Danger Collection

Precariously perched Studebaker Six - Yosemite
On June 10, 1916 photographer Arthur Clarence Pillsbury broke the driving time record from Oakland to Yosemite in his new Studebaker Six

Skerryvore Lighthouse, west coast of Scotland
View of Skerryvore Lighthouse, off the west coast of Scotland, completed in 1844. Seen here with a typically rough sea

The Lions Bride by Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max
The Lions Bride - a painting by Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (18401915) was a Prague-born Austrian painter

Kraken attacking ship during a storm
A mythical Kraken attacking a sailing vessel during a storm

Propaganda poster: careless talk costs lives
Second world war propaganda poster warning people that careless talk costs lives. Tell nobody -- not even her

Dein Vaterland ist in Gefahr Poster - Your Fatherland is in danger, German military recruitment poster

Building Emp State Buil
A dizzy perch 350 yards above street level: A New York workman (Carl Russell) engaged on the worlds tallest bulding (at the time), the Empire State Building

National Air Safety Committee Poster
Poster, National Air Safety Committee, providing instructions to new pilots -- please help to keep flying safe. 1933

Beware of Trains - In English and Welsh
A metal sign in English and Welsh stating - Beware of Trains - likely to have been positioned at a footpath crossing or at a station

Bishop Rock Lighthouse in a gale
The Bishop Rock Lighthouse in a Force 8 gale. Bishop Rock is a small rock at the westernmost tip of the Isles of Scilly. It is the smallest island in the world to have a building on it

Winston Churchill at Sidney Street Siege, East London
Winston Churchill, then Home Secretary, with a group of policemen during the Siege of Sidney Street in Stepney, East London, on 3 January 1911. Date: 1911

Mouse held away from Mousetrap
" My Wife won t let me!" A male mouse is prevented by his wife from taking the unwise step of trying to obtain a tempting block of cheese from a little wire cage

Percy H Fawcett, British explorer
PERCY H FAWCETT British explorer who disappeared while exploring the Matto Grosso of Brazil

WW1 - Zeppelin over the UK illuminated by searchlights
" Zepp!" WW1 - Zeppelin over the UK illuminated by searchlights Date: circa 1917

RAF Poster, Back Them Up! WW2
RAF Poster, Back Them Up!, showing a raid by Hudson planes of the Coastal Command on German shipping at Aalesund, Norway, during the Second World War, in which eleven ships were hit. 1941

SOS message from Titanic
A wireless message received by the Russian steamer Birma from the Titanic about five minutes after Titanic struck the iceberg that sank her

Aerial combat over trenches during First World War
An aerial combat over the trenches during the First World War

Fox hunter is thrown and falls on his head
A fox hunter is thrown when his horse refuses a fence, and he lands on his head in the next field

Siberian death defier and Aviator baffling John Clempert
Undated coloured poster for Siberian death defier and Aviator baffling John Clempert featuring illustrations of his tricks and performances. HPF/5B/18

To the Public Danger
Humorous scene by Lawson Wood (1878-1957) showing policemen chasing a gentleman in a futuristic flying machine along a main road. Satire on flying which was in infancy

Little Red Riding Hood sees a wolf on her way through the wood. C.1930s

Hare (Bewick)
lepus timidus Harmless and inoffensive... fearful of every danger and attentive to every alarm, the Hare is continually upon the watch

Oxford V Cambridge 1877
(L) Danger Ahead (R) At Barnes Race which had a controversial dead heat finish

Scene with ships during the Spanish Armada, when the expedition sent by King Philip II of Spain was met by the Royal Navy and out-manoeuvred. The surviving Spanish ships were badly damaged in storms

Fisting the Mainsail by Arthur Briscoe
Sailing clinging on to a ships mast to fix the mainsail. Date: 1931

Stunt woman rides through flames on motorbike
Sue, 23, one of a team of stunt women, rides her motorbike through a twenty-foot long tunnel of burning hay bales

Tank abandoned in a field, end of WWI
A tank abandoned in a field during the First World War, with a notice attached to it written in French saying, among other things, that it is forbidden to go inside. circa 1921

The Modern Boy front cover - Nelson polar bear attack
Front cover of The Modern Boy featuring an illustration showing Horatio Nelson when young fighting off an attack from a polar bear when his ship was frozen in ice in the Arctic. Date: 1932

Florida Tourist Postcard - Waiting Alligators
Florida Tourist Postcard - Alligators awaiting the descent of a boy from a coconut palm tree, up which he has escaped

LCC-LFB Fireman in his fire kit with new cork helmet
A London fireman in his fire kit, including the new style compressed cork helmet with its LFB crest, which replaced the traditional brass helmets used since the days of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade

Turkish booby trap near Gaza, Palestine, WW1
A Turkish booby trap, made to look inviting by the presence of food and drink, near Gaza, Palestine during the First World War. Date: September 1917

Llest Colliery explosion, Glamorgan, South Wales
A group of men and boys waiting for news of miners trapped underground following an explosion at Llest (Lluest) Colliery, Pontyrhyl, near Bridgend, Glamorgan, South Wales

Ouija Board Danger
The Ouija Board - Doorway to the Occult - by Edmund C Gruss, chairman of the Department of History at Los Angeles Baptist College at Newhall, California

Athletic Sports at Grasmere - The Guides Race
The Guides Race at Grasmere showing the plucky runners rounding the flag on Silver Howe - a particularly precarious part of the course. The winner was R. Lancaster who won the race four times in all

Lifeboat to Sail Ship
Lifeboat going to the aid of a sailing ship in trouble

Little Red Riding Hood
The wicked wolf disguises himself as Red Riding Hoods grandmother and asks her to get into bed with him

Blitz in London -- Union Road, Rotherhithe, WW2
Blitz in London -- a large unexploded parachute bomb lying on a pile of timber at Union Road, Rotherhithe, SE London. Date: 1940s

Motor racing in the 1950s
Reg Parnells maiden BRM V16 win Goodwood, England, 30th September 1950. Date: 1950

Woman patient, St Marys Hospital, Paddington, London
LFB Special Services trying to help a woman patient at St Marys Hospital, Paddington, London, on 15 April 1959

The New Submarine Danger by Bairnsfather
The New Submarine Danger " They ll be torpedoin us if we stick ere much longer, Bill" A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander, featuring his popular characters Old Bill

Collecting Eggs at Flamborough Head
Collecting seagulls eggs at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire

Why We Lost by William Heath Robinson
Some of the things that made cricket so difficult for Englishmen in Australia. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Date: 1921

Warning Horn
A watchman at Kunszentmiklos, Hungary, blowing his horn during times of danger due to serious flooding over 200, 000 acres of low-lying acres of arable and meadow land. Date: 1930s

Iceberg that sank the Titanic
The iceberg that sank RMS Titanic. This photograph was taken by Captain Wood of the SS Etonian on 12 April -- the Titanic struck the iceberg two days later

Mascaret (tidal bore) of the Seine, Normandy, France
People watching the mascaret (tidal bore) of the River Seine at Caudebec-en-Caux, Normandy, France, which resulted from large spring tides, and caused the loss of many ships

French fishing boat catches octopuses
The crew of a French fishing boat off Cancale, Brittany, find their nets full of hundreds of octopuses which swarm onto the side of their boat, nearly sinking it

Sponge diver loses his footing
Diving for sponges off the Tunisian coast, diver loses a leg to a shark

Capt Webb / Niagara / Scrap
Captain Matthew WEBB survives Niagara Falls

Punic Wars, attack on Carthage, Sicily
PUNIC WARS : war with Carthage begins when the Roman senator Appius Claudius Caudex backs an unjustified attack on the Carthaginian colony in Sicily

Richard III and the sons of Edward IV
Richard III, as Duke of Gloucester, orders the sons of the late King Edward IV be parted from their mother, Elizabeth Woodville. 1480s

The red-flowered tree Rhododendron, Danger

Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, on a stormy day with a rough sea and a ship drifting dangerously near to the rocks. The castle ruins can be seen in the top right. Date: circa 1832

Blitz in London -- burnt-out incendiary device, WW2
Blitz in London -- incendiary device which burnt itself out on an asphalt roof. Date: 1940s

In No Mans Land
" In No Mans Land: The Dread Territory Which Belongs to Neither German nor Briton" Royal engineers

Two forms of transport on a London bridge -- a double decker bus on the left, a horse and cart on the right

Scorchers Progress - The Marble Arch - Errant city cyclist
The Scorchers Progress - The Marble Arch - Errant city cyclist causing havoc aid his fellow road-users, knocking over a man and his dog. An old take on a current issue! Date: 1904

