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Diry Collection (page 6)

Background imageDiry Collection: Grantham

Grantham in Lincolnshire, as seen from the railway station, with the spire of St Wulframs Church in the background, circa 1915. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: New Delhi

New Delhi
An aerial shot of New Delhi, situated in the Delhi metropolitan area of India, 3rd April 1933. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Hemel Hempstead

Hemel Hempstead
A street in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, circa 1910. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Camp At Buschir

Camp At Buschir
The English military camp at Buschir, Somalia, during World War I, early 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: HMS Invincible

HMS Invincible
The British Navy battlecruiser HMS Invincible, 1911. The first battlecruiser ever built, she was launched in 1907 and sunk at the Batlte of Jutland on 31st May 1916

Background imageDiry Collection: Irish Christmas

Irish Christmas
Children in Ireland welcome Santa Claus into their home at Christmas, circa 1955. (Photo by George Pickow/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: SS City Of New York

SS City Of New York
The ocean liner SS City of New York berthed at Southampton, circa 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Submarine Evolution

Submarine Evolution
The evolution of the submarine between 1863 and 1899. Shown are Bourgeois and Bruns Plongeur (1863), Halsteads Cunning Whale (1872), Hollands No

Background imageDiry Collection: Dundee Cake

Dundee Cake
A rich Dundee Cake topped with almonds, next to a Yuletide greetings card, circa 1955. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Tartarus

Tartarus
The three most famous inhabitants of Tartarus, the ancient Greek equivalent of Hell, circa 1500 BC. From left to right, Sisyphus endlessly shoulders his rock, Ixion is bound to a wheel for eternity

Background imageDiry Collection: Vision Of Hell

Vision Of Hell
An engraving depicting Hell and its wretched inhabitants, circa 1650. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Victorian Kitchen

Victorian Kitchen
A Victorian maid places an item of food into an oven, 1895. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Merchant Of Venice

Merchant Of Venice
Salanio and Salarino encounter Shylock on a street in Venice, in Act III, Scene I of Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice, circa 1596. A watercolour by Sir John Gilbert, RA

Background imageDiry Collection: Boys In Trafalgar Square

Boys In Trafalgar Square
Two boys playing by a fountain in Trafalgar Square, with the National Gallery in the background, circa 1900. (Photo by F. J. Mortimer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Amman Street

Amman Street
A street in Amman, Jordan, circa 1925. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Leprosy

Leprosy
A leper, his face covered in sores, approaches a seated man with a gesture of supplication, circa 1200. From a manuscript by early medical writer Roger of Salerno

Background imageDiry Collection: Hideous Harpies

Hideous Harpies
Virgil leads the author through a wood filled with Harpies and miserable souls transformed into trees. An engraving by Gustave Dore, illustrating Canto XIII of Dantes Inferno, written circa 1310

Background imageDiry Collection: Ascot Racecourse

Ascot Racecourse
The racecourse and Grand Stand at Ascot in Berkshire, 1846. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: En Route To Ascot

En Route To Ascot
Coaches make their way down the Long Walk in Windsor Great Park, on their way to Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire, 1846. Entitled The Road to the Races. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Ancient Vases

Ancient Vases
Two ancient Greek black figure amphoras found at Ampurias in Spain, depicting athletes, circa 550 BC. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Cholula Pyramid

Cholula Pyramid
The Great Pyramid of Cholula, a Mesoamerican site in the Mexican state of Puebla, circa 1530. It dates back to the 3rd century BCE and is the worlds largest pyramid. Drawn by H

Background imageDiry Collection: Red Fort

Red Fort
The Lal Quila or Red Fort on the banks of Jamuna, in Delhi, India, circa 1900. The fort was built by the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan between 1638 and 1648. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Battle Of Omdurman

Battle Of Omdurman
British soldiers prepare to fire on a Sudanese warrior who bears the Black Flag of the Mahdists during the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan, 2nd September 1898

Background imageDiry Collection: Victorian Maid

Victorian Maid
A Victorian maidservant carrying a tray with a decanter and two glasses on it, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Orient Express Interior

Orient Express Interior
Passengers in the smoking lounge and library of the Orient Express, 1886. Original publication: The Graphic, pub 30th January 1886 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Petticoat Duellists

