Early Collection (page 21)

Lucerne / Pilatus C20
Lucerne and Mount Pilatus

Lake Lucerne / Lakeside
Lucerne: the lakeside

St Petersburg / Church 20C
St Petersburg: Church of the Resurrection

Lady in Bath, Maid Adds
A lady is in her bath when her maid adds some of Lewandowskis shampoo and bath extract

Black Beauty Book / C19Th
Front cover of early edition

Bleeding a Patient
A doctor bleeds his patient, widely supposed to be the answer to almost every malady of body or mind

Blackheath Railway St
Blackheath railway station Looking Kent bound, and rather lacking passengers

Avebury Reconstructed
Restored view of the great temple at Abury

Camden Roadhouse
A Midland Railway locomotive at the Camden Roundhouse, London (which still exists as a theatre)

C17th Fire Engine / Dutch
An early fire engine in use in Holland. The first flexible hose was invented by Jan van der Heijden in 1672 in the Netherlands, and a pre-cursor of this may be shown here

Early Dishwasher
An early machine for washing dishes

London & Croydon Rly Col
The London and Croydon Railway near New Cross : you can see the Greenwich Line in the distance, but our Library is out of sight to your right

New Baby Victoria 19C
The new baby, Princess Victoria, is shown off by her mother in Kensington Park, London

Children in Sand Pit
Children play in a sandpit in a park; a little boy digs, whilst a young girl ties a bonnet around her dogs head

Social / Cowboys Wagon
A cowboy cook and the chuck wagon

Leonid Leonov
LEONID LEONOV Russian novelist and play- wright, author of the patriotic play Invasion written during the early stage of the Patriotic War

Norwegian Cavalry
NORWAY Norwegian cavalry in the early morning

Petticoat Lane 1930S
A busy day on Middlesex Street, part of the famous Petticoat Lane market, east London

Fleurs Eau De Cologne
A striking art deco label for Eau de Cologne aux Fleurs

SHIP CAPTAIN
Nelsons flagship in his early years as admiral

Frys Cocoa Advert
Frys pure concentrated cocoa So good it has to be kept in a safe, for the pleasure of two skilful thieves

Belgian Baby & Dogs
A typically Belgian child in a long blue gown, wearing a white little cap and clogs meets two dogs as big as her pulling a straw cart

Dog and Cat Reading
A puppy and a kitten reading a story book together

Tea Tasting 1930S
Miss Margaret Irving, pictured in her London tasting office, was the only woman tea taster in Britain and an authority in London as a connoisseur of all blends of tea

Elephant Drinking
An elephant having a drink, happily dipping its trunk into a water trough in Tokyo Japan

Springtime in London
A young woman stops to admire a lovely magnolia tree in blossom during the spring, the Temple, London, England

Deer Gatecrashing Lunch
A deer in Richmond Park, Surrey, England, gatecrashes a cows lunch at its trough

Model Aeroplanes 1930S
Playing with model aeroplanes on Wimbledon Common, London, England

China Tea Set
A china tea set - cup and saucer, teapot and plate for biscuits or cakes

Clock-Watch C16
An early English watch

Chimneysweep Falls
A chimney collapses - and a chimneysweep falls

ELIHU YALE English colonial administrator; early benefactor of the college which adopted his name in 1718

Roller (Suburb)
Steam roller at work in an English suburban street

European Pipes
Pipes from various parts of Europe - Norway, France, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Germany, Bohemia and Greece [for details see the text]

Paranormal / Magic / Wizards
LE SORCIER DU VILLAGE Popular print depicting a young country couple visiting the local wise man to know what the future holds in store for them

Oil / California
A landscape of wells in the California oil field

Twyfords Showcard
Twyfords Centaur siphon closets

Osram Light & Family
Advertisement for Osram lamps - Twenty hours for one penny

Ghosts in Churchyard
A countryman passing through a churchyard at night is surprised to see three elegant female spirits floating in the air

Covent Garden Coffee
Early morning in a coffeehouse near Covent Garden

Pioneer settlers outside their log cabin. A woman cooks over a fire, watched by two children

Royal Navy, HMS Aphis

Filey Fisherman making nets early 1900s

Sunbury Lock, River Thames

Caversham Bridge, River Thames

Archery competition, Leamington Spa, 1870
Vintage 19th century photograph: Very early image of an archery competition, competitors with bows and arrows, Leamington Spa, 1870

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