Bags Collection (page 8)

Useful gifts for Officers at the front 1914
Advert for Debenham and Freebody for a variety of clothes for the Officers in The First World War. This includes Akhaki shirts, with collar, fur waistcoats

All Clear by Helen McKie - ARP wardens on bicycles
Jolly illustration by Helen McKie showing a rather lecherous looking older male Air Raid Patrol warden cycling alongside a young, pretty female colleague. Date: c.1940

Sam Morris in Old money bags a comedy drama. Date c1897

Police guard for Slate Club Money, Old Street, London
In what was then the largest Slate Club in England, 15, 000 in cash was distributed to the 13, 000 members of the New Tabernacle Church, Old Street, London

Gentleman and his extensive luggage
Fully Equipped - A smart young Gentleman and his extensive luggage en route to a shooting weekend in the country. A porters nightmare... Date: 1908

Piles of Bags of Wheat - Argentina. It is almost as if the construction of the sacks was a mimic of a great building!! Date: 1906

Silhouette of a couple with golfing gear
Silhouette of an elegant couple walking along with their golfing gear

Man from Newfoundland and Labrador with reindeer carrying large panniers on its flanks Date: circa 1910s

Silhouette of a fashionable woman on her travels. A man in the background is lifting a bag of golf clubs

China - Qingdao - Tradesmen
China - Qingdao (Tsingtao) - Tradesmen, selling a variety of foodstuffs, ceremic pots, plates and bowls, reed bags, grills and dried rushes. Date: circa 1910s

Civilians fleeing Nieuport, Belgium, WW1
Civilians fleeing Nieuport, Belgium, after bombardment during the First World War. Date: circa 1914

Elderly Montenegrin gypsy couple at Cetinje, their trusty donkey steeds and (possibly) all their worldly possessions... Date: circa 1910s

Dogs under Fruit Tree
A doggy couple under a fruit tree. He shakes the branches with a stick and she bags the fallen fruit! Date: early 1930s

Windmill in France 18Th
A windmill in 18th century France. A couple and their dog are having a rest before heading home with their flour bags. Date: Circa 1760

French troops on quayside, Salonika, WW1
French troops of the 84th Regiment halted on the quayside at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: circa 1916

Civilians fleeing their village, Oostvleteren, Belgium, WW1
Civilians fleeing their village, Oostvleteren, Belgium, after bombing during the First World War. Date: 1915

Norwegian boy with oranges
Evan Larsen, of Skine, Norway, leaves for home with bags packed with oranges, a fruit he had never tasted before but was being freely sold in England by the late 1940s. c.1946

Oiling and Coaling in mid-ocean
Bunkering at sea: oiling and coaling in mid-ocean. The new method and the old- a contrast. The top drawing show the simple

Beg-Meil - Arrival of the boat from Concarneau
France - Beg-Meil, Finistere, Western Brittany - Arrival/return of the boats carrying holidaymakers from Concarneau and Glenan

Wartime shopping bag
Instructions from Weldons Ladies Journal on how to make a gay, easy-to-make shopping bag which folds up when not in use, and is a useful alternative to the paper wrappings becoming increasingly

Pyrenean Mountain Men carrying ice
Pyrenean Mountain Men carrying large blocks of ice on their heads, France Date: circa 1910s

Maid Packs her Bags
Unable to cope with the drudgery of being an Edwardian servant, the scullery maid packs her bags in her bedroom. Date: early 1900s (re-enactment)

Social / Good Housekeeping
Scene in a middle-class English home: he wears Oxford bags, she lies on the floor and smokes a cigarette in a long holder. Date: 1927

Well-Nourished Pair 1475
A well-nourished townsman wears pattens to venture into the muddy streets : his lady wears pointed shoes to stay at home in, and a starched cap like a nuns : both have bags Date: circa 1475

Isabella Ii / Tissot / Vf 69
ISABELLA II, QUEEN OF SPAIN (reigned 1833-68) On her travels Date: 1830 - 1904

Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? Yes, sir; yes, sir, three bags full: one for the master, one for the dame, and one for the little boy that lives in our lane

Volunteers working on the docks at Dover during the General
The Cambridge volunteers, the light blue brigade, attired in berets, pull-overs, flannel bags and voluminous plus-fours, worked efficiently as porters and dockers during the General Strike

Miners with colliery official, South Wales
Two miners with a colliery official at a mine in South Wales

Old woman vagrant asleep in park, London
An elderly female tramp or vagrant sleeps at the foot of a tree in one of Londons parks. Her head rests on one of her bags

Portuguese family having a picnic
A Portuguese family having a picnic in the shade of a low roof

Policemen with gas masks
A group of London policemen kitted up with gas masks and respirators (in canvas bags), prior to the outbreak of World War Two

War Reserve policemen, London
A group of War Reserve policemen in London pose for their photograph during the Second World War. They are wearing tin helmets and striped armbands

Croatia - National Folk Costume
Croatia - Two Young women in National Folk Costume, holding decorated bags and wearing striped scarves around their necks

The Stronger Sex by Webster Murray
An elegant woman in fashionable fur collared coat and cloche hat enjoys some light Christmas shopping while her male companion follows behind laden with bags, boxes and gifts

Japanese packhorse with bags of rice

Sand bags WWII
Mrs. Storer and family stop to watch excavators at work in Hyde Park, London, digging earth for sand bags during World War II

Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (2 / 4)
World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings

Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (4 / 4)
World War Two - British Home Front - London. Young men, boys and women of all ages fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings

Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (1 / 4)
World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings

Filling Sandbags - WW2 Home Front (3 / 4)
World War Two - British Home Front - London. Men and young boys fill sandbags in the street. The sandbags were piled against buildings

Turkish Fountain with Water Carriers
A Turkish fountain at Constantinople. Three Turkish water carriers filling up their backpack water bags at the source

Cocoa beans being lifted from a canal barge
Two workers lift Gold Coast cocoa beans from a low canal barge. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

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

Carrying his ladys luggage by Florence Hardy
Once I loved a Maiden fair. A young man carrying his ladys bags and parcels

Mexican itinerant brush salesman, also a seller of mats, hand brooms and small bags

Party Game - identifying by smell
A boy in an Eton style suit takes a sniff at assorted muslin bags containing solids that must be identified by smell

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Melon Market
The Melon Market at Smyrna (Izmir)

Scene on a road in Pakistan
Scene on a track in a province formerly in North-west India, which now forms part of modern-day Pakistan. A man and a woman travel together, the woman seted on a donkey, her face completely covered

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