Space Collection (#9)

Fitted wardrobe advertisement, 1965
Advertisement for the Opus 22 fitted wardrobe system by the Stag Cabinet Company of Nottingham. Colour brochure available! Date: 1965

Cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, 1934-1968
Russian cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934-1968 ). Date: 1961

Art nouveau design with green leaves and a space at the centre. Date: circa 1920s

Art nouveau design with green flowers and two rectangular spaces. Date: circa 1920s

Art nouveau design with fruit in green and grey. Date: circa 1920s

Art nouveau abstract design in green and mauve. Date: circa 1920s

Art nouveau leaf design with yellow fruit and a space at the centre. Date: circa 1920s

Boy doing high jump at athletics event
A boy doing the high jump at an athletics event. Date: circa 1930s

WW2 greetings card, RAF -- In a World of Space. Profits from the card went to the RAF Comforts Committee. Date: circa 1942

Yuri Gagarin Statue
Statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first space cosmonaut, given by the Russian Space Agency to Great Britain

Sicily - Politeama in Palermo
Black and white Victorian lantern slide of a circular building, the Theatre Politeama, which has mounted statues galloping on the roof

Sicily - Pretoria in Palermo
Black and white Victorian lantern slide of the Piazza Pretoria

Space rocket to the Moon 1946
Experiments with rockets by America

Skyline of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, viewed from the Art Museum

Civic Center, San Francisco, California, USA
Auditorium of the Civic Center, San Francisco, California, USA Date: 1920s

Street market and town hall, Dresden, Germany
Street market with flower sellers, town hall and Victory monument, Dresden, Germany. Date: circa 1910s

Pompeii
The shaded walkway of a roofed and collonnaded public space surrounding a square in Pompeii

Firefighter in Orange Street, London W1, WW2
Firefighter operating a two-man manual hose in Orange Street, London W1, 21 September 1942. Date: 1942

Coloured print card - He Served His Country in the Great War
A coloured printed card with space to insert a photograph. He Served His Country in the Great War. Commemorative Art

My, little, grey, home, West, feet, place, but, belong, another, evidently, economical, own, bed, space, Private, William, Harold, Hutchings, 1885, 1962, 2Nd, 1St, Lancashire, Field, Ambulance

Compactom Clothing cabinets advertisement
Advertisement for Compactom clothing cabinets, good furnishing for you and your clothes as fitted in every double room at the newly opened May Fair Hotel and providing ample storage for clothing

Wardrobe at the May Fair Hotel
A view of the generous wardrobe space available at the newly opened May Fair Hotel in Stratton Street, Mayfair, London. Most of the bedroom furniture was in Glasgow and Kirkcaldy in Scotland

Flights into the Future - technicians inspecting space ship
Technicians making a final inspection of a space ship, before it makes its flight to the moon - a futuristic prediction of fiction which will one day be fact

Flights into the Future - the first men on the moon
Astronauts land on the moon for the first time and set about exploring and taking samples from the lunar landscape

Flights into the Future - space age exploration
A futuristic prediction of what it will be like when man finally lands on the moon - astronauts will find themselves in a strange world. Date: 1943

Out of Doors -- label design with two children. Date: 19th century

Suggested site for London University
A suggested site for London University: how another fine building might be placed next to the new LCC Hall (later known as County Hall)

The cottage problem: the need for sociability. How to erect eight houses with their garden plots. Two designs, ensuring adequate light and space, and a pleasant external appearance. 1914

Proposal for Southwark Cathedral, London
Londons hidden cathedral: a proposal to make Southwark Cathedral (near London Bridge) more visible, showing the area which currently obscures it from public view. Date: 1912

Portrait of Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, the first man in space. Citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Hero of the Soviet Union, Flyer-Spaceman of the USSR

Athletics event for under-elevens, Seaford, Sussex
An athletics event, a 100-yard sprint for under-elevens at Seaford, East Sussex. The boys stand ready for the starting signal. Date: 1934

Gipsies with tent on a Scottish island
A family of gipsies with their tent on a Scottish island. Date: circa 1920s

Aerial view of Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria
Aerial view of the Burgtheater (Hofburg, Court Theatre) and surrounding buildings in Vienna, Austria. Date: 20th century

Aerial view of Dusseldorf, Germany, on the River Rhine. Date: circa 1930

Tsar Nicholas II Coronation - The Triumph Area
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was coronated on the 26th of May 1896, this space, named the Triumph area was at the time devoted to celebrating the event

Two men in a vehicle park, with lorries, cars and vans

Digs for a British soldier
A British soldier from the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in his dorm, probably in China; the wall is decorated with photographs. Date: circa 1913

Advert for Innovation Ingenuities wardrobe cabinets 1915
Mahogany or walnut wardrobe cabinets for men and women. 1915

COMET 1882
Observed by a British artillery officer near the Pyramids, Egypt. Date: 1882

Meteorite 1891
Observed at Oschansk, Russia. Date: 1891

Inner Earth
The inner earth breaks through the Earths crust. Date: 1735

Lunar Volcano
A lunar volcano. Date: 1891

Lunar Crater
A lunar crater Date: late 19th century

Compact / Lipstick Holder
Ingenious comapct with the mirror concealed in the lid and space for two lipsticks within the large silk tassel. Date: circa 1920

