Mercury Collection (page 5)

There is a rich land to the south - the Pan-American Mercury to the yankee manufacturers. Illustration shows the Roman god Mercury wearing a hat labeled Pan-American Union

Mercury Sea Scouts on a beach with a tripod, perhaps ready for erecting a tent. circa 1912

Three Sea Scouts in a dinghy off TS Mercury
Three Sea Scouts in a dinghy off their training ship TS Mercury, enjoying the sound of the harmonica. circa 1912

Mercury Sea Scouts rowing an open cutter. 1912

Mercury and Calypso
Mercury orders the nymph Kalypso (Calypso) to release Odysseus

Launch of Mercury Space Capsule carrying John Glenn
Launch of an Atlas Rocket bearing the Mercury Space Capsule carrying John Glenn, blasting off from Cape Kennedy. Glenn was the third American in space

Lysander Mercury and Perseus planes, with detachable bomb racks, used for army cooperation during the Second World War. Seen from four different angles. 1941

Ancient ships in a Roman seaport
An ancient Roman ships in a Roman seaport. Mercury, messenger of the gods and god of commerce, oversees proceedings from atop a column in the harbour

Dunlop Tyre Advert 18
with Hermes / Mercury... Date: 1934

FLIGHT OF THE MERCURY
THE FLIGHT OF THE MERCURY (Charles R Tanner) The space travellers from Earth make their escape from Mars in their ether-propelled spacecraft Date: 1930

Poster advertising the Sixth Paris Fair, 1909
Poster advertising the Sixth Paris Fair, from 12 to 28 February 1909, at the Grand Palais in the Champs Elysees

Poster advertising the 1939 Milan Fair, held from 12 to 27 April

Arriving in Hell
Charon brings a boatload of new residents to the infernal shores, accompanied by barking from Charon : Mercury and other deities contemplate the scene

Sailboat on Mercury
The insectoid residents of the planet Mercury will develop their own technology to navigate their chemically polluted waters : mica will be the material of choice

A City on Mercury
The inhabitants of Mercury are insectoid, and their techno- -logy is a superior form of that used by ants and bees on Earth : quartz crystals are used to build their cities

Planets - Mercury
MERCURY (Hermes) drives his chariot drawn by two carrier pigeons over Earth where merchants are trading, importing, selling, bartering, and exchanging goods

Mercury & the Woodcutter
MERCURY & THE WOODCUTTER A woodman who has lost his axe begs Jupiter to send it back; Mercury brings axes of gold & silver, but the honest woodman claims only his own

Herse and Mermes
Hermes/Mercury falls madly in love with Herse, daughter of Cecrops, and bribes her sister Aglaura to help him achieve his amorous ends

Astronaut Walter Schirra
WALTER SCHIRRA One of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, Americas first effort to put men in space

Advert / Leicester Shop
Advertising outside a Leicester shop, using all available space

Hermes / Mercury
Decoration on fairground ride

Short Mayo / Mercury
Flying-boat Maia takes off with Mercury on its back, then releases the seaplane, which has not had to expend valuable fuel to get airborne so has a much greater range

Surface of Mercury
An artists impression of the surface of Mercury

Opposing the Martians
76-year old William Dock stands ready to hold off the Martians in his farm near Grovers Mill - location of the dramatised version, in the Mercury Theatre broadcast

Pandoras Box Brought
The mysterious box is brought to Epimethus by Hermes/Mercury

Blunt / Relative Planets
The relative sizes of the planets. A-Mercury, B-Venus, C-Earth D- Mars, H-Uranus, top-Jupiter and bottom-Saturn

Blunt / 1st 4 Planets / Mvem
A diagram showing Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars

Hermes Airborne
airborne, thanks to his winged shoes; he carries a caduceus, with which he can send anyone to sleep at a touch

Hermes Winged Shoes
He puts on his winged shoes

Sibly Frontispiece
Symbolic frontispiece to Siblys book

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Mercury must withstand colossal heat, and for this reason are likely to exist in the form of insects

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