Space Collection (#7)

Plaza Condell, Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile, South America
Plaza Condell and Market, Iquique, Tarapaca, Chile, South America. Date: circa 1908

When we go to the moon by rocket - 1929 vision of space
A 1929 impression of space exploration with a a rocket hovering over the lunar surface. Forty years later, this dream would become a reality. Date: 1929

Andrew Besley, photographer, Lands End, Cornwall
Andrew Besley, photographer, in action with a Linhof 5x4 camera on a tripod at Lands End, Cornwall. circa 1960s

Letter box at Cranmere Pool, Dartmoor, Devon
Close-up of the letter box at Cranmere Pool on Dartmoor, Devon. Cranmere Pool is famous for being the first place on Dartmoor to have a letter box, established there in 1854. Date: circa 1960s

Time Savers Easy Correspondence card! Fill in the blanks! Date: 1937

Central Park and Casa Granda Hotel, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Date: circa 1925

A New Theory of the Universe
Page from the Illustrated London News reporting on a new theory expounded by Professor A. S. Eddington Dr A. C. de la C

Music cover, The Floral Hall Polka, by Albert Reinhold. circa 1850s

Place de la Concorde, Paris, France. Date: circa 1900s

View of a square in Moscow, USSR. circa 1930s

Tiny passageway at the base of a column - Nara, Japan
Tiny passageway at the base of a column within the Todai-ji (Eastern Great Temple), a Buddhist temple complex located in the city of Nara, Japan

Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples, Italy. circa 1895

Historical pageant in Cape Town, South Africa
Historical pageant in the streets of Cape Town, South Africa. Date: 1908

Church Square, Cape Town, South Africa. Date: circa 1905

People at a fair on horseback. Date: circa 1930s

Two girls at a fair in medieval costume on horseback. Date: circa 1930s

Cassel, France - Grande Place
Cassel, northern France - La Grande Place (main square), with people and animals. Date: circa 1910s

Fantastic Adventures - The Robot Men of Bubble City by Peter Worth. A spaceship shaped like an angry face blasts off from an unknown planet

Fantastic Adventures - Return of Sinbad by Chester S. Geier. A man in Arabian dress flies in space on a giant bird of prey. The distressed bird is being attacked by the lasers of several spaceships

Startling Stories - The Giant Atom by Malcolm Jameson. A man holds a woman protectively as they both look fearfully out of a spaceship window, the view ahead shows the sun orbiting planet earth

Startling Stories - The Day of the Cloud by Ross Rocklynne. Two air crafts attack and puncture the moon causing it to release gases which drift towards the earth. Date: 1942

Startling Stories - The Bottom of the World by John C. Burroughs and Hulbert Burroughs. Three reptile-like aliens surrender to two space explorers each wielding a gun

Startling Stories - Tarnished Utopia by Malcolm Jameson. A man in a space suit and a woman are attacked by possessed trees

English Cathedrals - Angl Choir -Lincoln - main Pillar (foreground) look beyond to arched space, stained glass windows back and side. Part of Box 144 Boswell Collection - English Cathedrals

Paris Exhibition of 1889 - ( Exhibition ) from Dome Left - View looking down on buildings

Paris Exhibition of 1889 - French court - Corridor with display cases on left. Part of Box 119 Boswell Collection The French exhibits filled one-half of the entire space. Date: 1889

Nursery Rhymes - He sleeps
He sleeps - man asleep on chain - black space in kitchen wall. Part of Box 52 Boswell collection. Nursery Rhymes. Date: circa 1890s

Defence against the deadly long-range missiles 1958
Illustration by George Horace Davis, showing some ideas for missile interception, based on radar, computers, satellite and missile rockets in the future, and the continuing need for manned aircraft

South Africa Cape Colony - Wide Dusty Street - Wide open space, trees hiding buildings. Part of Box 169 Boswell Collection - South Africa Cape Colony. Date: circa 1900

The sports deck on board the Reina del Pacifico cruise ship
An unobstructed space of 76 feet by 63 feet - the sports deck of the Reina del Pacifico which was to tour around South America in 1932

Block of council flats in Eastbourne, Sussex. Date: 1960s

Modern office block in Eastbourne, Sussex, with parking space underneath. Date: 1960s

Fantastic Adventures - The Octopus of Space
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1949, featuring the story The Octopus of Space by Alexander Blade

Attraction vision of photomontage in 3D. Oskar Schlinder Mus
Attraction vision of photomontage in 3D which was in the center of city, just before the German occupation of 1939. Oskar Schlinder Museum. Krakow. Poland

Mercury Spacegraft (replica). 1960. Deutches Museum. Munich. Germany

Italy. Milan. Victor Emmanuel Gallery. 1865-1877. Built by Giuseppe Mengoni (1829-1817). Interior

Poster, Irish Aero Club, Sir Alan Cobhams Air Display
Poster, Irish Aero Club in co-operation with Sir Alan Cobhams Air Display, left blank for date and location details to be added. Date: 1930s

Astronaut equipment, 1969
Illustration indicating the different pieces of clothing and equipment worn by American astronauts Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin for their lunar landing in July 1969. Date: 1969

Illustrated London News front cover - Yuri Gagarin in London
Major Yuri Gagarin, the Russian cosmonaut, pictured with Isaac Newtons telescope at the Royal Society during a visit to London in July 1961. Date: 1961

