Early 20th Century Travel

Illustrations showcasing various modes of transportation including amphibious cars, humorous scenes, and immigrant train journeys from the early 1900s.

The Kaiser enjoying a morning tub in his new campaigning car during World War One. A typically convoluted method of transportation from W.Heath Robinson. 1914

Ingenious traveling bathing hut, for the women that wants to wade in the sea. Date: 1919

Fatal accident on the River Seine, A Compagnie des Bateaux Parisiens employee dies crushed between two boats, near the Charenton bridge. Illustration from French newspaper Le Petit Parisien. February 17, 1901.

Humourous postcard entitled: "How to Keep Fit" - "If a breakdown results from overwork, a long rest in the country is imperative." A motorist who has crashed faces quite a wait before being rescued... Date: 1917

Imigrants heading west to the prairies inside train car. Vintage Canadian Pacific Railway Travel Illustration, 1915

An amphibious car carrying soldiers is being driven into the water. Process print after H.W. Koekkoek.

Advert for Standard motor cars, 1920s. Artist: Unknown

Aviation, 1910: First balloon crossing of English Channel, 1785.

Baggage is loaded by hand on to an aeroplane at an airport, while passengers mill about. Date: 1928

The Kaiser enjoying a morning tub in his new campaigning car during World War One. A typically convoluted method of transportation from W.Heath Robinson. 1914

A gyro-balanced monorail, the super train of tomorrow will be a three-decker carrying great numbers of passengers at high speeds. Date: 1944

A bus of the future races along an autobahn carrying two decks of passengers : a modern train crosses overhead. Date: 1941

Cartoon of a car climbing a steep mountain road as a train passes below. French 1905

Air travel will surely lead to the setting-up of bars and cafes in the skies for those who like to get away from it all for a while... Date: 1901

Monte Carlo Concours d'Aviation, Commercial Aviation

Motor-boating. Illustrations. 1908-03. General Research Division. Couples, Sailboats, Motorboats

Japan: Advertising poster for Japan Air Transport Company, c. 1928

"The Excursion Train Galop", sheet music cover, c1860, (1945). 'Third Class Travel, c. 1845': railway passengers in open-air carriages, cover to a piece of music composed by Frank Musgrave. From "British Railways", by Arthur Elton. Collins, London, 1945

Man in his car talking to a woman who is walking her dog. 1927

Cartoon - Back Seat Drivers. John Collins (1917-2007)

Whitten dial 2-4521. Keep me near your phone , Morgues & mortuaries, Hearses, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Cartoon - Twin Arrivals. John Collins (1917-2007)

Express to Italy.

Accidents will happen in the best regulated trailers , Automobiles, Trailers, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

This signal means : 'I AM GOING TO TURN TO MY RIGHT.' Date: 1934

Loading a car ferry before the introduction of the drive-on drive-off system : the cars are loaded one by one onto pallets and craned aboard. Date: 1936

Railroad Magazine: Annual Speed Survey, 1945, Railroad

The captured cunarder by William H. Rideing , Ships, Seas, Books

R.M.S. "Empress of Canada" Canadian Pacific. 1936. Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. Menus. Rare Book Division

Cartoon - Going on a Trip. John Collins (1917-2007)

Military Motors series, 1916: Belgian Mitrailleuse.

Passengers relax on board a Red Star liner, 1907. Creator: Unknown.

The old and the new

Posters, Italy, 20th century. Brescia Grand Prix, September 1921.

Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) Brazilian aeronaut in his aeroplane of 1906, the machine in which he made first recorded flight in Europe (22 August 1906). Fitted with Antoinette engine Chromolithograph card 1915.

The splendid 40 CV Renault on a fine summer's day Date: 1926

'If you are among those who have cherished an ambition to own one of these distinguished cars, you will now find a Cadillac well within your means...' Date: 1931

Pencil and black pen drawing by Hans Schließmann depicting a tram scene, showing figures, transportation, and urban environment.

Midland railway of England , Walking, Luggage, Railroads

Pertol station by Leslie Carr, color lithograph, 1930, Private Collection

Off for Paris - The Start of an Imperial Airway Liner from Croydon Aerodrome, drawn for The Sphere by W. Bryce Hamilton. Date: c. 1930

They can't hold up this train! by Charles Jay Taylor, 1855-1929, artist, 1893. President Cleveland as a railroad engineer driving a locomotive labelled 'Administration R.R.' that is roaring out of a tunnel labelled 'Business Depression Tunnel', and knocking out of the way legislators who are placing 'Dilatory Amendments' and 'Teller's Dilatory Tactics' on the tracks, trying to derail the train; among the legislators are Francis M. Cockrell, James Z. George, James L. Pugh, William A. Peffer, Geor

Zig-zag passenger and freight train - digital file from original print | Library of Congress

France: Early Flight - 'Les utopies de la navigation aerienne au siecle dernier' (Utopian flying machines of the last century), Paris, Romanet, c. 1895

Pacific Motor Coach Company, Los Angeles, America to Pasadena and Venice Date: c.1915

Cartoon - Toronto's Freight-Yard Front Rostap (1866-1949)

THE FAR-SIGHTED MAN prepared for every accident, from flying machines falling on his head to gas leaks and biting dogs, from runaway cars to old-fashioned rain Date: 1921

Passengers (1 of 2) Date: 1937

Cartoon - On a Bicycle Built for Two. John Collins (1917-2007)

From the magazine La Vie au Grand Air (Life in the Outdoors); coloured cover photograph dated 4 August 1904 entitled "The Circuit of Ardennes"

Mama takes the wheel... Date: 1930

Utrecht per coach/ Turn this disk/ only in the round/ you see how beautiful 'up to and there is immediately.

