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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
Westminster BuildersWorkmen on precarious scaffolding, building the new Westminster Bank buildings high above Throgmorton Street, London. Date: 6 February 1930
Schrepfer and SpiritsJohann Georg Schrepfer (also known as the baron de Steinbach) (1730-1774) conjures spirits at Dresden, but shoots himself when things start to go wrong Date: 1773
A French wolf charmerThe 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 streetFire 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 signA 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 ReimsJournalists (chosen by the French government) are greeted by German shells at Reims! Date: 1915
Great Fire Pit, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, USA. A man stands on the edge, looking down. Date: 1920
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 - Eastern Front - Dinner for Austrian soldiers deliveredWW1 - Eastern Front - Austrian soldiers crawl to deliver rations to soldiers in shallow trenches whilst under Russian shell-fire. Date: 1915
Rock climbing near Porthcurno, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s
French fishing boat wrecked, Dollar Cove, Lands EndFrench fishing boat wrecked in Dollar Cove, Lands End, Cornwall. Date: 1986
Nefeli wrecked at Dollar Cove, Lands EndA cargo ship, the Nefeli, wrecked at Dollar Cove, near Lands End, Cornwall, October 1972. 1972
Woman and lion in a cage, New Hampshire, USASampson and Dililah -- a woman and a lion in cage, photographed by B W Kilburn of Littleton, New Hampshire, USA. Date: 1896
Two boys having mock fight, Balham, SW LondonTwo boys having a mock fight on a street in Balham, SW London. The boy on the right seems to be holding a rather dangerous-looking knife. Date: circa 1961
WW1 - Primitive Royal Air Force Bombers and HangarsWW1 - Primitive Royal Air Force Bombers and their targets - the Zeppelin Sheds in Dusseldorf. The picture shows 1) The Zeppelin shed at Bickendorf, 2) The Zeppelin shed at Dusseldorf, 3) An air-bomb
WW1 - The German Ambassador to France delivers ultimatumBaron Wilhelm von Schoen, German ambassador in Paris at the beginning of World War I assuring interim for Foreign Affairs M
Bruce Bairnsfather, The Professional Instinct AgainCaptain Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon, The Professional Instinct Again, published in The Bystander, 1916. A juggler in civilian life practises with hand grenades. Date: 1916
Rodeo scene at Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA, part of the annual Cheyenne Frontier Days event. 1929
Can t Help Lovin that Man! by Helen McKieA red-haired woman staring into the eyes of her lover - a magnetic but dangerous looking Apache man, an allegedly savage member of the Parisian underworld haunting areas such as Montmartre
Tiger Scratch / Pug Marks - outside village house
WWI Poster, Men, to delay is dangerousWWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster, Men, to delay is dangerous when your country needs you. Enlist Now. Date: 1915
My Visit to the Italian Front by Bruce Bairnsfather(Left picture): A Visit to the Alpini: " The chauffeur says a car fell over here last week" " Oh!" Autobiographical cartoon from Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander
Herrmann in Mercedes, Pedralbes, SpainHans Herrmann in a Mercedes-Benz W196 at the Spanish Grand Prix, Pedralbes, Spain 24 Oct 1954. Date: 1954
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, EssexPanoramic 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
Blitz in London -- Cannon Street fire station, WW2Blitz in London -- Cannon Street fire station in the City damaged by bombing, 16 April 1941. The words dangerous wall have been chalked up. Date: 1941
Books stacked on staircase, London SE15Books 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
Cartoon, Coiffure in the Trenches, WW1Cartoon, Coiffure in the Trenches. Keep yer ead still, or I ll ave yer blinkin ear off. By Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)