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Mary Pinnock as Ophelia by Julia Margaret CameronOphelia (Mary Pinnock) by Julia Margaret Cameron. Date: 1867
Epsom Derby Day - Prince Monolulu - Tipster. Date: 1929
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLarenThe Green Knight rides over the bridge into Camelot Castle on New Years Day
Shrunken Head - BrazilA shrunken head - a prized trophy of an indigenous tribe from Brazil
Ufos / Cattle MutilationModern phenomena, whereby cattle are taken and mutilated by unknown entities. Strange surgical procedures are employed, baffling scientists
Rejected by the inventions board" Rejected by the inventions board
Strange Incense by Reginald HigginsA rather sinister looking faun watches over a woman sleeping, unaware, in a deckchair
Le Strange Coat of ArmsAn elaborate coat of arms for the Stigleman Le Strange family of Hunstanton, Norfolk, UK
Moses 10 CommandmentsHe breaks the Tables of the Law because during his absence the Israelites have gone whoring after strange gods
The Big Hollow Tree - Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, CanadaThe Big Hollow Tree - Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Date: circa 1910s
Apache Dance, 1908APACHE DANCERS : by a strange swing of fashion the sinister gangsters of the Paris under- world are seen as picturesque, and their macho dance style becomes the craze of the day
Riding a Penny Farthing bicycle
Biddy The Tubman Stonham - Hastings, East SussexBiddy " The Tubman" Stonham - Hastings, East Sussex - Acrobat and Seaside Entertainer (1910s - 1930s)
Fantastic Adventures - The Secret of Elenas TombCover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1947, featuring the story The Secret of Elenas Tomb by Karl Tanzler von Cosel
Walter Rothschild driving his team of zebras at Tring ParkCarriage drawn by a zebra driven by Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, founder of the Natural History Museum at Tring (where this photograph was taken), now part of the Natural History Museum, London
The benefits of taking the water at Bad Wildungen, GermanyComic illustration of the wonderful benefits to a ladys urinary tract ()
Helen Duncan showing ectoplasmUndated photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan showing " ectoplasm" bunched around Duncans mouth and twisted into a tail between her legs. HPG/1/4/2 (iv)
Futuristic Rocket CarTHE SHAVER MYSTERY by Richards Shaver. A red rocket car speeds past strange stone carvings of monsters in a cave, evading the fire from a ray-gun
Eleonore Zugun - 5Romanian peasant girl who manifested strange stigmata, at the onset of her stigmatic trance
Wife Catches Husband 19CRealisation: the wife finds her erring husband dining with two strange women
Old houses in the Butcher Row, London The right-hand corner house on St. Clements Lane reputedly used by the leaders of the Gunpowder Plot
Alec James of Arsenal in the gymArsenal player Alec James tries out the Vita Gymno Frame in the Gym at Arsenals Highbury Football Ground
Ripley Odditorium - New York, USA - A Shrunken Human HeadRipley Odditorium - New York, USA - An Amazonian Shrunken Human Head. According to the card caption, although many years old, the hair still grows... Date: 1939
The Embankment, London on wet night with Policeman and TramsA truly superb postcard photograph of The Embankment, London on wet night. The lights cast a strange eerie glow on the scene, magnified through the windows of a row of parked trams
The Red IbisA fantasy postcard depicting a naked woman, lying on the ground, turned away from the viewer, reaching out toward and cluthing hold of, the leg of a giant red ibis
Half a Mile to EgyptA cyclist near Burnham Beeches, Buckinghamshire, England, pauses to contemplate a strange sign reading Egypt half a mile !
Ludwig Ii / Sophie CharlotKING LUDWIG II OF BAVARIA AND PRINCESS SOPHIE CHARLOTTE Seen during their engagement: the marriage was cancelled in strange circumstances
Joe Elvin as a CabbyThe Cockney Comedian Joe Elvin in the role of The Hansom Cabby, singing a ditty entitled My Lot. " Strange things I view when I peep through the little trapdoor!"
Electric Rail DinnerStill another use for electricity: a miniature railway that brings food from the pantry to the table, removing the need for contact with troublesome servants
Sir John StrangeSIR JOHN STRANGE lawyer and statesman, Master of the Rolls
Futuristic underwater exploration, with two men in diving gear observing an array of strange creatures
The Serpent Prince: An Italian fairy tale. When Grannmia saw her strange lover, she alone remained calm and courageous
Japanese costume, 19th century. Man in hat, waistcoat, jacket and hakama trousers. Woman with hair in pigtails, wearing a kimono and holding a fan
Toads Mouth Rock, Hathersage, Derbyshire. Date: 1904
Incredible hallucinations brought on by smoking OpiumSeeing Everything - The wild and incredible hallucinations brought on by smoking Opium. Date: 1905
Kukuruku tradition, Bendel State, Nigeria, West AfricaKukuruku tribal tradition for a young mans coming of age ceremony, Bendel State, Nigeria, West Africa (then in the British Empire). Date: 1922
Phillips Multiplane 1907 Unusual Multiple-Winged Design Date: 1907
The Exotic DancerI sat breathless watching this strange exotic creature before me'. Artist: NC Wyeth Date: 1923
A double-exposure photograph creating a ghost illusion, Victorian period
Russia - Tsar Nicholas II in a canoeRussia - Tsar Nicholas II going for a spin in a perissory (perissoire), a type of long canoe. Date: circa 1905
Animated Desk LampA strange illustration of a desk lamp with a decorative shade, stooping down with long, gangly legs, almost like a 1901 version of Pixar's animated lamp! Date: circa 1901
Pirelli Tyres AdvertisementAn advertisement illustration for Pirelli Ltd, promoting the world's best tyre of to-day and the future
