Halftone Collection (page 2)

Lillian Thomas, artist, three-quarter length portrait, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Lillian Thomas, artist, three-quarter length portrait, c1900

Scribner's for October. c1890 - 1907. Creator: Edward Penfield
Scribner's for October. c1890 - 1907. [Publisher: Harper Publications; Place: New York]

The Summer-Porch Number of The Ladies Home Journal, August 1908... c1908. Creator: Edward Penfield
The Summer-Porch Number of The Ladies Home Journal, August 1908... c1908. [Publisher: Harper Publications; Place: New York]

Lenin haranguing deputies of the 2nd Soviet Congress, Smolny Palace, St Petersburg, 1917. This meeting on 26 October 1917, the day after the storming of the Winter Palace

President McKinley riding in the procession, accompanied by Senator Hanna...c1901. Creator: Frederick Palmer
President McKinley riding in the procession, accompanied by Senator Hanna (on the President's left) and Representatives Cannon and McRae, c1901

Model in New York Studio, c. 1915. Creator: Clarence H White
Model in New York Studio, c.1915

Cameramen under fire while filming in the First Balkan War, 1912. By 1912 cinemas were showing newsreels and war reporters were being accompanied by camera teams

Firing a cannon into clouds to prevent a hail storm, 1901. It was claimed that rain fell instead of the anticipated hail which would have damaged the grape vines in the wine producing area of

Idea for a video-phone using neon tubes to give the picture display, c1927. Illustration of a system proposed by Herbert Eugene Ives (1883-1952), American physicist and inventor

Abel Pifres solar-powered printing press, c1894 ([c1927). This used Augustin Mouchots solar engine in which a mirror focused the Suns rays onto a small boiler (patented in 1861)

Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist, 20th century. Millikan (1868-1953) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his determination of the charge of the electron

William Henry Bragg, English physicist, early 20th century
William Henry Bragg, English physicist, 20th century. The founder of X-ray crystallography, Bragg (1862-1942) is shown here using an X-ray spectrometer

Alfred Russell Wallace, Welsh naturalist, c1895. Wallace (1823-1913) formulated a theory of evolution independently of Charles Darwin

French soldiers using film of a cavalry charge for rifle practice, 1912. From Le Petit Journal. (Paris, 30 June 1912)

Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, German organic chemist, c1885. In 1865, Kekule (1829-1896) published his theory of the structure of the benzene ring as a ring of six carbon atoms attached by

Diseases of the potato, c1920. In the centre is Potato Blight (Phytophtera infestans) a fungal infection spread by aphids, which destroyed crops in Ireland

Henri Moissan, French chemist, c1900. Moissan (1852-1907) recovering diamonds after dissolving the iron surrounding them after the final stage in his production of artificial diamonds at the Edison

Releasing French army homing pigeons on board the transatlantic liner La Bretagne, 1898. The birds were released on the voyage between Le Havre and New York. From Le Petit Journal

Heroic wireless operators, 1912. Top: sending SOS signals from the wireless room of the Titanic as the water rises. Bottom: the last minutes of the wireless operators during the Fez massacre

Joseph Marie Jacquard, showing his loom to Lazare Carnot, Lyon, France, 1801 (1901). French silk-weaver and inventor Jacquard (1752-1834)

James Jeans, English mathematician and physicist. Jeans (1877-1946) held the chair of applied mathematics at Princeton University (1905-1909), lectured at both Oxford and Cambridge

Convoi d Artillerie Automobile ( Convoy of Motorised Artillery ), World War I, France, 1918. After a watercolour by French war artist Georges Scott (1880-1947). ARTISTs COPYRIGHT MUST ALSO BE CLEARED

L Automobile Pendant la Guerre, France World War I, 1914-1918. French motorised ambulances and walking wounded towards the end of the war

Au Volant ( At the Wheel ), 1918. Motorised transport towards the end of World War I. After a watercolour by Georges Scott (1880-1947), French war artist. ARTISTs COPYRIGHT MUST ALSO BE CLEARED

French lst Infantry Corps crossing of the Yser Canal, World War I, 4. 45 am, 31 July 1917
French lst Infantry Corps crossing of the Yser Canal, World War I, 4.45 am, 31 July 1917. After a painting by Francois Flameng (1856-1923)

The 0ffensive at Yser, 1917. The French line near Het-Sas just before 31 July. Soldiers waiting for orders amongst trees shattered by the gunfire of previous engagements

John Joseph Pershing, American general. Pershing (1860-1948) was Commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Force sent to Europe in 1917. He was US Army Chief of Staff from 1921-1924

Charles Stuart Parnell, 19th century Irish Politician, c1874-1891. Parnell (1846-1891) was a supporter of the Irish Land League

PG Wodehouse, English novelist and writer, 1937. Born in Guilford, Surrey, Pelham Grenville (PG) Wodehouse (1881-1975) was the creator of Bertie Wooster, Jeeves and Lord Emsworth

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist in 1921. Curie (1867-1934) with Dean Pegram of the School of Engineering, Columbia University, New York, during her tour of the United States

Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist with members of her family in Warsaw, Poland, 1912. Marie Curie (1867-1934), with her sisters Hela Szalay and Bronya Dluska

The Curie family, late 19th century. Standing (left to right): Jacques, Pierre (1859-1908), French chemist who married Marie Sklodowska with whom he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904

Manya Sklodowska (Marie Curie) and her sister Bronya (seated), 1886. The future Nobel Prizewinning physicist before she left her native Poland for France

Mr Sklodowski with his three surviving daughters, c1886
Mr Sklodovski with his three surviving daughters, c1886. Left to right; Manya (Marie Curie) (1867-1934), Bronya ( Bronya Dluska) and Hela Sklodowsaka

Madame Sklodowska, c1877. Marie Curies (1867-1934) mother, who died when Marie was aged 10

Rufus Daniel Isaacs, British lawyer and statesman, 1905. Isaacs (1860-1935), served as Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-1921), Ambassador to the US (1918-1919), Viceroy of India (1921-1926)

William Somerset Maugham, British author of novels, plays and short stories, 1927. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) qualified as a physician at St Thomass Hospital, London, in 1897

JB Priestley, British novelist, playwright, essayist and broadcaster, c1927. Joseph Boynton Priestley (1894-1984) was born in Bradford in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge

Arthur Quiller-Couch, English poet, novelist, anthologist and critic, c1927. Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) was born at Fowey, Cornwall

Interior view, Krupp works, Essen, Ruhr, Germany, World War I, 1917. Krupp enjoyed a monopoly on arms manufacturing in Germany during World War I

L Agriculture Moderne, 1897. Scene showing harvest time with a steam powered threshing machine in the background. In the foreground an adviser, holding a copy of L Agriculture Moderne

Mozart Wins the Heart of Royalty c1763 (early 20th century). Artist: C Dudley Tennant
Mozart Wins the Heart of Royalty c1763 (early 20th century). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) at the age of seven playing his violin in front of the Empress Maria Theresa and her husband

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