Raft Collection (page 3)

French Soldiers-Bridge
French civil engineering corps construct a temporary wooden bridge out of staves and brushwood on a training mission. Date: 1886

Napoleon Meets Tsar
Napoleon meets Alexander I of Russia on a raft in mid-stream on the Niemen, leading to a peace-treaty between the two Date: 7 July 1807

Seaside frolics by John Hassall
A group of children enjoy themselves at the seaside. Some dig in the sand, build sandcastles and play games on the beach, while some others splash around in the shallows using a plank of old wood as

Georgia - Tbilisi - The Raft Port
The Raft Port at Tbilisi, the capital (and largest) city in Georgia - formerly known as Tiflis. Located strategically at the crossroads between Europe and Asia

Suvla Evacuation at Gallipoli WWI
Evacuating guns and personnel from Suvla Point on rafts in daylight during World War I at Gallipoli

Canada - Ontario - Hunting trip
Ontario - Highlands - Canadian man and his dogs heads off derrhunting on one of the more improbably rafts one could imagine

Coconuts rafted downstream - Manila
Coconuts being rafted to market down the Pasig River, Manila, Philippines

Captain Urquharts Life Preserving Raft, River Thames, 1858
Engraving showing the trial of Captain Urquharts Life-Preserving Raft on the River Thames, near Westminster, London, 1858

Granpop Floats a Company
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing Gran pop pushing off three anxious little monkeys on a log down a stream

Sinbad the Sailor theatre poster
Theatre poster for the pantomime Sinbad the Sailor, showing the principal boy adrift at sea on a raft

Sven Hedin to Tibet - 2
Hedin builds a raft and 17 September 1899 he sets out for Yanghi-Koul, which he reaches on 7 December, meeting up wuith his supply caravan which has traveled by land

Robinson Crusoe / Defoe
With this cargo I put to sea Crusoe abandons the sinking wreck with as much equipment as his raft can hold

Wizard of Oz / The Raft
The Scarecrow and Toto on the raft

Sinbad on his Raft
Sinbad on his raft: For several days the raft floated on in total darkness through the long tunnel

Meeting of three leaders at Tilsit, Napoleonic Wars
A meeting of three leaders during the Napoleonic Wars -- Tsar Alexander I of Russia, Napoleon Bonaparte of France and Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, meet on a raft in the Niemen river

Transport by Raft 1555
Transporting root crops and other goods by raft

Australian Raft
Simple raft used by native Australians

Survivors on Raft
Survivors of a shipwreck on their extemporised raft

Kremlin 1764 / Machajew
A panorama of Moscow showing the Kremlin. Boating activity is depicted on the river while a cavalcade of pedestrians & equestrians take the air on the embankment opposite

Mississippi Island
Six oxen haul a raft up the Mississippi, near Navy Island

Belize / Davenport
Port of Belize (Balize) in what was British Hondurus. Troops watch as locals move about on rafts possibly made from the main export logwood used in the dyeing industry

Peace of Tilsit
Napoleon and the Tsar of Russia meet on a raft on the Niemen river at Tilsit and make a provisional peace treaty

Napoleon and Tsar Alex
Ten days after his victory at Friedland, in Poland, Napoleon meets tsar Alexander on a raft in the Niemen, and the Russian has no option but to accept the Frenchmans terms

Lake of Two Mountains, Quebec, Canada
View of the Lake of Two Mountains (Lac des Deux Montagnes), in Quebec, Canada, where the Ottawa River delta feeds into the St Lawrence River

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