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ZUM4830196: Tue 06, 1953 - 6-3-53 Heads, ancient and modern - A perfectly frightful looking mask from “” No””. Keystone Photo Shows: A mask worn in “” No””” a Japanese play and loaned by W. Orly, seen at the exhibition of ancient and modern art with “” Wonder and Horror of the human head”” as its theme, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Dover Street. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4830192: Tue 06, 1953 - 6-3-53 Heads, ancient and modern - Wood mask from Tibet. Keystone Photo Shows: A 17th Century wood mask from Tibet and loaned by W. Ohly, seen at the exhibition of ancient and modern art with “” Wonder and Horror of the human head”” as its theme, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Dover Street. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925412: Henry Hite, the Chicago giant, is measured for his shirts. July 31, 1946. Haberdashers Gus Weinberg (left) and Howard Stern measure Hite's wing spread of 7'9' from cuff to cuff. Hite ordered a dozen shirts for . Hite promoted the Corn King food brand as the 'Corn King Giant'. Hite played the monster in a 1965 science fiction horror, MONSTER A GO-GO! / Bridgeman Images
MPX5103338: Five years old Ian Boiston from Sutherland, on holiday in London wanted to see the Horse Guards in Whitehall so his mother took him along. "I only had my back turned five minutes," said mother, when I heard Ian screaming. When I looked round, to my horror, only his rear portion was visible, legs kicking." He had his head caught in the pillared balustrade of the new public offices in Parliament street, June 1955 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080875: In one appalling moment, a busy road, a typical just-round-the-corner shopping street, in the Clarkston area of Glasgow, Scotland, became a street of horror. The street was packed with wives doing the shopping. Everywhere there was laughter and chatter as happy children played. Then, at 2.52 in the afternoon, there was a deafening blast. Like a pack of cards, eleven shops collapsed into rubble. Cars on a rooftop car park above them plunged into the debris. There were screams and cries for help amid the confusion as rescuers tried to save the victims. At least eleven people died in the terror. Another fifty-two were injured. The explosion is thought to have been caused by a gas leak. October 1971 / Bridgeman Images