Precaution Collection

Those who went to shelters began a new kind of night-life, 11th November, 1940, 1942. London residents taking shelter in Elephant and Castle tube station during the World War II

Fanning gas, 6 June 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Fanning gas, 6 June 1918 (date created or published later). American soldiers being trained to use Ayrton or trench fan to clear poisonous gases during World War I, Camp Kearny, California.

Vaccinating Germans for Cholera, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Vaccinating Germans for Cholera, between 1914 and c1915.

Loading German Red Cross supplies, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Loading German Red Cross supplies, between 1914 and c1915. People putting Red Cross supplies into automobiles during World War I.

German Bomb-proof shelter, 5 yards deep, between c1915 and 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
German Bomb-proof shelter, 5 yards deep, between c1915 and 1916. A German bomb-proof shelter during World War I.

Respirator for British soldiers, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Respirator for British soldiers, between 1914 and c1915. A British soldier wearing a face mask to protect against poison gas, standing with a woman holding another face mask, during World War I.

Les precautions contre les gaz; Tous les masques ajustes, aux betes comme aux gens, la colonne pour Creator: Unknown
Les precautions contre les gaz; Tous les masques ajustes, aux betes comme aux gens, la colonne poursuit sa route, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919

Les precautions contre les gaz; Les chevaux ont aussi leur appareil special, 1917. Creator: Unknown
Les precautions contre les gaz; Les chevaux ont aussi leur appareil special, 1917. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 1" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924]

Les precautions contre les gaz; Arrete par un factionnaire muni d'un ecriteau: "Attention, nappe de gaz ", le chef d'une colonne portant des munitions aux batteries en ligne fait

La Nouvelle Europe; les elections Allemandes; l'ordre assure dans la rue par l'artillerie... 1919
La Nouvelle Europe; les elections Allemandes; l'ordre assure dans la rue par l'artillerie de campagne, 1919. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration

Women Inside a Mosquito Net During a Thunderstorm, from the illustrated book "Picture Book... 1801
Women Inside a Mosquito Net During a Thunderstorm, from the illustrated book "Picture Book: Flowers of the Four Seasons (Ehon shiki no hana), " vol. 1, Japan, New Year, 1801

Quadrilles - Practising for Fear of Accidents, published March 24, 1817. Creator: Isaac Robert Cruikshank
Quadrilles - Practising for Fear of Accidents, published March 24, 1817

The Maternal Precaution, 1860–63. Creator: Jean Francois Millet
The Maternal Precaution, 1860-63

The Maternal Precaution, 1860, published 1921. Creator: Jean Francois Millet
The Maternal Precaution, 1860, published 1921

Explorer's tent and belongings anchored securely so they won't be blown away, c1900-c1930. Creator: Unknown
Explorer's tent and belongings anchored securely so they won't be blown away, between c1900 and c1930

Automatic Train Stop, 1922. Creator: Unknown
Automatic Train Stop, 1922. From The Romance of Modern Railways, by T. W. Corbin. [Seeley Service & Co. Limited, London, 1922]

Paper seller down in the underground, London, c. 1940
Paper seller down in the underground, London. c.1940. (Colorised black and white print)

Activity in the Santa Fe R. R. yard, Los Angeles, Calif. 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Activity in the Santa Fe R.R. yard, Los Angeles, Calif. Due to blackout regulations, flood lights, switch lights, locomotive headlights

Our Nations Defences against Invasion, 1888. Creator: Unknown
Our Nations Defences against Invasion, 1888. From, The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 38. July to December, 1888

Young Woman Hanging a Mosquito Net, c. 1775. Creator: Isoda Koryusai
Young Woman Hanging a Mosquito Net, c. 1775

Money Vest, c. 1939. Creator: Rose Campbell-Gerke
Money Vest, c. 1939

The Abbess of Coldingham Monastery self-mutilating to avoid rape by Viking invaders, 1773
The Abbess of Coldingham Monastery cutting of her nose & upper lip as an example for her Nuns to follow, to prevent being ravished by the Danes, 1773

The Piraeus with the Long Walls, Restored, 1890. Creator: Unknown
The Piraeus with the Long Walls, Restored, 1890. The Long Walls connected Athens to the ports of Piraeus and Phalerum. Initially constructed in mid 5th century BC

