De Havilland Aircraft Company PosterPoster, De Havilland Aircraft Company, From Mildenhall to Melbourne in 70 Hours 59 Minutes winning the Worlds Greatest Race
The War of the WorldsTHE WAR OF THE WORLDS A Martian fighting-machine is destroyed by a hit from a shell
St. Louis Worlds Fair - Festival Hall and CascadesSt. Louis Worlds Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis, Missouri, USA - Festival Hall and Cascades Date: 1904
Brooklands PosterA 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
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 ViewThe view from Worlds View, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Date: circa 1930s
The War of the WorldsTHE WAR OF THE WORLDS The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road
Empire State BuildingConstruction 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
The Pain-Proof Man & Captain Ringman Jack - Ripley sArthur Plumhoff The Human Pincushion - The Pain-Proof Man (left) and Captain Ringman Jack, who lifted weights through holes through his breasts
God JugglingGod depicted as a juggler, amusing himself with the worlds he has created
Eskimo dog team St. Louis World's Fair USA in 1904
Eskimos in kayaks St. Louis World's Fair USA in 1904
HMS Hermes 95Royal 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, 1939Travel 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 FairFerris 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 SeaplaneAn 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 vatsStorage 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 carrierRoyal 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, postcardWhite 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
Poster, New York World's Fair, The World of TomorrowTravel poster, designed by Joseph Binder, New York World?s Fair, The World of tomorrow, 1939, Grinnell Litho, New York, USA
Trylon and Perisphere, Theme Center, New York World's Fair, USA Date: 1939
Pirelli Tyres AdvertisementAn 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 FairCover 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 designWhite 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
The Paris exhibition at night. The Exposition Universally of 1900, better known in English as the 1900 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held in Paris, France
RMS Queen Elizabeth, the World's Largest Liner, Cunard White Star
Dalgety & Company Rolls Royce AdvertisementAn advertisement illustration for Dalgety & Company Limited, promoting The world's best car, the Rolls Royce, seen in the image, a yellow model, parked outside a grand pillared building
Castell AdvertisementAn advertisement for Castell pencils. The Pencils artists can rely upon. Founded in 1761, Faber Castell is one of the world's largest and oldest manufacturers of pens
Neville and Anne Chamberlain in the parkPrime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) with his wife Anne (1883-1967) taking a stroll in the park. The watching soldiers are signallers under instruction. Date: 1939
Photograph of crowds, at the Birkbeck Bank Scare: the scene outside the Bank's Premises, Southampton Buildings. From a section, The World's Pageant'
Photographs of Gainsborough shooting party, outdoor sporting portraits and group shot. Captioned, Those Idle Rich: The Earl of Gainsborough's Birthday shooting party, at Exton Park, Rutland'
Photograph of rail strike in France, with soldier and striking worker with rifles and bayonets, on railway line by signals, at the exit from a tunnel
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
The World's First PostcardThe idea of a postal card which could be used at half the letter rate was that of Heinrich von Stephan in 1865. Later that year
Thomas Edison's Display, Paris Exhibition of 1889Thomas Edison's Display at the Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889
Pavilion the Republic of Argentina, Paris Exhibition of 1889Pavilion the Republic of Argentina, Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889
USA Marine Detachment, Paris Exhibition of 1889USA Marine Detachment at the Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889
Pavilion of Venezuela, Paris Exhibition of 1889Pavilion of Venezuela, Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889