Unknown Gallery

Woman anxiously sitting to have photograph taken

An anxious woman is shown in panic as she is sitting waiting to have her photograph captured. Beneath the illustration it reads, "It's gwine to go off!" overall presenting an example of racist attitudes during the time period. Date: circa 1890s

© Mary Evans Picture Library

1800s, 1890s, 19th, America, American, Anxious, Black, Camera, Century, Class, Divide, Fear, Nervous, Parasol, Photographer, Photography, Portrait, Racial, Racism, Racist, Stereotype, Unknown, Usa, White

Scarce swallowtail and unknown swallowtail

Scarce swallowtail, Iphiclides podalirius, and unknown swallowtail, Papilio ajax (suppressed name). (Eastern tiger swallowtail, Papilio glaucus?) Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis Nicolas Noel from Hippolyte Lucas Natural History of European Butterflies, Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres d'Europe, 1864. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Westland-Sikorsky WS-55 Series 1 G-AOCF

Westland-Sikorsky WS-55 Series 1 G-AOCF (msn WA56), of Autair at Luton Airport 14 September 1955 to 06 April 1964: British European Airways Helicopters Ltd as G-AOCF, named Sir Lionel . 06 April 1964 to 17 October 1966: BEA Helicopters Ltd., (name change / transfer). 17 October 1966: sold to Autair. 31 October 1966 to 21 March 1967: leased in Libya as 5A-DBA. 21 March 1967 to 03 November 1967: returned to Autair as G-AOCF. 29 November 1967 to 18 December 1968: sold to Bristow Helicopters Ltd, 18 December 1968: transferred to Helicopter Rentals, Bermuda as VR-BDB, leased in Canads as C-GSFC [registration not taken up] and reverted to VR-BDB. Written off on an unknown date. Date: 1966

© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans A The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans