Vintage Transportation Art

Illustrations of historical transport methods, including horse-drawn carriages and early cars, highlighted in artistic styles from different eras.

Zeppelin LZ-129 'Hindenburg'. one of the most successful of the passenger-carrying Zeppelins until its spectacular accident Date: 1936

An elegant Parisienne drives with her dog in an open carriage in the Bois de Boulogne. Date: 1902

The Martians will surely develop atomic energy to drive their airships : perhaps we should use nuclear power for something more peaceful than killing other people > Date: 1942

Traffic under control - an early form of Belisha beacon tells drivers to stop when it's red, and the policeman's outstretched arms tell you to do as the light tells you. Date: 1929

Art deco inspired poster for the Sizaire car with its headlamps blazing Date: 1925

An Armstrong Whitworth 'Ensign' of Imperial Airways takes off: it has the same Dunlop tyres as the smart red motor car on the ground. 1938

Illustration of a Steam Locomotive Passing Shiodome in Tokyo (Tōkyō Shiodome testudō jōkisha tsūkō zu) 1872 Utagawa Kuniteru Japanese. Illustration of a Steam Locomotive Passing Shiodome in Tokyo (Tōkyō Shiodome testudō jōkisha tsūkō zu) 55512

Zeppelin LZ-129 'Hindenburg'. one of the most successful of the passenger-carrying Zeppelins until its spectacular accident Date: 1936

France, 20th century. De Dion Bouton Petit voiture 6 chevaux. Advertisment for a car depicting La Belle Otero at the wheel and Michel Zelete, valet of the marquis of Dijon beside her. Illustration by Henry Thiriet, 1901.

Design for advertising 'Ruston steam road roller'. Draughtsman: Reijer Stolk. Dating: 1906 - 1945. Measurements: h 208 mm × w 128 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

A speed boat called Firefly making waves on the still green water with a pier and paddle steamer in the background. Date: 1928

A highwayman, looking suspiciously like Cupid, holds up a pretty lady riding in a carriage. Date: 1922

Band design for: Rudolf Bossinade, the motorist in front of the judge: motorist law, c. 1932-1934, F. Ockerse, c. 1932 - c. 1934 drawing A motorist tears over the road in a car with an open roof. Above the car a right in a gown with BEF. A front view of the car on the breeze. paper. ink. paint (coating). deck paint. pencil pen / brush automobile. lawyer, attorney at law

Dunlop tyres 1934

A slightly fantastic red glider, bearing the insignia of Nazi Germany Date: circa 1938

This illustration, which dates to the early 1920s, reads: Santos Dumonts Airship, rounding the Eiffel Tower. Albert Santos-Dumont (died 1932) was a Brazilian inventor and aviation pioneer.

Party (Sterling Engine Company), Boating & Leisure

It's the cinenzano airship Sem Georges Goursat, says (1863-1934). "It's the Cinzano Airship". Color photomechanical process.

A colour illustration of a stylish couple on board a train in a railway station. Date: 30th July 1930

Art deco illustration depicting bathers with billowing towels and cloaks gathered around a car at the beach. The caption reads: 'Modern summer holiday-makers seen through an artist's eyes: 'Bathing-time - the motor-car as 'bathing machine' bringing swimmers direct from house to beach' '. Date: 16th June 1928

Spaceships at Angkor Wat, 1940's Visions of the Future

YZERSWEG / CHEMIN THE FER, 1856 - 1900 print Leaf with 4 horizontal rows with performances of trains, omnibuses and carts. Under each performance a caption in Dutch and in French. Numbered in the middle: n 23. Turnwood paper letterpress printing railway, train. accident with diligence, omnibus, horse-tram. two-wheeled vehicle drawn by one animal

Description: Railway Travel in South Africa. Location: South Africa africa

A boy watches a monoplane flying dangerously low over the Paris rooftops, near the Bon Marche department store. Date: 1911

England/UK: 'Brightest London is Best Reached by Underground', by Horace Taylor (1881 - 1934), Underground Electric Railway Company, London, 1927

Griffon, Bicycles

Engineering Wonders, 1927: Wetterhorn Aerial Railway, Switzerland, 1908.

