Named Collection (#4)

Marmon 8 Cylinder
The Marmon - eight cylinders in line ! must be good !

Fiat Ardita Advert 1932
Publicity for Fiats Ardita - as you see, it has a nice well-rounded steering wheel : but does the rest of it reach this high standard ?

Stutz Safety
The improved new Safety Stutz - implying that all previous models, and of course all cars made by others, are NOT safe

MARMON 68 AND 78 1926
Marmon 68 and 78 offered to the discrimating Italian buyer - a Mafia godfather, maybe

Dryden / Bugatti / 27
Three types of Bugatti are shown with the kind of person the artist thinks would be likely to buy this sort of car

Social / Women, Girl & Car
A lady and her child leave their Delage and walk along the pavement until they stop and talk with a friend

Rolls Royce Tourer
A Rolls-Royce tourer

Wild Horse - Stallions meet along backroad in display of dominance behavior
TOM-765 Mustang Wild Horse - Stallions meet along backroad in display of dominance behavior. White stallion was made famous in PBS movie and is called Cloud

Saint Dominic / Miniatures
SAINT DOMINIC preacher, founder of the order named after him, a relentless opponent of heresy, especially that of the Albigensians

Denyer / Swindon Football
Bert Denyer, winger for Swindon Town

Joule / Electricity Test
James Prescott Joule, English physicist, measures the rate at which heat is produced by an electric current. The joule, a unit of work or energy, is named after him

Grub Street, London, C18
Grub Street, near Moorfields, described by Dr. Johnson as much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries and temporary poems. It was named Milton Street in 1830

WW1 - Georges Guynemer in his SPAD
Georges Guynemer (1894-1917) - popular hero and an airman of distinction, Guynemer won many medals in his prolific career. Photograph published in September 1917

Sir James Clark Ross
SIR JAMES CLARK ROSS Scottish explorer. Made a number of arctic expeditions, determining the position of magnetic north in 1831

Witch of Wookey
The notorious Witch of Wookey, in Somerset, is exorcised by a Holy Clerk from nearby Glastonbury, and is forthwith turned to stone !

Cadillac LA Salle 1935 2
Performance is the promise of the new La Salle from Cadillac

Vauxhall 1916 Saloon
A stately Vauxhall saloon in a smart setting

Bravery at Wattignies
At WATTIGNIES, a drummer-boy named Sthrau beats his drum, making the Austrians think they are surrounded. When they realise their mistake, they kill the juvenile hero

Bears Great and Small
URSA MAJOR and URSA MINOR (The Great Bear and the Little Bear) in the northern sky

Pole Star and Plough
The constellation of the PLOUGH, and the POLE STAR

PIANO-TYPE FIRE ENGINE
Piano type manual fire-engine, named after a resemblance of the shape of the bodywork to that instrument. Nozzles and branch-pipes were carried on brackets on the main frame

Chrysler Advert 1929 - 2
GIVE MA A CAR WITH THE SPEED OF THE WIND - GIVE ME A CHRYSLER ! - one of Ashley Havindens striking press advertisements for Chrysler in Britain

Platypus (Bewick)
ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS At the time Bewick engraved this, the animal had not been named : some naturalists even suspected the creature was a fake

Polka at a Hunt Ball
Dancing the polka at a hunt ball

Map / Asia / East Indies
India and its neighbours : note that Burma is named India beyond the Ganges

Two-Step Dance (Rieth)

Do it yourself Bike
Home assembly model Safety bicycle : if you ve followed the instructions properly, you should have one of these : if it looks more like a lawn- mower, you boobed

Avro York C.1 LV633
Royal Air Force - Avro York C.1 LV633, the first prototype, outside the Avro factory at RAF Langar after preparation for deployment to the Far-East

Portsmouth Aerocar Major G-AGTG, sole prototype of a planned family of similar aircraft. The Aerocar Major was so named because of the Gipsy Major engines. Date: 1948

'KV-1' heavy tank
A Soviet 'KV-1 ' heavy tank, knocked out by German anti-tank fire, with a Wehrmacht horse-drawn lorry passing it. (The Kliment Voroshilov (KV)

