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1930s:
Infant gymnast

1979:
Johnny Depp aged 16

1940s:
Winston Churchill and Coco Chanel

c. 1900:
Portrait of a woman seated in a garden

c. 1960s-1980s:
Polish film posters

c. 1908:
The “Royal” bathing machine at San Sebastian

1932:
Women in a paper plane

1528:
Studies on the Proportions of the Female Body by Albrecht Durer

c. 1940s:
Towing barrage balloons

1800s:
Victorian women together

1920s:
Photographers taking each other’s picture on the roof

c. 1890s:
Pictures from the Police Gazette

1926:
Climbing Elephant Rock

c. 1830:
Guardsman Higgins by William Etty

c. 1950s:
Women’s boxing tournament, Teatro Balmaceda, Chile

2nd Century AD:
Roman cosmetic jar with fingerprints

1950s:
Topping up an inflatable bra

1972:
“The most personal possible present – you!”

1902:
Combine harvester pulled by a thirty-three horse team, Washington

c. 1956:
Armoured Vespa

c. 1912:
The “Chanticleer ” hat

1984:
Your secret telephone directory on your wrist

1915:
Dancer in Egyptian costume

1972:
Save 15% on Sauna Pants

1910s:
Women’s “trousers”

August 1931:
Pigs crossing Camden Road, London

1914:
Hartlepool alarm clock with a piece of German shell embedded in the dial

1970s:
Polish Fire-fighting Monks

June 1962:
Lion tamer Pablo Noel at Hamburg Circus

1910:
“Foolish House”