Parallel Collection

Two bridges over the River Tamar, Devon and Cornwall
Two bridges over the River Tamar, connecting Plymouth, Devon and Saltash, Cornwall. On the left is the Royal Albert Bridge, a railway bridge designed by Brunel and completed in 1859

World Map 1587
Mercators projection, with parallel latitudinals, mentioning recent navigations such as Magellan

ABDUCTED BY GIANTESS
A parallel to extraterrestrial abduction : travellers in the German countryside suddenly find that they have become the playthings of a young giantess

Korean War era - Commonwealth Sign - The 38th parallel north, which formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War. Date: circa 1952

Korean War era - Speed Limit sign close to the 38th parallel north, which formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War. Date: circa 1952

Green Window Shutters
A painting showing the front face of a village house, positioned parallel to the pavement and road, with green window shutters and door frame. Date: circa 1916

Ribauldequin. Late medieval volley gun
Ribauldequin or rabauld. Late medieval volley gun with many small-caliber iron barrels set up parallel on a platform, used during the 14th and 15th centuries. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883

Flinders Street, Melbourne
An etching of Flinders Street, which runs parallel to the Yarra River, in Melbourne, and is home to the great central station of the same name. Date: circa 1925

LONDON WALL OF DEATH
On this London wall of death the riders are travelling parallel to the ground. Date: 1929

St Olaves School
View of the Grammar School of St Olaves in 1810. At that time the school was housed in the old Vestry Hall of the church and its adjoining premises (on the west side of Churchyard Alley)

View of the metal ore veins inside a mountain
View of the metal ore veins inside a so-called Stollart in a mountain with unusual parallel veins. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Unterhaltungen aus der

Swiss Gymnastic Group Exercise Date: 1903

Before Sebastopol: Artillery taking Lancaster guns down to the first parallel, by night Date: 1855

TWO MEN UP LADDERS
Two sign guilders at work on a large commercial building in Berlin, Germany. The angle the picture was taken makes the perspective of the photograph appear distorted. Date: 1933

Terrestrial and Celestial Globes. Date: circa 1760

Glasgow, Scotland - Jamaica Bridge Date: 1932

Great Zimbabwe - The Parallel Passage. The majestic remains of a once-thriving trading civilisation who were the ancestors of the Shona peoples of Zimbabwe. Date: circa 1940s

Sarcophagus of a married couple. About 240 AD. Ancient Rome
Roman art. Sarcophagus of a married couple. About 240 AD. The couple extending hands to each other also appear in the side panels. He as a Greek orator, she as a muse, a cultural ideal. Glyptothek

Crimean War, inside a French rifle pit
Crimean War -- interior of a French rifle pit in the parallel before the Mamelon fort and White Tower. 1855

Tour of the Colonies - Pall Mall - Decorations along Pall Mall. Part of Box 246 Boswell collection - Tour of the Colonies

Roman Mosaic of polychrome geometric motifs. 3rd century B. C
Roman Art. Italy. Roman Mosaic of polychrome geometric motifs. Dated to 211 BC. It comes from Lucus Feroniae. Lazio

Sarcophagus of a married couple. Detail relief. About 240 AD
Roman art. Sarcophagus of a married couple. About 240 AD. The couple extending hands to each. Detail. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Cobblestones line that marks the place where was the Berlin
Cobblestones line that marks, along 160 km. the place where was the Berlin Wall. Germany

Parma. Pilotta Palace. Exterior
Italy. Parma. Pilotta Palace of the Farnese family. 16th century. Exterior

Sir Thomas Erpingham 2
SIR THOMAS ERPINGHAM soldier, made knight of the garter by Henry IV, with his two wives whom he married in series rather than in parallel, I trust... Date: 1387 - 1428

Students supporting each other on parallel bars Date: 1903

Cooking food for army in the field WWI
Various types of ovens and kitchens, from brick and clay ovens, parallel kitchen, broad arrow kitchen, aldershot ovens and internally heated oven burrowed into the side of a bank. Date: 1915

National Gymnastics Competition Caen, Parallel and High bars
National Gymnastics Competition Caen, competitors competing on the Parallel and High bars (in synchronised performance). Note the safety mat is actually a large pile of soft sand! Date: 1911

Autunite comprises of (hydrated calcium uranyl phosphate). This is a green, radioactive, highly fluorescent mineral. This specimen is from the Natural History Museum, London

World map by Joan Martines (1591). Miniature Painting

PLUTARCH (45-125). Greek writer, philosopher
" PLUTARCH (45-125). Greek writer, philosopher and historian. Frontispiece of a French edition of the work " Life of the Noble Greeks and Romans"

Doug with U Win Pe - Pegu - Doug with his tutor, U Win Pe Win Pe took us to the 10th Century pagoda of the golden duck - a curious parallel to our dove from the Ark

Universal Ring Sundial
A Universal Ring Sundial, a French sundial which indicates the time by light passing through the pin hole onto a graduated ring parallel to the earths equator. Date: 18th century

Fete Federal de Gymnastique, Lausanne, Switzerland - 9th-13th July, 1909 Date: 1909

Production of The Dairymaids
The Queens Theatre (Shaftesbury Avenue, London) Production of The Dairymaids which ran for 76 performances from 5th May 1908, starring Phyllis Dare and Dan Rolyat

The Turnfest - Bern - July 1906
Swiss-wide Gymnastics Festival which takes place every six years - founded in the early 19th century (24th April 1832 in Aaru) and continues to this day

Union Workhouse and Infirmary, Birmingham
Aerial view of the Birmingham Union workhouse and infirmary on Dudley Road, Birmingham. The workhouse, opened in 1852, is the cross-shaped building just above right of centre of the picture

London Central YMCA Gymnasium
The London Central YMCA Gymnasium with a wide variety of athletic training and gymnastic apparatus

Scientist & Sub-Universe
OUT OF THE SUB-UNIVERSE by R F Stazl. A scientist brings two small humans from a parallel sub Universe with a complicated machine

Jablochkoffs electric light apparatus
Diagrams showing Jablochkoffs candle lamp. Paul Jablochkoff (1847-1894) was a Russian telegraph engineer who would rise to the post of director of telegraphs between Moscow and Kursk

Gymnastics at School
Boys and girls from the Home and Colonial Infant School Grays Inn Lane, London, enjoy see-saws, swings, parallel bars and other apparatus

Womens Rights / Campaigns
French suffragettes organise their own parallel election

Neanderthaloid / Wells
NEANDERTHALOID MAN Our probable ancestor but a parallel species to Neanderthal man

Needle Ready to Travel
Engineers shifting the obelisk to a position parallel with the beach at Alexandria, Egypt

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