Images Dated 22nd February 2011

1862 Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs

Lithograph with later hand colouring combining two of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins six wall posters "Waterhouse Hawkins Diagrams of the Extinct Animals" produced for the Department of Science and Art in 1862. It includes nearly all the dinosaurs known up to that date. From left 1 & 2 Iguanodon, 3 Hylaeosaurus, 4&5 Megalosaurus. On cliffs in background are pterosaurs (not dnosaurs). In 1855 Waterhouse Hawkins produced lifesize reconstructions, with the scientific help of Richard Owen, for the gardens of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. When that project was curtailed he continued to use the designs for artwork such as this, also producing scale models of the sculptures for sale. Later he travelled to the USA where he began work on a similar project in New York's Central Park using more complete skeletal remains of dinosaurs recently discovered there. Sadly that project was never completed

© This image is Paul D. Stewart 2009. Do not reproduce without permission of the photographer at Stewartpauld@aol.com

TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, 1945. Members of the Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group at a briefing at Ramitelli Airfield, Italy, March 1945. Photograph by Toni Frissell. First row, left to right: Gentry Barnes, Samuel Watts, Wendell Lucas. 2nd row: Harold Morris, John Porter, Joseph Chineworth. 3rd row: Unidentified, Wyrain Schell

TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, 1945.
Members of the Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group at a briefing at Ramitelli Airfield, Italy, March 1945. Photograph by Toni Frissell. First row, left to right: Gentry Barnes, Samuel Watts, Wendell Lucas. 2nd row: Harold Morris, John Porter, Joseph Chineworth. 3rd row: Unidentified, Wyrain Schell

© none

Chartists Occupy Church

Members of the Chartist movement for social and political reform occupying a church to in protest at the political stance of the church authorities, circa 1839. Some of the men are showing their contempt for the church by wearing hats and smoking during the service. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

© 2011 Getty Images