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Lear / Nonsense / Eyes
There was a Young Lady whose eyes, were unique as to colour size; When she opened them wide, people all turned aside, And started away in surprise

Soldier from Southern Algeria, wearing a wide-brimmed sombrero-style hat and an open wool jelaba

Tangiers Date Seller, Morocco
Moroccan Date Seller in Tangiers, sits at his stall with his head protected against the midday sun. A wide-brimmed straw hat (sombrero-style) sits under the stall

Prince Leopold, 1872
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1855-1884) photographed in 1872. Leopold was the fourth son and eighth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - Native soldiers surprised
A night alarm during sentry duty during the 2nd Ashanti War. Native soldiers eyes wide with fear tread softly in the direction of danger

A THRILLER
A young women, cigarette holder perched artfully between her lips reads a sensational novel, her eyes wide at the contents

German V-2 Base at Watten; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing the huge concrete bunker of the German V-2 base at Watten, near St. Omer, France, 1944. This bunker was 300 ft. long, 200 ft. wide and 50 ft. tall

Brazil. Gold Washing. A Gold Washing
An engraving of a rocky and mountainous region with a wide river running through it, in the distance men are washing ore in the river propecting for gold

America, The Chinese in San Francisco. Pulverising shrimps
Chinese in wide brimmed hats spreading shrimps with a rake for drying and crushing

The largest photograph ever taken in 1907
The largest single photograph produced in 1907. The negative measured seven inches wide and six feet long. At the moment of exposure the film moved at 20 to 80 inches per second

Women of the Papagos Tribe of Native American Indians, 1858
Illustration showing some native American Indian women, of the Papagos tribe, with bows and arrows, wearing wide brimmed hats, cropped tops and skirts

Borax
A romantically styled ad for Borax antiseptic from 1885. Borax was used for a wide variety of household jobs being effective as an anti-bacterial, cleaning, fungicidal and bleaching agent

America. The Chinese in San Francisco. A street scrivener or
Street scene with Chinese in traditional dress, one man seated with a wide brimmed hat and pigtail, writing letters for his customers

California, Sacramento. General View of Sacramento
The beginnings of the City of Sacramento have been laid out in a grid, with wide avenues. The view is from the river, where sailing boats and a paddle steamer are at anchor

Isabela De Bourbon / Spain
ISABELA DE BOURBON Daughter of HENRI IV, wife of FELIPE IV, King of Spain

Johnson Saves for Leeds, Highbury, 1925
Photograph showing Johnson, the Leeds Goalkeeper, pushing a shot wide of his goal post, 1925. Although Johnson was successful this time

Father & Children
A Father sits in a garden with his three daughters, one holding a toy doll and wearing a wide-brimmed hat

Life on the Stars 3
The great nebula of Orion is ten light years wide : life forms could resemble those of Earths early phases, with massive aquatic creatures

Geology Earths Crust
The narrow band of Earths crust, about 20 km wide, is perfectly suited in density and temperature to sustaining life as we know it : a few degrees difference - wow !

Tibetan Monk 1798
A Tibetan Monk in traditional dress and wide-brimmed hat

September fashions, 1923
A well cut travelling three piece suit, made of a wide check pattern

Swimwear Fashion for 1956
Illustration showing a classic all-in-one bathing suit, made from batiste, in white with a wide yellow band on the skirt

Edwardian Costume
An Edwardian upper class husband and wife on the steps of their mansion. She wears a full-length mauve outfit, with wide brim hat and fur stole, he wears a hat and overcoat

Southampton Docks 1940S
King George V Graving Dock at Southampton, England, 1, 200 feet long and 135 feet wide, with a depth of 50.5 feet to keel blocks

Robbing the Orchard by Louis Wain
An unusual illustration by Louis Wain, more usually known for his cat drawings, showing a group of children stealing apples from an orchard

