Images Dated 5th August 2015 (#23)

Front cover design for a brochure for Liner RMS Mauretania
The attractive front cover design for a brochure for the Liner RMS Mauretania, designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson for the British Cunard Line. Date: 1922

Bystander cover 1929 - the Ruthven Twins
Portrait of the society twin sisters, Alison and Margaret Hore-Ruthven, daughters of Lord and Lady Ruthven. Alison (left) was married in 1929 to John Leighton Barran

Illustration, Peter, the fox terrier, discovers a fox (White-Ear) has been hiding in the bed. Date: 1912

Illustration, foxhounds howling in chorus
Illustration, a pack of foxhounds howling in chorus, eager to go out hunting. Date: 1912

Salmo fario, or Common Trout
Salmo fario (Salmo trutta morpha fario), or Common Trout, also known as Brown Trout. Date: 1879

Illustration, The Cat and Mouse in Partnership -- The Cat stole away behind the city walls to the church. Date: 1909

Rievaulx Abbey, near Helmsley, North Yorkshire
View of the ruins of Rievaulx Abbey (Cistercian), near Helmsley, North Yorkshire. Date: 1882

Sea Lamprey, Lampern, and Silver Lamprey
Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), Lampern (Lampetra fluviatilis or European River Lamprey), and Silver Lamprey (Ichthyomyzon unicuspis). Date: 1865

On board the Indus emigrant ship
The cover of The Graphic, 29 June 1872, including five illustrations of life on board the Indus emigrant ship, one of the London Line of Queensland Packets, which set sail from Gravesend

Snaresbrook Royal Merchant Seamens Orphanage Infirmary
A view of the infirmary building at the Merchant Seamens Orphanage, Snaresbrook, North London. Date: circa 1910

St Edwards Orphanage, Liverpool - Carpentry
St Edwards Orphanage, Broad Green, Liverpool - manual instruction room. Boys at work benches with tools

Salutes Assorted by Alfred Leete
Humorous caricatures of various Army types showing the assorted styles of salutes used. Date: 1918

Youth club poster, Beatles night
Youth club poster advertising a Beatles night -- bring your Beatle records, photos, wigs, dolls, brooches, scrap books, etc. Date: 1960s

Advertisement for Daimler hire cars with chauffeur
Advertisement for Daimler hire cars, complete with chauffeur. Showing a Daimler landaulette in front of a large country house. Date: circa 1930s

Advertisement for Pratts petrol and motor oils
Advertisement for Pratts high test petrol and motor oils, the essence of refinement. Date: circa 1930s

Catalogue cover design, Geo. H. Harrison & Sons of Leeds and London, Latest Designs in Statue Series of chocolate box tops. Date: circa 1930s

Sinanthropus, perhaps the lowest man known to science: excavating Choukoutien Cave where Peking Man dwelt 100, 000 years ago, and moulding his image. Date: 1939

Gwendoline Dyer hair salon, offering permanent waving. Date: circa 1920s

Man waiting in sidecar on a Sussex road
Man sitting waiting in a motorbike sidecar on a Sussex road, outside Sprinks Stores. Date: circa 1920s

WW1 - German fleet sail to Scapa Flow, Scotland, UK
WW1 - German fleet set sail to Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom. 74 ships of the Kaiserliche Marines High Seas Fleet were interned in Gutter Sound at Scapa Flow pending a

The fox & the crow. Aesops fable.Date: 15th century

Vickers R 23 British airship, one of four built at Barrow-in-Furness. It required a 17-man crew, first flew in September 1917

SPADs XIII of US 22nd Aero Squadron, operational from August 1918. The machines were shipped back to the USA after the war and used as fighter trainers. Seen here in a snow-covered field

Sopwith 1. 5 Strutter developed for the RNAS
Sopwith 1.5 Strutter single-seat bomber developed for the RNAS in late 1915. Seen here is serial no. N5504. Date: circa 1915-1916

Sikorsky S-38 of Pan Am (forward view, on the ground)

Short S45 Solent interior -Cabin C

Royal Aircraft Factory FE 8 single-seat fighter plane, first flown on 8 November 1915. It became obsolete by 1916. Seen here is serial no

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, US pilot and ace
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (1890-1973), US pilot and leading fighter ace with 26 confirmed victories, seen here with his Nieuport 28. Date: circa 1918

Hawker Typhoon Ib with Spitfire IXb passing in Normandy

Focke Wulf FW 189A -this twin engined tactical reconnaissance type was used extensively on the Eastern Front

Doolittle & his Tokyo Raiders, 1942 Date: 1942

Bucker Bu 131B - the standard Luftwaffes primary trainer

Bristol 156 Beaufighter VIF (forward view, flying) of No30 Squadron RaF

William George Barker, RFC pilot and air ace
William George Billy Barker (1894-1930), Canadian member of No. 9 Squadron, RFC, seen here wearing a fur coat, standing by his Sopwith Camel. His confirmed victories totalled 50

Albatros C IX used by Manfred von Richthofen
Albatros C IX prototype German biplane used by Manfred von Richthofen for personal transport. Date: circa 1917

Airco DH 4 two-seater light bomber, first flown in mid-August 1916, and used by the RFC and the RNAS. Seen here is serial no. A 7845, a reconnaissance fighter version. Date: circa 1916-1918

English Electric Lightning F. 1A XM172 56 Squadron RAF
English Electric Lightning F.1A XM172 and others from 56 Squadron RAF taxy for display at Le Bourget on 16 June 1963 Date: 1963

Hunting Percival Jet Provost T. 3 1FTS Linton-on-Ouse 1980
Hunting Percival Jet Provost T.3 from 1FTS taking off from RAF Linton-on-Ouse in 1980 Date: 1980

Bristol Britannia 312 G-AOVT Monarch Duxford 1976
Bristol Britannia 312 G-AOVT of Monarch Airlines at Duxford in 1976 Date: 1976

Douglas DC-3 G-AGYZ Skyways of London Lympne 1964
Douglas DC-3 G-AGYZ of Skyways of London at Lympne on 20 May 1964 Date: 1964

De Havilland Dragon G-ADDI Air Navigation and Trading Co
De Havilland Dragon G-ADDI of the Air Navigation and Trading Co at Blackpool in 1952, ex Railway Air Services and RAF Date: 1952

Roman military standard-bearer with the aqulia or signum of the legion, trumpeter and horn player.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of

Fallow deer with mottled back and large antlers, Dama dama.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or

Different types of colorful sea urchins and their spines.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle (Universal Dictionary of Natural History), 1849

Crested wood-partridge, Rollulus rouloul Near threatened
Crested wood-partridge, Rollulus rouloul. Near threatened.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Harlequin hummingbird, Trochilus multicolor.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

Water flea, Daphnia pulex.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, London, 1798

Lesser spotted woodpecker, Dendrocopos minor.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1792

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