Gangplank Collection

Scenes from the Life of Noah; Wenceslaus Psalter, about 1250-1260. Creator: Unknown
Scenes from the Life of Noah; Wenceslaus Psalter, about 1250-1260. Additional Info:The well-known story of Noah and his ark dominates the series of scenes shown on this page

Caruso, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Caruso, between c1915 and c1920

Seizure of casks, with arms and ammunition, on board the Dublin steamer Windsor, 1870

Taking Luggage off "Solace", 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Taking Luggage off "Solace", 1914

Taking bodies from LADY GREY, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Taking bodies from LADY GREY, 1914. Shows sailors taking coffins from the Lady Grey at Quebec City, Canada

Sailors taking children in coffins from LADY GREY at Quebec, 1914. Shows sailors taking coffins from the Lady Grey at Quebec City, Canada

Florida U.S.N. 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Florida U.S.N. 1910. Shows the launch of the USS Florida battleship on May 12, 1910 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Embarkation of dockyard workmen as emigrants at Portsmouth, 1869. Creator: Unknown
Embarkation of dockyard workmen as emigrants at Portsmouth, 1869....discharged workmen of the Admiralty dockyards, with their wives and families

The Historic Landing from the River Clyde at Seddul Bahr, Gallipoli, April 25th
The Historic Landing from the " River Clyde" at Seddul Bahr, Gallipoli, April 25th, 1915, 1916

Japan - C.B. Bryan arrives in Yokohama, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Japan - C.B. Bryan arrives in Yokohama, 1911

N.Y. Yacht Club Landing - Newport J.J. Astor & party, between c1910 and c1915

N.Y. Yacht Club Landing - Newport, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
N.Y. Yacht Club Landing - Newport, between c1910 and c1915

Marines aboard Prairie, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Marines aboard Prairie, 1911

Sunrise, 1915-34. Creator: Sydney Mackenzie Litten
Sunrise, 1915-34

Loading MEADE - League Isl'd. 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Loading MEADE - League Isl'd. 1913. Shows U.S. Army transport ship Meade and American marines mobilizing at League Island, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, PA, in Feb

Marines boarding MEADE, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Marines boarding MEADE, 1913. Shows U.S. Army transport ship Meade with American Marines mobilizing at League Island, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, PA, in Feb

Loading MEADE, 1914. Creator: Bain News Service
Loading MEADE, 1914. Shows U.S. Army transport ship the U.S.S. Meade

Krasnoyarsk The steamboat "Falcon" off the shore of the monastery, 1904-1917. National Library of Russia

Noah's Ark, leaf from Book of Hours, c1465-1470. Creator: Unknown
Noah's Ark, leaf from Book of Hours, c1465-1470. The animals boarding the ark two-by-two

L'Arrivee du General Pershing; Le general debarque a Boulogne du transport , 1917

Overschie in the Moonlight, 1871. Creator: Johan Barthold Jongkind
Overschie in the Moonlight, 1871

Labourers pulling a heavy cart on Jacob van Lennepkade, Amsterdam, 1900

Last pilot going aboard Str. New York, between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
Last pilot going aboard Str. New York, between 1900 and 1905

A Mississippi landing, between 1900 and 1906. Creator: Unknown
A Mississippi landing, between 1900 and 1906

The Levee, Vicksburg, Miss. between 1900 and 1920. Creator: Unknown
The Levee, Vicksburg, Miss. between 1900 and 1920

Allied Commission To U.S. 1917. French General Joseph Joffre boards the Mayflower for a visit to home of George Washington by the British & French War Commissions for World War I

Allied Commission To U.S. Boarding Mayflower For Trip To Mount Vernon: Daniels on board
Allied Commission To U.S. Boarding Mayflower For Trip To Mount Vernon: Daniels On Board Receiving The Commission, 1917

US Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker boarding Mayflower with Allied Commission, 1917. Visit to home of George Washington by the British & French War Commissions for World War I

Veterans line fishing, near the Solferino bridge, 1887. Creator: Unknown
Veterans line fishing, near the Solferino bridge, 1887

The Seine, at Quai de la Rapee, 1884. Creator: Unknown
The Seine, at Quai de la Rapee, 1884

