Baskets Collection

Womens Institute activities during the First World War, making jam and wicker baskets to help with the war effort. 1915

Welsh Girls in Traditional Costume 1908
A group of seven Welsh girls in traditional costume. One of them holds a large doll on her lap, and three are holding baskets

Three cockle women of Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Three cockle women of South Wales, in a posed photograph. They are probably from the coastal village of Llangwm, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey - Large fig factory
The scale of the fig industry at Izmir is demonstrated in this postcard showing a huge warehouse with a multitude of baskets and workers

Oyster Catch / Whitstable
Oysters, found to be a valuable remedy for the influenza epidemic, are sorted and packed by fishermen in Whitstable, Kent, for distribution to the hospitals

Hop Picking in Kent - Boughton District Date: 1907

Cotton weavers at their looms, Preston, Lancashire
Women operating cotton weaving looms at the works of Messrs Horrockses, Crewdson and Co Ltd of Preston, Lancashire

Hereford Industrial School Basket Making
Boys sitting making baskets at the Hereford Industrial School. Date: early 1900s

Poster depicting cocoa pod gathering
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board depicting the gathering of cocoa pods

Smithfield Market 1870
The arrival of an early meat train at Smithfield Market in London: porters unload and move baskets and crates

Aberdeen Fish Market
Two market traders walk through Aberdeen Fish Market, Scotland, where thousands of fresh fish are set out in crates and wicker baskets

Window Gardening
A Victorian woman sits in a comfortable armchair reading a book, proud of her verdant display of plants decorating a large window

Frome Market 1930S
Well-dressed ladies carrying heavy wicker baskets of shopping, next to the fruit and vegetable stall at Frome farmers market, Somerset, England

Sorting Post 1930S
One of the hundreds of groups of auxiliaries at the General Post Office (GPO), dispatching parcels to distant colonies during the usual Christmas postal rush

Covent Garden Market
COVENT GARDEN Early morning; a 21 year-old chap (Alfred John Lewis) in a flat cap, stands surrounded by baskets and crates of apples, fruit and vegetables

Borough Market 1870
A busy day at the Borough food market

Champion Basket Carrier
A champion basket carrier steals the show at Covent Garden Market, London

Four Japanese women amid bamboo with a young child
Four Japanese women stand amid bamboo with a young child seated in the front and surrounded by hanging baskets of food and Japanese flags and figurines

Sorting Post 1930S
A postal worker at the General Post Office (GPO), at Mount Pleasant, north London, sorts out parcels on a conveyor belt in the warehouse

Poster, Connemara, Great Southern Railways, Ireland
Poster, Connemara, The Old Bog Road, Great Southern Railways, Ireland. Date: circa 1920

A succesful crop of potatoes grown using Hadfields Manure
A succesful crop of potatoes grown using Hadfields Special Potato Manure - George Hadfield & Co. Ltd. (Established 1820) - Bone, fertilizer & Vitriol Works, Liverpool. Date: circa 1910s

Japanese Pearl Divers Date: circa 1930s

A cockle woman of Pembrokeshire, South Wales
An elderly cockle woman of South Wales, in a posed photograph with a painted backdrop behind her

Basket Making, Gawleys Gate. Loch Neagh
Basket Making, Gawleys Gate. L. Neagh - a view of three men outside making baskets. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Antrim; Lough Neagh). Date: circa early 1900s

Vietnam - Children working as porters - Saigon
Vietnam - Children working as porters - at a Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) market. Date: circa 1910s

Street Banana Seller, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Date: circa 1910s

Pulling the Hops - Hop Pickers - West Malling, Kent. Date: 1938

The Flower Market - Nice, France (see: 10438642). Date: circa 1910s

Blitz in London -- salvaged mail, Calthorpe Street, WW2
Blitz in London -- following the bombing of Mount Pleasant Post Office on 18 June 1943, salvaged mail was temporarily piled up in nearby Calthorpe Street. Date: 1943

Jolly Grape Pickers
A grinning group of grape pickers pose for the camera in a vineyard in Champagne, France. Date: early 1930s

London Life - A Flower Seller in Piccadilly Circus Date: circa 1940

Woman selling Mangoes on the street - Dakar, Senegal
Moorish Woman selling Mangoes on the street - Dakar, Senegal Date: circa 1950s

Market Reports Series - Country Ducks arriving
One of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series. Country Ducks arrived in excellent condition. Date: 1903

Aylesbury Prison Laundry
Interior of laundry at Aylesbury prison. Uniformed women handle the washing on trolleys and in baskets which bear the convict arrow insignia. Date: circa 1900

Bosnian Market Scene - Sarajevo
Market Scene in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina

Laundry at National Childrens Home, Harpenden, Herts
Girls iron and fold clean washing in the laundry at the National Childrens Home, Harpenden, Hertfordshire

Billingsgate Fish Market - Fresh Haddock
Fresh Haddock brought to Billingsgate Fish Market in London on large wagons Date: 1912

St Nicholas Church on The Old Town Square in Prague. This famous baroque Church decorated with sculptures by Antonin Braun was completed in 1735

Noonday, Granada
This painting shows a busy street corner of Granada, a city in Andalusia, southern Spain, with men and women carrying shopping baskets and a white packhorse stood on the right. Date: circa 1915

