Spectacles Collection (page 6)

Brown bear reading newspaper on a German postcard
Brown bear reading a newspaper, Der Bund, on a German postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Engraving depicting The dissipated habits of Chares of Athen
Chares 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 Lith
Selman Abraham Waksman (1888 - 1973) American biochemist, born in Russia

Felicien Rops
FELICIEN 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, WW1
Cartoon, 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 enterpreneur
Peter 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 Hartung
JOHANN 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, photographer
Eleanor 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 motorcycle
A 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, 1942
Photograph 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 / Closeup
HANS EYSENCK Psychologist

MAX PLANCK / 1925
MAX KARL ERNST LUDWIG PLANCK German physicist and Nobel prizewinner (1918) in 1925 Date: 1858 - 1947

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

Victor Franz Hess / Nobel
VICTOR FRANZ HESS American physicist, born in Austria

Sven Anders Hedin / Flodin
SVEN ANDERS HEDIN Swedish traveller and geographer in 1914

Man feeding lion cub from a bottle
Unusual Friends - man feeding lion cub from a bottle. 1950s

Tabby kitten with book and spectacles
Unusual Friends - tabby kitten with book and spectacles. 1950s

Santa Claus by Charles Robinson
Illustration of Santa Claus reading his Book of Good and Bad Children by candlelight, surrounded by toy dolls. Date: 1906

Susi - with telephone directory and glasses. 1950s

Music cover, I ve Never Seen a Straight Banana, words and music by Ted Waite 1926

Three children in a nativity play
Three children taking part in a nativity play for Christmas, with a doll and a toy lamb. Date: circa 1980s

Mr. Cecil Beaton, Miss Nancy Beaton, and Miss Ann Duveen
Mr. Cecil Beaton, his sister, Miss Nancy Beaton, and Miss Ann Duveen, at Sandwich Bay, on the east coast of Kent. Beaton is wearing a very fetching pair of spectacles

1930s mother and daughters
A jolly, bespectacled lady poses with two young girls, possibly her daughters. The one in front wears a school blazer and the one behind a beret. Date: c.1935

Young man in head and shoulders portrait, USA
Young man in head and shoulders portrait, North America. Date: circa 1910s

Victorian scrap - MP of the future
Victorian scrap - Political Types - MP of the Future. late 19th century

Victorian scrap - School Board and politics
Victorian scrap - Political Types - School Board and Politics. late 19th century

Victorian scrap - Radical press
Victorian scrap - Political Types - Liberty of the Press, Freedom of Speech - Radical Press. late 19th century

Victorian scrap - Facts in Argument
Victorian scrap - Political Types - Facts in Argument. late 19th century

Victorian scrap - I only wish someone would ask me
Victorian scrap - People Who Want To Marry - I only wish some one would ask me thats all. late 19th century

Victorian scrap - Salvation Army dog trumpeter. late 19th century

Victorian scrap - Charity and Wealth
Victorian scrap - Ragged School Union, Charity and Wealth. late 19th century

Cartoon, Robert Soutar, actor, and Meyer Lutz, composer
Cartoon, Robert Soutar (left, 1830-1908), English actor, comedian, stage manager, writer and director, and Wilhelm Meyer Lutz (right, 1829-1903), German-born British composer and conductor -- A Month

Snap Playing Cards - Tailor - Stephen Stitch. circa 1930s

Cartoon, Sir Michael Costa and Sir Julius Benedict
Cartoon -- Benefit Knights. They are (left) Sir Michael Andrew Angus Costa (1808-1884), an Italian-born conductor and composer, and (right) Sir Julius Benedict (1804-1885)

Man with pipe and glasses. 1950s

Adrian Brunel, film director and screenwriter
Adrian Brunel (1892-1958), English film director and screenwriter, who began his career during the silent movie era. Seen here on the set of The First of The Few

Man sitting at a table. circa 1955

Booklet cover, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Are We Heading For War? published by the Labour Party in 1934. Date: circa 1933

William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1852-1912). Date: 1907

Soho, London - woman checking a report. 1973

German secretary, British Army of the Rhine, Germany
German secretary at her typewriter, in an office run by the British Army of the Rhine, in postwar Germany. Date: circa 1946

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