Paper Dolls

Sindy and Bunty. Link…

Lionel Lindsay Bookplates

More bookplates. This time from Norman's less well-known brother. Link…

Space

Space books for children. Link…

Eugen Sandow

Born Friedrich Wilhelm Mueller in Konigsberg, on April 25, 1867. His father was a greengrocer and his mother was a Russian emigrant. In his teens, he ran off and joined a circus, where as a naturally athletic youth with a well-developed sense of balance he took to acrobatics. In Brussels around 1887, Louis Durlacher (Atilla) recognized the young man's potential and decided to turn his young pupil into the star he had never become. At this point, Mueller changed his name to "Eugen Sandow" and under Attila's tutelege began progressive weight training. Link…

Hong Kong

Rummaging through a box of old odds and ends at home, I came across a box of slowly decaying slides. In amongst the family outing shots there were a few landscape and street scenes. Taken in the mid-sixties they show a mostly disappeared (I assume, although I've never been back) Hong Kong and its surrounds. The skyline is unrecognisable compared to today. Kai Tak airport is closed and its future still up in the air (up in the air - geddit). The trams (note that's Jardine House on the left of the tram) and ferries are still running. Chungking Mansions is still there, as is the Sha Tin floating restaurant, albeit in a drastically altered form.

Bookplates

The University of Notre Dame has a bookplate registry. Link…

Mug Shots

Photographs from the Arkansas State Prison 1915-1937. Link…