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1938:
‘Oh Fred, the baby has swallowed the matches!’
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January 1894:
“Fred Ott’s Sneeze”
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August 1938:
Baby goes for a buggy ride with trained cat for nurse
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1922:
Agatha Christie and her surf board, “Fred”
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c. 1920:
Baby will be unhappy and cross
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1940:
Nurse and baby in gas-masks
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1944:
“No. Your post-war Admiral Radio won’t bathe the baby!”
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c. 1940s:
The Baby Boom
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c.1490-1500:
Nature Forging a Baby
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1400s:
The Infant Jesus in a Baby Walker
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1890:
Irvine’s Baby Walker and Protector
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1918:
Baby birds on an officer’s cigar
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1957:
Wonder Woman Amazon Baby Sitter
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1930s-1960s:
“Give her a hoover and you give her the best”
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1932:
Cigarette Hat
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Boxing Day 1937:
Fire at HMV, Oxford Street, London
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‘Until the Millenium’ Car Insurance Ad, 1930
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1930s:
The Personal Hygiene Tiger
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1930s:
Busby Berkeley’s Dancers
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1930s:
Colour photographs of the Hindenburg interior
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1935:
Miss Idaho Potato
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1933:
Alzetta’s Mechanical Horse
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1938:
Phantom Corsair
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1930s:
Peddler’s Car, the Netherlands
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c. late 1930s-1940:
Shaving with an axe
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1931:
Famous architects dressed as their buildings
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1938:
Japanese Gas Attack Posters
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1936:
Woman Invents Dimple Machine
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1936:
Climbing Lincoln’s Nose
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1933:
Young skater with safety cushion
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1938:
Mercedes-Benz W125 Record
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1932-1935:
Colourised Slides of Dublin
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1930s:
Big Chief Root Beer Stand
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1931`:
Burning cigarette dispenser
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1938-1941:
Subway Photographs by Walker Evans
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1930s:
The Zeppelin Dress