Blankets Collection (page 2)

Tibbo man with musket leading a camel laden with saddle, blankets.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

WW1 - German women make blankets out of newspapers at the Palace of the German Princess in Berlin. Date: 1915

Front cover of The Sphere for Christmas 1915, WW1
Front cover of The Sphere for Christmas 1915, with two Christmas trees, a photo of a soldier in the snow, and advertisements for the Willett Light, Ronuk polishes, Shoolbreds blankets and linens

Illustrated War News - Tommy at the Front
Front cover of The Illustrated War News with a photograph of typical British Tommies at the Front with blankets over their uniform to ward against the cold. Date: 1916

Scouts distributing blankets in Zakynthos, Greece
Scouts helping nurses with the distribution of blankets on the island of Zakynthos (Zante), Greece. Many earthquakes hit the island in August 1953

A blanket converted into an overcoat for British soldiers
The blanket as overcoat. With the shortage of military overcoats, a suggestion for converting a blanket into a warm and practical coat

The General Strike - clearing up Hyde Park 1926
Clearing up in Hyde Park after the end of the General Strike: packing blankets used by volunteers for return to army stores

Horse in bed

Winter scene in Holland - horse-drawn sleigh
Horse-drawn sleigh on the Arresleede, The Netherlands. The horses shoes are spiked to give more grip. Date: 1910s

Poster: I need your Rags. A man in uniform explains that rags are needed for salvage, to make engine wipers, blankets, uniforms, overcoats, etc as part of the War Effort. circa 1940s

Poster requesting Rags for salvage
Poster: request for Rags for salvage. Rags are needed to make engine wipers, blankets, uniforms, overcoats, gun wadding, charts, roofing felt, maps, etc

Flower Sellers - Rome - Piazza di Spagna

Taking coffee in bed
A well-to-do lady takes her breakfast coffee in bed. She has an elaborate coffee machine / percolator on her bedside table! Date: 1905

London bomb damage
Residents from the bomb damaged street, peer through a huge whole in their house, viewing the utter destruction caused by Goerings men, and salvaging clothes and blankets from the ruins

Social / Liverpool Slum
A family in a slum house in Liverpool Date: 1960

Collection van WWII
Blankets are collected by van to be used in refugee billets in England during World War II

Laundry on an Italian Submarine; Second World War, 1943
Photograph showing the crew of an Italian submarine airing their blankets and bedding on arrival at Malta in 1943. When Italy fell that year

A Summers Day on a Trans-Atlantic Liner, 1884
Engraving of the scene on the deck of trans-atlantic liner, with passengers on sun loungers. Despite the sun awning and the original caption, A Summers day on a trans-atlantic liner

Woman Crocheting 1940S
A young woman sitting in her armchair sews together crocheted squares, todays equivalent of knitting blankets for the troops during World War Two

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