Maj. Gen. George Barnett, Commandant, United States Marine Corps with Mrs. Barnett Boarding Mayflower, 1917. Barnett with his wife Lelia Montague Gordon on visit to Mount Vernon

The 48th French Regiment of the Line embarking on board "The St. Vincent" English ship, at Calais, 1854

The Seine, at Pont de Grenelle, 15th and 16th arrondissements, between 1863 and 1905

View of Tsukuda Island from Eitai Bridge (Eitaibashi Tsukudajima), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)", 1857

West India Dock, 1895. Creator: Thomas Robert Way
West India Dock, 1895

Arival of the Empress Dowager Frederick of Germany at Port Victoria, 1888. From, The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 38. July to December, 1888

Returning Sails at Yabase (Yabase no kihan), No. 5 from the series "Eight Views
Returning Sails at Yabase (Yabase no kihan), No. 5 from the series " Eight Views of Omi (Omi hakkei)", c. 1730s

The Steerage, 1907, printed 1915. Creator: Alfred Stieglitz
The Steerage, 1907, printed 1915. A work made of photogravure

Unloading Coal, 1880 / 89. Creator: Henry Hamilton Bennett
Unloading Coal, 1880/89. Albumen print, stereo, no. 934 from the series " Milwaukee and Vicinity"

The Steerage, 1907, printed 1920 / 39. Creator: Alfred Stieglitz
The Steerage, 1907, printed 1920/39. A work made of gelatin silver print

The Steerage, 1907, printed in or before 1913. Creator: Alfred Stieglitz
The Steerage, 1907, printed in or before 1913. A work made of photogravure

Harbor Scene with Rising Sun, 1634. Creator: Claude Lorrain
Harbor Scene with Rising Sun, 1634

U. S. Transport Wauhatchie, 1861-65. Creator: Unknown
U.S. Transport " Wauhatchie", 1861-65. Formerly attributed to Mathew B. Brady

The Harbor of Copenhagen, Metropolis of Denmark, c1930s. Creator: Unknown
The Harbor of Copenhagen, Metropolis of Denmark, c1930s. Danish port on the Baltic Sea. From " Tour of the World". [Keystone View Company, Meadville, Pa. New York, Chicago, London]

In the Ypres Salient: British troops leaving their billets in a badly shelled village, First World War, 1917, (c1920)

Large Iron Ore Boat Coming into Sabin Locks. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. c1930s. Canal locks on the St Marys River in Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa, Michigan. From " Tour of the World"

A Scene at a French port, First World War, 1914-1918, (1933). Creator: Robert Weston
A Scene at a French port, First World War, 1914-1918, (1933). Wounded British soldiers are stretchered onto ships from Red Cross ambulances, and taken back to England for treatment

Women on a boat, 1801, (1924). Creator: Kitagawa Utamaro
Women on a boat, 1801, (1924). From the " Ehon Shiki-No-Hana" (Picture-book of the Flowers of the Four Seasons), by Kitagawa Utamaro, [1801]

On the Ocklawaha River, Florida, c1897. Creator: Unknown
On the Ocklawaha River, Florida, c1897. The river was used extensively in the 19th century and early 20th century for steamboat transportation

Hanoi. Bords Du Fleuve Rouge, (Hanoi)
Hanoi. Bords Du Fleuve Rouge, (Hanoi. On the Banks of the Red River), 1900. From " Autour du Monde - Fascicule VIII". [L. Boulanger, Paris, 1900]

Two sailors, 1952. Creator: Shirley Markham
Two sailors, 1952. Illustration for " The Sailors Return" by David Garnett - Neptune in a seashell chariot pulled by sea horses

Roman Merchant-ship being loaded with grain, from a wall painting in Ostia, 2nd-3rd century. Note the rudder. Vatican Museums

Anthony Leading Cleopatra on board, 1748-1750. Creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Anthony Leading Cleopatra on board, 1748-1750

Home Again - The Duke and Duchess landing at Portsmouth June 27, 1927, 1937. From Coronation Souvenir Book 1937, edited by Gordon Beckles. [Daily Express, London, 1937]

Home Fleet Visit - King Edward boards submarine Narwhal, 1936 (1937). From Coronation Souvenir Book 1937, edited by Gordon Beckles. [Daily Express, London, 1937]

