Mind Collection

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. A man is hosted by ropes supported by a teepee configuration of poles worked by

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

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

Wedding Feast by William Heath Robinson
Finely detailed colour illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a wedding feast amid a rural setting. Robinson would follow this image with two more in subsequent years

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. The initials of the feet

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Early Birds
The Caption is Early Birds. There is a little bird on the window sill - most likely a robin. The small flower bed has flowers - not the vegetables that everyone was encouraged to cultivate.Mr

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. The human body acted, he said, as an earth

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

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. Go home and mind the baby, The old man wants you home and Does mother know you re out

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

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