Backs Collection (page 2)

Two girls carrying babies, Japan
Two girls carrying babies on their backs, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Two contrasting forms of transport, then and now. Above: a lady in a sedan chair, about to leave Hampton Court for home. Below: a rather more racy journey

Tatler front cover, 1963 - Punting on the Cam
Front cover of The Tatler featuring a view from Clare Bridge in Cambridge showing basking in the suns rays while lounging in the rivers famous punts. Date: 1963

Three women with firewood bundles
Three women resting on a stone wall, carrying large bundles of firewood on their backs

Advert for Dolcis shoes 1947
Distinctively Dolis. High heels slingback womens shoes. Date: 1947

Cambridge Punting Scene
A summers day scene on the Backs at Cambridge, showing Clare College, by the River Cam, Cambridgeshire, England. Date: 1950s

Keep Fit Class
Keep young and beautiful - a ladies keep fit class, with the ladies lying on their backs in a circle, doing leg exercises! Date: early 1930s

Football Terms Illustrated - Two good full backs! A contented broad rural countryfolk couple take a constitutional stroll through the village. Date: circa 1920s

Lebanon - Two Bedouin Women with children on their backs Date: circa 1910s

Two Babies getting their milk direct from the cow
A quite surreal German postcard, showing two rather plump babies strapped to the back of two cows, their mouths clamped to long tubes originating from the cows udders

Mother and baby - Hong Kong - Babies carried in bright bags on backs wobbly necks. Date: 1952

People with ponies and sacks, Yugoslavia
Scene in a street in former Yugoslavia -- people walking along the road with ponies carrying goods on their backs. Date: September 1965

People in traditional costume, Yugoslavia
Scene in a street in former Yugoslavia, with people in traditional costume, and ponies carrying goods on their backs. Date: September 1965

Humorous pictures showing damaged Chinese battleships receiv

Getting their backs up. Illustration shows a bull dog labeled England, a whippet (or greyhound) labeled Italy, and a dachshund labeled Germany gathered around a dish labeled Preferred Claims full of

Ossetian Women and Children
Ossetian Women and children from the Caucasus. Today, the Ossetian-speaking area south to the main Caucasus ridge is recognized by most countries as within the borders of Georgia

Eruption of Vesuvius, Naples, Italy in April 1906. Villagers from Boscotrecase (living close by) flee with the possessions they can carry on their backs. Date: 1906

Body-Straighteners
A choice of halters designed to straighten the backs and shoulders of patients inclined to curvature of the spine, rounded shoulders and other deformities. Date: 1900

Mock Medieval Dining
A formal, Medieval style dining room, with a mini wall tapestry, wooden chairs with barley twist backs and an ornate ceiling light. Date: 1930s

Record Making Boat Trip
Four Englishmen - A. Brown (at wheel), G.D. Mallett and (with backs to camera), L.T. Davidson and E. Oldenbury, in a hand propelled boat from London to the Black Sea. Date: 1933

CHILDREN BEING CRABS
Two children lie on their backs and make crabs. Date: 1930s

Music at home - children at the piano
A girl plays the piano, while a boy and a girl listen. Date: 1889

Scouts in eating competition
American Scouts taking part in an eating competition, with their hands tied behind their backs they try to eat pies. circa 1950s

Punting at Cambridge 2
Punting on the Cam (also known as the Granta) on the Backs at Cambridge; at Cambridge, punters stand on the flat platform at the stern of the vessel. Date: 1950s

Terrace Backs, Liverpool
The backs of a row of terraced houses in Liverpool Date: 1961

Three Ramblers
Three ramblers make their way through a wood along a path, carrying compact rucksacks on their backs. Date: 1930s

Fijian Feast (Giant Turtles)
Giant Turtles captured for eating in a grand feast on Fiji. The turtles have been rolled onto their backs (possibly so they don t escape...)

Allcocks plasters advert
An advertisement for Allcocks plaster, for use on rheumatism, weak chests and wek backs. Made in Birkenhead, England

Jewish Penance
Penance of German Jews in their synagogue : they are beaten on their bare backs

Kings College, 1906
The Chapel and part of the College, seen from the Backs. The view is virtually unchanged, a hundred years later

Kings / Mackenzie
The classic view from the far side of the Backs - a gowned don discusses philosophy or something with a female friend, girls sit sedately, boys bowl their hoops boisterously

Cambridge Univ Backs 20C
Punting on the " backs" ; Kings Chapel in the background

Children to Baptism
A Scandinavian couple on skis take their children to the church to be baptised : due to the long journey, they take them in batches, carrying them on their backs in baskets

Running from Rain 1880
THE STORM two young people run for shelter while lightning flashes menacingly behind their backs

Twin puppies falling off footstool
Twin puppies, Snip and Snap, end up on their backs on the floor in their quarrel over who is to have the footstool

Climbing / Oxygen / 1923
Mountain climbing at high altitude using oxygen masks with the cylinders strapped to their backs

Persian Bodyguard
The bodyguard of a Persian king : five warriors in ornamental tunics, carrying spears in their hands, bow over their shoulders, scabbards on their backs

Race Cource Fashions
Dark blue dress: skirt trimmed with fringing & waves of ribbon, open body with bows arranged like echelles. Green mantle with black reversed vandyke trim

BON GENRE NO. 20 C. 1805
Une soiree de Coblentz - French emigres flee France, and take refuge in Coblentz just across the German border, where they wait for the Revolution to blow over

Two Little Kittens / Bell
Most versions promise you three kittens, but here there are only two : they don t seem bothered by their lost mittens, with a lovely fire to toast their backs

COTE D AZUR STYLE 1915
Fashion panarama showing the variety of styles available during 1915. Amongst the full- skirted creations are gowns with low backs & long narrow skirts with trains

Truffles Liebig 6
Truffles are found also in North Africa : in Tunisia, Berber truffle-hunters bring their goods to market on the backs of camels. card 6 of 6

Donkeys and Sedan Chair
Donkeys carry a bull in a sedan chair, while other animals carry burdens on their backs

East End Back-To-Backs
Crowded back-to-back working class terraced housing in the East End of London, condemned for demolition

Children Day-Dream
Children lie on their backs under a lush canopy of trees & day-dream. Their thoughts are so real in their minds eye that they come to life - a bold knight approaches

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