Children playing at Harriet Island, St. Paul, Minnesota, circa 1905.
1. This picture shows a zebra-driven hackney cab travelling from Brixton towards Stockwell. The driver is Gustav Grais who ran a circus of zebras and baboons.
2. Tame Zebras were not unusual at the beginning of the twentieth century.
From the era (named after her, no less), when rarely a smile was seen on film.
Picture of Queen Victoria taken from the Bridgeman Collection, drawn from the Hulton|Archive.
CONSTRUCTION OF NELSON’S COLUMN, 1844
Image by Henry Fox Talbot
Three boys walking near an elephant from the Barnes Circus which is walking down the middle of Atlantic St. near Nevins, Brooklyn, June 1891
A man in a suit and bowler hat jumping in the air in a backyard in Brooklyn, New York, 1890.
