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Scene from All About Eve, Twentieth Century Fox film, 1950. Artist: Joseph L MankiewiczScene from All About Eve, Twentieth Century Fox film, 1950. Starring (left to right): Garry Merrill, Bette Davis, Celeste Holm, and Hugh Marlow. Producer: Darryl F Zanuck
Scene from All About Eve, Twentieth Century Fox film, 1950. Artist: Joseph L MankiewiczScene from All About Eve, Twentieth Century Fox film, 1950. Starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter. Producer: Darryl F Zanuck. Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz
Stone relief of Sargon I standing before a tree of life, 24th-23rd century BC. Sargon I was the founder of the Akkadian Semitic dynasty
Baroness Raymonde Delaroche, French aviator, 1909. Baroness Delaroche (1886-1919) was the first woman to be granted a pilots licence by the French Aero Club
Scene from Now, Voyager, Warner Brothers film, 1942. Artist: Irving RapperScene from Now, Voyager, Warner Brothers, 1942. Still of the stars of the film, Bette Davis and Paul Henreid. Producer: Hal B Rogers. Director: Irving Rapper
The barrack hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War, 1854. In 1854, during the Crimean War (1853-1856), Sidney Herbert, Secretary of State for War
Fantascope disc, 1833. Artist: Thomas Mann BaynesFantascope (Phenakistoscope), 1833. An optical toy depending on persistence of vision for its effect. The disc shows multiple images of cat chasing a bird
Mark Hanna, American industrialist and politician, c1896. Hanna (1837-1904) made a fortune in iron and coal. He supported the Republican party and orchestrated the election of William McKinley in 1896
Grigori Rasputin, General Count Mikhail Putyatin (right) and Colonel Dmitriy Lotman, 1904-1905Grigori Rasputin, General Count Mikhail Putyatin (right) and Colonel Dmitriy Lotman
Baptism of Jesus and the Raising of Lazarus, 1336. Artist: Sargis PidsakBaptism of Jesus and the Raising of Lazarus, 1336. In the top of the image Jesus is being baptised by his cousin St John the Baptist
The Death of Napoleon the Great, 5 May 1821, 1825. Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
Execution of Louis XVI, 1793. Louis XVI (1754-1793), King of France from 1774, making a final speech from the scaffold before his execution by guillotine in the Place de la Revolution
George Washington (1732-99), 1796. Artist: Gilbert StuartGeorge Washington (1732-99), 1796. lst President of the USA (1789-1797). National Portrait Gallery, London
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), c1865. Artist: Currier and IvesAbraham Lincoln (1809-65), c1865. Lincoln, a Republican, became 16th President of the USA in 1860. On Good Friday, 14 April 1865, while at Fords Theatre, Washington
Charles II Processing from the Tower of London to Westminster, 22 April 1661. Artist: Dirck StoopCharles II Processing from the Tower of London to Westminster, 22 April 1661. Charles II (1630-1685), King of England and Scotland from 1660, eldest son of Charles I (1600-1649)
The Raising of Lazarus, c1268. Artist: T oros RoslinThe Raising of Lazarus, c1268. Martha and Mary, sisters of Lazarus, kneel at Jesus feet as Lazarus is led from tomb in his shroud
Jesus raising Lazarus after four days, c1280Jesus raising Lazarus after four days c1280. Martha and Mary, sisters of Lazarus, kneel at Jesus feet. From an Armenian Evangelistary
Miss Nightingale and the Military in the East, c1860. Florence Nightingale in the British military hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War (1853-1856). The doctor is taking a patients pulse
Florence Nightingale, 1870. In 1854, during the Crimean War (1853-1856), Sidney Herbert, Secretary of State for War, appointed the English nurse Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), a family friend
Florence Nightingale in her carriage in the Crimea, 1856. Known as Florries Trolley it was described as... a homely vehicle corresponding to the womanly simplicity of her whom it was employed to
The Nightingales Song to to the Sick Soldier, 1854. Florence Nightingale tending a sick soldier in hospital in the Crimea
Voisin biplane, 1910. The brothers Gabriel (1880-1974) and Charles Voisin (1882-1912), French aviation pioneers, produced their first commercially successful biplane in 1907
