Continental Collection (page 5)

1869 Continental Link
The Union Pacific Railroad, the first transcontinental rail link, is completed at Promontory Point, Utah - Hold still, everyone, for the photographer ! Date: 10 May 1869

30 Broad Street, New York
Building, 30 Broad Street. Exchange Place looking upwards toward the Continental Bank Building at 30 Broad Street; pedestrians and automobiles visible

Cooks Continental Coach Tours
Poster or handbill advertising Cooks Continental Coach Tours -- see it all so easily! A roll of camera film shows colourful pictures of holiday resorts, and a coach travelling along a road

Lady Diana Cooper in Nassau
The British socialite and actress Lady Diana Cooper, in the tropical garden at the New Continental at Nassau

Egypt - Rue du Commerce
Commercial Street - Port Said, Egypt

Harwich Terminus
The Great Eastern Railway terminus and hotel at Harwich, Essex, one of the major ports for crossing to continental Europe

Battle of Long Island
BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND Superior in numbers and skill, the British defeat the Continental Army on Long Island, forcing them to retreat in disorder. Date: 29 August 1776

Bald French Boy C1870S
A shaven-headed young Frenchman in a continental sailor suit poses for the camera

British Bomber Booklet
BOMBER COMMAND A British government publication chronicling the activities of British bombers in action against targets in Continental Europe

Lindberghs at New York
Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his wife before they set out from New York to Columbus, the first leg of their inspection tour of trans-continental airways

Advert / Bodega Wine 19C
The Continental Bodega Company

Label, Czechoslovakia
The label for the HOTEL CONTINENTAL at PLZEN CSR. Czechoslovakia, shows it as a typically solid Central European hotel from a forgotten age

Continental Motor Coat
An American motor coat - the Continental" : full-length, double-breasted with stand- fall collar & adjustable straps at the cuffs. N.B peaked cap with ear-flaps

Splendid American Chair
A triumph of American Victoriana, this Patent Continental Spring Chair is exhibited by the American Chair Company at the Crystal Palace

Cape / Cairo Railway - 2
CAPE-TO-CAIRO RAILWAY Laying the first tracks near Bukama, Congo, for the trans- continental rail link Date: 1914

Cape / Cairo Railway - 1
CAPE-TO-CAIRO RAILWAY Clearing the Congo forest for the trans-continental rail link

Surveying Aussie Rail
Surveyors in a camel-drawn carriage reconnoitre the route for the trans-continental railway which will cross central Australia

Reconnoitring Rail Route
A surveyor on camelback reconnoitres the route for the trans-continental railway which will cross central Australia

Off to Paris by Air
An intrepid lady passenger at Croydon steps into the cabin of an Imperial Airways Continental Air Express, bound for Paris

Passengers in Argosy
Passengers comfortably installed in an Imperial Airways Armstrong Whitworth Argosy air liner from Croydon to continental Europe

Passengers Embark
Passengers embark for their flight to continental Europe

WEGENER (1850 - 1930)
ALFRED LOTHAR WEGENER German geophysicist & meteorologist whose theory of continental drift was accepted after initial rejection

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