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Client: John Craig - Model: Pattie Boyd
Client: John Craig - Dark cotton blouse with lace collar and cuffs - Model: Pattie Boyd - Shoot: January 12, 1965 (2/2) Date: 1965

Heroic fireman rescuing girl from fire
Heroic fireman rescuing a girl from a fire. Date: 19th century

Elizabeth Bessie Coleman (1892-1926)
Elizabeth Bessie Coleman, 1892-1926, the first female pilot of African American descent and the first person of African American descent to hold an international pilot license. Date: 1926

Long Live Estonia! A patriotic postcard, featuring a female personification of the State of Estonia, waving the Estonian Flag before a night sky. Date: circa 1920

Silver City plane at Lydd, Kent, for Channel crossing
Silver City plane at Lydd, Kent, with a car being loaded ready for a Channel crossing. Date: 1962

The Last Man, Hans Bohrdt - Propaganda - German navy officer
In 1915 Hans Bohrdt created his most famous illustration which is called " The Last Man". The image shows a German navy officer holding up a German flag as his ship sinks because he would

Harlech Castle, Wales, was built by King Edward I (1239 - 1307) on the site of an older building. The last Royalist castle to hold out for Charles I in the English Civil War

The Personification of Finland (Suomi)
The Female Personification of Finland (Suomi), holding aloft the National Flag over the sun rising across the Finnish lakes

Portrait of Saint John the Evangelist, ca. 1605, by El
El Greco (1541-1614). Cretan painter. Saint John the Evangelist, ca. 1605. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

STICK EM UP
Stick em up ! Boys playing with guns on the street

Zulu / Surrender 1879
The end of the Zulu War - the surrender of native chiefs to Sir G. Wolseley. They sit together on the plains and hold a peace conference

Votes for Women Hyde Pk
Photograph showing the scale of the Votes for Women demonstration in Hyde Park on 21 June 1908; many women and men attended; some hold banners

Behind the Scenes at Theatre de L Abri, Paris, France
Behind the Scenes at the erotic revue performed at the Theatre de L Abri, Paris, France with principal dancer Louis Espinoza - Le Ballet des Nymphes. Date: circa 1910s

The Lady with the Veil, 1768, by Alexander Roslin
Alexander Roslin (1718-1793). Swedish painter. The Lady with the Veil, 1768. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Traffic Police C. 1900
Three police officers, one in uniform and two in plain clothes working together to catch speeding motorists. The two plain clothed policemen hold stopwatches

The Apple by Kay Nielsen. A very pale Pierrot sits in a fantasy Garden of Eden holding up an apple picked from the tree behind, around which a snake is coiled... Date: 1932

Man with a glass. (2800-2300B. C. ). Cycladic Art. Ancient per
Cycladic Art. Ancient period II. Greece. Man with a glass. Canonical style. Belongs to the Syros phase (2800-2300 b.C.). Museum of Cycladic and Ancient Greek Art. Athens. Greece

Fantasy French postcard - Nude woman and doll
Very stylish Fantasy French postcard depicting a nude woman smiling and cradling a doll in her arm. Date: circa 1910s

Drunken man staggering home - about to hit lampost
Racing Illustrated - " Some delay at the post!" - a gentleman who has had a serious session at the Old Blue Bell (see 10909661) endeavours to make his way home

WWI - Wounded soldier in the arms of his nurse
WWI - Wounded soldier (who has lost his arm) in the arms of his nurse - Comrades in Arms. Date: circa 1917

Oman / Muscat
The white palaces of Muscat, Oman, are closed in on three sides by the black mountains. Their jagged cliffs hold in the warmth of the sun, making Muscat unbearably hot. Date: 1930s

60S Fashion / Floral Dress
A girl wearing a floral dress with white shoes and gloves holds a basket. Date: early 1960s

Stoking a Steamship
Stokers at work in the hold of a coal-burning steamship

Gossip about Fairies 12
On moonlit nights the fairies hold their revels, naturally choosing a picturesque castle ruin as the setting

