Stretched Collection

Dressing Shetland Shawls
Women from the Shetland Islands dress Shetland wool shawls on large racks Date: 1908

Studies of a hare
Pencil studies of a hare by Raymond Sheppard

A stretched out tale of the new pair of braces
A poor man, initially very pleased with his splendid new braces, struggles to make them fit and eventually lands on his bottom with the unruly braces still undone

Member of the Meru Tribe - Kenya, East Africa
Memeber of the Meru Tribe - Kenya, East Africa. Both men and women of this region stretch their ears, although today more women than men follow the practice

Portrait of a young Dayak Woman - Sarawak, Malaysia - note the elongated earlobes stretched with multiple heavy metal circle earrings. Date: 1952

Indigenous people of Brazil and Paraguay, South America
Indigenous men and women of Brazil and Paraguay, South America, wearing lip and ear plugs (pelele). This is done when the child is young, the upper lip is pierced close to the nose

1969 1960s 60s Sixties Electric Man Men Electricity
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Butterfly Fish Date: 1849

THE AGE OF GOLD
When the living and the loving were easy; when, if you felt hungry, you just stretched your arm for some grapes

Automatic photograph of sitters and Rudi Schneider at sance
Automatic photograph of sitters and Rudi Schneider at a sance at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, 8 March 1932. Harry Price and Professor David Fraser-Harris are controlling Schneider

Sudan - Africa - Men and Women at Lado Enclave Date: circa 1910

Women of the Burmese Kayan Lahwi tribe
Four women and a young baby from the Kayan Lahwi tribe, a group of the Karenni people of Burma (Myanmar). Women of the various Kayan tribes identify themselves by their different form of dress

The Tree of Jesse
The tree of Jesse, whose son David was the first in a line of kings which stretched - according to tradition - to Jesus - from a 12th century English psalter

Western Mexico. Colima culture. Clay figurine. It depicts a
Pre-Colombian art. Mesoamerican. Western Mexico. Colima culture. Clay figurine. It depicts a man lying on a bed. Private collection

In the Rosses, Co. Donegal - a view of thatched cottages stretched over a rugged countryside. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal). Date: circa early 1900s

Francisco Goya (1746-1828). Caprices. Plaque 17. It is nicely stretched. 18th century. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Stele depicting a couple in a banquet. Ca. 340 BC
Stele with relief depicting a couple in a banquet. The man stretched and the woman sitting. Ca. 340 BC. Glyptothek Museum. Munich. Germany

Women wearing Lip-rings
Two women from Manganja tribe wearing lip-rings (pelele). When girls are very young, the upper lip is pierced close to the nose, and a small pin inserted to prevent the orifice from closing

FOOTBALL PARTY GAME
The party is divided into two teams. A dividing tape is stretched across the floor of the room and the teams have to to blow a balloon over the heads of the opposition! Date: 1930s

Hottentot Village 1750
Hottentots erecting a hut, consisting of woven matting stretched over a wooden frame. Date: circa 1750

Patients in A Ward at Quex Park VAD Hospital
Two patients in bed near the garden window in A Ward in the Drawing Room of Quex House. Alongside them stand two members of the Voluntary Aid Detachment

East African Jewish Bedouin Musician in Jerusalem, Israel. Playing a masenqo, a single-stringed bowed lute commonly found in the musical traditions of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Date: circa 1920s

Angelina, stretched trilobite
Angelina grew up to a length of 6cm. The thorax was made up of 15 segements with spines. Trilobites were arthropods and had exoskeletons as crustaceans, spiders and insects do today

Rolling Woollen thread - Patons & Baldwins
A male factory worker operates wool rolling machine at Patons & Baldwins Factory at Darlington. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Gentleman smoking a cigarette while deep in contemplation
A middle-aged man sits facing a fireplace with his legs stretched forwards, resting infront of the open fire; he smokes a cigarette whilst staring ahead

Boys Club morning exercise 1931
Boys from a Boys Club take their morning exercise in a field, standing in rows with arms out stretched, laughing and smiling broadly

Crimea War Ships
British naval vessels in the harbour at Balaklava, with tarpaulins stretched over the decks against the cold

Mine-sweeper
A pair of trawlers sweeping for mines in the North Sea with a weighted wire rope stretched between the craft

Andrew Sandham Batting in the Nets, 1924
Photograph of Andrew Sandham (1890-1982), the Surrey and England batsman, batting in the practice nets, during the 1924 season

Girl on Chairs
GIRL STRETCHED ON CHAIRS In the hypnotic state, general muscular contraction can be induced, enabling the body to do things it couldn t do in the normal state

Tibetan Temple Scene
The interior of a Tibetan temple, with worshippers going round the inner enclosure either on their knees or stretched full length on the floor

She Reads on a Chaise
She reads, stretched on a chaise-longue

Pistol Shooting - 3
This duellist is holding his pistol a fraction too high, and his arm should be less stretched

Racial / Eskimos 1903
Eskimos of Northern Asia use a stretched animal-skin as a kind of trampoline

Cyrus II (The Great)
CYRUS II (THE GREAT) Created an Empire which stretched from the Aegean Sea to the Indus River. Rescued the Jews from Babylon in 539BC

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