Trunk Collection (page 9)

Return of the greatest of all magicians, the Houdinis, Harry, Bessie original introducers of metamorphosis, greatest and finest trunk mystery the world has ever seen, challenge hand-cuff act

Man wearing ceremonial costume, carrying a long staff (possibly a small tree trunk sprouting a branch with leaves) and a fan made of feathers; appears to have wings that terminate in sharp points

Street Shrine in the base of a tree trunk - Pune, India
Street Shrine in the base of a Banyan tree trunk - Pune, India - formerly called Poona, also known as Punya-Nagari, the eighth largest metropolis in India

Log boat - Romania
Crossing a river by a log boat, Romania. Date: circa 1905

Montreal, Canada - Grand Trunk Railway Station Date: circa 1907

Cameroon - Douala. The Canoe Port Date: circa 1910s

Birds in beautiful surroundings
Two birds enjoy one anothers company surrounded by lush, beautiful scenery in this rural idyll. 1925

Hunter with game and shotgun
A hunter stands with one foot on a tree trunk, two dead birds in one hand and his shotgun in the other. Date: circa 1970s

Gabon, Africa - The arrival of a European into the village
Gabon, Africa (at this time one of the four territories of French Equatorial Africa) - The arrival of a European into the village

Tapping for pine resin - Arcachon, France
Tapping for pine resin - Arcachon, Gascony - West coast of France Date: circa 1910

Tapping for pine resin - Landes, France Date: circa 1910

Brazil - Ostrich Neck palm
The Ostrich-neck Palm a local oddity on a beach in Brazil. Possibly one of the weirdest trunks of a tree one is likely to witness

Boating Tea Break
A jolly young woman, wearing a beret, offers a cup and saucer of tea from the deck of her moored boat to another young woman wearing a box pleated skirt beside a tree trunk! Date: 1930s

Cutting a tree near Amiens, France, WW1
Two men cutting a tree at sawmills near Amiens and Albert, northern France, during the First World War. Date: November 1916

Benin - West Africa Date: circa 1910s

Granpop decorates his tree house by Lawson Wood
Humorous illustration depicting Gran pop, the orang-utan character created by Lawson Wood, happily painting patterns on his new roof tree

Lorries passing mine crater on way to Western Front, WW1
Lorries passing round a mine crater on their way to the Western Front during the First World War. The makeshift road is lined with tree trunks. Date: 1914-1918

Elephants feet and trunk as furniture items displayed in the Mysore Court, Indian Pavilion, British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1924 Date: 1924

The Flying Trunk -- a story by Hans Christian Andersen, in which a young man flies to Turkey in a trunk and visits the Sultans daughter. 20th century

Stem of the Great Vine - Hampton Court Palace. Date: circa 1920s

Australia - Mauri Pine, Queensland Date: circa 1910s

Elephants in the water
A group of elephants frolicking in the water

French Left Luggage Office
A French Left Luggae Office at a Railway Station with a variety of crates, trunks and cases, each containing some rather surprising (and alive!) contents!! Date: 1904

N Dalla Tando, Angola - Meteorological Station - a fantastic use of the massive old trunk of a Boabab tree Date: 1902

Elephant at a Party
A baby elephant gate-crashes a childrens birthday party and attempts to whisk away the birthday cake with its trunk! Date: 1960s

Two little girls sitting on a log

Tree-Surgeon & Audience
A cartoon on the tree- surgeons art: a tree trunk lies in an operating theatre with an axe embedded in its bark while the surgeon demonstrates his skill Date: 1927

Well to do Germans 1550
Well to do Germans of the period of Emperor Karl V Date: circa 1550

Elephant Picks up Girl
An elephant picks up a young girl in its trunk, while her unconcerned mother stands nearby. Date: 1969

Folklore / Dryads
A Dryad leans on a tree trunk Date: 1913

Locomotive no 299 4-6-2

NIMT Railway, New Zealand
A Bush Settlement on the NIMT, North Island Main Trunk, Railway in New Zealand

Hansel and Gretel enter the wood

Middle aged man with spaniel, Mid Wales
A middle aged man sits on a large felled tree trunk in a country house garden somewhere in Mid Wales, with a spaniel at his side

The Return by Ethel Parkinson
The Return -- three children bring a large log home with them, to the delight of their little dog. Two girls are pulling the log along, while a smaller girl sits on the log, cradling her doll

Mexico - Chapultepec, Mexico City - Giant Tree
Chapultepec, Mexico City - a large hill on the outskirts of central Mexico City. A special place for Mexicans throughout Mexican history

Theatre, Tip Toes Nerman
Allen Kearns, Dorothy Dickson, John Kirby and Laddie Cliff in Tip Toes

Young Foxes at play
Young Fox cubs at play amid the tangled roots of an old tree. Their den appears to be directly under the tree itself

Young Elephant
Pastel drawing of a young elephant at a zoo by Raymond Sheppard

A Family of bears in the wood
A Family of brown bears pace through a fern-laden wood. Two young bear cubs are interested in a red squirrel, safely halfway up a tree trunk! Pastel drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Large tree in a woodland scene
The magnificent sight of a large woodland tree. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Elephant shifting large pieces of timber
An elephant removing a large piece of timber from a large stack, India

Turkish porter carrying two suitcases
A Turkish porter bent double under his load of two suitcases, a selection of Gentlemans canes and a fez hatbox!

Luggage
A large leather-bound trunk with straps, buckles and locks

Austin A40 - boys in the boot
Two young boys sit in the open Austin A40 in Devon

Picnic out of the boot of a Morris 8 E-series
Enjoying a picnic out of the boot of a Morris 8 E series 4 door Six Light

Drophead Tourer with Dickey Seat
Two boys and their Father fool about on their Drophead Tourer, with Father occupying the Dickey Seat in the boot!

Returning home postcard
A lovely postcard of a donkey wagon laden with luggage to be sent to inform friends and relatives of the date of return from holiday in Bermuda

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