Fashionable Outfit 1930S
A female model wearing a rather unusual suit, with a ribbon choker and short- sleeved jacket with a rather fussy tiered blouse, topped off with a wide-brimmed hat

Blonde in a Hat 1940S
A blonde woman models a fashionable velvet hat with a wide brim

The Crimean Tartar Saloon, SY Livadia, 1880
Engraving of the Crimean Tartar Saloon on Czar Alexander IIs steam yacht Livadia, built at John Elders shipyard, Govan, in 1880

The Cyclone Sail, 1897
Photograph of a small boat with an experimental Cyclone sail in the Solent, August 1897. This sail, shaped like an umbrella 30 foot wide, was designed to propel a boat without any heeling action

The Imperial Saloon, SY Livadia, 1880
Engraving of the Imperial Saloon on Czar Alexander IIs steam yacht Livadia, built at John Elders shipyard, Govan, in 1880

The Czars Bedroom, SY Livadia, 1880
Engraving of Czar Alexander IIs bedroom on his steam yacht Livadia, built at John Elders shipyard, Govan, in 1880. Extremely lavishly fitted out, this yacht was given a radical design

SY Livadia, 1880
Engraving of Czar Alexander IIs steam yacht Livadia, built at John Elders shipyard, Govan, in 1880. This yacht was given a radical design, supposedly based on the shape of a turbot

Seaside Costumes 1896
The year that signalled the demise of big sleeves? Puffed & gigot sleeves, wide square revers, epaulettes, high collars, pleated blouse, open bodice fastened with bands

Tres chic
Autumn fashions featuring a pink and black dress, and a wide-brimmed hat which the wearer admires in a mirror

Paddle Steamer on Nile
Paddle Steamer and Pleasure Cruiser make steady progress through the calm wide channel of the Nile

Stall by the Nile
A small Bazaar on the banks of the Nile supplying a wide variety of merchandise from a very small hut

Ayrton and Perrys new electric railway
Professors Ayrton and Perrys new electric railway, exhibited at the Crystal Palace Electric Exhibition in 1882. Ayrton and Perry met at the Imperial College of Engineering and Japan

Electropathic belt
Advertisement from 1885 for the Pall Mall Electric Associations Electropathic Belt. Claiming to cure a wide range of ailments, including rheumatism, indigestion, lumbago, sciatica

Festival Lavender Girl
A Lavender Girl at Battersea Pleasure Gardens, one of the attractions of the Festival Britain. Costume styled by by Peggy Page, fabric by Balcora

Orange & Lavender Girls
A " Nell Gwyn" Orange Girl and a Lavender Girl at Battersea Pleasure Gardens, part of the Festival of Britain. Costumes styled by Peggy Page, fabric by Balcora

1930S Ermine Coat
An unusual, yet typically 1930s coat with wide sleeve tops & flaring skirt in ermine. The diagonal cut gives added interest. This is apparently a summer coat!

Pin-Up & Creme De Menthe
Smiling, wide-eyed pin-up girl, wearing very little, stands in front of a Christmas tree with a glass of what looks suspiciously like creme de menthe

Pin-Up with Red Towel
Shocked blonde model wraps a red towel more tightly round her to protect her modesty from voyeuristic prying eyes

Popov the Clown
Popov the clown fools around during a visit by the Moscow State Circus to Cornwall, England

Hippopotami 1909
Three hippopotami (hippopotamus amphibius), one of them with his mouth wide open and a lovely set of teeth

Woman in Trousers 1939
A young woman wearing a pair of wide leg trousers, high heels and a blouse with very large buttons down the front and very small buttons at the cuffs. Date: 1939

Avenida 9 De Julio
An aerial view of Avenida 9 de Julio, Buenos Aires. It is the widest boulevard in the world at 130 metres wide

Jack Tar Suit 1895
Blonde boy in a Jack Tar suit: white sailor blouse with pale blue collar & cuffs & black Jack Tar trousers & neckcloth, straw sailor hat with wide evase brim & ribbon band

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