Spotlight Gallery

1137.c.19, opposite 84 - A hot-air balloon

08235.k.7 opp 667 - The Midland Railway

Colindale, No. 2,645 front page - The Titanic disaster

1607/3028, cover - A man riding a bicyle being followed by another on horseback

16099.c.59.(1) - Two men in a boat

OIOC Photo 205/(1) - A passenger steamer. The S.S. Morea.

455.e.9, plate 22 - A Chinese porter, or carrier

L.R.301.h.3, 7 - The first ascent in a hydrogen gas filled balloon, in 1783, by Jacques Charles and Ainé Robert.

L.R.301.h.3, 41b - In 1802, Andre-Jacques Garnerin ascended in his balloon from the Volunteer Ground in Grosvenor Square and made a parachute descent to a field near St Pancras. Two diagrams.

Add. 15217, f.38 - The galleon La Nostra Sengnora setting out from Sanlucar for Venezuela; from Jerome Coeler's account of his travels in 1533-1534.

Maps.C.2.a.7.(1), - Drake's world voyage

Colindale, 180 - 'The visit to the East, 1840- landing at Alexandria. Illustration from an issue dated 15th August 1885

Maps.3485.(170) - Map of the Underground Electric Railways of London

L.R.38.a.4, plate LI - Passenger in a horse driven carriage.

012634.m.16, 3 - Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson

Colindale, - Various adverts

2350.a.9, frontispiece - A railway station in 1874

Maps.957.(14), - Submarine telegraph map

Add. 22047, - 'The Graye Hounde'

P493, - The Essex East Indiaman

OIOC Photo 1038/4(30), - A car on the Maymyo-Mandalay road