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  • Shopping in the Belly of the Whale
  • c.1870s-1923:
  • Standing on Glacier Point
  • 1906:
  • Colour photographs of San Francisco’s Earthquake and Fire
  • 1861:
  • Secret Message in Lincoln’s Pocketwatch
  • 1840s-1990s:
  • “Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop”
  • c. 1908:
  • Submarine Escape Apparatus
  • c.1930:
  • Policemen testing life-jackets, London
  • 1960:
  • Butterfly on a nose
  • 27th November 1942:
  • Flamethrowers at the Army War Show
  • 1948-1950:
  • Soldiers kissing goodbye
  • c. 1910-1940:
  • Female mason above Berlin
  • 15th June - 9th July 1944:
  • Sharing bananas with a goat at the Battle of Saipan
  • c.1890s-1930s:
  • Zebra Carriages
  • 1961:
  • Ham the Astrochimp
  • 1916:
  • ‘To dress extravagantly…’ poster
  • c. 1940s:
  • The Baby Boom
  • 1919:
  • Cedar Mill, Seattle
  • 1930:
  • The models for American Gothic
  • c. late 1930s-1940:
  • Shaving with an axe
  • 21st October 1967:
  • Flower Power
  • 1942:
  • Barnes Wallis using marbles in his garden to test Dambuster bouncing bomb idea
  • 1916:
  • Charlie Chaplin without moustache
  • 1968:
  • Girls Say Yes To Boys Who Say No
  • 1947:
  • Howard Hughes’ “Spruce Goose”
  • c. 1850:
  • Phrenological Head
  • 1965:
  • Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles
  • 1903:
  • Serenading a penguin
  • c.1945-1946:
  • Midget Submarines
  • 1942:
  • The Dambuster Marbles
  • c.1862:
  • Sara Forbes Bonetta
  • Faux Snow Portraits, 1800s
  • 1800s:
  • The Mad Potter of Biloxi
  • October 1969:
  • Jimi Hendrix in a Room Full of Mirrors
  • 1960s:
  • “Sea Monkeys” Ads
  • 1880s:
  • Long-maned Wonder Horses