Intrepid Collection

USS Intrepid (CV-11) c April 1960
USS Intrepid (CV-11) c.April 1960. Date: 1960

Hillary and Tensing on Mount Everest
Hillary and Tensing nearing the summit of Mount Everest. Date: 1953

Montgolfier Ist Manned
Intrepid pioneers PILATRE DE ROZIER and the marquis D ARLANDES make the first successful manned flight in a Montgolfier balloon (hot air) at Paris

Elephant Hunt (Dore)
An intrepid hunter takes on an entire herd of elephants and fires at one of them from point-blabk range. In a moment he will be trampled to death, and serve him right

Frisian Voyagers
Already an intrepid seafaring people, voyagers from Frisia conduct voyages of exploration into northern latitudes

Alain Gerbault Sails
Intrepid French yachtsman ALAIN GERBAULT prepares to cross the Pacific, alone, in his boat the Firecrest

Godwins Project
FRANCIS GODWIN An ingenious method of flying by harnessing trained birds, who would tow the intrepid aviator even so far as the Moon

Selous, Hunter
Frederick Selous (1851-1917), traveller and hunter in Africa, holds a lion head to show how intrepid a sportsman he is

Rockwell Space Shuttle Orbiter OV-101 Enterprise. The first Orbiter built, used for atmospheric flight testing and never up-graded to flight status

Watching Cricket at The Oval, From a Gasometer
A test match between England and New Zealand at The Oval, Kennington. The spectators in the foreground have scaled a nearby gasometer. Date: 1931

Mont Blanc
A climber on the arete du Rochefort, Mont Blanc. The image is reproduced from a book of photographic studies entitled Haute Montagne'. Date: circa 1931

MARGERY AND BIRD
Margery's dead brother Walter mischievously pulls down a strongly-secured cabinet on Malcolm Bird, the intrepid investigator of Scientific American Date: 1924

Grumman TS-2A Tracker 133264 (msn 235), on display at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, NY Date: circa 2000

Grumman E-1B Tracer 147212 (MSN 11, model G-117, Stoof with a roof, WF-2), on display at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, New York, NY, on loan from National Naval Aviation Museum. Date: circa 2005

Lockheed A-12 Oxcart 60-6925 (msn Article 122'), formerly of the Central Intelligence Agency, on the flight deck of USS Intrepid, moored in New York Harbour

Dassault Etendard IVM 60 (msn 060), on the flight deck of USS Intrepid, moored in New York Harbour. Date: circa 1998

WW II - crew of USS Intrepid aircraft carrier put out fires
World War II - crew of USS Intrepid aircraft carrier work out put out fires caused by Jaapanese incendiaries

Barricade on the Rue de Lechelle, Paris, France
Barricade in the Rue de Lechelle, Paris, France, 28 July 1830. Swiss and Lancers wanted to drill the passage but the intrepid workmen resisted so much that they forced their way back. 1830

TUNNEL SURVEY / 1906
Tunnel surveying with a theodolite atop Mount Leone by three intrepid surveyors! Date: 1906

Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat -ready to launch from the deck of USS Intrepid

Crossing Mississippi
Settlers wagons are ferried across the Mississippi River, at the start of their long journey to the Golden West. Date: circa 1850

Filming Vesuvius 1922
Intrepid cameramen capture a sensational view of Vesuvius, standing on the very edge of the crater. Date: 1922

Francisco Javier Mina
FRANCISCO JAVIER MINA Spanish military commander during the war against Napoleon, looking splendidly intrepid and resolute. Nephew of Francisco Espozy Mina. Date: 1789 - 1817

John Jeffries, Balloonist
JOHN JEFFRIES American medical practitioner and intrepid balloonist. Date: 1744 - 1819

USS Intrepid (CV-11)

Monsr. Garnerin, the intrepid aeronaut. Oval head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist and parchutist AJ Garnerin. Date between 1790 and 1850

Aerial view of Bruges Canal, Zeebrugge, Belgium, WW1
Aerial view of the Bruges Canal at the sea port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, during the First World War, around the time of the Zeebrugge Raid (23 April 1918)

View of Bruges Canal, Zeebrugge, Belgium, post-WW1
View of the Bruges Canal at the sea port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, taken after the end of the First World War. Showing three old British cruisers, HMS Thetis, Intrepid and Iphigenia

Sunken cruiser, Bruges Canal, Zeebrugge, Belgium, WW1
An American photo of a sunken British cruiser in the Bruges Canal at the sea port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, during the First World War, soon after the Zeebrugge Raid (23 April 1918)

Champs Elysees
Intrepid pedestrians take their lives in their hands as cars and horse-drawn vehicles bear down the Champs Elysees. Date: circa 1904

Albert with Piccard
ALBERT I with professor PICCARD, the intrepid Belgian scientist whose record- breaking submarine descents and altitude ascents made headline news worldwide. Date: 1875 - 1934

View of Bruges Canal, Zeebrugge, Belgium, WW1
View of the Bruges Canal at the sea port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, during the First World War, around the time of the Zeebrugge Raid (23 April 1918)

Knife-Thrower & Camera
A knife-thrower is photographed in action by an intrepid photographer Date: 1939

Encounter between a dog and two swans
An intrepid little dog is seen off by two swans, who would rather not share their riverbank with him

Tatler Motor Show Number 1954
Front cover of The Tatler featuring an illustration of an intrepid driver wearing cap, goggles and scarf steering his vintage car to the summit of a very steep hill

Lady watches aeroplane
A lady sits on a stone balcony looking out at sea, where an early aeroplane can be seen heading. From the look of the stormy skies, I don t fancy the pilots chances

Hms intrepid on an Iceberg, Baffin Bay
HMS Intrepid, an Arctic exploration vessel, having been driven forty feet up an iceberg, Baffin Bay, 1851. The Intrepid, under the command of Lt. J.B

Twin puppies follow rabbit into burrow
Twin puppies, Snip and Snap, bravely follow the rabbit and enter a dark burrow

Robot Abductor
THE REIGN OF THE ROBOTS (Edmond Hamilton) In Chicago, ten thousand years hence, the robots are the masters - but two intrepid time-travellers save the girl

Sledge & Ski Australia
Descending the slopes of Mount Kosciusko, Australia - some on sledge some on ski. Though Kosciusko was a Pole, these intrepid skiers seem to be managing without poles. Date: 1910

Bleriot Near Dover
The intrepid Frenchman approaches the white cliffs of Dover, on which he is about to land after being airborne for 37 minutes

Shooting an Elephant
An intrepid white hunter shoots an elephant at close range, thanks to his rifle from the Midland Gun Company Date: 1937

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

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping