Distinctive Collection (page 6)

Red Telephone Boxes
Two of the distinctive British red telephone boxes. Date: 1978

Montafon Women, Austria
Women of the Montafon (Muntafu) Valley, Austria, wearing their traditional costumes with distinctive black busby-like hats. Date: 1930s

SHAP ABBEY
Shap Abbey, Cumbria, England, is a rare Premonstratensian house, in a rather bleak setting. Its most distinctive surviving feature is its huge West Tower. Date: founded circa 1200

Sentry Duty
A Royal Guardsman, wearing the distinctive busby hat and red uniform, standing beside his sentry box, London. Date: 1960s

London Trolley Bus

Italian Bersaglieri soldiers, Palestine, WW1
Italian Bersaglieri (light infantry) soldiers with their distinctive headgear, practising their attack in Palestine during the First World War. Date: October 1917

Italian Bersaglieri soldiers, WW1
Italian Bersaglieri (light infantry) soldiers in their distinctive headgear during the First World War. 1914-1918

Algeria - Biskra - Ouled Nails Women
Algeria - Biskra. Women from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing

Inmates of the Chelsea workhouse, London
Elderly male inmates relax in a garden of the Chelsea workhouse, London. Some are smoking pipes, some are reading newspapers, others are feeding birds

Saxifraga Longifolia, often called the King of Saxifrages, a Pyrenean plant of the Saxifragaceae family (commonly known as saxifrages or stone breakers because of their ability to grow in the cracks)

Ta Prohm temple, Siem Reap, Cambodia
View of Ta Prohm (Ancestor Brahma) Khmer Buddhist temple at Siem Reap, Cambodia. It was built in the Bayon style in the late 12th and early 13th centuries

Entrance to Ta Prohm temple, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Entrance to the Ta Prohm (Ancestor Brahma) Khmer Buddhist temple at Siem Reap, Cambodia. It was built in the Bayon style in the late 12th and early 13th centuries

Women of the Ouled-Nails resting, Algeria
Women of the Ouled-Nails resting and drinking tea. Women from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing

St Nicholas Church, Berlin, Germany
St Nicholas Church (Nikolaikirche), Berlin, Germany, distinctive for its twin steeples. Seen here with an old signboard in the foreground

View of Tower Bridge from the Thames
A view from the middle of the River Thames looking west toward Tower Bridge, London. Watercolour sketch by Raymond Sheppard

Turkish Mother and young child
Turkish Social Scene Photographic Postcard set (4 of 5). Turkish Mother (from Eastern Turkey) and her young child. The face of the child shows the distinctive Eastern facial morphology of a people

Panoramic view of the Port of Chicago
Spectacular panoramic view of the lakeside Port of Chicago in 1902, showing the distinctive skyline and the huge sets of railway wagons in the foreground

Ouled-Nahils, Algeria - Southern Algerian Woman
Woman from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing

Sweetness of Doing Nothing
Il dolce far niente... In Italian, it means " the sweetness of doing nothing"... She is likely a woman from the tribe of Ouled Nail in Southern Algeria in their very distinctive

View of Constantinople
The distinctive skyline of Constantinople, Turkey, with the domes and minarets of the Great Mosques

Stylised view of a rider approaching Constantinople, with the distinctive outline of a Mosque on the horizon

Temple in Mandu
A wonderful photograph of a Temple in Mandu, Madhya Pradesh Province, India. The distinctive pointed arches frame the late afternoon light creating beauty in design and form

Egyptian Oasis with Giza Pyramids in distance
A view from an Egyptian oasis toward the distinctive outline of one of the pyramids at Giza in the background. An Egyptian man brings his camel to the water to drink. A very fine composition and scene

Interior in an Eastern Turkish house from Mardin, Turkey. Showing a very distinctive regional costume. Mardin is located on a rocky mountain overlooking the plains of northern Syria

Revolutionary Art
An outdoor studio of the Political Department of Artists : the revolution will evolve its own distinctive art styles to meet the requirements of propaganda

America. The Chinese in San Francisco. Fishing boats by moon
Chinese boats fishing off the Bay of San Francisco, with their distinctive curved shaped sails

London Snowed Upon
Snow falls upon a London street : a bobby wears a distinctive winter cape, making sure that vehicles obey the instruction to Drive Slowly

The Civil war in America: the 5th regiment of New York Zouav
The Pictuesque New York zouave regiments dressed in distinctive baggy trousers worn by freedom fighters in Hungary. Here they are shown passing through Broadway on their way to embark for the wars

Zulu war. In Memorium - the Late Prince Imperial. In Zululan
The Prince mounted, with the distinctive rocky African landscape in the background

Fashion for dancing, 1927
Fringes of silver beads emphasise the tiered skirt and bolero of this distinctive evening frock design for 1927

Luxor Temple Columns
The distinctive shape of the columns of the Temple at Luxor. This view shows evidence of the later re-use of the site in the apse of a Christian Church at the rear

Railway of the future
The railway of the future, travelling 300 miles an hour. Mr E. W Chalmers Kearneys working model of his high speed railway, where, he claimed, 300 mph could be obtained in safety

Street Trade / Lettuce
A young man sells lettuce and other green salad ingredients on the street. He is using a distinctive large-framed backpack wicker basket

Chiffchaff (Morris)
(Phylloscopus rufus, or collybita) The earliest migrant to arrive in England : its name is derived from its distinctive song

KAZAN - 1
The market-place with its distinctive tower

Songes De Pantagruel
Pope Julius II

French Zouaves
French zouaves of the Armee d Afrique in their distinctive uniform

French Merveilleuse
A Parisienne adopts a more distinctive style, appropriate to the break with the aristocratic style encouraged by the officials of the Revolution

Cheapside 1930S
View of Cheapside, City of London, with the distinctive Mappin & Webb corner building, with its clock, on the left of the photograph

Racial / Japan / Girl / Bridge
A girl walks carefully across a bridge opening her parasol against the rain. She is wearing the distinctive kimono, shoes and hair of a geisha

GB SHAW / ILN 1911 / 1891
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Irish playwright and critic in July 1891, wearing a distinctive hat

BLERIOT 1910
The distinctive pigeon tail on this, one of the last Bleriot monoplanes, is a marked advance on the box-like tail-ends he has used till now

Dutch Trading Vessels
A fine engraving of Dutch trading vessels, showing the distinctive rounded hull, and elaborate carvings both fore and aft

Motor Cycle Tanks 2
MOTOR CYCLE TANKS - 2 The fuel tank is the most distinctive feature of the machine, each manufacturer adopting his own colour and style. Here are 16 of them

Motor Cycle Tanks 1
MOTOR CYCLE TANKS - 1 The fuel tank is the most distinctive feature of the machine, each manufacturer adopting his own colour and style. Here are 16 of them

Leaning Towers / Bologna
The Asinelli Tower (l) and Garisenda Tower (r) with their distinctive lean caused by subsidence of soil and foundation. Both towers were built in the 12th century

Aiding Location
To help aviators know where they are, the roofs and walls of buildings in various locations will be painted in distinctive colours

Inchon, Korea
A major seaport of Korea, formerly known as Chemulpo to some, Jinsen to others. Also a Korean nobleman in his distinctive hat

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