The Magnetic Hill, Moncton, New Brunswick, CanadaThe Magnetic Hill is an example of a gravity hill, a type of optical illusion created by rising and descending terrain
Watching Racing at BrooklandsSpectators on the River Wey, watching the action on the Brooklands race track immediately overhead. Date: 1933
Wicket Drying MachineA new machine for drying wickets being tried out at Lord's cricket ground. Running off electricity, it dries the wickets with a current of hot air. Date: 1931
Triple-screw ice breaker, the Kosma Ninin, in a chapter entitled Some Strange Ships, by G G Jackson Date: circa 1927
Rotor ship, designed by Flettner, German engineer, in a chapter entitled Some Strange Ships, by G G Jackson
Ten thousand ton ore-carrying turret steamerA ten thousand ton ore-carrying turret steamer, in a chapter entitled Some Strange Ships, by G G Jackson
Robert Louis StevensonA portrait of Scottish novelist and poet, Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, best known for works including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Date: 1892
The Legend of Sleepy HollowIllustration to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow showing a man and woman in a strange clearing, surrounded by animated trees and a couple of goblins looking down on them. Date: circa 1929
Advert for Kershaw's BinocularsAdvert for Kershaw's Sportsman Binoculars - worn like spectacles. Date: 1939
Photograph of Clark Gable, Norma Shearer in The Strange Interval'film
Royal Air Force Squadron Leader L. A. Strange, WW2Royal Air Force Squadron Leader L.A. Strange leaving Buckingham Palace after being presented to King George VI during the Second World War. Date: 1942
Woman in slippers seated on sofaA woman sits on a green sofa, wearing slippers, with a cat sleeping comfortably her lap. Date: 1970s
Fantastic Adventures - The living DeadCover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1941, featuring the story The living Dead by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Fantastic Adventures - The Lavender vine of deathCover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1948, featuring the story The Lavender vine of death by Don Wilcox. A huge purple monster devours a modern building
Fantastic Adventures - Death plays a gameCover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1941, featuring the story Death plays a game by David V. Reed. A alien is holding a futuristic gun which is directed at a blue suited terrified looking man
Rotherhithe Road Tunnel - Burrowing Under the River ThamesMen working in dark conditions, topless due to the temperature in the eighties. Excavating the clay soil at the rate of about five feet per day
Flights into the Future - creatures of the air jungleAn unfortunate pilot is thrown out of his plane by creatures fllying around the air jungle, the product of the imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote of strange monsters
FREAK BIRTH/COLOREDOLazarus Coloredo (1742 - ?) and his partially formed attached twin. Date: mid 18th century
Comic postcard, Couple in bed - who are you? Date: 20th century
Comic postcard, Couple in strange bathing costumes Date: early 20th century
Laura Cowie with daughter Ursula by Madame YevondeActress Laura Cowie (1892 - 1969), who in private life was Mrs John Hastings Turner, wife of the author and playwright
La Piedra Parade (bloque erratico) en el Rio Alto ChubutThe Piedra Parade (erratic block) in the Alto Chubut River (dried-out riverbed, which has slowly eroded the base of the rock)
Greek and Italian female costume, 18th century. Woman in walking dress, women in the strange dress of Argentiera, Sassari, and women from the Greek islands of Paros, Chios and Ios
Lady in incredible fancy dressPhotograph of a lady called Rosie dressed in an incredible fancy dress costume consisting of countless items hanging from her dress. Date: 1926
Curtis Strange - USA golferCurtis Strange - American golfer Date: 1980s - 1990s
Water-induced restDesigned to cause sleep, a device providing a continual flow of water across the forehead of a person suffering from insomnia
Unusual Mirror Image portrait postcardAustria - an unusual Mirror Image portrait postcard - combining two different angle shots taken at the same moment, combined into one image. Date: 1910
Nottingham Goose FairA pretty young woman riding a large goose sidesaddle-style at the Nottingham Goose Fair. Date: 1905
KNITTED CONCERTINA MANThis clever little toy with a wool face, is a concertina man with a monkey on his shoulder. Knitted toys make good Christmas presents! Date: 1930s
TOY CRICKETING CATA toy cricketing cat, bat behind him, arms spread wide to catch the cricket ball! Date: 1930s
Walkman ForeseenThe Walkman is foreseen as a city gent is absorbed by his portable wireless; strange how potent cheap music can be... Date: 1909
Weird Hats of 1819MONSTROSITIES OF 1819 & 1820 A satire on the fashion victims of the day, including various hideous hats. Date: 1819 - 1820
Brazilian squidSEA SERPENT LOOK-ALIKE Cuttle fish, or calamary Date: 1802
Strange - But True - The Bogey Men and the Beauty Spider. A very charming spider, to be seen at Bertram W. Mills Circus at Olympia, London. Date: 1929
Java, Indonesia - remarkable bridge. Date: circa 1930s
Little Girl with unusual snowman with newspaper hat and gun over his shoulder! Date: 1906
Phillips Multiplane 1893Phillips Multiplane of 1893 Unusual Multi-Winged Design Date: 1893
Phillips Multiplane 1904 Unusual Multiple-Winged Design Date: 1904
Lebanon - Married Druze Woman with Tantour hatThe traditional vertigious tantour hat of a married Druze (a monotheistic religious community)
Four Queens on a Jack - Four Women riding a donkey. Date: circa 1905
Smoking Baby in a cigar box wearing a silk top hat. Not the best start in life health-wise... Quite bizarre. Date: 1904
Lubbuck Lights UFOsAt Lubbock, Texas, several see a formation of UFOs on 25 August; a few nights later Carl Hart takes four photos which have never been satisfactorily explained Date: 31 August 1951