Vast Collection (page 3)

Crowds at the Royal Wedding 1947
Mounted police pictured in the middle of vast crowds of spectators, many of them holding periscopes in order to be able to see something

Police Sniffer Dog
Rusty the Alsatian searches a vast pile of wreckage for the vital black box, following a plane crash. Date: 1960s

St Petersburg Square
The Alexander monument dominates this vast square, where massive government offices confront the Winter Palace. Date: circa 1860

Egypt - Tourists hassled by locals
Humourous postcard, depicting the hardships endured by European Tourists in Egypt, cornered by a vast horde of helpful Egyptians who are aggressively " Dividing the Spoils" !

Dolmabahce Palace - view from the Bosphorus
Dolmabahce Palace - Late Imperial Palace on the Bosphorus. Commisioned by Abdul Mecit (1839-61) - architect Nikogos Balyn who in collaboration with his Father completed construction in 1853

The Dolmabahce Palace, Constantinople. Commisioned by Abdul Mecit (1839-61) - architect Nikogos Balyn who in collaboration with his Father completed construction in 1853

Interior of the engine house at Camden Town
Interior view of the new great circular engine-house at the Camden Town depot of the North Western Railway. The vast circular building accommodates engines

Buffalo Bones
A vast wall of American buffalo or bison bones at a prairie station

Italy Rome Baths
Diocletian may have been a monster, but at least he built this vast bathing, sports and recreation establishment which could accommodate 3000 bathers at a time

Williams and Bachs show-room
The interior of Williams and Bachs New Saloon at 92 Bond Street, London, a lighting emporium selling a vast range of lamps and light fittings - still a relative novelty in the 1870 s

Westminster Bridge lit by lime light
Westminster Bridge shown lit by lime light as crowds of people and horse-drawn carriages cross. Lime light was so intense it could be seen 95 miles away

View Toward Mycenae
A view toward the citadel of Mycenae, perched in a position to command the local area, and control a vast swath of fertile agricultural land

Shipbuilding 1832
A wooden ship is worked on, while in the distance crowds cheer a vast vessel with five huge flags as it takes to the sea

Lake District / Windermere
Lake Windermere, in Englands lake district, is frozen over, offering skaters a vast expanse of ice upon which to perform

Vietnamese Soldier
A young, disheartened South Vietnamese soldier rests on a sandbag, contemplating the vast landscape of debris which surrounds him

Fishing / Magnus / 1555
Crowned rock, where the author was nearly shipwrecked in 1519, but where vast numbers of fish were caught

Stanley / Across Unyoro
Zaire expedition : the dash across Unyoro - Stanley at the head of a vast retinue of porters, cooks etc

Smokeless Powder 2 of 2
Gunfire using Vieilles smokeless powder - a vast improvement on normal powder (2 of 2)

Coaling a Battleship
Vast quantities of coal are required to keep the worlds navies operating : purpose- built coal supply ships carry the coal to a fuel-hungry warship of the Royal Navy

The Culebra Cutting
The American operation : this scene at the Culebra cutting gives some idea of the vast quantity of rock and soil which has to be removed

Crystal Palace / Size
This view of part of the main exhibition area gives an impression of the vast size of Paxtons astonishing building

Two with Huge Renault
Two stand beside their vast Renault

Salt Mine, Wieliczka
The vast salt mines at Wieliczka, Poland

Cunard Queen Mary 1936
The famous Cunard liner

Nicolaus Flamel
NICOLAUS FLAMEL French occultist, moneylender and alchemist. He is said to have gained vast treasures by successful transmutation

Alfred Beit
ALFRED BEIT German-born financier in South Africa, a friend of Rhodes : he bestowed much of his vast fortune in philanthropic gifts

Jama Masjid, Delhi
Known as the Mosque of Mosques, this vast and beautiful edifice is built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. It is also known as the Mosque of Friday

Alabaster Mosque, Cairo
This is the most important of Cairos 523 mosques, built by Muhammad Ali, founder of the new dynasty of khedives. Vast in itself, it offers dominating views of the city

Hungarian Salt Mines
A miner rests his pickaxe over his shoulder as he takes a break in the vast salt mines at Steinbruck (?), Hungary

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