Travels Collection (page 9)

Carnival in Barcelona
A carnival procession travels down the street with crowds gathering on their balconies to watch the musicians and entertainers go by

Captain Frederick Burnaby on the Road to Khiva, 1875
Engraving showing Captain Frederick Burnaby (1842-1885), the English soldier and explorer, travelling, with a companion, across the Russian Steppes in the winter of 1875

Off to Algiers
Every summer, Napoleon and Eugenie choose somewhere different for their summer travels : this year they are sailing from Marseille to Algiers, a French colony

Carl XV Traveling
Carl XV of Sweden travels to Trondheim (formerly Trondhjem) to be crowned king of Norway too

Milan of Serbia
King Milan I of Serbia travels to the front, where he will take personal command of his army against the Bulgarians. Sadly, he will lead them to defeat, not victory

Wounded Insurgents
A convoy of wounded insurgents travels along the Micalowicz road where the rebel camp is located

Napoleon Cheered
Napoleons empire is approved by a majority of Frenchpeople - peasants of the Bourbonnais cheer him as he travels through their region

Napoleon Returns
Napoleon leaves Elba, travels to Paris and re-enters the palais des Tuileries, but 100 days later he ll have to vacate it again

Gulliver & the Yahoos
Gulliver meets a Yahoo

America. Wheat Farming in California. June: Heading
A large machine pulled by horses and pushed by six mules travels through the fields heading the wheat

Pallas Athene
The goddess Athene, who watched over Odysseus (Ulysses) throughout his perilous travels

Asklepios as a Dragon
When ambassadors from Rome come to Epidaurus to solicit his help, Asklepios turns himself into a dragon, and travels thus back to Rome with them

A Delegate Travels
Delegates travelled from one part of Paris to another with a large protective escort

Water Tricycle - 4
American inventor Terry, who crossed the Channel in a tricycle-boat in July 1884, now proposes this aquatic tricycle which travels on the surface : a calm day needed !

Jablochkoffs electric light apparatus
Diagrams showing Jablochkoffs candle lamp. Paul Jablochkoff (1847-1894) was a Russian telegraph engineer who would rise to the post of director of telegraphs between Moscow and Kursk

Racial / Chile / Araucanian
A group of Araucanian nomads on their travels in the mountains

Charles, Robert, Balloon
Unmanned balloon, filled with inflammable Air drawn from Iron by means of a Vitriolic Acid travels from the Champ de Mars to Gonzesse where it is attacked by peasants

African Tribal Chief
Kannema, a chieftain encountered by explorer Heinrich Barth in the course of his travels in west and central Africa

Queen Christina, mother of queen Isabela, returns to Spain amid widespread unrest : she travels to Barcelona

Gulliver / King / Brobdingna
Gulliver appalls the King wth his account of life in England

New York to Chicago
The passenger express from New York to Chicago depicted as it travels beside the Hudson River

Peter at Amsterdam
Peter travels Europe in quest of knowledge : at Amsterdam a naval battle is staged for his benefit. On his return he will strengthen Russias maritime resources

Umberto Assassinated
In retaliation for the brutal suppression of a workers demo at Milano, anarchist Gaetano Bresci travels from America to Italy and shoots Umberto I at a sports meeting at Monza

Odysseus in Disguise
Odysseus, having returned from his travels, but disguised into an old man to fool his wife Penelopes Suitors, is recognised by old nurse Eurycleia, who washes his feet

Gulliver Transported
Gulliver is transported by the Lilliputians: " We rested at night with 500 guards on each side of me, half with torches, & half with bows & arrows."

Dragon (Mandeville)
Sir John Mandeville encountered flying dragons in the course of his unbelievably remarkable travels

Iron Age Story Telling
A domestic interior of the Iron Age where the head of the family gathers everyone together round the fire to hear about his travels

Mixing Concrete
Workmen mixing concrete in a cement mixer. The cement and sand are put into a hod, which the travels up rails and is tipped into the revolving mixer

Raleigh Smoking in Chair
SIR WALTER RALEIGH - Having picked up the smoking habit during his American travels, is thought by his servants to be on fire, and is doused with a basin of water

Marie De Medicis / 1638
French closed carriage used by Marie de Medicis, widow of Henri IV, during her travels in the Netherlands

Louis XIV at Les Dunes
Louis XIV travels by coach to visit the battlefield of the Dunes, where his general Turenne describes how he has just defeated the Spaniards Date: 14 June 1658

Marco Polo / Travels 1477
MARCO POLO Venetian merchant, traveller and author

THOMAS CORYATE / 1577-1617
THOMAS CORYATE English traveller, became a source of amusement at court. Published narratives of his travels

Luther Travels to Worms
Threatened with excommunication by the pope, Luther travels to Worms where he will be condemned as a heretic for refusing to retract his views

Scholar of Laputa
A scholar of Laputa, deep in thought, is attended by a servant whose duty it is to rouse him to a sense of reality should the need arise

Gulliver in Japan
Gulliver, arriving in Japan, shows the officials his letter from the King of Luggnagg, which impresses them mightily

Gulliver / Eagle / House
Gullivers little house is carried away by an eagle

Brobdingnagian Horse
Gulliver marvels at a Brobdingnagian horseman - thirty metres high!

Gulliver / Lilliputians
Gulliver alarms the Lilliputians when he starts to move

Lorgues / Usa Mainland Map
A map showing the travels of Columbus off the American mainland

Gulliver / Queen / Brobding
The queen admires his reflection in a mirror alongside her own

Gulliver & Farmers
He is inspected by the farmers neighbours

Gulliver & the Monkey
He is seized by a monkey who drops him, whereupon he falls into a gutter whence he is rescued by a servant

Rickshaw Japan
A Japanese lady travels by rickshaw in a country setting

Rickshaw Indo-China
A lady travels in a pousse- pousse (= push-push) from Indo-China (Vietnam)

Social / Indonesia / Java
A Javanese postman travels from village to village on horseback

Sailor and Parrot
Sailors have a tendency to bring home parrots as souvenirs of their travels in exotic climes : the noise below decks must have been indescribable !

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