Passenger Collection (#58)

?Savannah? nuclear-powered passenger-cargo ship after launching into the Delaware River at Camden. The Engineer. vol.208 (2). 1959. p.203 Date: 1959

Express Passenger Train (XPT), New South Wales, c.1986 Date: circa 1986

Reconversion of Queen Elizabeth
When the work of reconversion was over the Queen Elizabeth was virtually a new ship, ready to cast off her moorings at Southampton and begin her maiden voyage as a passenger liner

Queen Elizabeths first class passenger lounge
The Queen Elizabeths first class passenger lounge

Woman in a jinrikisha (Japanese rickshaw), Japan

Woman being carried in a litter, Japan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Ectopistes migratorius, passenger pigeon
Plate 62 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Ectopistes migratoria, passenger pigeon
Mounted specimen of a passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratoria) at The Natural History Museum, London. Extinct since 1914, it was formerly abundant over North America. See image number 4709

Women beside a jinrikisha (Japanese rickshaw), Japan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Woman in carrying litter, Japan
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

One Rail Railway for India
Double page spread. On one page is a design for locomotive on the other we see two images, one depicting passengers in the carriage

Advertisement for a Guiel Automobile
The first poster design from the French Car Manufacturer Delahaye. Date: 1899

The Story of South America: Unexplored Vastness. From Look and Learn no. 437 (30 May 1970)

Martin China Clipper
The Martin 130 passenger flying boat is used by Pan American on their Pacific routes, carrying 48 passengers to the Philippines. Date: circa 1936

Crash and Bull
When the Paris-Amsterdam passenger plane is forced to land in a field near Brussels, it is attacked by a bull who resents the intrusion Date: 1925

Count Zambeccaris balloon

Balloon built at Versailles
A balloon built at Versailles, France, and put on display there on a platform. It was 60 feet high and 40 feet in diameter, in blue and gold material

Lunardi in a balloon
Lunardis Grand Air Balloon, engraved for the Aerostatic Spy 1 April 1785. Probably depicting his flight from the Artillery Grounds to Ware in Hertfordshire on 15 September 1784. 1785

Lunardi ascent from Artillery Grounds
Lunardis ascent from the Artillery Grounds in Moorfields, London. He landed at Ware, Hertfordshire, 20 miles away. 15 September 1784

Garnerins balloons
Five illustrations of An exact representation of M. Garnerins Balloons with an accurate view of the ascent and descent of the parachute

Satirical cartoon, An Aerial Excursion, showing a thin Englishman and a plump Frenchwoman in a balloon, while the crowd on the ground makes rude comments in speech bubbles. 1802

People and animals with a balloon
Fanciful design showing crowds of people and animals watching the ascent of an idealised balloon (complete with what appears to be a key to wind it up)

Lunardis second Grand Air Balloon
Mr Lunardis second Grand Air Balloon, in which he ascended from the Artillery Ground on 13 May, and with Mr Biggin and Mrs Sage from St Georges Fields on 29 June. May-June 1785

Three passengers in a balloon
Vincent Lunardi, George Biggin and Mrs Sage in balloon cage. 1785

Mr Biggin and Mrs Sage in Lunardis balloon
Mr Biggin and Mrs Sage going up from St Georges Field in Lunardis balloon, 29 June 1785. June 1785

Lunardis balloon (bearing a lion and unicorn royal crest) and car containing three people. 1785

Official programme cover, The London Aerodrome
Official programme cover for the London Aerodrome, Hendon, 7th London Aviation Meeting, 9-13 April 1914 (weather permitting)

By Air Anywhere Poster, Croydon 3421, see London by night. Surrey Flying Services Ltd, Croydon & Plymouth. 20th century

Imperial Airways Poster, Switzerland
Imperial Airways Poster, showing a Scylla passenger plane flying to Switzerland, with a mermaid and merman looking up in wonder. 1935

Imperial Airways Poster, Reliability, Comfort. Showing details of the equipment of the most luxurious air liners in the world (Heracles Class), with pictograms of features on a yellow background. 1934

Lufthansa Poster, summer flights in Europe
Poster, Deutsche Lufthansa AG, showing summer flights serving cities in Europe from 1 April to 5 October 1935. 1935

Saloon passenger list - White Star Line steamship services
White Star Line steamship services between New York and Liverpool, United States and Royal Mail : saloon passenger list. 1882

General Strike 1926

SS Runic passengers
Passengers in fancy dress aboard SS Runic, 1902 Date: 1902

The S. S. Princess Sophia, coastal passenger liner
The S.S. Princess Sophia, coastal passenger liner of the Canadian Pacific Railway. She was sunk in October 1918 with the loss of all aboard after grounding on Vanderbilt Reef in Lynn Canal near

Five technical illustrations show network of ropes and apparatus for securing multi-passenger platforms on captive balloons; arrangement of ropes for netting;

New passenger station, Cincinnati, O

Embossed card shows balloon labelled rien d impossible ascending with passenger. Date between 1860 and 1900

Crossing the Atlantic, 1927 by Helen McKie
Scenes of life aboard a passenger liner crossing the Atlantic in the 1920s, with the focus on the passengers attempting the dance the Charleston while the ship lurches. Date: 1927

Close-up view of airplane, including the pilot and passenger seats. Date 1911

The remodeled 1905 Wright machine, altered to allow the operator to assume a sitting position and to provide a seat for a passenger, on the launching track at Kill Devil Hills

Titanic - fifteen minutes before she sank
A double page spread from the Illustrated London News showing an artists impression of the White Star Line passenger liner, RMS Titanic, fifteen minute before she sank beneath the waves

Partial view of the Port, Buenos Aires, Argentina, showing the large German tanker Osiris (scuttled in 1941) being manoeuvred into the harbour by a tugboat with a large passenger liner

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin over pier, Walton, Essex
At 4pm on 19 August 1931 crowds of onlookers lined the pier and promenades at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, to watch the famous Graf Zeppelin fly along the Essex coastline

G. K. Chesterton Our Notebook - comment on the Titanic
Page from the Illustrated London News with the magazines weekly column, Our Notebook, by G. K. Chesterton commenting on the disaster of the sinking of the White Star passenger liner, RMS Titanic

Scenes on board the SS Austral: the drawing room, the dining room and the promenade deck. The SS Austral, a passenger vessel which took part in the early transportation by sea of refrigerated meat

Mr Joughin, survivor of the Titanic disaster
Mr Charles Joughin, Chief Baker on the Titanic. He drifted for nearly three hours and then found a place on a raft which saved his life. Date: 1912

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