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Bossington OP01574
Bossington, Somerset, 1890-'1910. Unknown photographer, probably Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell Lyte (1848-'1940), platinum print

Shoreham Cement Works JLP01_01_028_017
Shoreham Cement Works, Upper Beeding, West Sussex, 9 August 1950. John Laing plc, silver gelatin DOP (developing out paper) print

Diamond Jubilee Procession DD97_00473
Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee Procession, Green Park Arch, London, 22 June 1897. York & Son silver gelatin DOP (developing out paper) print

North aisle of Westminster Abbey AL2028_014_01
The north aisle of Westminster Abbey, London. Victor Albert Proutas album of photographs. The interior of the Abbey of Westminster was published in 1860

Mersey Tunnel AL1908_036_01
The Mersey Tunnel, Liverpool, 17 July 1934. Stewart Bale Ltd was commissioned as official photographer to record the construction of the first Mersey road tunnel, known as Queensway

Oxford Arms Inn AL1827_006_01
Oxford Arms Inn, Oxford Arms Passage, Warwick Lane, City of London. Alfred and John Bool (1850-'1933) of Pimlico photographed the Oxford Arms Inn

Crypt Hythe Church AL0196_007_02
St Leonards Church, Hythe, Kent. This image shows the ossuary, or bone store, in the vaulted ambulatory beneath the chancel of St Leonards Church

Captain Edward J. Smith, RMS Titanic
Captain of the RMS Titanic, Edward J. Smith - original unpublished first generation photograph posing by a lifeboat on deck. 4 x 3 inches

Canadian Pacific Empress of Britain - cover design, passenger list. Date: circa 1920s

RMS Titanic - Titanic passengers rescued by Carpathia
RMS Titanic - Hutchinson Archive - first generation image of the passengers on the Hutchinsons table on board the Carpathia, with handwritten notation naming them

RMS Titanic - photograph of icebergs, Atlantic Ocean
RMS Titanic - Hutchinson Archive - original photograph of icebergs at the Titanic wreck site. 5.5 x 3.5 inches

RMS Lusitania - en route to New York, August 1912
RMS Lusitania - Hutchinson Archive. Original photograph taken on board the Lusitania en route to New York on 22 August 1912

Folk Dancers in Wembley Stadium - Festival of Youth Date: 1937

Students playing cricket steam train in background
Students playing cricket (steam train in background) Date: 1905

Fire Drill! Date: 1930s

Nathan Natty, 1st Baron Rothschild
Liberal politician, banker, philanthropist and father of Walter Rothschild, he built what became the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum

Giant tortoise being fed at Tring Park
In 1897 Walter Rothschild despatched explorer Charles Harris to the Galapagos islands to collect a large number of giant tortoises

Dr Karl Jordan (1875-1972)
Curator of entomology at Walter Rothschilds Zoological Museum at Tring from 1893, beyond Rothschilds death and up to the transition to the Natural History Museum at Tring in 1938

Emma Rothschild (1844-1935)
Mother of Tring Museum founder Walter Rothschild

Emu, rheas and kangaroos at Tring Park
Live animals collected by Walter Rothschild in the grounds of Tring Park, with keeper Mr Marcham, 1890 Date: 1890

Southern cassowary by JG Keulemans
Hand-coloured lithograph of cassowary head by JG Keulemans (c. 1898), based on the live animals at Walter Rothschilds Museum at Tring

Alfred Minall, taxidermist
Alfred Minall working on specimens in the shed housing the beginnings of Walter Rothschilds Museum collection, 1890 Date: 1890

Walter Rothschild Bird skin collection, 1933
Packed for shipping. The majority of Rothschilds (280, 000 items) bird skin collection was sold the AMNH in New York after he ran into financial difficulties

Walter Rothschild & collecting party, Algeria
Rothschild (second from right) undertook three separate ornithological collecting expeditions to Algeria in 1908, 1909 and 1911, along with Ernst Hartert

James III of Mallorca the Rash (1315-1349). King of Mallorca (1324-1349). Llibre de les Franqueses i Privilegis del Regne de Mallorca. 1334-39. Fol. 374. Gothic art. Painting. SPAIN. BALEARES

Spain (19th c. ). Economy (1885)
SPAIN. Barcelona. Sants Montjuic. Textile company La Espa񡠉 ndustrial, dedicated to spinning, weaving and printing of cotton. Founded in 1847 in Madrid and moved to Barcelona in 1851

Rabanus Maurus. De Rerum Naturis, 11th c
RABANUS, Maurus (c. 780 - 856). De universo or De rerum naturis. 842 - 847. Codex 132. Heaven and zodiac signs. Edition of the 11th century from the original Carolingian manuscript. Romanesque art

TOWER OF LONDON: CHAPEL. Interior of the Chapel of St. John, or Norman Chapel, built, 1080, in the White Tower. The chapel was used as a record repository at the time, 1801

Women chatting over fence
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Women with rake clippers and trowel chatting over picket fence. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Shack
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Shack with no admittance and no trespassing signs outside. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Delinquent Boys
A clergyman comes across a group of boys gambling in the churchyard, circa 1890. An engraving by Brend Amour. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Will Rogers State Beach in Los Angeles County, California, circa 1920. (Photo by Frederic Lewis/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Ancient Law
The ancient Greeks share their laws with the Romans, circa 100 BC. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Due Aquile, Benito Mussolini posing beneath an eagle
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945) symbolically posing beneath an eagle. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Edisons Black Maria
circa 1912: Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931) was a prolific inventor and physicist. He invented the kinetoscope in 1891 and in 1912 produced the first talking motion pictures

Children dance in the street to an organ grinder. Sandgate 1890 dance / dancing / party season / celebration / happy vintage news archive

A cook shop owned by Mr Bayliss in Drury Lane, London, England. It was a place where discharged convicts could stay on their release from prison

Cooking dinners at the communal ovens in the East End of London. 1933

The Anglo-Bavarian Brewery in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. c. 1900
The Anglo-Bavarian Brewery in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. c.1900

Teaching young women cooking in a kitchen 1950s

A barmaid cleaning a beer tankard in the Globe Tavern. A state owned pub in Longtown, Carlisle, Cumbria, England. December 1948

Cliff Hotel, Cheddar, Somerset, England undated

Cat in dumbwaiter at public house in Bellingham, London. 1939

Tea break at the Eltham Boys Boxing Club. 1936

Famous French Maitre Chef de Cuisine, M. A
Famous French Maitre Chef de Cuisine, M.A. Alban in the grill kitchen at the Savoy hotel with members of the big kitchen staff. 19 February 1948

The Civic Restaurant in Foleshill, Coventry Part of the rebuilding of post war Britain, the eleven civic restaurants built not only serve food but also serve as a venue for community dances

Mechanical excavators loading chalk directly onto railway trucks for the short run to the cement works. 24th September 1949

The coffin of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, at Vienna Railway Station. January 30th 1889, found in a hunting lodge at Meyerling, the bodies of the Rodolphe archduke

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