Pole Collection (page 16)

Alexandria, Egypt - The Semaphore in Mex
Alexandria, Egypt - The Semaphore - Fort Mex Date: circa 1905

Alexandria, Egypt - Attarine Mosque. Built as a Church dedicated to Saint Athanasius in 370 and converted into a Mosque at the beginning of the Arab conquest

Baghdad, Iraq - Jami Haydar Khanah Mosque Date: circa 1910s

Baghdad, Iraq - Mirjan Mosque
The Mirjan Mosque, Baghdad, Iraq. Date: circa 1910s

Mumbai, India - Elphinstone Circle No. 2
Mumbai, India - Elphinstone Circle No.2 (named after the Governor, Lord John Elphinstone). Date: circa 1905

Indian River and Totem Poles - Sitka, Alaska, USA
Indian River and Totem Poles of the Tlingit people - Sitka, Alaska, USA Date: circa 1902

Atlantic City, USA - Hotel Luray viewed from the Boardwalk
Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA - Hotel Luray viewed from the Boardwalk Date: circa 1901

Kenya, East Africa - Kilidini Road, Mombasa (a port on the Indian Ocean and the second-largest city in the country). Date: circa 1930s

Samara, Russia - The National Hotel
The National Hotel, Samara (called Kuybyshev from 1935-1990), Russia - situated in the southeastern part of European Russia (the Volga Federal District)

Marti, Cuba - Nuevitas Avenue Date: circa 1920s

Stairway up to the Railway Station at Laon, France
Stairway up to the Railway Station at Laon, Aisne department in Picardy, France. A beggar sits at the foot of the long stair, holding out his hat in hope of a charitable donation

Singapore - Traditional pole acrobat Date: circa 1909

Bermuda - Front Street, Hamilton - Busy mix of trade and traffic Date: circa 1903

Front Street West, Hamilton, Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s

Lisbon, Portugal - Fish Seller carrying two wide wicker baskets of fresh fish on a pole over his shoulder - he is wearing traditional national costume

Portugal - Wandering Salesman
Portugal - A Poor wandering salesman, with a small basket of wares in his wicker basket at the end of a long pole. Date: circa 1908

Madeira - Transporting Hammock
Amongst the three best-known unusual means of transportation to have be found on the Portuguese Island of Madeira was the transporting hammock

Russian Bear trapped up a pole by the Japanese
Dudley Hardy - Stuck; Humorous postcard relating to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. The sender has added the comment " Good Old Japs" onto the pole. Date: circa 1905

Model glider; a kite mounted on a pole (with a weight beneath), and a cruciform tail unit attached by a universal joint. 1804. From Cayleys original notebook

Polar bear on the North Pole spying on a balloon

Aptenodytes fosteri, emperor penguin egg
Collected on the British Terra Nova Antarctic Expedition (1910 - 1913) by Edward Wilson

Carrying model beluga on pole, c. 1934
It took over a year from the closure of the old Whale Hall on 1 January 1934 for the skeletons and models, such as this beluga, to be ready for the public in the new Whale Hall

Map of Madrid (1762) by Ventura Rodrez and
" Map of Madrid (1762) by Ventura Rodr ez and published in " La guic de forasteros" (1765). Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid. Museo de Historia."

Walrus and gulls at the North Pole

Walrus and gulls looking at whale

The Terra Nova leaving Portsmouth
Captain Scotts vessel, the Terra Nova in which he sailed to the Antarctic in his great effort to reach the South Pole, pictured leaving the South West India Dock in Portsmouth in June 1910

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Jean Charcot, Explorer
JEAN B E A CHARCOT French explorer in the Antarctic, described as " the gentleman of the Pole" by Scott. Date: 1867 - 1936

Terra Nova Steamship
This Scottish whaler is used by Captain Scott in his ill- fated attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole, 1911. launched 1884

Byrd / Lindbergh / Ilz 1930
Commander Richard Byrd (right) in New York, being congratulated by Charles Lindbergh on his solo flight to the South Pole Date: 1930

Peary & Cook / Assiette
Returning from the North Pole, Robert Peary returned home to find Frederick Cook claiming he had reached it the previous year. " What a hole, the Pole!" Date: 1909

Lindbergh / Byrd / Chamberln
Three famous aviation firsts - Charles Augustus Lindbergh with Byrd (the first to fly to the North Pole) & Chamberlin (the first to fly from New York to Germany). Date: 1927

Slippery pole sack fighting at a London Fire Brigade sports event

LCC-LFB sliding pole and rigging
The sliding pole was introduced into the London Fire Brigade in 1904 after its Chief Officer, Captain Eyre Massey Shaw, made an official visit to the USA

LCC-LFB firemen using the sliding pole on a call
Following a visit to the United States, Chief Officer Eyre Massey Shaw brought back the idea of sliding poles which he saw in American fire houses

A man carrying a shoulder pole with a trunk and bedding for a patron standing on the left. Date 18--

Porter with shoulder pole, full-length studio portrait, standing, facing front. Photograph shows a studio portrait of a man with a shoulder pole carrying large boxes

Two men walking, one carrying a shoulder pole with barrel-like containers, the other carries a long-handled mallet. Date 18--

A dash for the pole. Date 1893

An American Indian totem pole, Alert bay, Canada

German Organ Grinder with small monkey attracts a crowd of appreciative children (the girl in the foreground is celebrating her birthday), drawn by the music and the spectacle

The Indian village at Alert Bay. Canada

Sontag and Flora Temple: at the Hale mile pole in 1: 13
Sontag and Flora Temple: at the Hale mile pole in 1:13!!. Date c1855

Descente du ballon le Pole Nord e Auneau (Eure et Loir) le 27 juin 1869, par G. Tissandier. Diagram shows (1) Trajectoire de l aerostat (elevation) and (2) Courbe de trainage (plan)

Raising the liberty pole, 1776. Print shows the raising of a liberty pole in a village center on a festive occasion with many spectators, some appear to be disgruntled loyalists; in the background

Champ de Mars, dimanche 17 juin, a 5 heures preciss. Ascension aerostatique du ballon le Pole Nord au benefice de l expedition de M. Gustave Lambert

Champ-de-Mars. Premiere ascension aerostatique du ballon le Pole Nord executee le dimanche 27 juin, a cinq heures, au profit de l expedition de M. Gustave Lambert

Clothes of swimmers hanging on a telegraph pole, Lake Providence, La. The children from the nearby farms and neighborhoods go swimming, on Saturday afternoon and Sunday, in the lake. Date 1940 June

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