A digital collection of well over 100 bizarre antique surgical devices, adverts for eye-raising patent medicines and quack tonics, antique anatomical and surgical engravings, macabre old drawings, Victorian pathology photo plates, diseases, complaints, infections, freaks, medical procedures, etc. "Kill or Cure..." Great historical, academic (and morbid humor) interest! B&W and early color-tint images from original old US and European sources - textbooks, journals, etc, and exhibits from the Musée Dupuytren in Paris. Infectious and congenital illnesses of yesteryear (now largely treatable or preventable) include scurvy, gout, syphilis, goitre... 

This ebook anthology is supplied as a PDF file for Acrobat Reader, with autoroll "slideshow" functionality and random transition effects between the images. Also includes tasters from some of our other recent titles! (Most of these images can also be supplied individually at high resolution quality, suitable for print reproduction or other professional presentations. Please contact webmaster@fisheseye.com for details.)

Strange But True! Bizarre Vintage Postcards

An amazing scrap book of old postcards and genuine photos from yesteryear, capturing some of the strangest portraits you'll ever see! A digital anthology of ethnological pictures of scary ladies from jungle tribes, tattooed warriors, weird French peasants, mysterious veiled Arabian women, oriental and and circus performers, Indian fakirs, freaks, pygmies and eskimos, real-life witches and wizards, pipe smoking dames, mind-boggling ethnic costumes, Victorian eccentrics... An album of bizarre curiosities from around the world, to download in PDF ebook format.

19th Century Gadgets, Gizmos & Science Illustrations - PDF Scrapbook

A digital scrapbook filled with an international collection of vintage illustrations from the pages of Victorian popular science journals and anthologies. Over 100 great images, mainly American, British and French machinery, novel transport and inventions, including steam and electric power, cameras, guns, boats, lighting, telescopes and telephones, scientific instruments, X-Rays, household devices.... 

Downloadable in PDF ebook format with optional random page transition effects for amusing browsing - just $3.95! 

Edwardian Weird Freak Show - Curio Scrapbook

Antique Stereoview Pinups - Digital Photo Album

A digitized album of amusing "stereoview" cards - stereoscopic photo images from a century ago - seaside bathing beauties, artists' models, curvy naturists, French retro glamour shots, charming and cheeky vintage female nudes... each pair of slightly offset images could be superimposed with a stereoscope viewer - a practical application of a Victorian science toy - to produce a single, sometimes startling 3D stereo picture, adding a whole new dimension to photography - literally!

This antique collection of dozens of lovely ladies is optimized for screen display (you can easily teach yourself to view them in stereo without equipment simply by unfocusing your eyes, and allowing them to refocus - after a few moments they will fool you into seeing the combined stereoview!). If you already have a vintage stereoscope (available cheap on Ebay!) you can easily print selected images as transparencies or positives at a size to fit your viewer. Simple instructions to make your own home-made stereoscope are also freely available on the internet. Hours of slightly naughty fun, great value, educational!!

Macabre Postcard Peepshow - (Vintage Photo Ebook Album)

A visual horror picture book for all fans of things macabre. Sometimes spooky, ghoulish, Gothic, an occasional sexy frisson.... not for the squeamish! A digital anthology of dozens of vintage ghoulish photographs and old postcards, plus contemporary photo art images: gargoyles and gravestones, punishments, cannibals and savages, Victorian cemeteries, medieval catacombs, ossuaries, scarification, shrunken heads, gibbets and Egyptian mummies... A Pandora's Box of nasty, creepy things, in PDF ebook format, to open if you dare! Unusual, portable entertainment for spare moments on your computer screen. For all horror genre fans and curio buffs.

In PDF ebook format for Acrobat Reader, with optional rolling slideshow functionality! In presentation mode this e-book makes a novel alternative to a screensaver. Includes samples from our sister titles. Ideal Halloween gift or icebreaker! 

Vintage French Pin-up Girls - PDF Ebook / Photo Slideshow

Kimono Girls - PDF Slideshow: Vintage Geisha Photos & Postcards

Postcards from Old Japan (PDF vintage photo album)

A fascinating collection of over 150 vintage photos and postcards of Japan, from the late 19th century to the last decades of the prewar Imperial lifestyle that has now all but disappeared. Includes scenes of samurai combat, rural feudal life, Buddhist and Shinto temples, landscapes, as well as city life in Imperial Tokyo and other large Japanese towns. Historic images for all fans of Asian history. Includes scans of genuine old albumen prints by famous photographers such as Mikoshi, Kimbei and Kasumasa, many in truly beautiful hand-tinted color.  Plus sample pages from our other visual history and vintage travel titles.

An instant collection in PDF album format, with optional rolling slideshow functions and random transition effects between images! In presentation mode this e-book makes a novel alternative to a screensaver. Edited by Babette Abbeywood. New edition improved and extended, February 2010!!

Victorian Drug Fiends - Classic Tales of Opium and Hashish!

1920s Flapper Girls - Saucy Vintage Photo Album

A digital booklet of old postcards and photographs from the Golden Age of the British seaside pleasure resort! Visual nostalgia from the pier, pictures of the Cornish Riviera, and such exciting and legendary English vacation destinations as Clacton-on-Sea, Southend... Scarborough, Skegness, LLandudno, Torquay, Margate, Ramsgate, Whitstable, Eastbourne, Blackpool, Brighton, Bournemouth, Broadstairs, Weston-super-Mare and Bognor Regis! Bandstands and bathing machines... boaters, long skirts and sticks of peppermint rock candy! A taste of Olde England and sea air in downloadable format!

Dozens of Victorian and Edwardian souvenir postcards, digitized and compiled as a PDF format scrapbook (for Acrobat Reader) with optional rolling slideshow functionality and fade effects between each image.

Remember those saucy penny-in-the-slot machines they used to have on the pier? Well here's a slideshow of over 100 vintage glamour models, classic mermaids from yesteryear, in their bathing costumes - or birthday suits! Edwardian and Flapper fashion swimming costumes, sexy water nymphs, cute girls in beach, bath and studio shots, semi-nude risqué poses.

A photo art ebook in PDF format, it opens by default in a rolling presentation mode, with fade effects between each risqué picture - a delightfully cheeky ebook with a difference! Includes color as well as black and white images. The show takes approx 10 minutes. You can interrupt at any point to linger longer over any of these alluring women. 

Chorus Girls - Vintage Photo Album

A digital scrapbook of dozens of early photographs featuring some of the loveliest chorus girl dancers and glamor models from the early 20th century. Many of these images are taken from early picture postcards, which acted as souvenirs and promotional publicity materials from the Golden Age of variety revues. Glamorous girls, glitzy fashions, saucy stage costumes, feather boas, sequins, stockings, garters and frilly lingerie... sometimes risqué, many in hand-tinted color. Features French cancan dancers, flapper beauties, and backstage scenes from the famous Parisian shows.

This unusual and highly collectible photo anthology of beautiful artistes and showgirls includes bonus sample pages from some of our sister titles. In PDF ebook format for Acrobat Reader, with optional rolling slideshow functionality! In presentation mode this e-book makes a novel alternative to a screensaver. Enjoy a night at the oldtime music-hall cabaret, on your computer screen, anytime and anywhere! Of special interest to all collectors of theatrical nostalgia.

A collection of over 100 classic early photos, prints and postcards of Japanese geisha girls and female oriental beauties. Traditional ethnic dresses, antique jewelry and silk costumes, domestic and tribal scenes, ceremonies, dances... a fascinating insight into the lives and fashions of women of yesteryear, from imperial Japan and the colonial period lands of the Far East. Many of the gorgeous, nostalgic images in this digital album, originally dating from the late 1800s and early 1900s, are hand colored and have a timeless erotic and esthetic charm.

In PDF ebook format, with optional rolling slideshow functionality and random transition effects between images! Entertainment, historical and anthropological interest. In presentation mode this e-book makes a great alternative to a screensaver. 

