Dangerously Collection

Plimsoll Line
The Mark indicates the degree to which a ship may be loaded - if it is below water level, the ship is dangerously over- loaded. (We have Plimsolls original prospectus)

Death of Elder Pliny
GAIUS PLINIUS SECUNDUS In his eagerness to observe the eruption of Vesuvius, he approaches dangerously near and is killed by falling rocks, a martyr to science

THE DOCTOR (FILDES) C19
A doctor visits a dangerously ill girl at her cottage home, watched by her distraught parents. Date: 19th century

The Strand Theatre, London Date: 1934

BOY WATCHES PLANE 1911
A boy watches a monoplane flying dangerously low over the Paris rooftops, near the Bon Marche department store. Date: 1911

MINES AT PORT ARTHUR
A Japanese battleship sails dangerously close to Russian mines placed there in defence of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japan war Date: 1904

Train in Bad Weather
Fallen branches halt a train, and a telegraph pole leans dangerously, during a severe gale. Date: 1884

Shipwrecked Crew
Crew and passengers from a shipwrecked vessel, in a dangerously over-full lifeboat Date: early 19th century

The YMCA service for relatives of dangerously wounded. Poster showing a woman visiting a wounded soldier in a hospital, as a doctor and Red Cross nurse look on. Date 1915

A Perilous Passage by George Ranstead
A man is given a terrifying ride in a sidecar by a female motorcycle rider, zooming away from other vehicles, buses, trams and horses in the street

Robins Near Trap
A group of robins peck the snow dangerously near a bird-trap

Biarritz Canoers
Two girls paddling their canoe dangerously close to some seaweed-covered rocks at Biarritz, France

Armoured Horse and Man
A French horse-soldier, period of Philippe le Bel : both man and horse are well protected against bowmen, though the horse seems dangerously vulnerable to infantry

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