Future Collection

The Kinecar by William Heath Robinson
Double page illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a well-equipped omnibus transporting passengers while they watch a film

Palmistry map of the hand
A palmistry map of the hand, labelling the different areas

Pharmacy of the Future
EMIL ADOLF VON BEHRING German bacteriologist who won Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1901

Welwyn Garden City, an example of town planning
An advertisement for new houses and industrial sites at the new town of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, an example of town planning, designed to take people away from polluted cities

Princess Elizabeth and Lt Philip Mountbatten - Engagement
Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) (1926-2022) and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten (later Prince Philip)

Fletts Happy Families - Mr Marmalade - Has A Big Future. circa 1930s

Princess Elizabeth, future Queen Elizabeth II, Girl Guide
Princess Elizabeth, (the future Queen Elizabeth II) (1926-2022), in her Girl Guide uniform, c. 1942. Date: circa 1942

Ladies Football, 1894
The lady footballers: an anticipation

Fortuna by Ernest Board
Painting depicting a blindfolded woman playing a fateful game of cards. Date: 1911

Fridays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

St Anne Teaches Mary
Saint Anne teaches Mary, the future mother of Jesus, to read from a book of a type which will not come into use until the 2nd century AD

Mad Metal Robot
THE MAD ROBOT by William P McGivern. A brave man fires a ray-gun at an advancing metal robot with large claws and a brain encassed in a glass-domed head Date: 1944

?Army. Protecting Britain?s future?, 1993.Colour photolithograph recruiting poster, published by Ministry of Defence, 1993. Date: 1993

Corbetts Vision
In American planner Harvey Corbetts vision of a future city, fast traffic will be segregated from slow, and people from both Date: 1925

The Battle of the Balloons. A fanciful image depicting four balloons with flags and sails, their passengers in close aerial combat. The opponents appear to be British and French. circa 18th century

French poster, The Future Lies in Socialism
A French poster which declares that The Future Lies in Socialism, showing men who have fought in the First World War facing up to the octopus monster of commercialism, foreign gold

Robidas rotating house
Maison tournante arienee or aerial rotating house, one of Albert Robidas futuristic visions of life in the 20th century

Future New York will be pre- eminently the city of skyscrapers - and of noise, what with the elevated railway passing your window and the aircraft flying low overhead

Military Rockets for Space Activity, Armed with Death Rays

Italian Wedding Card
Dancing cherubs on a good luck card, looking forward to the couples silver, gold and diamond anniversaries!

Atomic Power Predicted
Atomic power plants predicted

Atomic Motorbike
Motor Cycle Driven by Atomic Power

Flights into the Future - dinosaurs on Venus?
Dinosaurs pictured as possible inhabitants of the planet Venus in a book on the possibilities of space travel. Date: 1943

The designer and photographic artist Cecil Beaton (standing - r) showing costume designs to Lady Domville (seated)
The designer and photographic artist Cecil Beaton (standing - r) showing costume designs to Lady Domville (seated, left) and Mrs Sacheverell Sitwell (seated)

Royals leaving St. Pauls - Silver Jubilee of King George V on May 6th, 1935. The Duke and Duchess of York and their children with the Duke and Duchess of Kent and the Bishop of London. Date: 1935

Startling Stories Scifi Magazine Cover with Science Island
SCIENCE ISLAND (Eando Binder)A cold-blooded Scientific Napoleon with the Brain of a Genius and a Body of Metal threatens to Dominate Mankind Date: 1939

Startling Stories scifi magazine cover - Green-headed Aliens
THE THREE PLANETEERS, by Edmond Hamilton. Two green-headed aliens, fly a spacecraft whilst under fire from groups of humans with ray-guns Date: 1940

Thrilling Wonder Stories scifi magazine cover - THE IONIAN CYCLE
THE IONIAN CYCLE (William Tenn) A space traveller from Earth encounters some interesting fauna emerging from eggs, pods, shells or whatever. Date: 1948

Britains Brabazon I passenger aircraft by G. H. Davis
A Leviathan of the skies: Britains Brabazon I airliner, designed to carry 72 long-distance passengers

The Two Young Girls - The Beautiful Rosine by Antoine Wiertz
Reproduction of the painting The Two Young Girls or The Beautiful Rosine by Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865)

Gertrude Bell: The Uncrowned Queen of Mesopotamia
Miss Gertrude Bell pictured in the Illustrated London News - described as a Staff Political Officer in Mesopotamia (Iraq) on the eve of the Cairo Conference to discuss the future of Mesopotamia

City of Living Dead
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (L Manning and F Pratt) Virtual reality foreseen : these sleepers choose to live adventures transmitted to them by sensory control

Flying Saucers
a Squadron of Flying Saucers

Preview of Peril / Sci-Fi
Preview of Peril (Story by Alfred Copper) Date: 1950

Tuesdays Child by May Bowley. A fortune-telling song telling a childs character or future based on the day they were born and help young children remember the days the week. Date: circa 1903

Duke and Duchess of York in Edinburgh
Late in May 1929, the Duke and Duchess of York visited Edinburgh, Scotland. This photograph shows the Duke, in the full Dress of the Cameron Highlanders, walking with the Duchess to a service at St

Pedal Car Race, Bologna
CORSA AUTOMOBILISTICA Young Italians - Fangios of the future - compete in a pedal-car race at Bologna Date: 1924

The touring car of the future

The past is behind us, the future is ahead. Let us all strive to make the future better and brighter than the past ever was. Soldier shaking hands with worker holding sledgehammer. Date 1918

