A sailor who had overboard being saved by grabbing the leg of a passing albatross.
SINBAD THE SAILOR
A sailor and a cabin boy.
The P & O steamer 'Carnatic'.
SINBAD THE SAILOR, 1898.
COLERIDGE: ANCIENT MARINER.
COLERIDGE: MARINER.
Shipwrecked sailors hoping for rescue.
The War In The East: Over The Balkans From Batak
AUTOMOBILE CARTOON, 1902.
The ascent of Eugene Godard's balloon 'Eagle'.
BROOKLYN: RUNAWAY CART.
ACCIDENT: CORDUROY ROAD.
An accident at The Racecourse, Northampton.
RALEIGH: WHALING, 1877.
JUMBO: DEATH, 1885.
SOLDIER & DOG.
ATLANTIC CABLE, 1858.
Sailors clubbing Boobies (a species of gannet) to obtain meat.
How transportation had improved in just 40 years.
Illustration from a book depicting children pointing out the top of a submarine
LEMMING MIGRATION.
CALAMITY JANE (1852-1903).
All Hands to the Pump.
HORSEBACK RIDING.
INDIA: AKBAR ON ELEPHANT.
AMERICAN FISHING, 1867.
Lett's Improved Wagon Brake 1883
LECOMTE: THE ACCIDENT, 1830.
A ship hitting rocks.
Illustration from a book depicting a young boy saving his puppy from drowning
The HMS Victoria capsizing.
Albatross glider.
Illustration from a book depicting a young poor girl retrieving her shoe that she had left outside for Santa Claus
ALBATROSS.
Practising On Board H.M. Gun Boat 'Starling'
Launch Of The 'Pelican,' Steamship, At Cork
David Livingstone's Ship The Ma-Robert On The Zambezi River
An aqueduct over the River Irwell.
A ferry carrying cattle across water.
Illustration depicting the a Russian expedition to Khiva, crossing the River Oxus
Michel Loup's artificial bird.
The Cuckoo.
VERNE: 20,000 LEAGUES, 1870.
ALFRED BULLTOP STORMALONG
SINGAPORE: PERFORMERS.
The Wandering Albatross
The Parrot And The Cabbies, An Incident At A Seaside Holiday Resort: The Cause (The Parrot Has Taught Itself The Cab Whistle)
SHIPBOARD LIFE.
An illustration of mechanical forces.
Peasants from New Zeeland.
Illustration of a predatory bird swooping down to attack a group of ducks
After A Drawing By Gustave Dore For Edgar Allan Poe's Poem The Raven
A giant moa.
A Jacana using lily pads in order to float on water.
An older brother pushing his younger brother in a walking frame.
Headpiece: All our geese are swans.
A Archaeopteryx.
A Lesser Black-Backed Gull.
The hunting of passenger pigeons.
Passenger pigeons.
French. Coloured illustration. dated circa 1884. depicting an avocet bird
French. Coloured illustration. dated circa 1884. depicting river birds
PEHE NU-E: MOBY DICK.
A Cabin Boy with a sailor.
Hare is Caught 1873
A Blind fiddler and his boy.
De Groof's flying machine.
Graphic by Randolph Caldecott
Frigate with sails down
ST. PAUL'S ROCKS, 1873.
AMERICAN EAGLE.
DUCK HUNTING, 1868.
LIGHTNING KILLS MISSIONARY.
Patent medicine label for Garnier's celebrated Spanish Bitter's.
Cattle being ferried across water.
MELVILLE: MOBY DICK.
A racehorse spooked by a passing train.
OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT.
HAWK GLIDER.
Foreign business district in Yokohama (Yokohama kaigan kakkoku shokan zu) #2 1871
French men taking horse ride on Sunday in Yokohama (Yokohama kyujitsu Furansujin uma yuko) 1861
Americans enjoying Sunday in Yokohama (Yokohama kyujitsu Amerikajin yuko) 1861
Giant Crocodile Threatens A Boat On The Congo River During A 19Th Century Expedition
Torpedo Gun Boat
Saint Petersburg, Russia, 19th Century
The Volunteer Review At Dover: Wreck Of H.M.S. Ferret, Uk, 1869
Walker's flying car.
Illustration of 19th Century French Architecture
French illustration depicting jockeys practicing for Longchamp Racecourse
A medicine show.
The Cab Fiend Of London
A satirical view of pre-historic men driving a bear to pull a chariot circa 1890.
A horse-drawn hedge cutting machine.
A cattle train.
