Found Collection (page 10)

Cholera in Egypt
Scene in the courtyard of a house in Cairo. The patients were laid in the courtyard partly because of the cooler temperatures and also because the occupants were afraid of infection

Chichen Itza / Jaguar
Auguste Le Plongeon squats alongside a statue of a jaguar with a human head found in the tomb of Chaacmol at Chichen Itza

Lost Property Office 1 / 2
Two ladies in 1920s fashion of cloche hats and furs check through the New Scotland Yard Lost Property Office racks for their missing umbrellas. Metropolitan Police

Lost Property Office 2 / 2
An employee of the New Scotland Yard Lost Property Office examines a childs toy wooden horse amid the myriad abandoned and forgotten items, from suitcases to a pair of antlers

Infant Moses Found
The infant Moses is found by the Pharaohs daughter, floating on the Nile

Termits Nests
Termites nests : these are from Guinea, West Africa, but they are found in many parts of Africa

Carte Civique
Every citizen is required to carry a carte civique - found without this identification, he or she is liable to be arrested and detained

Cape Town / Riebeeck
Jan van Riebeeck, on behalf of the Dutch East India company, lands at the Cape of Good Hope where he will found Cape Town and govern it for ten years

CAT STEW
Soldiers on the march must eat as they find. These French soldiers have found a cat to add to their cooking-pot

Bulldog Cannon
The " Bulldog Cannon", found by the British Army in the Fort of Kurnaul, India, in 1838, but originally forged centuries earlier in China. The mouth is the guns muzzle

Opossum, 18th Century
Several species of opossum are found in New Holland (Australia); this may be the mulgara

Hercules Statue / Rome
A colossal bronze statue of Hercules found beneath the Campo dei Fiori in Rome is raised by a complex dual block-and-tackle system

Voltaire Ferney
FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET the French writer at Ferney on 4 July 1775, with Mme Denis, M de Laborde and M Adam: apparently he found this depiction unflattering!

Dreyfus in Prison / 1895
Dreyfus in prison after being found guilty of treason by a court-martial and having his rank publicly stripped

GENET
VIVERRA GENETTA (or genetta vulgaris) - this variety is found in the south of France

Bomb Accident
The accidental explosion of a bomb at the Hotel Bristol, St Petersburg, is at first thought a deliberate plot, but is found to be an insuffic- -iently careful terrorist

Abandoning Child, Paris
A working-class couple, unable to support their child, leave it at the Hospice des Enfants- Trouves (Hospice of found infants), Paris

Manna Explained
explained by H N Grimm as not miraculous at all, but a substance that is dropped by insects such as these which are found in Ceylon

Humming Birds - 1
(Trochilidae) Humming birds are found only in tropical regions of the Americas

Cassowary (Galeatus)
(Casuarius galeatus) A flightless bird found in Australia and New Guinea, related to the ostrich

Plants / Crescentia Cujete
The CALABASH-TREE, found by the conquistadors in the West Indies, depicted with other flora and fauna

Cave Dwelling Achtal
The Palaeolithic cave dwelling at Achtal. Here animal and Neanderthal remains were found in the mid 19th century

Western / Lost Wagon Tr
THE LOST WAGON TRAIN (Zane Grey) Not so much lost as found by hostile Native Americans

JAN GUZYK
Polish materialisation medium whose skilful frauds deceived many reputable investigators. Harry Price in Warsaw, 1923, found him childishly deceitful

Cinderella Try Shoe
Cinderella is asked to try on the shoe and to her sisters disgust - it fits! The Prince is delighted to have found his Princess

Fossil Holoptychius
A complete holoptychius fossil found in Devonian stratum, which dates back to between 354 and 417 million years ago

Roman Mosaic Leicester
A Roman tesselated pavement, (the Cyparrisian Pavement) found below High Cross Street, Leicester in 1675. The mosaic shows Cyparrisus and a deer given to him by the god Apollo

Penn Chartered
Quaker William Penn is granted a charter by Charles II to found a settlement, which will be named after him

Black Stele / Shalmaneser
This obelisk of black marble was found by Layard in the centre of the mound of Nimrud, and it is now in the British Museum. The four sides depict the life of Shalmaneser III

Dinosaur / Tylosaurus
TYLOSAURUS DYSPELOR 10-metre marine dinosaur, reconstructed from remains found in chalk deposits in Kansas, USA

Johann August Sutter
JOHANN AUGUST SUTTER German pioneer in California, on whose land was found the nugget of gold which led to the California Gold Rush

Liberated Lady
LIBERATION SCENES This woman was one of the few inhabitants who wasn t evacuated - she was found after liberation

Opening Stocking / 1930
A little girl opens her stocking in bed - she has already found an orange and now she has a stuffed toy

Opening Stocking 1902
This girl has found a quite extraordinary number of presents in her stocking

Gold Prospectors
IN SOUTH AFRICA prospectors examine gold found close to the surface

Treasure Found by Howard
Part of the treasures found by Howard Carter at the tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor

Southcotts Box
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT Southcotts box, opened by Harry Price before a large audience in 1927; expected to contain amazing revelations, only rubbish was found

Stone confirming early Christian missionaries in China
Stone found at Si-gan-fou (Chang-an, or Hsian-Fu) in 1625, which seemed to confirm that Christian missionaries had been in China in 635, during the Tang Dynasty, when O-lo-pen (Olopun, Alopen)

Figures of gods found at Tiryns, Greece
Figures of gods made from terracotta, found at Tiryns, Mycenae, Greece

Percy H Fawcett expedition
PERCY H FAWCETT Expedition which looked for the explorer Fawcett after his disappearance in the Matto Grosso of Brazil, but they never found him

The Cover of The Graphic, H. M. Stanley Issue, 1890
Engraving showing Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), the British-US explorer and journalist, in typical exploration attire and pose

The Dublin Crimean Banquet
Engraving showing a panoramic of a banquet for Crimean war veterans in Stack A, a warehouse in Dublins Docklands, held on October 22nd 1856

Moses Found
The child Moses is found floating, abandoned by his mother, on the waters of the Nile, by Pharaohs daughter

Court Martial of Dreyfus
Captain Alfred Dreyfus before his court martial for treason: papers giving secret information to the Germans had been found and Dreyfus was made a scape-goat

The Battersea Shield
Originally used for ceremonial purposes, this shield was found in the River Thames in 1857. The horned bronze helmet (found near Waterloo) has similar red enamel bosses

Japan Woman in White
WOMAN IN WHITE A mysterious figure reveals herself to a Japanese fisherman as the spirit of a magic sword which lies beneath the sea and must be found

Sphinx (Denon)
A head-on view of the sphinx as it was found by the French army during Napoleons Egyptian campaign, and recorded by scholars

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