Petticoat Duellists, a print depicting two women fighting a duel with pistols, published in 1792. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Loss Of The Revenge

Loss Of The Revenge
The remains of the British galleon HMS Revenge are surrendered to the Spanish after a savage battle off the Azores, September 1591. She sank shortly after, taking her Spanish captors with her

Background imageDiry Collection: Ramsgate Sands

Ramsgate Sands
The Sands at Ramsgate, a seaside resort in East Kent, 1878. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: K-19

K-19
The Russian Hotel class nuclear submarine K-19 pictured 700 miles west of Ireland on its journey back to Russia, 11th March 1972

Background imageDiry Collection: Jack Wild

Jack Wild
English child actor Jack Wild (1952 - 2006) on a swing in his local park during a lunch break from the Speak Stage School, October 1968

Background imageDiry Collection: Newgate Gap

Newgate Gap, Margate, Kent, circa 1900. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty mages)

Background imageDiry Collection: Greenock

Greenock
Municipal buildings in Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, circa 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Holmside

Holmside, Sunderland, County Durham, circa 1900. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Rent Day

Rent Day
A landlord is denied admittance to a cellar rented by poverty-stricken tenants, who share it with a donkey, rats and a duck, circa 1855

Background imageDiry Collection: Hull Harbour

Hull Harbour
The Old Harbour, Hull, Yorkshire, August 1921. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Addis Ababa Market

Addis Ababa Market
The crowded Addis Merkato marketplace in Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, circa 1900. It is the largest open market in Africa, covering several square miles

Background imageDiry Collection: Ancient Costumes

Ancient Costumes
Fashions of the classical world, circa 50 BC. From left to right, an Egyptian couple, a Greek man in a chlamys or cloak, a Greek woman in a diploidion, a Greek woman in a chiton and himation

Background imageDiry Collection: Greek Ephebes

Greek Ephebes
A red-figure kylix cup depicting the equipment of a Greek ephebos or ephebe, a young man training as a soldier, circa 500 BC. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Masonic Ritual

Masonic Ritual
A depiction of a ritual taking place in a masonic lodge, New York, circa 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Crucifixion Of Christ

Crucifixion Of Christ
A soldier pierces the torso of Jesus Christ with a spear as he hangs on the cross between two thieves, circa 30 AD. (Photo by Edward Gooch/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Killing The Minotaur

Killing The Minotaur
Theseus, an Athenian hero of Greek mythology slays the Minotaur in the labyrinth on Crete, circa 1300 BC. From Theseus and the Minotaur by T. Erat. Harrison. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: The Golden Fleece

The Golden Fleece
Jason, a hero from Greek mythology returns to his Argonaut companions with the Golden Fleece, retrieved from Colchis in modern Georgia, circa 1200 BC

Background imageDiry Collection: Bird In Flight

Bird In Flight
A series of 12 photographs showing stages in the flight of a cockatoo, circa 1887. (Photo by Eadweard Muybridge/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Americas Cup Trials

Americas Cup Trials
From left to right, the Volunteer, the Mayflower and the Thistle during the selection trials for the Americas Cup sailing race, 16th September 1887

Background imageDiry Collection: Cutter Genesta fifth Americas Cup challenger

Cutter Genesta fifth Americas Cup challenger
The Genesta, unsuccessful challenger in the fifth Americas Cup sailing race, 1885 against the American defender Puritan.(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageDiry Collection: Puritan Yacht winner of the fifth Americas Cup sailing race, 1885

Puritan Yacht winner of the fifth Americas Cup sailing race, 1885
The yacht Puritan, winner of the fifth Americas Cup sailing race, 1885. Designed by Edward Burgess, she was built at the George Lawley & Son yard in Boston, Massachusetts and launched May 26

Background imageDiry Collection: Defender, victorious United States defender of the tenth Americas Cup in 1895

Defender, victorious United States defender of the tenth Americas Cup in 1895
The American sloop Defender wins the Americas Cup sailing race, September 1895 against challenger Valkyrie III. Defender was designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff

Background imageDiry Collection: Schooner Yacht Livonia

Schooner Yacht Livonia
The Livonia was the second unsuccessful challenger in the second Americas Cup sailing race, 1871. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)



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