Mind Collection

Playtime at Wimbledon. by William Heath Robinson
The new craze of Jazz Tennis caught in full swing by our extra special artist. A humorous illustration of tennis players dancing the foxtrot on a tennis court

The Kinecar by William Heath Robinson
Double page illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a well-equipped omnibus transporting passengers while they watch a film

A Garden Guide - Extracting a Weed from a Lawn
Illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a typically convoluted method of weeding a garden lawn

Womens Rights / Mockery
A Womans Mind magnified

Phrenological Head / Scrap
A phrenological head, showing the different categoies of the brain which should exist in healthy humans. These include self perceptive, aspiring and animal morals

Phrenological Head
A PHRENOLOGICAL HEAD Symbolic representation showing 37 areas such as eventuality, individuality, self-esteem, secretiveness

Wedding Feast by William Heath Robinson
Finely detailed colour illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a wedding feast amid a rural setting

Oh, Cheese it! by W. Heath Robinson
A remarkable case of absence of mind in a Dutch restaurant. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Mind The Step revue by Charles Baldwin and Harry Richardson
Promotional postcard for Mind The Step revue by Charles Baldwin and Harry Richardson. First produced at the Islington Empire, 10th May 1915

Alleged Abnormal levitation of a table
Undated photograph of the alleged abnormal levitation of a table (inverted), photographed at a sance with Mrs Poole of Winnipeg. HPG/1/7/25

The Latest Spelling Test by William Heath Robinson
A desperate effort to instil good luck into a five-franc plaque before returning to the Casino. Illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944)

Yoga Girl Apprentices
A group of Indian girls, yoga apprentices. While squatting in this position, they must control their breathing and concentrate upon a perfect balance of mind and body. Date: 1930s

Advert / Chesterfield Cigs
Chesterfield cigarettes - Mind if I smoke? Not at all - the aroma is delightful! Date: 1926

St Laurence Grilled
Saint LAURENCE OF ROME When you read of suspects being grilled by the police, this is what they have in mind - he was martyred by being roasted on a grill

Rooftop Golf
Hotels in New York (Hotel Ogden in this photo) built golf courses, and even held tournaments, to keep the businessmans mind off the Depression

Bleeding a Patient
A doctor bleeds his patient, widely supposed to be the answer to almost every malady of body or mind

Senator William Alden Smith, Titanic inquiry chair
The Querist: the Chairman of the Inquiring Mind. Chief questioner on Titanic matters: Senator William Alden Smith, of Michigan

Absence of Mind by H M Bateman
A senile old man has put his golf club into the the hole instead of the vibrent red flag, much to the annoyance to the players behind him. Date: 1922

Comic postcard, Woman travelling in Paris - a helpful Frenchman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man asking boss for pay rise Date: 20th century

Aryan Types / Couple
The Aryan race : " nobility of blood, incomparable beauty of form and mind, and a superior breed". An ideal Aryan couple

Ministers And The Republican Defence
A pair of sketches of French ministers, the first shows a man listening closely to the chest of a larger man, saying Don't worry, you have nothing on your mind

Diseases of the Brain, Dreams, Delusions, Hallucinations and Nightmares Date: 1888

The Mind, The Body, The Soul, Blessing The Fishes
A watercolour painting showing some spiritual depictions of the mind, body and soul blessing the fishes in a river. Date: circa 1918

RMS Titanic - letter, Mabel Francatelli, passenger
RMS Titanic - First Class passenger Mabel Francatelli. A fascinating letter from Mattison, Davey & Rader of New York to Miss Francatelli dated 17 April 1956

Doorway, Sydney University
This etching shows an ornate arched doorway to the University of Sydney, established in 1850, their motto is sidere mens eadem mutato, translated as The stars change, the mind remains the same

Union Postale Universelle Great Britain and Ireland
Most unusually this postcard does not carry the Royal Coat of Arms and bearing in mind the date of issue may not be what it pretends to be

Poster, Continental tyres - never mind about the make of car, it's the tyres that matter most! Date: circa 1908

Opening a safe by mind reading (via involuntary muscle movement) Date: 1900

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Don t mind the black-outs
The Caption is Don t mind the black-outs, you can always stay the night! This card has a coded message

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Early Birds
The Caption is Early Birds. There is a little bird on the window sill - most likely a robin

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - In Clover
The caption on the postcard is In Clover. Being In Clover meant that one is in a very happy state of mind. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: circa 1945

HMS Pinafore, Captain Corcoran and daughter
HMS Pinafore. Captain Corcoran and his daughter Josephine. The good captain was distressed to see his dear daughter in this bilious frame of mind. Date: 1908

Marys Arithmetic Dream -- Mary hates arithmetic, but then she has a dream which changes her mind about it. (2 of 8) Date: 1950s

Boiling a kettle by will power 1932
Major Raymond Phillips with the apparatus, by which he claimed to cause an electrical gramophone or kettle to operate

Hippo
But I don t mind another! Illustrated comic postcard of a happy hippo. Nister series 172/6. Artist: GH Thompson (1842-1909)

Emigration - Half a mind to go back again. 19th century

TELEPHONE ENGINEERS
Three G.P.O. engineers, happy in their work, think nothing of sorting out a mind-boggling mess of telephone wires and cables. Date: early 1930s

C12 COUPLE AND FALCON
The kings companion carries a falcon on her wrist, but he seems to have hunting of a different sort on his mind... Date: 12th century

SKIING BOY 1930S
A small boy falls over whilst skiing down a slope, but he doesnt mind one little bit. Date: 1930s

WOMENS RIGHTS / MIND
The main qualities of a Man 1 of 2 Date: 1913

Mind the Step, Empire Theatre, Islington, North London, a Frank Rubens production. 1910s

