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P-51 ("Mustang") fighter planes being prep... North American Aviation, Inc, Inglewood, Calif. 1942
P-51 (" Mustang" ) fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of the North American Aviation, Inc. plant in Inglewood, Calif

Girls hockey match, Airedale school, Castleford, West Yorkshire, 1962

Kamchadals on the river bank near the baht and logs prepared for hollowing out the baht, 1922-1923. From an album of 296 works which offer a glimpse of life in the Russian Far Northeast in the first

Yorimasa Awaiting the Nue, 1882. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Yorimasa Awaiting the Nue, 1882. Series: Sketches by Yoshitoshi

Five wise virgins, unknown date. Creator: Anon
Five wise virgins, unknown date

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Arakawa Taro in the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori... c. 1778. Creator: Shunsho
The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Arakawa Taro in the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778, Japan, c. 1778

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Arakawa Taro in the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori... c. 1778. Creator: Shunsho
The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Arakawa Taro in the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778, Japan, c. 1778

The Actor Bando Sampachi I as Yawata no Saburo (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi... c. 1768. Creator: Shunsho
The Actor Bando Sampachi I as Yawata no Saburo (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1768 (?), Japan, c. 1768

The Actor Bando Sampachi I as Yawata no Saburo (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi... c. 1768. Creator: Shunsho
The Actor Bando Sampachi I as Yawata no Saburo (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1768 (?), Japan, c. 1768

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Abe no Sadato in the Play Oshu Adachi ga Hara, Performed... c.1777. Creator: Shunsho
The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Abe no Sadato in the Play Oshu Adachi ga Hara, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Fifth Month, 1777, Japan, c. 1777

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II as Omi no Kotoda (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?)... c. 1768. Creator: Shunsho
The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II as Omi no Kotoda (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1768 (?), Japan, c. 1768

The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II as Omi no Kotoda (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?)... c. 1768. Creator: Shunsho
The Actor Sawamura Sojuro II as Omi no Kotoda (?) in the Play Shuen Soga Omugaeshi (?), Performed at the Ichimura Theater (?) in the Second Month, 1768 (?), Japan, c. 1768

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Kusunoki Masayuki Disguised as Uji no Joetsu, in the Play... c 1780. Creator: Shunsho
The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Kusunoki Masayuki Disguised as Uji no Joetsu, in the Play Go Taiheiki Shirishi-banashi, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Fourth Month, 1780, Japan, c. 1780

Plate Five, from Five Wise and Five Foolish Virgins, 1606. Creator: Jan Saenredam
Plate Five, from Five Wise and Five Foolish Virgins, 1606

The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Otomo no Kuronushi in the Play Sugata no Hana Yuki... c. 1776. Creator: Shunsho
The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX as Otomo no Kuronushi in the Play Sugata no Hana Yuki no Kuronushi, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1776, Japan, c. 1776

Dog team ready to start with provisions, between c1900 and 1927. Creator: Unknown
Dog team ready to start with provisions, between c1900 and 1927

Prospector and dog ready for the summer trail, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Prospector and dog ready for the summer trail, between c1900 and c1930

Transportation by dog sled, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Transportation by dog sled, between c1900 and c1930

Small water craft, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Small water craft, between c1900 and c1930

Prospector and dog ready for the summer trail, between c1900 and 1916. Creator: Unknown
Prospector and dog ready for the summer trail, between c1900 and 1916

Japanese ready to start on march to Seoul, c1904. Creator: Robert Lee Dunn
Japanese ready to start on march to Seoul, c1904

A Uriankhai-Todzhin Fighter. Same as Number 8 but from the Side, 1897. Creator: Unknown
A Uriankhai-Todzhin Fighter. Same as Number 8 but from the Side, 1897. From the album Puteshestviya P. Ye. Ostrovskogo na Yenisey v 1894 i 1897 godakh (The journeys of P. E)

Dog team and Dr. Sutherland's party ready to leave Fairbanks for Kantishna, between c1900 and 1927

The Actor Kirishima Gizaemon as Murasaki Daijin in the play "Hatsu Akinai Omise Soga, "per... 1767
The Actor Kirishima Gizaemon as Murasaki Daijin in the play " Hatsu Akinai Omise Soga, " performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1767, 1767

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Danshichi Kurobei in Act Eight of the Play Natsu... c
The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Danshichi Kurobei in Act Eight of the Play Natsu Matsuri Naniwa Kagami (Mirror of Osaka in the Summer Festival)

Preparing for Battle on the Somme, northern France, First World War, c1916, (c1920)....respirator drill for the Guards behind the lines

Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out, c1840. Creator: George Presbury
Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out, c1840. Biblical scene, from Matthew 25: 8, The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins: And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil

E. J. Smith (Warwickshire), 1928. Creator: Unknown
E. J. Smith (Warwickshire), 1928. From " Willss Cigarettes - A Series of 50 Cricketers, 1928", [W. D. & H. O. Wills, London, 1928]

P. Holmes (Yorkshire), 1928. Creator: Unknown
P. Holmes (Yorkshire), 1928. From " Willss Cigarettes - A Series of 50 Cricketers, 1928", [W. D. & H. O. Wills, London, 1928]

Royal Marines sleeping in the gunhouse of a warship, World War II, c1939-c1943 (1944). Where enemy forces may be met, marines live by their guns, as (below) in the gunhouse of a 6-inch turret

Dawn at Vassincourt, 1939-1940, (1941). Creator: Unknown
Dawn at Vassincourt, 1939-1940, (1941). From Fighter Pilot - A Personal Record of the Campaign in France. September 8th, 1939, to June 13th, 1940. [B. T. Batsford Ltd. London, 1941]

Member of the Aldgate Ward Association holding a rifle, 1798

Sir Thomas Picton, 1843 (1909). Artist: Charles Turnes
Sir Thomas Picton, 1843 (1909). After Martin Archer Shee (1769-1850). From British Military Prints, by Ralph Nevill. [The Connoisseur, London, 1909]

and the gunners wait, 1942 (1944). Soldiers of the British 8th Army preparing for the Battle of El Alamein. From The Eighth Army [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1944]

Household Management - Plate III, 1907, (1907). From Mrs Beetons Everyday Cookery. [Ward Lock & Co. London and New York, 1907]

Household Management - Plate VIII, 1907, (1907). From Mrs Beetons Everyday Cookery. [Ward Lock & Co. London and New York, 1907]

Household Management - Plate VI, 1907, (1907). From Mrs Beetons Everyday Cookery. [Ward Lock & Co. London and New York, 1907]

Members of the RAF ready for action during World War II, c1940 (1943). From Coastal Command. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1943]

The midship gunners of an RAF flying boat alert at their stations, c1940 (1943). From Coastal Command. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1943]

100 metres sprint race at the Olympic Games, Athens, 1896, (1936). A scene from the first Olympics of the modern era. A print from Olympia 1936, Die Olympischen Spiele 1936, Volume I

First communicant, 1894. Artist: Oswaldo Tofani
First communicant, 1894. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 16th April 1894

Title page of Napoleon 1er et la Garde Imperiale, 1859. Artist: Auguste Raffet
Title page of Napoleon 1er et la Garde Imperiale, 1859

A Wedding in the Coeur Volant Chapel in Marly about 1850 (19th century). From the Chateau of Sceaux, France

The Cook, c1570. Artist: Giuseppe Arcimboldi
The Cook, c1570. This image can be interpreted in two ways, either as a cook taking the lid off a dish of sucking pigs or, if turned upside down, as the head of the cook. From a private collection

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