Globe Collection (page 9)

Flying Globe and Air Balloon
Two fanciful technical drawings. Above is a Globe Volant (Flying Globe) in which Giroud de Villette and M Rozier passed over Paris on 19 October 1783

Cover design, Deruluft timetable
Cover design, Deruluft (Deutsch-Russische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft, LVG), serving Berlin and Moscow. circa 1934

Cover design, Sabena airmail service, between Belgium and the Congo in five days. Showing part of the globe with a red line marking the route. March 1935

Imperial Airways Poster, travel in comfort
Imperial Airways Poster, Travel In Comfort, serving Europe, Africa, India and the East, depicting a globe with routes marked. 20th century

Theodore Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing beside large globe, facing front. Date c1903 Feb. 24

Vice-President John Adams, full-length portrait, standing next to globe, facing left, holding document. Date between 1850 and 1900

North Broad Street, Globe, Arizona, USA Date: circa 1908

The Globe, Swanage, England. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Experience du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert, au Jardin des Thuileries le 1er decembre 1783. Print shows Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles

Etienne et Joseph Montgolfier, freres. Nes e Annonay en Vivaraes i.e. Vivarais, inventeurs en Societe du globe aerostatique

A doffer boy in Globe Cotton Mill, Augusta, Ga. Location: Augusta, Georgia. Date 1909 January

Globe Tobacco Co. Chew Globe fine cut. Advertisement for Globe Tobacco Co. Gold Flake Cut Plug chewing tobacco, showing a young woman lounging as a dog wearing glasses smokes a pipe

A little spinner in Globe Cotton Mill. Augusta, Ga. The overseer admitted she was regularly employed. Location: Augusta, Georgia. Date 1909 January

Figure exacte et proportions, du globe aerostatique, qui, le premier, a enleve des hommes dans les airs. Print shows elaborately decorated balloon used by Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier

Around the world with Broadhursts globe-circling success, What happened to Jones by Geo. H. Broadhurst, author of Why Smith left home, The wrong Mr. Wright, The house that Jack built, etc. Date c1900

The original Kid Globe Duo The original Kid Globe Duo
The original Kid Globe Duo. Date 189-?

Helen Johns Kirtland leaning on a globe. Photograph shows a portrait of Helen Johns Kirtland, full-length, facing right, leaning on a massive globe, with a wall of book shelves in the background

Dining Room, New College Lane, Oxford
An unfinished watercolour sketch of Reverend Baden Powells dining room at New College Lane, Oxford, with mother and children sitting round a table

Silhouette of a street scene

The Sphere Empire Day supplement
Front cover of a special supplement of The Sphere celebrating Empire Day, with a globe topped by a crown set against a drawing of an unidentified colonial scene and the Houses of Parliament

Priests Studying Globe
A group of young Italian priests studying a globe during a Geography lesson, Rome, Italy. Date: 1930s

Serbia - Card issued by the National Post Office, showing a postman and the varied means of conveying ones letter around the globe - by train, by plane or by sea. Date: 1936

Globe Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, London
Globe Theatre (re-named the Gielgud Theatre in 1994) on the corner of Rupert Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, presenting Tuppence Coloured with Joyce Elisabeth, Grenfell Welch and Max Adrian. Date: 1947

Richard Head
RICHARD HEAD author of The English Rogue - the globes thy study... Date: 1637 - 1686

Philip Affleck Admiral
PHILIP AFFLECK Rear Admiral of the White, Commander in Chief in Jamaica and the Bahamas. Date: 1726 - 1799

Tobacco, Grandville
Le Tabac: a tobacco plant, and the accoutrements of smoking: pipes, cigars, hookah, surmount the globe; the world is addicted Date: 1847

Waving at Aeroplane
A crowd of people wave to a plane as it flies overhead in the course of circumnavigating the globe in seven days... Date: 1910

Tycho Brahes Globe
Tycho Brahes celestial globe Date: 1584

Cats and kittens playing with a globe on a desk

Air Travel with Cooks
Cover illustration for Air Travel with Cooks, for the 1939 Summer Season, showing an aeroplane and a globe

Wreath for Captain Scott
Allegorical picture by Fortunino Matania showing a wreath being laid at a simple memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who died

Around the world in an iron mask
An extraordinary postcard of a man who for a wager of 21, 000 pounds, walked around the world. Harry Bensley alledged to have pushed his perambulator all around the globe wearing this mask

Poster advertising the telephone
Poster designed by E McKnight Kauffer, encouraging people to use the telephone to make contact with the world

Poster advertising Adam Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Poster advertising Adam Illustrated, the monthly magazine for men, price one shilling

Poster advertising Italian Lines to all continents, operated by Fratelli Cosulich, Lloyd Triestino and Adria

Poster advertising Czechoslovak Airlines, CSA

Danish card - Holding up the world
An old man holds up the world - a promotional postcard (in a similar style to William Blake) for a Danish Exhibition. A more modern take on the myth of the ancient God Atlas, who held up the world

James Hallett, the Sussex Charlata
Illustration of James Hallett, " the Sussex Charlatan" in his consulting room with ladies waiting outside the door, circa 1795, by Clifford Thompson, circa 1822. HPG/8/2/1 (xxii)"

Poster advertising Swedish Airlines, with flights from Sweden to London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Warsaw and Helsingfors

One Year of World War 1914-15 - highlighting the allies to the German war effort including the Ottoman Empire

Francis Drake Fougeron
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE the English admiral and circumnavigator of the world

EARTHs INTERIOR, 1735
English geologist John Woodwards conception of the composition of the globe, with molten lava surrounded by a thick crust

Edwardian Tutor
The private tutor of an Edwardian Country House, sitting at the desk of his classroom, with a blackboard behind him and a globe of the world by his side

Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596)
Engraving of Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596), Elizabethan explorer and seafarer. In 1577 he and his crew became the first Englishmen to circumnavigate the globe

Scene from False Shame, Globe Theatre, London, 1872
Engraving of a scene from the play, False Shame, at the Globe Theatre, London, 1872

Cotton - Cloth Hall
The finished product awaiting despatch to customers round the globe, at the Cloth Hall, Leeds

Navigation by Blome 1685
Richard Blomes pictorial representation of Navigation

Nollet Experiment 2
Nollet, at the College de Navarre, Paris, demonstrates how electricity can be generated by stroking a glass globe, and then passed from one person to another

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