Small Gallery

Gulliver is measured for a suit of clothes, lantern slide, late 19th century. Creator: Unknown

Gulliver is measured for a suit of clothes, lantern slide, late 19th century. It was likewise ordered, that three hundred tailors should make me a suit of clothes, after the fashion of the country...'. A scene from "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726. One of a series of 12 Superior Lithographic Coloured Lantern Slides...with Lecture complete, made in England c1870-1900

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General Tom Thumb's carriage, 1844. Creator: Unknown

General Tom Thumb's carriage, 1844. Coach and horses belonging to American circus performer Charles Sherwood Stratton, better known by his stage name of General Tom Thumb. Phineas T. Barnum organised a tour of Europe for Stratton who appeared twice before Queen Victoria. Mr. S. Beaton, of...Denmark-street, Soho [in London], has just built for his Generalship an elegant dress chariot, suitable to the dimensions of the hero. The body of the chariot is twenty inches high, and eleven inches wide. It is completely furnished in the richest style, with lining, lace, lamps, blinds, plate glass windows, spring roller blinds, &c....Upon the door panels are emblazoned the General's arms, Britannia and the Goddess of Liberty, supported by the British Lion and American Eagle...The carriage will be drawn by a pair of Shetland ponies...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V

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1974 Innocenti 120 Mini. Creator: Unknown

1974 Innocenti 120 Mini

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1970s, 1974, 20th Century, Automobile, B And W, Black And White, Bw, Car, Century, Classic, Innocenti, Italian, Mini, National Motor Museum, Retro, Saloon, Seventies, Small, Transport, Unknown