Travellers Collection (page 4)

Traces on the Moon
Space travellers of days to come may well find traces of the Moons former inhabitants lying about among the ruins of their civilisation

Travellers and touts at Shepheards Hotel, Cairo. Date: 1908

Gare Maritime, Calais
Travellers at the Gare Maritime, Calais : the express from Basle has just arrived. Date: circa 1914

Memnon Colossi / Egypt
The vast representations of Amenhotep III, which guard the approach to the Pharoahs mortuary temple at Thebes. Likened to Memnon by Greek travellers. Date: 1904

Stagecoach Breakfast
Stagecoach travellers breakfast at a roadside inn. Date: circa 1830

Le Bourget Airport
The embarkation area at Le Bourget, the principal airport for Paris : a Buffet caters for travellers needs. Date: 1932

Bethlehem, 1835 / Bartlett
A group of travellers, one of whom is seated on a camel, approach the city walls of Bethlehem Date: circa 1835

Fortins Barometer
Fortins portable barometer is used by travellers

STEAMSHIP FRANCE
Passenger liner of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, she was immensely popular with travellers who had to bid for her cabins Date: 1910

C18 Dictionary
A Dictionary for European travellers - French, German and Latin Date: early 18th century

Verne: Illustration from Round the Moon(Autour de la Lune)
Autour de la Lune ( Round the Moon ). The space-travellers enjoy the pleasures of being gravity free! Date: 1870

Pauline Serpent
Travellers on the Pauline, en route to Zanzibar, see a whale encircled by this serpent-like creature : the ships chaplain sketches it and Captain Drevar confirms the sighting Date: July 1875

Caucasus mountains, Russia
Travellers on a mountain pass in the Caucasus, Russia. Date: 1886

Letters from the Planets
Venusian space travellers, who have landed on one of Jupiters moons, walk from night into day Date: 1892

American Bankers Association Travellers Cheques
Postcard promoting American Bankers Association Travellers Cheques - The safest, handiest, most satisfactory form of travel funds - the perfect international exchange. Date: circa 1902

Scene at an airport, with passengers and aircraft (operated by British United Airways and BKS). circa 1960s

Where to write on an American Travellers Cheque
Explanation of what to write and where to sign on an American Travellers Cheque. Date: 1920s

A couple plan their dream travel trip using a large globe
Travel Trails. A couple plan their dream travel trip using a large globe, mounted on an elegant wooden stand. Date: 1920s

Elegant lady traveller strolling along the deck of a liner
An elegant lady traveller strolling along the deck of a liner on a windy day. She seem little perturbed by the height of the waves

Black American porter with an elegant ladys luggage
Black American railway porter carrying an elegant ladys luggage, which consists of a set of golf clubs, a small suitcase and what appears to be a hat box

Elegant Lady passenger awaiting her flight on the airfield - her biplane aircraft awaits behind. Date: 1920s

American couple studying a map in an elegant automobile
American couple studying a map, riding in the open-top rear section of an elegant cream-colured car, their luggage carefully stowed in the roofrack. Date: 1920s

A small biplane flying through the clouds. Date: 1920s

Illustration, A Song of the English, Campfire
Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine)

Florence Parbury, traveller and war worker
Florence Parbury, described by the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News as one of our most versatile and accomplished women, and a great traveller

Rest house for travellers, Sobat, near Khartoum, Sudan
Rest house for travellers at Sobat, near Khartoum, in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Date: circa 1920

South Africa - Native Travellers
Native Travellers, Beaconsfield, Northern Cape, South Africa. Date: 1912

The Ship Inn, Wincle, Cheshire, in April 1908 - a scene virtually unchanged to this day as the Ship still serves refreshment to travellers over a hundred years on. Date: 1908

Scenery of Devon - Brixham Travellers
Victorian Glass Lantern Slide from a series on the scenery of Devon - Brixham Travellers. Part of box 204 Boswell Collection; listed, Boswell Collection Date: circa 1890s

Queuing to return home following the outbreak of World War I
Many British people were enjoying their summer holidays abroad when the war began and as the crisis became more acute, there was an eager rush for home

Boys at Commercial Travellers Schools, Pinner, Middlesex
Boys exercising in the grounds of the Commercial Travellers Schools at Pinner. Date: circa 1907

Travellers, Holy Land
Travellers in the Holy Land. Date: circa 1870

1937 Coronation - Clubland adorned
A view looking down Pall Mall to Trafalgar Square showing the Travellers Club, the Athenaeum and the United Services Club decorated for the 1937 Coronation of King George VI. Date: 1937

The Royal visit to India and Pakistan
The royal travellers about to board their Britannia airliner on their way to India and Pakistan. Date: 1961

Temple Ruins, Palmyra
The remains of one of the ancient temples in the once prosperous city of Palmyra, Syria. It was known as the Bride of the Desert, vital for desert caravan travellers Date: BC

Hotel Carls-Rite, Toronto, Canada - the House of Comfort - advertising itself as the Worlds Premier Hotel for Business travellers. Date: circa 1920s

The Summit of White Pass, Alaska - Two flags
The Summit of White Pass, Alaska - Under two flags. White Pass is a mountain pass through the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains on the border of the US state of Alaska

Duty-free Cigarettes and Alcohol - Norway
Two women and a man pose on the deck of a Norwegian ferry boat wit their duty free spirits and cigarettes. Following WW2 there was still considerable rationing of food and drink in the UK

Pose on the hillside overlooking the Fjord at Ulvik
A man and two women on holiday in Norway pose on the hillside overlooking the Fjord at Ulvik. Date: early 1950s

On deck on the way to Holiday in Norway
Slightly windswept passengers on deck aboard the ferry on the way to a Holiday in Norway. Sitting on wicker chairs close to the rail, wrapped up in raincoats and mittens! Date: early 1950s

Entrance to the Reservoir, Singapore. Note the superb examples of the Travellers palm trees (Ravenala madagascariensis) behind the railings and wall. Date: circa 1907

Medina - Saudi Arabia - Hejaz Menaha Square - Caravan Date: circa 1905

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