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Advertisement for Manders poster inks depicting a lady looking through a lorgnette. Date: 1897
Horse doping tests in a laboratory, NewmarketHorse doping tests -- a laboratory technician in a white coat turns a knob on a Packard Liquid Scintillation Spectrometer, used for testing samples at the Horse Doping Test Centre in Newmarket
Emilio Arrieta (1823-1894). Colored engravingEmilio Arrieta (1823-1894). Spanish composer. Engraving of The Academy, 1878. Colored
William C. Cartwright MP, Vanity Fair, WHWILLIAM CORNWALLIS CARTWRIGHT (1825-1915) Art collector, author and a Liberal politician. An authority on ancient and medieval art and literature
Holloway and SuffragetteHolloway prison... We place them on plank beds and very low diet, To stop all their din, We just run them in, Into this house that man built. Date: circa 1910
CARD PLAYERS IN KITCHENThe Card Players: a game of cards taking place in the country kitchen of a poor rural home Date: circa 1807
WW1 POSTCARD BULLDOGPatriotic British bulldog - Theres life in the old dog yet! Date: circa 1914
HEINRICH BRUNING German Chancellor depicted as a stage magician Date: 1885 - 1970
PATERFAMILIASS CENSUS 1861Paterfamilias filling up the census return. The head of a large Victorian family, consisting of several generations, fills in the census Date: 1861
READING ALOUD FROM BOOKReading aloud from a book Date: 19th Century
Monk CopyistsA monk copyist at work. It is also the first known picture of a man wearing spectacles. Date: 1352
Orthodox priest, Nicosia, CyprusAn orthodox priest sits in the shade outside his house in Cyprus. His glasses reflect the sunshine across the street. He looks very serious Date: circa 1995
Fisherman, cloth cap, Costa del SolFisherman in cloth cap on beach, Costa Del Sol, Spain. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1989
Music cover, In the Mood, Glenn MillerMusic cover, In the Mood, The Jitterbug Craze, words by Andy Razaf, music by Joe Garland. Performed by Glenn Miller and his orchestra. 1939
Portrait of Helena Modrzejewska, 1880, by Tadeusz AjdukiewicTadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852-1916). Polish painter. Portrait of Helena Modrzejewska, 1880. National Museum. Krakow. Poland
Dorothy Peto, first Woman Superintendent, Met PoliceDorothy Olivia Georgiana Peto (1886-1974), first Woman Superintendent in the London Metropolitan Police. She served from 1930 until 1946, receiving the OBE in 1920 and the Kings Police Medal in 1944
Advert Theodore Hamblin, fold-away spectacles 1937Trade mark spectacle, that fold into a compact case, available from Theodore Hamblin, Wigmore Street, London. Date: 1937
Bright Young Things at a United States PartyA group at a United States party given by Miss Joe Carstairs, the intrepid motor-boat speed merchant and Miss Ruth Baldwin. From left, Miss Studik, Mr Dennis Pelly, Mr Leveson, the Hon
Neave Parker (1910-1961), natural history artist. After an early, rather disastrous career in banking, Parker served in the RAF during the Second World War
Milan Ryzl, Czech biochemist and parapsychologistMilan Ryzl (1928-2011), Czech biochemist and parapsychologist, winner of the 1962 McDougall Award for parapsychology research
John Hector Cutten, psychical researcher and writer with a special interest in telepathy and clairvoyance. He served as secretary of the Society for Psychical Research
John Conrad Russell and his mother Dora BlackJohn Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell (1921-1987) and his mother Dora Black, Lady Russell (1894-1986). Dora Black was a British author, feminist and socialist campaigner
Egg ShacklingENGLAND: EGG SHACKLING, STOKE ST GREGORY, SOMERSET. On Shrove Tuesday children take an egg to school. These are gently shaken in a sieve until the strongest shelled egg remains
Comic postcard, Deaf old lady misunderstanding Date: 20th century
Girl and dog on a cutout Christmas card. circa 1890s
Clown head on a Victorian scrapClown head in profile on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s
Cadburys Happy Families - Master FlavourCadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Master Flavour the Chefs Son. circa 1950
Old Maid card game - Old Maid and her parrot. circa 1950s
Old Maid card game - Tickets Please - London Underground. circa 1950s
Brown bear reading newspaper on a German postcardBrown bear reading a newspaper, Der Bund, on a German postcard. Date: circa 1890s
Engraving depicting The dissipated habits of Chares of AthenChares of Athens. 4th century BC. Athenian general. Engraving depicting The dissipated habits of Chares. History of the Nations. 19th century. Colored
Old Maid card game - box design. circa 1940s
Caricature of the actor Alfred Maltby, in the role of Mr Dawson in the play Betsy by F C Burnand. circa 1880s
SA Waksman - COL LithSelman Abraham Waksman (1888 - 1973) American biochemist, born in Russia
Felicien RopsFELICIEN ROPS Belgian painter, engraver and lithographer Date: 1833 - 1898
Two nuns in Eastbourne, Sussex - one of them is knitting. Date: circa 1960s
Modern shopping precinct in Exeter, Devon, on a sunny day. Date: circa 1960s
Five humanised cats on a Christmas card -- three of them are ill in bed, and the doctor cat asks one to: Show your tongue! Date: circa 1890s
Man with a bulldog in a garden, photo by Unwin, Hereford. Date: circa 1910s
Cartoon, Boche idealism, WW1Cartoon, Boche idealism -- a fat German with food and drink on the table and portraits of two German philosophers (Leibniz and Kant) on the wall. Date: 1915
Peter de Savary, English enterpreneurPeter John de Savary (b.1944), English enterpreneur. At the time of this photograph he owned both Lands End and John o Groats. Date: 1988
Johann HartungJOHANN HARTUNG German philologist at Freiburg - his spectacles are on his desk along with his writing implements. Date: 1505 - 1579
Eleanor Malby, wife of Reginald Malby, photographerEleanor Malby (1886-1956), wife of Reginald Malby, official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society, seen here as a young Edwardian woman with a baby
Well dressed man on a motorcycleA rather well dressed man sitting on a motorcycle. He is wearing a bowler hat, white gloves, a black bowtie, dark jacket, pinstriped trousers and shiny shoes
Milan Ryzl, Czech biochemist and parapsychologist, winner of the 1962 McDougall Award for parapsychology research. He organized a parapsychology study group in Prague
John Logie Baird watching Stereoscopic Television, 1942Photograph showing John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the Scottish electrical engineer and television pioneer, watching stereoscopic television at his home in Sydenham Hill, London, June 1942
Hans Eysenck / CloseupHANS EYSENCK Psychologist
MAX PLANCK / 1925MAX KARL ERNST LUDWIG PLANCK German physicist and Nobel prizewinner (1918) in 1925 Date: 1858 - 1947
