Mary Evans Picture Libraryさんのイラストまとめ

#otd in 1871, a total solar eclipse occurred. Here astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer waits to observe the eclipse in India. #astronomy #astronomers
#solareclipse #normanlockyer #telescope #telescopes

'The Audition' by Webster Murray, published #OTD in The Tatler in 1932 #illustration #tatlerarchive #magazinearchive #auditions

#OTD in 1929, Nizari Imam Aga Khan III weds Andree Josephine Carron in Aix-les-Bains, France. They divorced in 1943.

'I'm the King of the Castle' by F. Newton Shepard, published #OTD in 1901 in The Sphere magazine #SnowWatch

Born #OTD 1874 at Blenheim Palace, British Prime Minister & statesman Winston Churchill. Controversially voted Greatest Briton in a 2002 BBC poll. Do you agree? Illustration by Mortimer Menpes of Churchill as a war correspondent during Boer War in 'War Impressions', 1901

#otd in 1520, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan entered the Pacific with three ships, following his passage through the dangerous straits below South America that now bear his name. Magellan became the first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic.

Born #OTD in 1616, John Wallis, British mathematician, physicist and codeifier #brainiac #archivescience

Dressing a Fanti (Fante) Lady's hair - Sekondi, Gold Coast (modern day Ghana), 1910s #hairyarchives

Fabulous 40s hairstyles #hairyarchives

May Bowley, children's illustrator & writer also happened to have an incredible head of hair. Pictured here as a young woman c.1885 #hairyarchives