Point Collection (page 2)

Maxwell-Briscoe car
Maxwell & Briscoe. From above of a 1905 Maxwell-Briscoe automobile with spare engine at the factory at Phillips Point (near Tarrytown, NY), Hudson River

On These Things... by H. L. Oakley
Full title - On These Things, More or Less, Young Men Live, a quote by Charles Kingsley, who was a keen sporting parson. A silhouette illustration by H. L

Horestone Point, Seaview, Isle of Wight - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Guernsey Harbour and Fermain Point by Henry John Sylvester Stannard

Golfing at Rosses Point, County Sligo by P O Toole
Golfing at Rosses Point, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland by P O Toole

New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Lighthouse Point. Date: circa 1930s

Bringing Him to the Point - Stephen Gwynns An Irish Horse F
Bringing Him to the Point (1898) (Illustration for Stephen Gwynns An Irish Horse Fair, 1901). Thomson, Hugh 1860 - 1920. Date: 1898

Farr Point, Sutherland, Scotland near Bettyhill Date: 1939

Orlock Point and Copeland Island, Co. Down - a view of the rocks and island in the distance. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Groomsport). Date: circa early 1900s

Three point turns by W H Robinson
No need for three point turns, with this double torpedo model with revolving body for obviating the difficult of turning the car in narrow lanes. 1919

Scottish Mountains
The mass of Cairntoull, one of the Cairngorm range of mountains, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This mountain hut is for climbers, near Devils Point, in Glen Dee. Date: 1960s

Upper Palaeolithic tools 18 - 30, 000 years old
L-R: a) Bone used to make needle blanks. b) Bone needle. c & d) Harpoon head and Barbed Point carved from antler. e & f) Two heads carved in mammoth ivory

General Grants cavalry escort, City Point, Va. March, 1865. Group portrait with 5 buglers at left. Date 1865 Mar. printed later

Trigonometry Point
A Trigonometry Point at Buvita in the Belgium Congo, topped off with a broom!

Yemen - Aden - Post Office Bay, Steamer Point

The Nimrod Antarctic Expedition at the furthest point South
Photograph showing Lt. Adams, Frank Wild and Lt. Ernest Shackleton (left to right) standing beside a British flag at the furthest point South that they reached, 9th January 1909

Elephant Hunt (Dore)
An intrepid hunter takes on an entire herd of elephants and fires at one of them from point-blabk range. In a moment he will be trampled to death, and serve him right

Tabard Inn, Southwark
Southwark: the Tabard Inn as it looked in 1810: several centuries earlier, Chaucers pilgrims left for Canterbury from here

Alderney - Quesnard Point Lighthouse and Fort Corblets
Alderney, Channel Islands - Quesnard Point Lighthouse and Fort Corblets. Date: circa 1960s

United States Coast Guard - Lockheed SC-130B Hercules 1342
United States Coast Guard - Lockheed SC-130B-LM Hercules number: (USCG)1342 (msn 282-3548) at USCG station Barbers Point, Hawaii

Malin Head, Most Northerly Point in Ireland, Co. Donegal - a view of the Headland of Malin taken from the rocks. (Location: Republic of Ireland; County Donegal; Malin Head). Date: circa early 1900s

Gobbins cliff path
The Gobbins cliff path in Islandmagee, County Antrim, Northern Ireland : a thrilling point of the walk as a steel bridge extends over the sea

Four men in a car
Autos, Maxwell. Briscoe Auto factory. Philips Point Hudson River. - Four men seated in an automobile outside of the Maxwell

M. Orr / Ali Baba
Ali Baba counted forty of them from his vantage point up a tree

Parasol in point of lace 1868
This beautiful intricate section of a parasol in pointed lace, appointed by The Princess of Wales. 1868

Looe Bay, Hannafore Point, Cornwall
Looe Bay, Hannafore Point, Looe, near Millendreath, Cornwall, England. Date: 1910s

Falmouth, Cornwall - Pendennis Point Date: circa 1910s

Hunting dogs on a Point. Date: 1855

Point Loma, San Diego, California

Lieutenant (Sir) Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), Antarctic explorer. In the year this photograph was taken he and three companions established a record for reaching the farthest southern point

Great Orme and Puffin Island, Anglesey
The Great Orme and Puffin Island from Penmon Point, Anglesey

Chitral Combat 1895
The Chitral expedition - from a sketch by. Mr. A.D Greenhill Gardyne. Officers and men struggle against the enemy 100 yards from the point of the cliff at Chitral

Surrender at Saratoga
After being defeated by Gates at the battle of Stillwater, Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga : this is a turning point in the war ensuring victory for the colonists

G&s / Pirates, India 3
Young Frederic is reminded of his duty at pistol-point by the Pirate King and Ruth in an amateur production by the British community at Simla, India

Climbing / Alps / Nadelhorn
Five climbers contemplate the daunting peak of the Nadelhorn (Switzerland), from their vantage point on the Ulrichshorn

Open Gateway
An open gateway with a fine gas lamp hanging at the point of the arch and two large wooden doors both opened fully. The open portal reveals a view though to an attractive small stone house in

Robert Blair
ROBERT BLAIR Edinburgh advocate, depicted making a point in court

USA / Grand Canyon / 1891
The Grand Canyon viewed from point Sublime

The Beach and Castle Point, Ballybunion, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland

United States Navy - McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom 155847 (unit code AE, call-sign 110 ) of VF-41, embarked on USS Roosevelt

Brown 1931 Southdown Skysailer towed back to launch point
The Brown 1931 Southdown Skysailer being towed back to the launch point at Ditchling Beacon, by a 1929 REO flying Cloud, imported from the United States

High tide and splash point, Eastbourne, East Sussex
High tide and splash point in front of the Queens Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex. Date: circa 1910

Great Central Railway - Marylebone Station. The newspaper headlines on the left give a perfect date for this photograph of May 1906 as they detail the British victory in the Bambatha (Bambaata)

The Wall Kiosk of Osman III - Topkapi Palace, Istanbul. Date: 1802

The Harem - Topkapi Palace, Seraglio Point, Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1819

Needhams Point, Carlisle Bay, Barbados

The Manner of Passing A River Between Point De ?
The Manner of Passing A River Between Point De Galle and Columbo

Eddystone Point Lighthouse, Tasmania

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