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His Masters Breath - SatireHis Masters Breath Satirical play on the dog/gramophone logo for His Masters Voice, substituting the music player for a whiskey jar and funnel
Setting off on a Fox Hunt - leaving the ChateauA group of Upper Class French Gentlemen and lady set off on a Fox Hunt - leaving the Chateau along with attendant handlers, Master of the hounds, horn bearers
The Market Cross, Devizes, Wiltshire. The cross bears the salutary tale of Ruth Pierce, accused of cheating some buyers at the market, which led to her mysterious death
Tsai Shen Yeh - The Chinese God of wealthTsai Shen Yeh is a Chinese God of wealth (often also called Lu Shing or The Star God of Wealth). Images of the God can be seen in many Chinese and oriental houses and buildings
Les Diablerets, SwitzerlandLes Diablerets - a village and ski resort located in the municipality of Ormont-Dessus in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Date: circa 1920s
Saucy dancer, wearing only balloons - Following raidSaucy dancer, wearing only balloons, following a police raid: " You can t pin anything on me!" Date: late 1930s
Bricklayers / Workmen / 1856A pair of bricklayers building a wall Date: 1856
The Plane - and the Beautiful by Albert BaileyA group of young women, attired in elegant swimwear, wave to an aeroplane flying up ahead. Date: 1927
The Hotel and Church, Lundy Island, Bristol Channel Date: circa 1938
Pietermaritzburg seen from Worlds ViewThe view from Worlds View, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Date: circa 1930s
Barred from Womens Lecture for wearing bloomersA woman wearing bloomers is stopped by a Vicar from entering a Lecture (for Women Only !) as she is wearing bloomers, which Rev Self Righteous views as totally unsuitable for a lady! Date: 1911
Streamlined Rock Island Rocket - American trainStreamlined Rock Island Rocket of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad - Innovative (and futuristic) American diesel-electric passenger locomotive design built by the Budd Company
A Good Samaritan - Indian Soldier - WWIA Good Samaritan - Colonial Indian Soldier from Delhi aids a wounded French trooper - WWI. He leads him to the safety of the Allied lines on the back of a Donkey Date: circa 1917
Demolition of a Factory Chimney - Chorley, Lancashire Date: circa late 1950s
A Texans eye view of the USA, with a certain state having slightly more georgraphical significance than the physical reality....!! Date: circa 1930s
1953 FA Cup FinalAt Wembley Stadium, the Queen, with the Duke of Edinburgh and FA Secretary Sir Stanley Rous either side of her, presents a Cup-winners medal to Stanley Matthews of Blackpool
Russian Football MatchStylised painting of an early 1930s Russian Football match Date: 1931
Market Reports Series - Country Ducks arrivingOne of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series. Country Ducks arrived in excellent condition. Date: 1903
Royal Horse Artillery - Gun TeamRoyal Horse Artillery Gun Team - Horse artillery differs from field artillery in that the whole gun detachment is mounted and the gun and wagon aretherefore freed from the load of men
Ruse, Bulgaria - The Paddlesteamer KrumRuse, Bulgaria - the most significant Bulgarian river port - The Paddlesteamer Krum. Date: circa 1910s
Potsdamer Platz - Berlin, Germany with a view of the Leipziger Srasse Date: circa 1910s
Verdi Falstaff ParisGIUSEPPE VERDI the Italian opera composer rehearsing Falstaff at Paris in 1894 Date: 1813-1901
MAP / ASIA 1763Map of Asia Date: 1763
Listening to an early Telephone ReceiverListening to an early telephone receiver. " A Word to the Wise is Sufficient." Date: circa 1903
Mortar Calculations - Fort Wright - Fishers Island, New YorkDirecting the range of the Mortars - Fort Wright - Fishers Island - New York, USA. Military Cadets using complex higher mathematical formulae and telephone instructions to work out the exact aiming
Procession of Horse Guardsmen - London Date: circa 1910s
Russian Grenadier Guardsman on skisSoldier of the Russian regiment of foot grenadiers of the Guard. A hunter-scout wearing skis. Date: 1900
Rostov on the Don River, Russia - Unloading grainUnloading of grain on the banks of the Don River - Rostov-on-Don - the administrative center of Rostov Oblast, Russia. Date: 1903
Sporting Gal and her horse - Dumb LuckDumb Luck Sporting Gal and her horse bemoaning the lack of success in the previous race. Dobbin is still the lucky recipient of a chunk of finest Tate & Lyle... Date: circa 1910
Mounted guards destined for the Front - WWIMounted guards - British Military heading for the Western Front at the start of World War One. Date: circa 1915
Sale of Indian cornThe government sale of Indian corn at Cork, Ireland. Date: 1846
Staged Seppuku Harakiri Ceremony - JapanA (thankfully) staged Seppuku or Harakiri ceremony (from the late Edo period) of ritual suicide. A Japanese man has opened a cut in his abdomen in front of two witnesses
Senora Carmen Romero Rubio de Diaz (1864-1944), second wife of Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico. Date: circa 1904
Grand Hotel Victoria at Damascus, SyriaHotel Victoria in Damascus, Syria - famous for a meeting between Allenby, King Faisal and Lawrence of Arabia. Date: 1905
American Valentines Day cardTo my Sweetheart An amorous young chap in full pierrot fig, presenting his beloved (wearing her prettiest purple ball gown) with a giant heart as a sign of his affection. Date: circa 1910s
A girl says goodbye to War-bound partnerSweet Jenny Gray (song lyric) Jenny Gray, tis dawn of day, and we two must part, All your tears, dear, that start find their way to my heart; Dear Old England borrows all its sunshine from you
The Badges of Cavalry Regimants in the British Army 1915Thirty-one regiments, divided into three regiments of Household Cavalry and twenty-eight regiments of the line. Of these latter seven are regiments of Dragoon Guards, three of Dragoons
German holding up the other Central PowersRussian caricature from WWI era showing Germany struggling to support the failing efforts of their allies, the other Central Powers, The Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria (?). Date: circa 1917
Tapping a rubber tree in Sri Lanka Date: circa 1910s
South Sudan - Village Women - Tonga Date: circa 1910s
St Malo, Brittany, France (Emerald Coast)Lightermen (and women) (" Garbarriers" ) - at St Malo, Brittany, France. Lightermen were workers who transferred goods between ships and quays
Egyptian Shadoof - Irrigation system on the River NileEgyptian Shadoof at Cairo, raising water from the Nile to irrigate fields. The shadoof was originally developed in ancient Mesopotamia, and appears on a Sargonid seal of around 2000 BCE
Carling Number 2 Mobile Home - Charles LouvetA very early prototype mobile home - The Carling Number 2 - designed by French automotive engineer Charles Louvet, photographed in Nice in 1925
Map and location of YMCA Hotel - Chicago, USA Date: circa 1930s
French satirical cartoon - criticism of Second Boer War (1899-1902). The British army is pictured as ranks of cloned mules
South Sudan - Dinka Tribal Village at Bor, Bahr-el-Jebel Date: circa 1910s
Avenue de la Gare - Berck-Plage, France Date: 1909
South Sudan - Shulluk Girls of the White Nile - a fantastic photograph. Two carry large woven baskets on their heads. Date: circa 1910s
