Bags Collection (page 2)

Death bursts into the strong room of a Miser sitting among his chests and bags of gold.. Handcolored engraving by Chretien de Mechel from Hans Holbein's The Triumph of Death

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The day's bag - an array of dead hares and game bags Date: 1929

Original Artwork - Railway porter with laden trolley
Original Artwork - Collage design for a stationery company to promote their Varnished Leather paper - a railway porter struggling to wheel a large amount of luggage on a trolley. Date: circa 1937

Comic postcard, Woman looking in the mirror Date: 20th century

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Comic postcard, Woman and railway porter Date: early 20th century

Bhisti, water carrier with his bags on an ox, India
Vintage 19th century photograph: Bhisti, water carrier with his bags on an ox, India

The Young Idea by Noel Coward, Savoy Theatre, London, a Robert Courtneidge production. Date: circa 1923

A lady kitted out for a cycling trip in warm coat and long socks standing alongside a magnificent bicycle made for two, which is heavily laden with tent and belongings. Date: circa 1920s

Advert for womens model bags or handbags from Woollands, London, 1926 Date: 1926

Turkish water carriers filling bags, Constantinople, Istanbu
Vintage 19th century photograph: Turkish water carriers filling their bags, Constantinople, Istanbul, turkey

Cartoon by Alfred Leete showing a fashionable 1920s couple walking along a beach. The title refers to the popular Cochran revue of that year at the London Pavilion starring Edythe Baker

Article in The Illustrated London News showing a variety of chic bags and containers for transporting ones gas masks in the early months of the Second World War. Date: 1939

Some of the 72 members of the British Olympic Team, who arrived back from the Melbourne Games into London Airport on December 9. Date: 1956

River Firemen knitting bags. Date: circa 1941

Auxiliary Fire Service (A. F. S. ) Men hauling the Trailer-pump
Auxiliary Fire Service (A.F.S.) men hauling hose from a trailer-pump. In the early days of the war, the AFS depended on improvisation - as can be seen here

Skeleton of death aiming a dart at a doctor as he tends to a sick woman. Death and the Physician. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joshua Gleadah after an illustration by Benedictus Antonio Van

Middle-aged gent with wife and Mother - Jersey
A jovial middle-aged gent (in voluminous trousers!) with his arms around the houlders of his wife and (possibly) his Mother on the beach on Jersey, Channel Islands. Date: circa 1930s

Leather permitting, 1944 - making a bag
Leather permitting, 1944. Making a leather satchel bag in wartime. 1944

Almanac Day at Stationers Hall, London
Almanac Day at Stationers Hall, City of London, in late November, when the next years almanacs went on sale. Porters would take the bags of books all over the country. 19th century

Air raid preparations at London gas station, September 1939
An extreme example of sandbagging in anticipation of air raids at a garage in North London. The Sphere jokes that " motorists have to look twice before they recognise the petrol pumps"

Sandbags protecting statue of the Black Prince, Sept 1939
As one of the many precautionary measures taken to protect Canterbury Cathedral from bombing, the statue and grave of the Black Prince was surrounded by neatly piled sandbags. Date: 1939

Civilians filling sandbags for air raid shelters 1939
Civilians, including females in bikini tops and a man in a suit, working together to fill sandbags for use in the construction of public air raid shelters. September 1939

Construction of sandbag air raid shelter, September 1939
Construction of a large public air raid shelter from sandbags in North London, shortly after the outbreak of war. September 1939

Advert for Dunhills Lytup Handbags 1923
Advertisement for the Lytup handbag from Alfred Dunhill, with a small electric light illuminating the contents whenever it is opened up

WWII September 1939 Holiday makers filling sandbags
Holiday makers filling sandbags at a beach on the East Coast of Britain in the week following the declaration of war in September 1939. Date: 1939

WWII Jewish refugees helping with sandbags
Jewish refugees in Britain helping to place sandbags in front of a big hospital in the early days of the Second World War. Date: 1939

Outbreak of WWII - Queen visits Vincent Square hospital 1939
Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) pictured visiting the Vincent Square Infants Hospital in Victoria, London, just before the declaration of war in September 1939

Outbreak of WWII Sandbagging flat roof of an office building
Loading sandbags on the skylight apertures of a flat roof of a modern office building in London as precautions after the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939. Date: 1939

Family of three on a tandem -- father, mother and little boy sitting in a seat attached to the back. Date: circa 1980s

That Oxford Cut - Oxford Bags cartoon
Shorty: " D yer mean ter say, Ginger, you ad an offer o a pair of them Oxford trousers once? Why didn t you take em?" Ginger

Daikoku is one of the Seven Gods of Luck in Japanese mythology, known as the god of wealth and guardian of farmers. He is often depicted carrying a wish-granting mallet in his hand

Sonnenspektrum in Berlin
A German revue. Scene from Sonnenspektrum (The Solar Spectrum) based on the work of Frank Wedekind, which ran at the Kurfurstendamm Playhouse, Berlin in 1928

Claude Hulbert and Vera Lennox in Tell Me More
Claude Hulbert and Vera Lennox performing in Tell Me More at the Winter Garden in 1925, significant because of the fashionably wide Oxford bags trousers worn by Hulbert. Date: 1925

Base Post Office near fighting lines, WW1
A Base Post Office on the Western Front near fighting lines, 31 October 1914, First World War. 1914

Womens Auxiliary Army Corps, WW1
Members of the Womens Auxiliary Army Corps in a clothing store, packing uniforms into bales for recruits, First World War. 1914-1918

Police searching debris after bomb explosion, London
Police searching debris after bombs concealed in mailbags exploded at Euston Station, London, 6 February 1940. 1940

Christmas mail going to the Front, Basra, Iraq, WW1
Christmas mail going to the Front, Basra, Iraq, during the First World War. circa 1916

Holly and mistletoe in a handbag on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

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Advert, Asprey & Sons, Travelling Bags etc
Advert, Asprey & Sons, Bond Street and Albemarle Street, London -- Travelling Bags, Jewel Cases, Despatch Boxes, Dressing Case and Toilet Set. 1880

Waiter wearing beret and Oxford bags, 1926
Will it ever come to this? The President of the National Federation of Merchant Taylors is responsible for this awful suggestion

Cartoon of Oxford bags, 1925
Caricature of actors Peter Haddon and Rosaline Courtneidge in the play On Change, performed at the Savoy Theatre. Haddons character displays youthful vacuity and wears Oxford bags

Oxford bags worn at Regents Park, 1925
The logical development of the Oxford bags demonstrated at Regents Park in 1925. The gentleman shown was one of the participants in the Old English Garden Fete in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Regents

Cambridge students wearing Oxford bags
The youth of Cambridge displaying the latest university craze for excessively wide trousers, called Oxford bags, originating at Oxford University in the mid-1920s. Date: 1925

Advert for Debenham & Freebody womens silk bags 1922
Selection of attractive and inexpensive silk clasp bags. Date: 1922

Advert for J. C Vickery clasp bags 1918
Two clasp bags, left; solid tortoiseshell and silk hand-bag, right; black mole grey, real antelope, with marcassite and silver clasp, lined grey fitted with mirror and power-puff. Date: 1918

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