Phenomena Collection (page 11)

Spanking Breeze 1922
A young woman reveals more than she expected to on a very windy day

Jasper Tornado USA
Near Jasper, Minnesota, USA, a dramatic tornado looks set to destroy the vulnerable wooden house sitting directly in its path

Blunt / Moon Gibbous 1849
The moon gibbous - in a decreasing state

Sf Earthquake Cartoon 1
The San Francisco earthquake gives the globe a splitting headache

Car on Wet Street
A mysterious car lurks at night beside a wet pavement on the corner of North Barrack Road... spooky

Man and Mars
Man contemplates Mars and considers the possibility of life there

Diagram of a Whirlpool
The form of the whirlpool at the south-east of Sumbo, Sunderoe Island, Faeroe Isles, aka Monck Rock whirlpool, with the soundings

Solar Eclipse 1919
The eclipse of the sun - a photograph taken by British observers in Brazil, showing the prominence, like an explosion, which passed around the sun

People on Mount Bromo, East Java, Indonesia
People on Mount Bromo, an active volcano in the Tengger massif, East Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). Date: circa 1910

Columns of Ice - Frozen Niagara Falls, USA Date: circa 1890

Walking on frozen water beneath Niagara Falls, USA Date: circa 1890

Partially-frozen Niagara Falls, NY State, USA
Blocks of ice at the foot of the partially-frozen Niagara Falls, NY State, USA. Date: circa 1890

Yokohama Earthquake, Japan - Remains of CPR Shipping Offices
The aftermath of the earthquake in Yokohama, Japan - remains of CPR (Canadian Pacific Railway) Shipping Offices and Jetty. The Great Kanto earthquake, Japan - which struck on 1st September 1923

Dudhsagar Falls, Mandovi River, Karnataka and Goa, India
Dudhsagar Falls (literally Sea of Milk), a four-tiered waterfall on the Mandovi River, on the border of Karnataka and Goa, India. Date: circa 1910s

Punch comment on Halleys Comet - 1910
The Great Amateur. Aviator: " Marvellous Flier! And does it for love!" - Punch Magazines comment on the appearance of Halleys Comet in May, 1910

Appearance of Comet Crommelin in 1881
The appearance of Comet Crommelin in June/July/August 1881. Also known as Comet Pons-Coggia-Winnecke-Forbes, a periodic comet with an orbital period of almost 28 years

Norway - Briksdalsbreen Glacier Date: circa 1910s

Illustration, After the Avalanche. 18th century

Baku - Azerbaijan - The Puppet Theatre
Baku - Azerbaijan - The Baku Puppet Theatre, located on Neftchiler Avenue of Baku. Built in 1910 by Polish architect Jozef Plosko

Goryu Waterfall - Yabakei River Gorge, Japan
Rickety-looking crossing above the Goryu Waterfall - Yabakei River Gorge, Japan - near Nakatsu City, Oita Prefecture - formed by the Yamakuni River. Date: circa 1908

Yabakei River Gorge, Japan - near Nakatsu City, Oita Prefecture - formed by the Yamakuni River. Date: circa 1908

Owakudani - Hakone National Park, Japan - Boiling Waters
Owakudani ( Hell Valley ) - brave (or foolish!) tourists getting close to the boiling sulphuric volcanic springs at the Hakone National Park Date: circa 1910s

Installation of the Sun God. 19th century

Cartoon, Mount Etna in a state of Eruption. 20th century

Weather Prophet
The Weather Prophet, an instrument used at Kew Observatory to record wind direction and velocity. An invaluable invention for forcasting the weather. Date: 25 January 1933

Egyptian Flood 1930S
Men, women and children wading through the flooded street outside their homes in Egypt. Date: early 1930s

Barometer Says Rain 1905
The barometer points to rain, and sure enough, down it comes! Date: circa 1905

Comet of 1811 Rhine
A comet seen over the Rhine in Germany in 1811. Date: 1811

Comet of 1857 Paris
A comet is seen over Paris: in fact the " Comet of 1857" was a hoax. Date: 1857

Stately home in Snow 3
A country house in winter - Canonbury Park, Hertfordshire. Date: 1879

Stream at Leith Hill
Stream near Leith Hill, Surrey. Date: 1909

Romantic Welsh Lake
WALES : Lake, mountains, thatched cottages, castle ruins picturesquely perched - what more do you want ? Music ? Why, heres a harpist just arriving... Date: circa 1850

Himalayan Snowstorm
NEPAL : a snowstorm in the Himalayas, seen across the lower mountains. Date: 1907

In Burmese Jungle
MYANMAR (formerly Burma) - A traveller, apparently accompanied only by a trio of dogs, hacks his way through a dense thicket of bamboos. Date: circa 1880

Tannforsen Waterfall
Tannforsen waterfall in Are, Sweden Date: 1927

Hedgerow with Berries
Red berries in the hedgerow of an English field. Date: circa 1905

Autumn Personified
Autumn personified by an attractive girl wearing little other than bonnet and some autumn leaves around her body. Date: 1912

Volcanic Coast Scene
A fairly placid volcano dominates the coastline at Ternate, in the Moluccas of Indonesia, where a steamboat and a sailing boat sail on an equally placid sea. Date: 1883

Norwegian Glacier
The Kjendalsbrae glacier in Norway moving slowly down the mountainside Date: 1905

Lunar Eclipses
Total and partial eclipses of the Moon. Date: 1877

Lunar Landscape in Sun
A lunar landscape in full sunlight : the Earth in the distance. Date: circa 1890

Midnight Sun, Sweden
The suns rays are reflected from the waters of Lake Torne Trask, seen from Aleisko, Sweden. Date: 1927

Etna Crater in 1834
The crater of Mount Etna, Sicily, is continually being modified by eruptions : this is how it appears in 1834, before the massive 1869 eruption changes it again. Date: 1834

Cartoon, Sheltering from a squall
Cartoon showing a couple sheltering from a squall under a leafless tree. The wind blows her skirts up, giving him a revealing view of her legs. Date: 1916

Autumn Winds 1928
The winds of auutumn blow up this young ladys skirts in a revealing manner, but does she care ? Not she ! Date: 1928

Social / Girl in Snow 1904
The streetgirl and the cabbie commiserate with each other - in this weather, business is bad for both their professional activities. Date: 1904

Norwegian Snow Plow
A Norwegian snow plow, drawn by eight or ten horses - in this snow, its difficult to count them ! Date: 1905

Snow on the Thames - on the boats, the wharves and quays, the river-side buildings. Date: 1895

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