Age D Collection

Proust (Age about 31)
MARCEL PROUST aged about 31

Quad-Ro-Bike at Butlin s
A Quad-ro-bike at a Butlins Holiday Camp

Don Bradman square cuts at Lords, 1930
Photograph of Don Bradman square cutting during the second Test Match between England and Australia, held at Lords Cricket Ground, London, 1930

HMS Implacable, 1920
Photograph of HMS Implacable, formerly the Duguay-Trouin, 1920. This ship was built in France in 1789, served at Trafalgar, and was captured by the Royal Navy shortly thereafter

Ladywell Lodge, Lewisham, south east London
Aerial view of Ladywell Lodge, a residential institution for the elderly, near Lewisham, in south east London

Duke Wellington / Lawrence
DUKE OF WELLINGTON - formal portrait, aged circa 40

Two Duff Highlanders at Braemar Games, Scotland
Two kilted Duff Highlanders from the Mar Estate discussing the Braemar Highland Games where King George V and Queen Mary were in attendance

Street scene in Porthgain, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
A street scene in the coastal village of Porthgain, Pembrokeshire, South Wales. A middle aged woman stands and smiles at the camera

W. G. Grace batting at Gravesend, 1913
Photograph of Dr. William Gilbert Grace (1848-1915) batting in the Gravesend vs. Eltham cricket match, held at Gravesend cricket ground, 1913

Highwayman Cottington
John Cottington (aka Mulled Sack) robs an army pay wagon on Shotover Hill, near Oxford, and relieves it of 4000 pounds. He will hang in 1656 aged 45

Walter Sickert
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942), English Impressionist painter in middle age

Ae Housman / Aged 35
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN English scholar and poet at the age of 35

Toilet / Manicure 1930
Frumpish middle-aged woman gives a manicure to a pretty young woman in her bedroom

Patrick Cotter O brien
The celebrated Irish Giant Patrick Cotter O Brien. Aged 38 years, 8 feet 7 inches high

PRINCE JOHN / 1914-19 / ILN
PRINCE JOHN Youngest son of George V. Died aged thirteen, having suffered severe epileptic fits from infancy onwards

Alice Aged 10
ALICE LIDDELL Alice Liddell aged about ten

Gipsy couple on their horse-drawn cart
A middle-aged gipsy couple riding along a country road on their horse-drawn cart. A London Transport bus stop can be seen in the background

Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart, elder daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry and the later Marchioness of Londonderry

Bermondsey Military Hospital, London
Bermondsey Military Hospital operated during the First World War on the premises of the St Olaves Union workhouse at Ladywell, near Lewisham, in south east London

Moro Boy Smoking
A Moro boy from the Philippines has his photograph taken, bribed by the gift of the cameramans empty film carton. The boy, aged about six, is smoking a cigarette

Konstantin Buteyko, Soviet doctor
Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko (1923-2003), Soviet medical doctor and researcher. In the 1950s, Buteyko, a Ukrainian, developed a theory on the effects of deep breathing (hyperventilation)

Kenneth Kendall (b 1924), retired British broadcaster. He worked for many years as a newsreader for the BBC and other channels, and also hosted the game show Treasure Hunt for Channel 4 (1982-1989)

Older Vietnamese woman wearing Asian style conical hat

Carroll at Various Ages
LEWIS CARROLL Four pictures of Carroll, aged 8, 25, 49 and 66. Date: 1832 - 1898

Travellers at Jersey Airport, Channel Islands
A group of travellers make their way towards a small aeroplane on the tarmac at the States of Jersey Airport, Channel Islands. Date: circa 1970s

Cricket for the middle-aged / W H Robinson
More sensible cricket for the middle-aged. Every player has his own comfortable seat and drinks are served on a tray mid game

Scene in the International Stores, Crediton, Devon, with two middle-aged women chatting in an aisle

Mozart (7) and Family
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART The Austrian composer at the age of seven, with his sister Marianne, aged eleven, and their father Leopold, in 1764

Yeoman Warder of the Tower
A Yeoman Warder of the Tower of London

Thomas Mann / Aged 30
THOMAS MANN German novelist

Duke Wellington / Philips
DUKE OF WELLINGTON - formal portrait, aged circa 40

Training Ship, Exmouth, Grays, Essex
Ships company on the TS Exmouth, operated from 1876 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board on the Thames off Grays, Essex

Kenya - Kikuyu
An old Kikuyu Chief - Kenya, East Africa

John Conrad Russell and his mother Dora Black
John Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell (1921-1987) and his mother Dora Black, Lady Russell (1894-1986)

Jean Shrimpton in Penzance, Cornwall
Jean Shrimpton (b 1942), nicknamed The Shrimp, fashion model and actress of the 1960s, an icon of Swinging London. Seen here at the age of 44 in a hotel in Penzance, Cornwall

Elderly Berber Women, Algeria
Berber Golden Oldies - A group of elderly Algerian Berber Women, heavily wrapped up against the elements, but still displaying traditional costume and jewellery including large hooped earrings

Sir James Brooke / Edwards
SIR JAMES BROOKE Rajah of Sarawak

Krao the Hairy Girl - 1
When KRAO was brought from Burma to London, aged about 6/7, some thought she might be the missing link between apes & men : but in fact she was simply a very hairy girl

