Peril Collection (page 8)

Reconnaissance ride of Count Zeppelin at Schirlenhof, 26 July 1870, (1936). Creator: Unknown
Reconnaissance ride of Count Zeppelin at Schirlenhof, 26 July 1870, (1936). Erkundungsritt Des Grafen Zeppelin Bei Schirlenhof, 26 Juli 1870

In Alsace, a peasant woman is caught in a threshing machine, 1929. Creator: Unknown
In Alsace, a peasant woman is caught in a threshing machine, 1929. En Alsace, Une Paysanne Est Happee Par Une Machine A Battre

Stranded train passengers are attacked by wolves, 1929. Creator: Unknown
Stranded train passengers are attacked by wolves, 1929. Les voyageurs d un train immobilise par la neige sont attaques par des loups

A volcano erupts in Martinique, 1929. Creator: Unknown
A volcano erupts in Martinique, 1929. Un Volcan Se Reveille A La Martinique. People grab belongings and flee as smoke and lava spew out of a volcano

The Hill of Error, c1910. Creator: Unknown
The Hill of Error, c1910. Scene from " The Pilgrims Progress", by John Bunyan. Glass lantern slide produced by the Church Army Lantern Department which in 1905 had approximately 100

Atheist meets Pilgrim, c1910. Creator: Unknown
Atheist meets Pilgrim, c1910. Scene from " The Pilgrims Progress", by John Bunyan. Glass lantern slide produced by the Church Army Lantern Department which in 1905 had approximately 100

Edward I. while Prince of Wales, killing the Assassin who wounded him with a poison d Dagger in the Holy Land, 1773. Edward Prince of Wales (1239-1307) kills the Saracen Assassin

The Banquet of Damocles, 1890. Creator: Unknown
The Banquet of Damocles, 1890. Damocles, 4th century BC courtier, swapped places for a day with King Dionysius II who arranged for a sword held by a single hair of a horses tail to hang above his

Snake Charmer, 1899. Creator: Raja Ravi Varma
Snake Charmer, 1899. Indian men with baskets of cobras. Postcard. [Ravi Varma Press, Karli & Bombay]

Snake Charmer. Creator: Unknown
Snake Charmer. Indian man with basket of cobras. Postcard

Alpine Pass, Colorado, c1897. Creator: Unknown
Alpine Pass, Colorado, c1897. Historic narrow gauge railroad. From " A Tour Through the New World America", by Prof. Geo. R. Cromwell. [C. N. Greig & Co. London, c1897]

What are you at? What are you after?, c1820. Creator: George Cruikshank
What are you at? What are you after?, c1820. Satirical cartoon of the Prince Regent (future King George IV) dressed as a carpenter and self-destructively sawing through The Crown sign

To the rescue: the life-buoy, c1900. Creator: Unknown
To the rescue: the life-buoy, c1900. From " Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

Wreck of the Northam Castle, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Wreck of the Northam Castle, c1900. From " Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

Palling Boat: Throwing the life-line, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Palling Boat: Throwing the life-line, c1900. From " Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

Erecting the Girders of a Huge New Store, c1930. Creator: Unknown
Erecting the Girders of a Huge New Store, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne]

Crane Men at Work on a New York Skyscraper, c1930. Creator: GPA
Crane Men at Work on a New York Skyscraper, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne]

Warm Work!, c1930. Creator: Dorman, Long & Co. Ltd
Warm Work!, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne]

A Riveting Hammer in Operation on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, c1930. Creator: Unknown
A Riveting Hammer in Operation on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne]

Joppa from the Sea, 1902. Creator: John Fulleylove
Joppa from the Sea, 1902. Bible as the name of the city of Jaffa. From " The Holy Land", painted by John Fulleylove, R.I. [Adam & Charles Black, London, 1902]

The Rockies: Asulkan Glacier, Hermit Range, Canada, 1895. Creator: William Notman & Son
The Rockies: Asulkan Glacier, Hermit Range, Canada, 1895. Mountaineer between two crevasses of a glacier in British Columbia

From San Francisco Cathedral, on the largest Aztec Pyramid, looking over Cholula, Mexico, 1901. A boy and his dog perched high on the Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de los Remedios

A Rescue at Sea, c1930. Creator: Unknown
A Rescue at Sea, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Ships", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne, ]

