Adventure Collection (page 2)

Photo of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, explorer
Colonel P H Fawcett, the celebrated explorer who disappeared in Central Brazil in 1925. 1925

Alice in Wonderland, Mad Hatters Tea Party
Alice in Wonderland, Alice having tea with the Mad Hatter, the Dormouse and the March Hare. Date: early 20th century

Leather bound photo album, Canadian Pacific
TRAVEL: Leather bound album dating from the 1920s of around the world adventure via the Canadian Pacific. Approximately fifty pages of original photographs

WW2 - A Father's Return
An illustration for a wartime children's short story book, The Adventure Book For Girls. The image shows a pair of tennis playing children surprised to see their father return home

Billy Crashes His Bicycle
An illustration for a wartime children's short story book, Adventures! The image shows a boy named Billy, crashing into a motor vehicle and falling off his bicycle. Date: circa 1940s

Wartime Short Story Illustration
An illustration for a wartime children's short story book, The Adventure Book For Girls. The image shows some wartime children discovering a mysterious buried sack. Date: circa 1940s

The Adventure Book For Girls
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's short story book, The Adventure Book For Girls. The image portrays an Auxiliary Territorial Service girl speaking with a land girl from out of her

Billy Fixed The Wheel Of His Bicycle
An illustration for a wartime children's short story book, Adventures! The image shows a boy named Billy, fixing the wheel of his bicycle. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - In Pursuit Of Goodman
An illustration for a wartime children's short story book, Adventures! The image shows a military figure with a dog, running down a garden path. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Adventures!
An illustrated front cover to a children's WW2 short story book, Adventures! The image shows an aerial battle between British and German fighter planes. Date: circa 1940s

Miss Modern the pilot, Schoolgirls Adventure Book Date: 1938

Cover design, Schoolgirls Adventure Book, Christmas 1938 Date: 1938

Illustration, Is the plane going to crash? Date: 1930s

Scenes from The Doomed Battalion directed by Cyril Gardner. The film dramatised alpine fighting between Austrian and Italian forces during World War I. Date: 1932

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

Il Leone di Caprera. Sailing schooner of 9 meters of length that crewed by three Italians wanted to cross the Atlantic Ocean with a sextant as the only guide

Adventure
Painting showing a blindfolded man wielding a sword overhead with one hand, and feeling the point of the blade with the other, under a dark night sky. Date: circa 1929

Princess Blucher goes ballooning
Evelyn Furstin Blucher von Wahlstatt (1876-1960) was an Englishwoman who married an anglophile Prussian aristocrat. She went on to spend the Great War years in Germany

An advert for Belling Electric Fires, suggesting that as well as creating warmth, they can also help to generate daydreams. Date: circa 1932

Nelson Keys in film, When Knights Were Bold
Nelson Keys and Miriam Seegar in British & Dominions Productions adventure film When Knights Were Bold, directed by Tim Whelan Date: 1929

Matheson Lang in adventure film, The Blue Peter
Matheson Lang in British Filmcraft Production adventure film, The Blue Peter, directed by Arthur Rooke Date: 1929

HMS Adventure - a scout cruiser
Royal Navy - HMS Adventure, an Adventure-Class scout cruiser, built for the Royal Navy during the first decade of the 20th century

Page of adverts for women 1941
Page of two adverts. Left ad from Ats, - Auxiliary Territorial Service, promoting active service for vital roles during the Second World War for women

ADVENTURE MACHINES
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (L Manning and Fletcher Pratt) people who have given up their consciousness to live the false life of the Adventure Machines... Date: 1930

Professor Dales balloon adventure at Gibraltar, 1889. An interesting balloon ascent was performed on 7th December 1889 by the aeronautic Professor Dale

Tourists on camels with guides visiting the Sphinx
Vintage 19th century photograph - tourists on camels with guides, visiting the Sphinx and Great Pyramid of Gizeh, Giza, Cairo, Egypt, image c. 1890 s/1900

The Grand Canyon of Arizona from Bright Angel hotel
Vintage c.1900 century photograph: the Grand Canyon of Arizona viewed from the Bright Angel hotel

Hydraulic mining, Lydenberg Gold Fields, South Africa
19th century vintage photograph: Hydraulic mining, water hose, Lydenberg Gold Fields, South Africa

Photogravure, Donald Mennie, The Grandeur of the Gorges
Photogravure from a photograph by Donald Mennie, from his book The Grandeur of the Gorges, published in China in 1926. He took the pictures during two trips on the upper Yangtze River in China

Children sailing boats in the sea, Runswick Baay Yorkshire. Vintage 19th century photograph

Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Gulf of Naples, Campania, Italy
EVintage 19th century photograph: ruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius, Gulf of Naples, Campania, Italy

Victorian scrap, Robinson Crusoe tells his story
Victorian scrap, Robinson Crusoe as an old man tells his story to his grandchildren

A father leads his two children to be evacuated 1939
A father in the middle of his two children with backpacks and gas masks photographed from behind as he takes them to be evacuated

Suppose we went, Just you and I, by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918

Sabu in The Thief of Bagdad. Sabu (1924-1963) child star of British films of the late 1930s, mostly in adventure films produced by Alexandra Korda. Born in India. Relocated to Hollywood in the 1940s

Sabu in The Drum. Sabu (1924-1963) child star of British films of the late 1930s, mostly in adventure films produced by Alexandra Korda. Born in India. Relocated to Hollywood in the 1940s. Date: 1938

Sabu. Sabu (1924-1963) child star of British films of the late 1930s, mostly in adventure films produced by Alexandra Korda. Born in India. Relocated to Hollywood in the 1940s. Date: 1938

Frontispiece illustration, The Ice Desert, by Jules Verne -- He had plunged his knife up to the hilt in the animals throat. Date: circa 1900

Front cover design, The Ice Desert, by Jules Verne. Date: circa 1900

Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, explorer, as part of an article by Sir John Squire. Fawcett led an expedition to central Brazil in 1925 and disappeared. 1953

Colonel P H Fawcett
Colonel Percy H Fawcett (1867 - 1925), British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America. 1932

Amazonian Adventure - article in the Sphere
Amazonian Adventure - an account of a 3, 000 mile-journey along the Amazon written and illustrated by Victor Coverley-Price Date: 1st March 1932

A sailing ship on the water, part of an ocean sailing school. A boy is helped on board from a rowing boat. Date: circa 1964

The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the Adventure of the Three Students, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. " How came you to leave the key in the door

The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. " As we approached

The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the Adventure of the Norwood Builder, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. " A little, wizened man darted out." Date: 1903

The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. " The body was found near the bureau, and just to the left of it

The Return of Sherlock Holmes, the Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. Charles Augustus Milverton himself. Date: 1904

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