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Hong Kong - Itinerant Chinese Barber in the Street - offering a variety of services including shaving the head, back massage and scraping the eyelids! 1908
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
Shotgun with outside spring. Antonio Larranaga en Eibar (19th c.). SPAIN. Vitoria. Museum of the Armeria (armoury)
BOYS ATHLETICSA group of boys are taught how to hurdle correctly Date: 1930s
Dax, France - Thermal Baths - Mud bath Treatment. Date: 1923
Three Women talking on a terrace by Katsukawa Shuncho (fl. 1783 to circa 1795) Date: late 18th century
Three Women smoking pipes in a garden by Katsukawa ShunchoThree Women smoking pipes in a garden underneath a cherry blossom tree by Katsukawa Shuncho (fl. 1783 to circa 1795) Date: late 18th century
Two women by a stream by Miyagawa Choshun (1683-1753). Date: late 18th century
Man and a woman on a country walk by Miyagawa Choshun (1683-1753). Note they are wearing Geta - a form of traditional Japanese footwear that resemble clogs and flip-flops
Japanese Woman and her two daughters by Miyagawa Choshun (1683-1753). Date: late 18th century
A lady strolling along a winding stream by Miyagawa ChoshunA lady strolling along a winding stream with a lantern on a pole over her shoulder by Miyagawa Choshun (1683-1753). Note she is wearing Geta - a form of traditional Japanese footwear that resemble
by Miyagawa ChoshunPorter carrying a yolk holding two shallow trays of an unspecified liquid passing an elderly lady struggling along the road with her walking stick by Miyagawa Choshun (1683-1753)
Five women in an outdoor domestic scene by Katsukawa Shuncho (fl. 1783 to circa 1795). Date: late 18th century
Five women in an indoor domestic scene by Katsukawa Shuncho (fl. 1783 to circa 1795) Date: late 18th century
Outdoor domestic scene by Katsukawa ShunchoOutdoor domestic scene with three women and a young boy by Katsukawa Shuncho (fl. 1783 to circa 1795) Date: late 18th century
Domestic Scene by Katsukawa Shuncho (fl. 1783 to circa 1795) with multiple figures inside and outside a home with music being played and servant carrying a bonsai tree whilst another carries
Two women and small black pet dog by Katsukawa ShunchoTwo women, one seated with a small black pet dog on her lap by Katsukawa Shuncho (fl. 1783 to circa 1795). Date: late 18th century
A young girl listens to two Koto Players by Miyagawa Choshun (1683-1753). Date: late 18th century
Fishing from a boat by Katsukawa ShunchoTwo women and a boy Fishing from a boat by Katsukawa Shuncho (fl. 1783 to circa 1795). Date: late 18th century
Three Women talking outside by Katsukawa Shuncho (fl. 1783 to circa 1795). Date: late 18th century
Haybox Cooking, Food Saving Exhibition, Institute of HygieneHay Box Cooking Demonstration at the Food Saving Exhibition, Institute of Hygiene (which opened on 28th January 1918). A haybox, straw box, fireless cooker, insulation cooker
Purse Seinors Catching Salmon, Seattle, Washington, USA. A purse seine is a large wall of netting deployed around an entire area or school of fish
The Simmer and Jack Proprietary Gold Mines - South AfricaThe Simmer and Jack Proprietary Gold Mines - east of Johannesburg, South Africa. The company which was founded in 1887 by the German August Simmer and Scotsman John Jack
Pounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai, IndiaPounding Rice using large pestle and mortar - Chennai (Madras), India Date: circa 1920
Greek pottery. Lekythos. Red figure. From Greece. 4th centurGreek pottery. Lekythos. Decorated with palmette. Red figure. 4th century BC. From Greece. Museum of Perfume. Barcelona. Spain
Eagle-shaped Visigothic fibula, 6th century. Bronze and glass paste by the cloisonn頴 echnique. Comes from Alovera (Guadalajara). Visigothic art. Jewelry. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY)
A Diabolo player by German photographer Reinhold ThieleComposite photograph of a Diabolo player by noted photographer (Karl Anton) Reinhold Thiele (1856-1921), born in Hamelin, Germany
Rifle, musket, carbine and gun. Tower brand" Rifle, musket, carbine and gun. " Tower" brand. SPAIN. Vitoria. Museum of the Armeric (armoury)."
Sandwich Board Man / DoomA sandwich board man warns us of impending doom
China - Using high-pressure water jet in mining operation. Date: circa 1930s
Hiroshige woodcut - Seba: MooriseReproduction of a woodcut by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) entitled: Seba: Moorise'. Date: circa early 19th century
Japanese Cooper (barrel-maker) constructing a huge barrel - reproduction of a Japanese woodblock print on a postcard. Date: circa 1880
The Morse Cotton Baling Press. Cotton Hydraulic Press, New Morse system. Installed in New York. 1881. Xylography
MEUCCI, Antonio (1808 - 1889). Italian inventor of the telephone. Meuccis telephone. ITALY. LOMBARDY. Milan. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci
Figure of the reliquary Bwete or Bwitti (Gabon). The Mahongwe practice an ancestor cult (bwiti or bwete) that was at the center of a system of beliefs and rites
Chinese women with bound feet. Date: circa 1890
Baling out of a stricken aeroplane by G. H. DavisThe gentle art of baling out: escape technique. How airmen dive and drift to safety through space. The use of the parachute during the Second World War: methods of escape from stricken aeroplanes
The Bezalel School of Arts & Crafts, Jerusalem, IsraelThe Bezalel School of Arts & Crafts on Abyssinia Street in Jerusalem, established by Professor Boris Schatz in 1906 (pictured on the left in the white suit)
Mexico - Patzcuaro Michoacan Mariposas - Butterfly BoatsMexico - Mariposas, Patzcuaro, Michoacan - Butterfly Fishing Boats Date: circa 1930
Gymnastics at the Hermitage School, Brussels, Belgium, founded in 1907 by Jean-Ovide Decroly (18711932), a Belgian teacher and psychologist. Date: circa 1920
Naval Signal Flags - Greeting - Christmas Postcard. The translation of this flag series translates as: Keep a Bright. Look Forward (signalled by International code). Date: circa 1910s
Hot-air balloon from 18th century. Engraving
Textile machine. Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. Instituto Geol o y Minero de Espa
Belgian gun with folding bayonet. SPAIN. Vitoria
Gun made by Ignacio Alberdi, Eibar 1851. SPAIN" Gun made by " Ignacio Alberdi", Eibar 1851. SPAIN. Vitoria. Museum of the Armeric (armoury)."
Bedfordshire Lace School. Date: circa 1905
DivingNatation (Plongeons). Page from Larousse Encyclopedia with photographs demonstrating a variety of dives. Date: 1930