Worlds Gallery
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Fairchild C-119F-FA Flying Boxcar O-18037
(ex United States Air Force) - Fairchild C-119F-FA Flying Boxcar O-18037 (msn 10915, 51-8037), at Wright Field, Wright-Patterson AFB, for display at the Air Force Museum, with Boeing KB-50J 49-0389. Delivered on 2 June 1953 to USAF as C-119F. Assigned to 456th Troop Carrier and returned to Fairchild for modification as a recovery aircraft for Discoverer reconnaissance satellite film return capsules, in 1958. The world's first mid-air recovery of a capsule return from a satellite was carried out by this aircraft on 19 August 1960, when the capsule from Discoverer XIV was recovered at 8, 000 feet altitude, 360 miles south-west of Honolulu, Hawaii. After further service in the USAF Reserve O-18037 was flown to the Air Force Museum at Wright Field, Wright-Patterson AFB, in November 1963. Date: circa 1965
© The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans A The Peter Butt Aviation Collection / Mary Evans

Chicago's World Fair - A Century of Progress - General Exhibits Group - Aerial view
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19th century vintage photograph Paris France - The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was a
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The world's largest single oilfield: Kuwait and its fabulously rich ruler
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Entrance to London Zoo
View of the entrance to the zoological gardans 1840. London Zoo is the worlds oldest scientific zoo. It was opened in London on 27 April 1828, and was originally intended to be used as a collection for scientific study. In 1831 or 1832, the animals of the Tower of London menagerie were transferred to the zoos collection. It was opened to the public in 1847. Date: 1875
© Mary Evans/Peter & Dawn Cope Collection Mary Evans/Peter & Dawn Cope Collection

The Royal Opening of the new Dry Dock at Southampton on Wednesday, July 26
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Le Salon Royal - Lyon Exposition Internationale
Le Salon Royal - Lyon Exposition Internationale (Belgian Section). The Exposition internationale urbaine de Lyon was the 1914 World's Fair in the French city of Lyon. The exposition focused on urban planning and public health. Lyon's mayor, Edouard Herriot, organised the exposition with the architect Tony Garnier and medical doctor Jules Courmont. Date: 1914
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection