Obsolescence posters & prints

Old Boiler Back Heads Gordon Osmundson

Skeletal Hand Holding Computer Chip Anonymous

Old cars in a scrapyard, Cooma, New South Wales, Australia, 1973 Unknown

The Earl of Rosse's Giant Telescope Anonymous

Stephenson's Endless Chain Locomotive Anonymous

1950s sandwiches soup candles Anonymous

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Junkies breaking up old looms, to be sold for scrap-iron and said to be sent... Lewis Hine

Destruction of the Latting Observatory, New York Anonymous

Michael Hutchence John Ferguson

Picture of a Stainless Steel Train Anonymous

Various substances fluorescing in vacuum tubes of different shapes, 1903 Unknown

1950s still life overhead view of assortment of silver service pieces including tea set candlesticks & ice bucket Anonymous

1930s family with grandparents & conductor on broadway limited observation car train platform waving goodbye & farewell Anonymous

Michael Hutchence John Ferguson

Illustration for the essay 'A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis' by Charles Lamb, 1899 Charles Edmund Brock

First I Lost My Pen and Now I've Lost My Spectacles Oscar Gustav Rejlander

Children watching an outdoor scene through a camera obscura, 1887 Unknown

Elaphe obsoleta lindheimeri f. leucistic (Texas rat snake) Anonymous

Lord Rosse's telescope, Birr, Offaly, Ireland W Lawrence

Old shoes well worn with hole in the sole Anonymous

Portable tent type of camera obscura, 1764 Unknown

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. An old silk-worker (now unable to work) living on earnings of a roomer, March 1937 Lewis Hine

The Defeat Of Obstruction In The House Of Commons, UK Anonymous

Not So Useless As It Looks, 1880 Anonymous

Street Scene in Paris, 1926 Christopher Wood

Camera obscura, 1561 Unknown

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Quiller tying the broken ends of thread being wound on to quills, March 1937 Lewis Hine

Subsidence in London Road, Northwich Jeffries

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Idle quilling machines and looms in a cockroach shop, March 1937 Lewis Hine

Boycotting In Ireland: Mike Flynn, Aged 70, Who Was Shot In The Leg With Marbles On Suspicion Of Having Paid... Anonymous

Canadian Observation Post, 1919 Colin Unwin Gill

A Night Out Homeless Oscar Gustav Rejlander

Demolition of Crescent Pavilion, Douglas Manx Press Pictures

Excommunication of Modern Civilization. Galileo of the 19th Century. "But nevertheless it does move" Anonymous

Carrigrohane Farm, From Which The Tenant Has Been Evicted. Now Occupied By The Cork Defence Union, 1886 Anonymous

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Idle quilling machines and looms in a cockroach shop, March 1937 Lewis Hine