Geneva Collection

Poster advertising Evian les Bains
Poster for French railways advertising Evian les Bains, on the southern side of Lake Geneva, just across the border in Switzerland

Poster for the world motor boat championships 1938
Poster for the world motor boat championships in Geneva from the 6th-8th August 1938

Poster for the Grand Prix of the Nations in Geneva on 21st July 1946

Air Union poster
Poster advertising the services of the Rapid Azur, flying passengers between London, Paris, Lyons, Marseilles and Geneva

Vevey, and Dent du Midi, Geneva Lake, Switzerland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

BREECHES GENEVA BIBLE
Geneva Breeches Bible, photographed at Whitehall, Cheam. Date: 1557

Waterskiing fun in Lake Geneva at Evian-les-Bains
Waterskiing fun in Lake Geneva (Lac Leman) at Evian-les-Bains, France Date: circa 1950s

Cologny / Villa Diodati 6 /
Cologny, near Geneva: the Villa Diodati which Byron rented in the summer of 1816; he wrote the third canto of Childe Harold here

Chillon Castle, and Dent du Midi, Geneva Lake, Switzerland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Advertisement for Geneva, Switzerland. circa 1960

Newspaper Seller 1933
A newspaper seller in a flat cap and overcoat stands next to his stall on Wednesday, March 1st, 1933. Headlines include The Times: The Arms Embargo - Geneva Comment and Dictatorship in Germany

The Geneva Union, Shaftesbury Avenue, London
The Geneva Union, 158-160 Shaftesbury Avenue, London - listed as the Hotel Employees Association - one of at least two clubhouses for Swiss Hotel workers in the West End

Map of Lausanne
A colourful map of Lausanne, with a small engraved insert of the city

League of Nations / 1922
The opening session of the League of Nations in Geneva. The purpose of the League, set up in 1919 & written into the WW1 peace treaties, was to keep peace through arbitration

Gene Stratton-Porter
GENE (Geneva) STRATTON-PORTER (nee Stratton) American author of A girl of the limberlost and other writings mingling nature and sentiment

Chamonix Railway Viaduct
The viaduct of Sainte Marie gives tourists thrilling views as they take the mountain railway from the shores of lake Geneva to the ski resort of Chamonix

Geneva, Switzerland - The Brunswick Monument - a mausoleum built in 1879 in Geneva, Switzerland to commemorate the life of Charles II, Duke of Brunswick (1804-1873)

WILLIAMS, Roger (1603 - 1684). Theologian. Reformation Wall. Sculpture. SWITZERLAND. GENʖ E. Geneva

First Crusade (1095-1099). The city of Antiochia

First Crusade. Urban II preaching the First Crusade in the Council of Clermont (1095). Picture of the Chronicle by Guillaume de Tyr (13th c.). Gothic art. SWITZERLAND. Geneva

The Avants, with Dent de Jaman, Geneva Lake, Switzerland. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Geneva, Switzerland - Quay on Lake Leman
Geneva, Switzerland - Quay on Lac Leman

Chateau de Chillon, south of Veytaux, Swiss Alps, Switzerland
Vintage 19th century photograph: Chateau de Chillon. Chillon Castle is an island castle located on Lake Geneva, south of Veytaux in the canton of Vaud

Birds Eye View of Montreux, Switzerland - Lake Geneva
Birds Eye View of Montreux, Switzerland on the Lake Geneva shoreland. Smoke on the Water sadly not pictured... Date: circa 1930s

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A Barque on Lac Leman (Lake Geneva), Switzerland
A Barque on Lac Leman (Lake Geneva), looking toward the Dents du Midi, a three-kilometre-long mountain range in the Chablais Alps in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Date: circa 1910s

A Barque on Lac Leman, Switzerland
A Barque on Lac Leman (Lake Geneva), Switzerland. Date: circa 1910s

Birthplace of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Geneva, Switzerland Date: 1831

Gulfstream III HZ-AFN
Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream III HZ-AFN (msn 364), of Saudia-Saudi Special Flight Services, at Geneva Airport, in July 1986. Date: 1986

Grumman G-1159 Gulfstream IIB HB-IMZ (msn 88), at Geneva Airport, in July 1986. Date: 1986

Boeing 737-204 G-AVRM (msn 19710), of Britannia Airways at Geneva in June 1973. Date: 1973

Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and others, Geneva
Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev and others, signing a peace agreement at the conclusion of a summit in Geneva, Switzerland

TOMB CLAUDINE POTOCKA
The moonlit tomb of Claudine Potocka, Polish patriot who died young in exile at Geneva. Date: 1836

Ouchy, Lausanne in Switzerland, Lake Geneva
19th century vintage photograph: Ouchy is a port and a popular lakeside resort south of the centre of Lausanne in Switzerland, at the edge of Lake Geneva

Pont du Mont Blanc, Geneva, Switzerland
19th century vintage photograph: Pont du Mont Blanc, Geneva, Switzerland

Russians wearing gas-masks in precaution of a chemical warfare attack, various scenes as people go about their daily work. Date: 1932

Trams and pedestrian traffic in a street, Geneva, Switzerland. Vintage 19th century photograph

View of Clarens, Lake Geneva, Switzerland
Looking towards Clarens over Lake Geneva Date: circa 1900s

MUSSOLINI / GENEVA / 1938
In Genova, Mussolini speaks to the people from a podium shaped like a ship. Date: 1938

Switzerland - Ile de Salagnon and Dents de Midi Mountain. At Clarens, near Montreux on Lake Geneva. circa 1920s

Saint-Gingolph, Haute-Savoie, France
A Souvenir shop (selling dolls and pearls) - Le Perle du Lac at Saint-Gingolph, a small town situated on the south bank of Lake Geneva (Lac Leman)

Hotels on the route of the London-Geneva Pass Road
Recommended Hotels on the route of the London-Geneva Pass Road - selected for quietness, good food and reasonable prices. This particulr card was from the Grand Hotel Ripotot at Champagnole

Russian Chapel, Geneva, Switzerland
Russian Orthodox Church/Chapel, Geneva, Switzerland (Cathedrale de lExaltation de la Sainte Croix). Date: 1912

Grand Hotel Beau-Rivage, Geneva, Switzerland - view of the front of the building and the view from the Hotel, looking out over the water. Proprietors were Mayer & Kunz. Date: circa 1902

Nurses on bridge in Geneva
Three nurses in Queen Alexandra?s Imperial Military Nursing Service uniform standing on a bridge in a forest in winter Date: circa 1920

LEAGUE OF NATIONS / 1929
The 10th meeting of the League of Nations at Geneva. Briand makes his pacifist speech. Date: 1929

DEMO IN GENEVA 1936
Italian journalists being thrown out of the League Palace at Geneva, following a protest against Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, whom they called Slaver, etc. Date: 30 June 1936

Evian-les-Bains - Switzerland
Evian-les-Bains or Evian - a commune in the northern part of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region in south-eastern France. In 1823, Genevan entrepreneur M

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