Earth Collection (page 16)

The legend of Hiram
The father of your fathers, Tubalcain, leads Hiram to the centre of the earth, the domain of Eblis and Cain, where liberty reigns. Date: 1890s

Hymnodia Sionia by Praetorius, 1611
Title page of Hymnodia Sionia(1611), by Michael Praetorius. Musicians on earth echo the heavenly music of angels and even King David, as they worship the lamb of God

Syntagma Musicum by Praetorius, 1620
Title page of Syntagma Musicum(1620), by Michael Praetorius. Musicians on earth echo the heavenly music of angels and even King David, as they worship the lamb of God

Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - Earth Shadow
An earth shadow from Mount Erebus on Antarctica, cast on the clouds and seen during the ill-fated Scott polar expedition of 1910 - 1912

Jesuss Ascension
He ascends to Heaven where he is welcomed by his mother, while those he leaves behind on Earth marvel among themselves. Date: ist century

THE RADIUM MASTER (Jim Vanny) Earth explorers on Urania are prisoners of a robot controlled by the masked Emperor Date: 1930

Rehabilitating Earth
EARTH REHABILITATORS CONSOLIDATED (Henry J Kostkos) Earth descendants on Saturn plan to restore abandoned Earth to its former glory Date: 1935

The Inner World
THE INNER WORLD (A Hyatt Verrill) A traveller to the Inner Earth encounters its alarming fauna Date: 1935

Parallels of Latitude
Parallels of latitude, including the Equator Date: circa 1690

Ceausescus Palace
CEAUSESCUs PALACE. Built 1984-9 it is the 2nd largest building on earth. It extends for several stories below ground & includes a nuclear bunker. Date: 1998

The Warning of Erda
Scene Four : Erda, the Earth Goddess, warns the Gods

GOD-BRAIN
AVENGERS OF SPACE (Henry Kuttner) The captive travellers from Earth are dragged before the God-Brain of Kathor. Date: 1938

Micro-Men Invasion 1946
Invasion of the Micro-Men (Richard Shaver) Date: 1946

Lunar Landscape
The crater Plato : overhead is the Earth, somewhat larger than it would actually appear. Date: 1890s

Wonder Stories Scifi Magazine Cover, Red April
Red April, 1965 - A ray from a spinning ball, created by three enemy ships, destroys an American spaceship. Date: 1932

FLIGHT OF THE MERCURY
THE FLIGHT OF THE MERCURY (Charles R Tanner) The space travellers from Earth make their escape from Mars in their ether-propelled spacecraft Date: 1930

SECRET OF BURIED CITY
SECRET OF THE BURIED CITY (John Russell Fearn) The Earth is destroyed to make way for a better civilisation Date: 1939

SKYLARK THREE (Dr Edward E Smith) The spaceship from Earth slices through the hostile craft from the planet Fenechrone Date: 1930

Masterminds of Venus, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
MASTER MINDS OF VENUS - Friendly Venerians [sic] come to help Earthfolk Date: 1934

R101 at Cardington - 3
The 223-metre long R.101 on the ground at Cardington : a great many men are required to hold it down to earth. Date: 1929

A BABY ON NEPTUNE (Harris and Breuer) Safe (they trust !) inside their pressurised capsule, visitors from Earth arouse the curiosity of Neptunes fauna Date: 1929

THE LOST MACHINE (John B Harris) A Martian robot, marooned on Earth, has problems adapting to the terrestrial lifestyle Date: 1932

A Ministering Angel
Ein Engel auf Erden. (an angel on Earth) - A Red Cross nurse measures a dose of medicine for her patient. Date: 1877

Alien Spacecraft 1936
UNCERTAINTY (John W Campbell Junior) An alien space-ship heads towards Earth Date: 1936

Moonlight Romance
The first buss and the last bus - a back-to-earth tragedy. A couple kiss in the moonlight having floated away from the earth in a mist of romance

Christmas at Caistor Union Workhouse, Lincolnshire
Christmas decorations in the dining hall of the Union workhouse at Caistor, Lincolnshire. A banner on the wall reads Peace On Earth Good Will To Men

Start of a charity cycle ride, Lands End
The start of a charity cycle ride in aid of Friends of the Earth, from Lands End in Cornwall to John o Groats in Scotland

Les Robinsons Lunaires, title page
(The lunar family Robinson) A balloon is carried to the Moon, but make a successful return to Earth

Sand bags WWII
Mrs. Storer and family stop to watch excavators at work in Hyde Park, London, digging earth for sand bags during World War II

Danish card - Holding up the world
An old man holds up the world - a promotional postcard (in a similar style to William Blake) for a Danish Exhibition. A more modern take on the myth of the ancient God Atlas, who held up the world

Terrestrial Flames
The abbe Maffei is surprised when electric flames erupt from the Earth

How Father Christmas came to earth
Colour illustration by Harold Earnshaw (d.1937) showing Father Christmas floating in the sky, hoisted up by colourful balloons

Wylds Great Globe, Leicester Square, London, 1851
Engraving showing the building built for Wylds Great Globe in the early 1850 s. This building housed a 10, 000 sq. foot painting of planet Earth

Dredging the Land for Gold. Mining Extraordinary. Leaving De
Photograph of the mounds of stones and earth piled up behind the gold dredger as they are disgorged on the conveyor belt

Four Winds - South
MERIDIES Auster, the Wind of the South, is pursued by the goddess Ops with farm implements as he bestows rain on the Earth below

Four Winds - North
SEPTENTRIO Boreas, the Wind of the North, carries off Oreithyria in a dark cloud, while thunder, lightning and rain afflict the Earth below

EARTHs INTERIOR, 1735
English geologist John Woodwards conception of the composition of the globe, with molten lava surrounded by a thick crust

Four Winds - West
OCCIDENS Zephyrus, the Wind of the West, pursues the goddess Flora, making her drop her flowers onto the Earth below Date: circa 1640

Four Winds - East
ORIENS Apeliotes, the Wind of the East, is pursued by Aurora, goddess of the Dawn, while he scatters flowers upon the Earth below

Franco-Prussian War. Grave of five French Soldiers at Petit
Newly dug make shift graves for 5 french soldiers with one rudimentary cross, the soldiers feet are barely covered by the earth

Land-mine explosion
Photograph showing the upheaval of earth and debris as a land-mine explodes. A frequent characteristic of siege warfare, the landmine could destroy huge section of trenches

River bed gold sifting on the Turon, Australia
River bed sifting on the Turon river, a sketch from the Turon gold fields, New South Wales. The pump is lowered 12 feet from the surface of the river

Julius Caesar as a Comet
GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR The murdered statesman is given a new lease of life by Aphrodite, who turns him into a comet who will illuminate the skies as he did the Earth

Life on the Stars 4
On Spica, in the constellation Virgo, the light of their sun is 1120 times brighter than ours : so life there will be adapted to it, while a visitor from Earth would be in trouble

Earth Seen by Mars
Martian astronomers, on the basis of their observations, may well think that an Earth city looks like this. As though we would walk about with no clothes on !

Ship of Jupiter
On the planet Jupiter, electrical power propels the ocean-going vessels through the sea of sticky heavy oil which would clog the propellors used on Earth

Life on Jupiter
The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter is 318 times as large as Earth, so perhaps supports a huge population which may surpass our civilisation in every way

Martian and Earthman
Just as we speculate what Martians are like, they must be wondering about us. Knowing conditions on our planet, they perhaps picture us like this

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