Impossible Collection

Home Front - The Royal Navy, The Difficult we can do at once The impossible may take longer Date: 1943

St Louis World Fair / 1904
This postcard, which shows the Blanke Aerial Globe, was launched to promote the St. Louis World Fair in 1904, but the postmark on the back indicates it was sent in 1902!

Don Quixote relives his past glories
A scene from Cervantes novel Don Quixote -- the hero of the title relives his past glories, surrounded by objects from his travels. To dream the impossible dream

WW2 Blackout Birthday Card
A WW2 birthday greetings card, It's impossible to black-out my greetings. The image shows a smiling moon looking down at a snow covered countryside home. Date: circa 1940s

RMS Titanic - telegram from Marconi to Carpathia
RMS Titanic - one of the rarest and finest Titanic related telegrams known, described by the late Ken Schultz as an exceptional piece of history'

RMS Titanic - Marconi portrait with Carpathia telegram
RMS Titanic - one of the rarest and finest Titanic related telegrams known, described by the late Ken Schultz as an exceptional piece of history'

Imaginary raft, Napoleonic invasion of England
Imaginary raft for a Napoleonic invasion of England which never happened. Date: circa 1804

SPECIAL THIMBLE
A boon to all bachelors who sew, this simple device, fitted to a thimble, makes it impossible to lose the needle, and saves time, temper and trouble. Date: 1930s

SLEDGE FIRE ENGINE
In places where it is impossible to use a motor fire engine, fire fighting equipment is mounted on sledges. Date: circa 1900

de Havilland Firestreak Air-Air Missiles on Gloster Javelin
de Havilland Firestreak Air-Air Missiles, mounted on a Gloster Javelin F(AW)7, (XH710 or XH714) at the 1957 SBAC Farnborough Air Show

The Impossible World, Startling Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
THE IMPOSSIBLE WORLD - Invading intelligences from another world subjugate and condition Earthfolk with sophisticated devices Date: 1939

Klondike / Leaving Nome
Alaska miners leave Nome for Seattle as winter starts to close in and prospecting becomes impossible

Baby Bunting, by Fred Thompson and Worton David
Baby Bunting by Fred Thompson and Worton David, from Jane by Harry Nicholls and William Lestocq, with music by Nat D Ayer. First produced at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London, September 1919. Date: 1919

Comic exaggeration card - The Wool Producers of Canada - giant sheep! Date: 1910

Bombing the Aliens
The Impossible World [Eando Binder] The spaceships from Earth drop their bombs on the cities of the aliens Date: 1939

Cartoon, Soldier returning from leave, WW1
Cartoon, a French soldier returning from leave tells his colleague what it was like. At every point someone pointed to the Keep Quiet notice, although what he had said was entirely innocent

Nothing is impossible, German engraving with a steam vehicle. Etching

The joys of attempting the impossible. Illustration shows Senator Mark Hanna drawing a life-sized portrait of himself as a Greek or Roman statesman; two men labeled Captial and Labor stand nearby

La chose impossible, ou la commission des finances telle qui

Georgian Porter carrying large furniture
Georgian Porter carrying a large piece of strapped to his (bent) back. furniture Date: circa 1910s

Fighting the weather on the Western Front 1916

Street Entertainer
A street entertainer performs a trick involving a tartan bag and a wooden box, much to the amusement of the tourists in Leicester Square, where Doctor Zhivago is on at the cinema! Date: 1966

The Comedy-Ballet of Marionnettes as performed by the troupe of the Theatre-Impossible, posed in the first of three drawings. A lady in a black dress and white muff, with a small pierrot-like figure

Lieutenant Parr sets out to find help for the Northern Sledg
Engraving showing Lieutenant Parr setting off from the Northern Sledging party, in order to fetch help, during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876

Captain Jerninghams Anchor-Firing Mortar, 1846
Engraving of an experiment to test Captain Jerninghams idea to assist the launching of lifeboats. The launching of lifeboats from a beach into heavy breaking surf was often dangerous

Horse Cab in Snow
So thick is the snow, this French cab finds it impossible to make any progress, so papa has to get out and push while the passers-by watch with interest

Reindeer (Bewick)
cervus tarandus The poor Laplander would find it impossible to subsist among their snowy mountains without the aid of this most useful creature

WW1 / 1915 / RUSSIAN TASK
Like Sisyphos, the Russians have an impossible uphill task in the Carpathians

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