Twenty Collection (page 5)

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

Barber, Shave a Pig
Barber, barber, shave a pig, how many hairs will make a wig? Four and twenty, thats enough, give the barber a pinch of snuff

Queen Esther
Despite being Jewish, Esther is chosen as his queen by Ahasuerus, the ruler whose lands ran from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces

Coin Presses at Mint
The coining presses are capable of striking coins of any denomination at the rate of one hundred and twenty per minute

Song of Sixpence 3 / 3
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, four-and- twenty blackbirds baked in a pie... (3 of 3)

Haynes 25 Years
Haynes are in their twenty- fifth year as Americas First Car - soon they will vanish without a trace

Song of Sixpence 1900
Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie

Gossip about Fairies 33
Rip van Winkle encounters the Man with the Keg, who entices him to drink too much of his Hollands, sending him to sleep for twenty years

Elders of Apocalypse
The four-and-twenty elders before the throne of God. (Chapter four)

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Sonata for 20 Fingers
A pupil and her teacher try their hands on a sonata for twenty fingers. Date: 1846

Song of Sixpence / Andre
Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie

Licking River Kentucky
Twenty miles up the Licking. A view down river looking towards two log cabins

Pound and Dollar Notes
Lots of British and American bank notes, Pounds and Dollars

Gregory Griggs & Wigs
Gregory Griggs had twenty seven different wigs, he wore them up and and he wore them down, to please the people of London town

MENs HATS
Top hats come in Twenty Different Shapes at the Western Hat Company of Oxford Street, London, known for their unequalled Half-Guinea Hats

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