Worlds Collection

De Havilland Aircraft Company Poster
Poster, De Havilland Aircraft Company, From Mildenhall to Melbourne in 70 Hours 59 Minutes winning the Worlds Greatest Race

The War of the Worlds
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS A Martian fighting-machine is destroyed by a hit from a shell

The War of the Worlds
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS The Martians fire their gas- guns

St. Louis Worlds Fair - Festival Hall and Cascades
St. Louis Worlds Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis, Missouri, USA - Festival Hall and Cascades Date: 1904

Brooklands Poster
A poster for the racing programme at Brooklands Race Tract at Weybridge, Surrey, featuring Sir Malcolm Campbell driving (at the time) the worlds fastest car, Bluebird

The War of the Worlds
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS The Martian fighting-machines in the Thames Valley

Imperial Airways Poster, Travel Luxuriously in the Worlds largest air liners, serving Europe, Africa, India and the Far East. Showing two pilots in the cockpit of a Heracles, and passengers boarding

Pietermaritzburg seen from Worlds View
The view from Worlds View, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Date: circa 1930s

The War of the Worlds
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road

Empire State Building
Construction began on March 17th 1930 and the building rose to be the worlds largest office building of the time. Here, office space is being advertised

Poster, New York World's Fair, The World of Tomorrow
Travel poster, designed by Joseph Binder, New York World?s Fair, The World of tomorrow, 1939, Grinnell Litho, New York, USA

The Pain-Proof Man & Captain Ringman Jack - Ripley s
Arthur Plumhoff The Human Pincushion - The Pain-Proof Man (left) and Captain Ringman Jack, who lifted weights through holes through his breasts

God Juggling
God depicted as a juggler, amusing himself with the worlds he has created

Wooden portrait dummy of Tutankhamun
Cover of the Illustrated London News, 24th February 1923, featuring a life-size wooden portrait dummy of Tutankhamun believed to have been used for robing purposes

First underground train, Edgware Road to Kings Cross, London
First underground train, running from Edgware Road to Kings Cross, London. Building works on the Metropolitan Line began in 1853, and the first journey took place ten years later. Date: 1863

Tunnel connecting Liverpool with Birkenhead 1926
Diagram showing where the tunnel connecting Liverpool to Birkenhead would be, under the River Mersey. Spanning 44ft wide with two desks for vehicles only

United States Navy - Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat 42874, NACA 158, of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at Moffett Naval Air Station

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - Firestone Factory and Exhibitio
Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - The Firestone Patented Gum Dipping Process in the Firestone Factory and Exhibition Building. 1933

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - Travel Building. 1933

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - Hall of Science. 1933

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - Towers, Dome of Federal Building
Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - The three fluted towers around the Dome of the Federal Building 1933

Chicago Worlds Fair 1933 - Enchanted Island - A Playground for Children - aerial view. 1933

Aerial View of the 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair site and city 1933

Shedd Aquarium - Chicago 1933 Worlds Fair - A Century of Progress, Opened in 1930. 1933

McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15 VR-CKO (msn 47151 / Line Number 285), operated by Handlingair for Adnan Khashoggi (the worlds richest man at some stage), at London Heathrow Airport. Date: circa 1990

Eskimo dog team St. Louis World's Fair USA in 1904

Eskimos in kayaks St. Louis World's Fair USA in 1904

HMS Hermes 95
Royal Navy - HMS Hermes 95, a British aircraft carrier, the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, in May 1929. Date: 1929

Travel poster, New York World's Fair, 1939
Travel Poster, 1939 New York World's Fair, lithograph in colours by Albert Staehle (A) 20ins x 13ins. Date: 1939

British Pavilion, 1899 Exposition Universelle, Paris, France

Eiffel Tower, Exposition Universelle, Paris, France

Fine Art Court (North), 1889 Exposition Universelle, Paris, France

Ferris Wheel and Swedish Restaurant - St. Louis World's Fair
Ferris Wheel and Swedish Restaurant at the St. Louise World's Fair in 1904

The Brussels International Exposition in 1897. Date: 1897

Advert for Hoover, World's Best Vacuum Cleaner Date: 1947

WW2 - Supermarine Seaplane
An illustration of a BritishVickers Supermarine Seaplane which won the Schneider trophy for Great Britain in 1931, setting the world's speed record at 407 mph

Guinness Brewery, Dubllin - Massive storage vats
Storage Vats at St. James's Gate - the Guinness Brewery in Dublin, Ireland. There are 179 vats like this in which the stout beer is stored before being drawn off into casks for distribution to

HMS Hermes 95, aircraft carrier
Royal Navy - HMS Hermes 95, a British aircraft carrier, the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier. Date: circa 1938

White Star Line, RMS Titanic and Olympic, postcard
White Star Line, RMS Titanic and Olympic, Philco Publishing Company photo card of ships in ?The World?s Greatest Gantry? in the Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Belfast, bordered by shamrocks

Trylon and Perisphere, Theme Center, New York World's Fair, USA Date: 1939

Pirelli Tyres Advertisement
An advertisement illustration for Pirelli Ltd, promoting the world's best tyre of to-day and the future. The artistic

Ocean Liners - selection of jigsaw puzzles and books. Victory plywood jigsaw puzzle of RMS Queen Mary. Victory plywood jigsaw puzzle of Southampton Docks, aerial view featuring Olympic, Majestic

Cover design, The Cunard Line, Chicago World's Fair
Cover design, The Cunard Line. Published in connection with The World's Fair, Chicago, 1893, hardbound volume. Date: 1893

White Star Line - two brochures. L: RMS Majestic foldout brochure, circa 1922, 56, 621 Tons, The World's Largest Liner. 28 x 6 inches. R: Souvenir of a Visit to a White Star Liner, circa 1925

White Star Line, Olympic, Homeric, Majestic, cover design
White Star Line - promotional brochure cover design for the Olympic, Homeric and Majestic, The World's Largest Liners, over 20 pages. Date: 1923

Cover design, Other Worlds, pulp science fiction magazine, January 1953 Date: 1953

Cover design, Marvel Science Stories, science fiction pulp magazine Date: 1939

Cover design, Blue Book Magazine, pulp fiction, January 1934 Date: 1934

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