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Bales Collection (page 3)

Background imageBales Collection: Grass Cutters - Mules bringing in the fodder

Grass Cutters - Mules bringing in the fodder - India

Background imageBales Collection: Japanese packhorse with bags of rice

Japanese packhorse with bags of rice

Background imageBales Collection: Loading up a camel - Algeria

Loading up a camel - Algeria. There is a set of scales (and administration desk) in the background to make sure the weight of the goods is correctly recorded prior to departure

Background imageBales Collection: Firewood Carrier - Japan

Firewood Carrier - Japan
An old man carries two very large and very neat bundles of firewood on a yolk, Japan

Background imageBales Collection: Scotland - Abbey Church - St Mary, Iona

Scotland - Abbey Church - St Mary, Iona. Existing building founded in c.1203 by Benedictines near the site of St Columbas Church c.563

Background imageBales Collection: Riverside scene - Pakistan

Riverside scene - Pakistan
A Pakistani man gathering tall reeds/rushes growing alongside a small stream. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Background imageBales Collection: Men and women collect and tie reed bundles

Men and women collect and tie reed bundles
Collecting and tieing reed bundles by a stream in a province formerly part of India and now wiithin modern Pakistan. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Background imageBales Collection: Building a mill at an outdoor hay store at Oran, Algeria

Building a mill at an outdoor hay store at Oran, Algeria
Construction of a mill out of hay at Oran; also transliterated as Ouahran. From the Berber word Wahran, the plural of Wahra, i.e. " lion"

Background imageBales Collection: Landing Cotton at Liverpool, 1875

Landing Cotton at Liverpool, 1875
Engraving showing the deck of a cargo ship as it is unloaded at Liverpool docks, by stevedores and dock workers. At left can be seen the bales of cotton and on the right

Background imageBales Collection: Dore / Warehouse by River

Dore / Warehouse by River
Dockers handling barrels and bales in a warehouse from which, if they raise their eyes, they can see a distant prospect of St Paul s

Background imageBales Collection: Shooting cotton bales into a river-steamer

Shooting cotton bales into a river-steamer
Cotton bales leaving the exit of a 350 foot downhill shoot and landing on the front of the paddle boat steamer, the Magnolia

Background imageBales Collection: Cotton shoot on the Alabama

Cotton shoot on the Alabama
Cotton shoot of around 350 feet in length used to send bales of cotton from high up on a steep river-bank down to a passing paddle steam-ship, Magnolia

Background imageBales Collection: The Great Wool-floor at the London Docks

The Great Wool-floor at the London Docks
The great wool-floor at the London Docks. The London Dock Company enlarged the warehouse for receiving wool imports from the colonies in the 1840 s

Background imageBales Collection: Royal Albert Dock / Wool

Royal Albert Dock / Wool
Unloading bales of wool at the Royal Albert Dock in the Port of London

Background imageBales Collection: Hazardous Street

Hazardous Street
One man crosses a busy street while a couple are caught between a horse cab & a loaded wagon in the days before pedestrian crossings. An accident waiting to happen

Background imageBales Collection: Mississipi Steamboat

Mississipi Steamboat
A Mississippi river steamer fully laden with bales of cotton, at New Orleans, Louisiana



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