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Frontispiece: Restormel Castle Steam Locomotive, GWRBritish Locomotives Illustrated (1933)

4-6-0 four-cylinder express engine No. 5010, “Restormel Castle,” G.W.R. [Great Western Railway] [. . .] Designed primarily to avoid double heading with trains weighing up to 360 tons, on the heavy ban [...]

Keywords: railways, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2014-01-26

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Chapter Heading Woodcut featuring Neptune and MermaidsA Compleat Collection of English Proverbs (1737)

A decorative woodcut from above the Introduction; it is not related to the text. The engraving features Neptune, the God of the Ocean; he is naked, crowned, complete with trident, and rides a chariot [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, mermaids, water, horses, transport, chapterheads, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-10

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1.—“Royal Scot” train, near Shap summit, Engine No. 6134 “Samson”British Locomotives Illustrated (1933)

Among the outstanding features of British Railway operation of to-day is the development of the long distance non-stop run. This has been made possible by water-troughs, enabling an engine to replenis [...]

Keywords: railways, transport, engines, steam engines, trains, shap, colour

Places shown: Shap; Cumbria; England

Added: 2010-02-09

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159.—Horse and Carriage.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

At one time people had different names for different sorts of carriage. This one is like a stage coach. It is enclosed, with a door, and windows either side of the door each bearing a star, and also w [...]

Keywords: carts, horses, carriages, transport, people, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-04-09

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160. – Horse and Carriage.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

This woodcut is similar to Fig. 159, except that the carriage and horses are moving to the right, the wheels are smaller, and the spokes are drawn to give an effect of rapid motion.

Keywords: carts, horses, carriages, transport, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-04-09

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162.—Horse and Carriage.New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

Two (or maybe four?) horses are pulling this coach; the driver weilds a long horse-whip.

Keywords: carriages, horses, transport, people, whips, wheels, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-05-13

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In the TrainThrough the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

“Tickets, please!” said the Guard, putting his head in at the window. In a moment everybody was holding out a ticket: they were about the same size as the people, and quite seemed to fill the carriage [...]

Keywords: alice, illustrations for children, transport, railways, people, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-04-14

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A Vision of the FutureThe Leisure Hour (1904)

A vision of a car of the future from May 1905. Amusingly, the two ladies in the passenger compartment are dressed in costume of the period, and appear to be paying no attention to driving: presumably [...]

Keywords: transport, people, aeroplanes, flying cars, humour, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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Cupid with a Whip!Scribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

We see a pair of lovers, but they are pulling along behind them a two-wheeled chariot whose driver is a cherub, a putti, a cupid in fact, whose long whip encourages the couple to move onwards. The wh [...]

Keywords: romance, advertisements, people, chariots, cherubs, whips, transport, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-01-17

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RufflecumtuffleDoings of the Bodley Family in Town and Country (1876)

THE FOUR QUEER ELVES Rufflecumtuffle and Floppytyfly, Bibbetybobble and Kickitteygo,   Were four queer elves   Who lived by themselves   On a mountain high, And scorned the fairies thta dwelt below [...]

Keywords: fairies, pagan, bare feet, beards, elves, mythical creatures, illustrations for children, carts, transport, humour, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-11-25

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Postilion galloping uphillA Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1885)

A passenger in a two-wheeled carriage (a chaise) is being pulled up a steep hill by a pair of horses, the driver, or postilion, is gesturing up the hill. The postilion managed the point to a miracle: [...]

Keywords: carts, transport, people, horses, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2010-09-05

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The Stage Coach.A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1885)

The stage coach, or more likely a carriage, is pulle by two horses, a driver sitting on the left-hand one. There are large wooden cart-wheels in the foreground; the carriage faces away from us and we [...]

Keywords: transport, carriages, horses, people, wheels, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-09-24

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Side Lever EngineSteam and the Steam Engine (1880)

This is a steam engine for driving a ship (a paddle-boat in fact) taken from the Marine Engines chapter: 87. The Side Lever Engines.—The first engine employed to drive the paddle wheel was a side lev [...]

Keywords: machinery, engines, transport, steam engines, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-20

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9.—7ft Single Express Locomotive, No. 123British Locomotives Illustrated (1933)

Caledonian Railway, 1886 This steam engine was built by Neilson and Company for the Edinburgh Exhibition in 1886. Originally bought by the Caledonian Railway, the engine was later L.M.S.R. No. 14010. [...]

Keywords: railways, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2011-03-24

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11.—The “Cornwall”British Locomotives Illustrated (1933)

A 2-2-2 steam engine [US: railroad locomotive] shown with driver and fireman.

Keywords: railways, transport, engines, steam engines, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2009-02-16

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Old Advert: Illinois Central RailroadScribner’s Magazine 1903 No. 11 (1903)

New Line * Fine Service Illinois Central Railroad Minneapolis and St. Paul Through from Chicago via Dubuque, Waterloo and Albert Lea. Fast vestibule Night train with through Stateroom and Open-section [...]

Keywords: advertisements, travel, first nations, railways, transport, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-01-05

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A Railway CuttingMagazine of Art Illustrated (1878)

The engraving shows maybe 20 or more men working on making a railway cutting. In the background men are digging away at the ground; at centre, they lod the dirt onto a railway truck (US: a railroad w [...]

Keywords: people, workmen, railways, transport, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-30

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Flying saucer over the glittering city of the North PoleCassell’s Family Magazine (1889)

In this 1880s science fiction story the protagonists are visiting the North Pole of Venus in their flying saucer or spaceship. We poised our car over the glittering domes and towers of the great city [...]

Keywords: cities, winter, ice, cold, glittering, flying saucers, flying cars, space ships, steampunk, illustrations for children, transport, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2019-02-21

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The Evolution of the BicycleHarmsworth’s Encyclopædia (1904)

This late Victorian illustration shows eleven different designs of bicycle along with cross-sections of three kinds of tyre. 1820: The hobby horse; Macmillan’s crank bicycle; 1867: First bicycle illus [...]

Keywords: bicycles, machinery, diagrams, people, wheels, infographics, transport, cycling, velicipedes, motorbikes, motorcycles, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2018-08-24

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206b1: Carriage Pulled By Death.Callot’s Etchings (1635)

This is a detail from plate 206, “Entrance of Henry of Lorraine, marquess of Moy, under the name of Pirandre” from the series The Combat at the Barrier, 1627. Here in a carriage whose seat is a scallo [...]

Keywords: mythical creatures, death, nudity, bare feet, transport, people, carriages, wings, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-06-13

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