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Character Collection (#11)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Terrier wearing hat and glasses

Terrier wearing hat and glasses
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Terrier dog wearing spectacles and hat. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: H G Wells

H G Wells
English novelist Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946), whose most famous works include The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, 4th May 1940. Picture Post - 282 - Unite Or Perish - pub.1940

Background imageCharacter Collection: Goal Scoring Machine

Goal Scoring Machine
1st December 1951: Arthur Milton of Arsenal aims a shot at a novel goal-scoring machine during a training session. Milton also plays cricket for Gloucestershire

Background imageCharacter Collection: TS Eliot

TS Eliot
2nd June 1951: American-English poet and playwright, TS Eliot (1888 - 1965). He wrote amongst many other things, The Waste Land and the plays, The Cocktail Party and Murder in the Cathedral

Background imageCharacter Collection: Thomas Leaning

Thomas Leaning
10th August 1946: Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953). Original Publication: Picture Post - 4156 - Nest Of Singing Birds - pub. 1946 (Photo by Francis Reiss/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Bernard Shaw

Bernard Shaw
20th July 1946: Irish dramatist, writer and social reformer, George Bernard Shaw in the garden of his home in Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire

Background imageCharacter Collection: Twas Brillig

Twas Brillig
Some of the imaginary animals from the nonsense poem Jabberwocky, which appears in the 1872 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll

Background imageCharacter Collection: Pasteurs Lab

Pasteurs Lab
circa 1880: French chemist Dr Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), the father of modern bacteriology, pursues his studies in his laboratory at the Ecole Normale in Paris

Background imageCharacter Collection: Garden Execution

Garden Execution
1871: Taking place in a back garden, the execution by firing squad of Generals Thomas (without hat) and Lecomte which started the Paris Commune

Background imageCharacter Collection: Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson
American statesman Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), the 3rd President of the United States of America. Jefferson was also responsible of the writing of the Declaration of Independence

Background imageCharacter Collection: William Morris

William Morris
English poet, artist and craftsman William Morris (1834 - 1896). Original Artwork: Woodbury Type (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Locomotive Leg

Locomotive Leg
A cartoon depicting John Bulls locomotive leg. Original Artwork: From Punch (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: A Grimm Tale

A Grimm Tale
Little Red Riding Hood meets the Wolf on her journey through the wood, in a scene from the Grimm fairy tale. Original Artwork: An engraving by A H Payne after E Speinbruck

Background imageCharacter Collection: Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin
British naturalist Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882). Original Artwork: Woodbury type by Lock & Whitfield. (Photo by Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Anne Bronte

Anne Bronte
circa 1845: Anne (Annie) Bronte (1820-1849). Original Artwork: Drawing - Charlotte Bronte Womens Illustrated (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Lord Byron

Lord Byron
circa 1879: A skectch of a statue of poet, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788 - 1824). The bronze statue by Richard Belt, unveiled on 24th May 1880, is in Hyde Park, London

Background imageCharacter Collection: The Burning Bush

The Burning Bush
circa 1850: The Burning Bush. The angel of the Lord appearing to Moses in a burning bush. Original Artwork: Engraving by John Henry Le Keux after a picture by John Martin

Background imageCharacter Collection: William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
circa 1819: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) English poet, made Poet Laureate in 1843. Original Artwork: Engraved from the painting by R Carruthers, published 1819

Background imageCharacter Collection: Beethoven

Beethoven
circa 1805: German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827). Original Artwork: Engraving after painting by Kloeber (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: President Lincoln

President Lincoln
1860: American statesman Abraham Lincoln, (1809 - 1865), the 16th President of the United States of America. Original Artwork: Engraved by D J Pound from a photograph by Brady of New York

Background imageCharacter Collection: Joseph Pulitzer

Joseph Pulitzer
30th March 1872: Hungarian born American newspaper proprietor Joseph Pulitzer (1847 - 1911) shown in cartoon as the Leader of Liberal Republicanism in the St Louis Puck. Puck - pub

