Sight Collection (page 2)

The Trenches of Death Museum by the River Izjer, Dixmuide
The Trenches of Death formed a Belgian defensive line along the west bank of the River Izjer which was pivotal in preventing the Germans breaking through to the Channel Ports

Anatomy of the human ear and eye. Lithograph from Lorenz Okens Universal Natural History, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande, Stuttgart, 1839

Columbus First Sight of Land
Christopher Columbus stands on the deck of his ship at night, looking off into the distance with his hand on a map. A sailor named Rodrigo de Triana spotted the land first

Training a guide dog and its owner
Illustration by Bryan de Grineau in The Illustrated London News showing stages of training a guide dog and its blind owner at the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association School in Wallasey. Date: 1937

Boeing P-12J 32-42 (msn 1538, Model 234) built as a P-12E, 32-42 was converted to P-12J, by fitting a Pratt & Whitney SR-1340H supercharged engine and a special bomb sight

WW1 - Hands Off. The Engish have landed
WW1 - Marianne to Kaiser Wilhelm II - Hands Off! The Engish have landed. Warning to Germany not to set her sight on France as the English will be on hand to defend her border... Date: 1914

Cutaway Office Building Date: 1950

Astronomers Using Astrolabes Date: 1450

PAYING THE BILL C1836
Two diners look horrified at the sight of their meal bill. Date: circa 1836

FRANCE / ALPS / FLIGHTS 1931
French Alps: sight-seeing flights over Mont Blanc, from Passy airfield Date: 1931

BLIND SASH MAKERS 1870
Blind boys making sash lines at the school for the Indigent Blind, St. George-in-the- Fields, London. Date: 1870

TRIGONOMETRIC SURVEY
A Trigonometric survey in North America. Date: circa 1900

GIRL ALARMED BY MOUSE
A girl screams at the sight of a tiny mouse... and her dog seems to share her alarm... Date: circa 1920

BLUNT / URSA MAJOR / PL 24
Ursa Major : the constellation is composed, at first sight, of seven conspicuous stars, four of which are in a rectangular figure and form Date: 1849

GEORG V & QUEEN 1868 GEORG V & QUEEN 1868
GEORG V, KING OF HANOVER (1851 - 1866), He lost his sight in a childhood accident and is pictured here with his wife

CROSSING THE STYX
En route to Inferno, Dante and Virgil cross the Styx in Charons ferry, and have their first sight of the damned

SIGHTING A DRAGON
Four people sight a dragon in flight, each from his own perspective Date: 1702

ELIZABETHAN FAMILY
Family alarmed by sight of father smoking a pipe. Date: 17th century

Blind Typists - Royal Normal College, Upper Norwood
Blind Typists - Royal Normal College for the Blind, Westow Street, Upper Norwood, London. Taking down a telephone message in shorthand

The trench periscope, WW1
Photographs demonstrating the efficacy of the hyposcope (the landsmans periscope) using one here constructed by Mr C. Baker - an optician of High Holborn

Sperry bomb-sight apparatus 1944
Diagram of a Sperry bomb-sight O-1 used by the United States Army Air Forces (USaF) bombers in World War Two. By manipulating the various control knobs

German Lotfe 7B bomb sight by G. H. Davis
Secrets of enemy aircraft of the Second World War: details of the Lotfe 7B mechanical bomb sight. Date: 1941

Kuda Bux and one of his experiments
Undated photograph of Kuda Bux and one of his experiments with " eyeless sight" : with head bandaged, he is duplicating shorthand characters drawn on a blackboard by Lucie Kay

Turku (Abo) Lutheran Cathedral, Finland
Turku (Abo) Lutheran Cathedral is the Mother Church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and was consecrated in 1300. Date: circa 1920

R. C. A. Building, Rockefeller Center, New York City
Mini leporello picture in a Rockefeller Greeting envelope showing the R.C.A. Building of the Rockefeller Center, today known as Comcast Building. Date: early 1950

Graybar Building, New York City, USA
The Graybar Building at the 43rd Street in New York City, USA. It was named " Graybar" in honor of the companys founders, Elisha Gray and Enos Barton. Date: 1920

Anguilla anguilla, freshwater eel
US M2. 30 in self-loading carbine, 1944 (c). Magazine (numbered); National Postal Meter Corporation; no rear sight. One of the great success stories of World War Two the M1 carbine was used widely by

Entrance to Luna Park in Heliopolis, Cairo
Entrance to Luna Park in Heliopolis, a suburb north-east of central Cairo. The Cairo Luna Park was an amusement park opened to the public in 1911 and a popular tourist attraction

Sir Francis Drake, The Spanish Armada is in Sight (19 July 1588) -- despite which, according to legend, he stayed and finished his game of bowls on Plymouth Hoe. 1588

Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625) and P. P. Rubens (1577-164
Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Flemish painter, with the collaboration of P.P. Rubens (1577-1640). Allegory of Sight, 1617. Oil on wood. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Hanoi, Vietnam - A blind street fortune-teller predicting future fortunes... Date: circa 1910s

Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be blind and wet
Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be a blind beggar singing for your supper/lodging in the rain... Date: circa 1904

SPAIN. Bilbao. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Interior sight

Sighting a British 8 inch Howitzer, France, WW1
Gunners sighting a British 8 inch Howitzer in northern France during the First World War. Date: 1915-1918

Delhi Durbar 1911
King George V and Queen Mary at the Delhi Durbar on 12 December 1911, held to celebrate the Kings accession. There had been Durbars before in 1877 and 1903 but these one was on a monumental scale

Theresa Neumann 2
Crowds gather for a sight of this German farm girl of Konnersreuth who developed stigmata ater a work accident, especially on Fridays, attracting worldwide interest

Advertisement for Lancaster & Thorpe opticians, Derby
Advertisement for Lancaster & Thorpe, The Opticians, The Spot, Derby, offering sight testing and the scientific fitting of glasses

Ufos / Zamora / Socorro
At Socorro, New Mexico, police officer Lonnie Zamora sights a grounded UFO with occupants on waste land on the outskirts of the town Date: 24 April 1964

Advert for J. B Jacquemin Bros eye protectors
Jacquemins patent eye protectors, lightweight material that clips on the bridge of your nose, and can be worn as well as ordinary glasses

Hotel Kamp, Helsinki, Finland
Hotel Kamp built in 1887.The hotel was founded by Carl K䭰, Hotel and became the hotel of Finnish culture, a meeting place for the elite and intellectuals. Date: circa 1920

Helsinki Central railway station, Finland
The Helsinki Central railway station was designed by Eliel Saarinen and inaugurated in 1919. Date: circa 1935

Parliament House, Helsinki, Finland
Parliament House (Eduskuntatalo) is the seat of the Parliament of Finland. Date: circa 1930

Mikael Agricolan Church, Helsinki, Finland
Mikael Agricolan Church in Helsinki, Finland. The Lutheran church is named after Bishop Mikael Agricola, who created the basis for the literary Finnish language. Date: circa 1935

Lutheran Cathedral in Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki Cathedral is a Finnish Evangelical Lutheran cathedral and a part of the Empire era centre of Helsinki. It is a neoclassical church, designed by architect, Carl Ludvig Engel, and planner

Panorama of the east Hudson riverfont and docks, New York
Panorama, showing the East River riverfront and docks of New York 1911

Panorama of the west Hudson riverfont and docks, New York
Panorama, shows the west Hudson riverfront and docks of New York. 1900

Madison Square in New York City, USA
Madison Square and Madison Square Garden, 1905 in New York City. Date: circa 1905

New York Skyline from Brooklyn, USA. Date: circa 1905

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