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Pulp RPG photos, Mk. II


Flesh-and-blood NAGS, y/y? If you do play Terra Incognita rather than Spirit of the Century, this list does have other photos that reach back into a Victorian sf, rather than pulp, era.

• Aviators
  • American aviator standing in front of his biplane (1915)
  • American aviator, with leather helmet and goggles, sitting on the wheel of his biplane (1918)

• Others: Men
  • British explorer looking very much like a stereotypical "great white hunter" (1872)
  • Gentleman in derby hat, sitting outside on rock, with his nose in a book (1895)
  • Antarctic explorer, on skis in the snow (1901)
  • Another Antarctic explorer, wearing copious furs, on skis in the snow (1911)

• Others: Women
  • Woman wearing naturalist's kit, holding binoculars (1899)
  • Tibetan woman wearing a fedora (1947)

• NagTech
  • Up, up, and away! Two Nags in a hot air balloon (1862)
  • Early French photographic equipment (1868)
  • Camera disguised as a pair of binoculars; as a purse; as a book; as a gun (1868)
  • Camera hidden inside a cane handle; in a necktie (1868)
  • Cyclist riding an ice-cycle (1870)
  • Early combustion-engine car (1886)
  • Man on cliff wearing pioneering glider aircraft (1894)

• Scenery: Airships
  • Airship moored on the ground, surrounded by crowd (1910)
  • Airship flying over the ocean (1910)
  • Semi-rigid dirigible amongst the clouds (1926)

• Scenery: Temples, Artifacts, Excavations
  • Temple of Dendur (subsequently installed in New York's Metropolitan Museum in 1978) (1860)
  • Ancient ruins against backdrop of dramatic, striated rocks (1873)
  • The decaying remains of New York's first subway train, built in 1869 (1912)

• Maps
  • Map of Africa (1873)
  • Map of Africa (1880)
  • Map of lower Egypt and the Sinai pennisula (1885)
  • World map, showing the extent of the British Empire (1886)
  • World map, territories of the British Empire highlighted (1900)
  • Map of Europe (1901)
  • Map of Africa (1903)