Strange Collection (page 2)

Woman in slippers seated on sofa
A woman sits on a green sofa, wearing slippers, with a cat sleeping comfortably her lap. Date: 1970s

Fantastic Adventures - The living Dead
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1941, featuring the story The living Dead by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A tiger with pincers fights a weird looking red lion while a woman climb up a tree to

Fantastic Adventures - The Lavender vine of death
Cover 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 game
Cover 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 Thames
Men 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 jungle
An 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/COLOREDO
Lazarus 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 Yevonde
Actress Laura Cowie (1892 - 1969), who in private life was Mrs John Hastings Turner, wife of the author and playwright, pictured with her daughter Ursula on the front cover of The Sketch in 1932 at

La Piedra Parade (bloque erratico) en el Rio Alto Chubut
The 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 dress
Photograph 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 golfer
Curtis Strange - American golfer Date: 1980s - 1990s

Water-induced rest
Designed to cause sleep, a device providing a continual flow of water across the forehead of a person suffering from insomnia

Unusual Mirror Image portrait postcard
Austria - an unusual Mirror Image portrait postcard - combining two different angle shots taken at the same moment, combined into one image. Date: 1910

Nottingham Goose Fair
A pretty young woman riding a large goose sidesaddle-style at the Nottingham Goose Fair. Date: 1905

KNITTED CONCERTINA MAN
This 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 CAT
A toy cricketing cat, bat behind him, arms spread wide to catch the cricket ball! Date: 1930s

Walkman Foreseen
The 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 1819
MONSTROSITIES OF 1819 & 1820 A satire on the fashion victims of the day, including various hideous hats. Date: 1819 - 1820

Brazilian squid
SEA 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 1893
Phillips Multiplane of 1893 Unusual Multi-Winged Design Date: 1893

Phillips Multiplane 1904 Unusual Multiple-Winged Design Date: 1904

Bagpipe Seller, Charing Cross, London. Date: 1900s

Lebanon - Married Druze Woman with Tantour hat
The traditional vertigious tantour hat of a married Druze (a monotheistic religious community) woman of Lebanon (sadly not an example of the popular trend to replicate the landscape of late 19th)

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 UFOs
At 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

Helen Duncan emitting ectoplasm from her mouth
Photograph of the Scottish medium Helen Duncan emitting " ectoplasm" from her mouth, containing magazine cut-out head, during sance, May 1931. HPG/1/4/2 (i)"

Eleonore Zugun - 6
Romanian peasant girl who manifested strange stigmata, in a mental institution before taken into the protection of countess Wassilo-Serecki

Eleonore Zugun - 2
Arm of Romanian peasant girl who manifested strange stigmata, investigated by Harry Price

The Chocolate Soldier by Stanislaus Stange. Music by Straus
The Chocolate Soldier is an operetta translated by Stanislaus Strange (18621917) from Der Tapfere Soldat (German title) by Bernauer and Jacobson

Children in fancy dress - clown and princess
Unidentified children in a somewhat sinister fancy dress tableaux. A small boy (at least we assume its a boy) wears a clown outfit

Agra, India - Fabulous Double-decker camel-drawn wagon
Agra, India - An utterly fabulous Double-decker two camel-drawn wagon, with driver perched on the upper level. Date: 1917

Fantastic Adventures - The Liquid Man
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1941, featuring the story The Liquid Man by Bernard C. Gilford. Weird looking man with green skin is going to drink a steaming liquid out of a test tube

Fantastic Adventures - Daughter of the Snake God
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1942, featuring the story Daughter of the Snake God by William P. McGivern and John York Cabot

UFO & OUTER SPACE
Found ! An ancient tomb - for cavemen or spacemen story tells of a strange 1938 archeological discovery on the China/Tibet border of tombs containing strange skeletons Date: 1979

Hobgoblins, c. 1610
Hobgoblins - a variety of strange creatures, c.1610. Date: C.1610

Boy and girl in a fantasy boat on a Christmas card -- A Christmas Dream. Date: circa 1890s

Winston Churchill as a boy (on right) with his younger brother Jack (John Strange Spencer-Churchill) standing in centre. Date: C.1884

Illustration, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by Arthur Rackham -- An elderberry hobbled across the walk, and stood chatting with some young quinces. A curious group of humanised trees. Date: 1906

Street Vendor selling Nuts to Gentleman with a Simian Visage
Street Vendor cheekily offering the sale of some nuts to a diminutive Gentleman with a distinctive Simian visage!! Date: 1899

Princess Yolanda of Savoy
Princess Yolanda Margherita Milena Elisabetta Romana Maria of Savoy (1901 - 1986), the eldest daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and his wife Princess Elena of Montenegro

Baby feeding directly from a goat
An Indian Baby feeds directly from a goat in possibly the most bizarre and unsettling postcard ever produced.... Date: circa 1920s

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