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  • c. 1500:
  • Sword Fighting Manual
  • 1979:
  • Star Trek “What’s Wrong With This Picture?”
  • Wojtek, the Soldier Bear, c.1942
  • 1915:
  • Before Going to the Front Line
  • 1951:
  • “How to use a dial telephone”
  • 1947:
  • Bell Telephone Acoustics Lab
  • 1962:
  • “Mick Jagger Forms Group”
  • c. 1887-1888:
  • Telephone Wires over New York
  • c. 1900s:
  • “Champion Sword Swallower of the World”
  • 1937-1954:
  • Temporary ski-jump at Soldier Field, Chicago
  • 1973:
  • Building the World Unicorn
  • 1990s-2000s:
  • World’s Biggest Websites at Launch
  • 1940:
  • Giant Typewriter at the World’s Fair
  • 1904:
  • Windmills for sale, World Fair, St Louis
  • c. 1906:
  • At the Beach
  • 1939:
  • New York World’s Fair employee snowball fight
  • c. 1590:
  • World map in a Fool’s Head
  • 1980:
  • Microsoft “Turn your Apple into the world’s most versatile computer” ad
  • 19th December 1916:
  • Hitler’s badly spelt postcard
  • 1970:
  • Elvis meets Nixon
  • 1983:
  • Weather Forecaster Auditionees
  • c.1916-1918:
  • ANZAC Soldiers in Egypt
  • c.1900s-1920s:
  • Fairground Glass Slides
  • 1916:
  • Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
  • 1916:
  • ‘To dress extravagantly…’ poster
  • 1913:
  • American Civil War Veterans shake hands
  • 1919:
  • Flying through the Arc de Triomphe
  • 1913-1915:
  • Women’s Hats
  • 1969:
  • “In event of Moon Disaster”
  • c. 1170-1180:
  • Medieval Word Puzzles
  • c.1907-1915:
  • The Romanov Family Albums
  • 1908-1984:
  • Vintage Weight Gain Ads II
  • ‘The Grammar of Ornament’, Owen Jones, 1910
  • 1938:
  • Phantom Corsair
  • 1910s:
  • Child Oyster Shuckers