Hero Collection (page 14)

Oishi Yoshio, Chief of the Forty Seven Ronin
Beautiful Japanese promotional postcard for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Shipping Company which ran services between San Francisco, China and Japan

Green Beans - Advertorial postcard for Dutch Hero Company
Advertorial postcard for the Dutch Hero Company, featuring some green beans. Date: circa 1930s

Lettuce - Advertorial postcard for Dutch Hero Company
Advertorial postcard for the Dutch Hero Company, featuring a green lettuce. Date: circa 1930s

Russian Polar Explorer - Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel
A superb portrait of Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel (1903-1971) - a Soviet Arctic explorer, radio operator, doctor of geographical sciences (1938)

Russian Polar Explorer - Petr Petrovich Shirshov
A superb portrait of Petr Petrovich Shirshov (1905-1953) - hydrologist, Doctor of Geographic Sciences (1937), Full Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939)

Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin - Russian Polar Explorer
Ivan Dmitrievich Papanin (1894-1986) - Russian Polar Explorer, Scientist, Counter (Rear) Admiral. Winner of 9 Orders of Lenin and Twice a Hero of the Soviet Union. Date: 1933

Joseph Speckbacher - Tyrolean freedom fighter
Joseph Speckbacher (1767-1820) - Tyrolean freedom fighter, a leading figure in the rebellion of the Tyrol against Napoleon. Date: circa 1809

Bermuda - The Grave of Sir George Somers - St George s
Bermuda, a Brtish Overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean - The Grave of Sir George Somers (15541610), an English naval hero - at St George s

Medals of Valour for Heroes of Pit Disasters
Postcard celebrating (with a poem) the medals of Valour awarded by King Edward VII to the Heroes of the Pit Disasters at Whitehaven

The Grave of Rob Roy - Balquhidder, Stirling, Scotland
The Grave of Rob Roy in the Graveyard of the kirk - Balquhidder, a small village in the Stirling council area of Scotland

de Havilland DH87B Hornet Moth, SE-ALE. The artwork on the cowling depicts Super-grandfather, the hero of a Swedish series

Handley Page HP81 Hermes IV G-ALDM Hero in BOAC markings
Handley Page HP81 Hermes IV, G-ALDM, Hero, in BOAC markings over the Needles, Isle of Wight

WWI Poster, He Did His Duty, Are You Doing Yours?
WWI Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Poster depicting Lord Roberts. He Did His Duty, Are You Doing Yours? Date: 1915

Spain. Peninsular War (1808-1814). Sieges of Saragossa (1808-1809). The local hero Jos頤 e la Hera. Litography. SPAIN. Madrid. National Library

GUERRERO, Vicente (1782-1831). Leading revolutionary general of the Mexican War of Independence and politician. Hero during the Independence war against Spain. Miniature Painting

BOLIVAR, Sim󮠨1783-1830). Venezuelan military
BOLIVAR, Sim󮠨 1783-1830). Venezuelan military man and politician hero of the Spanish-American independence. The Liberator in El Potos� Painting by Tito Salas circa 1950. VENEZUELA

BOLIVAR, Sim󮠨1783-1830). Venezuelan military
" BOLIVAR, Sim󮠨 1783-1830). Venezuelan military man and politician hero of the Spanish-American independence. Portrait of Bolivar

OLAYA BALANDRA, jos頓ilverio (1782 - 1823)
OLAYA BALANDRA, jos頓 ilverio (1782 - 1823). Pioneer and hero of the Peruvian War of Independence. 1823s portrait by Jos頇 il de Castro (1785-1841). 204x123 cm. Oil on canvas. PERU. Lima

Funerary urn. Relief depicting a hero fighting against the Persians. Etruscan art. Relief on rock. Proc: ITALY. Chiusi

BOLIVAR, Simon (1783-1830). Venezuelan military man and politician hero of the Spanish-American independence. Design of a commemorative

DAOIZ Y TORRES, Luis (1767-1808). Spanish military man, hero of the Second of May in Madrid. Portrait by Augusto Manel de Quesada. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Madrid. Army Museum

Hero and Leander by Domenico Feti (1588-1623). Baroque art. Oil on wood

LCC-MFB Print of fire brigade rescues
A Victorian print giving an artists impression of the bravery of two firemen in the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, rescuing those trapped by fire from the top floor of a house on fire

