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Komuso Buddhist monks, Japan. They wear a straw basket (tengai) over their head and play a bamboo flute (shakuhachi). Date: circa 1890s
Margot Fonteyn repairing her ballet shoesMargot Fonteyn (1919-1991), British ballet dancer, pictured at her Kensington home repairing her ballet shoes around the time she danced the role of Aurora in Sleeping Beauty at a Royal Command Gala
Lord Dufferin, 8th Viceroy of IndiaFrederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826-1902), 8th Viceroy of India, 1884-1888. He previously served as Governor General of Canada
Elvis Presley, American musician and film star. Date: circa 1950s
Autocar Poster -- Circuit des Ardennes raceAutocar Poster -- British driver Charles Jarrott winning the Circuit des Ardennes race in the famous 70 Panhard. His average speed during the race was 54 mph. Date: 1903
Artistic Italian nude standing amid stylised watery backdropdraped drape sheer white cloth nudity nude model poses pose posing stylised artistic postcard erotic naked woman Italian backdrop studio photography photograph attractive form body Date: circa 1905
The Easter Rising - Dublin, IrelandThe Easter Rising also known as the Easter (or Irish ) Rebellion and referred to erroneously in some contemporary British reports as the Sinn Fein Rebellion - an armed insurrection staged in Ireland
WW2 Memorabilia - Damaged Cafe informing suppliersWW2 Home Front Memorabilia - Damaged Cafe Colette of Swallow Street, London sending information on a printed card to inform suppliers that (likely due to Bomb damage)
Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA - Greetings Postcard Date: 1895
The Central Powers of WWIWith United Forces (the motto of Emperor Franz Josef I) - patriotic depiction of the Central Powers of WWI - Germany, Turkey and Austro-Hungary
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire - Market Place Date: circa 1910s
West Indies Cricket Team - 1957 Tour - SignaturesThe West Indies Cricket Team - Tour of England 1957. Featured are the brilliant (Sir) Garfield (Gary) Sobers, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, (Sir) Wesley Winfield Hall and Sonny Ramadhin
Main Street, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland with a decorative (rather kitsch!) border. Date: circa 1910s
Leven Thistle Golf Club and Scoonie Burn, ScotlandThe Scoonie Burn, crossing the Leven Thistle Golf Club (founded i 1867), Leven, the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland. Date: circa 1910s
Greenan Castle, South Ayrshire, Scotland - a 16th century tower house, possibly on the site of an ancient fort. Date: circa 1908
Leven, Fife, ScotlandView of Leven, Fife, Scotland Date: 1913
The Black Rhinoceros Charging, by Thomas Baines (1820-1875). (4 of 5) Date: 1874
Landscape by Thomas GainsboroughAn extensive wooded landscape with peasants on a path, a horse at a ford, a cottage beyond, by Thomas Gainsborough RA (1727-1788)
A Street Scene in Cairo, by Charles Robertson (1844-1891)
County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch, MiddlesexThe Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum was opened in 1851 at Colney Hatch, near Friern Barnet, Middlesex. It later became known as Colney Hatch Mental Hospital and then as Friern Hospital
Fortnum & Masons Christmas Box for soldiers, WW1Advertisement for quintessential London department store, Fortnum & Mason, in particular their Thirty Shilling Xmas Box of selected provisions which could be sent to the front for lucky soldiers
Yachting at CowesIn the foaming wake of a racing cutter Date: 1914
Quayside at Castletownbere, Co. Cork, IrelandThe Quayside at Castletownbere - a small town in County Cork in Ireland. Located on the southwest coast of Ireland, in West Cork, by Berehaven harbour near the entrance to Bantry Bay
Meat Loaf in concert, Penwith, CornwallMeat Loaf in concert at the Penwith Rock Festival, Cornwall. Date: 1983
Stourhead, Wiltshire. Date: 1960s
Beatrix Potter Date: circa
Daffodil flower facesEaster greetings card. Childrens faces in flowers were very popular at the turn of the 20th century. Date: circa 1906
Hexham, Northumberland, in the snow. Date: late 19th century
Henley RegattaA stylised illustration of a view at Henley Regatta, started in 1839 by a local solicitor and one of the highlights of the summer social calendar being the most famous rowing event of the year
Autocar Poster -- Targa Florio race, SicilyAutocar Poster -- Italian champion Felice Nazzaro driving the Fiat car in which he won the Targa Florio race in Sicily. His average speed for the race was around 33 mph on gruelling mountain roads
1902 Coronation Birds Custard Powder advertisementA patriotic advertisement for Birds Custard Powder placed in the Coronation Number of The Graphic celebrating the Coronation of King Edward VII and featuring a crown on top of a packet. Date: 1902
Shakespeare Exhibition at Earls Court, LondonLondons great attraction: what to see in Shakespeares England. How to find and identify the chief reconstructions of old Tudor buildings at Earls Court. Date: 1912
Britains frogmen divers by G. H. DavisIntroducing Britains frog-men: diving wreckers who blasted open a path to the Normandy beaches. These underwater commandos worked off the D-Day beaches
Singapore, bastion in the East, by G. H. DavisBritains great bastion in the East: Singapore, stubborn obstacle to Japans ambitious projects in Southern Asia during the Second World War
British RAF aeroplanes in 1939 by G. H. DavisThe huge array of aircraft in the RAF in 1939, imposing for its size and variety. 37 types of machine, ranging from the Sunderland flying boat to light trainers
Two Wellington bombers by G. H. DavisTwo Wellington bombers: two outstanding aircraft ready to strike. Equally famous in attack and defence: a Wellington MK 1A and (above) a Wellington Mk II. Date: 1940
Boy in a tree with cat and owl, by Muriel DawsonA little boy sitting in a tree with a black cat and an owl, by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1920s
Battenberg childrenThe four children of Prince Louis of Battenberg, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven and Princess Victoria of Hesse. Clockwise from left: Princess Louise, later Lady Louise Mountbatten (1889-1965)
Map of the St. Jamess & Bond Street areas of LondonA map of the St. Jamess and Bond Street areas of London, with a number of key landmarks annotated including the famous gentlemens clubs of St
Mrs George Keppel and her daughterAlice Keppel, mistress of King Edward VII, pictured with her debutante daughter, Violet (later Trefusis). The Tatler reports that Mrs Keppel threw a wonderfully successful ball at the beginning of
Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple, Thiruvananthapuram, IndiaSree Padmanabhaswamy temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu located in Thiruvananthapuram, India. The shrine is run by a trust headed by the royal family of Travancore. Date: 1924
Large Letter Card - Greetings from Wisconsin, USA - Americas Dairyland. Date: circa 1940
Horse-drawn cart for Trumans Brewery in Ashford, KentDelightful horse-drawn cart for Trumans Brewery in Ashford, Kent. Trumans Brewery (founded in 1666) of Brick Lane in the Spitalfields area of London eventually closed in 1989. Date: circa 1910s
Duke of York - Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon - Engagement PhotoJanuary 1923 -The official Engagement photograph of the Duke of York (later King George VI 1895-1952) and his fiancee Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother - 1900-2002)
Madeira Cove - Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England Date: circa 1950s
St. Louis Worlds Fair - Festival Hall and CascadesSt. Louis Worlds Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition), St. Louis, Missouri, USA - Festival Hall and Cascades Date: 1904
London in fog - a real Pea Souper. The statue of Queen Boudicca of the Iceni on the banks of the River Thames at Westminster at is rended into dramatic silhouette
Widener Library at Harvard University, USAWidener Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Date: 1915