Raft Collection (#2)

British Caribbean man standing on raft on the Rio Grande, Jam
British Caribbean man standing on the raft on the Rio Grande in Jamaica. Jamaican man standing with the bamboo stick further down on the raft. Greenery in the back ground Date: 1976

Communist China - in search of herbs
People climbing a steep slope in Communist China in search of herbs for medical use. circa 1960s

Log Rafts - Norway. Date: 1916

Poling a raft on the Rio Cobre River, Jamaica, West Indies. Date: circa 1910s

Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806). Pass the first strea
William Clark (1770-1838). American military and explorer. Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806). Pass the first stream. Engraving by A. Sargent. The Illustrated Universe, 1881. Colored

Japan - Navigating the rapids of the Hozu River - a part of Katsura River in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan Date: circa 1910s

Japan - Poling rafts along the Hozu River - a part of Katsura River in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan Date: circa 1910s

Air-Sea Kite Device
A combination of raft and kite, this device should be able to take you anywhere so long as theres a wind and that its blowing in the direction you want to go. Date: circa 1890

Bathing Beauty / Sporty
A sporty young woman balancing on a kind of raft towed by a powerboat, and loving every minute of it. Date: 1917

George Raft / Postcard
George Raft, American film actor with Rosalind Russell in It had to happen Date: 1895 - 1980

Lejean / Abyssinia
Lejean (1818-1872) accompanied by locals on a raft, looks out over an Abyssinian river

I dont care who knows it - Music Sheet Cover
I don t care who knows it - Music Sheet Cover, words by Harold Adamson, music by Jimmy McHugh starring George Raft, Joan Benett, Vivian Blaine and Peggy Ann Garner in Nob Hill

Peruvian style raft
Hand-coloured engraving of Alexander Humboldt painting. Radeau de la Riviera de Guayaquil. Vues des Cordilleres, 1810. Date: 1810

Formosan men aboard their boats, similar to large bamboo rafts. Date: 1932

Home on a raft of logs - East Prussian Canal. Date: circa 1920s

Robinson Crusoe loading the raft
Slide showing a scene from the story Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The picture shows Crusoe disembarking a ship on to a raft. Part of Box 366. Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1900

Boy scouts with raft at camp, British Honduras
Boy scouts bringing in their large raft (named Katrinka) at Loyola Camp, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America, 2 June 1951. Date: 1951

LFB-AFS Bikini raft fully inflated
LFB-AFS fully inflated Bikini raft, with water being delivered through four hosepipes. The two-man crew are wearing life jackets

Boy at the seaside on a raft. Date: 20th century

Suggested life-saving devices at sea by G. H. Davis
For those in peril on the sea: suggested life-saving devices at sea. Above: a proposed life raft for liners which could be fitted into the stern quarters

Seaplanes of 1918
Latest Navy aircrafts. Seaplanes in there present stage of development of 1918 for World War One purposes may be roughly divided into three classes

Couple water-planing on a wooden raft
A couple water-planing (or planking) on a wooden raft -- the photograph has been taken from the motor boat which is towing them. Date: 1914

Floods in Silesia
Two children on a makeshift raft during the floods in Silesia. Date: early 1930s

Benson log raft - Columbia River, USA
A fine view of a Benson raft - a huge seagoing log raft designed to reliably transport millions of board feet of timber (at one time - this card says 8 million feet) through the open ocean

Sudan - An Ambatch Canoe on the White Nile Date: circa 1910

Dolomedes fimbriatus, great raft spider model
A large scale model of a great raft spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus), a semi aquatic spider native to Britain held within the Natural History Museum, London

GɒICAULT, Th鯤ore (1791-1824). The Raft of
Gɒ ICAULT, Th鯤 ore (1791-1824). The Raft of the Medusa. 1819. Romanticism. Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Paris. Louvre Museum

Raft of the Guayaquil seaside. Picture of the
" Raft of the Guayaquil seaside. Picture of the work by Alexander von Humboldt " Voyage aux regions 鱵 inoxiales du Nouveau Continent" (Strasbourg, 1805). Engraving. ECUADOR

Greens balloon ascent, Surrey Zoological Gardens

Humorous picture showing a monster on a boat or raft collect
Humorous picture showing a Japanese soldier blowing away the flimsy structures or fortifications of the Chinese. Date 1895

The overcrowded raft. Illustration shows many young women trying to find space on a raft labeled Living Wages in a stormy sea labeled Sea of Want that is infested with sharks labeled Prostitution

Flower petals sprinkling a raft. Print shows flower petals falling on a log raft and the man driving the raft. Date between 1848 and 1858

Boy operating pedal-driven drum raft
A boy operating a pedal-driven drum raft at Longridge Water Activities Centre, watched by a number of spectators. circa 1960s

Oil drum raft racing, Longridge Centre

Men on a raft bound down the River. Date: 1870

Log boat - Romania
Crossing a river by a log boat, Romania. Date: circa 1905

Peruvian river transport - Balsa Raft
A rich European man on a hunting trip, being guided through the rapids by a team of local Peruvian attendants. He is seated on a Balsa Wood Raft, which looks highly unsuitable for the river

Kon-Tiki Museum
A Viking ship, carved monolith and famous raft the Kon-Tiki, at the museum in Oslo. Thor Heyerdahl sailed across the Pacific on the Kon-tiki in 1947. Date: 1960s

Rafting on the Rio Grande, Port Antonio, Jamaica Date: circa 1910s

French Soldiers-Bridge
French civil engineering corps construct a temporary wooden bridge out of staves and brushwood on a training mission. Date: 1886

Napoleon Meets Tsar
Napoleon meets Alexander I of Russia on a raft in mid-stream on the Niemen, leading to a peace-treaty between the two Date: 7 July 1807

Seaside frolics by John Hassall
A group of children enjoy themselves at the seaside. Some dig in the sand, build sandcastles and play games on the beach, while some others splash around in the shallows using a plank of old wood as

Georgia - Tbilisi - The Raft Port
The Raft Port at Tbilisi, the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis. Located strategically at the crossroads between Europe and Asia

Suvla Evacuation at Gallipoli WWI
Evacuating guns and personnel from Suvla Point on rafts in daylight during World War I at Gallipoli

Canada - Ontario - Hunting trip
Ontario - Highlands - Canadian man and his dogs heads off derrhunting on one of the more improbably rafts one could imagine

Coconuts rafted downstream - Manila
Coconuts being rafted to market down the Pasig River, Manila, Philippines

Captain Urquharts Life Preserving Raft, River Thames, 1858
Engraving showing the trial of Captain Urquharts Life-Preserving Raft on the River Thames, near Westminster, London, 1858

Granpop Floats a Company
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing Gran pop pushing off three anxious little monkeys on a log down a stream

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