Escape Collection (page 7)

Conquest of Mexico. Capture of Cuauhtemoc. Engraving
Conquest of Mexico. 16th century. Cuauhtemoc was captured by Garcia Holguin while fleeing in a canoe with her family after the defeat in the Battle of Tenochtitlan

Suintila (ca. 588 A?i? 633 / 635). Visigothic King
Suintila (ca. 588 A?i? 633/635). Visigothic King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia from 621 to 631. Suintila escape with his son Ricimer (ca. 610-631). Colored engraving

Snap Playing Card - man losing a fish. circa 1910s

Woman police officer Elsie Houghton, London, WW2
Woman police officer Elsie Houghton (married name Makin, joined November 1939), on duty in London during the Second World War

Biblical scene on a Christmas card -- the Flight into Egypt. Date: circa 1890s

Three men standing by wooden escape ladder at Quex
Three men are standing by an extendable wooden ladder. Two of the men are wearing the patients uniform of hospital blues but the trousers only

Duc Choiseul-Stainville
CHARLES ANTOINE GABRIEL, duc de CHOISEUL-STAINVILLE, French military, protector of Louis XVI on his escape bid, emigre, served with English, wrecked on French coast, imprisoned. Date: 1760 - 1838

Motoring / Hotspur 1949
" You can t escape from the evil eye!" A man in a car tries to escape from a man pursuing him on a motor bike: the back of the car, including the wheels, is missing! Date: 1949

During Paris Floods 1910
During the Paris inundations, three ladies leave their Avenue Montaigne home by boat, taking with them hat box, bird cage, and other baggage, not forgetting the dog January 1910

Siege of Paris- Balloons
An escape by Balloon. Date: 1870

Sandstorm, Egypt
Arab riders spur their camels to escape a sandstorm Date: 1904

Kane / Arctic Expedition
Elisha Kent Kanes Arctic expedition: the escape off Weary Mans Rest Date: 1853 - 1855

Jacques Aymar dowsing
French dowser Jacques Aymar successfully follows the tracks of three murderers from Lyon to the Mediterranean coast; one is caught, the others escape to Italy. Date: July 1692

Sir Brook Watson escaping from the jaws of a shark
Miraculous escape of Sir Brook Watson, 1st Baronet (1735-1807), merchant, soldier, and later Lord Mayor of London, from the jaws of a shark during his boyhood. He lost his right leg below the knee

Napoleon III escaping from life imprisonment
Napoleon III, disguised as a labourer, escapes from the Chateau de Ham, where he had been condemned to life imprisonment in 1840. The escape was successful -- two days later he turned up in London

Group photo, London Fire Brigade, Manchester Square, Winners of the Motor Escape Competition in 1927, 1928 and 1930, runners up in 1929. Six firemen and a trophy with a fire engine behind them

Lady Madcap by Paul Rubens and N Newham Davis
Promotional postcard for Lady Madcap by Paul Rubens and N. Newham Davis; music Paul Rubens. First produced at the Prince of Wales Theatre, on 17th December 1904

Toddler with nursery rhyme scene on a Christmas card -- Bye baby bunting, Fathers gone a-hunting, To get a little rabbit skin, To wrap the baby bunting in

Pepperell Mills, Biddeford, Maine, USA
Pepperell Mills (textile) in Biddeford, Maine, USA. Date: circa 1910

Children with nursery rhyme scenes on a Christmas card -- One, two, three, four, five, I caught a hare alive! Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, And let it go again! Date: circa 1890s

Street in Chinatown, New York City, USA, with shops and restaurants. Date: circa 1940

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Field Babies. Pippin the puppy is chased away by the goslings mother, a big white goose who doesn t like dogs. Date: 1910

City Hall and Opera House, Derby, Connecticut, USA
City Hall and Sterling Opera House, Elizabeth Street, Derby, Connecticut, USA, in October 1905. Date: 1905

Illustration, White-Ear runs out of the kitchen
Illustration, White-Ear the fox runs out of the kitchen as a maid throws boiling water on him. Date: 1912

Pulling out from the Arnhem Bridgehead, WW2
British Airborne troops pulling out from the Arnhem Bridgehead, crossing the Lower Rhine during the night after an eight-day ordeal. Date: 1944

Sleepy owl wakes up and the mice run away. Date: circa 1933

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

WW1 - German airmen in combat
WW1 - A drawing from a German artist for a German newspaper who witnessed the airmen in a battle royal in mid-air. The two German officers in a biplane attack the French captive balloon shown below

Fire Escape & South Canteen, Royal Marines Barracks, Deal, E
Fire Escape & South Canteen, Royal Marines Barracks, Deal, Kent, England. Date: 1910s

Symphony Auditorium, Newark, New Jersey, USA
The Symphony Auditorium, a large concert hall in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Date: circa 1910

Antoines Restaurant, St Louis Street, New Orleans, USA
Antoines Restaurant, 713 St Louis Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. It is claimed to be the oldest French restaurant in the city, in the heart of the French Quarter. Date: circa 1940

GESSNER, Conrad (1516-1565). Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. His five-volume Historiae animalium is considered the beginning of modern zoology

Old entrance to Lamorbey - Black and white lantern slide. Rear view showing fire escape.. Part of Box 399. Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1900

Darkling Beetle - emerges from day shelter in sand where he buries itself to escape heat of the day (Sympiezocnemis gigantea). sand dunes of Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - Spring - March

Siberian lemming - adult in winter, on snow in tundra; quickly digs snow in attempt to escape (Lemmus sibirica). Taimyr peninsula, Kara sea shore, North of Siberia, Russian Arctic

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

Sphere cover - French refugees from lost villages, Matania
A refugee French mother and her children are given a lift by some British soldiers on a road in Northern France as they escape the approaching German guns

Suffragettes, The Last Man Driven out. Suffragettes succeed in driving away men and the last one leaps into a boat to escape the howling mob. Date: circa 1910

Fire at 298 Old Brompton Road, London SW5, 25 February 1956. An escape ladder is extended to the second floor, mounted by Sub Officer Temple

Firefighters in action, Eagle Street, London WC1
Firefighters in action at a fire in Eagle Street, London WC1, 0738 hrs, 9 June 1955. In the initial stages an attempt was made to take a line of hose into the first floor via a loading bay door

LFB firefighters on tour of France and Italy
LFB firefighters on a working tour of France and Italy, 1-23 June 1953. Seen here with appliance and ladder outside a French town hall. Date: 1953

Engraving of firefighters in action at a burning building
Engraving of firefighters in action at a fire, operating hosepipes and attempting to rescue a woman from the upper window of a burning building. Date: 1836

London Fire Brigade repair workshop, Lambeth HQ, with a mechanic working on top of a fire appliance

Firefighters with jumping sheet, Lambeth HQ, London
Firefighters holding a circular jumping sheet at Lambeth HQ, London, in June 1938, ready for a colleague to jump into it. Date: 1938

Engraving of Davies fire escape, Blackfriars Road, London
Engraving of Davies portable fire escape belonging to the Royal Society for Protection of Life from Fire, at the Obelisk in Blackfriars Road, London. Date: 1849

Engraving of man escaping fire via parachute
Engraving of a man escaping from a fire via a small parachute attached to the belt of his trousers

Annual Review, turntable ladder demonstration, London HQ
LFB Annual Review at HQ, with a turntable ladder demonstration in the training yard. Date: 1957

LFB turntable ladder in action, with rescued person
LFB turntable ladder in action, with a rescued person in a harness. The ladder is being trained away from the building, and a firefighter steadies the man using the tail line

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