Still On Top/The Unapproachable Norton (Norton-Motorcycle With Pillion Rider) 1932 R. Crosby Smith (1911-1965 ) Poster

Automobile Club de Belgique - Course Bruxelles Spa 25 26 Juin. Fêtes et concours. Chronos as a chauffeur - the Greek god of the time symbolizes the hurry, which is offered at the car race, his impatient look at the hourglass underlines the statement. Through hair and beard try to strengthen the impression of speed.

A handsome fare gives a handsome tip to the handsome driver of a hansom cab Date: 1898

Cartoon of Ladies Talking from Airplanes. ca. 1938, I'm feeling fine, But I'd feel still better, If you'd send me a special, Air mail letter.

Taking a bend in a tourist trophy sidecar race. Date: 1926

Racing to the Fire, Children's Literature

Eliso-Motorcycle, Motorcycles

Wilbur Wright, aided by the dazzling clearness of his headlight views the overcrowded chaos in the steets below from the seat of his aircfaft. Date: 1908

Seaside Motorcycle Ride.

Rural Wagon and Other Baggage Wagons. Original caption: Rural Wagon and other baggage wagons. Die Wagen und Fahrwerke der Griechen und Romer und Anderer Alten Volker by Johann Christian Ginzrot, Vol I. Set of 66 - No. 21-A.

Avión de caza alemán Stuka Junkers JU-87, adaptado para la lucha antitanque durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Ernest Jean Delahaye. The delivery of the locomotives to the Batignolles. Paris (XVIIth arr.). Oil on canvas. 1891. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 76106-26 Batignolles, railway, hangar, locomotive, signaling panel, steam, railway track, 17th 18th 18th 17th 17th 17 arrondissement, oil on canvas

28 ft. Speedster (Dodge Boats), Boating & Leisure

Man in Automobile reaches for Drink.

A Humber 'Pullman' is about to be taken aboard a Channel ferry, raised by crane on a pallet. Date: 1931

Frontispiece design by W Heath Robinson -- Mr W Heath Robinson's own private railway engine, not often allowed on the GWR. Date: 1935

Babbit Metal Foundry Hoyt, Tsarist Advertising

Picture of the Steam Engine Railway in Yatsuyama, Tokyo (Tokyo Yatsuyama shita kaigan jokisha tetsudo no zu) 1866-1876 Japan. Color woodblock print; oban triptych . Utagawa Hiroshige III

Five men riding in a carriage drawn by four horses , Horses, Carriages & coaches

Young lady reverses her car into a shop window as the proprietor looks on with horror. 1927

Railroad Magazine: Working on the Railroad, 1943, Railroad

Berenice Abbott, Seventh Avenue Looking South from 35th Street, New York , 1935, printed 1982, gelatin silver print.

Brochure from 1939 titled 'Greyhound Transcontinental Bus Time Tables'.

We will create a borderguard unit motorised road transport fund. We will give motors to the Red Borderguards by Dlugach, Mikhail Oskarovich (1893-1989)/ Russian State Library, Moscow/ 1931/ Russia/ Colour lithograph/ Soviet political agitation art/ 105x7

Automobile calendar for 1906. Poster shows a woman wearing a driving coat, gloves, and a hat secured by a scarf, and partial view of automobile in background.

'Au Volant' ('At the Wheel'). American motorised transport towards the end of World War I. After watercolour by Georges Scott (1880-1947) French war artist. 1918.

Railroad Magazine: Electrification, 1944, Railroad

Traffic in the city street of the future will be monitored and controlled - and if necessary warned and admonished - from control cabins above street level. Date: 1934

The lady rides a Peugeot. Date: circa 1900

Woman stepping out of a car in New York City, circa 1915

le avventure di arsenio lupin

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

The toll of the traffic: London as a death trap. Protecting the 'jay walker': seeking to lessen traffic deaths. Terrible figures: the killed and injured in the highways and byways of the metropolis. The endeavour to decrease the number of street fatalities and minor accidents: recommendations advanced by the committee dealing with the traffic problems of the metropolis. Date: 1929