Maria, Lady Eardley (1743-1794), 1766, by Thomas
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). English painter. Portrait of Maria, Lady Eardley (1743-1794), 1766, National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Michiel de Ruyter as Lieutenant-Admiral, 1667, by Ferdinand
Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676). Dutch Admiral. Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter as Lieutenant-Admiral, 1667, by Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680). Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

St Nicholas Home for Crippled Children, West Byfleet, Surre
A group of children in the garden at the St Nicholas Home for Crippled Children, West Byfleet. Several hold dolls, one carries a pair of crutches. The home was run by the Waifs and Strays Society

The Red Ibis
A fantasy postcard depicting a naked woman, lying on the ground, turned away from the viewer, reaching out toward and cluthing hold of, the leg of a giant red ibis

Play / Wilde / Salome
The dancers reward: the head on a platter. Maud Allan holds the head of Johannen. Date: 1907

Dog Show Childrens Class
The Transvaal Kennel Club Show, Johannesburg, childrens class. In white dresses and hats, very young children hold their dogs for the judges inspection, watched by parents

Cunard Line poster
Fabulously detailed poster for Cunard Line shipping company showing a passenger liner in cross-section with cabins and rooms visible on various decks

The New Playmates - Siblings and new bunnies
The New Playmates - A young brother and sister meet a basket of new bunnies. circa 1920s

FRESH PEAS FOR SALE
Fresh gathered peas, young Hastings: a woman gathers her apron up to hold the peas poured out by a farmer on the back of a cart Date: 1795

Cartoon, Two emancipated women
Modified wartime silhouette: skirts begin to evoke the barrel-line shape being narrower & court shoes are vying with high boots. Hats: tam-o shanter or high crown. Date: 1918

The Eastern Kilkennies - may the knot hold. Illustration shows two cats, one labeled Japan attacking the other labeled Russia

Swiss Wrestlers at a National Festival - May, 1904
Swiss Wrestlers at a National Festival at Montreux - 8th May, 1904 Date: 1904

Two Shades of Pink by David Wright, showing a model hold up an evening gown. Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940 s

Incubating Chicks
A farmer and his wife and child are pleased with the new incubator whose drawers hold newly hatched chicks

Lippersheys Lenses
The legendary account of the invention of the telescope : Hans Lippersheys apprentices, playing with lenses, happen to hold two of them up together - the rest is history

Ufo Abduction / Hill 1961
The Hill couple photographed in 1966, five years after their claimed abduction; they hold John Fullers book Interrupted Journey which tells their story

Client: John Craig - Model: Pattie Boyd
Client: John Craig - Dark cotton blouse with lace collar and cuffs - Model: Pattie Boyd - Shoot: January 12, 1965 (1/2) Date: 1965

Shoot for Kamella - children's clothes brand
Client: Stonehouse Advertising - shoot for Kamella children's clothes brand - Young boy in short padded jacket with hood and mittens, holding onto a rail Date: circa 1967

Shoot for Kamella - children's clothes brand
Client: Stonehouse Advertising - shoot for Kamella children's clothes brand - Teenage girl in patterned raincoat (floral and paisley psychedelic motifs)

Teddy Myers, woman wrestler
Teddy Myers, aka Dott O Dell and Zella Wiseman, woman wrestler born in Missouri. At twenty-four years of age she weighed 164lb and claimed the world heavy-weight championship for women

Cartoon, The End of the Rotten Borough -- the Reform Bill of 1832 did away with these so-called rotten boroughs, which were constituencies with a very small electorate

Womens wrestling school in Vauxhall, 1928
Gladiators of the feminine age. A wrestling school for women recently opened in Vauxhall, London. Miss Dot Butler, the schools champion wrestler

Diola Man from Guinea-Bissau, West Africa - at a Festival Date: circa 1907

Four pretty young Austrian girls spin wildly in happy dance
Four pretty young Austrian girls spin wildly in a happy dance on the banks of a lake or seashore. circa 1908

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