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  • 1700s:
  • Vanitas tableau of Queen Elizabeth I
  • 1897:
  • Bust Cream or Food
  • 1941:
  • Bomb damage to 23 Queen Victoria Street during the Blitz
  • 1300s:
  • “Baseball”
  • 1000s-1300s:
  • Maps Before Maps
  • 1792:
  • Portrait of a Cross-Dresser
  • c.1790-1820:
  • Georgian Eye Jewellery
  • 2nd Century AD:
  • Roman cosmetic jar with fingerprints
  • c. 1969-2010:
  • Filming Oscar and Big Bird
  • 1960:
  • Girls in the Window
  • 1785:
  • George Biggins’ Ascent in Lunardi’ Balloon
  • 1400s:
  • The Infant Jesus in a Baby Walker
  • 1948-1952:
  • Reconstructing the White House,
  • 1910:
  • “The Grammar of Ornament” by Owen Jones
  • 1924:
  • Driving a Rickenbacker car down Hope Street Steps
  • 9th December 1961:
  • The Beatles play to 18 people in Aldershot
  • 1520s:
  • Memento Mori
  • 1970:
  • Elvis meets Nixon
  • 1926:
  • London 2026 via London Underground
  • 1912:
  • Santa Cruz Hand Map
  • 1936:
  • Climbing Lincoln’s Nose
  • 1600s:
  • Jewelled Skeletons
  • c.1930:
  • Policemen testing life-jackets, London
  • 1940:
  • London by moonlight
  • c. 1830:
  • Guardsman Higgins by William Etty
  • c.1740:
  • A Mantua Court Dress
  • 1978:
  • Michael Jackson and Oscar the Grouch
  • 1970:
  • Turniture by Lester Walker
  • c. 1916 - 1920:
  • Play Street New York City
  • 1640s:
  • Wenceslaus Hollar’s Fashion Engravings
  • 1912-1969:
  • London Transport Infographics
  • 1892:
  • Construction of Tower Bridge
  • August 1899:
  • “If London Were Like Venice”
  • c. 1789-1806:
  • Claude Ledoux’s Spherical house
  • 1624:
  • Giovanni Battista Bracelli, Bizzarie