Odd Collection (page 7)

Namibia, Africa - Quiver Trees
Namibia (German South West Africa) - German soldiers posing by Quiver (Kokerboom) trees (Aloe dichotoma). Date: circa 1910s

Cedar Stump Residence, Oregon, USA Date: circa 1905

Cartoon - WWI Food Substitute Satire
Mummy duck says to baby duckling (closely examining a horseshoe): " Don t touch it dear, its a worm subsititute!" Date: circa 1915

Camel and Young Moroccan Boy - Two Friends Date: circa 1910

Italian Kitch Postcard (1 / 3)
Sweet Memories - Italian kitsch postcard of a baby in a basket suspended between the topmost branches of two trees, looking out to sea. Date: 1918

Man turning into a cat
A gentleman visits his Doctor with the distinct impression he is turning into a cat.... by the evidence on show he is correct

Community singing
The man who sang the words of the wrong verse. Date: 1928

View of a ball from below
A quite remarkable and rather wonderful French postcard presenting the view of a ball as could be seen if one were looking upward through a glass floor! Date: circa 1910s

Same woman in five different poses in the one shot
A rather unusual, almost surreal composite photographic postcard featuring the same woman in five seperate poses, combined together into one image by the clever use of mirrors. Date: circa 1912

Village Well House
This odd-shaped building on the village green at Offley, Hertfordshire, England is a well house, within which is modern pumping machinery providing water on tap. Date: 1930s

WIG WIG
Wig Wig! A new dance? No, just the odd name of a small village in Shropshire, England. Date: 1950s

St Martins Theatre, West Street, London
St Martins Theatre on West Street, London. A play called Odd Man In is on, starring Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow and Derek Farr. St Martins Hotel is in the background. Date: 1957

Sicilian Bagpipes Player - A Zampognaro
A Sicilian Zampognaro or pipe-player, holding his massive set of Sicilian bagpipes. Date: circa 1910s

Djibouti, Two women water carriers
A very odd photographic postcard from Djibouti, East Africa, featuring two women of starkly differing physical stature. On the left is a small woman smoking a large cigarette

Rail car transporting giant cabbages Date: 1910

Rail car transporting giant Bellflower apples Date: 1910

Carload of Mammoth Navel Oranges
A frankly ridicuolous carload of Mammoth American Navel Oranges! Date: 1909

Californian farmer with an immense watermelon Date: circa 1910

Rail car transporting a giant lemon Date: 1910

Rail car transporting a giant pear Date: 1910

Rail car transporting giant tomatoes Date: 1910

A Family of Bears in their zoo enclosure
A family of anthropomorphic bears in their zoo enclosure in this rather bizarre fantasy postcard sent from Bern, Switzerland, Father bear smokes his pipe and reads his newspaper

Irving / Rip / Koatskill Mtn
Rip encounters the odd inhabitants of the Koatskill Mountains. Date: First published: 1819

Middle aged woman with Red Cross wreath, Mid Wales
A middle aged woman sitting in a garden with a Red Cross wreath, Mid Wales

Strange bird squawks at a man
A strange bird with webbed feet squawks at a man

Music from The Yellow Dwarf, pantomime
Cover design for a collection of music from the pantomime, The Yellow Dwarf, a serio-comic fantasia performed at Covent Garden Theatre

There was an old man with a gong
This photograph is reminiscent of the Edward Lear nonsense poem. An old man with a long beard sits inside a small hut with a gong hanging from the door

Small three-wheeled car
Sporty chap in his miniature three-wheeler

Remarkable Life-saving Body Suit
A rather remarkable and very unusual life-saving body suit, comprising of flexible leg and domed upper section, complete with breathing tube and flotation ring

Patent Office Curiosities and Ingenuities
Some Curiosities and Ingenuities of the Patent Office! These include a popelling device, a helmet-mounted gun, a submersible lifesaving apparatus, a cool pipe

USA Galveston
The port of Galveston viewed from the sea, with a rather odd-looking steamboat in the foreground

Group of Odd Fellows
A GROUP OF ODD FELLOWS

Warriors in Carriage
A posse of warriors are transported in a horse-drawn carriage seemingly driven by a lady...all rather odd, but its a lovely picture

Society Enrollment Doc
A large certificate for the Manchester Unity of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Widows and Orphans Fund, showing a widow and family saved from Want

Scrap Yard 1970S
Totters Scrap Yard, full of the odd treasure and lots of old junk, Birmingham, England

Girl with Guitar
A young girl plays a rather odd- shaped guitar

Left out of Card Game
The odd one out: a young woman is left out of the card game played by three men and an older lady

Facial Mud Pack for Man
Suits you, sir A chap seeking masculine good looks has a facial mud pack applied, and dried, at a London beauty parlour

John Bigg, the Hermit
The hermit JOHN BIGG had been a lawyers clerk during the Commonwealth, but when the monarchy was restored he became morose and adopted a solitary life

Troll, pet frog, and two long-tailed creatures
A troll with his pet frog meets two long-tailed creatures

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