Growth Collection

Penicillin Culture / 1929
Original culture plate on which Sir Alexander Fleming first observed the growth of penicillin notatum in 1929

Map / Europe / France / Paris
Map showing the growth of Paris from its earliest origins to the latest projects under Napoleon III

Lion & Unicorn Pavilion
The Lion and Unicorn Pavilion at the South Bank Exhibition, containing exhibits on the use of the English language, growth of British parliamentary government, etc

Just two words! Nestles Milk 1915
Nestles milk for yourself and baby. Don t - as you value your childs life - experiment with " foods" of unknown composition; the lives of millions of children have been lost in that way

Testicle Growth Drained
Removing fluid from a large testicular growth

Cocoa bean pods - Trinidad - West Indies Date: circa 1930s

Growth of the submarine by G. H. Davis
The growth of the submarine from 1901 to 1912. In chronological order, they are: 1901-2 Holland Class, 1903-5 A Class, 1904-6 B Class, 1906-9 C Class, 1911 D Class and 1912 E Class

Book cover design, The Romance of Aeronautics: an Interesting Account of the Growth and Achievements of All Kinds of Aerial Craft, by Charles C Turner, London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1912

Margaret Vergh Gryffyth, horned woman
Margaret Vergh Gryffyth, Welsh woman who exhibited herself with a 10 centimetre horn growing from her forehead

Wellington poster
Poster advertising Wellington, New Zealand contrasting the comparatively rural looking town of 1844 with a contemporary photograph of a sprawling Wellington of the twentieth century

Evans Vacuum Cap advertisement, 1906
Advertisement for the Evans Vacuum Cap, an invention intented to promote the re-growth of hair, 1906

Alexander Tvardovsky
ALEXANDER TVARDOVSKY Russian poet, whose subjects were peasant life, collective farms, and the spiritual growth of the soldier during the Great Patriotic War

Shocking result of binding girls feet, China, East Asia
The shocking result of binding girls feet in China, East Asia, meaning that in adult life the woman cannot walk properly, but only hobble. Date: 1922

Map showing the growth of CWS production locations between 1913 and 1938

Laird's Garden, Dunfermline
The top photograph shows a view of Dunfermline Abbey, from Laird's Garden, the bottom photograph provides the same view

Autumn
A landscape painting of a red roofed countryside house, nestled amongst the growth of large, colourful trees, with a large backdrop of fields and hills. Date: circa 1915

World War 1 patriotic advert for Pratts Motor Spirit
The First World War was the first mechanised war. This advrtisement postcard reflects the rapid growth in motor vehicles during this period Date: 1915

Gordon Brown, Labour politician, giving a talk
Gordon Brown (James Gordon Brown, b 1951), Labour politician, MP from 1983, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997, and British Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010

Some Rejected Posters by John Hassall - Makes the Hair Grow. John Hassall reigned supreme as the poster king during the first two decades of the twentieth century

Thanking the Last Post Buglers at the Menin Gate
The Last Post at the Gate has been played at 8pm under the arches by Ypres firemen (with only an interval during WW2) since the unveiling on 24 July 1927

Outline of growth of the locomotive engine, 1841-1884. Each illustrated with key details/measurements for the engines. Also illustrated with scenes such as zig-zag over the Blue Mountains. Date: 1885

Outline of growth of the locomotive engine, 1771-1840. Each illustrated with key details/measurements for the engines. Also illustrated with scenes such as Hetton Colliery. Date: 1885

Group of people, possibly family members, including a man of restricted growth (dwarfism), 1920s. Date: 1920s

1911 Census - John Bull being measured
Front cover of The Sphere, of John Bull being measured to see if his waist has grown from the decade before. Date: April 1911

GROWTH OF PRUSSIA / MAP
The growth of Prussia between 1815 and 1866 Date: 1866

Canada - Ontario - Mining Town - A new town - street scene. Date: circa 1909

WW2 - Home Front - Girl Guide Rangers and Guiders doing forestry work in the West Country - pictured here cutting down bracken and foliage to promote the straight growth of young saplings. Date: 1941

Advert for Evans vacuum cap for growth of hair 1906
Practical invention for Evans vacuum cap, develops a natural and permanent growth of the hair, supplying the apparatus on a sixty day trial, wholly at the expense of the company. 1906

Advert for Koko hair tonic 1897
Unquestionably the best dressing for the hair. Prevents hair falling and promotes growth. 1897

Maison Lyons Corner House - Marble Arch, London - Interior
Quote from The Kalevala (Kalewala) a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lonnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology

May. Goddess Maia
Maia, the Roman goddess of growth. Artist: Sydney Carter Date: 1903

Sprouts of fern (fragment close-up) in mixed forest, (Polypodiaceae spp). near Ekaterinburg, Ural Mountains, Russia; early spring

Lady Maud Hoare, wife of the Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare
The Lady Maud Hoare, wife of the Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, christening one of five Handley Page airliners, built to cope with the rapid growth of traffic on Imperial Airways

Advert for Cow & Gate formula milk food 1940
A true mother. Every true mother can know the bliss of perfect content even if she is unable to feed her baby naturally. Cow & Gate is the exact substitute science has found for babys natural food

Advert for Cow & Gate formula milk food 1928
Cow & Gate formula, made of pure milk only. Your vision of a sturdy, healthy child can be fulfilled by using the right diet

Which is the tallest, by Hilda Cowham
Two small children attempt to measure their height, though it looks as if the little boy is giving himself some artificial help by standing on a book. Date: 1914

Happy Easter - Norwegian card, printed shortly after the German Surrender in WW2. Date: 1946

American wapiti (elk) in the New York Zoological Park
Postcard showing an American wapiti or elk with velvet antlers about two months growth in the New York Zoological Park. Date: circa 1920

X-Ray - Growth on Branch. Part of Box 165 Boswell Collection - X-Rays. Date: circa 1900

Changes which marriage and children bring - Comic postcard
Comic postcard - " Look before you leap" - A cautionary tale of the changes which marriage and children bring - Alone = one pair of boots. Sallie and I = Two pairs of boots

Hair on Back
A lady with an abnormal growth of hair on her back Date: late 19th century

Page of a postwar leaflet about Germany
Page of a postwar reconstruction leaflet -- Germany under control, with three photographs of wheat harvesting for food, a classroom with teacher and children, and the reactivated coal industry

Bureaucratic staff in ministries in 1919
A diagram showing the inflation in temporary and female personnel in various Ministries in Westminster and Whitehall necessitated by the First World War

Sprouts of fern in mixed forest, typical (Polypodiaceae spp). near Ekaterinburg, Ural Mountains, Russia; early spring

Sprouts of fern in mixed forest (Polypodiaceae spp.). typical, near Ekaterinburg, Ural Mountains, Russia; early spring

The Growth of Democracy, by Bairnsfather
The Growth of Democracy Colonel Sir Valtravers Plantagenet gladly accepts a light, during a slight lull in a barrage, from a private in the Benin Rifles

Months of the year. August. Depicting Ceres who in Roman mythology embodied agriculture and growth. Date: circa 1903

The Tatcho Bomb by Heath Robinson
In this Heath Robinson cartoon, the Germans fill large balls with Tatcho, a popular hair growth product, and hit the British lines with catapults. Chaos ensues, in the British forces. Date: 1915

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