A bald man comes through a small door in a shrine in Jaipur
A barefoot, bald, grumpy-looking man ducks down to come out of a small door in a shrine in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He carries a brass jug Date: 1987

Aryan Types / Girl / Profile
The Aryan race : " nobility of blood, incomparable beauty of form and mind, and a superior breed". The German ideal - here a girl is shown in profile

Aryan Types / Ideal Girl
The German Girl; the ideal type of the Northern Race. The Aryan race : " nobility of blood, incomparable beauty of form and mind, and a superior breed"

Communist China - young men on training exercise
Young men with a red flag on an exercise designed to strengthen the mind and the body during the Cultural Revolution era in Communist China. circa 1970

A Suffragist Orator. A suffragette on a soap box is heckled by a crowd of men in flat caps and bowler hats

Cartoon, The Weight On His Mind, WW1
Cartoon, The Weight On His Mind, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II squashed down by the heavy weight of Russia on top of his head in the early days of the First World War. Date: September 1914

Alan and Iris Owen, psychical researchers
Alan Robert George Owen (1919-2003), mathematician, psychical researcher and author, associated with poltergeist investigation and the Philip experiments (Toronto)

Brahmins walking on hot coals near Madras, India
Near Madras, India, forty Brahmins of the Soivrasta sect demonstrate their piety by walking on hot coals. Date: 1908

Aryan Types / Running
The Aryan race : " nobility of blood, incomparable beauty of form and mind, and a superior breed". Men and women running along the beach demonstrate strength and beauty

Reading Subconscious
In Ray Avery Myers fiction Into the subconscious, future scientists develop machines that read the subconscious mind and project its thoughts as images

The Human Brain. Date: 1879

Victorian scrap - I cannot quite make up my mind
Victorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - I cannot quite make up my mind. late 19th century

More Types From Harley Street by H M Bateman. Skin - The Microscopic. The one with the magnifying glass and the test tubes. Brain - The Genius. He knows all about the mind. Nerve - The Intense

Things I Should Like To See II by Bateman. A Dentist having a tooth stopped. One Dentist filling the tooth of another. The look of fear and pain is clear of his face

Fantastic Adventures - War of the Giant Apes by Alexander Blade. A giant ape uses a boulder to attack a truck with a scared man in it

Inquisition. Holy Office in Flanders. 16th-17th century. Engraving by 19th century. Colored

Tartar Fortress 1380
A tartar fortress in medieval Russia, built with defence in mind. Date: circa 1380

Overturned Sledge 1905
Two girls fall sideways into the snow when their sledge overturns, but they don t seem to mind a great deal. Date: 1905

Ice hockey woman does lips
Never mind the game; a female ice hockey player attends to her lipstick. Date: 1922

George III in Kitchen
He shelters from the rain in a cottage, where the lady of the house asks him to mind the roasting-jack

Satire / Woman of Mind
My wife is a woman of mind Date: 1847

Which?
Young boy at a dance can t make up his mind which girl to choose. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1910

Art Nouveau design, Mens Regit Mundum
Art Nouveau design with the Latin saying: Mens Regit Mundum (The Mind Rules the World). Date: circa 1920s

Bathing Machine, Brighton, Sussex
Bathing Machine, Brighton, near Hove, Sussex, England. Captioned: Don t mind me girls, I m only a baby Date: 1910s

German postcard, women athletes walking
German postcard showing women athletes walking along in step with each other. Date: 1920s

Suffragette Where is my Wandering Wife?

Suffragette, Mixed Bathing at Seaside. Never mind the sharks! Sign on the beach reads, Beware of the Suffragettes, Bathing Machines provided for Ladies and Suffragettes

British band playing in the square of a French town. On reverse of postcard - Saturday. Dear Hubert, Am enclosing a few rough sketches. Mind you they are rough

NIVER MIND ABUT LOOS WWI drawing
NIVER MIND ABUT LOOS. HAV YER EVER BEEN UP THE CUTTING. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Going to the Front - WWI black humour
Going to the Front. Fond Mother (to youngest son): And now John whatever you do mind you get well back behind the others

The Holiday Monighan Dragline by Heath Robinson
A dragline machine usually used in excavation, converted into a pleasant holiday home with room for a swing, a washing line and a diving board

Never Mind the Weather by Muriel Dawson -- a little child in a green raincoat and hood. Date: 1941

Isaac Watts
ISaC WATTS churchman and writer of moral and uplifting verses for the infant mind... Date: 1674 - 1748

Edward Rainbow
EDWARD RAINBOW English churchman, bishop of Carlisle : His face you see but not his noble mind. Date: 1608 - 1684

Claud Baron Paisley
CLAUD HAMILTON, BARON PAISLEY Scottish Catholic conspirator who supported Mary Queen of Scots: though he did not lose his head for this, he went out of his mind - beastly mad. Date: 1543 - 1622

The Fleet in Japan - Attack Under Cover - A British Naval Officer enjoying the delights of Japan behind a paper umbrella. Date: 1906

Ridiculous question from Grandfather to Grandson
" Now, Tommy; you know that Christopher Columbus made three voyages; tell me, on which one did he die?" !!! Date: 1895

Burns / Auld Lang Syne
AULD LANG SYNE Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind ?... We ll tak a cup o kindness yet for auld lang syne. Date: first published 1796

Marvelous feats in mind reading. Date c1900

Prof. Theodore Pull, the great German hypnotist and mind reader. Date 19 - ?

The famous Newmann the great American hypnotist and mind-reader. Includes small portrait of Newmann and 7 half-tone vignettes of his performances with individual captions. Date ca. 1928

Newmann the Great hypnotist and mind reader. Includes portrait of Newmann, 8 vignettes of his performances with individual captions, and 2 small images of posters advertising his performances

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