Tag: ship

View over Skeppsholmen, 1929

Ferdinand Flodin :: Från mitt fönster, utsikt mot Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, 1929. | View from My Window over Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, 1922. Bromoil print mounted on board. | src Moderna Museet

‘Poulpe colossal’, 1802

Facsimile of De Monfort’s ‘Poulpe colossal’. Colossal Octopus attacking a sailing vessel off the coast of Angola. Illustration by French naturalist Pierre Denys de Montfort (1766–1820) first published in Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière des Mollusques in 1802 as described by Norwegian sailors and American whalers.

Balloon being carried on barge during World War I

With the outbreak of the first world war Switzerland was faced with confusing events – and therefore used captive balloons for clarification. Here on Lake Biel. Image: Swiss Photo Foundation
From: Switzerland and the great war “14/18 – Switzerland and the Great War” in the Zurich State Museum. | src Tages Anzeiger: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/Zerruettung-des-verschonten-Landes-/story/17621214