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British naval propaganda
A pretty girl wearing a sailor's uniform and purporting to belong to a ship called the H.M.S. Great Britain stands beside the Union flag. WW1 Date: 1916

German propaganda for the Home Front
An unusual card showing a smiling German girl wearing a soldier's cap looking through a paper screen. WW1 Date: circa 1914

One of a set of cards showing the Allies as butterflies
Beautiful hand painted card showing Serbia, one of the Aux Allies Human Butterfly series. WW1 Date: circa 1916

Jingoistic British propaganda card
Soldiers representing the Dominion countries stand together over the words We don't want to fight..etc WW1 Date: circa 1914

Washington DC, USA - Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington. Date: circa 1910s

Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum - Patients Gallery
Two nurses stand on Gallery 5 at Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum. Behind them regularly spaced doors lead to the patients individual rooms

Usk Borstal Camp, Monmouthshire
Boys occupied in farm work at the Usk Borstal Camp, Monmouthshire

St Leonards-on-Sea Convalescent Home for Poor Children - Gir
Girls playroom at St Leonards-on-Sea Convalescent Home for Poor Children. Some girls play with the two large dolls houses, while others read

Barnardos William Baker Technical School, Hertford
Boys seated in the dining hall of the William Baker Technical School, near Hertford. The School, also known as Goldings, was run by Barnardo s

Bexhill, Little Folks Home
Children sit in the sunshine at the Little Folks Home, Bexhill. Staff hand round bread and butter and fill mugs from a jug

St Marys Roman Catholic Orphanage, Leeds
St Marys Orphanage for Roman Catholic Girls, Leeds - also known as Mount St Marys Orphanage - was run by the Oblate Sisters of Mary Immaculate of L Osier

Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum - Childrens Ward
Staff and inmates of Childrens Ward 2 at the Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum. One girl holds a doll, and another sits on a rocking horse; two others sit in a rocking device

Death of the Duke Frederick William of Brunswick - Oels at Quatre Bras the 16th June 1815. Coloured aquatint, artist unknown, contemporary, published by J Lorenz Rugendas, 1815 (c)

Changing the Guard at St Jamess Palace, 1792.Coloured line engraving, artist unknown, published 1792.During the 18th century the British Army recruited many African

Free Industrial School, Gem Street, Birmingham
The Free Industrial School at Gem Street, Birmingham, was opened in 1850 to provide education, training and meals for poor children in the area. Date: Date unknown

RMS Victorian
The Royal Mail Ship RMS Victorian, operated by the Allan Line, and one of the vessels used for the emigration of orphaned and pauper children to Canada. Date: Date unknown

Royal Caledonian Schools, Bushey, Hertfordshire
A view of the Caledonian Schools, Bushey, originally established in 1815 as the Caledonian Asylum. Date: Date unknown

Johann Christian Bauer (1802-1867). Born in Hanau, Germany. Type designer, punchcutter, and founder of the Bauer Type Foundry in 1837. Date: Date unknown

Gospel Book of Henry II (972-1024). Miniature
Henry II (972-1024). Holy Roman Emperor, King of Germany and Italy. Miniature. Gospel Book of Henry II. Folio 193v. C.1020. Vatican Apostolic Library. Vatican City

Stone relief featuring RigaA?o?s great coat-of-arms. Artist unknown. Second half of the 17th cent. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Pre-Columbian art. Lintel 15 from Yaxchilan, Late Classic Ma
Pre-Columbian art. Central America. Maya. Lintel 15 from Yaxchilan, Late Classic Maya. 8th century. British Museum, London

Egyptian mummy of a young woman
Mummy of a young woman. Dated after 30 BC. Origin unknown. Roman period. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Busts of ancestors. Egypt
Busts of ancestors. First, polychromed limestone bust, from Thebes. At background, limestone bust of unknown origin. Both dated from 1300-1150 BC

