Direction Collection (#6)

Queen Elizabeths Pocket Pistol, Dover, 20th century

The large annual caravans heading north, Gourara, Algeria, 1903. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 8th March 1903

The Bosnian pavilion at the Universal Exhibition of 1900, Paris, 1900. Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a worlds fair held in Paris, France

Calendar for 1900. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 1st January 1900

Post-office employees improvise, 1899. Artist: Henri Meyer
Post-office employees improvise, 1899. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 28th May 1899

Types of gala coachs, 1896. Artist: F Meaulle
Types of gala coachs, 1896. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 11th October 1896

Cavalry charge, German riots in Leipzig, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Cavalry charge, German riots in Leipzig, 1892. A print from the Le Petit Journal, 19th March 1892

Model Pikemen, Tomb of Mesehti, 12th Dynasty. Natives of the nome of Asiu, Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Immigration Semite in the Nomist of Mall, 1881. Published in L Egypt by Gaston Maspero, 1881

A Boat on the Nile, Ibrim, Nubia, 1827-1829. Artist: Louis M. A. Linant de Bellefonds
A Boat on the Nile, Ibrim, Nubia, 1827-1829. Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds better known as Linant Pasha (1799-1883) was an explorer of Egypt

France !!! Quo vadis?, French WWI postcard, 1914-1918

Battle of Vigo Bay, Spain, 12 October 1702. Dutch plan of the engagement during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)

A magnetized needle pushed through a ball of cork, floating submerged in a goblet of water, 1600. The needle shows the dip and the direction of the magnetic pole. From De Magnete by William Gilbert

Hand from a colossal Roman statue, 3rd century BC
Hand from a colossal statue, from the Capitoline Museums collection in Rome, 3rd century BC

Roman marble relief of Aeneas and Ascanius
Roman marble relief of Aeneas and his son Ascanius. On his right is the ship which brought him from Troy, and on the left is the sow which told him where to found Lavinium, the precursor city to Rome

Reconstruction of Roman reaping cart, as described by Pliny, Engraving, 1860
Reconstruction of Roman reaping cart, as described by Pliny. Engraving, 1860. Aristotle believed that motion was a continuous pushing action

Roman relief of a Roman warship, manned by soldiers. Slaves would have been pulling the oars

Russian general directing the campaign from his car, Russo-Japanese War, 1904
General Alexei Nicholaevitch Kouropatkin, commander of Russian forces in Manchuria, directing the campaign from his car. Russo-Japanese War, 1904. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 11 December 1904

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