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Background imageBizarre Collection: Actors Face Traditional Japanese Woodblock

Actors Face Traditional Japanese Woodblock
A Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock print showing an Actor of the Kabuki by Tamasakura Yoshitoshi. He carries a sword on his back and stands in front of a patterned screen. Date circa 1850

Background imageBizarre Collection: Bizarre, Caribbean Sea, Climate, Cloud, Color Image, Cuba, Destruction, Dramatic

Bizarre, Caribbean Sea, Climate, Cloud, Color Image, Cuba, Destruction, Dramatic
Bizarre, Caribbean Sea, Climate, Cloud, Color Image, Cuba, Destruction, Science Photo Library, 85757364

Background imageBizarre Collection: Damselfly with blue eyes

Damselfly with blue eyes

Background imageBizarre Collection: Funny Animal Photobombs

Funny Animal Photobombs
Giraffe looking directly at to the camera sticking out his tongue as if joking and sassing

Background imageBizarre Collection: Leviathan

Leviathan
The destruction of Leviathan by Gustave Dore. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Illustration of comedy and tragedy theatre masks

Illustration of comedy and tragedy theatre masks

Background imageBizarre Collection: Slithy Toves illustration, (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

Slithy Toves illustration, (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
"Characters from the Jabberwocky poem. Page scanned from an original book dated 1866, this is a colour illustration by John Tenniel from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in

Background imageBizarre Collection: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter
Vintage engraving of a scene from Alice in Wonderland - The Mad Hatter

Background imageBizarre Collection: Mad Hatters Tea Party

Mad Hatters Tea Party
Vintage engraving of a scene from Alice in Wonderland - Mad Hatters Tea Party

Background imageBizarre Collection: Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland
"Alice and the Dodo, from the Lewis Carroll Story Alice in Wonderland, Illustration by Sir John Tenniel 1871"

Background imageBizarre Collection: Armless

Armless
August 1961: Almost completed mannequins await some final touches at the workshop where they are made. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Left Leg Forward

Left Leg Forward
August 1961: Shop window mannequins await completion. (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Cat On The Oche

Cat On The Oche
1941: A cat stretches up to a dartboard. (Photo by Chris Ware/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Big Heads

Big Heads
1927: Giant models in a procession at Southend Carnival advertising Jackamans Pure Bedding. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Illustration of Bat (Chiroptera) flying with large, outstretched wings

Illustration of Bat (Chiroptera) flying with large, outstretched wings
Anatomy, Animal Behaviour, Animal Themes, Bat, Bizarre, Black, Brown, Camouflage, Chiroptera, Close-Up, Flying, Fragility, Full Length, High Angle View, Illustration and Painting

Background imageBizarre Collection: Illustration of Aristolochia durior (Dutchmans Pipe), purple flower and green leaf

Illustration of Aristolochia durior (Dutchmans Pipe), purple flower and green leaf
Aristolochia, Aristolochia Durior, Birthwort, Bizarre, Botany, Close-Up, Dutchmans Pipe, Flower, Fragility, Freshness, Green, Growth, High Angle View, Illustration and Painting, Leaf, Leaf Vein

Background imageBizarre Collection: Baron Munchausen the mad cloak engraving

Baron Munchausen the mad cloak engraving by Gustave Dore

Background imageBizarre Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Tortoise and the two Ducks

La Fontaines Fables - Tortoise and the two Ducks
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Tortoise and the two Ducks

Background imageBizarre Collection: La Fontaines Fables - The Companions of Ulysses

La Fontaines Fables - The Companions of Ulysses
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Companions of Ulysses

Background imageBizarre Collection: La Fontaines Fables - The Madman who sold Wisdom

La Fontaines Fables - The Madman who sold Wisdom
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Madman who sold Wisdom

Background imageBizarre Collection: Submarine world

Submarine world
" A submarine world, a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Engraving from 1870. Engraving by Gustave Dore, Photo by D Walker."

Background imageBizarre Collection: Voyage to the moon

Voyage to the moon
" Voyage to the moon, a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Engraving from 1870. Engraving by Gustave Dore, Photo by D Walker."