Train crossing a causeway across a bay on the Takanawa Railroad, Japan, c1880. From a picture by a Japanese artist.

By broomstick train, our suburbs afoot and by trolley , Books, Railroad travel, Street railroads

Cartel modernista. Exposición internacional del automovil. Colección privada. Author: JOSEP SEGRELLES.

Collier's automobile number, New York, January 17th, 1903 , Automobiles

Fokker's Parasol ducker. No Spandraden: Great Styg Power, Reijer Stolk, 1919 - 1945 drawing Plane between clouds. paper. ink. pencil. watercolor (paint) pen / brush advertisement, notice. names of organizations, companies, trade unions, etc.. (other) historical names. aircraft, aeroplane

Five women driving in an early automobile, each one is dressed fashionably wearing coats and hats, holding flags that have a letter on them, possibly representing Ivy League universities - digital file from original item | Library of Congress

Peugeot by Vincent, Rene (1879-1936) / Private Collection / 1912 / France / Colour lithograph / Poster and Graphic design / 160x120 / Art Nouveau

'Beware of trams swinging out at corners.' Date: 1934

Military Motors series, 1916: Belgian Motor Kitchen.

Crashed into swell company in - made a big hit! , Traffic accidents, Hugging, Police, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Military Motors series, 1916: British Motor Searchlight.

CARTEL MODERNISTA. ANUNCIO DE BICICLETAS, COSMOPOLIS CYCLOS. COLECCIÓN PRIVADA. Author: ADRIA GUAL.

Grand Prix of Automobile Club of America, Savannah Georgia, 1908. Vintage American Car Racing Poster, by Malcolm Strauss

Collier's automobile number, New York, January 17th, 1903 , Automobiles

Steam train crossing thebridge over the Zambesi Riverat Victoria FallsDate: circa 1927

ACCIDENTE DE AUTOMOVIL. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

Roald Amundsen, 1872-1928, Norwegian explorer, and Lincoln Ellsworth, flying within 170 miles of North Pole in 1926. Advertisement for Liebig meat extract

Cartoon - Our Own Auto Show. John Collins (1917-2007)

Dayton Spice Mills Co. Save the wrappers. Buy Jersey Coffee!. Dayton Spice Mills Co. Save the wrappers. Buy Jersey Coffee!

DOCKING STATION ON MARS FOR VISITING ROCKETS Date: circa 1950

Cartoon - Water Skiing. John Collins (1917-2007)

Trip into the blue by train

Color poster by Georges Gaudy depicting Senatzy tires in Brussels, created around 1900, showing tire products, advertisement, and branding elements.

Paris, France displays the airline company airline , (French - Paris , France Affiche de la compagnie des Messageries Aériennes). Advertising, plane, air transport, poster, Economic activity, transport, registration , information, France, Paris, Air transport posters

Fourteen people will die and 230 will be maimed in the next 11 days unless more care is exercised on the roads.Road Transport Commissioner Neale said yesterday that this was the accident toll last year from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day - and it was a low average.Five were killed on Christmas Eve, three on Boxing Day.The road death roll in 1946 was 508 lives. So far 1947 accidents have claimed 493 deaths.Factors against accident reduction this year are: There are four consecutive holiday this Christmas season. December 21, 1947.

Scraps, 1930s, England, by Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. Gift of Joyce Megget, 2006.

Train. Sheet with 4 horizontal rows with performances of a train. A verse in two columns in the undermaster. Numbered at the top right: No. 66.

Cartoon - The Jersey Motor Rostap (1866-1949)

Motoring advert for the Hillman Minx and Hillman Wizard car from 1932. Date: 1932

A futuristic aerial cab station named simply Aero-Cabs. Date: 1899

Our Local Express, Ballater, Martin Anderson (Leuchars, Scotland, 1854 - 1932) 1907

Railroad Magazine: A B&O Wood-Burner, 1942, Railroad

Has no rival - Mica Axle Grease. "You see it runs easy because it's greased with Mica Axle Grease.". Has no rival - Mica Axle Grease. "You see it runs easy because it's greased with Mica Axle Grease."

Horses, carts, wagons and pedestrians in an almighty crash involving two trams in Donegal Place in Belfast. The card caption reads: "Our Trammelled Streets" Date: 1905

Cartoon - Across the Channel by Motorboat. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon - Our Lifeboat. John Collins (1917-2007)

Cartoon - Three Men in a Boat John Collins (1917-2007)

Ireland by CIE, Railroad

Harper's November , Horses, Carriages & coaches, Periodicals

Only Route via Niagara Falls, Railroad

Is a Caddy always necessary, Life Cartoons still image. Postcards. 1905 - 1930. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Railway Stenden-Goldingen-Hasenpoth, Anonymous

Air Trails, Fighting Aircraft

Illustration showing a Hillman Wizard car parked in a city. Date: 11th November 1931

Three aeroplanes, emitting poison gas, could destroy New York. Date: 1931

Medium-priced family saloon with sporty performance. Date: 1936

Grand-Prix: Lautenschlager sur Mercedes, Auto Racing

E is the Engine, Alphabet - Railway

White Star Line to America and Canada Date: 1929

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