100+ Vintage California Postcards (Ebook / PDF Slideshow)

A nostalgic collection of over 100 early American picture postcard images of California - San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland, Redondo, Hollywood, Yosemite Park, Catalina Island, etc. The coast, town and country, architecture, parks, mountains, fruit groves, etc, scanned and digitized. Scenic and historic views, and a breath of the West Coast from yesteryear! Mostly images from the early 20th century, many in hand-tinted color. Of special interest to Californians, architects and amateur historians.

Supplied in as a PDF ebook with optional slideshow functionality and image transition effects. Buy it online here for just $3.99 !

A digital album of more than one hundred old postcards and vintage photos of Japanese geisha girls. Charming and fascinating portraits, many in early hand-tinted color, of these beautiful, traditional oriental hostesses in colorful kimonos. The role of the geisha is often misunderstood. Erotic, risqué pictures, some semi-nude. Tea ceremonies, bathing scenes, tending gardens, playing music, smoking opium.... as well as pictures hinting at these women's role as high-class courtesans or prostitutes. Haunting images from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, depicting a pre-industrial lifestyle that has largely disappeared in modern Japan.

A picture anthology of well over 100 vintage photos and postcards of bathing belles from the Golden Age of seaside tourism. Lovely ladies in beachwear fashions from the late 19the and early 20th centuries. Female glamor models in lacy retro one-pieces, striped swimming costumes, plus a few daring naturist sun-worshippers and saucy cartoon prints! Beach and studio portraits in black and white, sepia, and hand-tinted color, many from famous French photographers. Sexy water nymphs of yesteryear to delight and entertain. Fascinating, funny, nostalgic, sometimes risqué - erotic even! "A ready-made postcard collection to download."

Highly unusual and entertaining! Great gift, ice breaker... In PDF ebook format, with optional rolling slideshow functionality and random transition effects between images! In presentation mode this e-book makes a novel alternative to a screensaver. 

Over 100 old picture postcards, American greetings cards, vintage photographs, digitized and compiled as a screen saver / slideshow for computers running Windows. Ideal souvenir for tourists, visitors, native New Yorkers, or patriotic statement for US citizens everywhere!

Many major NYC landmarks, monuments, parks, squares, banks, newspapers, bridges, early skyscrapers, historic panoramas: Flat Iron Building, Empire State, Central Park...

Supplied as a PDF ebook with rolling slideshow functionality and random transition effects between each image.

A Breton Scrapbook - Vintage Postcards & Photos of Brittany

(La Bretagne d'Autrefois) Over 100 images from yesteryear of Brittany and its people - customs, folk costumes, rural and maritime daily life, towns, ports, fishing villages, traditions, historic and prehistoric monuments. A must for francophiles and fans of 19th century nostalgia and French history. Plus a selection of early tourist posters, and samples from our other French and European travel guides and visual history series.

In PDF ebook format for Acrobat Reader, with optional rolling slideshow functionality and fade effects between images! In presentation mode this e-book makes a novel alternative to a screensaver.

Gargoyles of Notre Dame - A Vintage Photo Album

100 Vintage Views of Japan (PDF vintage photo album)

Another collection of over 100 vintage photos and postcards of Japan, from the late 19th century to the last decades of the prewar, Imperial lifestyle that has now all but disappeared. Includes scenes of rural and feudal life, Buddhist and Shinto temples, famous landscapes, cherry blossom, tea houses, geisha girls, as well as city life in Imperial Tokyo and other large Japanese towns. Historic images for all fans of Asian history. Includes scans albumen prints by photographers such as Mikoshi, and many in truly beautiful hand-tinted color.

An instant collection in PDF album format, with optional rolling slideshow functions and random transition effects between images! In presentation mode this e-book makes a novel alternative to a screensaver. See also our other vintage Asian photo album titles: Postcards from Old Japan, Vintage Indochina, and Kimono Girls.

A PDF scrapbook of over 100 antique prints, vintage postcards and engravings - the old castles, stately mansions and manors, palaces and majestic ruins of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, many in color. Taken from classic books, mainly 19th century editions including those by artist/authors including Grose and Rev. Morris. A nostalgic taste of past elegance. Includes several castle ground plans and rural landscapes.

Supplied as a PDF ebook which opens by default in rolling presentation / slideshow mode with random image transition effects - great alternative to a screensaver.