Dangerous Collection (page 4)

Emigration - Crocodile in the Marsh. 19th century

Taming the Charleston
Mr E. Scott-Atkinson, professional tango champion, and Miss Dorothy Cole, the worlds tango champion demonstrate the old way to dance the Charleston - with legs and feet kicking outwards (bottom row)

Holding up the pillar
Three men and two small children pretend to be supporting the weight of a rather precariously leaning pillar - part of quite a grand countryside entrance way. Date: late 1930s

Captured Crocodile on the Banks of the River Nile, Egypt. Date: circa 1909

Skating in the Parks - Another Man in! 1857
Skating on a frozen pond in public park, with men fallen into the thin ice and been rescued with the means of a funny looking contraption. Date: 1857

Ministry of Health leaflet, To Parents, WW2
Ministry of Health leaflet to parents during the Second World War, advising them not to bring their evacuated children home during the Easter holidays. Date: 1941

Christmas card, Little Red Riding Hood
Christmas card by Robert Dudley, Little Red Riding Hood as a goose (meeting the wolf, observed by robins). (2 of 5) Date: circa 1890s

Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf. early 19th century

Waterspout near a ship
A waterspout dangerously close to a ship. 19th century

American football at the Crystal Palace, 1910
American football at the Crystal Palace. Football in its most dangerous form: an American footballer armoured for the game

Cat with bow and arrows on a German postcard -- Its dangerous to play with sharp weapons, and its the same with love, when its only pretended. Date: circa 1890s

Climbing the Geyenstein, Saxony
Men climbing the frowning summit of the Geyenstein in Saxony, Germany. 1928

Sporting with Winter Sports by H. M. Bateman - tobogganning
A tobogganist takes a rather steep hill, wins the cup but limps away bruised and bandaged. Date: 1912

Spiral cycle track helter skelter. circa 1898

William Tell, Commencement of the Liberty of Switzerland -- the famous scene in which Tell shoots an apple on his sons head. circa 1307

Leaving the Munitions Works, by Winifred Knights, WW1
Leaving the Munitions Works, watercolour by Winifred Knights, First World War. 1919

Italian poster, German Peace, WW1
Italian poster, design by Sergio Canevari, La Pace Tedesca (German Peace), First World War. 1917

RAF gunners keeping watch at their posts during a raid Date: circa 1940

General James Wolfe leading the attack on Quebec
Seven Years War - General James Wolfe leads the British redcoat forces up the steep path to the Heights of Abraham in their daring night attack on Quebec, Canada. 1759

MUSSOLINI GOES TO WAR
BENITO MUSSOLINI During World War Two, he displays his courage and risks his life by taking part in naval operations, meeting a convoy in the open sea Date: 1883 - 1945

Pedestrians clamber over street roadworks in Piccadilly in a rather dangerous manner by todays standards

Yachting Terms Illustrated - A Dog Watch
circa 1906

Easter Greetings postcard - Faith hanging on to her belief
circa 1905

Madras Juggler imprisoning girl in basket - Jill in the Box
Jill in the Box - The Madras Juggler imprisoning his girl in a basket. Performed at Wemblet in 1925. circa 1925

St Pauls Cathedral in danger: why the Dean is opposing the tramway scheme. Sectional view from the south east showing the position of the waterline below the cathedral

Building Site Trauma
An awkward accident on a skyscraper building site: a man is carried aloft by a crane Date: 1915

COACH IN VIRGINIA 1874
A stagecoach negotiates a bumpy route in the hills of Virginia. Date: 1874

TUNNEL SURVEY / 1906
Tunnel surveying with a theodolite atop Mount Leone by three intrepid surveyors! Date: 1906

LA GOULUE / PJOURNAL 1904
LA GOULUE (Louise Weber) French entertainer and her animal-tamer husband grapple with a puma in a cage Date: 1870 - 1929

ASSORTED DOG BREEDS
A variety of breeds from St Bernard to Zwergaffenpinscher (the scruffy one lower left); the dangerous-looking black- and-white dog upper right is the Deutsche Tiger-Dogge Date: circa 1890

Cartoon, Sowing Tares (Socialism)
Cartoon, SOWING TARES -- the Socialist devil sows tares (weeds) in the field of labour, a parody of a religious painting by Millais, His enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat. Date: 1886

Cartoon, The Live Shell (Gladstone and Salisbury)
Cartoon, The Live Shell (Which of em will throw it overboard?) William Gladstone and Lord Salisbury depicted as sailors, with the Irish question about to explode on the deck of their ship. Date: 1886

RUNNING AT WOOLWICH 1867
Running at Woolwich via a rather hazardous looking ditch. Date: 1867

Two America hoboes risking life and limb
Two Hoboes risk life and limb by riding on a carriage truck in America. Date: 1893

COMMUNITY / CHARITY / HOBOE
An American Hobo Riding on the Bumpers. Date: 1894

COMMUNITY / CHARITY / HOBOES
American Hoboes Riding the Rods. Date: 1882

Illustration to Goblin Market
Goblin Market - illustration to Christina Rossettis poem. Date: 1920

The Span of Life, a drama by Sutton Vane, William Calders Company. circa 1890s

Cartoon - Disraeli and Victoria - Dangers of Imperialism
Cartoon - Benjamin Disraeli and Queen Victoria brave the dangerous waters of Imperialism cheered and jeered by the previous Kings and Queens of England on the far bank of the river.... Date: 1876

Skikjoring competition, St Moritz, Switzerland, where daredevil skiers are pulled at speeds of up to 50km/hour by unmounted thoroughbreds over the icy frozen lake for 2, 7000m. Date: circa 1920s

Bali fisherman up to his neck in water
Bali fisherman pushing fishing net frame while up to his neck in seawater Date: 1989

Beware of the Bull - Man comes a cropper, even though he professes to be a Vegetarian! Date: 1906

Mr E Wilson with His Pettigrew Wing Type Ornithopter L?
Mr E Wilson with His Pettigrew Wing Type Ornithopter Launched from the 160 Foot High Watkin Tower, Wembley Park, London, UK in 1905 Date: 1905

Domestic Gas Accident - Explosion blows man out through roof
Song Titkes Illustrated: " I Arise from my Dreams of Thee". Domestic Gas Accident - An explosion blows a sleeping man out through his roof after his wife has unwisely investigated a strange

WW2 - RAF Bombing raid over Germany - stylised image of a party of Vickers Wellingtons. Date: circa 1941

Niagara Falls, USA - Indian Sacrifice
Niagara Falls, USA - Dramatic illustration of an Indian Sacrifice over the top of the falls. Date: 1913

British Dominon - Investment Life Assurance Policy Advert. A man crosses a difficult chasm (in life) thanks to a Policy from British Dominion

Oberammergau, Germany viewed from the Laberjoch
Oberammergau, Germany viewed from the slopes of the Laberjoch (1600+m above!!!). Date: 1930s

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