Farman biplane No 1, c1912. Henri Farman (1874-1958), French aviator and aircraft constructor and his brother, Maurice, established an aircraft factory in 1912
Joseph-Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom, c1850. Woven silk portrait of French silk-weaver Jacquard (1752-1834), produced on a Jacquard loom
Post mill, 1620. Sectional view of a windmill showing grain being fed into millstones in the centre. On the left of the mill, a sack of grain is being hoisted to the top of the building
Tower mill, 1620. Sectional view of a windmill showing grain being fed into millstones in the centre. The miller is turning the cap of the mill round so that the sails face into the wind
Ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, 1871. This was under the management of the Metropolitan Asylums Board and was built to meet the needs of the epidemic of the winter of 1870 to 1871
Florence Nightingale watching a nurse at work, 1854. In 1854, during the Crimean War (1853-1856), Sidney Herbert, Secretary of State for War
Booklet of instructions for a Fantascope, 1833. Artist: Thomas Mann BaynesBooklet of instructions for a Fantascope, 1833. The Fantascope or Phenakistoscope was an optical toy depending on persistence of vision for its effect
Josiah Wedgwood, 18th century English industrialist and potter, c1880. Wedgwood (1730-1795) is credited with the industrialisation of pottery manufacture at his factories
Nostradamus, 16th century French physician and astrologer, 1725. Portrait of Nostradamus or Michel de Nostredame (1503-1556) who wrote a series of famous but vague prophecies
The Jug of the Nightingale, 1854. Florence Nightingale flying to the aid of British troops in the Crimea carrying remedies
James Prescott Joule, English physicist, c1895. Joule (1818-1889) was born at Salford near Manchester and studied chemistry under John Dalton
James Prescott Joule, English physicist, 1876. Joule (1818-1889) was born at Salford near Manchester and studied chemistry under John Dalton
James Prescott Joule, English physicist, 1875. Joule (1818-1889) was born at Salford near Manchester and studied chemistry under John Dalton
Joules apparatus for determining the mechanical equivalent of heat, 1881Joules apparatus for determining the mechanical equivalent of heat, 1872. A vessel of water, oil or mercury encloses vanes attached to a spindle. Cord is wound round the cylinder and drum
Hindu concept of the universe, c1880. The universe is encircled by a serpent, the symbol of eternity. Mount Meru represents paradise, the earth below it is supported by six elephants
Miners blasting, 1879. The men are sheltering behind rocks as the dynamite charge they have set is detonated. (Paris, 1879)
Abdominal cavity and its contents, 1543. From De humani corporis fabrica by Andreas Vesalius. (Basle, 1543)
Blowing up Flood Rock, 1885. Workers in underground galleries putting cartridges of dynamite into position in preparation for the blowing up Flood Rock
Blowing up Flood Rock, 1885, (1886). Engraving made the year after the explosion. The rock was part of the Hell Gate Rocks complex which prevented large vessels reaching New York Harbour
Transit of Venus, 1639, (1662). Artist: Johannes HeveliusTransit of Venus, 1639, (1662). Polish astronmer Johannes Heveliuss engraving of Jeremiah Horrockss observations of the transit of Venus, 24 November 1639
Producing indigo dye with slave labour: West Indies or Central America, 1725. Indigo tinctoria is cut, tied in bundles, steeped in water and fermented in the centre tank
Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, poet and wit, 1881. Artist: Edward Linley SambourneOscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, poet and wit, 1881. Cartoon of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) in the Fancy Portraits series from Punch. (London, 25 June 1881)
Ariadne in Naxos; or, Very Like a Wail, 1882. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish playwright, novelist, poet and wit, left England in 1882 to tour America
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
Cell and library at the prison at Fresnes, 1907. France was suffering from gangs of thugs called Apaches at this time, and some thought the French prisons should be less comfortable
British prison life, 1907. Treadmill for hard labour, and punishment with the cat-o-nine-tails. France was suffering from gangs of thugs called the Apaches at this time