Images Dated 23rd February 2010

Upper Street, Islington, London

The top end of Upper Street, next to the Highbury and Islington roundabout. The Cock Tavern (still there) is on the right and a horse tram is heading south toward the Angel

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Scenes of peasant working life, Ireland

These illustrations show women and men engaged in activities such as carding wool, spinning, sowing, threshing, minnowing and scutching'. These traditional working methods depicted were common in rural and farming communities during the 19th century in Ireland

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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Winged Assyrian Bull

Winged, human-headed bull, from the facade of the Palace of King Sargon II, Khorsabad, Late Assyrian Period, c.725 BC (gypsum), One of two alabaster guardian genies called lamassu that assured the foundations of the world and those of the palace of Sargon of Assyria, at Khorsabad. Date: circa 725 BC

© Mary Evans/AISA Media