Husband / Wife Paice 1860
A middle-aged couple in the photographers studio

Henry VIII / Miniature
KING HENRY VIII Aged 35 in 1526

Portrait of a Brazilian lady, originally from the north east of Brazil, who is in her eighties. The shot was taken in the favela Paraisopolis in Sao Paulo, Brazil

An old !Kung man. The !Kung are San hunter-gatherers, often referred to as Bushmen

William Doran, veteran of the Battle of Navarino, at St Geor
William Doran ( Old Navarino ), aged 96, was once a powder monkey on the Genoa at the Battle of Navarino

USA, Washington. Washingtons wine country

The barrel aging cellar. Bodega Familia Schroeder Winery, also called Saurus, Neuquen, Patagonia, Argentina, South America

Dingle Winners
A happy middle-aged man and some children, with the glassware and ceramics they have won at the fair at Dingle racecourse County Kerry, Ireland. Date: 1962

Ewhurst Place, East Sussex
Peter aged 4, Heather aged 2, Betty asleep in her cot upstairs, aged one month. Ewhurst Place, East Sussex. May 1917

Old man, art by Durer
Durers Old Man. Sketch by the German artist Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) of the head of an old man (1521). Durer did much to introduce the Renaissance style of art to northern Europe

Surface worker, South Wales colliery
A middle aged surface worker at a colliery in South Wales

Two middle aged miners with their lamps, South Wales
Two middle aged miners with their lamps, at a colliery in South Wales

Three women playing cards at a table
Three middle aged women playing cards at a table. They are playing for money, and there are three half-empty glasses of sherry

Six men playing cards at a table in the street
Six men playing a game of cards at a table in the street

Inmates of Union Workhouse, Shipston on Stour, Worcs
Aged female inmates of the Union workhouse believed to be at Shipston on Stour, Worcestershire. The women are wearing the typical workhouse uniform of long dress, shawl, apron, and bonnet

John Le Carre (David Cornwell)
John le Carr (pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, b 1931), English author of spy novels, many of which have been adapted for television and film. He worked for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 1960s

Elderly Maori man wrapped in a blanket, New Zealand

Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (1883-1963), only child of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Princess Stephanie, shown here as a little girl aged 6

Bedouin Man - Sinai, Egypt. Egyptains call the Sinai Peninsula the " Land of Fayrouz"

Krao the Hairy Girl - 2
When KRAO was brought from Burma to London, aged about 6/7, some thought she might be the missing link between apes & men : but in fact she was simply a very hairy girl

Gulliver in Luggnagg
Gulliver is shown the aged Struldbrugs, who have lost wits, memory and health, acquiring in exchange all kinds of deformity

An old man sits beside the dusty road with his pots and milk churn, at Nometkun, a Sogdian speaking village in Yagnob Valley

A couple pass a colonial mansion on the Plaza de Armas in Trujillo, Peru. Wrought iron grillwork and pastel shades are typical of the citys colonial architecture. PERU, La Libertad, Trujillo

An elderly resident of Lahore, capital of the Punjab and Pakistans most cultured city

A Turkana woman sitting in the doorway of her hut. Her heavy mporro braided necklace identifies her as a married woman

FALLA, Manuel de (1876-1946). Spanish composer and pianist. Portrait aged 50 years old. Photography

Landscape with figures. Pichot Girones, Ramon (1872-1925). Oil on canvas

Brick making hand shaping - Rangoon - then at tables under a thatched sun shelter, teams of three shape and press it into metal moulds, some children aged 12 (but look more like 8)

Man in a crowd in a Yugoslavian street
A man in a crowd in a Yugoslavian street. He is carrying a wooden barrel, possibly containing cheese. Date: September 1965

Thomas Burgon
THOMAS BURGON Numismatist, aged 51. with his autograph Date: 1787 - 1858

Lindbergh (8) & Father
CHARLES AUGUSTUS LINDBERGH American aviator, with his father, Congressman Charles A Lindbergh, at the age of 8 Date: 1902 - 1974

Domenico Savio
DOMENICO SAVIO Italian saint, pupil of Giovanni Bosco, canonised for his piety though aged only 15 Date: 1842 - 1857

MOUNT RANIER NATIONAL PARK, WASHINGTON. USA. Old-growth forest above Chinook Creek

LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK, CALIFORNIA. USA. Old-growth Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi) & moon

California. USA. Bristlecone pine cone & contorted trunk of ancient bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva). Patriarch Grove. White Mountains. Inyo National Forest

California. USA. Bristlecone pine snags & living trees (Pinus longaeva). Patriarch Grove. White Mountains. Inyo National Forest

Hovenweep National Monument, Colorado. USA. Great House (upper) & Holly House (lower) at dawn. Ancestral Puebloan structures built ca. AD 1200 at head of Keeley Canyon. Colorado Plateau

American West Heritage Center, Utah. Old steam thresher at Jensen Historical Farm

NM, New Mexico, San Ildefonso Pueblo, Big Tree in North Plaza, a majestic Cottonwood

North America, USA, North Carolina, digitally altered infrared image of an old barn in the fall, with the moon and a soft blue light cast over the scene

UTAH. USA. Detail, prehistoric petroglyph of elk. Uinta Basin. Fremont Culture

Greece, Crete, Episkopi. Byzantine Church of Agios Georgios (Saint George) was built c. 961 AD

France, Corsica. Ruins of a Genoese fort and garrison at Col de Vizzavona. Monte d Oro in distance

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