Danger Collection (page 9)

People on the ice on a comic Christmas card
Two men on the ice on a comic Christmas card by Ernest Griset, with the thin man falling through and the plump man being saved by his dog. Date: circa 1890s

JOHN DHU
JOHN (or Shon) DHU Soldier, who signed up with the Edinburgh Town Guard when there was a perceived danger of a French invasion... Date: circa 1784

Falling from Skyscraper
Two workmen fall when scaffolding breaks on a New York skyscraper, but they are hauled to safety Date: 1933

Paris - Madrid Race 1903
M.Gabriel, the winner of the first and only stage of the Paris-Madrid race, and the car with which he made the distance to Bordeaux in 5 hours and 13 mins (342 miles) Date: May 1903

Paris Police / Hit & Run
The Paris police give chase and fire at the tyres of a car involved in a hit and run incident in the rue des Archives. Date: 1925

Cartoon, Acrobatics. Is he an air ace? No, hes just a guy with love troubles ! Date: 1919

Cartoon, Little Red Riding Hood in a wartime version in which a little French girl encounter a German officer (wolf) hiding behind a tree. Date: 1919

Abelard / Heloise / Stothard
ABELARD & HELOISE As forbidden love blossoms, the couple are spied upon Date: 1079-1142; 1101-1164

Abelard / Heloise / Burney
ABELARD & HELOISE Abelard has climbed the garden wall to see his lover Heloise Date: 1079-1142; 1101-1164

Dragon Army Aliens 1952
The Dragon Army (William Morrison) Date: 1952

Dinorah / Meyerbeer 1859
A dramatic scene from Meyerbeers opera Dinorah: a branch has broken and the heroine is in danger of falling into a raging flood. Date: 1859

Danger ahead
Dutch boy eyeing a pretty girl is in danger of tripping over a basket of eggs. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1915

A French wolf charmer
The Wolf-Charmer -- le meneur de loups -- a folklore figure of rural France who is able to tame and control a pack of wolves. Date: 19th century

Fire from gas explosion on a London street
Fire from a gas explosion on a London street near the Princes Theatre, with a fireman standing nearby. Date: circa 1928

Young girl on Grandfathers shoulders by Danger sign
A humorous photograph of a young girl sitting on her Grandfathers shoulders stand next to a Danger sign close to the edge of a cliff (likely at a British coastal resort). Date: circa 1930s

WW1 - Journalists greeted by German shells at Reims
Journalists (chosen by the French government) are greeted by German shells at Reims! Date: 1915

Puppy dog howling as his brother flounders in river
Twin puppy Snap howling on the riverbank as his brother Snip flounders in the water. Date: 1910

Cartoon, British Tars, towing the Danish Fleet into Harbour; the Broadbottom Leviathan trying to swamp Billys old Boat, & the little Corsican tottering on the Clouds of Ambition, by James Gillray

Cartoon, Political Mathematicians, Shaking the Broad bottomd Hemispheres, by James Gillray. To that last Hope of the Country, the New Opposition

Illustration, The Robber Bridegroom -- They hurried away as quickly as they could from this vile den. Date: 1909

Illustration, A Song of the English, Lions
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

Torpedo torpedo, or eyed electric ray, also known as Common Torpedo, Ocellate Torpedo, Cramp Ray, Turpaena and Numbfish. It can deliver a strong electric shock of up to 200 volts. Date: 1862

WW1 - Close encounter between aeroplane and balloon
WW1 - A depiction of a close aeronautic encounter between a aeroplane and balloon hidden from each other in the cloudy sky

WW1 - Eastern Front - Dinner for Austrian soldiers delivered
WW1 - Eastern Front - Austrian soldiers crawl to deliver rations to soldiers in shallow trenches whilst under Russian shell-fire. Date: 1915

Sphere cover - Air Raid over London
Front cover of The Sphere showing civilians in London during the air raid of 7 July 1917, taking shelter in what looks like a church doorway as a police officer looks skyward to check on whether

Woman and lion in a cage, New Hampshire, USA
Sampson and Dililah -- a woman and a lion in cage, photographed by B W Kilburn of Littleton, New Hampshire, USA. Date: 1896

WW1 - Ad for repirators - threat of gas attack by Zeppelins
WW1 - Advertisement for Freers Repirators from Cooper & Son of King Street, Gravesend, to counter the threat of attack by poison gas bombs, dropped from Zeppelins during an air raid. Date: circa 1915

Bobak / Steppe Marmot - fat adult - observes and sniffs surroundings for a potential danger near a burrow (Marmota bobak). common in steppes of Orenburg region - South Russia - morning - July

Bobak / Steppe Marmot - adult - observes surroundings for a potential danger near a burrow (Marmota bobak). common in steppes of Orenburg region - South Russia - early morning - July

Bobak / Steppe Marmot - adult - observes and sniffs surroundings for a potential danger near a burrow (Marmota bobak). common in steppes of Orenburg region - South Russia - early morning - July

Bobak / Steppe Marmot - adult, ready for hibernation - observe surroundings for danger and catches the morning sun near a burrow (Marmota bobak)

Siberian Lemming - adult keeps motionless in an attempt to hide from danger. (Lemmus sibiricus ). tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Russian Desman - pops out of water to search the environment with its sense of smell for danger (desmans rarely come out of water), disguising itself in waterplants (Desmana moschata)

Russian Desman - pops its nose out of water to search the environment with its sense of smell for danger (desmans rarely come out of water) (Desmana moschata)

Bengal / Indian TIGER - close-up, snarling, in reeds. Camouflaged, facing camera (Panthera tigris). India

WWI Poster, Germany over All
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Germanys Battle Cry is " Germany over All". Britain is fighting not only for the Freedom of Europe but to defend your mothers

From the Balloon Observers Training Manual, WW1 cartoon
" All apparently natural features should be considered in relation to the general nature of the landscape, as the appearance of a hedge or even a solitary tree may be the cause of the discovery

Wild Common Hamster - Checks for danger, feeding in a granary (Cricetus cricetus L.). Summer, Middle Ural Mountains, Russia

Sphere cover - British plane caught by German gun fire
A British aeroplane, caught making a daring raid over enemy lines and flying very low to drop bombs on German entrenched troops, is fired on by a machine gun as well as several rifles

Barbara Kent (1907 - 2011), Canadian-born, American-based film actress of the 1920s and 30s. Playing in a comedy film called Welcome Danger. Date: 1930

Herrmann in Mercedes, Pedralbes, Spain
Hans Herrmann in a Mercedes-Benz W196 at the Spanish Grand Prix, Pedralbes, Spain 24 Oct 1954. Date: 1954

WW2 Poster -- Be Prepared
A Story and a Warning, .Darkness brings Danger, Be Prepared. Colour photolithograph poster, published by The Times of India Press, Bombay

Fire safety in the kitchen -- a burning frying pan

Fire safety for children -- a boy and girl playing near a wrecked car. The boy is about to strike a match near the open fuel cap

Fire at supply depot, Limmer Wharf, Barking, Essex
Panoramic view of a fire which broke out at a Ministry of Supply depot, Limmer Wharf, Barking, Essex, on 27 October 1947. Seen here is the fire in its early stages

Books stacked on staircase, London SE15
Books indiscriminately stacked on a staircase between first and second floors, discovered during a four-pump fire in Lyndhurst Grove, London SE15, on 27 January 1963. Date: 1963

Sportsmans Battalions, 1915
An advertisement for sportsmans battalions, featuring a despatch rider on a Douglas motor cycle, pointing urgently to some smoking ruins

Blackouts during WW1
A city during the blackouts, in case of Zepplin attack or aid raids, with a man and woman commenting " The streets look about as cheerful as the Chamber of Horrors on a wet Good Friday"

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