Tir Aux Pigeons (Sem)
The great thing about Le tir aux pigeons at Monte Carlo is that you can do it in your best clothes, theres no danger and no one (except the pigeons) gets hurt... Date: 1905

Tiger attempting to reach big game hunter
A Tiger attempts to get at a big game hunter, sat rather precariously on a tree branch

Balloon descending into Bristol Channel
A balloon descending into the water of the Bristol Channel, near Watermouth. The passengers were Sadler and Clayfield, who ascended from Bristol. 24 September 1810

Give and Take on Road
Drive as you would wish others to drive... always anticipate danger and be on the alert... on corners keep as far to the left as possible

Girl Runs from Waves
A young woman in a clinging red tank style one-piece swimsuit with a ruffle edged collar & a beret style bathing cap encounters a large wave. Alarmed, she runs for her life

Danger - Schoolchildren
This warning notice, reading Danger, schoolchildren round the bend, could have been worded a little differently!

Sitting on Volcano
The Allied leaders are so busy looking elsewhere for danger, they don t realise that they are sitting on a volcano (reference to the Versailles peace negotiations)

Futuristic encounter with an octopus
A futuristic encounter with an octopus on the seabed. A man rescues a woman from its clutches

Comic Postcard - Where is that Aviator? Two female aircraft passenefers rather alarmed that their pilot is not visible, he's hanging on for dear life! Date: 1911

Two youngsters unwisely piloting a biplane
A Comic Dutch postcard featuring two youngsters unwisely piloting a biplane! Date: 1925

Waind Bros. collecting eggs - Flamborough, Yorkshire
Waind Bros. collecting eggs - Flamborough in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Date: circa 1920s

The National Assembly declared La Patrie en danger (The Homeland in danger) after the session of 11 July 1792

Facsimile of a 15th century engraving
Boat sailing in the midst of the dangers of the sea. A sailor is trapped with his boat at sea during a storm. The devil threatens his life

Skeleton of Death in a quack doctor's apothecary shop, wearing an apron mixing poison in a mortar and pestle. The workshop decorated with jars, phials, sieve, surgical saw and syringe

Drunken English gentleman rides a bear into a drawing room. Other guests jump on furniture to escape

English gentlemen in a two-horse gig trying to jump a toll gate. One horse straddles the turnpike gate, while a passenger falls out the back of the coach. An angry man shakes his stick at the riders

English gentleman lighting his nightshirt on fire with a candle. John Mytton, drunk, tried to cure his hiccoughs by setting his clothes on fire. He was saved by two men in his bedroom

English gentleman on horseback making a jump from a steep embankment, 19th century. Other dandies watch from the ground. Mytton takes a drop as high as a house

English gentleman driving a tandem across country by moonlight and lanterns. Mytton, drunk, drove home from Cronkhill for a wager. How to cross a country comfortably after dinner

English gentleman rides his horse across a river during a fox hunt. John Mytton dangerously crossed the Severn River on his mare the Cara Sposa. Mytton swims the Severn at Uppington Ferry

View of Chancery Lane, London's legal district, 1808. A dangerous narrow lane with precarious overhanging 17th century architecture

The Squire and his Cur. A farmer tells the squire that his aggressive dog Yap is the reason people avoid him. They stand before a tall gate near a walled house

Native American swimmer-couriers in Peru, 1800s. Men with letters wrapped in turbans swim in rivers between Quito and Jaen de Bracamoros Province

Riders on the Belleville rollercoaster, early 19th century
Riders on the dangerous tracks of the Belleville rollercoaster. Spectators watch in fear as a young woman rides a car standing with her scarf billowing. Les Montagnes Russes a Belleville

Spain, Andalusia, Almeria province, Carboneras. Saint Andrew's Castle. The isolation of the village involved a danger due to the Berber pirates

Spain, Madrid. Circo Price: The American shooter Mr. Paine, executing his risky exercises with his wife as assistant. Drawing from life by Daniel Perea. Engraving by Bernardo Rico

Traders and animals at the Smithfield Horse Market in London. This chaotic scene shows the danger of the market, with a large number of excited or upset animals in close proximity. Date: 1849

WW II - Japanese navy officer surrenders on Okinawa
Vintage photograph World War II - Japanese navy officer surrenders to American soldiers on Okinawa

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