![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://cdn1.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
Following on from The Smiling Victorians, thank you very much to Scott for pointing out this omission from the gallery.
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Picture of Queen Victoria taken from the Bridgeman Collection, drawn from the Hulton|Archive.
Smiling Queen Victoria
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Victorian Star Wars
'First photograph' of New York, 1848
Replica Victorian man
World’s tallest buildings, 1884
“When They Were Young”
'First roller-skate', 1869
First solar-powered engine
Map of the Last U.S. Slave Census 1860
Shopping in the Belly of the Whale
Antikamnia Chemical Company Calendars, 1899 / 1900
Child Slave 'Cartes de Visites', 1863
Women's 'Empire' Fashion, 1806-1813
Rephotographing St Petersburg
Victorian Faux Snow Portraits
Woman before and after tuberculosis, 1850/1856
Construction of Tower Bridge, 1886-1894
Tetrahedral Kites by Alexander Graham Bell, 1898-1912
Beach Oil wells, Southern California, c.1895-1940 
Ernst Haeckel's Christmas Cards
Map of the Square and Stationary Earth, 1893
"The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions", 1896-1930
I believe someone stuck a chocolate eclair through the curtains of the photographic studio.
Smiling Queen Victoria…. never thought I’d see those words together.
“Smiling Queen Victoria”… surely that’s an oxymoron?
I think the hat (construction) requires some explanation……
The world’s worst dentures?
To be honest, it looks more like she had REALLY bad gas…
Perhaps she has a secret?