Apollo 11 lunar landings, July 1969
Page from The Illustrated London News showing four photographs of American astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin walking about and conducting scientific experiements on the moon, taken by Neil Armstrong

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mr Weed the Gardener. circa 1930s

Quex Park VAD patients & staff in hall of house
VAD hospital patients and staff in the hall of Quex House in March 1915. The hall was used as a recreation space for the patients

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

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

Space Ship of 1933
A giant rocket-ship of days to come... Date: 1933

PHANTOM FROM SPACE From what incredible world did he come, this stranger from the void, with his unimaginable desires, his fearful menace ? Date: 1953

TO MARS VIA THE MOON (Mark Wicks) Date: 1911

Italy / Pisa Duomo 1896
Pisa: the Razza del Duomo (open space near the Cathedral) Date: 1896

SPACE FEAR ! Date: 1951

Lunar Phenomenon 1893
Light phenomena in the Polar night : moon-ring with vertical axis through the Moon Date: 22 November 1893

Lunar Phenomenon 1893 3
Moonlight phenomena at the beginning of the Polar Night : vertical axes pass through the Moon and two mock moons, luminous patches show where they intersect the horizon Date: November 1893

COMETS OF 1577 1680 1769
THREE EARLY COMET OBSERVATIONS - 1577, after Cornelius Gemma - 1680, after Sturm - 1769, after Messier Date: 1577, 1680, 1769

Comet of Coggia, 1874
THE COMET OF COGGIA observed from the Pont-Neuf, Paris, France Date: 1874

Ufos / Books / Mexico
F Aniceto Lugo LOS VISITANTES DEL ESPACIO Popular Mexican survey of the UFO phenomenon, proposing that visitors from space are responsible for the sightings Date: 1978

Ufo Review Issue 19
NOSTRADAMUS OUTER SPACE CONNECTION Date: 1984

Cartoon, The Martians, WW1
Cartoon, The Martians. During the First World War, the residents of Mars complain to their neighbouring planet about the noise, and ask them to be more considerate. Date: 1918

Earth in Gaseous State
The Earth circulating in space in a gaseous state

Polar Currents
Kirchers sketch of the ocean currents swirling round the North Pole Date: 1665

War in Space ?
Will the Germans carry the war into space ? Date: 1918

The Man in the Moone
C17 space traveller Domingo Gonsales, who has trained wild swans to tow a burden through the air, is carried by them to the Moon, where they are accustomed to hibernate. Date: 1638

Comet of 1811 / Anon
A comet seen in 1811 somewhere over England, quite possibly the same one which was seen at daybreak from Otterbourne Hill, Winchester on October 15th. Date: 1811

Comet of 1811 / Mag. Pitt
A comet seen in 1811, quite possibly the same one which was seen at daybreak from Otterbourne Hill, Winchester on October 15th. Date: 1811

Eclipse / Aswan Dam 1901
Photographed above the Aswan dam on the Nile, Egypt Date: 11 November 1901

Alien Spacecraft
With monstrous aerial machines the inhabitants of other planets will reach our Earth and make it one of their colonies - an alien spacecraft attacks Earth Date: 1933

Leys Ion Space Drive
Willy Leys Ion Space Drive project Date: 1958

Silent Partner / Sci-Fi
Silent Partner (Story bys A Lombino) Date: 1952

Spaceship over Moon
FANTASIA LUNAR - a huge spacecraft from Earth flies over the Moons rocky surface. Date: 1929

Bombing the Aliens
The Impossible World [Eando Binder] The spaceships from Earth drop their bombs on the cities of the aliens Date: 1939

To the Moon City
The Moon Pirates [Neil R Jones] A spaceship from Earth arrives on Mars, through the transparent domes which house the cities Date: 1934

Lion of Nemea /
The LION OF NEMEA, which, according to ancient legend, fell to the Peloponnese (Greece) from the MOON

Spaceship & Creatures
DRAGONS OF SPACE [Aladra Septama] A spaceship from Earth encounters deadly jellyfish- like creatures Date: 1930

Cownapping Aliens
DRAGONS OF SPACE [Aladra Septama] Jellyfish-like aliens abduct cattle from Earth Date: 1930

Verne: Illustration from Round the Moon(Autour de la Lune)
Autour de la Lune ( Round the Moon ). The space-travellers enjoy the pleasures of being gravity free! Date: 1870

A Trip to Mars - 4
A TRIP TO MARS (Fenton Ash) Winging a winged Martian. Date: 1909

Gold mining on the moon
The Moon will surely be rich in valuable minerals: a gold mine there could be a profitable investment. Date: 1895

Low Gravity on Moon
When Man finally lands on the Moon, he will discover the pleasures of comparative weightlessness Date: 1928

Morehouses Comet
MOREHOUSEs COMET photographed from Greenwich Date: 1908

Comet Pons-Winnecke 1921
The PONS-WINNECKE COMET, which some feared might hit Earth, passes by harmlessly Date: 1921

Hole in the Earth 1912
Prof Flammarion proposes to bore a hole eight kilometres into the Earth in order to study the composition of the inside of the planet Date: 1912

Miethes Flying Disk, flown at Prague
Miethes Flying Disk, 20m in diameter, successfully flown at Prague by Schriever and Habermohl on 4 February 1945, ad taken over by the Russians after World War Two. Date: 1945

Meteorite discovered at Bacubirito, Mexico
A meteorite discovered at Bacubirito, Mexico, in 1871. Its estimated weight is 22 tonnes, and it is made of iron. Date: 1871

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