Visitor Collection

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by William McLaren
King Arthur welcomes the Green Knight into the Banqueting Hall and invites him to dismount and eat with the company. Everyone is amazed to see the unexpected visitor

Health Visitor / 1950S
A health visitor visits a mother and her baby on their farm (near Colchester) Date: 1950s

Germany travel poster
Germany wants to see you : travel poster encouraging tourism, featuring an elegant lady carrying a bunch of yellow flowers in front of a steam train from which she has presumably just disembarked

St. Johns - Newfoundland - Iceberg off the Narrows
An Unwelcome Visitor off the Narrows, St. Johns - a huge and rather ominous iceberg at the entrance to the entrance from the sea toward St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador. Date: circa 1910s

Modern Style Home
A suburban home in the modern style - a visitor arrives for dinner

Jacks Saloon, Happy Hollow, Hot Springs, Arkansas
Jacks Sallon Bar at Happy Hollow. An " amusement park" of sorts, Happy Hollow was established in the late 1880s or early 1890s by Norman McLeod off Central Avenue on what is now Fountain

Fabulous Arab Doorway - Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
An absolutely fabulous Arab Doorway in the port town of Sidi Bou Said Tunisia, with a pair of knockers for the main decorated wooden doors (for ease of knocking when on a camel or on horseback)

Business-Like by H. M. Bateman
Enthusiastic Member: There, see what magnificent scenery we have to play here! Scotch visitor: Tae hell wi the scenery! Whaurs the furrst tee? Date: 1927

Three daytime outfits by Drecoll, Poiret and Jenny
Three women in the latest day wear. On the left, a black scoop neck dress with large red rose to the side, by Drecoll. In the middle, a white, red and black print dress and black coat

Illustrated London News front cover Christmas 1895
Girl with holly leaves and mistletoe about to knock at a front door

Health Visitor / 1958
Examination by the school health visitor

SPA / MASSAGE / 1905
Neris les Bains: visitor is given a massage

Chamberpot Emptied
Just in Time ! To empty the chamberpot out of the bedroom window is socially acceptable, but to do so on the head of a gentleman caller shows lack of consideration

Man falling off a broken chair at a dinner party causing a servant to spill a soup tureen over him. Other guests shocked, servants amused. More Miseries

Geologists at Piltdown
Geologists Association party visiting the pit at Piltdown on 12 July 1913

Fire-Crested Wren
FIRE-CRESTED WREN (Regulus ignicapillus) sometimes called the FIRECREST An irregular visitor to Britain

(Goat) Meat Stall - New Market, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal state, India. The two gentleman on the right are clearly Muslim and therefore practising Halal Butchery. Date: circa 1910s

Jean Zeller, a visitor to the Plant Maintenance and Eng?
Jean Zeller, a visitor to the Plant Maintenance and Engineering Show in Philadelphia?s Convention Hall, studies a model of a proposed Moon base, circa 1960. Date: circa 1960

Preston Mont, Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds, Yorkshire
Preston Mont (Ethel Preston Monument - 1861-1911), Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds, Yorkshire. Walter Preston was a manufacturing chemist. He married Ethel West in 1882. They had no children

Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand
Group of Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand Date: 1840

Ancient wine press, treading the grapes Date: 1840

Ronot press, Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie
Ronot press, reconstructed, and statue of Allegory of Industry, at the Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie, or Conservatory of the Arts of Metallurgy

Sculptures, Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie
Christ statues, stored at the Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie, or Conservatory of the Arts of Metallurgy, formerly the lower factory of the foundry at Dommartin-le-Franc

Sculpture, Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie
Statues, stored at the Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie, or Conservatory of the Arts of Metallurgy, formerly the lower factory of the foundry at Dommartin-le-Franc, in the Blaise valley

Hearths, Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie
Fireplace surrounds, stored at the Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie, or Conservatory of the Arts of Metallurgy, formerly the lower factory of the foundry at Dommartin-le-Franc

Stoves and ovens, Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie
Stoves and ovens, stored at the Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie, or Conservatory of the Arts of Metallurgy, formerly the lower factory of the foundry at Dommartin-le-Franc

Blast furnace, Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie
Old blast furnaces, at the Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie, or Conservatory of the Arts of Metallurgy, formerly the lower factory of the foundry at Dommartin-le-Franc, in the Blaise valley

Emile's forge, Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie
Emile's forge, donated by Maurice Bernard from Eurville, with hearths, bellows, tools, power hammers, anvils and stamping machines, at the Conservatoire des Arts de la Metallurgie

Statue, Parc Metallurgique, Dommartin-le-Franc, Haute-Marne
Cast iron counter-model of the work of Charles Breton, 1878, made at the Val d'Osne art foundry c. 1920, exhibited at the Parc Metallurgique or Metallurgic Park

Lithography stones, Parc Metallurgique, Dommartin-le-Franc
Lithography stones of plans for metalwork, used for printing, exhibited at the Parc Metallurgique or Metallurgic Park, an interpretation centre for ancient and contemporary metallurgy

Metalwork, Parc Metallurgique, Dommartin-le-Franc
Exhibition of manufactured metalwork, at the Parc Metallurgique or Metallurgic Park, an interpretation centre for ancient and contemporary metallurgy

Ore park, Parc Metallurgique, Dommartin-le-Franc
Ore park, with displays of large forged pieces from the foundries of the Haute-Marne, at the Parc Metallurgique or Metallurgic Park, an interpretation centre for ancient and contemporary metallurgy

Blast furnace, Parc Metallurgique, Dommartin-le-Franc
Blast furnace built 1834 by Jean-Baptiste Le Bachelle, at the Parc Metallurgique or Metallurgic Park, an interpretation centre for ancient and contemporary metallurgy

St John's Bay, Patmos, Greece Date: 1847

Orange Party meeting in vaults, Ladye Place, Berkshire
Orange Party (Orange Order) meeting in the Vaults under the Hall, Ladye Place, Hurley, Berkshire Date: 1688

Gas pump. Route 66 State Park Visitor Center. Missouri, USA
Old gas pump inside the Route 66 State Park Visitor Center. State of Missouri, United States

Modern Synagogue of the Jews Date: 1841

Ancient printing office with people at work

Spain, Madrid. Exhibition of men's clothing, held by the Society of Master Tailors (Sociedad de Maestros de Sastre) La Confianza. It took place at the end of November 1881

Michelangelo in His Studio visited by Pope Julius II, by Alexandre Cabanel. Date: 16th century

British Design Exhibition in Moscow, Soviet Union, arranged by the Council of Industrial Design and the Central Office of Information

Michael Stewart, British Foreign Secretary
Robert Michael Maitland Stewart, Baron Stewart of Fulham (1906-1990), British Labour politician, Fabian Socialist and government minister

HUNDING SUSPICIOUS
Act One : Hunding notices the resemblance between his wife Siglind and the visitor, Sigmund (they are indeed brother and sister, and will be lovers)

Hunding Suspicious Music Opera Wagner Die Valkure
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A family of savages living at Nymet Rowland in North Devon, England, chatting with a civilised visitor. Date: 1871

Comic postcard, Woman and council official Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman with twin beds Date: 20th century

Original Artwork - cartoon strip - Simply Simon ill in bed
Original Artwork for a Simply Simon cartoon strip - Simon ill in bed, trying to be a good dog. Iris Chick had a regular cartoon spot for Simon in Tail-Wagger magazine in the late 1930s

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