Basle Collection

Poster, Imperial Airways -- Fly through Europe in perfect comfort. circa 1930s

Poster advertising French railways, showing the route of the Chemins de Fer de l Est between London in the north west to Milan in the south east, calling at various destinations on the way

Basel, Switzerland Date: late 19th century

Bridge over the Rhine in Basel, Switzerland, Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Young girl of the Canton of Basel, Switzerland, 19th century. She wears a silk tricolor cap, fichu, laced bodice, embroidered bib, apron, and petticoats

Dassault Falcon 20D HB-VEZ (msn 228), of private Jet Services in Basle. Date: circa 1980

Air mail leaving Croydon for Karachi, India 1929
The first air mail service between Croydon, England and Karachi, India. Inaugurated by Armstrong-Siddeley Argosy air liner of Imperial Airways, arriving on 6 April. Date: 30 March 1929

Paracelsus at Basle
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus depicted opposing Lichtenfels at Basel. Date: circa 1527

Douglas DC-7C EC-ATR of Spantax at Basle. Date: 1971

Cover design, Imperial Airways map, 1933
Cover design, Imperial Airways map of air routes, 1933, price two shillings. 1933

Poster, Fly BEA to Switzerland -- Zurich, Geneva, Basle. Date: 1958

Gare Maritime, Calais
Travellers at the Gare Maritime, Calais : the express from Basle has just arrived. Date: circa 1914

Swiss womens costumes from 1510-1550.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889

Swiss costumes of the first half of the 16th century.. Chromolithograph from Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt

Kleinhuningen, port on the Rhine, Basel, Switzerland
Kleinhuningen, a port on the River Rhine, Basel, Switzerland

View of the Market Place, Basel, Switzerland
View of the Market Place on a busy day, Basel, Switzerland

Second Goetheanum, Dornach, near Basle, Switzerland
The Second Goetheanum under construction at Dornach, near Basle, Switzerland. The building is the world centre for the anthroposophical movement

Smoking room, Hotel Schweizerhof, Basel, Switzerland
Smoking room of the Hotel Schweizerhof, Basel, Switzerland

Cameroon, Africa - Basler Mission Station - Bonaku - at a natural harbour at the mouth of the Cameroon River. Date: circa 1905

Las ciento y diez consideraciones divinas (Hundred and Ten Divine Considerations). Italian edition (Basle, 1550)

Cover design, Imperial Airways map of the European Air Routes for 1934: London-Paris, Paris-Basle, Basle-Zurich, London-Brussels, Brussels-Cologne, London-Le Touquet

The Monument St. Jacob, Basle, Switzerland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The Spalenthor, Basle, Switzerland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The Monument of Strasburg, Basle, Switzerland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

French & Swiss Women
Women of Strasbourg & a woman from Basle, Switzerland. Largely regional or National costumes but with ruffs (by this date were no longer fashionable). Date: 1644

Basle - Switzerland - Barfusserplatz
Barfusserplatz in Basle (Basel), Switzerland - town on the border with France and Germany

Poster advertising a Sports Festival in Basel, Switzerland
Poster advertising a sports or gymnastics festival in Basel, Switzerland, on 26 and 27 June 1920. An idealised gymnast stands with his arms outstretched

Cameroon, Africa - Bonaku
Basle Missionary Station at Bonaku, Cameroon - at a natural harbour at the mouth of the Cameroon River

Switzerland Basel
View of the town from across the Rhine

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