Transparent Collection (page 2)

Streamline Silhouette, the Adorables cabaret act
The Adorables, an American all-comedy floor-show playing with huge success at the Grosvenor House Hotel in the autumn of 1938. Introduced to London the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance, The Yam

Palaemonetes varians, ditch shrimp larva
Larva of the ditch shrimp in stage five of development, just prior to metamorphosis

Metal Disc Dress 1968
Mini-dress: bodice & skirt are joined by a band of flat metal discs riveted to transparent plastic - a futuristic style reminiscent of Paco Rabannes metal dress of 1967

Female Type / Scanty Dress
A woman stands at the window at twilight in a transparent dressing gown

Fantastic Adventures - Jewels of the toad
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, October 1943, featuring the story Jewels of the toad by Frank Patton. A young pretty woman in a yellow overall

Ball Dresses 1899
Gowns with square Victorian bodices, shoulder straps & transparent epaulettes. Pink: draped corsage. Green: corsage of horizontal rows of lace, panels of lace on the skirt. Date: 1899

Frilly Fashions 1892
Blue: yoke bodice, sleeves (3 vandyked flounces, pleated transparent flared cuffs). Brown: wrap-over coat bodice, frilled revers, gored skirt, gigot sleeves, broad belt. Date: 1892

Miniature / Passot
A young brunette lady wears a white gown with puffed sleeves and transparent gigot over- sleeves. A pink and white scarf is draped round her neck. Date: late 1820s

Spotted Costume 1827
Hat with ostrich feathers, rosettes under the brim & long strings. Red & yellow spotted gown with gigot sleeves & transparent over-sleeve. Skirt with scalloped flounces. Date: 1827

Women Bathe at Fountain
Two women, one in transparent drapery, bathe gracefully and bashfully by a fountain. Date: 18th century?

To the Moon City
The Moon Pirates [Neil R Jones] A spaceship from Earth arrives on Mars, through the transparent domes which house the cities Date: 1934

Four fashionable ladies at a soiree
Four society ladies: two wear wide shouldered gowns with transparent over-sleeves marking the transition to the new fashion. The other two have short puffed sleeves. Date: late 1820s

The Empire Cookery Book - Advertisement for Pyrex Transparent glass ovenware. Date: 1920s

Great salpa, Salpa maxima.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

TOME, Narciso (1690-1752). Transparent. 1729 - 1731. SPAIN. Toledo. Cathedral. Rococo. Relief on marble

Veiled Turkish woman. Date: circa 1870

Crystal balls are produced by grinding and polishing quartz (silicon dyoxide) cystal into spheres

Colourful illustration of of two fish and a crustacean
Folio 42 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 1, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Paedocypris progenetica (male)
This is one of the smallest known vertebrate, reaching only 7.9mm in length, discovered on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. Photographed by Dr. Ralf Britz

Paedocypris progenetica (female)
This is one of the smallest known vertebrate, reaching only 7.9mm in length, discovered on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. Photographed by Dr. Ralf Britz

Halipegus hessleri, parasitic worm
A parasitic worm specimen measuring 3.3mm

Human Brain Display

A selection of topaz cut stones
Topaz is the hardest silicate mineral and comprises of (aluminum silicate fluoride hydroxide)

Kernite is composed of hydrated sodium borate hydroxide with transparent crystals. Kernite is also an important ore of borax. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London

Diamond with garnet
Red garnet crystal in an octagonal, step-cut diamond. Diamond comprises of compacted carbon and is the hardest natural substance known on Earth

Spodumene crystal and cut stone
Large spodumene (Lithium Aluminum Silicate) crystal and cut gemstone from Brazil

Cichlid from the family of perch-like fishes native to rivers and lakes in central and south America, Africa and Madagascar and parts of Asia

Oestrus ovis, ship nasal botfly larva
A ship nasal botfly larva, a cause of myiasis extracted from a human eye in Kuwait. Photographed by Martin Hall

Calcite (Iceland spar)
A specimen of Iceland spar from Rodefjord, Iceland. Transparent crystal composed of the mineral, calcite (calcium carbonate) which has unusual property of double refraction

David Wright woman in pink evening dress
Elegant woman in a pink evening dress, doing her makeup. David Wright (1912 - 1967), was a popular British artist specialising in glamour

Initiaion of the Rosy-Cross
The " transparent light of charity" is extinguished as part of the ceremony. Date: 1890s

Greek Costume / Louvre
ANCIENT GREECE: Nymphs of the cortege of Aphrodite (Venus) wearing sheer & ornamented chitons through which their bodies are clearly visible. Date: B.C

Glamour girl on sand dunes in Cornwall
A glamour girl poses in her see-through negligee on the sand dunes on a beach in Cornwall

Turkish woman with parasol
Turkish woman standing with an open white parasol in traditional street costume

Turkish woman from Constantinople
Veiled turkish Woman from Constantinople, Turkey with a star in her hair and her scarf/veil covereing a bow on top of her head

A Turkish Woman - portrait photograph
A studio portrait of a veiled woman resting her arm on the back of a wooden seat

Patriotic pro-Turkish card depicting a veiled Turkish woman in flowing see-through white robes, carrying and waving a large Turkish flag

Grand Turkish Lady
A Grand Turkish Lady with fine wall decoration behind

Veiled Turkish Lady from a good Family with fine gloves and a fan

Three Turkish Women - veiled
Three veiled Turkish women. Interestingly showing their ankles - showing a certain level of relaxation on the stringent dress code for women in the Ottoman Empire

And So To Bed by David Wright
Illustration by pin up artist David Wright featuring one of his trademark Lovelies wearing a diaphanous night dress through which you can see her shapely legs and pert figure

PLUMS
Early Transparent Gage Rivers Early Prolific

Bat Girl by A. Penot
Illustration by A.Penot of a girl dressed in a transparent bat outfit

No, Colonel, You ve got the wrong number by Merlin Enabnit
Back view of a dark-haired pin up girl by Merlin Enabnit (1903-1979). She is wearing a transparent pink and blue dress and speaking on a red telephone

Well, Warden, Hows this for a siren suit? by Merlin Enabnit
Red-headed pin up girl by Merlin Enabnit (1903-1979) dressed in a transparent negligee. Enabnit was born in Des Moines, Iowa and was a successful commercial artist

Airship of Europa
On Europa, Jupiters fourth largest moon, the science of plastics is advanced to its ultimate in this light and transparent airship

Lady Charles Beresford
Bodice with en coeur or sweetheart neckline, shoulder straps & transparent short sleeves - the whole heavily ornamented with beadwork. N.B choker & long string of pearls

Jade Green & Gold Gown
A gown by Jeanne Lanvin composed of a pale jade green bodice and skirt and sleeves of gold beads sewn onto a transparent net. A long belt is tied at the waist

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