Cover of "The General Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, by Captain John Smith
529874 Cover of "The General Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, by Captain John Smith. 1624 (engraving); (add.info)

Odin the Scandinavian god, known to the Anglo-Saxons as Wotan. God of the dead
537273 Odin the Scandinavian god, known to the Anglo-Saxons as Wotan. God of the dead: banqueted in Valhalla with those killed in battle. Wednesday is named for him

Dog from the Hospice of St Bernard finding a traveller in the snow, c.1840 (engraving)
535470 Dog from the Hospice of St Bernard finding a traveller in the snow, c.1840 (engraving); (add.info.: Dog from the Hospice of St Bernard finding a traveller in the snow)

John Howard (1726-1790) English prison reformer, entering Savoy military prison, London, after mutiny
530188 John Howard (1726-1790) English prison reformer, entering Savoy military prison, London, after mutiny. Restored peace and persuaded prisoners to return to cells

Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) English natural philosopher and chemist. Cavendish Physical Laboratory, Cambridge
539513 Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) English natural philosopher and chemist. Cavendish Physical Laboratory, Cambridge, named after him

A plant of Centaury from an Anglo-Norman herbal. 13th century (manuscript)
527550 A plant of Centaury from an Anglo-Norman herbal. 13th century (manuscript); (add.info.: The plant is named after Chiron the Centaur who in Ancient Greek legend cured a wound from a poisoned)

John Howard (1726-1790) English prison reformer, inspecting French galley prisoners at work
530189 John Howard (1726-1790) English prison reformer, inspecting French galley prisoners at work. Howard League for Prison Reform named after him

St Bernard mountain rescue dogs with flasks of brandy on their collars, c.1880 (engraving)
535466 St Bernard mountain rescue dogs with flasks of brandy on their collars, c.1880 (engraving); (add.info.: St Bernard mountain rescue dogs with flasks of brandy on their collars)

Freya or Frigg goddess of love in Scandinavian mythology, wife of Odin. Friday is named for her. Woodcut, London, 1834
530755 Freya or Frigg goddess of love in Scandinavian mythology, wife of Odin. Friday is named for her. Woodcut, London, 1834.; Universal History Archive/UIG

Village "Barguzin", 1903. Creator: Unknown. Village "Barguzin", 1903. Creator: Unknown
Village "Barguzin", 1903. National Library of Russia

Headstone Major Gus March-Phillips, St Laurent sur Mer
The grave is in the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery. March-Phillips commanded a Small Scale Landing Force that came ashore here in a Commando operation named Aquatint on 12 September 1942

Boeing 377-10 Stratocruiser HC-AGA - ex N1040V
Boeing 377-10-26 Stratocruiser HC-AGA (msn 15940) of Linea Internacional Aerea de Ecuador (LIA), named Princess Everatta Maria, at Quito International aiport

Handley Page Clive III G-ABYX of Sir Alan Cobhams National Aviation Day flying circus. One of the Hinaidi I prototypes, J9126

Malcolm Scott Carpenter, left, and John Glenn in front ?
Malcolm Scott Carpenter, left, and John Glenn in front of a Mercury space capsule at Cape Canaveral after Glenn was named as the astronaut to make the first US orbital flight

Votive Stone with Names of Ramses III, Reign of Ramses III (1198-1166 BCE). Creator: Unknown
Votive Stone with Names of Ramses III, Reign of Ramses III (1198-1166 BCE)

Molded Faience Rectangular Plaque with Title or Royal Name (?), New Kingdom-Late Period (1569... Creator: Unknown)
Molded Faience Rectangular Plaque with Title or Royal Name (?), New Kingdom-Late Period (1569-333 BCE)

Plaque with Throne and Birth Name of a 13th Dynasty King, 13th Dynasty (1700-1665 BCE). Creator: Unknown
Plaque with Throne and Birth Name of a 13th Dynasty King, 13th Dynasty (1700-1665 BCE)

Faience Plaque with name of Deceased as Osiris (image 2 of 2), Late Period (714-333 BCE). Creator: Unknown
Faience Plaque with name of Deceased as Osiris (image 2 of 2), Late Period (714-333 BCE)

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