Twenty Collection (page 4)

Mr. Edward Spencer, born May 8th 1799 who accompanied Mr. Charles Green in that fatal parachute experiment of Mr. Robert Cocking s, July 24th, 1837, from Vauxhall Gardens

Drought refguees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. The official at the border (California-Arizona) inspection service said that on this day, August 17

Thirty year-old mule; the girl is twenty-five. Farm in Coffey County, Kansas. Date 1938 Oct

Migrant agricultural workers family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged thirty-two. Father is a native Californian. Destitute in pea pickers camp, Nipomo, California

Mildred Irwin, entertainer in saloon at North Platte, Nebraska. She entertained for twenty years in Omaha before coming to North Platte. Date 1938 Oct

Man from Samegrelo - Georgia
Man from Samegrelo (Samargalo, Megrelia or Mingrelia) - a historic province in the western part of Georgia, formerly also known as Odishi. The Megrelians are an ethnic subgroup of the Georgians

Join a sheep club Twenty sheep to equip and clothe each soldier. A civilian propaganda poster showing boys and girls raising sheep

Twenty-five years after. Illustration shows a bloated bull dog wearing a collar labeled Monopoly controlling a food trough as five emaciated dogs wait for an opportunity to eat

21st Lancers - Standing to attention
Attention. 21st Lancers - Full Review Order - Full Dress. Date: circa 1916

21st Lancers - Scouting - Service Dress. Date: circa 1916

20000 Mark Note
The hyperinflation the Weimar Republic 1921-1923. Back of a Banknote on 20 000 Mark edited at Berlin 20/2 1923. Date: 1921-1923

25 Mark note
Back of a jubilee banknote on 25 Mark editied in Bielefeld, Germany 1922. Date: 1922

20000000 Mark note
The hyperinflation the Weimar Republic 1921-1923. Front of a Banknote on 20 000 000 Mark edited in Berlin 18/9 1923. Date: 1921-1923

20000000000 Mark note
The hyperinflation the Weimar Republic 1921-1923. Front of banknote on 20 000 000 000 Mark edited in Berlin 1/10 1923. Date: 1921-1923

20 Mark note
Loan association banknote on 20 Mark edited in Berlin 20/2 1918. Date: 1918

Sunbeam Sedanca
The stylish and costly (close on L1500) Sunbeam Twenty Sedanca De Ville is a brave bid for the up-market buyer. Date: 1937

25th Street - Ogden, Utah Date: circa 1910

Four and Twenty Tailors went to kill a snail, the best man amongst them durst not touch her tail. She put out her horns like a little Keyloe cow

D Carleton-Smythe. Sing a song of sixpence
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie... 20th century

Dalay Dives Off Bridge
Twenty-year-old workman Auguste Dalay dives from the Rouen transporter bridge - brave or foolhardy? Date: 1901

Flying Saucer
Ralph 124C 41+ [Hugo Gernsback] Domed-disc spacecraft which anticipates to a remarkable degree the flying saucers of twenty years later Date: 1929

Twenty mule Borax team, Mojave, California, valley line

Old wheels of the famous twenty mule team Borax wagons, Death Valley, California

Twenty mule team wagons used for hauling borax out of Death Valley, Barstow, California. Those twenty mule team Borax wagons, seen on the railway station platform at Barstow

Building a fishing boat, St Ives, Cornwall
Andrew Besley, boat builder, building a 20 foot traditional wooden fishing boat at St Ives, Cornwall. It is designed to work off a steep pebble beach of the kind found in East Devon

Andre Beaumont, winner of the Great Air Race
Andre Beaumont of the French Navy, winner of the Great Air Race, also known as the Round Britain Air Race, covering 1000 miles in five days (22-26 July). Twenty pilots took part

Jules Vedrines, second in Great Air Race
Jules Charles Toussaint Vedrines (1881-1919), French aviator who came a close second in the Great Air Race, also known as the Round Britain Air Race, covering 1000 miles in five days (22-26 July)

Letter to Thomas Henry Ismay
A letter to Thomas Henry Ismay from twenty of his colleagues and employees on White Star Works headed paper, dated Bootle, 6 February 1899

Lunching with lions in Shepherds Bush
An unusual luncheon party which took place at the Imperial International Exhibition in Shepherds Bush (White City). Twenty people in a large cage with four full-grown lions belonging to Bostocks

Lear / Nonsense / Apulia
There was an Old Man of Apulia, whose conduct was very peculiar; He fed twenty sons, upon nothing but buns, that whimsical Man of Apulia

Lear / Nonsense / Sparta
There was an Old Person of Sparta, who had twenty-one sons and one darter ; He fed them on snails, and weighed them in scales, that wonderful Person of Sparta

Pope Theodorus II Pope for twenty days during December 897 before he died

A German telescopic field-periscope
A photograph of a German army field-periscope captured by the French army in 1916. The device, whose telescopic tube could be extended up to twenty-five meters in height

The Grasshopper
A cross-bow device, nicknamed, La Sauterelle or The Grasshopper, used by French soldiers to throw bombs twenty to eighty metres from the trenches

London fog. Pollution from the city
A London fog; smoke carried from the city covering an area of twenty miles with thick smog. Smog tends to form in urban areas when there is a large amount of chimney

Immigrants arriving at Winnipeg, Canada, 1909
Photograph of crowds of immigrants arriving at the train station in Winnipeg, Canada, 1909. Winnipeg was at that time the chief distributing centre for Western Canada

Warren G. Harding (1865-1923)
Photograph of Warren G. Harding, the Republican Senator for Ohio and twenty-ninth President of the United States of America (1921-1923), pictured in 1920

A Twenty-five seat Tricycle, 1896
Illustration of a Tricycle for twenty-five, designed by the Herald Cycle Company, New York, 1896. This machine was being built for the Nynuke Bicycle Club of Brooklyn, at a cost of 120

Hms intrepid on an Iceberg, Baffin Bay
HMS Intrepid, an Arctic exploration vessel, having been driven forty feet up an iceberg, Baffin Bay, 1851. The Intrepid, under the command of Lt. J.B

Persian Embassy
When the Persian ambassador visits a Foreign State, he does it in style - twenty elephants, along with a troop of horsemen

SS Lusitania, 1907
Photograph of the bows of the Cunard Liner, SS Lusitania, in dry dock 1907. Lusitania was then the largest liner afloat, weighing 32, 500 tons and capable of twenty-six knots

Large Burmese Canoes, 1910
Photograph of two Burmese canoes, each with at least twenty rowers, 1910. Each rower balanced on the inside foot, with the outside one slipped through a strap on the oar; thus they used an arm

A crawling experiment at the London Hospital
Crawling used as an exercise for the treatment of spinal curvature for patients up to the age of sixteen. It was administered three times a week for twenty minutes at a time

2 Girls Sledging 1879
Two English schoolgirls whizz down a Swiss mountainside on a sledge at twenty miles an hour

Fly-wheel at St. Denis
A huge fly-wheel dynamo at St. Denis station, used to light Paris. There were eight dynamos at the St. Denis station, producing a high tension current of 2250 volts and 210 amps

North Eastern Railway Express
The North Eastern Railway Express passenger engine for the traffic between York and Edinburgh in the early 1900 s. The engine was designed to cope with the heavy demand on this line

Tom Thumb Cash Register
The handsome " Tom Thumb" cash register is priced at twenty- one pounds and ten shillings

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Poet and artist, DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI (1828-1882), at the age of twenty-five

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