Travellers Collection

Three passengers in a balloon
The Three Favorite Aerial Travellers. Vincent Lunardi, George Biggin and Mrs Sage in a balloon cage. 1785

Poster: Buses give way to tanks. Pleasure travellers must give way to war workers! Avoid rush hours. 1940s

Travellers, Holy Land

Gipsy women sketched by Queen Victoria
Gipsy women, encamped near Claremont in Surrey where Queen Victoria spent the Christmas of 1836 (when she was still Princess Victoria)

Beauty Spots and Places of Historican Renown
Cover illustration for Beauty Spots and Places of Historican Renown in Great Britain and Ireland, a handbook for travellers, by Thomas Cook & Son

Schoolboys in a gym at a school in Pinner
A group of schoolboys leaping about in a gym at a school for children of commercial travellers in Pinner, Middlesex. Date: 1965

Thomas Cook Interpreters
A poster advertising Thomas Cook Interpreters - available to aid travellers arriving on all the principal rail and boat arrival locations at the chief cities and ports across Europe. Date: circa 1900s

Advertisement for Ala Littoria, Italian airlines, showing a happy family of four at an airport. 20th century

Gypsy Caravans

Table tennis at a school in Pinner, Middlesex
Boys playing table tennis at a school for the children of commercial travellers in Pinner, Middlesex. Date: 1961

Gypsy caravan and trap in a wood clearing. Pen & ink with watercolour wash sketch by Raymond Sheppard Date: circa late 1940s

Rush Hour on Underground
Travellers on the London Underground descend to the platform during rush hour Date: 1961

Underground Escalator
Travellers on the London underground descend an escalator toward the platforms Date: 1965

Nuns in charabanc
A group of nuns in white habits in a charabanc on their way to Lourdes, France Date: 1920s

Mountain travellers in Kashgar, western China
Travellers making their way through the mountains of Kashgar, western China. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts Date: 1932

Poster advertising Mount Cook, New Zealand. Three travellers enjoy the healthy mountain air

Thomas Cook Tour Party - Luxor
A party of travellers on a Thomas Cook tour pose in front the wonderful Temple of Columns at Luxor; their local guides wait patiently whilst tending to the camel and donkey. late 1880s

Spirits seek to waken travellers sleeping at sea
Spirits of the dead seek to waken travellers sleeping at sea - but the sleepers sleep on, and the spirits wail in vain, forgotten

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