Normal Collection

Apparition / Queens Hse
Figures photographed on the Tulip Staircase of the Queens House, though photographer saw nothing; during normal opening hours of the Museum

Romania - Iasi - Vasile Lupu Normal School
Vasile Lupu Normal School - Iasi, Romania Date: circa 1900

Village Post Box 1960S
A typical village post box, next collection being on Tuesday. Normal collections are at 5.30 Monday to Friday and 8.30 on Saturdays, etc

Paris Flood - Rue de Bievre - 28th January 1910
Paris Flood - Rue de Bievre on 28th January 1910. The Maximum level of the flood waters was 9.5m above the normal level. Date: 1910

Aquashow Sychronised Swimming Team - Bournemouth - relaxing
Aquashow Sychronised Swimming Team members at Bournemouth - relaxing in the sea at the beach. Date: 1961

HMS Courageous 50
Royal Navy - HMS Courageous 50, an aircraft carrier, seen in July 1936, (formerly a battle-cruiser). HMS Courageous was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy

HMS Courageous
Royal Navy - HMS Courageous (pennant number 50'), in August 1938. HMS Courageous was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World War

The Peacocks Skirt
An original, vintage, poster of The Peacock Skirt, an 1893 illustration by Aubrey Beardsley, published by Big O Posters Inc, in about 1969

Annual Festival at College for the Blind, Norwood
The annual festival at the crystal palace of the Royal Normal College and Academy for the Blind in Upper Norwood, London. Various games and exercises are depicted

Colleges and universities in New York City, USA
Colleges and Universities in New York City, USA - University of New York, Normal College, Lenox Library, Columbia College, Metropolitan, Astor Library, Academy of Design. Date: 1883

Colinated Coconut Oil Advertisement
An advertisement illustration promoting the benefits of using Colinated coconut oil, over normal soaps and shampoos. The image shows a woman with shining hair, reclining on a chaise lounge

Photograph of Clark Gable, Norma Shearer in The Strange Interval'film. With description, Clark Gable and Norma Shearer are hardly recognisable to their fans in "Strange Interval

HMS Courageous, aircraft carrier
Royal Navy - HMS Courageous, an aircraft carrier, (formerly a battle-cruiser). HMS Courageous was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy during the First World

HMS Courageous - Fleet aircraft carrier
Royal Navy - HMS Courageous, a Courageous-class battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy during the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by First Sea Lord John Fisher

Iris Lockwood in Get a Load of This, London Hippodrome
Iris Lockwood, actress, model and later wife of theatre director and producer Robert Nesbitt, appearing in the London Hippodrome revue Get a Load of This wearing a dress by Norman Hartnell. Date: 1941

Boys running and climbing over an obstacle course at a sports event, 19th century. Handcoloured heliotype lithograph by Fortier-Marotte from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill

Racing car on a wet track with cut tyres
Racing car on a wet track -- the tyres had to be specially treated with shallow cuts transversing the normal tread for extra grip. 20th century

Curtiss P-36A Hawk 38-001 and North American X-10 GM-19307
Curtiss P-36A Hawk 38-001 (msn 12415, call-sign 69 ) in 1940 war game special camouflage colours, in the collection of the National United States Air Force Museum, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Kaiserliche Marine - Friedrichshafen FF. 34 117
Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) - Friedrichshafen FF.34 117. The sole FF.34 was converted to the FF.44, with a tractor engine in the nose of a normal fuselage, retaining the serial 117

Sopwith 2F. 1 Camel N7366
RNAS - Fleet Air Arm Sopwith 2F.1 Camel N7366 being started prior to flight.This photo of a Ships Camel shows the lack of hump

Blind Typists - Royal Normal College, Upper Norwood
Blind Typists - Royal Normal College for the Blind, Westow Street, Upper Norwood, London. Taking down a telephone message in shorthand

Izmir, Turkey - Jewish Traditional Mosaic making
Storeroom for normal road cars at the Michelin pneumatic tyre factory. Date: 1907

