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Large Trout CatchA 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 TastersMen doing a spot of Sunday wine-tasting in their local cafe, an unusual change from their normal beer drinking; Strasbourg, France. Date: 1930s
Potted PlantsCommunity 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 PeckedPinocchios nose pecked down to normal size by the woodpeckers Date: First published: 1880
Dwarf / LolkesWYBRAND 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 1873Normal 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 ProteusThe 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
Last Edinburgh TramcarA standard tramcar at Edinburgh, Scotland, running a normal service on the last day before being superceded by buses
Smokeless Powder 2 of 2Gunfire using Vieilles smokeless powder - a vast improvement on normal powder (2 of 2)
Smokeless Powder 1 of 2Gunfire using normal powder, creating a cloud of smoke (1 of 2)
Lighting / Domestic / OilIn the late 19th century, oil lamps are the normal lighting in a middle-class household
Girl on ChairsGIRL STRETCHED ON CHAIRS In the hypnotic state, general muscular contraction can be induced, enabling the body to do things it couldn t do in the normal state
SCENE FROM THE BIRDSTHE BIRDS A scene from the comedy : note that the actors are wearing masks, as was the normal practice on the Athenian stage