Unusual Collection (page 14)

Children in fancy dress - clown and princess
Unidentified children in a somewhat sinister fancy dress tableaux. A small boy (at least we assume its a boy) wears a clown outfit

Agra, India - Fabulous Double-decker camel-drawn wagon
Agra, India - An utterly fabulous Double-decker two camel-drawn wagon, with driver perched on the upper level. Date: 1917

Church boat - Rattvik, Dalarna County, Sweden
Church boat (carrying congregation) at Rattvik, a locality and the seat of Rattvik Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden. Date: circa 1909

Fancy Dress costume - Kitchener pun, 1898
Quite brilliant fancy dress costume on the pun of Kitcheners great with a man dressed as a kitchen range or stove, with the words Kitcheners grate written across the front - a reference to military

A Maori Fire Alarm, Ohinemutu, New Zealand
A quite spectacular Maori Mounted bell at the Te Papaiouru Marae, Ohinemutu, Rotorua, New Zealand - made in memory of Tara-hai-ahia, a well-respected member of the local Maori community

An unusual photograph of Beatrice Wanger, a wealthy American who specialises in the art of rhythmic posing. She is seen with her partner Leon Jankowski, 1923 Date: 1923

The Crescent, Ardglass - a view of a terrace of unusual buildings, taken further back than above, with a lot of people on the road. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Ardglass)

The Round House, Kilroot, Dean Swifts Rectory in 1695 - a view of an unusual thatched cottage (see WAG 3857). (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Kilroot). Date: circa early 1900s

Residence of Ramsay MacDonald at Lossiemouth
The Hillocks - the residence of the first Labour Prime Minister of Great Britain, Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937) at Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. Date: circa late 1920s

The Castles of Kivvitar, Slieve Commedagh, Mourne Mountains - a view of unusual stepped eroded rock stacks high in the Mournes. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Newcastle)

WW1 - Vendome Column shakes at news of German successes
WW1 - The Vendome Column shakes in fear at news of German successes in the war. Date: circa 1916

WW1 - Eiffel Tower in Paris is scared of the Zeppelin menace and curls (wobbles/quivers/shakes/shivers). Date: circa 1916

Mens Dress Reformers Hold Revel
Members of the Mens Dress Reform Party airing their sartorial notions and their limbs at their very decorous Revel at the Suffolk Galleries

Fantastic Adventures - The Liquid Man
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1941, featuring the story The Liquid Man by Bernard C. Gilford. Weird looking man with green skin is going to drink a steaming liquid out of a test tube

Fantastic Adventures - Daughter of the Snake God
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, May 1942, featuring the story Daughter of the Snake God by William P. McGivern and John York Cabot

China - Travelling by Mule Litter. Date: circa 1920s

China - carrying young children in baskets hanging on a pole
China - carrying two young children in baskets hanging on the ends of a pole resting on the shoulder. Date: circa 1910s

Mcclary Monoplane 1929
Designed by Earl E McClary of Long Beach, California, this unusual design comprises a single wing with cabin below : the propeller turns in an opening in the wing. Date: 1929

Comedian Dan Leno in Spirit
George Wild Galvin, stage name Dan Leno, English music hall comedian and musical theatre actor in Spirit form Date: 1907

The Spirit of John King
Drawing of a bearded spirit wrapped in shroud or Keffiyeh Date: 1907

Snake with a milk bottle
Snake with an Express Dairies milk bottle. Date: circa 1950s

Cave dwellers, Downderry, near Seaton, Cornwall. These folk were mostly Irish people who came from Plymouth and lived in the caves on the beach from March to September harvesting shellfish

Chimpanzee roller skating in Cannes
Chimpanzee - Lord Scratchem - enjoying a roller skate down the Croisette in Cannes on the French Riviera. Date: 1912

Tatler cover - Lady Moya Campbell on an ostrich
Lady Moya Campbell, nee Brown, second daughter of Lord and Lady Altamont seen riding on an ostrich at Ampthill House, Bedfordshire, the seat of Anthony Wingfield, who owned a remarkable private zoo

Barrel House, Tonopah, Nevada, USA
The Barrel House, built out of barrels and wooden crates, a miners dwelling in Tonopah, Nevada, USA, with a guard dog outside. Date: circa 1910

Bottle House, Tonopah, Nevada, USA
Bottle House, built out of 10, 000 beer bottles, in Tonopah, Nevada, USA, with two guard dogs outside. Date: circa 1910

Blue Pouter Cock Pigeon
A portrait of a Blue Pouter Cock standing on a loft rooftop with three other pouters featured in the background. The Pouter pigeon is characterised by a its very large, inflatable crop

Persian Cat - Santa look in basket in Christmas hat and tie

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays its collar when being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. April

Secret Toad-Headed Agama - dispays being disturbed - sand dunes - desert (Phrynocephalus mystaceus Pallas). Caspian sea shore - Turkmenistan. Spring - April

Characters from the play Chantecler by Rostand, 1910. Chicken, owl, dog and peacock costumes are shown here in detail. Lucien Guitry is pictured in cockerel costume

Taking a small steam launch out for a river trip on a very still day. Date: circa 1904

Beacon Course at Newmarket with headless rider
An unusual painting by the artist J. N. Sartorius showing a horse race at Newmarket but with the runner up rider headless. Date: 1928

Pet Lion at Company in Aden, Yemen
Pet Lion at Messrs Cowasjee Dinshaw & Bros. Company at Aden, Yemen. " Mr Lion with some members of the staff of the firm"

China - A Manchurian Girl in Traditional attire - Manchuria was occupied by the Japanese for most of the early part of the 20th century. Date: circa 1903

Ashley Lodge, Ringwood, Hampshire - on the edge of Ringwood Forest Date: circa 1907

Kyoto, Japan - Otani Bridge, which leads to the Nishi Otani Mausoleum. Date: circa 1908

A Woman from Shqipnija, Albania in traditional costume holding a very fine ruffled umbrella Date: circa 1910s

Beira, Mozambique - Private tram-car system
Beira, Mozambique - The private tram-car system - undoubtedly one of the most unusual forms of conveyance in the world. The cars ran on tiny tracks which rose out of the sand

Shanghai District, China - Travelling by wheelbarrow across fields Date: circa 1910s

The Summer Palace, Beijing, China - Unusual Rock Formations
The Summer Palace, Beijing, China - a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces, mainly dominated by Longevity Hill and the Kunming Lake. Unusual Rock Formations on display in the rock Garden

George V pictured in erman uniform with Kaiser Wilhelm II
King George V pictured in German uniform alongside his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II (in the uniform of the British Dragoon Guards!)in 1912

Train Ferry between Harwich and Zeebrugge
The Train Ferry - Boat service between Harwich, Essex, England and Zeebrugge, Belgium. Inaugurated in 1924. Date: circa 1930

Early 20th century French Fashion - Jupes-Culotte - pretty model in culottes - voluminous trousers with the appearance of a long skirt

Thessaloniki, Greece - Macedonian Komitadjis - members of a rebel band (cheta) operating in the Balkans during the final period of the Ottoman Empire

Thessaloniki, Greece - A Komitadji - a member of a rebel band (cheta) operating in the Balkans during the final period of the Ottoman Empire

Turkestan - One man riding a bull and two on a donkey! Date: circa 1909

Le Beouf a la Mode Restaurant - 8, Rue de Valois Paris - since 1792 (the approximate date of this image) Date: circa late 18th century

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