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Tabby kitten with electric cableUnusual Friends - tabby kitten with standard lamp electric cable -- don t try this at home. 1950s
The Modern Boy front cover - the Khyber PassFront cover of The Modern Boy magazine featuring a photograph of roads around the Khyber Pass with a signpost pointing in one direction for cars and another for camels and horses
Guy Fawkes Night - lighting firework laden guysThe Boy Who Got There First. A young boy defies health and safety rules by lighting the first of three Guy Fawkes all stuffed full of various fireworks. Date: 1932
Dangerous aerial stunt by Dick GraceStunt men undertaking a double leap from aeroplanes for a movie stunt, the film in question being The Lost Squadron. One of the men featured is Dick Grace
Motorcycle racingThrill-fiends on wheels! An exciting motorcycle race in which one competitor skids and flies into the air. Date: 1933
Dirt track rider, 1930sA dirt track rider motorcycling at speed past a group of cheering boys. Date: 1932
Racing car smashing its way to victoryRacing cars smashing around a course but carrying on regardless. Date: 1932
Stalheimskleven (Stalheimskleiva), Sogn, Norway, considered to be northern Europes steepest road. Date: circa 1908
Victorian scrap - Red hot republicanVictorian scrap - Political Types - Red Hot Republican. late 19th century
Victorian scrap - Mob politicsVictorian scrap - Political Types - Mob Politics. late 19th century
Jack Cade attacking London by night. 1450
Tintagel Castle, Barras Head, Cornwall, England Date: circa 1910
The Thunder Storm -- a woman and two children shelter under a tree. 19th century
Henry VI Part II - title page - Jack Cade, rebel leader. 1862
The Safety of Londons Underground and Tube RailwaysAutomatic devices for preventing accidents: the safety of Londons Underground and Tube Railways. How the element of danger from human error or illness is eliminated by mechanical means
Mdlle. Alix hooping the hoop at London HippodromeHooping the Hoop, the latest sensation at the London Hippodrome - Mademoiselle Alix in her motor car in which she hoops the hoop. A health and safety disaster waiting to happen in 1903. Date: 1903
Sudanese Chief with rifle - East AfricaSudanese Chief with flintlock rifle - East Africa. Date: circa 1910s
Illustration, After the Avalanche. 18th century
Stunt woman rides over wooden plank with a woman underneath. Date: circa 1970s
Startling Stories - Sci Fi Mag - Five Steps to tomorrowThe front cover of Startling Stories magazine. The lead story is entitled: " Five Steps to tomorrow" by Eando Binder
Circus Acrobats - Edy Ruth and FrancyEdy Ruth and Francois (Francy) Edouard - Belgian aerial Circus Acrobats (Trapeze artists) - performing their sensational aerial act. Date: circa 1930s
Uzbekistan - Tashkent - A Huge Crowd watching acrobats. Date: circa 1907
Motorbike speeding through flames. Date: 1976
Car crashing through front of truckCar crashing through the front of a truck. (2 of 3) Date: 1976
Motorbike crashing through glazed frameMotorbike crashing through a glazed frame held up by two women. Date: 1976
Scene at a stock car race, with cars, spectators, and a man with a Union Jack flag on his back. Date: 1965
Collapsed building in Eastbourne, SussexView from the side of a collapsed building in Eastbourne, Sussex. Date: circa 1965
London - Houses of Parliament by moonlight Date: circa 1917
London - Hyde Park Corner by moonlight Date: circa 1910s
London - The Thames Embankment by moonlight Date: circa 1910s
Stuntman attempts to fly car over riverStuntman Bill Johnston of Destruction Squad was supposed to fly his car over a river in the English Midlands, but failed to achieve sufficient speed due to the wet ground
Eddie Merton, superstitious stuntman, who always slept in a coffin on the night before a dangerous stunt. Seen here with a suitcase, helping to carry the coffin into his hotel. Date: 1971
Destruction Squad, flying car in quarryDestruction Squad, flying car in a quarry. Joe Weston Webb fitted out an old Ford Popular with wings and a tail plane, then persuaded a stunt driver to shoot it over a water-filled quarry in the hope
Gibbs Happy Families - Master Sparks the Electricians son. 20th century
Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806). Pass the first streaWilliam Clark (1770-1838). American military and explorer. Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803-1806). Pass the first stream. Engraving by A. Sargent. The Illustrated Universe, 1881. Colored
Music cover, Whoa ! Back-Pedal ! - words by Worton David, music by Henry E Pether, sung by T E Dunville. Date: 1900
Cartoon, acrobats advised to emigrateCartoon showing acrobats being advised to emigrate, possibly with their livelihoods under threat because of the Dangerous Performance Bill
Cartoon, John Bull and DisraeliCartoon, A Dangerous Performance. Benjamin Disraeli fires a Foreign Policy cannon ball at John Bull. 1880
Japan - Watching volcanic disturbance, Mount AsoJapan - Watching volcanic disturbance at the Mount Aso volcano, Higo Province (an old province of Japan in the area that is today Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyushu)
Man on a donkey on a bridge on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
Ship on a stormy sea on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s
People on the ice on a comic Christmas cardTwo 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
Cartoon, Acrobatics. Is he an air ace? No, hes just a guy with love troubles ! Date: 1919
Niagara Bridge StuntLaurence Donovan drops 200 feet from Niagara Bridge Date: 1886
Swing RoundaboutChildren flying precariously through the air on the swing chairs of a roundabout at Hampton Court fair. Date: circa 1960
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
