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Penny-In-Slot Machine
A penny-in-the-slot machine presumably promising some kind of entertainment upon payment and possibly a prize

C16th French Ball Games
Old French ball games Fossette & Le jeu de Croce, a kind of hockey game Date: Sixteenth century

Crowded Air-Lanes
When air travel becomes popular, the sky routes will become as crowded as those on the surface : some kind of air traffic control will surely be needed

Water Show / Native US
Native Americans and their canoes at Captain Boytons Worlds Water Show at Earls Court, London, a kind of wild west show on water

Kastners Pyrophone
Frederic Kastners instrument is a kind of organ, with keyboard and pipes, but the sound is produced by flames within the pipes

Amphion Radio, 1931
A kind lady demonstrates the AMPHION SIX for 1931

Lady Changes Wheel
A lady motorist changes a wheel, looking over her shoulder to see if some kind gentleman will stop and give her a helping hand

Girl Pulls Puppys Ear
A little girl pulls her puppys ear, and has spilt some black polish on the carpet - what kind of person will she be when she grows up?

Police / Friendly Copper
A kindly policeman takes care of two young street children. He carries the youngest in his arms

Tourist and Touts
Visiting Paris during the short-lived Peace of Amiens, an English traveller is beleaguered by people offering every kind of merchandise or service

Niederfinow Lift - 2
The barge lift at Niederfinow - the worlds largest of its kind

Coral Reef / J. W. Whimper
Vegetation has taken root on the upper levels of a coral reef, forming a kind of island

Kimball Biplane
American designer Kimballs biplane is notable for using eight propellers, though they are powered by a single motor. The plane flies, kind of, but there are problems

Gossip about Fairies 21
Puck and a Fairy - there is a kind of mutual tolerance between the various denizens of the Faery World, but there is also mutual suspicion

Electricity Guericke
At Hamburg, Otto von Guericke, burgomaster of Magdeburg, demonstrates an electrical machine - the first of its kind, based on a rotating sphere generating force

Marine Life / Jellyfish
A medusa -- a kind of jellyfish? -- found near Nice, southern France

Enamelled Objects - 2
Enamelled items by Morel of London, the kind of thing that makes Victoriana something you love or loathe. For the maidservants who have to dust them, loathing wins

Architectural Museum
The Architectural Museum of the Architectural Association will not open until 1869, so this is evidently some kind of predecessor. It is located in Canon Row, Westminster

Previewing a Lover
A Spanish girl breaks a raw egg into a glass of water on St Johns Eve : the shape it makes tells her what kind of lover she will have

Roman Chariot
A four-horse-power chariot, of the kind used in racing

Flagellants of Tournai
A procession of flagellants at Doornik (now Tournai), Belgium : collective hysterias of this kind are a recurring feature of medieval popular religious activity

Boats of Society Islands
Boats of Ulietea, in the Society Islands, observed by Captain Cook in the course of his travels. The double canoe is a kind of sailing catamaran

Peruvian Rope Bridges
Three different kinds of rope bridge : apart from the usual walk-across type with its handrails on either side, there is a kind for carrying animals and a hammock variety

Pyne - Parish Beadle
THE PARISH BEADLE A kind of policeman, whose job is to make sure everyone behaves properly in church and enforce the proper observation of the Sabbath

Conrad Wolffhart
CONRAD WOLFFHART Swiss churchman and philologist, known as LYCOSTHENES, whose encyclopedic book on prodigies is a classic of its kind

Starting Young
Poor kids ! The priests start them off with the Holy Spirit, then the distillers finish them off with spirits of the other kind

Pyramid Peak, USA
This pyramid-like hill (one of five of the kind) is a feature of the Oklahoma desert. Note that the vegetation is all to one side of the hill

Boating in Japan
A Japanese boating party, in what appears to be a kind of punt

Japanese Dance
A Japanese lady dances in the intimacy of her home, while another member of the family provides the music on what appears to be a kind of samisen

Wood-Goat (Bewick)
THE WOOD-GOAT This is the label Bewick assigns to this resident of South Africa : but it could well be an antelope or a kind of deer

Kudu (Bewick)
Bewick termed this the Elk- Antelope, one of the larger kinds of gazelles : not so, say todays naturalists, who consider it a kind of deer

Springbok (Bewick)
Moschus moschiferus Bewick was puzzled as to what species this creature is, but it is now recognised as a kind of deer. It is famed for the perfume it produces

Musk-Deer (Bewick)
Moschus moschiferus Bewick was puzzled as to what species this creature is, but it is now recognised as a kind of deer. It is famed for the perfume it produces

Elk or Moose
Alces malchis. This is the largest kind of deer : the Americans call it a moose. This one is a female

Bulldog (Bewick)
is the fiercest of all the Dog kind, and is probably the most courageous creature in the world - so says Bewick

Genet (Bewick)
Viverra genetta. This is a kind of civet-cat found in the south of France, though I have yet to see one there

German Submarine Wwi
12-inch gun on a minster German submarine, the kind that sunk British shipping

Red Deer (Bewick)
The Stag, or Red-Deer (Cervus elephas) This is the most beautiful animal of the Deer kind... and this is one of Bewicks most beautiful engravings. Date: 1790

Paper at Turkestan
Ppaper of the kind we know today is thought to have been invented in Turkestan in the 6th century : here it is being sold at Samarkand in present- day Uzbekistan

Garde Nationale
The Garde Nationale are a kind of citizens army, dedicated to Republicanism and opposing the monarchy of Louis- Philippe

Girl at a Window 1894
A little girl stands at her rose-entwined window in her nightie, looking to see what kind of day its going to be

C17 Leatherworker
A craftsman - perhaps a leatherworker - presses some kind of material in what seems to be some kind of press

15th Century Carriage 1
A French queen travelling through the streets in her carriage : unfortunately, the king seems to have met with some kind of accident

London Pub Scene 1872
Before the bar - a London pub of the kind which replaced the old gin-palace

Racial / Eskimos 1903
Eskimos of Northern Asia use a stretched animal-skin as a kind of trampoline

Scene at La Salpetriere in Paris
A scene at La Salpetriere, Paris, where Philippe Pinel orders the manacles removed from the mental patients

Gentleman offers to share his umbrella -ella -ella
A polite gentleman kindly offers to share his umbrella with some young ladies who are in danger of getting wet

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