Pole Collection (page 17)

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

Lisbon, Portugal - Market 24th of July (Mercado 24 de Julho). Date: circa 1910s

Mercury Sea Scouts on a beach with a tripod, perhaps ready for erecting a tent. circa 1912

London Sea Scouts at a regatta
A group of London Sea Scouts at a regatta. circa 1950s

Boats moored at Longridge Water Activities Centre

Sea Scouts hoisting the colours
A group of Sea Scouts hoisting the colours. 20th century

Sea Scout patrol leader in a gig

Sea Scouts coming ashore. circa 1912

Exhibition on board RSS Discovery
Exhibition about an Antarctic expedition on board the training ship RSS Discovery. circa 1951

Polar tableau, RSS Discovery Exhibition
A polar tableau at an RSS Discovery Exhibition, showing a tent, a husky dog, skis, a flag and snow, as used on the the film set at Ealing Studios. 1948

RSS Discovery exhibition with celebrities and penguin
Scene on board RSS Discovery during an exhibition, showing the British actor John Mills, the naturalist Peter Scott (son of Captain Scott), a zoo keeper, and five Sea Scouts in polar costume

Union flag with sea in background
A Union flag with the sea in the background. early 20th century

Annexe built on Westminster Abbey for Edward VII coronation
The temporary annexe constructed outside Westminster Abbey for marshalling the coronation procession of King Edward VII in 1902

Girl withclover
Girl holding clover on a pole and wearing a matching garland and dress. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: 1902

Leander Kingston Sea Scout Troop
Boys of the Leander Kingston Sea Scout Troop doing some rebuilding. 8 October 1935

RSS Discovery in the Antarctic. Launched in 1901 and designed for Antarctic research, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain

River Humour - The Amateur Punter circa 1909

Exercising dogs in New Zealand prior to Scott Polar Expediti
Husky dogs being exercised on the New Zealand shore in preparation for the Captain Scott expedition to Antarctica in which Scott

Breaking in ponies for the Scott Polar Expedition
Breaking in one of the twenty Siberian ponies to be taken on board the Terra Nova as part of the Captain Scott Polar expedition of 1911 - 12

Parsi Athletes - Calcutta
Parsi (Zoroastrian) Athletes in Calcutta, India. Date: circa 1910s

Silhouette, couple in an open-topped car
Silhouette of a couple driving along a road in an open-topped car

Shipping Shell Motor Spirit on board the Terra Nova at Sydney for the motor sledges used by Captain Scott during his 1911-12 Antarctic expedition

Romania - Eforie Sud
The ruins of Soimos Fortress, Cetate, Romania Date: circa 1929

Final preparations for the Scott expedition
Taking twenty Siberian ponies on board the Terra Nova before the ship carrying Captain Scott and his team departed from New Zealand

Queen Charlotte Island - Masset Totem Poles
The Masset Inlet - Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. The Totem Poles of the Haida People. Masset was known by the Haida as Uttewas (or White Slope Town)

Medieval jousting event, Cornwall
A medieval jousting event taking place in Cornwall, with a large crowd of spectators. A jouster gallops along, aiming his jousting pole at a metal target in the shape of a man. Date: circa 1980s

Training Camp for Royal Engineers at Aldershot Date: 1912

Saint-Omer, France - Platforms on the Railway Station
Saint-Omer, France (Pas-de-Calais) - The platforms of the Railway Station and a couple of very fine telegraph poles. Date: circa 1910s

Tbilisi, Georgia - First Girls School Date: 1909

Dutch Canal scene with barges and a group of three canal officials (left). A barge operative poles is vessel trough the opened lock gate. Date: 1910s

Indian totem pole carver at work. Date: 1911

Gabon, Africa - The arrival of a European into the village
Gabon, Africa (at this time one of the four territories of French Equatorial Africa) - The arrival of a European into the village

Cook and Peary
- and PEARY : the card features both explorers, but discreetly doesn t indicate which of the two is the true discoverer of the North Pole. Date: 1908 - 1909

South Magnetic Pole
Professor David : I hereby take possession of this area now containing the Magnetic Pole for the British Empire. Dr Mackay is on his right, Douglas Mawson on his left. Date: 1909

Sledge Team on Amundsens Antarctic Expedition, 1912
Illustration showing one of the members of Roald Amundsens Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12, ski-ing beside his sledge on the way to the South Pole

Indian Circus Entertainers - Gustav Hagenbeck Date: circa 1910s

Commander Peary and Captain Bartlett
Robert Edwin Peary (1856 1920), explorer and adventurer, who claimed on April 6th 1909 to have been the first man to reach the North Pole, although this claim is widely doubted today

Kitwanga Totem Pole
A totem pole at Kitwanga, British Columbia, Canada. Date: early 1930s

Canadian Totem Pole
A Candian totem pole. Date: 1930s

Has Captain Scott reached the Pole?
Page from The Sphere magazine speculating on whether Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his polar exploration team had reached the South Pole in December 1911, as scheduled

Stuck Up - A Punting Disaster
Two illustrations of the phrase Stuck Up. In the main scene, an unlucky man is stuck on his pole as a quiet afternoon punting with his lady loves goes rather wrong (he has lost his hat too!)

Romanian prisoners of war, Sinaia, Romania, WW1
Romanian prisoners of war being set to work in Sinaia, Romania, during the First World War. Date: 26 December 1916

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