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DiatomsSelected slide of a group of fossil diatoms collected from Bori, Hungary in September 1895 and viewed under the light microscipe using differential interfereance contrast
Gran pops Shadow Show by Lawson WoodThree little monkeys chuckle with glee as Gran pop, the orang utan character created by artist Lawson Wood entertains them with a shadow puppet show. Date: 1935
Concorde 002The second Concorde prototype (002) takes shape on the final assembly jig at Filton, Bristol, England, from where the Concorde 002 made its first flight on 9 April 1969. Date: 1969
Turning Wood on a LatheA turner uses a lathe powered by a foot pedal to carve and shape a length of wood
Ufos / Fate Cover 1958This UFO, resembling an electric light bulb, is seen over San Francisco by D Bruce Berry and Marion Shepherd
Chaps Exercise RegimeA variety of body exercises, requiring no special apparatus, that will keep any chap in good shape
Fashionable Shape 1906The fashionable silhouette of the period as personified by the actress Camille Clifford. The waistline may possibly have been re-touched
V for Victory ExerciseDoing the V for Victory gymnastic, keeping fit by stretching in a V shape! Woman women fitness
Skiers - Riffelboden - view of Matterhorn - nr. Zermatt, Switzerland Date: circa late 1930s
Cartoon, Two emancipated womenModified wartime silhouette: skirts begin to evoke the barrel-line shape being narrower & court shoes are vying with high boots. Hats: tam-o shanter or high crown. Date: 1918
Roast turkey on a plate on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
LCC-LFB battery-electric pump-escape at SouthwarkAn early electric wheeled escape ladder vehicle, Cedes battery-driven pump/50ft escape, based at Bow fire station, seen here in the drill yard at Southwark Headquarters
LCC-LFB battery-electric pump-escape at Southwark HQAn early electric wheeled ladder escape vehicle, a Cedes battery-driven pump/50 foot escape, based at Bow fire station, seen here in the drill yard of Southwark Headquarters
Weatherbeaten TreesTrees at Doonfoot, near Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, showing the shape formed by the prevailing winds. Date: 1950s
Proteus and AristaeusProteus changes his shape to avoid using his oracular powers, but Aristaeus catches him unawares, binds him, and forces him to make revelations
Greetings card in the shape of an owl with top hat, monocle and lace-up shoes. circa 1890s
Harvest Festival LoafHarvest Festival : A special loaf, in the shape of the famous Biblical Five loaves and two fishes. Date: 1950s
Concorde ConstructionThe first prototype Concorde, 001, taking shape at the St. Martin Sud-Aviation factory Toulouse, France. Date: 1967
Making horse tack in a workshopTwo craftsmen preparing the leatherwork for horse tack; shaping, stretching and sewing the pieces to the correct shape and size. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
The Doggy Bag by Bert WilsonColour illustration by Bert Wilson showing a 1920s flapper girl powdering her nose. Her compact has come from a small bag in the shape of her dog, which appears to have alarmed her pet cat
Kolynos Trade CardTrade card for KOLYNOS dental cream, in the shape of a tube of toothpaste. It is described as cleansing - antiseptic - delicious
PIANO-TYPE FIRE ENGINEPiano type manual fire-engine, named after a resemblance of the shape of the bodywork to that instrument. Nozzles and branch-pipes were carried on brackets on the main frame
Oliver Chez FaginOliver with Fagin, the Artful Dodger, Bill Sykes and Nancy
Wells / Things to Comethe Shape of Things to Come
Elephant looking through window on a cutout Christmas cardElephant looking through a window on a cutout Christmas card (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Pansies in a wheelbarrow on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
Greetings card in the shape of a Glengarry capGreetings card in the shape of a British Army Scottish Glengarry cap with lion and unicorn badge. Date: circa 1890s
Two Scottish frogs on a New Year cardTwo Scottish frogs in tartan on a New Year card in the shape of a tankard with two handles. Date: circa 1890s
Christmas card in the shape of a boy in a sailor suit with bucket and spade. Date: circa 1890s
Man standing on bridge in light and shadeA slightly surreal picture of a man standing alone on a bridge with shadows playing on his back and on the ground. Date: circa 1950s
No. 2001 Cock o the North - LNER - Gresley P2 class steam locomotive. 1934
Second World War Trench Art lighter - a 20 mm shellSecond World War Trench Art lighter in the shape of a 20 mm. shell with an RAF great-coat button on top. Trench Art
Nottingham School of Art Date: circa 1909
Moby Dick himself takes shape: The monstrous leviathan, with whom Ahab and the whalers waged a feud to the death, is being constructed in Fishguard Harbour
Annotated illustration warning about the dangers of tight laced corsets on the female body. Date: 1906
Headsone of German Jewish soldier Max Seller, BelgiumThe burial is in the CWGC Cemetery, Hyde Park Corner. In this same cemetery is the grave of Private Albert Edward French, a 16 years old who was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 documentary in 1983
Types of leaves of plants. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Sydenham Edwards from John Mason Goods Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G. Kearsley, London, 1813
Different types of flower: personate, infundibuliform, ringent, campanulate, rotate and hypocratiform. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Mains Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835
Christmas and New Year card in the shape of a sailing boat, the Mermaid, with two passengers, their dog, and two sailors. circa 1890s
Retro Toy Walking Plastic Robot - Clear See-through BodyRetro Toy Walking Plastic Robot with Clear See-through body and digital-style display panel
Retro Toy Walking Plastic Robot - Blue-Grey Metallic BodyRetro Toy Walking Plastic Robot with grey blue body and colourful buttons and digital-style display panel
Santiago, Mexico, El Alamo - Restaurante Sombrero El CharroSombrero El Charro Restaurant at El Alamo, Santiago, a municipality located in the center of the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. Date: circa 1910s
St Mary the Virgin - Burgh St. Peter, Norfolk, England. In 1793 Rev. Samuel Boycott, who was both lord of the manor and vicar of the parish
Kazakh yurt - exterior, with open door. 20th century
Switzerland - View toward the Matterhorn. Date: circa 1910s
Launching of a Dhow - Aden Maalla Village, Yemen Date: 1910s
Moving UFO in the night sky over Hessdalen, NorwayBecause of the long exposure time its not possible to say how much of the apparent shape of these Hessdalen lights is real, or due to movement
White Star Line, John Maddock and Sons dish, side plateWhite Star Line, John Maddock and Sons crescent dish. 8ins. and similar side plate. (2)