Wallingford Farm Colony, Berkshire
Wallingford Farm Training Colony was set up in 1911 by William Henry Hunt. It trained unemployed young men prior to helping them emigrate to one of the British colonies

St Ediths Orphanage (Hallam Hall), Clevedon, Somerset
St Ediths Orphanage, also known as Hallam Hall, at Clevedon. The home was run by the Church Extension Association. Date: Date unknown

St Elizabeths Orphanage of Mercy, Eastcombe, Gloucestershir
St Elizabeths Orphanage of Mercy, Eastcombe, near Stroud, Gloucestershire. The home was run by the Church Extension Association. Date: Date unknown

Foresters Orphanage, Bridlington
Beds line the dormitory at the Foresters Orphanage, Bridlington. Date: Date unknown

Chadwicks Orphanage, Bolton, Lancashire
A view of the grounds of Chadwicks Orphanage for girls at Bolton, with a number of the inmates at play. The institution was founded by a gift from Dr Samuel Taylor Chadwick. Date: Date unknown

Bisley School, Surrey
The School House building at Bisley School, Surrey, run by the Shaftesbury Homes. Date: Date unknown

Queen Victoria Orphanage, Shirland Road, Maida Vale, London
Children lined up outside the Queen Victoria Orphanage, Shirland Road, Maida Vale. The home was run by the Church Extension Association. Date: Date unknown

Piazza Navona Fountain
The Four Rivers fountain by Bernini in Piazza Navona; the figure of the Nile is shown with a covered head as the source of the Nile was unknown in Europe at this time Date: 1927

Poppy field and grave of unknown soldier
Wild flowers, including numerous poppies, growing over a ravaged battlefield in France with a solitary wooden cross marking the grave of an unknown soldier. The picture, by Captain E. H

Queue for Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, 1920
Just part of the huge queue waiting their turn to pass by and pay their respects to the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior following the Armistice Day ceremony in 1920. 1920

Paris, France - Building the Arc de Triomphe (de l Etoile). Date: 1830

Classical Landscape with Figures s
Classical Landscape with Figures (1770s). Unknown 18th century. Date: 1770s

Rev. Thomas Drew, DD 1800-70. Unknown 19th century

Portrait of a Lady Style of Sir Thomas Lawrence
Portrait of a Lady (Style of Sir Thomas Lawrence 1769-1830). Unknown 19th century

Neville Stack, Nevil Shute Norway
From left: Unknown, Neville Stack?, Nevil Shute Norway, A. Hessell Tiltman and Lord Grimthorpe, in front of the first production Airspeed AS5 Courier

Satirical print of tulipmania. Etching from De drie t Zamenspracken ---- Roman A. [or author unknown], De drie tZamenspraecken Tusschen Waermondt en Gaergoedt

KRAMSKOI, Ivan Nikolaevich (1837-1887). Unknown woman. 1883. Detail. Oil on canvas. RUSSIA. Moscow. Tretyakov Gallery

Women Washing Clothes in a River
A group of women wash clothes in a river, location unknown. A bridge, left, crosses to the far bank where a building with a large chimney-stack stands. Date: Date unknown

King George V in Royal Air Force Uniform
Photographic portrait of King George V of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1865-1936), pictured in his Royal Air Force uniform, date unknown

Friends at Table
Engraving by an unknown artist showing a man at his dinner table eating chops, potatoes and bread watched by two hungry dogs and a cat

Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), US inventor and telephone pioneer. Born in Edinburgh, Bell began his career in assisting his father teach elocution

Ufos / Valentich / Bass St
Near Melbourne, Australia, Frederick Valentich, flying alone, encounters unknown object over the sea and after a strange radio message he and his plane vanish for ever

Photo by Boursnell
Image from a lantern slide used by Harry Price for illustrating spirit photography by Richard Boursnell (1832-1909). The sitter is unknown

Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex 1539 - 76 (1572). Unknown 16th century. Date: 1572

Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum - Patients Dining Hall
Staff prepare the tables in the patients dining hall at Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum

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