Wonders Collection

Hanging Gardens Babylon
Allegedly built by Nebushadnezzar II for his wife Amyitis, who missed her homeland, Iraq. They were grown on terraces & used water from the Euphrates River

Sir Isaac Newton -
SIR ISaC NEWTON - watches the apples dropping in his Lincolnshire garden - and wonders why they fall ? Date: 1642-1727

Hanging Gardens / Babylon
Allegedly built by Nebushadnezzar II for his wife Amyitis, who missed her homeland, Iraq. They were grown on terraces & used water from the Euphrates River

The Pyramids and Sphinx, Giza, Egypt
The Pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza, Cairo, Egypt

Medals Awarded for Gallantry or Life-Saving at Sea - top row (L-R) Stanhope gold medal awarded by the Royal Humane Society for the bravest life-saving deed of the year

Palace of Wonders, Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Palace of Wonders (or House of Wonders, Beit-al-Ajaib), Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanganyika, British East Africa (now Tanzania). It was built in 1883 for the second sultan. Date: late 1920s

Lawyer / Fashionable Wigs
A barrister wonders if a more fashionable style of wig could help him impress the jurors

Buildings / Seven Wonders
Built by the Greeks, almost entirely in marble, in Ephesus, now part of Turkey. Destroyed by Herostratus in 356 BC in an attempt to immortalise his name

Man / Wardrobe / Topcoat
A smartly-dressed man looks in his wardrobe and wonders which topcoat to wear

The Wonders of the World - some of the principal architectural gems of the world in 1913, including the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, The Washington Monument

Four Bristol Jupiter Engine - Imperial Airways liner Scylla
The Four Bristol Jupiter Engine of the Imperial Airways liner Scylla - Wonders of World Aviation part 17, June 1938 Date: 1938

Advert, A Double Diamond works wonders, Pale Ale Beer

Shipping Wonders of the World, four cover designs
Shipping Wonders of the World, Romance of the Seven Seas in Story and Picture, four cover designs in a weekly series, Parts 1-4. Date: 20th century

RMS Mauretania, transatlantic liner, at Southampton
RMS Mauretania, transatlantic liner, being painted at Southampton Date: 1936

Ships in the Corinth Canal Date: 1936

Archibald Russell, Finnish square-rigger ship
Going aloft on board the Archibald Russell, Finnish square-rigger ship Date: 1936

Monarch of Bermuda, Furness Withy liner Date: 1936

Normandie, French transatlantic liner Date: 1936

Empress of Britain, Canadian Pacific liner
Canadian Pacific Liner, Empress of Britain in floodlight Date: 1936

RAF Avro Anson reconnaissance plane escorting King George VI and Queen Elizabeth across the English Channel, 19 July 1938 Date: 1938

Statue of Zeus at Olympia and the Temple of Artemis
Statue of Zeus at Olympia 2, and the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur

The colossus at Rhodes, ancient lighthouse. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or the Tomb of Mausolus 2, 3, built by five architects Scopas, Bryaxis, Timotheus, Leochares and Pythis

The city walls of Babylon surrounding the hanging gardens and the tower of Babel. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Hanging gardens of Babylon
The hanging gardens of Babylon. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792

Great pyramid of Giza
The great pyramid of Giza 1, interior chambers 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792

Poster, Great Barrier Coral Reef, Australia
Poster, The Marine Wonders of the Great Barrier Coral Reef, Australia -- Take a Kodak, designed by Trompf. 1933

Sphinx and Pyramids at Giza, Cairo, Egypt
Sphinx and the Pyramids at Giza, Cairo, Egypt Date: circa 1909

HAULING WOOD, MINNESOTA
hauling wood in Minnesota. This enormous stack of logs is piled (how, one wonders ?) onto a sledge which is dragged over the ice by a team of four horses. Date: 1893

THE FAIRY-CIRCLE
A knight of the Round Table, riding at night, sees the circle of fairies - in the days when the land was full of signs and wonders

HOGARTH DISTRESSED POET
The Distressed Poet A poor poet wonders what to write, while his wife is unable to pay the milkmaids bill. Date: 1736/37

Papa Explains Nature
Papa explains the wonders of nature to his children Date: 1869

The Colossus of Rhodes. Engraving by Philip Galle (1537-1612
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Colossus of Rhodes. Engraving by Philip Galle (1537-1612) after Martin van Heemskerck (1498-1574). 16th century. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City

7 Wonders / Diana / Parr
Built by the Greeks, almost entirely from marble, in Ephesus, now part of Turkey. Destroyed by Herostratus in 356 BC in an attempt to immortalise his name

Great Pyramid and Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt
The Great Pyramid (Pyramid of Cheops) and the Great Sphinx of Giza, Egypt. The Great Pyramid is the oldest and largest pyramid of the pyramid complex of Giza

Lighthouse of Alexandria. Engraving by Philip Galle (1537-16
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Lighthouse of Alexandria. Engraving by Philip Galle (1537-1612) after Martin van Heemskerck (1498-1574). 16th century. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Christina of St. Trond, nun of Liege, Belgium aka Mirabilis known for wonders associated with her, also known as Saint Christina the Astonishing Date: 1150-1224

The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt - Aerial Photograph. Date: circa 1930s

BLAEU, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638); BLAEU, Jan (1596-1673). Atlas Novus or Atlas Maior. 1635 - 1665. Detail of the world map with the construction of the Khufus Pyramid

The Last Aztecs - Maximo and Bartolo
Two sideshow exhibits, Maximo and Bartola, both sufferes of microcephaly, who were billed by freakshow promoters as The Last Aztecs

Turkey Ephesus
Excavations at Ephesus, near Izmir : working on the site of the temple of Diana, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world

Ufos / Books / Ummo
Enrique Lopez Guerrero MIRANDO A LA LEJANIA DEL UNIVERSO (Wonders from the distant universe) Spanish study of the alleged Ummo contacts with Earth

Herostratus
Citizen of Ephesus who, to make his name immortal, burnt down the Temple of Diana, one of the seven wonders of the world. He succeeded in his aim

7 Wonders / Pharos / Anon
Constructed by Sostratus of Cnidus, for Ptolemy Philadelphus: its light could be seen 50 km out to sea

7 Wonders / Pharos / White
Constructed by Sostratus of Snidus, for Ptolemy Philadelphus. Its light could be seen 50 km out at sea

Schmidt / Pyramids / Meroe
The pyramids at Meroe

Cairo, Egypt - The Pyramids of Giza - Khufu, Khafra and Menkaure. Date: circa 1930s

Distant view of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India from Agra Fort
Distant view of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India from the Musamman Burj (Agra Fort) Date: circa 1908

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