Biarritz - La Digue de la Cafetiere, c1930. Creator: Unknown
Biarritz - La Digue de la Cafetiere, c1930. From " Souvenir de Biarritz". [Labouche Freres, Toulouse]

An Interrupted English Dinner Party at Paris, c1849. Creator: George Cruikshank
An Interrupted English Dinner Party at Paris - Mourir pour la Patrie, c1849. Humorous scene: shocked and terrified English diners are interrupted at dinner

I be just com d to the Catastrophe, early 19th century? Creator: Unknown
I be just com d to the Catastrophe, early 19th century? An absent-minded man with his nose in a book and fishing rod over his shoulder, walks past a cart falling off a cliff

Grievances of London, 1812. Artist: George Cruikshank
Grievances of London, 1812. Scene on a busy street corner showing nuisances to passers-by. A woman watering plants from a window on the left knocks a pot on to figures below

The Adventure with Scylla, 1926. Artist: Henry Justice Ford
The Adventure with Scylla, 1926. Scylla, the female six-headed monster who seizes crew from all vessels that pass the cliff where she dwells, including six men from Odysseus ship

The Disguised Wolf, 1870. Artist: Adolphe Francois Pannemaker
The Disguised Wolf, 1870. From The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London and NY, 1870]

The Shipwreck, c1805. Artist: JMW Turner
The Shipwreck, 1805. Painting held at the Tate Britain, London. From Adventures By Sea From Art of Old Time, by Basil Lubbock. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1925]

Wreck of the Lady Hobart, 1803, 1925. The Lady Hobart was a Post Office packet which sank after striking an iceberg en route to England from Halifax, Nova Scotia

Entrance of the Meuse: Orange-Merchant on the Bar, Going to Pieces, c1819. Artist: JMW Turner
Entrance of the Meuse: Orange-Merchant on the Bar, Going to Pieces, c1819. Painting held at the Tate Britain, London. From Adventures By Sea From Art of Old Time, by Basil Lubbock. [The Studio Ltd

A Critical Moment, 1890. The descent of the great war balloon from the military exhibition. From a sketch by a passenger. An illustration from The Graphic, 19 July 1890

The burning of Norfolk, Virginia, 1776 (c1880). The town of Norfolk was destroyed by fires after an eight hour bombardment by British warships on New Years Day 1776

Attack on the captain of the Rose, c17th century (c1880). A print from Cassells History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume I, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880

Admiral Somers runs his ship ashore, Bermuda, 1609 (c1880). Admiral Sir Geirge Somers (1554-1610) was the founder of the English colony of Bermuda

Gaving through sulphurous vapors into the craters depths, Aso-San, Japan, 1904. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Lookingng through sulphurous vapors into the craters depths, Aso-san, Japan, 1904. Mount Aso (Aso-san), on the island of Kyushu, is the largest active volcano in Japan

Watching an eruption of steam and boiling mud halfway up the volcano of Aso-san, Japan, 1904. Mount Aso (Aso-san), on the island of Kyushu, is the largest active volcano in Japan

Sudden volcanic explosion in the crater of Mount Asama (Asamayama), Japan, 1904. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Sudden volcanic explosion in the crater of Mount Asama (Asamayama), Japan, 1904. Mount Asama is an active volcano in central Honshu. Stereoscopic card. Detail

The Peril of the Queen Henrietta Maria, 19th century. Artist: P Lightfoot
The Peril of the Queen Henrietta Maria, 19th century. Henrietta Maria (1609-1669) was the Queen Consort of King Charles I of England

The Raft of the Medusa, 1900. The Medusa was a French frigate wrecked on a sandbank off the coast of Senegal in 1816. The incident became infamous due to the incompetence of the ships captain

Ostriches attacking a car, California, USA, 1904. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 10th January 1904

Loss of the fishing boat Marguerite, 1897. Artist: Oswaldo Tofani
Loss of the fishing boat Marguerite, 1897. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 21st March 1897

An heroic mother, 1897. Artist: Henri Meyer
An heroic mother, 1897. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 10th October 1897. A woman trying to regain control of a runaway horse and cart

People stranded on ice floes, Finland, 1894. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 5th March 1894

A balloon on a roof, 1894. Firemen trying to come to the aid of a balloonist who has crash landed on a roof. Illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1894

Death of an aeronaut over Beuzeville, France, 1899. Illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1899

A soldier carried aloft by a Balloon, 1901. Published illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1901

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