Barge Collection (#12)

Russian Emigrants landing in New York, 1892
Engraving showing Russian emigrants, young and old, arriving by tender at the Barge Office, New York, 1892. As an elderly immigrant is helped ashore, customs officals wait to inspect the new arrivals

Unloading Ice at the London Docks, 1874
Engraving showing Norwegian ice being unloaded from a ship or barge at a London quay, 1874. Dockworkers are seen using cranes and axes to handle their load

King George V and Queen Mary at Cadogan Pier, London, August
Photograph of King George V, Queen Mary, Princess Mary and Princess Victoria disembarking from the State Barge at Cadogan Pier, London, on 4th August 1919

The Conqueror in the Clipper Barge Match, September 1879
Engraving of The Conqueror rounding the West Oaze buoy in the Clipper Barge Match of the 18th September 1879, from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

The Queens New Barge for Virginia Water, June 1877
Engraving of Queen Victorias new Royal Barge on Virginia Water, from the Illustrated London News, 30th June 1877. This four-oared barge was built of teak and mahogany by C. and A

A Royal Galleon in the Pool of London, 16th century
Illustration of an Elizabethan galleon in Pool of London, from The Sphere 24th November 1913. A royal barge appears in the foreground and the old London Bridge and a Dutch galleon in the background

State Barge of the King of Burmah, March 1875
Engraving of the State Barge of the King of Burmah, from The Graphic, 13th March 1875

Mission to Seamen Service on board a Barge, 1906
Photograph showing a Mission to Seamen Service being held on the deck of a barge, 1906. Mission boats were at work in many of the worlds largest ports, at this time

Mandarins Barge
A Chinese Mandarins ceremonial barge - an elaborately decorated flat- bottomed vessel

Limehouse Docks, at the entrance to the Regents Canal. Cargoes are transferred from the sea-going vessels to barges for transport on the canal

Explosion at Regents Canal, a barge covered in petroleum and gun powder blew up as it passed underneath the bridge on the night of1st of October 1874

Clearing up after the explosion at Regents canal
Clearing up the debris after a massive explosion caused a bridge over the Regents Canal to blow up. A barge covered in petroleum

Akersvass Canal Sweden
A sailing barge passes through the new locks on the Akersvass canal, Sweden

Salmon Fishing / Circ. 1906
Salmon fishing (commercial) in British Columbia, on the Fraser River

Mayors State Barge
The Mayor of London, Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter, is rowed up the Thames to Oxford in the City of London State Barge : they are passing Windsor Castle

New Orleans / Mississippi
Paddle-Steamers and small sailing craft occupy a busy stretch of the Mississippi at New Orleans

Thames Barge / Bridge
A view across a barge travelling under a bridge on the Thames, toward the Sandeman Port Warehouse

Canal Barge Kitchen
The Butty or kitchen of a canal barge

1381 River Barge
River barge, used by Richard II to travel down the Thames to meet the revolting peasants at Rotherhithe

Kremlin / Clerget / 1870S
A view of the Kremlin from the River Moskva with a barge in the foreground

Quaker Emigrants 1673
Quaker emigrants leaving London for America are seen off by Charles II in the royal barge off the Tower of London

STARCROSS BARGE
Two women, a boy and a dog on board the Starcross barge, on the River Gade, part of the Grand Union Canal, near Watford, England

Cambodia / Pursat River
Pursat River: view of the river, containing a long barge with 32 rowers

Football / Charged Through
CHARGED THROUGH An attacking player gives the keeper a firm shoulder barge, sending him into his own net

Social / Royal Barge 1914
Englands social elite watch the Royal Barge as it passes by during the Henley Regatta

Horses Tow Barge
Two horses draw a barge along a German canal : a sail has been raised to get a little help from the wind

Niederfinow Lift - 2
The barge lift at Niederfinow - the worlds largest of its kind

Lille / Canal / Gardens
Unloading a barge on the canal at Lille, in northern France, beside the Jardin Botanique

Japanese Pleasurebarge
The pleasure-barge of a daimyo of the Togugawa era, on the Inland Sea. It is rowed, not sailed

Portsmouth 1750
West prospect of Portsmouth, Hampshire: important buildings & shipping depicted & in the foreground inhabitants & sailors smoke, canoodle with local lasses or load cargo

Horse-Drawn Barge
A horse pulls a barge full of coal along the canal towpath

Barge on River Gade
An old man steers his barge under a bridge on the River Gade, near Watford, England, part of the Grand Union Canal

Providence Barge
The Providence barge moored at the bank

Trade / Canonor 1572
A view of CANONOR, one of the portuguese settlements on the route to Asia. Part of a larger map showing Calechut (Calcutta)/Ormus/Canonor/Mina

Pont Y Cyssllte Canal
Canal at Pont Y Cyssyllte in the vale of Llangollen, Wales, with a horse-drawn barge

Pyne - Lord Mayors Barge
LORD MAYORs STATE BARGE When the Lord Mayor of London travels upstream or down- stream, he does it in style for which Handels Water Music is the only fit accompaniment

Kew Bridge Aquatint
Kew Bridge seen from Strand- on-the-green, with a variety of boats including a state barge and a sailing vessel

Cleopatra on Royal Barge
CLEOPATRA VII Queen of Egypt enjoying a river-trip on the Nile in her royal barge

Peasants Revolt
PEASANTS REVOLT: Richard II sails down the Thames to Greenwich to meet the rebels

Cleopatra Vii / Century
CLEOPATRA VII in sumptuous barge with attendants

Cleopatra Vii / Woodville
CLEOPATRA VII in sumptuous carriage with attendants

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