeli)
Cartoon, Lodger Franchise v Dual Voting! A satirical comment on the arguments surrounding the extension of the franchise in Disraelis Reform Bill

Cartoon, Crabbed Age and Youth (One View). (1 of 2) 1880s

Cartoon, Crabbed Age and Youth (Another View). (2 of 2) 1880s

Black man praying, watched by white woman
Black man praying, watched by a white woman. 19th century

Cartoon, Dignity and Impudence or The Domestics Derision -- two servants look out from an upstairs window, laughing at the pretensions of a haughty woman and her dog

Cartoon, Another Blow for Oxford - a delivery boy in fashionable Oxford bags (trousers). Date: 1925

Chimney Sweep, Beg Your Pardon, Sir

Golders Green tube station, NW London, and an earlier view from 1904. Date: circa 1920s

AMERICAN DOLLARS
A selection of different dollar coins, before the introduction of the United States Central Bank in 1911. The coins pictured include a dollar from California. Date: late 19th century

Cartoon, The Grand Old Name of Gentleman
Cartoon, THE GRAND OLD NAME OF GENTLEMAN -- Me and another gentleman ere as just been avin a bet on the breed of yodog. Date: 1888

Past and Presnt Fashions - The difference
Past and Present Fashions: Past Fashion - Covered everything and touched nothing; Present Fashion - Touches everything and covers nothing ! Date: circa 1910

British Couple - wedding photograph - height difference
British Couple (Dan and Julie) photographed on their wedding day. Date: circa 1910s

Sir Edward and Lady Carson on their wedding day
Sir Edward Carson (1854-1935), Irish barrister, judge and unionist politician, seen here on his wedding day with his bride, formerly Miss Ruby Frewen. They married at Charlton Musgrove, Somerset

Messrs. Scheutzs New Calculating Machine
Messrs. Pehr (Per) Georg Scheutz (1785-1873) and Edvard Scheutzs (of Stockholm, Sweden) New Calculating (Tabulating) Machine

Manufacture of felt hats. Hungary
Manufacture of felt hats, formerly widely used in Hungary. Reflects the regional differences, social and occupational. Ethnographic Museum. Budapest, Hungary

Caricature of Cetewayo, Zulu king, at the theatre in London
Caricature of Cetewayo (Cetshwayo kaMpande, 1826-1884), Zulu king, in the Royal Box at a theatre with Edward, Prince of Wales behind him. 1882

Costumes of the 1640S
Costumes of various European women not all of them ladies of fashion. N.B decollete bodice with lace falling collar & cuffs & gowns hitched up to reveal petticoats. Date: 1640

Group of children on waste ground, Balham, SW London
A group of children on waste ground in Balham, SW London. The girl standing up seems to be giving a speech or singing a song. Date: circa 1961

American boxers Joe Louis and Billy Conn, New York, USA
American boxers Joe Louis and Billy Conn weighing in before a fight, New York, USA. They fought each other twice, in 1941 and 1946; Louis won both matches. Date: 1940s

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