Middle Collection (page 9)

Box label, Lings Turkish Delight

Nubian women and girl, Sudan, East Central Africa
Three Nubian women and a girl in patterned textiles, Sudan, East Central Africa. Date: 1922

A medieval court jester
A court jester - a historical entertainer either employed to entertain a ruler or other nobility in medieval or Tudor times

Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars of The RNAS - Middle East
Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars of The Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), developed in 1914 and used during the First World War as pictured here (possibly in Egypt)

The superbly-carved Obsidian Head of Pharoah Senusret III - Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 12th dynasty (ca. 1860 BC). Date: circa 1860 BC

Diagram of the lead and zinc mine in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) - the site of the discovery of a Cranium of Homo rhodesiensis, in Mutwe Wa Nsofu Area on June 17

Photograph of the lead and zinc mine in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) - the site of the discovery of a Cranium of Homo rhodesiensis, in Mutwe Wa Nsofu Area on June 17

Bedouin woman with face tattoos outside her tent, Syria
Portrait of middle aged Bedouin woman with face tattoos outside her tent in the Syrian desert in Syria. She looks directly at the camera Date: 2005

Thomas Cook Travel Company - Poster - The Nile Is Egypt - Cooks Nile Steamers. 20th century

Market Place - A Quarter of Baghdad, Iraq. Date: 1910s

Cartoon with British and American tanks, WW2
Cartoon, political map of Libya with British and American tanks during the Second World War. circa 1942

Suit of full armour, mid-15th century, as worn during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). Date: mid-15th century

Comic postcard, Husband after riotous night out Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man kneeling in bed, praying for a woman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman kneeling in bed, praying for a man Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Servant and angry mistress Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple at an underwear counter - real silk undies Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Grieving woman in cemetery Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman on the phone - reducing diet Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple getting dressed Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Neighbours chat over garden fence Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Temperance speaker and audience Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Chauffeur and seaside landlady Date: 20th century

Aerial view above The Sphinx, Giza, Cairo, Egypt. Date: circa 1920s

Woman and vegetable stall, East End of London
Woman selling vegetables from a stall in a market in Londons East End. The prices are in old currency, with D for penny. Date: circa 1950s

Two people pass each other in a London street
Two people pass each other in a Central London street. Date: circa 1950s

Stephano in The Tempest by William Shakespeare, at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, 4 December 1905 for one week, Herbert Beerbohm Trees production which opened at His Majestys Theatre on 14 September

Comic postcard, Plump couple in the sea - having a spanking time Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women talking over fence
Comic postcard, Two women talking over the garden fence. Well, the only pleasure I have in life now is taking my boots off! Date: 20th century

Two mature women with a younger man pose for a snap on a bench along the sea front at an unidentified British resort. Date: c.1950

Italian male fashion, late 15th century. Costume of Italian noblemen A-C, and costume of Italian soldiers, archer, pikeman and axe man in small metal helmet

German fashions of the 15th century, including mi-parti
German costumes of the 15th century. Man and woman in mi-parti clothes, and others in characteristic fashion of the era. From the Duke of Saxonys lineage book in Dresden State Archive

Italian heraldic shield or targe from the mid-15th century. With escutcheon and coat of arms, great helm crested with a swans head, the crest of the Chigi family of Sienna

German knight in armour of the late 14th century. In bascinet with vizor and camail, surcoat and cape, chainmail and plate armour, holding a lance and mace. St

A siren seducing a merman knight, 14th century
A mermaid or siren in German womens costume from the 14th century seducing a merman knight. Scenes below show knights and ladies holding family crests

Gottfried Count of Arensberg, 14th century armour
Gottfried, Count of Arensberg, Graf von Arensberg, 1370. In suit of armour, leather surcoat with coat of arms, iron arm harness. From a grave effigy in Frankfurt Cathedral

Grave effigy of Berthold VI von Henneberg, died 1330
Grave effigy of Berthold VI von Henneberg, Prior of the Order of Saint John or Johanniter-Ordens, died 1330. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes

Indian princess having her hair done, 18th century. A princess smokes a hookah pipe while maids fix her hair, hold a mirror and play music. In a courtyard with pond, fountains and garden

A man of Bethlehem by John Morgan (1822 - 1885), English Victorian genre painter. Date: 1889

Cartoon, The Sphinx is Silent (Disraeli foreign policy)
Cartoon, The Sphinx is Silent -- Benjamin Disraeli, Conservative Prime Minister, depicted as the Sphinx, with people below begging him to speak

Cartoon, The Happy Robbers (Gladstone and Bright)
Cartoon, The Happy Robbers -- John Bright as Falstaff and William Gladstone as Prince Hal (Henry IV) in a Shakespearean scene

William Caxton and his printing press, Westminster, London. His visitors depicted here are probably King Edward IV and his Queen, Elizabeth Woodville. Date: circa 1477

King Alfred Jewel
The King Alfred Jewel, made on the orders of King Alfred the Great. It was discovered in 1693, in North Petherton, Somerset, and is now a popular exhibit at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Portrait of a German maiden in late 16th century garb. She wears a lace ruff, a painted glass brooch with her own likeness, and holds a prayer book bound in painted parchment

Ceremonial dress of orders of chivalry, 16th century
Ceremonial robes of knights of the Golden Fleece A, Order of the Garter B, Teutonic Knights C, D, and sword and wreath of Georg Hund von Wenkheim E

Women of Venice dying their hair using a solana (a wide brim hat with a hole in the centre), one with a sponge A, and one with comb in front of a mirror after Cesare Vecellio B, and wooden comb C

Lido on the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias), Israel, with Mount Hermon in the far distance. Date: circa 1940s

W Heath Robinson - The Lullaby Bed, to save getting out of bed to rock baby when he is troublesome at night

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