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Man wearing Venice Carnival Jester Costume, Venice, Italy Date: 2013
Person wearing Venice Carnival Costume, Venice, Italy Date: 2013
Couple wearing Venice Carnival Costumes, Venice, Italy Date: 2013
Venice Carnival CostumesPeople wearing costumes at the Venice Carnival, Venice, Italy Date: 2013
Brotherhood of the Misericordia of Florence, Italy, a charitable institution dating back to the Middle Ages. Seen here transporting a sick man. Masks are worn to preserve anonymity
Gas alarm for Austro-Hungarian troops, Volhynia, WW1A gas alarm for Austro-Hungarian troops of the Landwehr Reserve Batallion at Volhynia (Wolhynien) on the eastern front in north-west Ukraine during the First World War. Date: 14 October 1916
Six American soldiers caught in gas attack, WW1Six American soldiers caught in a gas attack on the western front during the First World War. Date: circa 1918
Scottish soldiers in their gas masks, Western Front, WW1Four soldiers of the 2nd Batallion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 19th Brigade, 6th and 27th Divisions, Bois Grenier Sector
Wedding Gas MaskA bridesmaid has a novel wedding gas mask container decorated with silver paper at a wedding in Sidcup in Kent during World War II in 1939
Passed by the CensorOfficers of an unknown battalion and regiments pose for their official photograph. Nobody can see who they are however as they are all wearing gas masks
German gas masksA British impression of the type of respiratory equipment used by German soldiers during gas attacks upon Allied troops. The Germans first used poisonous gas at Ypres on April 22nd 1915
Greek Theatrical MasksMasks were worn by the actors in ancient Greek theatre which evolved from the cult of Dionysos : all actors were male, so masks were especially necessary for female roles
Dionysos at a FeastDionysos and his friends at a masked party : while the musicians play, the guests remove their masks and reveal their identities
The War Budget - Tommies in gas masksFront cover of The War Budget. Two British soldiers amuse a young woman when returning home on leave by sporting a gas mask. Date: 1916
Wartime Advertisement for Shepherds Restaurant, Grosvenor" Where war worries are left with the gas masks in the cloakroom." 1940
Tending a grave near Mametz Wood, August 1916. Lantern slide from a box of 80 lantern slides associated with the Western Front, 1916-1917. Lee Enfield rifles (SMLEs) stacked
WW1 - Vickers machine gun team in gas masks, near OvilliersVickers machine gun team in gas masks, near Ovilliers on the Somme, July 1916. Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)
The Lavender Shawl by SogataDepiction of Venice during the carnival with masked revellers emerging from a gondola. 1930
Pochoir print - Fancy Dress Party Masked Ball
Advertisement, Birmingham Empire Theatre, Moss Empires Ltd, Managing Director R H Gillespie. Showing Pierrot and Columbine taking a bow. 1926
Tibetan dancers, Hotel Mount Everest, Himalayas. Date: circa 1930
German poison- gas 1915Diagrams of various kinds of apparatus employed by Germans. 1915
Despatch-riders wearing gas-masks under their steel helmetsTwo despatch-riders looking at their map at one of the villages on the British front near Salonika. Wearing gas-masks under their steel helmets to protect them against the fumes from Bulgarian gas
Futurist costumes at the Artists Costume BallFuturist costumes worn by guests at the Artists Costume Ball held at the Princes Galleries in February 1914. The Tatler comments that the costumes were purchased from Marshall and Snelgrove
Patsy Henderson, (a possible member of the party that discovered gold in the Klondike in 1896), entertained White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&YR) train passengers for many years in Carcross
Chinese Actors holding up masks, a rake and a broomA Chinese Actor and Actress in a posed studio portrait holding up masks in one hand and a rake and broom in the other. Date: circa 1908
Africa. Nigeria. Ekoi mask. 19th century. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom
Francisco Goya (1746-1828). Caprices. Plaque 6. Nobody knows himself. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain
Masks of female mummies. Egytian Art. 1st century. Neues MusEgyptian Art. Masks of female mummies. Remains of polychrome. Dated to the 1st century. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany
Detail of the masks of a votive stele. 4th century BCVotive stele depicting a sacrificial procession to Dionysus and Artemis for the win in a contest of theater. Votive offering, ca. 360 BC. Detail of the masks. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany
Votive stele depicting a sacrificial procession to Dionysus and Artemis for the win in a contest of theater. Votive offering, ca. 360 BC. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany
Selling masks. Interior store. French Quarter. New Orleans. State of Louisiana. USA
Theatrical masks made in terracotta. UkraineClassical theatre. Theatrical masks made in terracotta. Kerch Historical and Archaeological Museum. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Ukraine
Masks of Dionysos and Silenos. Roman relief. 2nd century ADRoman relief depicting masks of Dionysus and Silenos. Marble. First half of 2nd century AD. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary
Various Works of Boileau by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux. ParisNicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711). French poet. Various Works of Boileau. Engraving. Printed in Paris, 1713. Library of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain
WORLD WAR (1914-1918). Soldiers and horses of the German army, both with gas masks to protect against poison gas launched by the enemy
Little girl in fancy dress on a Valentine cardLittle girl in a mask and fancy dress on a Valentine card. Date: early 20th century
Queen Alexandra mask. circa 1901
Zeebrugge, landing on the mole, 1918" The men were magnificent" : landing on the mole from HMS Vindictive. The story of the landing on Zeebrugge Mole was vividly told in the account issued by the Admiralty
Zeebrugge mole fight: marines charging along the mole, 1918The Zeebrugge mole fight: HMS Vindictives marines charging along the mole, bomb a German destroyer. After escalating the parapet and dropping down to the mole itself
Gas Attack SchoolA school in Berlin, Germany, where pupils are taught how to protect themselves against asphixiating gas attacks and how to rescue and revive other people. Date: 1930s
Masquerade BeardsleyA man and a woman wearing masks, illustration by Aubrey Beardsley, on the cover for the first Yellow Book. Date: 1894
Gas Masks for HorsesGas masks for horses in battle.. Date: 1925
Wwii / W a A F / Gas MasksMembers of the Womens Auxilary Air Force during an exercise in using their gas masks. Date: 1939 - 1945
Tibetan Devil DancersPriests, dressed as demons, process through a village Date: 1910
Gunners prepared to face the gas 1916French gunners wearing masks and helmets against the asphyxiating gases sometimes released far from the battlefront. 1916
The Purple Mask adapted by Matheson LangPromotional postcard for The Purple Mask adapted by Matheson Lang from Le Chevalier du Masque by Paul Armont & Jean Manoussi (1913)
The Lure by James SabbenPromotional postcard for The Lure by James Sabben. First performed at the Strand Theatre, 25th March 1923. The image shows a masked man on the balcony; one of several characters with different