Crosses Collection (page 9)

Cpr in the Selkirks
The Canadian Pacific Railway crosses Surprise Creek, in the Selkirk mountains. Date: circa 1880

Seven-League Boots - 2
The hero crosses the ocean wearing his wonderful SEVEN-LEAGUE BOOTS

Kalka-Dharampur Rly 1
A scene on the Kalka to Dharampur Railway, in the lower Himalayas, northern India : a train crosses the four-tier gallery : notice also the pipe-line. Date: early 20th century

The cross erected to Captain Scott and his companions on Observation Hill. The picture was taken at the height of summer when the rocky summit was almost bare of snow

Queen Eleanors Cross, Northampton. The Eleanor crosses were 12 originally wooden, but later lavishly decorated stone, monuments, of which three survive intact

St Sophia Cathedral, Vologda, Russia
View of St Sophia Cathedral in the city of Vologda, Russia. The building was consecrated in 1570 and named after Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod

St Sophia Cathedral, Kiev, Ukraine
View of St Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine. The first building began in the 11th century, but the current exterior dates from the 17th century

Spaso Prilutsky Monastery, Vologda, Russia
Main entrance to the church of the Spaso Prilutsky Monastery, Vologda, Russia. The monastery was founded in 1371

Garden, Museum Quinta das Cruzes, Funchal, Madeira
View of the garden of the Museum Quinta das Cruzes (Manor Estate of the Crosses) in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. The museum opened in 1953

Church of the Prince, Yaroslavl, Russia
View of the Church of the Prince in Yaroslavl, Russia

Uspenski Cathedral, Vladimir, Russia
View of the Uspenski Cathedral (Uspenski Sobor, or Mariae Ascension Cathedral), built in 1158-1160, in Vladimir, Russia. Date: early 21st century

St Sophia Cathedral, Tobolsk, Russia
View of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St Sophia, with a belfry on the right, in Tobolsk, Siberia, Russia. The building was completed in 1686

Sandbach, Cheshire
The Saxon crosses in the market place of Sandbach, Cheshire

Piazza dei Cavalieri in Pisa, Italy
Street sign with a Maltese Cross for the Piazza dei Cavalieri in Pisa, Italy

Mount Rigi - Switzerland
Mount Rigi, known as " The Queen of the Swiss Mountains". A ferry crosses Lake Lucern toward the landing stage for the railway which climbs up to the viewpoint

Headington Cross, Oxford: one of the ancient stone crosses of England

Lincoln
Holbeach Cross, Lincoln

Northampton Cross

Iron Acton, Gloucestershire
The Preaching Cross at Iron Acton, Gloucestershire

The Crosses, Sandbach
The Sandbach Crosses were completed in the 9th Century A.D. to commemorate the advent of Christianity in the Kingdom of Mercia about 653 A.D. during the reign of the Saxon King Penda (626-655 AD)

The Bitter Lakes - Suez, Egypt
A steamship passing the North Lighthouse as it crosses the Bitter Lakes at the Northern entrance to the Suez Canal, Egypt

Procession at Sevilla
A Corpus Christi procession crosses the Playa Real

Wine-bottles in place of crosses
Illustration by Frederic Villiers showing French soldiers marking the graves of their fallen comrades by wine bottles filled with names and particulars

Franco-Prussian War. The German Army crossing the Loire at O
The German Army crosses the Loire in the snow to occupy France

The Great Dee viaduct in the Vale of Llangollen
The Great Dee Viaduct on the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway. The viaduct crosses the river Dee in the Vale of Llangollen. The impressive viaduct consists of 19 semicircular arches of 60 feet span

The Zulu war. Sketches at Rorkes Drift by Lieutenant H C Ha
Graves of Lieutenant Coghill and Melville who died trying to secure the colours of the 24th Regiment and were awarded posthumous Victoria Crosses

The Zulu war. Portraits of officers
Portrait of Mr W A Dunne, Commissariat Department, defender of Rorkes Drift. 137 British soldiers held the fort at Rorkes Drift against a force of over 3, 000 Zulus

Italy Rome Collegio
The college of the Propaganda, sketched from the piazza di Spagna : a crocodile of seminarists crosses the square

Fleet Street (Liebig)
Buses congest the street, looking eastwards to Ludgate Hill and Saint Pauls cathedral : a train crosses the street from Blackfriars station

Sven Hedin to Tibet - 4
Apart from water shortage, the expedition is plagued by severe sandstorms as it crosses the Gobi Desert. Date: 1899-1900

Pilgrims in Desert
A caravan of Mecca pilgrims crosses the desert

Pilgrims at Suez
A caravan of Mecca pilgrims crosses a bridge at Suez

The Poop Deck of a P. &O. Liner, Red Sea, 1872
Engraving of the scene on the Poop deck of a P.&O. Steamer, as it crosses the Red Sea, on the voyage to China. Deck games

In the Suez Canal
A cargo vessel crosses the trench of Toussoun

French Cross Rhine
The French army crosses the Rhine, in the on-going struggle with the Netherlands

Religion / Egypt / Atum
The Sun-God : the Creator of the Universe, depicted in his boat in which he crosses the sky on a daily basis (also known as Tem, Atmu &c)

Wandering Jew (Epinal)
The three crosses on the distant hill are a reminder of his fate

Chirk Railway Viaduct
Built by Henry Robertson, the Chirk railway viaduct crosses the vale of Llangollen, Wales, running alongside Telfords aqueduct

Nicolas II Crowned
Nicolas II is crowned tsar at St Petersburg. The procession crosses the Kamennyy Bridge

Clytie a Sunflower
When the sea-nymph Clytie is deserted by her lover the sun- god Apollo, she is changed into a sunflower, her face turned towards him as he crosses the heavens daily

Costume / Men / Frenchbishop
A French Roman Catholic bishop in full ceremonial dress, giving the sign of peace

Costume / Men / Capetian Bis
A Capetian bishop (follower of Hugh Capet, King of the Franks) in ceremonial vestments and making the sign of peace

Austrian Wedding Feast
An Austrian wedding feast - the bride crosses the table, symbolising the rite of passage from spinsterhood to the married state

St Petersburg Bridge
Traffic crosses the Neva on one of many bridges

Louis XIV Crosses Rhine
CROSSING THE RHINE Louis XIV and his officers watch as their men cross the river into hostile territory

Crossing the Mincio
The French expeditionary force crosses the Mincio on a makeshift bridge constructed by military engineers

Rail in Cuba
The railway line from Havana to San Diego crosses el camino de Vuelta-Abajo

Caedmon Cross (Detail)
Detail of the lower panel of the famous Caedmon Cross at Whitby, Yorkshire, England. Caedmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman, poet and monk, who died circa 680 A.D

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