Rope Screen Used For Protection While Pressing Explosive Gun-Cotton, 1901. Creator: Unknown
This Rope Screen Is Used For Protection While Pressing The Explosive Gun-Cotton At The Cordite Works, 1901. From " The Harmsworth Magazine, Volume VI

There Are No Poison Scares In The Dominions Of The Tsar, 1901 Creator: Unknown
There Are No Poison Scares In The Dominions Of The Tsar. The Government Analyst Tests All The Liquor During Its Manufacture, 1901. Nikolai II Aleksandrovich (1868-1918) was Tsar at this time

The mountain road Grotli - Stryn, 1914. Creator: Unknown
The mountain road Grotli - Stryn, 1914. Grotli is a village in Skjak, Norway. From " Norge - Turistruter I 65 Billeder". [Mittet & Co, Kunstforlag - Kristania, 1914]

The Bratland Valley, 1914. Creator: Unknown
The Bratland Valley, 1914. From " Norge - Turistruter I 65 Billeder". [Mittet & Co, Kunstforlag - Kristania, 1914]

Seljestadjuvet, 1914. Creator: Unknown
Seljestadjuvet, 1914. The old main road between Haradalen and Seljestad leads through a ravine with steep mountains. From " Norge - Turistruter I 65 Billeder"

Huge bombproof stores and repair shops were made from the caves, c1942-1943, (1945)
Huge bombproof stores and repair shops were made from the caves in the Mokattam hills, south of Cairo. The Pyramids, seen faintly in the distance across the Nile

Cab Indicator, 1922. Creator: Unknown
Cab Indicator, 1922. From The Romance of Modern Railways, by T. W. Corbin. [Seeley Service & Co. Limited, London, 1922]

East Goodwin Lightship one and a half miles east of the Goodwin Sands, 1937
East Goodwin Lightship is ituated about one and a half miles east of the Goodwin Sands, off the North Foreland, Kent, 1937. From Shipping Wonders of the World, Vol. II, edited by Clarence Winchester

Snow sheds in the Cascade Mountains, c1916. Artist: Asahel Curtis
Snow sheds in the Cascade Mountains, c1916. From Souvenir Folder, The Switzerland of America, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. [Lowman & Hanford Co. Seattle]

South Stack Lighthouse, Holyhead, c1900. Artist: Catherall & Pritchard
South Stack Lighthouse, Holyhead, c1900. The South Stack Lighthouse is built on the summit of a small island off the north-west coast of Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales

Precautions taken by neutral vessels against the German submarine menace, 1915. Painting in large letters the name and nationality of a Danish merchantman on the vessels hull

War time lifebelt drill on board an ocean liner, 1915. From The Manchester Guardian History of the War, Vol. II. - 1914-15. [John Heywood Ltd, London, 1915]

Sir Walter Raleighs Pipe Put Out, c1884. Artist: Thomas Strong Seccombe
Sir Walter Raleighs Pipe Put Out, c1884. Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618) was an English adventurer, explorer and writer, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, who knighted him in 1585

All Night Raid on Britains Capital - Statue of John Milton, 1940, (1940). The Statue of poet John Milton (1608-1674) at St Giles-without-Cripplegate, damaged by a bombing raids on 24th August 1940

Sixteenth-Century Lifebelt, 1555. From Old Ship Prints by E. Keble Chatterton. [John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, London & New York, 1927]

British Troops in Syria, 1941. British troops in Syria during World War II, guarding a frontier position behind a concrete tank trap. From The War Illustrated: Volume 4 edited by Sir John Hammerton

Oliver Cromwells Portable Steel Lock, c17th century, (1904)
Oliver Cromwells Portable Steel Lock. The portable lock that Cromwell allegedly used in his later years to increase his security. From The Connoisseur Vol. X [Otto Limited, London, 1904.]

British gunners donning masks as protection against German gas shells, World War I, c1914-c1918. The board on the right of the photograph identifies the men as being from the 8th Battery

Masque cagoule (Gas mask) advertisement, 1915. A print from Le Flambeau (the Torch), 18th September 1915

Cholera quarantine in Italy. Travellers from Switzerland en route for Italy being kept in quarantine at Bardonnechia, Italy, for five days. Illustration published London, 16 August 1884

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