Human Collection (page 4)

Gentleman trying to play footsie with a beauty at the table
Gentleman trying to play footsie with a beauty under the dining table but pressing the wrong foot. More Miseries. Handcoloured copperplate engraving designed

Terrible accident - Lady ablaze - Figure 2
Figure 2 of 2. Terrible accident - Lady ablaze, her dress has caught fire and she has fallen to the ground unconscious. This illustration shows that if one lies down horizontally

The bearded lady: Miss Annie Jones 1897
Annie Jones Elliot (1865 - 1902), a " freak" and part of the " Greatest Show on Earth". The accompanying article describes her as " in every respect the best of the "

The bearded lady: Miss Annie Jones 1898
Annie Jones Elliot (1865 - 1902) also known as " the Bearded Lady" toured with the showman P. T. Barnum as a circus attraction. 1898

Julia Pastrana (1834 - 1860), from Mexico, a hairy woman who married a showman, Theodor Lent, but died in childbirth at Moscow (the child also died)

Human anatomy, nervous system, brain and spinal cord. Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Martin St

Saxon and Anglo-Saxon kings in battle armour, 8th century
Saxon king in chainmail tunic with double-edged sword and shield, and Anglo-Saxon king of the Heptarchy, 8th century, in leather breastplate standing over a defeated enemy with a cup made from a

Kalmyk man and Japanese sumo wrestler with chonmage (topknot) and beard. Swarthy Kalmucks, Eleuth and Japanese prizefighter. Mongoles

Chinese man and Nogai Tatar man
Chinese man and Tatar man of the Nogai Horde. Mongolic Races. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of the Human Species

The Aztec king Montezuma II and Tuscarora
Portrait of Montezuma II, Aztec Emperor of Mexico, in gold crown and gorgette, and of David Cusick, a Tuscarora Baptist preacher and author, in western clothes

Tattooed man of Halmahera, Maluku Islands
Tattooed man of Halmahera (Gilolo), Maluku Islands (Moluccas), and Berilla, an Edjow Galla, Abyssinia (Caucaso-Ethiop). Copied from an illustration in Henry Salts A Voyage to Abyssinia, 1814

Manchu man, Mongol with pigtail, and Eleuth Mongol man
Manchu (Niuchi) man, Mongol with moustache and pigtail, and Eleuth Mongol man. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of

Hircocervus, goat-stag or horse-stag - The Trusty Servant

Best wishes from Hereford, Herefordshire - featuring inset images of local landmarks set set within a remarkable human butterfly farme, far more common in continental European postcards of this era

Buck Automatic Aerial Torpedo 1916
The Buck Automatic Aerial Torpedo 1916 Uav Un-Manned Drone Bomb Date: 1916

Savoia Marchetti SM-79
A Line of Savoia Marchetti Sm-79 Bomber with Flight Crew Standing in Front Date: 1930s

Dornier Do-J Do-16 Wal
A Dornier Wal Parked at the Waters Edge with People Waiting on Shore. the Norwegian Arctic Explorer Roald Amundsen Used Two Dornier Seaplane in His Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach the North Pole in

Line-Drawing of Leonardo Da Vinci Ornithopter Design Cir?
Line-Drawing of Leonardo Da Vinci Ornithopter Design Circa 1500 Date: 1500s

Human models pretending to be a marble statue
A pair of nude (mostly) human models pretending to be a marble statues, complete with rocky plinth! Date: circa 1910s

A South African Man with skin pigmentation condition
A South African Man with the skin pigmentation condition vitiligo, creating a remarkable patched appearance, captioned here as Leopard Skin (!). Date: circa 1900

Angelique Cottin
ANGELIQUE COTTIN, electric girl of Bouvigny, is tested by Arago at the Observatoire de Paris; though her powers are failing, he is impressed Date: 1846

Julia Pastrana from Mexico, hairy woman
Julia Pastrana, from Mexico, a hairy woman who married a showman, Theodor Lent, but died in childbirth at Moscow (the child also died)

