Destinations Collection (#2)

White Star Line, schedule of sailings over 14 pages. Image of Laurentic/Megantic and Olympic, with mention of Britannic under construction. 4 x 6 inches. Date: 1913

Advertisement, Union Castle Line and Royal Mail Service, showing destinations including Madeira, Tenerife, St Helena and Africa, managed by Donald Currie & Co, Fenchurch Street, London

Cover design, Fly to the East, showing destinations in India, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Singapore, Australia and Tasmania. 20th century

Delights of the Riviera - the Season at Cannes, 1926
Series of vignette sketches showing society at play on the French Riviera, at Cannes in the spring of 1926. Pictured are Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills on the areas tennis courts

Riviera entertainment - street performer outside Nice casino
A street performer entertains a fashionable crowd before the casino in Nice on the French Riviera in the spring of 1926. Date: 1926

Canadian Pacific to Canada and USA, Third Class, information page listed names of ships and destinations. Date: circa 1930s

How wireless beacons guide ships in the fog
The Marconi invention can determine distance of the ship from the beacon to steer the vessel into a Harbour during foggy weather

How wireless waves guide aeroplanes during bad visibility
Method of directing the pilots of aircraft flying to and from Croydon has been revolutioned by the Marconi directional visual beacon station erected at croydon. WWII

Men and signpost
Two men, one wearing a bowler hat, suit and gaiters, and the other in trilby and pin-striped trousers, look and point at a Surrey County Council signpost to Brighton, Redhill

Constantinople Tram Ticket
The front and the back of an Ottoman tram ticket from Constantinople written in Ottoman and English. The route taken (here between Matchka and Eminonu) is drawn in blue crayon

Chicago Stockyards 15
Every year, between 3 and 4 million cows enter the Chicago stockyards, ending up as carcases in refrigerated rooms before being despatched to their destinations

Beacons for Aircraft
Aircraft will be guided to their destinations by beacons - vertical lights positioned beside motorways, indicating the route from town to town

Grosvenor Square 1850S
A relatively active view of Grosvenor Square with carriages rushing to new destinations and stopping to pick up important passengers

Dangers of Travel
Flying to exotic destinations such as the Sahara presents additional dangers if the aviator has to make a forced landing

Valier rocket lunar base
Max Valier, Munich engineer, proposes a lunar base using solar power, from which travel to more distant destinations will be easier than from Earth. (2 of 3)

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