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Background imageHeads Collection: Christening of Prince Peter of Yugoslavia

Christening of Prince Peter of Yugoslavia (1923-1970) in October 1923 in Belgrade.Albert, Duke of York (1895-1952) (later King George VI) acted as Chief Witness as he did at King Alexanders wedding

Background imageHeads Collection: A quite superb photographic postcard of a group of Masai Women from Kenya, East Africa

A quite superb photographic postcard of a group of Masai Women from Kenya, East Africa. Date: circa 1930s

Background imageHeads Collection: Two-headed camel? Birqash Camel Market near Cairo, Egypt

Two-headed camel? Birqash Camel Market near Cairo, Egypt. This image is a genuine photograph and is NOT faked Date: 2010

Background imageHeads Collection: People of the Upper Nile - Sudan

People of the Upper Nile - Sudan. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageHeads Collection: Toss and Pitch game

Toss and Pitch game

Background imageHeads Collection: Ship figureheads on the Scilly Isles - Victorian period

Ship figureheads on the Scilly Isles - Victorian period

Background imageHeads Collection: Private Electric Motor Car on tracks - Panama Canal

Private Electric Motor Car on tracks - Panama Canal
Private Electric Motor Car operating on lines of track and used by Heads of the Engineering Divisions/Departments working on the Panama Canal. Date: 1913

Background imageHeads Collection: WW2 - Put Out More Flags

WW2 - Put Out More Flags
An illustrated front cover to a WW2 story book, Put Out More Flags, written by Evelyn Waugh. The image shows the heads of a young woman and a laughing military officer. Date: 1943

Background imageHeads Collection: Lilliburlero (Calling Us All)

Lilliburlero (Calling Us All)
An illustrated WW2 music sheet cover for Lilliburlero, (calling us all) arranged by Kenneth J. Alford, words by Arthur Stanley

Background imageHeads Collection: WW2 - Young Heroes Of The War

WW2 - Young Heroes Of The War
An illustrated front cover of a WW2 children's book, Young Heroes Of The War, written by Joseph Gollomb and Alice Taylor

Background imageHeads Collection: WW2, Sailor's Knot And Captain's Boat

WW2, Sailor's Knot And Captain's Boat
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book. The left image shows the heads of a Royal Navy sailor and his sweetheart within the loops of a sailor's knot

Background imageHeads Collection: Vallee de Heads, Hautes-Pyrenees, France, Le Chaos

Vallee de Heads, Hautes-Pyrenees, France, Le Chaos
Vallee de Heads, Hautes-Pyrenees, Occitanie, France - Le Chaos. A chaos, in geology, is the piling up of blocks forming under the action of erosion in certain types of rocks (sandstone, granite)

Background imageHeads Collection: Whitbread & Co Advert Illustration

Whitbread & Co Advert Illustration
An advertisement illustration for Whitbread & Co. Ltd, portraying the heads of a man and woman drinking from glasses. Date: circa 1939

Background imageHeads Collection: The Exercise At Boulevard Richard-Lenoir

The Exercise At Boulevard Richard-Lenoir
A colourful illustration of a military exercise in which soldiers in unison raise their rifles above their heads, within a clearing at Boulevard Richard-Lenoir in Paris, France. Date: circa 1901

Background imageHeads Collection: French Caricatures, Hodgepodge of Heads

French Caricatures, Hodgepodge of Heads
A selection of caricatures of prominent French figures, including Minister of Public Works Pierre Baudin, painter Albert Pierre Rene Maignan, historian and journalist Georges Eugene Sorel

Background imageHeads Collection: Songe D'Amours!

Songe D'Amours!
This illustration depicts a heavenly scene in which a young lady is experiencing a dream of love a group of children's heads with angelic wings are hovering around her as she lie in her bed

Background imageHeads Collection: The Two-Headed Welsh Giant, by Arthur Rackham

The Two-Headed Welsh Giant, by Arthur Rackham
The Two-Headed Welsh Giant, book illustration by Arthur Rackham Date: 1916

Background imageHeads Collection: The Afternoon Drive, Madrid

The Afternoon Drive, Madrid
A pastel painting which shows two ladies in close conversation, sat in the back of a motor vehicle which is leaving a countryside park, they have pink and green parasols over their heads

Background imageHeads Collection: Part Of Altar Piece For Girls Orphanage

Part Of Altar Piece For Girls Orphanage
This oil painting depicts a religious scene of a mother and child, with halo iconography behind their heads, sat amongst an assortment of potted plants, alongside some other children. Date: circa 1920

Background imageHeads Collection: Women Of The Sea

Women Of The Sea
A painting of some young women, carrying pots and urns above their heads, with another laid on the floor, near some waters, with a bridge visible. Date: circa 1920

Background imageHeads Collection: Prayer For The Fishermen, Etaples

Prayer For The Fishermen, Etaples
This painting shows a gathering of people with bowed heads or knelt down in prayer for the fishermen of Etaples, northern France. Date: circa 1916

Background imageHeads Collection: The Blue Butterflies

The Blue Butterflies
A still life painting of a couple of vases of flowers, one containing a wide mixture of coloured specimens, while the other comprises mainly of red poppies

Background imageHeads Collection: Hudson's Soap Advertisement

Hudson's Soap Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for R. S. Hudson Limited, which shows a hooded girl leaning on a wall, smiling, with a basket containing a packet of Hudson's soap. Text reads

Background imageHeads Collection: The Punshon Memorial Church Choir Charabanc ride

The Punshon Memorial Church Choir Charabanc ride
A fine Charabanc tour party (the Punshon Memorial Church Choir en route to Stourton) about to depart from Bournemouth. The Red Heads revue by William Le Baron at the Hippodrome, Boscombe, July 1914

Background imageHeads Collection: RMS Titanic - passenger's album of scraps

RMS Titanic - passenger's album of scraps
RMS Titanic - album of scraps, which were the property of Richard May, a Titanic passenger who travelled only as far as Queenstown, Ireland

Background imageHeads Collection: RMS Titanic - cigar case recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett

RMS Titanic - cigar case recovered by CS Mackay-Bennett
RMS Titanic - from inventory of items recovered from bodies by cable ship Mackay-Bennett - a silver cigar case of rectangular outline with rounded corners

Background imageHeads Collection: Dentist's equipment, dental drill parts

Dentist's equipment, dental drill parts Date: 1920

Background imageHeads Collection: Sydney as Macquarie Left It

Sydney as Macquarie Left It
This panorama was taken from the Observatory Hill. To the left one is looking towards the Heads and to the right over the City

Background imageHeads Collection: Types ofantique armour

Types ofantique armour
Types of antique armour - 1. roundel (shield), 2. target, 3. lead mallet used by archers, 4. iron mace used by cavalry, 5. black bill in armoury of Canterbury Town Hall, 6

Background imageHeads Collection: The Love Thermometer

The Love Thermometer
Picture postcards were used as one of the early expressions of the Surrealist movement. This couple seem oblivious of each other and the thermometer above their heads

Background imageHeads Collection: Stuart Monument, designed in 1817-1819 by the Italian Neocla

Stuart Monument, designed in 1817-1819 by the Italian Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822). Marble.It is dedicated to James III (1688-1766) son of James II (1633-1701)

Background imageHeads Collection: Cartoon, More Pigs than Teats

Cartoon, More Pigs than Teats, or, the new Litter of hungry Grunters Sucking John Bull's Old Sow to death, by James Gillray

Background imageHeads Collection: Cartoon, Sin, Death, and the Devil

Cartoon, Sin, Death, and the Devil, Vide Milton, by James Gillray. A parody of a scene from John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, showing Prime Minister William Pitt (left) as Death

Background imageHeads Collection: WW1 Oath of Allegiance - Women's Battalion of Death, Russia

WW1 Oath of Allegiance - Women's Battalion of Death, Russia
Oath of Allegiance taken in Moscow by members of the famous Battalion of Death, composed entirely of Russian women and led by Madame Botchkareva - June 1917

Background imageHeads Collection: Trinket Box with Caton Woodville WWI battle scene

Trinket Box with Caton Woodville WWI battle scene
Trinket Box lined with velvet. On lid - a relief after Caton Woodville's painting of a battle scene, signed by the artist

Background imageHeads Collection: Trinket Box lined with velvet

Trinket Box lined with velvet. On lid - a relief after Caton Woodville's painting of a battle scene, signed by the artist

Background imageHeads Collection: Cigarette Box with relief after a Caton Woodville painting

Cigarette Box with relief after a Caton Woodville painting
Cigarette Box. On lid - a relief after Caton Woodville's painting of a battle scene, signed by the artist together with Rudyard Kipling's poem - Who stands if freedom fail Who dies if England

Background imageHeads Collection: Commonwealth Heads of Government 1977

Commonwealth Heads of Government 1977
British Prime Minister James Callaghan leads Commonwealth premiers into Marlborough House, London for lunch, at the beginning of the 1977 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting

Background imageHeads Collection: George V leaving Victoria Station, London

George V leaving Victoria Station, London
King George V leaving Victoria Station in Central London by horse-drawn coach after meeting some of the foreign heads of state who have come over for King Edward VII's funeral. Date: 1910

Background imageHeads Collection: Head on Old London Bridge

Head on Old London Bridge
Head displayed on spikes on Old London Bridge Date: 1300 to 1660

Background imageHeads Collection: Ww1 Wwi World War One First 1st Great I Priest

Ww1 Wwi World War One First 1st Great I Priest
ww1, wwi, world, war, one, first, 1st, great, i, priest, blesses, soldiers, events, russia, 1917, women, blessed, patriarch, nikon, red, square, crucifix, priests, battalion, death, woman

Background imageHeads Collection: RACIAL/NEW ZEALAND/DEATH

RACIAL/NEW ZEALAND/DEATH
Maori chief Upokia, sitting in state after his death, surrounded by the heads of his enemies Date: circa 1850

Background imageHeads Collection: Cartoon, Welcome! Britannia: Come in, ladies and gentlemen! Glad to give you a decent roof over

Cartoon, Welcome! Britannia: Come in, ladies and gentlemen! Glad to give you a decent roof over your heads at last!'. A comment on the opening of the National Portrait Gallery on Saturday 4 April

Background imageHeads Collection: SHRUNKEN HEADS

SHRUNKEN HEADS
Shrunken heads or Tsanta, prepared by the Jivaro tribes who believe that they hold magical powers and symbolic significance Date:

Background imageHeads Collection: MOURNING FOR MOSES

MOURNING FOR MOSES
When Moses dies, he is mourned by the Israelites with loud lamentations, rending of garments and anointing of heads with dust

Background imageHeads Collection: Sacrifice Guinea Customs Human 1737 King Dies

Sacrifice Guinea Customs Human 1737 King Dies
sacrifice, guinea, customs, human, 1737, king, dies, buried, surrounded, heads, who, served, life, may, continue, serve, death, history, historical, 10063745

Background imageHeads Collection: DRYDEN/DIE DAME/21

DRYDEN/DIE DAME/21
Cover design for Die Dame - two women in fashionable outfits walk along with their heads turned. Date: 1926

Background imageHeads Collection: Death personified on a Tarot card

Death personified on a Tarot card
Death personified as a skeleton with a scythe on a Tarot card. Date: 1926



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