Fitting-Out Basin of John Brown and Companys shipbuilding yard at Clydebank, 1937
In the Fitting-Out Basin of John Brown and Companys shipbuilding yard at Clydebank, 1937. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. II, edited by Clarence Winchester. [The Fleetway House, London]

Clydeside Cheers, 1937
Clydeside Cheers, 1936 (1937). Edward VII visiting Clydeside, March 1936. From Coronation Souvenir Book 1937, edited by Gordon Beckles. [Daily Express, London, 1937]

Cargo being loaded or unloaded from a ship, Royal Victoria Dock, Canning Town, London, c1930. The dock was built between 1850 and 1855 on an area of Plaistow Marshes

Unloading a barrel from a ship down a gangway, London, c1905

Bananas 2. - Loading a Steamship, Costa Rica, 1928. From Players Cigarettes - Products of the World: A Series of 50 [John Player & Sons, London, 1928]

Army behind the Fleets, 1941. Artist: Cecil Beaton
Army behind the Fleets, 1941. Men crowd the gangplanks as they leave the dockyard after a hard day working on the military ships. From Air of Glory, by Cecil Beaton

The Fire-Breathing Bulls, 1880. Artist: Picart
The Fire-Breathing Bulls, 1880. The Khalkotauroi are mythical creatures that appear in the Greek myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece. Mythology[edit]

The Landing of William the Conqueror, c1884. Artist: Thomas Strong Seccombe
The Landing of William the Conqueror, c1884. William the Conqueror, 11th century Duke of Normandy and King of England

King Alfred Inciting The Anglo Saxons, (1878). Artist: Herbert Bourne
King Alfred Inciting The Anglo Saxons, (1878). After George Frederic Watts (1817?1904). From Pictures and Royal Portraits Illustrative of English and Scottish History, by Thomas Archer

Polish Troops to fight with Britain, 1940, (1940). On 26th June 1940, Polish soldiers arrived in England to fight alongside the army of Free Frenchmen lead by General de Gaulle

A Revised Empire Air Scheme, 1939, (1940)

Air and Sea Power in Invincible Harmony, 1943-44. Allied submarine personnel taking shells on board, World War II. From The War Illustrated Volume 7 edited by Sir John Hammerton

Unloading a vessel on the Irrawaddy River, Burma, 1908. Artist: Stereo Travel Co
Unloading a vessel on the Irrawaddy River, Burma, 1908. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Passengers embarking on an Irrawaddy steamer, Mada, Rangoon, Burma, 1908. Stereoscopic card. Detail

Passenger ship bethed at Molde, Norway, 1929

British battleship HMS Malaya in a floating dock, Malta, c1937. HMS Malaya entered service with the Royal Navy in 1916, sustaining heavy damage at the Battle of Jutland later that year

Loading a cotton steamer, USA, c1880. A print from Cassells History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880

The admiral striking his flag, HMS Warspite, 1937. HMS Warspite was a famous battleship that saw action in both World Wars

Bonn and the River Rhine, 20th century. View showing a river steamer

Canal boat, Rotterdam, 1898. Artist: James Batkin
Canal boat, Rotterdam, 1898. A man wheels a barrow onto a boat laden with bricks. Illustration from a book of photographs taken in Holland and Belgium by James Batkin, (1898)

British troops disembarking in France, 7 August 1914. Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914

General John Joseph Black Jack Pershing arriving in Boulogne, June 1917, (1926)
General John Joseph Black Jack Pershing arriving in Boulogne, First World War, June 1917. Pershing (1860-1948) led the American Expeditionary Force in Europe (1914-1918)

Embarkation of convicts for French Guiana, 1904. France began transporting convicts to its colony of French Guiana in 1852

Visitors to Port Doumen, Saigon, Vietnam, 1900

Harbour station, Dieppe, c1900. French postcard

Jason and the Argonauts, 1655. Artist: Michel de Marolles
Jason and the Argonauts, 1655. A plate from Michel de Marolless Tableaux du Temple des Muses, Paris, 1655. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

A Boat on the Nile, Egypt, 19th century. Artist: Emile Prisse D Avennes
A Boat on the Nile, Egypt, 19th century. Private Collection

Senegalese soldiers embarking on the Egyptian coast, World War I, 1915

Eamon De Valera declining the opportunity to attend the Ottawa Conference, 1932

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