Cape Collection (page 34)

Cape Egmont lighthouse, North Island, New Zealand
Cape Egmont lighthouse, with Mount Egmont (Mount Taranaki) in the background, on the west coast of North Island, New Zealand

Croatia - Traditional National Costume (4 / 8)
Croatia - Traditional National Costume (4/8) - young man standing in the sand dunes

Croatia - Traditional National Costume (2 / 8)
Croatia - Traditional National Costume (2/8) - Young man on the quayside with a decorative outfit with large wide leather belt

Statue of Cecil Rhodes - Cape Town, South Africa
Statue of Cecil John Rhodes (1853 - 1902) - Municipal Gardens - Cape Town, South Africa - " Your Hinterland is There"

Young woman from Gaula, in Funchal, Madeira
A young woman from a Gaula folklore group, wearing traditional costume, consisting of a bright red cape, dress and headscarf

Y Beach at Gallipoli WWI
Y Beach and the coast, looking south to Cape Helles in the distance during World War I

Resting soldiers at Gallipoli WWI
A shell from an Asiatic Annie bursting in the sea. Men resting on the beach road from Cape Helles to Gully Ravine, under shelter of the cliffs at Gallipoli during World War I

British warships and transports WWI
British warships and transports of Cape Helles during World War I in Gallipoli

Postcard Collectors
A fabulous French postcard depicting two postcard collectors

King Alexander of Yugoslavia (1900-1934). Ruler of Yugoslavia; Crown Prince of Serbia

Flower Sellers - Cape Town, South Africa
Flower Sellers - Adderley Street, Cape Town, South Africa

Poster of Africa for a film distributor, AGDC
Poster of Africa, showing the territory of a French film distributor, the AGDC, l Alliance Generale de Distribution Cinematographique

William Thomas Burgess, Channel swimmer
William Thomas Burgess (right) at Walmer after his successful channel swim, which took place on 5-6 September 1911. He was the second person to swim the channel after Captain Matthew Webb in 1875

Colonial Troops presented with Coronation Medal
Colonial troops who have been presented with the King George V Coronation Medal. In this photograph are the Cape Highlanders. (1 of 2)

On the Air Route to the Cape by Fortunino Matania
Natives in Northern Rhodesia, under the supervision of British officers, are pictured mowing down a field of wild arum lilies to make way for a landing ground or runway. Date: 1920

Patent Office Curiosities and Ingenuities
Some Curiosities and Ingenuities of the Patent Office! These include a popelling device, a helmet-mounted gun, a submersible lifesaving apparatus, a cool pipe

Walking through the snow by Ethel Parkinson
A woman wrapped up warmly in a fetching red cape and fur muff walks through the snow with her little daughter who holds a doll and looks excited to have found a festive sprig of holly

Informal dress, 1932
An afternoon dress of dark brown georgette, in which you could also dine. The removable sleeves and small detachable ermine cape allow for infinate variations

Patou cape and skirt suit, 1954
A striking outfit by Jean Patou of a swaggering civet lined cape topping a narrow skirted suit

The Wolfe Memorial - Greenwich Park, London

Lur Tribesmen in felt coats. Lurs (also Lors, Lori) are an Iranian people living mostly in the south-west of the country

With General Buller on the way to the Cape
A scene on board the Donottar Castle, the ship transporting General Sir Redvers Buller to the Cape during the Transvaal (Boer) War

Pier at Cape Town, South Africa
Promenade Pier at Cape Town, South Africa

Foundering of the Union Companys Mail Steam-Ship American
This image depicts the loss of the steam ship American which sunk near Cape Palmas on 23rd April 1880

South Africa - Cape Malays
Women and children of a Cape Malay Family, South Africa

Lear / Nonsense / The Cape
There was an Old Man of the Cape, who possessed a large Barbary ape, Till the ape one dark night, set the house all alight, which burned that Old Man of the Cape

Lear / Nonsense / Cape Horn
There was an Old Man of Cape Horn, who wished he had never been born; so he sat on a chair, till he died of despair, that dolorous Man of Cape Horn

Tatler front-cover: Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers, the American film actress and dancer, in the role of Janie in Tom, Dick and Harry, a beautiful young lady who must choose between a millionaire, a car salesman and a mechanic

The electric wire at Cape Grinez
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. The image shows a view of Cape Grinez, taking the wire up the cliff

The Goliah steamer paying out the electric wire
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. Here, the cable is laid out as the Goliah steam ship sails from England to France

Temporary station at Dover: the steamers prepare to start
The first submarine electric telegraphic despatch from Dover to Cape Grinez, near Calais. After arriving in France however

General market in Cape Coast Castle, 1874
Scene of the general market in Cape Coast Castle, seat of British colonialism in West Africa, during the 2nd Ashanti War (1873-74)

Port of Christianborg near Accra, 1873
This former Swedish outpost on the Gold Coast was sold to the British in 1873 when, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana

Fetish tree in a village near Cape Coast Castle, 1873
Fetish tree in a village near Cape Coast Castle towards the end of 1873. An English officer is surrounded by young native boys as he checks a document

Accra and its coastline in 1873
Accra sketched in 1873, the year, when after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana

Selling Indian corn on the streets of Cape Coast Castle, 187
Natives selling Indian corn in the streets of Cape Coast Castle, headquarters of the British on the Gold Coast. This was sketched during the 2nd Ashantee War (1873-74)

Water supply to Cape Coast Castle, 1874
The water supply to Cape Coast Castle, headquarters of the British in the Gold Coast. In 1873, after decades of an uneasy relationship between the British and the Acing people of central Ghana

Shipping bullocks to Cape Coast Castle, 1874
Shipping bullocks from Sierra Leone for Cape Coast Castle during the British expedition to crush the King of the Ashantis in the 2nd Ashanti War (1873-74)

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - paying woman porters
Here women porters or carriers from the Fante tribe (under British protection) are being paid at Cape Coast Castle. The second Ashanti War fought between, 1873-74, was between King Kofi Karikari

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - Dinner at Cape Coast Castle
Officers having returned from the bush enjoy a civilised meal at Cape Coast Castle during the expedition to defeat the Ashanti

Female fashions at Cape Coast Castle - The 2nd Ashanti War
Native female fashions at Cape Coast Castle, garrison and headquarters of the British colonialists till 1877. This sketch was made during the second Ashanti War

Hairdressers Collar, 1921
Illustration showing a then-newly invented hairdressers collar and cape, which was designed to collect hair as it was being cut, 1921

Norway North Cape
Fishing vessels off the Cape

Portugal Sao Vicente
(aka Cape St Vincent) anciently regarded as the furthest point of Europe, and indeed, of the known world. The British defeated a Spanish fleet here in 1797

In Roaring Forties
THE ROARING FORTIES A three-master confronts the stormy seas south of the Cape of Good Hope - here a vessel always meets the worst conditions of weather

Dapper Man / Dryden
A very dapper looking gentleman wearing a cape and smoking a cigarette in a holder

JEUNE ELEGANT 1480
A Jeune elegant (= young elegant) at the French court, wearing the fashionable long pointed slippers, sword and cape, and a truly astonishing hat !

Fridtjof Nansen, Franz Josef Land, 1896
Engraving showing Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), the Norwegian explorer, biologist and oceanographer, pictured at Cape Flora, Franz Josef Land, 1896

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