All the Fun of the Fair

The National Fairground Archive. Link…

NZ Birds

A History of the Birds of New Zealand. Link…

East India Company Art

In an era before cameras and photography, administrators, officials and visitors to the East India Company area of operations would buy these paintings to bring back and show their friends and relatives. Link…

Norfolk Mills

What a delight! I like the information detail. In particular I was happy to come across this because of the mention of sturgeon:
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1737
Another sturgeon, nearly as large as the first, killed in the river by the paper mill, April 15th.
The Mighty City in the East - A. Leigh Hunt 1870

The original sturgeon referred to above was killed in the Mill Pool of nearby Thetford Mill on 7th April 1715 and apparently was found to be measuring 7 ft. 8 in. in length, and 3 ft. 2 in. in circumference, and weighing 192 lbs.

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Plus, I lived in Feltwell many years ago. Link…

Samara

Samara
I can understand why this was deleted rather than closed, but I wanted to preserve it, because Daphne's Blog rocks.

Amazing Person.
October 9, 2007 7:24 AM   Subscribe
I wish to tell you about an amazing person.

Look, how he has restored his Subaru by himself! Photos show in what conditions he was doing that.
I think, that if this person appeared on a space station in a difficult situation, he would manage to repair everything!
But why he does this by himself? The same idea has occurred to me. There is only one answer – he just doesn’t have money for the repair workshop. For me the only fact is important - this person has not lost his heart and has not got rid of his car!
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Sword & Blossom Poems

The Sword and Blossom Poems series consisted of 3 volumes of woodblock illustrated poetry, translated into English from the original Japanese. Published by Hasegawa Publishing Co. Link…

Appeal

Although the majority of war posters are about the "Your country needs you" and "Loose lips sink ships" kind of thing, there was also a humanitarian side. [I have greatly reduced these images, the originals are huge] Link…

Pipe and Tobacco

Japanese pipe smoking is quite different to the western style (both the pipe and the tobacco). Link…

Cylinders and Discs

Do you want to know what this sounds like? Then click here. A collection of old gramophones with video and sound files. Link…

Vintage Views of New York

Some of the postcards feature cemeteries [there are some broken links too]. Link…