Geneva Collection (page 5)

Chez Elle / Woman / Lake / 31
By the 1930s, every tourist carries a camera, even if she doesn t have a handbag - like this lady on a steamer on Lake Geneva who any moment now will snap le chateau de Chillon

Switzerland Geneva
General view, with Mont Blanc in the distance

Switzerland Chillon
The chateau de Chillon on lake Geneva was from 1530 to 1536 the prison of Bonivard, who was chained to a pillar and inspired a poem by Byron

Switzerland Lake Geneva
Whether or not William Tell ever existed, his chapel overlooks lake Geneva. Date: circa 1835

The Empress of Austria
ELIZABETH, EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA Consort of Emperor Francis Joseph. Great beauty and proficient horsewoman. Murdered by an Italian anarchist in Geneva

Rolls-Royce chassis
Four Rolls-Royce chassis leaving the factory to be delivered to Geneva. In the 1920s the car manufacturer made the engine and the chassis and the body would be fitted later by a coach builder

League of Nations / 1938
A session of the League of Nations in Geneva

Geneva / Mont Blanc Bridge
Geneva: view across the Mont Blanc bridge

Trouble at Geneva 2
Street fighting breaks out in Geneva between the independents and the authorities in regard to the citys religious status. The arsenal is seized by the insurgents

Sonderbund Riots Geneva
Disagreement on religious and social issues leads to the Sonderbund riots in Geneva

Trouble at Geneva 4
At Geneva, the conspirators of last Augusts fracas are put on trial

Sonderbund Riots 2
Conflicting views on matters religious and social lead to the Sonderbund riots in Geneva

Garibaldi at Geneva
When Giuseppe Garibaldi, hero of Italian unity, visits Geneva, there are massive demonstrations in his honour outside the Hotel Fazy where he is staying

Trouble at Geneva 1
Street fighting breaks out in Geneva between the independents and the authorities in regard to the citys religious status

Rejoicings at Geneva
On Lake Geneva, fireworks and illuminated boats celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the reunion of the canton of Geneva with the rest of the country

Trouble at Geneva 3
Street fighting breaks out in Geneva between the independents and the authorities in regard to the citys religious status. The bridges are barricaded

League of Nations / 1929
The 10th meeting of the League of Nations at Geneva. Briand makes his pacifist speech

View of Lake Geneva at Coligny, France
General view of Lake Geneva (known locally as Lake Leman), from opposite the Villa Diodati at Coligny, France, where Lord Byron and others stayed in the summer of 1816

Ethiopia Gives Blood
The Geneva Conference thanks Ethiopia (The Abyssinia) for its donation of Blood. Ethiopia was invaded by facist Italy in 1935. The League of Nations imposed on ineffectual

Emmeline Pankhurst 1875
EMMELINE PANKHURST (nee Goulden) aged 17, 2nd from right, in Geneva with the Rochefort family. Her school friend Noemi Rochefort is on far left

C. Pankhurst as Dancer
Christabel Pankhurst, aged 17, while staying with the Rochefort Du Faux family in Geneva. Her mother Emmeline hoped for a time that she would become a ballet dancer

Michel Servetus
Miguel Serveto, known as MICHEL SERVETUS Spanish theologian and physician, burnt by Calvin at Geneva as a heretic, 27 October 1553

Francois De Bonnivard
FRANCOIS DE BONNIVARD Swiss priest and politician, imprisoned for his beliefs in the Chateau de Chillon, on the edge of Lake Geneva; subject of a poem by Byron

Swiss Steamship
The steamship Valais on Lake Geneva, Switzerland

Jean Calvin (Conquy)
JEAN CALVIN French Protestant reformer, active in Geneva

View of Lake Geneva with Mont Blanc, Switzerland
View of Lake Geneva with Mont Blanc in the background, as seen from the forest of Nion

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