Human Casts, Pompeii

WW2 Victory, Liberation of Czechoslovakia, postal cover envelope Date: 1945

WW2 - Big Bill Gresham The Human Rope
A WW2 children's short story illustration showing a military character, Big Bill Gresham, clinging onto a branch overhead, as their raft rushes down the river. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Birthday Card, Foil Spitfire
A WW2 birthday greetings card with a foil image of a Spitfire fighter plane. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by many to so few. Date: circa 1940s

The Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza, Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1920s

Idol Vitzliputzli (Huitzilopochtli). Mexican idol. Engraving. Historia de la Conquista de Mexico, poblacion, y progresos de la America septentrional

The Great Aztec Temple at Tenochtitlan. Dedicated to the god of war. Built in a large square, with an ashlar wall, carved on the outside with different loops of chained snakes. Engraving

Cabinet. Antwerp (?). circa 1650. Detail. The paintings that decore the cabinet offers a Calvinist vision of concept of Love and Beauty, through a moralizing interpretation of Metamorphosis of Ovid

Human sacrifices in the Country of the Bakutis
History of Africa. 19th century. The Congo. Human sacrifices in the country of the Bakutis, near the Equator station. Chromolithography

Forest Tiger
This watercolour painting shows a tiger like creature with the facial features and hands of a human, creating quite an unusual image, it is prowling through a forest of trees and colourful flowers

Photographs of hands holding cigar as indicator of character
Photographs of hands holding cigar, as indicator of character. Captioned, The Flor de Karakta: the cigar as seer: character indicated by the way of holding the ??weed?

Allegory of Spring, ca. 1563, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593). Italian painter. Allegory of Spring, ca.1563. Detail. San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Madrid. Spain. Date: 2019

Wooden anthropomorphic figure. Chimu culture
Wooden anthropomorphic figure. There were idols and depictions of ancestors In the temples and shrines. Chimu culture. Late Intermediate Horizon (1000-1470 AD). Peru. Museum of the Americas

Vase decorated with human head. Ceramics, Zapotec culture (Monte Alban III). Early and Middle Classic Period (100-700 AD). Mexico. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain. Date: 2018

Vase with human figure of feline traits. Ceramic. Zapotec culture (Monte Alban III). Early and Middle Classic Period (100-700 AD). Mexico. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain. Date: 2018

Vessel with mythical character. Ceramic. Chimu-Inca culture. Late Horizon (1470-1532 AD). Peru. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain. Date: 2018

The Home Magazine Cover
An advertisement illustration design for the front cover of The Home, spring number of 1921, an Australian quarterly publication. The cover shows various human figures inside glass domes

Anatomical Figure
A drawing of a male, anatomical figure, pointing directly forwards, showing the texture and contours of human muscles. A drawing by a student of the National Gallery Schools, Melbourne

Mlle Ameta Butterfly Dancer
Performance artist Mlle Ameta uses costume, lighting effects and newly-invented machinery to perform her butterfly dance in Vienna. Date: circa 1910

Grotesque caricature, The Lock-Out's a monster. Captioned, The Evil Genius Of Industrial Strife, with description, The "lock-out" is presented to us incarnate, as a monster

Two Pioneer films, Streets of London, and The Second Mate - and now in production, Human Cargo Date: 1929

L'egare II - North Atlantic expedition raft, at Falmouth
L'egare II, a raft used by a French crew in 1956 to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The expedition, led by Henri Beaudout, departed from Halifax, Nova Scotia, arriving 88 days later at Falmouth

NCH Home, Harpenden - Human Pyramid
Children make a human pyramid at the National Children's Home, Harpenden, Hertfordshire

Cole Christians, aboroginal, Chota Naagpoor
The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan - published in the 1860s under order of the Viceroy

X-ray - Soldier with Bullet Bound Being Examined 1900
Wounded soldier from the Boer War been examined in a London hospital by means of X-ray. One of the interesting features of the Boer War was the demonstration of the practical utility of the X-rays

Advertisement for extensions made from finest quality human hair. Date: 1910

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