Background imageBizarre Collection: Victorian London - Amenities of the Road

Victorian London - Amenities of the Road
Vintage engraving showing a scene from 19th Century London England. Surreal chracaters riding on a horse and cart

Background imageBizarre Collection: Don Quixote and the Knight of the Wood

Don Quixote and the Knight of the Wood
Vintage engraving from Don Quixote illustrated by Gustave Dore. Man in the strange mask from Chapter XIV

Background imageBizarre Collection: The Punishment of Simonists

The Punishment of Simonists
" The Punishment of Simonists, a scene from Dantes inferno. Engraving from 1870. Engraving by Gustave Dore, Photo by D Walker."

Background imageBizarre Collection: Dry Swim

Dry Swim
circa 1930: A model lies across a stool to demonstrate a swimming stroke. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Animal Dentist

Animal Dentist
circa 1930: Sally the chimp pays a visit to the dentist for a check up. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Performing Sheep

Performing Sheep
circa 1910: Five goats doing tricks on a pair of ladders. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Horse Mart

Horse Mart
circa 1930: Men crowding round a horse for sale at an auction in New York City. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Police Training

Police Training
circa 1930: German policemen practising their ju-jitsu training. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Static Hair

Static Hair
A barber cutting a customers hair after it has been charged with static current, making it stand on end and easier to cut. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Ostrich Pull

Ostrich Pull
circa 1930: A driver in a racing sulky pulled by an ostrich getting a ticket from a traffic cop for driving faster than 50mph down a Los Angeles boulevard

Background imageBizarre Collection: Eat In The Hat

Eat In The Hat
circa 1930: The Brown Derby a well known restaurant in Los Angeles patronised by members of the film world. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Three-Headed Goddess

Three-Headed Goddess
circa 1930: Three dancers in Balinese costume contort themselves to look like a three-headed six-armed figure. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Giddy Music

Giddy Music
circa 1930: Harmonica playing steel workers perched on a girder on the 22nd storey of the Murray Hill building, New York. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Pete The Dog

Pete The Dog
1927: Pete, the performing Staffordshire Bull terrier, in costume for his next role. (Photo by J. Eldee Hester/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Hotel No Snoring Poster

Hotel No Snoring Poster
circa 1926: A handwritten sign tacked onto the wall of a grubby hotel room warns the occupant that snoring is forbidden. " Vistors must not snore

Background imageBizarre Collection: Amphibian Car

Amphibian Car
circa 1930: A motor car equipped with floats making its way along the River Spree in Berlin, Germany. The vehicle is the invention of engineer Herr Grosse

Background imageBizarre Collection: Gale Decorations

Gale Decorations
18th March 1947: A telegraph pole stands strewn with hay after stormy weather in Hertfordshire. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Cuddling Carrots

Cuddling Carrots
1st September 1980: Recently harvested in Switzerland, a pair of carrots have been removed from their secret subterranean embrace. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: The Monstrous Sow Of Landser

The Monstrous Sow Of Landser
Vintage engraving by Albrech Durer, showing The Monstrous Sow Of Landser, c.1496. On March 1, 1496, an abnormal pig was born in the village of Landser in Alsace

Background imageBizarre Collection: Lunch Time

Lunch Time
18th September 1926: The ?100 prize winners from a national essay competition on bananas starting their lunch with bananas. (Photo by Davis/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Cyclepram

Cyclepram
1926: A mother gets all the exercise she needs pushing her pram and cycling at the same time and the baby gets a taste for speed at an early age. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Peanut Royalty

Peanut Royalty
June 1927: Two London costermongers at a Costers Donkey Show, Newington Palace Fields, London, have peanuts sewn all over their suits. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: The Euphonia

The Euphonia
August 1846: The Euphonia or Speaking Machine. The machine is the top half of a figure on a table in front of a curtain, behind the table a seated man works the mechanism

Background imageBizarre Collection: Big Hat

Big Hat
A woman models an extremely large hat. (Photo by Seeberger Freres/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Washday Blues

Washday Blues
26th March 1926: American Forces in England hold an Easter Bonnet parade at Burtonwood, Lancashire. I Grant modelling Blue Monday. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Background imageBizarre Collection: Snake Hat

Snake Hat
circa 1930: Miss Evine Doty, of the Reptile Study Society, wears a live snake on her hat found in a snake hunt in the New Jersey mountains. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)



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