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Kings Bring GunsWhat the Three Kings bring today - guns, warships, shells
Brit. Recruitment PosterThe Army of Today and Yesterday - Join the Army and See the World - Good pay - Fine Prospects - A Good Life
Caricature of Paul Verlaine, French poetPaul Verlaine, French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. Seen here in a caricature, with the word Anarchy written across his forehead, playing a lyre, with an arrow stuck through a heart
Politics / DiplomacyOfficials of the Imperial British East Africa Company make a treaty with the Kikuyu people of what is today Kenya
London StoneCannon Street : an ancient stone possibly originating as a milestone during Roman times, today incorporated into the wall of the Bank of China
Bruce Castle, 1656An Elizabethan manor house in Lordship Lane, Tottenham, associated with the Bruce family : much changed during its history, but luckily still exists today as a museum
Possons D avrilThis handsome couple have been fishing, but not for ordinary fish, for today is April 1st, and what they have caught are POISSONS D AVRIL - the traditional April 1 joke
Max Immelmann, Air AceMAX IMMELMANN Known today for his " Immelmann turn" manoeuvre, the German was a master of dogfight tactics
Dancing at the Kit-KatDancers and diners at the Kit- Kat Club in the Haymarket, London : membership costs you seven guineas - equivalent to several hundred pounds today
Royal Academy, 1840A Private View of the Royal Academy annual exhibition : the walls are more crowded, the rooms less so, than today
Rosetta Stone FindplaceThe Bastion de Saint Julien at Rosetta (today Rashid) in the Nile delta, where the Rosetta Stone was discovered by Bussard, one of Napoleons officers
Nurse on Mas BirthdayToday is their mamas birthday, and their nanny makes sure her four charges are ready with their birthday offerings
Wwi Annam SoldiersTwo soldiers from Annam (today part of Vietnam), then a French protectorate, serving with the French army during World War One
Santa Barbara Mission was founded in 1786. Portions of five units of its extensive water works survive today. Ruins of tanning vats and pottery kilns also survive
Hungry Green Frog BoyleCroak, said the frog, I m hungry, I think, today I ve had nothing to eat or to drink !
Hotel De Cluny, ParisExterior view of the Hotel de Cluny, today a museum of medieval antiquities
Past and PresentThe AKERU, a pair of lion- gods, represent Past & Present, Yesterday and Today, in the Egyptian cosmology
Paris / Palais Royal 14CThe Royal Palace on the Ile de la Cite : little of this remains today apart from the Sainte Chapelle, seen in the centre of this engraving
Worship, C18 HaitiReligious ceremony of the inhabitants of Hispaniola, West Indies (today Haiti and Dominican Republic) - the god has heads of different animals, and a tail
Lincoln Cattle MarketThe Cattle Market at Lincoln overlooked by the cathedral : today the livestock is mainly sheep
Walahmette Valley(Today Willamette) Located in Oregon : Fremont came here in 1844
Pyramid LakeLocated in northwest Nevada, this remote lake is today a popular tourist destination. The pyramid is a natural rock formation, despite its seemingly man-made appearance. Date: 1862
Yokohama Street SceneStreet scene : the picturesque banners have probably been replaced with flashing fluorescent signs today, but no doubt the scene is just as colourful
Bewick / Flying Squirrel(petaurista elegans) Bewick seems to say that this exotic rodent can be found in Europe, but today it is largely confined to south-east Asia
Chevrotain (Bewick)Bewick thought the Chevrotain, or little Guinea Deer, was an antelope, but it is today recognised as a small version of the musk-deer. The Meminna beside it is from Sri Lanka
Wall Street in 1774Somewhat less hectic than today, the street is populated by elegant New Yorkers and a vendor of tea water, outside the City Hall
Dementia PraecoxA patient suffering from catatonic dementia praecox, Kraepelins term for what is today classified as schizophrenia. The patient is acting out a private delusion
ERASMUS MONTANUSHolbergs satire Erasmus Montanus derides the intellectual pretensions of college-educated scholars. It is still produced today, its mockery as apposite as ever
Kalapuya YouthA youth of the Kalapuya (variously spelt) people of Oregon, once widespread and prosperous but today fewer and confined
Paper at TurkestanPpaper of the kind we know today is thought to have been invented in Turkestan in the 6th century : here it is being sold at Samarkand in present- day Uzbekistan
Yesterday and TodayYesterday and today Two modern women in the latest car pass a chauffeur driven woman in an older model
Black Angel / JudgementA black angel sounds The Last Trump, announcing that today is Judgment Day
Catholic / PopeJesus chased the money-lenders from the Temple, but today the Pope is prepared to do deals with the businessmen