Bucket Collection (page 11)

Russian Country Folk
Russian Country Family Date: circa 1904

Cheeky young Puppy avoids bathtime
A cheeky young pup escapes the possibility of bathtime by making a run for it from his wooden tub. Brother and Sister are about to give chase! Date: circa 1950s

Resinier collecting resin of a pine tree, France
Resinier collecting the resin of a leaning pine tree in the Landes Forest, France. The forest is in the historic Gascony natural region of southwestern France now known as Aquitaine

Advice to would-be brides - The housework ahead
Advice to ladies about to be married - To get used to house-work! Try a few weeks Charing. The sender of this card has added the waggish line: " Hope you won t grease the stairs for me

Corsica - Corsican woman with bucket on her head
Corsica - Corsican woman carrying a hard timber wooden bucket on her head, her other hand holding a jar (possibly containing oil?). Date: 1920s

Singapore - Tapping a rubber tree. Date: circa 1930

Norway - Traditional Costume - Mother and daughter
Norwegian Mother and daughter (and pet dog!) in traditional dress. Good examples of Hardanger embroidery or Hardangersom - a form of embroidery traditionally worked with white thread on white

A well at Estremoz, Portugal Date: circa 1910

Elderly woman with a bucket on her head Date: 1905

Two girls help their mother with the housework; one holds a bucket of water, the other shakes down a mat. c. 1910

Neddys Turn by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy gives his toy horse a wash. 1946

Water seller (18th c. ). Engraving. FRANCE. Paris
Water seller (18th c.). Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. Mus饠 Carnavalet (Carnavalet Museum)

Tools and Carpenters making a bucket and a bellows
" Tools and Carpenters making a bucket and a bellows. Plate 2 for the article " Boisselier" of the Encyclopedia

Circus montage, including chimps tea party; an elephant, woman standing on a horese, dolphin, a seal balancing a ball and a dog jumping through a clowns hoop

Holiday Rep
People You See. Holiday Rep. From Teddy Bear (11 July 1970)

Pandemonium in the farm yard. A tractor has been driven into the pond and many children rush to help

The Redcoat
People You See. From Teddy Bear (5 September 1970)

Jack and Jill went up the hill

Laying cement. Fathers newly laid cement path is ruined by the pet dog

At the stables

Elephant Keeper
People You See. From Teddy Bear (22 August 1964)

The Zoo Keeper
People You See. From Teddy Bear (21 November 1964)

Gas Meter Man
People You See: The Gas-Meter Man. From Teddy Bear (1 February 1964)

Seven Hills to Happiness. Front cover from Once Upon a Time no. 52 (7 February 1970)

Punch and Judy show at the seaside

Castles in the Sand. Poem by Marie Cleeve Dainton

Robertson balloon flight, Munich, Germany
Robertson ascending in a balloon from a square in Munich, Germany, watched by a crowd of spectators. A small parachute is attached to one side of the balloon

Well bucket and bush warbler. Print shows a bird perched on the edge of a square bucket hanging by a rope. Date between 1830 and 1860

Viewing Mount Fuji from a bucket boat going down the River Oi. Print shows several people in a large tub floating down the River Oi with a view of Mount Fuji in the background. Date ca. 1836

Changing Role of Women in the UK
The Girls reckon they can do anything without us men now-a-days - But can they? Interesting postcard highlighting the changing role of Women in the UK workplace in the early years of the twentieth

Two men from Lajes do Pico, Azores
Costumes of two men from Lajes do Pico, a municipality on the Island of Pico in the Azores. Date: circa 1910s

A man and woman of Bahaharana, Africa
Plate entitled A man and woman of Bahaharana in the dress of the country. He carries a large club and she carries a bucket

Sea Scouts washing the deck of a boat or ship. 20th century

Little girl on a postcard, hanging up the washing
A little girl on a greetings postcard hangs up the washing on the line. Date: early 20th century

Sea Scouts bailing out water from boats, Lower Thames
Sea Scouts bailing out water from boats on the Lower Thames. circa 1950

Cub scouts washing police car, Surrey
Cub Scouts washing and cleaning a Police Triumph Herald car in Surrey during Scout Job Week. 1974

Spring-Cleaning in the Library
A maid gets distracted by books and newspapers in a library. Date: 1923

Village scenes, Romania
Village scenes in Romania including a wonderful well with huge timber lever bucket-lifting apparatus, an inset picture of a pretty Romanina woman in traditonal country costume and village houses

Romanian country types
An early illustrated postcard depicting country types. A woman in traditional costume stands with water bucket by the village well with a man in official (military?) attire

Stock Exchange Notes (2 / 4) - Bull Market
Stock Exchange Notes - Unexpected Bull movements created great excitement! 1903

Romanian Woman by the well
A Romanian woman standing by the village well. This is likely to be a lever-action well, where the bucket and rope are attached to a long wooden lever

Milkmaids and Cow
Two milkmaids have milked a cow into a small bucket and now they are emptying the small bucket into a larger one. Date: circa 1820

Armenian refugees at Baku, Armenia, WW1
Armenian refugees at Baku, Armenia, towards the end of the First World War. Date: August 1918

Old French Water Carrier smoking a pipe
Old French Water Carrier from Morlaix, Brittany - smoking a pipe. Date: circa 1910s

Working the paddy fields - Japan Date: circa 1910

Armenian Bathhouse - Sulphur Baths. The attendant is wearing a camel hair mitten, which is using to rub the bather all over which cleanses and exfoliates! Date: circa 1910s

A woman from Normandy at the well
A woman from Normandy, France collecting a bucket of water at a well. A yolk rests against the brick surround of the well. Date: circa 1910s

Scrubbing Kitchen Floor
A housewife kneels down as she scrubs the kitchen floor with a scrubbing brush and an enamel bucket of water. Date: 1940s

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