Background imageCharacter Collection: George Washington

George Washington
circa 1800: George Washington ( 1732 - 1799 ), the 1st President of the United States of America. Original Artwork: Painting by American artist Rembrandt Peale ( 1778 - 1860)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll
circa 1875: English nonsense writer and versifier, author of Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll ( 1832 - 1998)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Aeschines

Aeschines
circa 1850: A bust of ancient Athenian orator and statesman Aeschines (389 - 314 BC). The inscription reads Aeschines Atrometou Athenaios, Aeschines of Athens, son of Atrometos

Background imageCharacter Collection: William Blake

William Blake
circa 1800: English painter, illustrator and poet William Blake (1757 - 1827), known for the mystical themes of his art and writings. Original Artwork: Painting by T Phillips

Background imageCharacter Collection: circa 1909: French Aviator Louis Bleriot

circa 1909: French Aviator Louis Bleriot, the first pilot to fly from Calais to Dover in a monoplane, flies across the English Channel. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Composer Conducts

Composer Conducts
8th December 1958: Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971) follows the score during a recording session in London. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Shaw In The Strand

Shaw In The Strand
May 1927: Irish dramatist and social critic George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) walking along the Strand in London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: circa 1850: Engraving of St Nicholas

circa 1850: Engraving of St Nicholas carrying a tiny Christmas tree in a basket while riding a horse past houses in the snow, mid-to-late nineteenth century. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh
29th May 1927: American aviator Charles Lindbergh arriving at Croydon from America. Lindbergh is the first man to fly from America to England. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Parade For Lindbergh

Parade For Lindbergh
June 1927: A tickertape parade on Broadway, New York, to welcome home US aviator Charles Lindbergh following his non-stop solo Atlantic flight from New York to Paris

Background imageCharacter Collection: Lindberghs Plane

Lindberghs Plane
29th May 1927: US aviator Charles Lindberghs aeroplane flying above welcoming crowds at Croydon aerodrome, following his record-setting non-stop solo transatlantic crossing from New York to Paris

Background imageCharacter Collection: Gavotte

Gavotte
circa 1915: Ballerina Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931) in Gavotte. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Pavlova In Costume

Pavlova In Costume
World famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931) wearing a bejewelled costume. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: In Chopiniana

In Chopiniana
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931) perfroming in a production of Chopiniana in New Zealand. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Two Swans

Two Swans
Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931) the Russian ballerina in the company of a swan at her London home, Ivy Lodge in Hampstead. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova
circa 1920: Anna Pavlova (c. 1882 - 1931) wearing her costume for a ballet with a Spanish theme. (Photo by James Abbe/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Davisons Funeral

Davisons Funeral
14th June 1913: Crowds watch the funeral procession of English suffragette Emily Davison who died after being trampled by the kings horse at the Derby. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Eruption

Eruption
April 1958: Naturalist photographer, Charles Lagus filming for the BBC from the crater lip of Bromo, Javas most spectacular volcano as a cloud of volcano ash and smoke fill the sky

Background imageCharacter Collection: Lusitania Sunk

Lusitania Sunk
7th May 1915: The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner Lusitania by a German submarine off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland. 128 US citizens lost their lives

Background imageCharacter Collection: Valentino In State

Valentino In State
1st September 1926: Huge crowds in front of the campbell Funeral Church, New York, where the body of Italian-born actor Rudolph Valentino (1895 - 1926) lies in state

Background imageCharacter Collection: Rudolph Valentino

Rudolph Valentino
circa 1925: Rudolph Valentino (1895 - 1926) the screen name of Rodolpho d Antonguolla, the Italian-American leading man and great romantic idol. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: President And Mayor

President And Mayor
circa 1944: American statesman Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), the 32nd President of the United States of America, and Mayor of New York City

Background imageCharacter Collection: Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt
circa 1940: American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945). (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Roosevelt

Roosevelt
circa 1940: American statesman Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), the 32nd President of the United States of America. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt
circa 1943: The American statesman and 32nd President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) addresses the nation. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt
circa 1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), the 32nd American President. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageCharacter Collection: Presidential V-Sign

Presidential V-Sign
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), the 32nd President of the United States, at his estate in Hyde Park, New York. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)



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