The Prince of Wales in a sailor suit
Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, King Edward VII (1841-1910) dressed in a sailor suit, after a painting by Winterhalter

HAIRY MAN
Young Polish boy exhibited at Berlin : hairy over most of his body, but normal in all other respects

Woman saving child by walking narrow ledge
To save her child from fire, Madame Pauquelin of rue St Maur, Paris, walks a narrow ledge from her 5th floor apartment, which she could not have done in her normal state of consciousness. Date: 1906

Female convict in cell, Millbank Prison
A female convict in a cell at Millbank Prison, London. She is wearing a canvas dress and is being punished for tearing her normal clothes. Date: 1862

Rossows Midgets
ROSSOWs MIDGETS Franz and Carl, two Viennese brothers, with Hermann Rossow their impresario; their brothers and sisters are of normal size

Cartoon, French wartime scenes, WW1
Cartoon, French wartime scenes, showing French people more or less going about their normal business, satirically contradicting an exaggerated German communique about the effect of the German

State Normal School, Edinboro, Pennsylvania, USA
Entrance gate of the State Normal School, Edinboro, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1910s

Soldiers on the Western Front, WW1, hanging out their washing to dry on some ironwork. Date: 1914-1918

General view, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
General view of Providence, Rhode Island, USA, showing Union Station, the State House and the Normal School. Date: circa 1909

The Capitals Lacrosse Club of Canada (which is apparently still in existence today) visiting the Battersby Hat Factory in Stockport in 1906

North Metropolitan Horse-drawn Tram
A horse-drawn tram used on route 270, Moorgate Street to Green Lanes, run by North Metropolitan Tramways. A number of men occupy the open upper deck

GLC-LFB Refuse collection strike and rubbish fires
The extended refuse collection strike in the early 1970s resulted in piles of rubbish and uncollected waste lying for weeks in London streets

State Normal School, ... Date c1875

California State Normal School, San Jose. Date 1881

Royal Normal College for the Blind, Norwood
Blind inmates enjoying activities such as cycling, boating, and swings at Royal Normal College for the Blind, Norwood. The specially constructed cycles had their wheels side-by-side. Date: 1895

Technical School, Royal Normal College for the Blind, Norwoo
Girls at work in a carpentry workshop at the Technical School of the Royal Normal College for the Blind, Norwood, south London Date: 1895

Gymnastic Display, Royal Normal College for the Blind, Norwo
An outdoor gymnastic display put on by pupils at the Royal Normal College for the Blind, Norwood Date: 1895

Constanta, Romania - Scoala Normala ( Normal School ) Date: circa 1910s

Large Trout Catch
A record catch. Such large fish (1 ft. 7 inches and 41 pounds in weight) are rare. The normal weight of a grown trout is 1 pound. The big red skin spots are typical. Date: 1930s

Strasbourg Wine Tasters
Men doing a spot of Sunday wine-tasting in their local cafe, an unusual change from their normal beer drinking; Strasbourg, France. Date: 1930s

Potted Plants
Community pots - the tiny plants have been removed from flasks and are pricked off into pots. The compost is sphagnum moss and osmunda fibre - finer than normal. Date: 1955

Pinocchios Nose Pecked
Pinocchios nose pecked down to normal size by the woodpeckers Date: First published: 1880

Dwarf / Lolkes
WYBRAND LOLKES The Dutch Dwarf, compared with a woman of normal stature Date: 18th century

Prince John of Wales (1905-1919), youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, pictured here wearing a dress. Until after the First World War it was normal to dress small boys

An Ashanti village before the 2nd Ashanti war in 1873
Normal life in an Ashanti village before the outbreak of the second Ashanti War in 1873-74. The second Ashanti War fought between, 1873-74, was between King Kofi Karikari

Cyrene and Proteus
The water-nymph Cyrene threatens Proteus, who has taken the form of a beast, so he resumes his normal shape and reveals why her son Aristaeuss bees are sick

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