An emigrant wagon train.
An older brother pushing his younger brother out of the way of a carriage.
A horse and carriage driving through the streets of London.
A New York police patrol wagon.
An early Hackney Carriage.
An open cattle truck at a feeding and watering halt.
Cattle train on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
The chaos caused by the increase of telephone wires.
An early train with a horse being ridden by a Jockey.
Threat to horse and carriage transport, represented by the impact of the railways.
The progression of the British Railway.
Mr Punch and Dog Toby riding boneshakers.
A young boy watching horses in training.
A horse-drawn carriage.
The detaching of horses from a New York tram car.
The interior of a New York tram car.
The interior of a carriage on the Brixton and Kennington horse-drawn tramway.
The Birkenhead horse-drawn tram.
A plaustrum.
A monorail used for transporting logs.
Mechanical forces.
A horse-drawn ore train.
Poitevin making a balloon ascent on a horse from the Champ de Mars.
VERNE: ROUND THE MOON.
Mount Teide
A 19Th Century Woman In A Garden With Turtledoves
The Eagle Tower
Mother And Child By M. Van Muyden, 1855
The Earl Of Derby's Menagerie
Apteryx In The Gardens Of The Zoological Society
Illustration by Tenniel, from the 1890 edition of 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll.
The skeleton of a giant moa.
A boy listening to a robin.
A sportsman refreshing himself at a country inn.
Lamenting the suffering of the Paris Commune.
A Wolf and a Crane.
A crow and a fox.
A man shooting partridge.
A pigeon shooting match.
Experimental clay pigeon shooting.
A primitive form of clay pigeon shooting.
Wildfowling on an aquatic cycle.
A game of lawn tennis.
The last orders of the Communists.
The collection of young sea birds and eggs on the Shetland Islands.
Varieties of domestic water fowl.
Swan incandescent light globes.
A Swan incandescent light globe and fitting.
A child feeding a robin.
19th century coloured illustration (French). depicting the Holy Trinity. approx. 1854
French 19th century illustration showing the resurrection of Christ
illustration. circa 1884.depicting a tropical parrot fish
French. Coloured illustration. dated circa 1884. depicting Tickell's blue flycatcher
French. Coloured illustration. dated circa 1884. depicting Clerodendrum phlomidis
French. Coloured illustration. dated circa 1884. depicting river and coastal birds
French. Coloured illustration. dated circa 1884. depicting a fish a pheasant and some chestnuts
Pheasant, Hand-Colored Engraving, Early 19th Century
Flamingo, Phoenicopterus Ruber, Hand-Colored Engraving, circa 1829
Black Neck Swan, A. Nigricollis, Hand-Colored Engraving, circa 1830
Honduras Turkey, Meleagris Ocelisata, Hand-Colored Engraving, 1828
Nubian Vulture, V. Nubian, Hand-Colored Engraving, 1827
Colorful Parrots, Chromolithograph, 1885
Chinese Eagle, Hand-Colored Engraving, circa 1822
Adult Ostrich, male and female, Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, US Dept of Agriculture, Illustration, 1888
Ostrich Chicks Two Weeks Old, The keeper’s dog, Two Ostrich eggs compared With Hen’s Egg, Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, US Dept of Agriculture, Illustration, 1888
Troop of California Ostriches, Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, US Dept of Agriculture, Illustration, 1888
The Offering to Venus, Woodcut Engraving from the Original 1763 Painting by Joseph-Marie Vien, The Masterpieces of French Art by Louis Viardot, Published by Gravure Goupil et Cie, Paris, 1882, Gebbie & Co., Philadelphia, 1883
SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE
CARTOON: VALENTINE'S DAY.
CARROLL: ALICE, 1865.
ANDERSEN: UGLY DUCKLING.
GRIMM: HANSEL AND GRETEL.
MOUSE, BIRD AND SAUSAGE.
VERNE: JOURNEY.
ANDERSEN: THE SNOW QUEEN.
THE MARSH KING'S DAUGHTER.
GARDEN OF PARADISE.
GRIMM: THE SIX SWANS.
JORINDE AND JORINGEL.
GRIMM: DOG AND THE SPARROW.
POOR MISS FINCH, 1871.
HOKUSAI: BIRDS.
SWANS, c1850.
ANDREW JOHNSON (1808-1875).
PRINCE OTTO von BISMARCK
OTTO VON BISMARCK
MEDIEVAL WHALE.
French illustration depicting a large wealthy man riding a donkey who is buckling under the weight