Floating Collection (page 9)

Floating Bridge, Cowes, Isle of Wight Date: 1910

Aesthetic Dancer

Nautical Film Crew
A floating menagerie and strange crew, docked at Catalina, Canada, whilst filming a movie. Date: 1930s

Bathers pose for photo at saltair, Utah, USA
Bathers prepare to take a jump into the Great Salt Lake at Saltair, Utah, USA Date: circa 1920s

Bathers in the Great Salt Lake at Saltair, Utah, USA
Bathers floating in the Great Salt Lake at Saltair, Utah, USA Date: circa 1904

View from the deck of a ship, WW1
View from the deck of a ship during the First World War, with sailors looking at something floating in the water. Date: 1914-1918

Italian submarine stranded near Tagliamento River
Italian submarine no.10 stranded near the mouth of the Tagliamento River, north east Italy. Date: 20th century

Japanese Gardens, Japan British Exhibition, London
Garden of the Floating Isle in the Japanese Gardens, Japan British Exhibition, held at White City, West London. Date: 1910

Swedish scouts and upturned sailing boat
Two Swedish Scouts awaiting rescue from their overturned light sailing boat enjoy a refreshing bottle of pop in the middle of the lake

Abstract design with various shapes
An abstract design with various shapes, including an empty set of shelves and a red brick wall floating in the air

Spa / Germany / Leuk / C18Th
At the healing waters in Leuk, where people were provided with floating chess boards and writing tables due to the long periods of time spent in the water Date: Eighteenth century

Galahad and Sword
He draws the sword from the floating stone - which only the best knight in the world could do

Double page spread in a diary for 5-10 September
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 5-10 September. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

General Election: Confusion Worse Confounded
Three bewildered voters read the daily newspaper posters which give rather conflicting views on the status of their preferred political parties

The Humorist Summer Number 1939
Bright and jolly front cover design for The Humorist magazine Summer Number by William Heath Robinson featuring a number of bathers paddling and playing about in the sea

The Floating Bridge, Southampton

Floating Dry-dock, Southampton. The largest floating dry-dock in the world

Germany - Early Zeppelin docking at a floating hangar
Germany - Early Zeppelin airship docking at a floating hangar

Advertisement for Brake Linings
An advertisement for Don and Capasco brake linings, Manchester, depicting siz cars on their invisible transporter, stressing the quality of their brakes

Shooting birds from floating cycle
A sporting gentleman in top hat hunts ducks out in the middle of a lake thanks to his remarkable floating aquatic cycle - useability possibly determinate on the level of swell

Children at Queen Marys Childrens Hospital, Carshalton
Children in the hot water bathing pool at the Queen Marys Childrens Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey. The hospital was opened in 1908 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board

Batgers Christmas Cracker label
Elves or pixies dressed in red rather over-do it blowing bubbles

Flood scene at Maidstone, Kent
A flood scene at Maidstone, Kent -- a little boy in his school uniform uses his mothers wooden washtub as a boat

A Raft of inflated sheeps skins
A Raft made up of inflated sheeps skins transports a group of Iraqi men across the Tigris River, Iraq

Polar Bear Cubs Aldin
Two polar bear cubs enjoy themselves floating in the water at the zoo

Summer Living number from The Tatler
Front cover photograph showing a model relaxing in a swimming pool with everything a girl could need floating around her

How Father Christmas came to earth
Colour illustration by Harold Earnshaw (d.1937) showing Father Christmas floating in the sky, hoisted up by colourful balloons

Lake scene with boat and three birds
A lake scene with an empty boat floating in the middle of the water, and three birds flying across

The Thames Embankment, London, 1869
Engraving showing an aerial view of the Thames Embankment, from the Temple to Somerset House, London, 1869. This area had just been reclaimed from the river and had not yet been built

The Floating Swimming Bath, Charing Cross, London, 1875
Engraving showing the floating swimming bath in the River Thames at Charing Cross, London, 1875. The swimming bath drew its water from the Thames, then cleaned and heated it

Hoisting a new boiler into a Cargo Liner, 1916
Illustration showing a 200-ton floating crane hoisting a new boiler into a cargo liner of the British Merchant Navy, at a British port, 1916. The name of the liner appears to be T Winfield

The Lost Cunarder
Photograph of the Lusitania, a floating palace, torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7th 1915 with the loss of 1200 lives

Floating railway bridge across the Forth River
A floating railway across the Forth between Granton and Burntisland. The route designed to carrying goods and live stock without the inconvience of unloading the trucks

Twin Steam-Ship Castalia, August 1875
Engraving of the twin-hulled, paddle steamer Castalia, leaving Dover for Calais, August 1875. Built in 1874 for the English Channel Steamship Company

British Red Cross hospital
A sketch of a blessing taking place in a British Red Cross hospital. The floating hospital, positioned on the Danube at Giurgevo was essential in treating the casualties in the Russo-Turkish war

Costume / Women&girl 1864
Child: white dress, red plaid sash with floating ends. Grey: jet tablier trim, jacket with jet epaulettes. Purple & white: rotonde with tassels, black cord trim

Fashions for Feb. 1861
Green: wrap-over dress, Greek key border; grey & purple: d.b bodice, revers, ribbon centre & floating ends; blue plaid dress with braces, Swiss belt, habit-shirt & ankle boots

Infant Moses Found
The infant Moses is found by the Pharaohs daughter, floating on the Nile

Fashions in Garden ?1864
Pink: flounces & ruched trim, sash with floating ends at rear, white under-bodice with threaded black ribbon at neck & cuffs. Mantle: blue lining, emroidery & flounce border

First attempt to launch the Bermuda floating dock
Engraving from the front cover of the ILN, showing the first attempt to launch the Bermuda floating dock at North Woolwich, built by Messrs. Campbell, Johnson and Co. of Silvertown

Tip of the Iceberg
A floating iceberg in Disko Bay at Qeqertarsuaq (Godhavn), Greenland

Watching the Boats
A young woman takes a rest from rowing to look out to the fishing boats sailing upon a calm sea

Venice Battery 2
Interior of the Austrian floating battery at Venice

Venice Battery
Austrian floating battery at Venice

Thames Firefighting Boat
Floating fire-engine steamboats on the river Thames, London

Afternoon Gown 1911
High waisted Directoire or Empire line gown in lilac etamine & chiffon embroidered in gold & lilac wooden beads. N.B Cordeliere girdle & floating back panel

Tartan Trim Dress 1865
Evening: short, puffed sleeves, pointed waist, over- skirt with demi-train caught up at one side. Grey dress: tartan collar, cuffs & ribbon ceinture with floating ends

Prison Hulk / Portsmouth
Prison Hulk, Portsmouth

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