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Background imageRemarkable Collection: Sunday Sport - World War Two Bomber Found on Moon

Sunday Sport - World War Two Bomber Found on Moon
Front cover of the Sunday Sport Newspaper - April 24th 1988 - World War Two Bomber Found on Moon *Note usage restrictions as outlined below* 1988

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Chukchi Warrior in Armor

Chukchi Warrior in Armor
A Chukchi warrior of north- eastern Siberia, in a remarkable suit of armour apparently made from woven reeds. His wife and child admire him

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Rowena Cade - Minack Theatre

Rowena Cade - Minack Theatre
Rowena Cade (1893 - 1983) - inspirational founder and driving force behind the creation and construction of the remarkable clifftop Minack Theatre at Porthcurno near Lands End, Cornwall

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Segantini Ufo

Segantini Ufo
Remarkable painting by Italian artist Segantini, in the year of his death. The title Sein is German for essence or suchness

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Bonzo - Bostocks remarkable Sea lion

Bonzo - Bostocks remarkable Sea lion
Bonzo a remarkable performing Sea Lion at Bostock and Wombwells Travelling Circus - pictures with trainer Zetta Hills Date: circa 1926

Background imageRemarkable Collection: William Walker

William Walker
WILLIAM WALKER American adventurer President of Nicaragua finally shot after a remarkable career

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Austrian medium Maria Silbert

Austrian medium Maria Silbert
Photograph of the Austrian medium Maria Silbert, wearing a hat and sitting in a coach outside her home in Graz, 1933. Austrian medium Maria Silbert (died 1936)

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Glenwood Cooker Advert

Glenwood Cooker Advert
Gas or coal does its best work in this remarkable Glenwood range - five burners for gas and four covers for coal... the Thermolator automatically controls the oven heat

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Oh, Cheese it! by W. Heath Robinson

Oh, Cheese it! by W. Heath Robinson
A remarkable case of absence of mind in a Dutch restaurant. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Adobe House - Mexico - Bake Ovens and Mules

Adobe House - Mexico - Bake Ovens and Mules
A rather smart Georgian style sash window rather remarkably set into the wall of an Mexican Adobe mud brick house with a pair of bake ovens (and a pair of mules) in front. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Francis Baily

Francis Baily
FRANCIS BAILY - Eminent astronomer whose remarkable career opened with travels in wildest America, then a highly successful business career, before taking up astronomy. Date: 1774 - 1844

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Islamic Contortions

Islamic Contortions
Some Moslems choose to twist and contort their bodies while praying, bending backwards to a remarkable degree

Background imageRemarkable Collection: HANSENs TYPEWRITER / 1880

HANSENs TYPEWRITER / 1880
The remarkable typewriter invented by Rasmus Hans Malling Johan Hansen (1835 - 1890) in 1865, using a completely novel writing ball system

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Paphiopedilum insigne orchid

Paphiopedilum insigne orchid (Remarkable cypripedium, Cypripedium insigne). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Miss Jane Taylor from Benjamin Maund and the Rev

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Fought to a Finish

Fought to a Finish: A Remarkable Exploit on a Blazing Plane An illustration by Joseph Simpson of an incident described by Mr Boyd Cable (newspaper correspondent Ernest Andrew Ewart)

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Stage Effects - Fire

Stage Effects - Fire
Victorian stage managers went to remarkable lengths to achieve realism on the stage - here, one tries to simulate the Great Fire of London

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery in Gstaad

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery in Gstaad
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976) in Gstaad - an upscale resort town in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss Alps, Switzerland

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Little girl and her toy dog ride a model Elephant - Margate

Little girl and her toy dog ride a model Elephant - Margate
Little girl and her toy dog ride a model Elephant - Cliftonville, Margate, Kent Date: circa 1920s

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Algeria - Interior of a Moorish Home

Algeria - Interior of a Moorish Home - First Floor interior balcony with remarkable peacock sculpture (and real peacock feathers) Date: 1905

Background imageRemarkable Collection: A South African Man with skin pigmentation condition

A South African Man with skin pigmentation condition
A South African Man with the skin pigmentation condition vitiligo, creating a remarkable patched appearance, captioned here as Leopard Skin (!). Date: circa 1900

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Everybody's Underground Part 1

Everybody's Underground Part 1
Part one of a set of three Everyone's Underground posters designed by Aubrey Hammond. One of the most remarkable poster groups ever issued by London Transport

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Everybody's Underground Part 3

Everybody's Underground Part 3
Part three of a set of three Everyone's Underground posters designed by Aubrey Hammond. One of the most remarkable poster groups ever issued by London Transport

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Everybody's Underground Part 2

Everybody's Underground Part 2
Part two of a set of three Everyone's Underground posters designed by Aubrey Hammond. One of the most remarkable poster groups ever issued by London Transport

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Rickshaw boys of Durban, South Africa

Rickshaw boys of Durban, South Africa in their remarkable costume. Introduced from Japan, the rickshaw became a form of transport in Durban in the late 19th century. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Robert Falcon Scott, Terra Nova Expedition, Antarctic

Robert Falcon Scott, Terra Nova Expedition, Antarctic
Robert Falcon Scott Terra Nova Expedition - important archive of 52 negatives taken by Lt. Henry Birdie Bowers during the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition that claimed the lives of Scott

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Richardson, Johnson and Garrick in Tunbridge Wells

Richardson, Johnson and Garrick in Tunbridge Wells
The remarkable characters who were at Tunbridge Wells with Samuel Richardson in 1748 including Dr Samuel Johnson and David Garrick Date: 1748

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Queen Anne Red Lacquer Cabinet

Queen Anne Red Lacquer Cabinet
An illustration of a A Queen Anne Red Lecquer Cabinet. In the possession of Anthony Horderns Fine Art Gallery. The cabinet is decorated in relief in the Chinese manner

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Dalgety & Co Advertisement

Dalgety & Co Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Dalgety & Company Limited, promoting a Dodge Brothers motor car, seen beside a pool filled with boys swimming

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Vanishing London

Vanishing London
Oil painting titled Vanishing London'. This picture is remarkable as being the work of a shoemaker. (His shop is in the right-hand corner of the painting) who is entirely without training in art

Background imageRemarkable Collection: PIP'S SIBLINGS GRAVES

PIP'S SIBLINGS GRAVES
In the graveyard of the Church of St. James, Cooling, Kent, England, are the remarkable graves of 13 children who died in infancy, siblings of Dickens Pip'. Date: 19th century

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Precautions taken against the plague in Japan, 1908

Precautions taken against the plague in Japan, 1908
An example to India: exterminating the microbe-carrying rat. Remarkable precautions taken against the plague in Japan. Photographs include sorting

Background imageRemarkable Collection: WW2 - Orders by means of the Ardente Loud Hailer

WW2 - Orders by means of the Ardente Loud Hailer
Captain to Captain - The Commander of a Corvette at Sea giving orders by means of the Ardente " Loud Hailer, " which has a remarkable Acoustic Range 1941

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Super-smart chic 1930s British holidaymakers

Super-smart chic 1930s British holidaymakers
A super-smart chic 1930s British couple take a walk along the seafront of a coastal resort along with the young ladys parents, the Mother wearing a quite remarkable print dress

Background imageRemarkable Collection: 1923 Fashion - Remarkable feather and fur-trimmed outfit

1923 Fashion - Remarkable feather and fur-trimmed outfit - possibly at Ascot? Date: 1923

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Charles Mathews playing six parts in Stories

Charles Mathews playing six parts in Stories
Charles Mathews, comic actor, playing six parts in Stories, showing his distinctive appearance, lop-sided mouth and remarkable gift for mimicry. 1822

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Edna May - American Actress - Large ostrich feather hat

Edna May - American Actress - Large ostrich feather hat
circa 1910s

Background imageRemarkable Collection: SEINE MASCARET (P. PARIS)

SEINE MASCARET (P. PARIS)
The mascaret on the Seine, at Caudebec-en-Caux, is amplified by the equinoctial tides, providing a remarkable spectacle Date: September 1903

Background imageRemarkable Collection: JAPANESE PRINTING

JAPANESE PRINTING
How they print from wood blocks in the Orient - apart from its subject interest, a remarkable pastiche of Japanese painting Date: 1924

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Wax figures in the Abbey

Wax figures in the Abbey
The effigies - life-sized figures made of wax and wood, and lavishly dressed in robes and jewels - were often carried during funeral processions

Background imageRemarkable Collection: The Witching Houri! A Quarter Past Six! A remarkable pose by Russian Dancer Mlle

The Witching Houri! A Quarter Past Six! A remarkable pose by Russian Dancer Mlle. Ludmila Schollar at the London Hippodrome in Tchaikovskys Les Lac des Cygnes. Date: 1910

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Java, Indonesia - remarkable bridge

Java, Indonesia - remarkable bridge. Date: circa 1930s

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Girl wearing high-quality skirt with remarkable hairstyle

Girl wearing high-quality skirt with remarkable hairstyle, redolent of the late 17th century... Date: circa 1910s

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Lands End, Cornwall - Dr Syntax rock

Lands End, Cornwall - Dr Syntax rock - bearing a remarkable similarity to the profile of the comic character created by William Combe and the cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson in 1812. Date: circa 1907

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Chieftain of the Roro (Bereina) people of Papua New Guinea

Chieftain of the Roro (Bereina) people of Papua New Guinea
An incredible postcard of a Chieftain of the Roro (Bereina) people of Papua New Guinea wearing a remarkable feathered headdress and holding a traditional drum

Background imageRemarkable Collection: American Fat Man - Barney Worth - Freakshow Performer

American Fat Man - Barney Worth - Freakshow Performer
American Fat Man - Barney Worth - Remarkable socks and slightly distressingly-short shorts. Titania and Barney Worth were billed as The Worlds Fattest Couple when going on show at various Freakshows

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Fearsome Warrior of the South African Ndebele Tribe

Fearsome Warrior of the South African Ndebele Tribe, one of the Nguni tribes - he is wearing a remarkable headdress. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Marasco Stigmata - 2

Marasco Stigmata - 2
BERTHA MRAZEK, also known as Georges Marasco Belgian dual personality subject who displayed remarkable stigmata picture 2 of 3 - the legs

Background imageRemarkable Collection: Marasco Stigmata - 1

Marasco Stigmata - 1
BERTHA MRAZEK, also known as Georges Marasco Belgian dual personality subject who displayed remarkable stigmata picture 1 of 3 - the hands



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