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Where the Wild Things Are, 2009.
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The face on an Irish-Potato, 1920.
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Giant cigar, 1920.
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Performer in aquatic show, 1963.
Mechanical partner for dancing pupil, 1921.
Weegee - Martian Woman on the Telephone, circa 1955.
We Come in Peace, 1936. (Submarine escape training.)
Chinese water torture at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, circa 1860. Victims were strapped down so that they could not move, and cold or warm water was then dripped slowly on to a small area of the body; usually the forehead. The forehead was
Washington man sleeps in a blanketless bed, 1927. Milton Fairchild of Washington, D.C., does not need any blankets for keeping him warm these winter nights. He has invented an electrical bed which does not require any covering for the body when asleep.
Walter Yeo, premier patient ayant subit une greffe de la peau, 1917.
Walter Pichler - TV-Helmet (Portable living room), 1967.
W. Pichler - Kleiner Raum, 1967.
A feminine Gulliver in a modern Lilliput, Helene Scott stands astride two houses in a village that was painstakingly built of toy bricks, 1947.
The new Volkswagen travelling along the tracks of the Long Island railroad. This versatile vehicle has two sets of wheels, tyres for the road and iron wheels that fit directly onto the tracks, 1956.
Crockett fan’s unskinned coonskin, 1955.
Three (?) men on a horse by Richard Barrett-Lennard, 1955.
photos-de-france: Prêt pour une balade en auto, Arthur le sanglier se blottit affectueusement contre son propriétaire, Jean Dubayle, Limoges, 1955. Ready for an automobile trip, Arthur the boar affectionately nuzzles his owner, Jean Dubayle, Limoges,
photos-de-france: Un gendarme curieux regarde le champion des poids coqs Robert Cohen sauter à la corde à Paris, Bois de Boulogne, 1955. A curious gendarme stares as bantamweight champion Robert Cohen skips rope in Paris, Bois de Boulogne, 1955.
In the parade of satirical floats, most of them mocking politics, Konrad Adenauer and Pierre Mendès France are gulping for the most Rich Saar Milk, 1955.
girlsandmachines: Volkswagen Beetle.
photos-de-france: Voiture hippomobile ultra-légère mise en circulation à Paris en septembre 1943.
Get those kids off my back!, 1968.
Une anesthésie chez le dentiste.
Traitement de la démence.
Edward Mordrake, l'homme aux deux visages. Edward Mordrake possédait un second visage ancré dans le derrière de sa tête, un visage qui ne pouvait ni parler ni manger. Un visage un peu difforme, une sorte de jumeau. Il a été dit que ses yeux pouvaient
Appelé le fantôme obstétrique par les étudiants italiens entre 1700-1800. L'outil servait à enseigner aux étudiants en médecine et aux sages-femmes les processus de l'accouchement.
Masque de docteurs durant une épidémie de peste. Le bec sert à se protéger des germes et contient des substances parfumées.
musicbabes: Cellist Charlotte Moorman performs Opera Sextronique by Nam June Paik (right) where score calls for topless soloist in gas mask, 1967.
Baby aardvark, 1967.
Nels Nelson - Elastic skin wonder.
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Champagne Bottle Dancer, circa 1904.
Jump
Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Herbert List
Help from a handy pocket, 1965.
Vincent Price and Virginia North - The Abominable Dr. Phibes, 1971.
Lucille Ball & Vivian Vance.
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Mannequins derriere la vitrine
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Sex-education in Fife, Scotland, 1954.
Brooklyn Bridge under construction, New York, 1914.
Julia Adams - Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954.
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An exciting moment in the game of firemen’s pushball. With spray flying in all directions, the players are taking the ball down the field for a try at their opponents’ goal, 1922.
Victor Bulla - Masques à gaz, Miyakejima, archipel d'Izu, Japon.
The Broken Hill Mine in Northern Rhodesia, 1922. The small circle marks the spot where the prehistoric skull was found, when the open quarry work uncovered the end of “Bone Cave”. In the large circle the skull is shown in the position in which
Movable eye, 1948. From trays of assorted eyes codesigner Fritz Jardon of american optical company finds a match for patient’s good right eye.
Gigantic balloon figures, 1948.
Gatie the alligator, 1948. 1 - After a bath, Gatie the Chicago Alligator braces himself on his hind legs as his master rubs his scaly skin dry beside the living room stove.
Venise, 1940. La guerre en gondole.
Stop-ondes, 1910. Homme se livrant à l’expérience de la cage de Faraday, mise au point par le physicien britannique Michael Faraday (1791-1867), qui consiste à s’enfermer dans une enceinte afin de s’isoler des effets électriques et électromagnétiques
Statue d’ancêtre à deux têtes provenant de Mallicolo (Nouvelles-Hébrides), 1910.
Spectacle de marionnettes érotiques au Laos, 1920.
Scène d’hiver à Governors Island, dans la baie de New-York, février 1958.