Charles Green, aeronaut and balloonist
Portrait of Charles Green (1785-1870), the aeronaut and balloonist, from an original painting in the possession of Robert Holland Esq MP

His first war-hero. Illustration shows the German Emperor Wilhelm II holding the strings to a wooden jumping toy identified as v

Some deserving candidates for the hero fund. Illustration shows a series of nine vignettes to the left and across the top of a main illustration

A popular hero, Shibaraku

Hero land! Grand Central Palace, Nov. 24 - Dec. 12. Admission 50 cents. Translation of title: Marianne wearing a Phrygian cap and holding a shield and sword. Date 1917

Genearl Franco and other heroes of the Spanish Civil War
Genearl Franco and other heroes of the fascist uprising in Spain. 1936. " Glorious heroes of the great crusade saving Spain" 1936

Kinhyoshi yorin, hero of the Suikoden. Date between 1826 and 1830

The hero of Lucknow. Date c1859 Feb. 9

Hero land The greatest spectacle the world has ever seen for the greatest need the world has ever known. Poster for a fundraising event, showing a battle scene with a tank. Date 1917

Gettysburg, Pa. John L. Burns, the old hero of Gettysburg, with gun and crutches. Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863. Date 1863 July. Gettysburg, Pa

A startling melodrama, A ragged hero by Maurice J. Fielding. Date c1906

Emperor Napoleon I, Bonaparte, the Hero of 100 Battles riding the celebrated horse Euphrates, presented to him by the Emperor of Persia. Date: ca. 1847

Funeral of Captain William Henry Urquhart
From the moment it became known that a Crimean War hero, Captain William Henry Urquhart, aged 84, had died in poverty, and that without assistance he would receive a paupers funeral

Sarah Curran, Emmets Betrothed
Sarah Curran, Robert Emmets Betrothed crying in grief for his dedath on a harp. She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers are round her sighing

Joseph Rodgers, Able Seaman
Joseph Rodgers, (b. 1830 in Malta - ?), seaman of the Royal Charter, a ship which sank off the coast of Anglesey on 26th October 1859 in terrible storms

Equestrian statue of Lord Kitchener
A colossal equestrian statue of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916), the first monument to be raised to the famous general, pictured shortly before it was sent to India

Metropolitan Police officer with three medals
A Metropolitan Police officer, Alfred Thomas Cook, with three medals on his jacket, in a head and shoulders portrait. Date: early 20th century

Innsbruck, Austria - Statue of Hofer
Innsbruck, Austria - Statue in Hofkirche of Andreas Hofer (1767-1809) in the Hofkirche - Tyrolean innkeeper and patriot, who led a rebellion against the forces of Napoleon Bonaparte. Date: circa 1910s

Charge of the Light Brigade, Battle of Balaklava, 1854
Dramatic process-litho of the charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaklava, Crimean War focusing on the horses, made 20 years after the event

Don Bradman Gives Lesson
A boy receives a cricket lesson from his hero, the famous Australian cricketer Sir DON BRADMAN, ( The Don ) who lived to a ripe old age, a good innings, indeed! Date: 1908 - 2001

Thomas Smith Memorial
THOMAS GILBERT SMITH The Smith Memorial Seat, beside the A35 road, near Sidford, Devon, England. He fell from his bicycle here and died. Then it thundered. Date: 1848 - 1904

Patriotic French postcard, WW1
A patriotic French postcard produced during the First World War. Showing an old soldier saluting the French flag as if ready to go and fight, looked up to by a little boy

French recruitment poster for a parachute regiment
A French recruitment poster for a parachute regiment, the Infanterie de l Air. Date: 20th century

Sergeant Alvin C York, American soldier, WW1
Sergeant Alvin Cullum York (1887-1964), American soldier, one of the most decorated of the First World War. Seen here on the hill in the Argonne Forest, near Cornay, France

Mayor of Brussels encountering German invaders, WW1
The heroic Mayor of Brussels, Adolphe Max, together with his colleagues Steens, Jacqmain and Vauthier, refuses to shake the hand of General Von Jarotsky, leader of the German army

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