Tunisian Royal Marriage
When the son of the Bey of Tunis weds, he enjoys his first sight of his future partner when he enters the womens apartment for the first time

Discovering Atlantis
Discovery of Atlantis and other Submerged Civilisations Date: Circa 1950

Jet Propelled Monorail
Jet-Propelled Monorail

Space Station - Cosmodrome

Space Travel Rockets
Rockets for Space Travel

Temple of Janus
The Temple of Janus at Rome, with a bust of the deity looking in three different directions - past, present and future

Landing of William III
William, Prince of Orange, lands at Torbay and is greeted as the future king William III

Future City Satire
A satirical view of the city of the future

Abraham purchasing cave for a burial place
Abraham purchasing the Cave of Machpelah for a burial place - Thomas Bankes Bible, Genesis 23.16. 1787

Future War / Zukunstkrieg
ZUKUNSTKRIEG A German prediction of the next war - their airborne divisions attack an armoured French fortress Date: 1894

The world of tomorrow- some dreams of invention run riot; th
Illustration of an aerial mono rail (note date, 1st April 1905) as a vision of the future for railways

Chesney, Battle Dorking
THE BATTLE OF DORKING A future war tale about a Prussian invasion of England

Cartoon, The Futurist (House of Lords reform)
Cartoon, The Futurist -- Bonar Law and Asquith on the failure to reform the House of Lords. Date: 1913

Egyptian Fortune Teller
Egyptian street fortune teller has two women engrossed in his soothsaying

Russias future Czar and Czarina
Photograph of Grand Duke Nicholas, Czarevitch of Russia (later Czar or Tsar Nicholas II) and Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt taken in 1894

Super Train of Future
A gyro-balanced monorail, the super train of tomorrow will be a three-decker carrying great numbers of passengers at high speeds

Big-Screen Broadcasting
News, political broadcasts and public announcements will be made on massive television screens located at strategic points, where huge crowds will be able to see perfectly

Nicolas Ii / Costume / 1890
ELIZABETH FEODOROVNA - Russian Grand Duchess with the future Czar, Nicholas II in theatrical costume (for the play Eugenie Onegin)

Wagner / Faustin
RICHARD WAGNER German opera composer and conductor extraordinaire, astonishing everybody with his Music of the Future

Industrial Robots at Work in a Factory

Rocket Control Cabin
Control Cabin of a Space Rocket

Future Life Regression
A hypnotised subject is sent forward in time, and gives a description of the end of the world - which will occur in the year 46, 812, to be precise

Royal Anglers
The younger children of king George V & Mary, fishing at Balmoral (the one holding the rod is presumably the future George VI)

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

The Time Machine
THE TIME MACHINE The Time Traveller arrives... sometime in the future

Young Napoleon has his fortune told by a gipsy
The young Napoleon, later Emperor of France, has his fortune told by a gipsy in Corsica

Good luck wedding postcard, seven babies on a cloud Date: 20th century

Gwilym Lloyd George (1894 - 1967), son of British Prime Mnister David Lloyd George, pictured with his fiancee Edna Jones (1921-) and her sister. Date: 1921

If Airship Inventors are Successful 1908
Due to the increase of successful trials of new inventions of airplanes, there was concerns of airspace in the future over the City of London, being overcrowded. Date: 1908

Anti-airbomb architecture: Safety building and town planning
Building to meet the air menace, protective construction for future wars. Date: 1933

Manuela Isidra Tellez-Giron, future Duchess of
Agustin Esteve Marques (1753-1820). Spanish painter. Manuela Isidra Tellez-Giron, future Duchess of Abrantes, 1797. Oil on canvas, 110, 5 x 86 cm. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

The Countess-Duchess of Benavente (?), accompanied
Agustin Esteve Marques (1753-1820). Spanish painter

The Countess-Duchess of Benavente (?), accompanied
Agustin Esteve Marques (1753-1820). Spanish painter

The Astrologer. Profession that foresees death but is surprised by it

Joan of Arc (1412-1431) went to Chinon for an audience with the Dauphin of France, the future Charles VII. Charles received Joan of Arc on 6 March 1429

Iberian Peninsula. Conferences held in Vitoria in 1476. The kings John II of Aragon (1398-1479) and Ferdinand V of Castile (1452-1516) attended

Help Defeat the Sunday Entertainments Bill, suggests future demolish Church for Theatre - Lord's Day Observance Society leaflet 1927. Date: 1927

Kate Greenaway
Christmas and New Year Greeting card depicting a young girl picking daffodils, a child with a toy lamb, sunshine, a tree in blossom - all signs of hope for the future Date: circa 1880

Cement & Concrete Association : Flying Grounds Of The Future - Cement & Concrete Association. Date: 1936

Cement & Concrete Association : Hangars Of The Future - Cement & Concrete Association. Date: 1936

Cartoon, Queen Victoria -- she emerges from seclusion. Date: 1867

The Romanian Royal Family

Futuristic dinner party
A futuristic chemical dinner party -- a few tablets are served for each guest. Just think -- no washing up! Date: 1899

British King George VI with Princess Elizabeth - laughter
British Royal Family. British King George VI, sharing a joke with Future British Queen Princess Elizabeth at the Royal Lodge, Windsor, England. Date: 1946

BAC X-11
Artists Impression of the BAC X-11 A Stretched, Modified and Upgraded Version of the BAC 1-11 Possibly Powered by Cfmi Cfm56 Turbofan Engine - Project-Cancelled in 1971 Date: 1960s

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