Shop interior, Egypt Date: circa 1900s

Fig sorting - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, Turkey
Fig sorting at the Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory and depot at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

South Africa - a toddler looks down guiltily at broken eggs
South Africa - a toddler looks down guiltily at some broken eggs, spilled out from their laden basket. Date: circa 1930s

Clam Diggers sorting and grading their pickings, Boston, USA
Clam Diggers sorting and grading their pickings - Boston, Massachusetts, USA Date: circa 1910s

Basket seller, Japan
A Japanese man selling baskets from an overloaded cart Date: Late 19th Century

Carrying Turf / Ireland
A girl carrying peat in baskets strapped to a donkey

Woman & Wheelbarrow
A woman gardening with her wheelbarrow in a very well- kept garden full of roses, hanging baskets and other flower borders

Summer Holidays in the British Isles, with Cooks
Cover illustration for Summer Holidays in the British Isles, with Cooks World Travel Service, showing a West Country scene with people playing on a sandy beach, fishing nets and seagulls

A Fruit Market in Rio de Janeiro by Sir John Gilbert
Coloured engraving of a Brazilian woman carrying baskets of fruit at a market in Rio. Date: 1856

"Leaves from Life: a New Series of Studies by Edmund Blampied." A crowded Covent Garden

"The English Daumier Looks On Life: English Types by Blampied. Series 4: The Life of Park and Streets." Three delivery boys cross paths and have a chat in the park. Date: 1933

Men engaged in sporting activity in a field, possibly in Oxfordshire Date: circa 1890

Africa - African Market. Date: circa 1970s

Africa - African Market. Date: circa 1970s

Africa - Fruit Stall, Mombasa, Kenya. Date: circa 1970s

Libya - Saharan African Women at the Market. Date: circa 1910s

A Mozabite Grocer shop, Algeria. The Mozabite people or Banu Mzab are a Berber ethnic group inhabiting the M'zab natural region in the northern Sahara in Algeria. Date: circa 1910s

The Bazaar, Jusan, South Korea, early 1900s. Date: early 1900s

Dealer in eggs. Engraving after a 16th-century
Dealer in eggs. Engraving after a woodcut by Cesare Vecellio (ca. 1521-ca. 1601) from De gli habiti antichi, et moderni di diverse parti del mondo, Venice, 1590

Floor mosaic from the Basilica of St. Sophia in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was located in the apse of the first ecclesiastical building on the site of the basilica. First quarter of the 4th century AD

Floor mosaic from the Basilica of St. Sophia in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was located in the apse of the first ecclesiastical building on the site of the basilica. First quarter of the 4th century AD

Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). France. Central post office, installed in the Gallery of Battles of the Palace of Versailles. Drawing by Miranda. Engraving by Ricord

Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Siege of Paris (19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871). The central fresh food market in Paris (Les Halles) as the first provisions arrive. Drawing by Miranda

Roman tripod, Etruscan chair and vase
Ornate Roman metal tripod in the Museo di Portici 1, Etruscan chair with two baskets on the sides 2, and Etruscan vase owned by Conte Clementini 3

Costumes of the Netherlands, 1858. Man of north Holland with tobacco pipe, maid with yoke and baskets, couple from south Holland. Windmills, canals and canal house in the background

Costumes of Germany, 1858

Chinese peasants in a village, 1800s
Chinese peasants in a village. A man carries a yoke and baskets with produce. Village chinois et paysans

Costumes of Japan, 1800s

Two decorative baskets of tulips, roses, and other flowers. Botanical art specimens for drawing and colouring by amateur artists, porcelain and furniture painters

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - A Street Fruit Seller. Date: circa 1908

The Narrow Gauge Railway between Hailworth and Southwold, Suffolk, England - Southwold Railway Station. The line operated between 1879 and 1929 Date: circa 1912

Large group of workers Indian tea plantation, India
Vintage 19th century photograph: large group of workers Indian tea plantation, children, baskets of tea

Pool of London - Tower Bridge - River Thames
circa 1910s

CAT - Persian cat in hat and tie

Plum picking at Evesham, Worcestershire
circa 1910s

Hauling Produce Date: 1950

Advert for W. Thornhill & Co cases 1897 Advert for W. Thornhill & Co cases 1897
Selection of travelling dressing bags and cases, available from W. Thornhill & Co, in New Bond Street. Date: 1897

Woman wearing coolie straw hat, Aberdeen harbour, Hong Kong
A woman wearing a coolie straw hat sits among baskets on the harbourside of Aberdeen harbour, Hong Kong. She covers her face and takes a snooze Date: 1984

Kashmiri women wearing Kashmiri shirts with baskets of reeds
Kashmir - three young Kashmiri women wearing Kashmiri shirts and with baskets of reeds on their heads. The reeds are used for repairing the roofs of their homes Date: 1986

Native Market - Aden, Yemen - note the Sikh Indian and Arab merchants in the background. Date: circa 1906

Water Melon Seller, Cairo
A water melon seller with his laden donkey in a narrow Cairo street; baskets are lowered on ropes to collect slices of melon Date: 1912

Servicemen blinded during WW1 learning to make baskets and nets - 1920s Date: circa 1916

Blind ex-servicemen learning to make nets and baskets
Blind ex servicemen learning to make nets and baskets after WW1 Date: circa 1916

Market, Locarno, Lake Maggiore, Switzerland

Making bamboo baskets, Japan

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