Riverboat Collection

Taking a boat trip on the River Thames at Windsor
The riverboat Hampton Court prepares to take a boatload of daytrippers for a journey up the River Thames at Windsor. The woman in the foreground is blowing up some balloons - perhaps someone has a

River Nile near Port Said, Egypt. Date: circa 1910s

Africa Kwakwa riverboat pre-1900

Riverboat, Rangoon, Burma
A group of half-naked Burmese people travel in a boat down a river in Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar). Today the region is known as Yangon, as is the river that runs through it. Date: 1885

Bryan Gould, Labour politician and MP
Bryan Charles Gould (b 1939), UK Labour politician and MP, born in New Zealand, where he returned in the early 1990s. Seen here (just left of centre)

Packed riverboat at Windsor
Packed upper level of a riverboat preparing to take a boatload of daytrippers for a journey up the River Thames at Windsor

London - Tower Bridge, Guildhall and the Tower of London
Early pictorial postcard - court card sizing - Scenes and sights of London - The Tower of London, Tower Bridge (opened three years earlier in 1894) and the Guildhall. Date: 1897

Plate from Sinceny, France, with Chinese landscape of women in a riverboat surrounded by insects and flowers. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquots General History of Ancient French

Vessels and warships of the Chinese navy. Mail ship or news frigate 1, junk with defensive boards 2, covered waterwheel riverboat 3, junk 4, and hawks beak boat with two prows 5

Kafr El-Zayat, Egypt - Fishermens Dhows pulled up on the banks of the River Nile. circa 1910s

Captain Steers Boat Date: 1950

Saigon, Vietnam - L Arroyo de Cholon. Date: circa 1908

Hiroshige woodcut - Seba: Moorise
Reproduction of a woodcut by Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858) entitled: Seba: Moorise'. Date: circa early 19th century

Bristol - Clifton Suspension Bridge from the Riverbank Date: 1936

London, England - Thames at London Bridge - Thames Bridge, riverboat, monument. Part of Box 186 Boswell Collection - London. Date: circa 1900

Ohio River with excursion steamer, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Date: circa 1940s

Human-powered Paddler Wheeler Ship, China - men were stationed fore and aft to tread on pedals so that (the vessels) could go forward or backwards. Date: circa 1920s

Barges on the Sumida River - Tokyo, Japan. The Sumida branches from the Arakawa River at Iwabuchi and flows into Tokyo Bay. Its tributaries include the Kanda and Shakujii rivers. Date: circa 1910s

Two pretty Japanese women on a riverboat - the seated woman appears to be playing a Shamisen. Date: circa 1900

Peruvian style raft
Hand-coloured engraving of Alexander Humboldt painting. Radeau de la Riviera de Guayaquil. Vues des Cordilleres, 1810. Date: 1810

Mississippi River landing, Mississippi, USA
Mississippi River landing at Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, with two steamboats, the Belle of Calhoun (left) and the Belle of the Bends (right). Date: circa 1905

Public landing, Ohio River, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
View of the public landing on the Ohio River at Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. In the foreground is the Telegraph river steamboat. circa 1890

Steamboat Virginia, Ohio River, USA
The steamboat Virginia on the Ohio River, USA, with the Ohio River Bridge on the left. Date: circa 1905

Phoenician arks or river boats. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalarts Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages. 1798

River boat Yukon at Circle City, Alaska, USA. Date: 1940s

Al-Qurnah (Qurna) - Iraq - River craft
Al-Qurnah (Qurna) is a small village in southern Iraq northwest of Basra, within the town of Nahairat. Qurna (Arabic for corner)

Loading Appollinaris Water at Remagen, Germany
Loading Appollinaris Water onto a riverboat on the River Rhein (Rhine) at Remagen, Germany. Date: circa 1910s

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping