Danger Collection (page 5)

SPAIN GOYA WAR C1808
That Is Not To Be Looked At: innocent victims amongst the Spanish population during the Peninsular War. Date: circa 1808

RATS & TRAP C1840 RATS & TRAP C1840
Two black rats nibble at a piece of cheese in a trap. Date: circa 1840

Building Site Trauma
An awkward accident on a skyscraper building site: a man is carried aloft by a crane Date: 1915

COACH IN VIRGINIA 1874
A stagecoach negotiates a bumpy route in the hills of Virginia. Date: 1874

Cartoon, Sowing Tares (Socialism)
Cartoon, SOWING TARES -- the Socialist devil sows tares (weeds) in the field of labour, a parody of a religious painting by Millais, His enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat. Date: 1886

Cartoon, The Live Shell (Gladstone and Salisbury)
Cartoon, The Live Shell (Which of em will throw it overboard?) William Gladstone and Lord Salisbury depicted as sailors, with the Irish question about to explode on the deck of their ship. Date: 1886

Two America hoboes risking life and limb
Two Hoboes risk life and limb by riding on a carriage truck in America. Date: 1893

COMMUNITY / CHARITY / HOBOE
An American Hobo Riding on the Bumpers. Date: 1894

Polluted London Water
THE CITY NARCISSUS Punch accuses Londons officials of being too self-satisfied to realise the danger to the the citys health from the polluted water of the Thames Date: 1849

THE COUNTRY IN DANGER
LA PATRIE EN DANGER ! The official declaration that France is in danger is proclaimed on the Pont Neuf, Paris : marching troops rouse the citizens to action ! Date: 22 July 1792

IN DANGER AT JENA
Battle of Jena : Reconnoitring the field, Napoleon is challenged by the Austrian sentinels and is in danger of his life Date: 14 October 1806

Will of the wisp, - circa 1800
A mischievous demon, in the guise of a Will o the Wisp, lures unwary travellers to their deaths in a bog. Date: circa 1800

Illustration to Goblin Market
Goblin Market - illustration to Christina Rossettis poem. Date: 1920

The Span of Life, a drama by Sutton Vane, William Calders Company. circa 1890s

Beware camels sign, Jordan
Beware of camels - a triangle road sign on the desert road in Jordan Date: circa 1995

Beware of the Bull - Man comes a cropper, even though he professes to be a Vegetarian! Date: 1906

Illustration of the Bird Man Hero of Restif de La Breton?
Illustration of the Bird Man Hero of Restif de La Bretonnes Book La Decouvert Australe of 1781 Taking-Off from a Cliff Edge with Umbrella & Basket Date: 1781

Engraving of Vincent de Groof (A Belgian) Ornithopter De?
Engraving of Vincent de Groof (A Belgian) Ornithopter Design, Released from a Free Balloon after Ascending from Gemorne Gardens, London, UK. He Plunged to His Death. Date: 1874

Mr E Wilson with His Pettigrew Wing Type Ornithopter L?
Mr E Wilson with His Pettigrew Wing Type Ornithopter Launched from the 160 Foot High Watkin Tower, Wembley Park, London, UK in 1905 Date: 1905

Bird-Man Marquis de Bacqueville (Jean Francois Boyvin de?
Bird-Man Marquis de Bacqueville (Jean Francois Boyvin de Bonnetot) Attempts to Fly Across the River Seine in Paris in 1742 Date: 1742

Mr E Wilson with a Pettigrew Wing Type Ornithopter Sus?
Mr E Wilson with a Pettigrew Wing Type Ornithopter Suspended from a Specially Erected Scaffold Launch Tower, Caption Reads

Domestic Gas Accident - Explosion blows man out through roof
Song Titkes Illustrated: " I Arise from my Dreams of Thee". Domestic Gas Accident - An explosion blows a sleeping man out through his roof after his wife has unwisely investigated a strange

WW2 - RAF Bombing raid over Germany - stylised image of a party of Vickers Wellingtons. Date: circa 1941

Police rescue a small boy during the Floods in Norwich, Norfolk - August, 1912. Date: 1912

Crossing to Lindisfarne, Holy Island Causeway, Northumberland, with danger signs to warn drivers of high tide. Date: circa 1960s

Stunt woman cannonball loses her knickers
Liza Knight, an 18-year-old stunt performer from Leicester, felt quite a draught after being shot from a cannon during a rehearsal

WW2 poster, Flying Bomb or Doodlebug
WW2 Air Ministry poster, Flying Bomb or Doodlebug seen in cross-section. Date: 1944

WW2 Poster -- Typhus, How Is It Spread?
Information poster on typhus and how it is spread. Colour lithograph, British Army anti-typhus medical information poster, after 2nd Lieutenant Stacey Hopper

WW2 Poster -- Keep mum, shes not so dumb
Keep mum, shes not so dumb! Careless Talk Costs Lives. Colour photolithograph poster, modern reproduction of a World War Two poster

L enfant terrible, 1890
Chorus in the stern: " Don t go on like that-or you ll upset us all!" Kaiser Wilhelm IIs antics rock the boat, causing anxiety amongst his fellow leaders

German poster, What England Wants, WW1
German propaganda poster, What England Wants, depicting a blindfolded man approaching the edge of a cliff with a heavy sack on his back at the beginning of the First World War. Date: circa 1914

The two-horse act. Picture shows a male bareback rider on two horses balancing his female partner on his right leg. Date c1874

Loose Lips Might Sink Ships - United States Office of War Information poster, reproduced on postcards by House of Seagram. Date: circa 1942

Hansel & Gretel arrive at the witchs house
A Happy New Year To You -- Hansel & Gretel arrive at the witchs house and start eating the tiles off the roof. 20th century

Hansel & Gretel welcomed by the witch
Hansel & Gretel are welcomed by the witch. 20th century

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Date: 1906

Angels over Stormy Sea
Five angels implore Heavens mercy on a sailing ship which is in danger of running aground during a storm at sea

Stick of dynamite
Nobel - Stick of Dynamite/ Dynamite Cartridge

Team of stunt women posing with a stunt bicycle Date: circa 1970s

Scenes from the German film Gefahren der Brautzeit, 1930 or Le Danger Des Fiancailles or Dangers of the Engagement. The film starred Marlene Dietrich, Willi Forst

Comic Postcard - Perils of the Demon Drink - Hallucinations caused by taking Littel drops of Whisky and Little Drops of Beer !! Date: circa 1903

Young man sits by fire outside his teepee in the woods
Young man sits by a fire outside his teepee in the woods - a rifle across his knees in case of danger. Date: circa 1890s

Road sign in Scottish Highlands, Devils Elbow
Road sign on the Cairnwell Pass in the Scottish Highlands, warning drivers that they are approaching Devils Elbow, a dangerous double hairpin bend. Date: 1960s

Victorian scrap - Guy Fawkes and two of his co-conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, 1605. late 19th century

Martin-Baker ejection seat, as used in British aircraft during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

Victorian Christmas Card snow scene - Skating on Thin Ice. 19th century

Tibet - A Moment of Suspence - transporting animals on trail
Tibet - A Moment of Suspence - transporting animals on a narrow Himalayan Mountain trail by means of suspending two poles on ropes and man-handling the animal across. Date: 1907

Italy warned by Menelik of dealing with the Ottoman Sultan
The Italians in Libya - Italo-Turkish War. Menelik I, the Emperor of Ethiopia (who had defeated Italy in 1889) warns Italy

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping