Idea Collection (page 2)

Fancy Dress, 1920s - Woman dressed as a road crossing
Woman dressed in a brilliant costume as a road crossing. Advice to stop, look and listen adorns her hat while other signs on her dress warn of vicious dogs or thin ice. c.1924

Artists impression of an idea under consideration of the French Government - aeroplanes with invisible wings, to make them difficult to be spotted by the German Air Force pilots

The War in the Picture-Palaces, French cinema
A French cinema audience during World War One - a newsreel is being shown, giving civilians some idea of what war is really like

USN - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo
United states Navy - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo 131630 or 131631. Turbo-Prop conversion of the R7V-1 for the US Navy

CHATEAU DE COMPEGNE
This interior view of the chateau de Compiegne gives some idea of its grandiose, even megalomaniac - scale - and this is only the vestibule ! Date: late 18th century

CLIMBING THE POLE / FAIR
Climbing the pole. This game originated from an idea by M. Franck, a doctor who decided that humans should re-learn such skills previously used to climb trees & forage for food

BASEBALL FOR LADIES
Young Lady Baseballlists The very novel and already successful idea of manager W.S.Franklin and the belles of the Ball and Bat. Date: 1890

DEAD CATS IN BUTCHERS
A butcher, planning to use cat meat as a cheap alternative, tells a distraught cat owner: No madame, I have no idea where your pet cat can have got to! Date: 1870

Cartoon, Bottoms Dream (Republicanism)
Cartoon, BOTTOMS DREAM -- Nick Bottom (the working-man): I have a dream... [I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream Bottoms Dream because it hath no Bottom

Cartoon, A Wilde Idea (Oscar Wilde)
Cartoon, A Wilde Idea -- Oscar Wilde, Irish-born playwright, depicted as a French soldier (a reference to the fact that he first wrote his controversial play, Salome, in French). Date: 1892

Siren Dismayed
A siren lures a man with her song - but when she sees him close to, shes not sure it was such a good idea Date: 1921

Cartoon, German soldiers eating and drinking, WW1
Cartoon, Kultur and Grub. A stereotypical view of German soldiers eating sausages and drinking beer, showing the contrast between the German idea of culture and the soldiers greed. Date: 1915

Idea idea, idea tree nymph
Plate 24, an illustration of a pair of idea tree nymphs from Insects of India by Edward Donovan (1768-1837)

The Prince of Wales in a sailor suit
Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, King Edward VII (1841-1910) dressed in a sailor suit, after a painting by Winterhalter

General Tom Thumb, Lucia Zarate, General Mite and Frank Uf
Engraving showing General Tom Thumb, real name Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-1883), Lucia Zarate (1864-1890), General Mite, real name Francis Joseph Flynn (b.1864), and Frank Uffner

Why Not Matches? WWI cartoon by William Heath Robinson
Lights for All: Trapping Glow Worms in Kensington Gardens. A typically ridiculous idea by Heath Robinson for trapping glow worms, thus providing light for Londoners during the black out. Date: 1917

Rejected by the Inventions Board - Heath Robinson WW1
Rejected by the Inventions Board - III - A Device for Screw Stoppering the Enemys Rifles. Another elaborate and convoluted method of beating the dastardly Hun devised by William Heath Robinson in The

Idea tambusisiana, tree-nymph
Butterfly discovered on the slopes of Gunung Tambusisi on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia in 1981 by Anthony Bedford-Russell. Date: 1981

Cadburys Mayfair Chocolates Advert, 1927 - the idea of Mayfairing Date: 1927

In the Stretching Sheds of an Ox-Tail Soup Factory. War-Time Economies from William Heath Robinson including an ingenious idea for making the ingredients for oxtail soup go further. Date: 1918

Early type of mechanical shovel by Heath Robinson
The inventor of the mechanical shovel trying out an early type. Two medieval engineers with a rickety but effective mechanical shovel or digger

Greta Garbo, optical illusion illustration
An illustration by Japanese artist, Keye Luke, the idea is to look at the image and then stare at a white wall, where the image should appear. Date: 30th January 1935, p203

Idea tambusisiana, tree-nymph
Butterfly discovered on the slopes of Gunung Tambusisi on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia in 1981 by Anthony Bedford-Russell

The Jointed Iron Steam-ship Connector, 1863
Engraving of the Jointed Iron Steam-ship Connector, from the Illustrated London News, August 1863. The idea behind this invention was that the centre section of this ship could be left in port

