Pioneers Collection (page 3)

Russian Literary Giants - Chekov, Tolstoy and Gorky
Three Russian Literary Giants - (left) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Playwright and short story writer (centre) Count Lev (Leo) Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Elizabeth / Royal Exchange
Queen Elizabeth I opens the Royal Exchange. Trade flourished as pioneers revealed new sources for the supply of raw materials. Date: 1570

Joseph and Hiram Smith, pioneers of Mormonism
JOSEPH SMITH (1805-1844) with his brother HIRAM pioneers of Mormonism, depicted in front of the Temple of Nauvoo

Illustration, A Song of the English, Barren Landscape
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

First ride of Pony Express, Missouri to California, USA
Depiction of the first ride of Pony Express, from St Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California, USA, on 3 April 1860. Showing the first messenger setting off on what was the first fast mail line

WWI pen and ink and pencil sketches
A collection of First World War pen and ink and pencil sketches drawn by the artist when stationed in France and Flanders with the Northumberland Fusiliers

First circumnavigation of Australia by seaplane - 1924
A map showing the route of the first circumnavigation of Australia by seaplane in 1924. On April 6, 1924, RAAF pilots Wing Commander Stanley James (Jimmy) Goble (1891-1948)

Dorothy Spicer, aviator
Dorothy Norman Spicer, married name Pearce (1908- 1946), aviator and pioneering aeronautical engineeer. Together with her business partner Pauline Gower set up a successful aeronautical company

Balloon designs by Charles & Robert and Montgolfier
Balloon designs by Charles and Robert (1, 5) and the Montgolfier Brothers (2, 3, 4). No. 3 ascended from Versailles. No. 4 ascended from the Chateau de la Muette. No

First House built in Utah - Deuel Cabin, Salt Lake City
First House built in Utah - Salt Lake City, USA - an old log house built in September 1847 by Osmyn Deuel. Pictured here in a former location under a pergola shelter at the Salt Lake Temple Square

Voortrekker Monument, Pretoria, South Africa
Part of the Voortrekker Monument in Gauteng Province, Pretoria, South Africa, showing Voortrekker ox wagons in the wall surrounding the Monument -- in total there are 64 of these wagons

Ladies Sunbathing 1905
German ladies sunbathing for reasons of health : the Germans are pioneers in appreciating the health benefits of fresh air and sunlight

Settlers hut, California
Two men standing outside a wooden pioneer hut. Date: 1860

American settlers on a difficult journey
American settlers on a long and difficult journey. Date: 1890

American settlers cross the Oregon region
American settlers at a river crossing in the Oregon region, USA. Date: 1900

Pioneer settlers ploughing under guard. Date: early 19th century

Illustration, A Song of the English, Lions
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

Winslow house, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
The house of General John Winslow in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, built in 1730. Date: circa 1905

Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, as it was in 1622, with a few basic buildings. From left to right: a store house, the homes of P Brown, J Goodman, W Brewster, J Billington, I Allerton, F Cooke

Claude Grahame-White in an early aeroplane
Claude Grahame-White, an early English aviation pioneer, at the Blackpool Flying Carnival, in flight with a female passenger. Date: early 20th century

Men in a field with an early biplane. Date: early 20th century

Albert Fileux, engineer, passenger of John Moisant
Albert Fileux, mechanical engineer, passenger of John Moisant on many of his pioneering flights, including a cross-Channel trip from France to Britain on 17 August 1910. Date: circa 1910

Bleriot monoplane crosses English Channel
Bleriot monoplane crosses the English Channel, 25 July 1909 -- a written record of the pioneering event. Date: 1909

Guillaume Busson in Bleriot monoplane, Le Havre
French aviator Guillaume Busson in a Bleriot monoplane at Le Havre. Date: circa 1910

Emile Aubrun in Bleriot monoplane
French aviator Emile Aubrun in a Bleriot monoplane, taking part in an air race. Date: circa 1910

John Moisant, aviator, with kitten mascot
John Bevins Moisant (1868-1910), American aviator, with his kitten mascot standing on his shoulder. Date: circa 1910

Hope Insurance Company fireman in uniform
Colour engraving of a Hope Insurance Company fireman in uniform, with a large badge on his sleeve. At one time, firemen worked for different insurance companies and wore different colour uniforms

Early firefighters wih hoses
Colour engraving of early firefighters wih hoses, tackling a house fire. Date: circa 1684

Le bois de Tr�- 15th July 1916
Le bois de Tr� - 15th July 1916. Major Alfred Kingsley Lawrence, Ra Rp, 19Th Btn/2Nd Tyndeside Pioneers, Northumberland Fusiliers - Commissioned 26.8.15. (1893-1975)

Major-General W. S. Brancker
Major-General Sir William Sefton Brancker (1877-1930), civil aviation pioneer, portrayed by Lieutenant Percival Anderson during the First World War when he was Comptroller-General of Equipment

Underwater pioneers by G. H. Davis
Underwater pioneers: early ancestors of our midget submarines. Some 17th to 20th century designs: primitive forerunners of Britains latest naval weapon. Date: 1943

Congo - A Missionary Camp Date: circa 1910s

Mr. and Madame Garnerin. Date: 1802

Pioneers Memorial, Gundagal New South Wales, Australia
Pioneers Memorial, Gundagal, New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1930s

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France - Balloonists Monument
Neuilly-sur-Seine in the western suburbs of Paris, France - Porte du Ternes and Monument des Aeronautes (Monument to the Aeronauts and Pigeons of the Siege of Paris). Date: circa 1901

Canadian Pioneers - Five Generations
Pioneers - Five Generations of the same family at Tignish, a fishing community located in western Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Date: circa 1905

Germany - The Eccentric Weisgarber Family
The Eccentric Vegetarian Weisgarber Family from Blankenburg (Harz) - a town and health resort in the district of Harz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, at the north foot of the Harz Mountains

Pioneer Regiment entrenching in France - WWI
A Pioneer Regiment - British Army combatant corps used for light engineering tasks - dig trenches on the Western Front - WWI. Date: circa 1915

Balloon descent, Beuvri near Bethune, France
View of the Plaine de Beuvri (or Beuvry) near the town of Bethune in Artois, north of Paris. Balloon descent by the Robert brothers and Colin Hullin near a windmill

Balloon descent, Chateau de Beuvri, France
Balloon descent by the Robert brothers and Colin Hullin in front of the Chateau de Beuvry, near Bethune. They had ascended from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, earlier the same day

Balloon descent, Prairie de Nesle, France
Balloon descent of Charles and Robert onto the Prairie de Nesle, northern France, surrounded by various witnesses, including an English gentleman, Mr Fares, who was the first to greet M Charles

Pioneers in the great religious reformation of the nineteenth century. Head-and-shoulders portraits of Thomas Campbell, B.W. Stone, Walter Scott, and A. Campbell. Date c1885

Marcel Paillette, an early French aviation pioneer in his biplane Sommer

Mr Morrison and his aeroplane at the Prudential Garage, King Street, Brighton

M. Paulhan, and early French aviation pioneer in a biplane

Alberto Santos Dumont in his aeroplane, La Demoiselle. He was an aviator, sportsman and Brazilian inventor

C. Grahame-White in an early aeroplane
Claude Grahame-White, an early English aviation pioneer

An early French aviation pioneer

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