Pirates Collection (page 3)

The Pirates of Penzance The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of The Pirates of Penzance at the Savoy Theatre, showing a pirate and ship. Date between 1936 and 1941

Captain Kidd in New York Harbor. Captain William Kidd welcoming a young woman on board his ship; other men and women crowd the deck as another woman steps aboard. Date c1932 July 28

The pirate bus by Webster Murray
A group of pirates have taken over a open top public bus, they are about to take over another, but they have come against residents from a lady passenger with an umbrella. Date: 1927

Children in their pirates cave
Pretending to be pirates Date: Circa 1880

Illustration, The Queen of the Pirate Isle, showing Polly being is held aloft by a dark-faced miner called Brother Step-and-Fetch-It

Treasure Isle / Israel
Jim Hawkins sees Israel Hands and Red Nightcap. Date: First published: 1883

The Corsair at Drury Lane Theatre
Revival of the ballet The Corsair staged by Ferdinand Albert Decombe (known as Albert) at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. Mademoiselle Adele Dumilatre is shown in the role of Gulnare

Captain Averys sloops capture Ganj-i-Sawai
Pirate captain Henry Averys ships capture a rich Mughal trading vessel, the Ganj-i-Sawai, in the straits en route to Surat, an Indian port

Captain Malyoe shot Captain Brand through the head. Illustration from The Ghost of Captain Brand by Howard Pyle, first published in Harpers Weekly, 19th December 1896

Childrens Carnival
Two children dressed up for a fancy dress party. A little girl has a rather nice witch outfit with a dress appliqued with black cats and a broom, while a little boy has come as a swashbuckling pirate

Poster advertising the Pirates of Penzance
Poster advertising a production of The Pirates of Penzance, a comic operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan

Young boy and his dog play pirates

Worth Going to Bed For by Harold Earnshaw
Illustration by Harold Cecil Earnshaw to accompany a rhyme by J.M. Barrie, showing a little boy fast asleep and enjoying a particularly vivid dream crammed with castles, pirates, elephants

Algiers Bombarded
Algiers, notorious as the home port of pirates terrorising shipping in the Mediterranean, is bombarded by vessels of the Royal Navy commanded by Lord Exmouth.1yn

G&s / Pirates, India 2
Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry... the pirates as portrayed in an amateur production by the British community at Simla, India

Treasure Island / Pirates
Jim Hawkins eavesdrops on the pirates

American Privateer / 1776
An American privateer captures a British vessel

Treasure Isle / Jim Spies
Jim Hawkins spies on the pirates: " I lay for some time watching the bustle which succeeded the attack."

Treasure Isle / Treasure
George Merry & his fellow pirates discover that the treasure has gone, much to the amusement of Long John Silver

Treasure Island / Fighting
Hands & his companion locked together in a deadly wrestle"

Tom Sawyer & Pirates
The pirates: " They built a fire against the side of a great log... & then cooked some bacon in the frying pan for supper..."

SPRAY AND PIRATES
Joshua Slocum defends his boat against Fuegian pirates while rounding Cape Horn in the course of his solo circumnavigation

Pan / Woodward / Pirate Ship
A fight breaks out on board the pirate ship

Crime / Pirates
Pirates attacking a Spanish galleon in the West Indies

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