Fashions for Carnivals, 1928
A selection of fancy dress costumes to wear at galas and carnivals at fashionable winter sports resorts from Harrod s. Suggestions include a cowboy, a Turk, an Arab Chief

Bicycle sailing
Suggestion for adding speed to a bicycle - a sail. Though how one actually can see where one is going is a different matter. Date: 1899

At a vegetable party - a salad fancy dress
Delightful idea for a fancy dress costume. Why not go as a salad, complete with salad serving spoon and fork? Date: 1903

Fancy Dress - Miss C. Bradhurst as Daphne
Miss C. Bradhurst, winner of first prize in The Sketch magazines fancy dress competition. She has had the original (and rather simple) idea of coming as Daphne, from Greek myth

Rowland Hill (1795-1879). Engraving. Colored
Rowland Hill (1795-1879). British teacher and creator of the first postage stamp, the Penny Black. Engraving by Capuz in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1879. Colored

Diego de Saavedra Fajardo (1584 1648). Idea de un princip
Diego de Saavedra Fajardo (1584 1648). Spanish diplomat and man of letters. Idea de un principe politico y cristiano representada en cien empresas. Cover. Edited in Valencia, 1695

Suez Construction 4
Digging the cutting between the Sweet Water canal and Nefiche : giving some idea of the massive scale of the operation, most of which is done by manual labour. Date: 1863

Cartoon, A masterpiece of archikulture, WW1
Cartoon, A masterpiece of archikulture, showing a crumbling ruin resulting from German bombing during the First World War. Date: 1915

A Loving God ?
A loving God ? The idea is ridiculous ! Date: 1904

WESLEYs HOLY CLUB
John Wesley and his companions at a meeting of the Holy Club at Oxford, where the idea of Methodism was conceived Date: 1729

Advertisement for Saxone Shoes
Sax and Sis, the Saxone twins, both have the same original idea for their (shared) birthday - a super pair of Saxone Shoes ! Date: 1930s

Fancy Dress for Winter sports holiday carnival - radish
Suggestions for a fancy dress costume appropriate for a carnival as part of a winter sports holiday programme. Available from Dickins and Jones. Date: 1928

Advert for Swan & Edgar fancy dress 1928
A selection of fancy dress costumes to wear available from Swan & Edgar, uggestions include Gipsy queen, with tinsel-striped skirt edged coins, Chinese Princess, with orange satin trousers

Fancy dress for winter Carnival 1929
A selection of fancy dress costumes to wear for the winter Carnival from Dickins and Jones. Suggestions include a basket of fruit, bird cage, cherry girl and a flapper woman. Date: 1929

Cartoon, French soldier and girlfriend, WW1
Cartoon, a French soldier and his girlfriend in a grassy field. He boasts that he will make the Empress (perhaps he means the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm) buy him a beer when he helps to win the war

Ovaltine advert, 1927 focusing on the idea of creating energy an nervous vitality Date: 1927

American barb trousers, WW1 cartoon, Heath Robinson
American barb trousers. For enabling troops to extricate themselves from wire entanglements. Another ingenious idea from the imagination of William Heath Robinson Date: 1918

War-Time Economies Doing without Braces, WW1 Heath Robinson
War-Time Economies - A Sensible Way of Doing Without Braces. Another ingenious idea from William Heath Robinson, who suggests a strong magnet as an alternative to braces in order to keep ones

Rice-paper butterfly, Idea idea.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Cottage at entrance to Haddon Hall, Derbyshire
Little changed to this day, this buildinghas stood at the bottom of the slope leading to Haddon Hall for centuries. The chimney smoke gives an idea of the exposure time

WWI Poster, Germany over All
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Germanys Battle Cry is " Germany over All". Britain is fighting not only for the Freedom of Europe but to defend your mothers

Our Billet - Somewhere in France
Our Billet. Somewhere in France. On verso - Monday, May 8th 1916. Dearest Ciss, This is a sketch of our Billet where we are resting at present and will give you a good idea how pretty the place is

Cartoon, A Hot Idea - Officer and Sentry, WW1
Cartoon, A Hot Idea - Officer: (going his rounds) And what would you do in case of fire? Sentry: Ave a bloomin good warm sir!. By Charles Crombie

WW2 poster, To all the hands in this factory, you ve got the right idea at your finger tips -- thanks! Increased Production. Design by Victor Hicks. Date: 1940s

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