Historical Transportation Figures

Black and white images of historical figures on ships and in early aviation, highlighting notable personalities in transportation history.

JAMES THOMPSON BAIN The leader of the deported Labour Leaders on board the Umgeni at Gravesend Date: 1860 - 1919
JAMES THOMPSON BAIN The leader of the deported Labour Leaders on board the Umgeni at Gravesend Date: 1860 - 1919
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State railways, SJ Cars is mounted.
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This report consists of two photographs and a small report documenting the commercial fishing vessel America, belonging to Minezo Araki, alien Japanese. The vessel was inspected by the U.S. Coast Guard on November 27, 1941.
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Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, external marina (depicted, town).Sweden, Blekinge, Blekinge, Karlskrona, Karlskrona, External War Gogs (depicted, City)
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Double track inauguration, rally train "Rallar disc
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Henry 3 cab (), December 1920, Wellington, by Berry & Co.
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British Overseas Airways Corporation and Qantas, 1940-1945. One of the Corporation's senior captains, Captain O P Jones, who had a long and distinguished career with Imperial Airways and BOAC, before, during and after the Second World War, seen here at Prestwick, Ayrshire. Among his many achievements he pioneered the North Atlantic Return Ferry service with the Consolidated Liberator in 1941, flew the first civil Transatlantic flights after the war, and captained the first post-war Royal flights undertaken by BOAC.
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STAY. Hjorth Railway Council 1927 - 1938
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Face in the Koekoekstraat in Utrecht, with two electric trams from the G.E.T.U.
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State Railways, SJ New Telephone Switch, Stockholm Central Station.
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IF. Strömberg Railway Council 1908 - 1926
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Alaska - Skagway through Kodiak Island, Aerial Photograph.
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Wealthy Cab Driver. Jack Meyers, of Minnesota (USA), says he gave up business activities to drive a taxi-cab, because he "likes to meet people." Meyers claims he is worth 250,000 dollars.Wealthy Cab Driver-Because Frank Meyers likes "to meet people" he says he quit business activities in Havre, Mont., to drive a taxi cab in St. Paul. Meyers says he is worth "more than $250,0000" but his friends say he's worth "closer to a half-million. Maya 26, 1947. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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O.C.A.Falkman Railway Council 1939 - 1948 Alternate 1926-1938
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Anefo photo collection. Ir J. Lohmann, director of the Dutch Railways. October 29, 1958
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J. A. Albrektson, locomotive driver.
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State Railways, SJ Car Transport Råsta Bus Garage
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Polar aviators Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett in fur on Spitsbergen Island, Norway. On May 9, 1926, they flew from Spitsbergen (Svalbard) to the North Pole and back in a Fokker Tri-motor monoplane, covering 1,360 miles in fifteen-and-a-half hours. There is still disagreement over the accuracy of their navigation, and some doubt they flew exactly over the North Pole (BSLOC_2018_2_25)
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Hajdu - TrabantHajdu. Trabant
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Image of a collar stone representing a mannop in the station hall of the N.S. station Zandvoort in Zandvoort.
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State railways, SJ Cars is mounted.
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Traffic Manager W Anrep
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Portraits and car, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1925 photograph Album magazine with a portrait of an unknown man, as well as a recording of a man in a rowing boat. Also a photo of a company in a car. Part of photo album of an unknown Dutch family with connections in Suriname and the Dutch East Indies (2). Netherlands cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print adult man. old man. adult woman. rowing-boat, canoe, etc.. automobile Netherlands
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State railways, SJ Cars is mounted.
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Traffic Manager Ernst Adolf Lundborg, Dalsland Railway, DJ.
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W. Douglas, H.M.S. Curacoa Sydney 1864, circa 1864, Sydney, maker unknown.
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Local driver Carl Sohlberg who ran the inauguration train. Uppsala - Gävle Railway, UGJ.
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First Australian Flying Boat Makes Test Flight - Captain G.U. Allan, at the controls of the "Coolangatta" during today's preparations for next Friday's flight to Australia from Southampton, England."Coolangatta" first of six Australian flying boats which are to operate with imperial Airways on the empire trunk route, was out today here preparing for its departure to Australia on Friday next, to inaugurate a new Southampton - Sydney Service. March 4, 1938. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).
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Traffic Manager Gustav Erdmann
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Station writer Gustaf von Schwerin. Stins in Oskarsström 1886-1908.
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Traffic Director P E L Wallin.
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A rickshaw man of Cape Town, South Africa, in his noticeable uniform Date: 1930s
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Stins in Gusselby in front of the station house.
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Traffic Manager Adolf Wilhelm Murray at Oxelösund - Flen - Västmanland Railway, Ofwj.
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Traffic Manager Oscar Mauritz Valentin Jacobsson, Uppsala - Gävle Railway, UGJ.
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Image of the Electric train set no. 438 (Mat. 1964, plan V) of the N.S. at the N.S. station in Leiden. (Trial company Nieuwe Corporate Style on the Leiden-Utrecht line)
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Traffic Manager Oscar Mauritz Valentin Jacobsson, Uppsala - Gävle Railway, UGJ.
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A. Andersson, Stins at Halmstad - Nässjö Railway.
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Major and traffic manager Henrik Wilkens. The cliff - Röstånga railway, Krj.
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06/30/1912. From the Valencia tram catastrophe. Mr. Vicente Alfonso, seriously injured.
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Trafik boss H. Sturzenbecker
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Traffic Manager Sven Oscar Kamph.
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Geo. Francis Train
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Sergey Vladimirovich Ilyushin (1894 - 1977) Soviet aircraft designer who founded the Ilyushin aircraft design bureau. He designed the Il-2 Shturmovik,
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Statue of docker outside Excel Centre, Docklands London.
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Mrs. Karolina Matilda (Carolina Mathilda) Adlerstråhle.
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August 24, 2020, Springfield, Illinois, USA: After the April 14, 1865 assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, a funeral train transported his remains for burial in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois
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Traffic Manager Alfred Olsson at Varberg - Borås Railway, WBJ.
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01/01/1962. José Vicente Train Rm- 3050.
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Bus, Caesar de.