Pole Collection (page 3)

Jersey - Pontac
Jersey, Pontac - a train leaves the small local Railway Station

Snow, Skis and Sunshine in Switzerland
Miss Joan Simon, Miss Peggy Peyton, Mr George Renwick, R.N. Mrs Renwick and The Hon. Olivia Harcourt skiing at St. Moritz, Switzerland

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

The steam-ship Roosevelt departing for the Arctic, 1908
Photograph of the steam-ship Roosevelt departing for the Arctic at the beginning of Robert E. Pearys 1908-1909 North Pole Expedition

POLE VAULT, 1871
Athletics meeting at the Agricultural Hall, Islington - vaulting the pole

Telegraph Parrot
No one told this poor parrot on a telegraph pole that it would need to buy a telephone before it could chat to its mates

Scott / Lunar Corona / 1911
Scotts last expedition - he was beaten to the South Pole by Roald Amundsen. Scott did not make it back. Lunar corona over their camp

Amundsen in a Dornier
Oslo crowds cheer explorer Amundsen when he returns to Norway after making a flight across the North Pole in a Dornier flying boat

Pole Star and Plough
The constellation of the PLOUGH, and the POLE STAR

Mariner, Wondrous Cold
The ship enters the icy waters near the South Pole: And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold

Norge Polar Flight
The Norge airship, hired from Italy by Amundsen, at the start of its flight over the North Pole. From Spitzbergen it made a 17-hour flight to Alaska

Ship canal, isthmus of Corinth, Greece
A man in traditional costume crosses a bridge above the newly built ship canal linking the Adriatic with the Aegean at the isthmus of Corinth, Greece

German pole axe and halberd from the late 15th century. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889

Dance of the Powhatan Native Americans of Carolina within a circle of totem poles. (Based on Captain Whites drawing of the Algonquian dance in Virginia.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by A

Robert Falcon Scott and his Frys Cocoa and Chocolate supply
Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), the English naval commander and explorer. A Captain in the Royal Navy, Scott led a number of expeditions to the Antarctic

Chandalas, lower-caste Hindus, India
Chandalas, lower-caste Hindus in India, deemed to be untouchable because they dispose of dead bodies. Date: 1843

Corby Pole Fair, Northamptonshire 1902
Once every twenty years on Whit-Monday the people of Corby in Northamptonshire celebrate by holding a unique fair in commemoration of a charter granted to them by Queen Elizabeth in 1585

United States Air Force - Convair B-36D Peacemaker 44-92065
United States Air Force - Convair B-36D-45-CF Featherweight Configuration II Peacemaker 44-92065 (msn 62), of the 326th Bombardment Squadron, 92nd Bombardment Wing, from Fairchild AFB, Spokane, WA

Maypole dancing Blists Hill, Shropshire -2
Children in traditional costumes celebrate May Day as they dance around the Maypole at Blists Hill, Ironbridge, Shropshire, England Date: 1990

Erewash Canal and Sawley Road, Long Eaton, Derbyshire. It is unclear if the gentleman in the foreground is going to receive a stern reprimand from the copper approaching from the background....!

Japan - Poling a barge along the Hozu River
Japan - A brave boatman poling a barge solo along the Hozu River - a part of Katsura River in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan Date: circa 1910s

Arctic, North Pole

English Maypole dancing Victorian period

Star Hotel, Great Yarmouth, Victorian period

Fridtjof Nansen's polar expedition on the Fram to the North Pole

British crew members of Robert Peary's expedition to the North Pole in 1909

British crew of expedition in 1909 to North Pole led by Robert Peary

Ernest Shackleton and his sister visit the Nimrod before expedition to the South Pole

Captain Scott and Lieutenant Evans planning their expedition to the Antarctic

Lieutenant Campbell (in gloves, Captain Scott's)
Lieutenant Campbell (in gloves, Captain Scott's second in command, on board the Terra Nova

Captain Scott and Lieutenant Evans planning trip to the South Pole

Maypole dancing Victorian period

Republic F-84F Thunderstreak 52-6455
Republic F-84F-35-RE Thunderstreak 52-6455, mounted on a pole at American Legion post 490 in Houston, Texas. Date: circa 1995

Petty Officer Evans, at the Antarctic

Lieutenant Bowers, at the Antarctic

Dr Wilson at the Antarctic
Dr Wilson, at the Antarctic

Captain Scott's Southern Party 1911, at the Antarctic Date: 1911

Captain Scott and the Earl of Altamont on the Terra Nova

Corby Pole Fair Village Stocks early 1900s

Buxton Well Dressing early 1900s

May Day at a school

Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition: Shackleton, Scott, Wilson
Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition Shackleton Scott and Wilson in 1902

Scott's Antarctic Expedition Captain Scott addresses crew
Scott's Antarctic Expedition Captain Scott addressing the crew of the Terra Nova prior to departure probably in June 1910

Capatin Scott addressing crew of the Terra Nova

Scott's Antarctic Expedition Lieutenant Evans October 1911

Scott's Antarctic Expedition - at the South Pole
Scott's Antarctic Expedition At the South Pole left to right Oates Bowers Scott Wilson Evans on 17th January 1912

Scott's Antarctic Expedition Captain Scott's last words in his diary March 1912

Scott's Antarctic Expedition - Bowers Wilson, Cherry-Garrard
Scott's Antarctic Expedition Bowers Wilson and Cherry-Garrard in June 1911

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