Publicity for Fiat's 'Ardita' - as you see, it has a nice well-rounded steering wheel : but does the rest of it reach this high standard Date: 1932

N.Y.K. (Nippon Yusen Kaish line) Ocean Liner SS Mishima Maru - Japan - inset photograph on a beautiful decorative postcard Date: 1911

Army pursuit planes over Miami, Florida , Cities & towns, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Radiadores Carominaf, Automobiles

A girl comes right off - and her bike's a write-off ! Date: circa 1900

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

Ship of Jupiter, 1940's Visions of the Future

'My Real Chum' A smart lady rider painted alongside her fine steed. Date: 1910s

Plastic carts

Tarjeta postal. Publicidad de la moto Vespa, fabricada en España por el Grupo Industrial italiano Piaggio en 1952.

Delon, Bellilli & Keis Automobile Factory, Tsarist Advertising

HINDENBURG DISASTER The giant airship Hindenburg explodes into a ball of fire as it lands in New Jersey killing at least 33 of its crew. Cause unknown. Date: 6 May 1937

WOODY BAY, DEVON, UK - OCTOBER 19 : Old Southern Railway advertising poster at Woody Bay Station in Devon on October 19, 2013

This color print around 1900 by Carlo Cussetti depicts winter service operations on the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée railway, showing trains, tracks, and workers in snowy conditions.

Interior of an American steamship. Japanese triptych print shows a cutaway view of an American steamship with group of passengers seated around a table below deck at mealtime, also shows activities on deck. By Yoshikazu Utagawa.

Italian Aerial Lines, Commercial Aviation

Artwork: "Alaskan Wings" Artist: Sue Rother, USAF Art Collection. Country: Unknown

A man in stripy pyjamas riding on an airship says that Bovril prevents that sinking feeling Date: 1939

Ferrocaril de Monistrol a Montserrat, Spain - Catalonia

Motoring (1923). Poster of the car race in Vilafranca del Peneds (21st October 1923).

Ferry crossing through over the Oi River, from the series: Rivers on the Tokaido road

LUNCH held by NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD BREMEN at SS KAISER WILHELM DER GROSSE, 1900., 1900., CARD; ILL; COL; 5.5X8.25

Western couple in carriage, Hiroshige (II), Utagawa, 1862 - 1863 print Western couple in a carriage, with a dog in the foreground. In the background a seascape with ships. Shinagawa station along the Tokaido, one of the most important roads in Japan. (Yokohama-e). paper white races and peoples. two-wheeled vehicle drawn by two animals

Japan Air Transport - Nagoya Castle, Commercial Aviation

The bicycle. Happy back to Paris.

Boat travel , Fine Art

You, Too Can Be an Army Aviator, Commercial Aviation

Traffic over Southwark Bridge London

British Aeroplane (Vickers Biplane) attacking a Taube Date: 1915

Brochure on electric cars from Milburn Light Electric.

This image of babies driving in cars on a busy road was specially drawn for The Sketch. Date: 17th October 1928

Did trials of models bring Ranger victory Tests in a tank. How science is called in to help the designers of racing yachts in the United States: tank and model tests of hull and sails which may have led to Ranger's superiority in the Americas Cup races. Date: 1937

Lippincott's July , Bicycles & tricycles, Cyclists, Periodicals

Vintage transport retro cars horizontal hand drawn banners set isolated vector illustration. Vintage Transport Banners

Otto Lilienthal, German gliding pioneer & aeronautical inventor, flying one of his gliders. Artist: Unknown

Ferry on the Rokugo River. Torii Kiyonaga; Japanese, 1752-1815. Date: 1779-1789. Dimensions: 38.8 x 25.8 cm. Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA.

Deering - January, 1912, Farm Machinery

Retro aviation aeronautic transport sketch decorative icons set isolated vector illustration. Retro Aviation Sketch

Russian Communist poster art: Poster depicting motor vehicles produced by state enterprises in the USSR 1925

Handle with care - WPA Poster promoting safe driving showing a traffic signal and a steering wheel, circa 1943

Color advertisement for Bruna bicycles, created by an anonymous artist around 1900, showing the bicycle, branding, and location in Brno, Moravia, with text elements.

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