Ball Games 1930S
Three strapping German girls playing ball in an open space in the snow, Berlin, Germany. Date: early 1930s

New LFB recruit marking his gear
A new LFB recruit, having been kitted out with his uniform, is marking his gear with his name

Among the guests at the Centenary Conversazione held at ?
Among the guests at the Centenary Conversazione held at the Science Museum on 12 January 1966 were H.C

WW1 - Roll of Honour - space to fill in the blanks
WW1 - Roll of Honour with space to fill in the blanks. " Draw me not without reason. Sheath me not without honour." Date: circa 1916

The Serpentine, Hyde Park, London Date: circa 1885

The Bee on Trianglen in Copenhagen, Denmark
The Bee (a tramway waiting room!) on Trianglen a central junction and public space in the Osterbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark Date: 1931

Family Christmas Dinner - 1950s. The young boy (front left) is wearing his Christmas present - a Martian Space Outfit. Date: early 1950s

Young boy posing in his Christmas Martian Space Outfit
Young boy posing in his Christmas " Martian Space Outfit", complete with walkie talkie radio. Date: early 1950s

The Central Hall, Bromley, Greater London. Date: 1907

Soviet QSL card - plaque on Venus
A commemorative card from a Soviet Radio Station (a QSL card) commemorating the sending of a plaque bearing a portrait of Lenin to the Planet Venus

Space station concept c 1963
Space station concept. c.1963

Air & Space 18A autogiro

Air & Space 18A autogiro N61705
Air & Space 18A autogiro, N61705

Astronauts during an EVA outside a Space Shuttle

John H Glenn climbs out of his Mercury space capsule
John H. Glenn climbs out of his Mercury space capsule, Friendship 7, after his daily checkout. 13 February 1962. Date: 1962

Space Shuttle Orbiter
Diagram of typical mission profile of the Space Shuttle Orbiter

Goodrich space saver car tyre

Astronaut
A model astronaut, on display in the Visions of Earth gallery at the Natural History Museum, London

The Lasting Impressions gallery at the Natural History Museum, London

LS Plate 118 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Vigarano CV3 chondrite
This carbonaceous chondrite meteorite fell in Italy in 1910. It has clearly delineated chondrules or small granules

Parnallee LL3. 6 ordinary chondrite
Parnallee fell in India in 1857. The cut surface clearly shows well-delineated chondrules and slightly larger clasts

Watery Earth
An artists impression of how the Earth looked from space in a watery state

Mud volcanoes, Baku
Mud volcano flow, Baku peninsula, Azerbaijan, 1992

Diagram showing the Earths interior
Crust - continents 35km, oceans 6km. Mantle - peridotite 2900km. Outer core - iron (liquid) 2000km. Inner core - iron (solid) 1370km

Permian Britain
An artists impression of Permian (290 to 248 million years ago) Britain from space, with desert lands and the Zechstein sea

Anorthosite breccia, moon rock
Specimen of anorthosite breccia or moon rock collected on the Apollo 16 mission in April 1972, and mounted in an acrylic block for protection and display

Microscope image of the Johnstown diogenite. Diogenites are coarse grained and composed primarily of one mineral, pyroxene. Field of view is 2.5mm across

Microscope image of chondrite showing chondrules, typical of primitive meteorites. Horizontal field of view, 3.3mm

Slice of the lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 482
A slice of lunar meteorite Northwest Africa 482. This meteorite is very rich in the feldspar mineral anorthite, which give it its pale colour

Slab of the Lueders meteorite
A slab of the IAB iron meteorite Lueders showing the size, shapes and distribution of silicate inclusions. The slab is about 10cm wide

The Estherville mesosiderate
The Estherville mesosiderite formed after a catastrophic collision between two asteroids. Mesosiderites are an irregular jumble of metal grains and angular pieces of rock

Microscope image of the Brachina meteorite, the type specimen of the Brachinite meteorites. Brachinites are composed mostly of olivine with minor amounts of pyroxene and plagioclase

Microscope image of the Lodran meteorite. This meteorite is the type specimen of the Lodranite meteorites. The lodranites are related to the acaplucoites but are more course-grained

The Sioux County eucrite
Photograph of the Sioux County eucrite, which is thought to have originated on the asteroid 4 Vesta. The sample weighs 153g

The Bustee aubrite
Photograph of the Bustee aubrite, a light-coloured meteorite containing brown oldhamite crystals

Piece of the Henbury iron meteorite
A pice of the Henbury iron meteorite, 28cm across, which once formed part of an asteroids core

Optical microscope image of the Barwell (Type 6) chondrite

Optical microscope image of the Parnallee (Type 3) chondrite
An optical microscope image of the Parnallee (Type 3) chondrite that has experienced little heating. The chondrules are clear and well-defined. The field of view is 5mm

The Beddgelert (H5) ordinary chondrite
Photograph of the Beddgelert (H5) ordinary chondrite, clearly showing flecks of iron-nickel metal

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