Bucket Collection (page 12)

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

British Playschool
Boys playing with a mechanical bucket toy in a playschool sandpit. Date: 1960s

Swan Eating
A swan reaches for his ration from a metal bucket at the Great Swannery, Abbotsbury, Dorset, England. Date: 1960s

Australian soldiers at village pump, Fleurbaix, France, WW1
Two Australian soldiers drawing water at the village pump in Fleurbaix, northern France, during the First World War, watched by two little boys. Date: May 1916

Ossalois Guide and his bride-to-be
Pyrenees - border between France and Spain - the Ossalois people (who live in the vall?d Ossau). The gentleman on the left is a mountain guide in his distinctive short red felt jacket

Silhouette - Family riding on a wagon, led by two horses and containing (as well as themselves) a tray of pot plants, a birdcage, a chair, a table and a bucket. The artist is Karl Frohlich. 1856

Dunderpate and his friend Susan with broken crockery
Dunderpate and his friend Susan clearing up the crockery which he accidentally broke when he ran indoors. Date: 1938

Allied soldiers at a well, Salonika, WW1
Allied soldiers (Russian, Italian and possibly French) collecting water from a well at Salonika (Salonica, Thessaloniki, Greece) during the First World War. Date: August 1916

A Crack Truffle-hunting team setting out, France
A Crack Truffle-hunting team setting out, Lot, France. The fruits of their sniffing, snuffling and truffling labours can be seen in the basket on the right. Date: circa 1908

I ve broken the ice
Dog with his nose frozen after dipping it in an icy bucket of water. Date: circa 1920

J Hassall. Elsie Marleys grown so fine
Elsie Marleys grown so fine, she won t get up to feed the swine, but lays in bed till after nine, lazy Elsie Marley. 20th century

German wartime poster, how to deal with a fire bomb -- tackle it with water or sand. 1940s

Russian Basket Maker Date: circa 1907

Who wears the Trousers?
With you... Who wears the Trousers? Date: 1902

D Carleton-Smyth. Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill... 20th century

JL. Simple Simon
Simple Simon fishing in a bucket... late 19th century

J Hassall. Jack & Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water... 20th century

VIIIme Exposition Suisse D Agriculture (2 / 3)
Promotional postcard for the VIIIme Exposition Suisse D Agriculture (8th Swiss Agricultural Exhibition) at Lausanne, Switzerland (2/3) Date: 1910

Family & Beach Cricket
A family pose for a photograph on the beach at Weston-super-Mare in front of the Grand Pier with all their beach toys: cricket bat and stumps, a racquet and ball

Washing Oysters / Photo
OYSTER INDUSTRY - fishermen washing oysters Date: 1930

Wheel of gipsy caravan with bucket
The wheel of a gipsy caravan with a metal bucket sitting next to it

His Artistic Temperament by Muriel Dawson
A little boy in yellow shorts tests out his creativity on a pail of paint that has been rather carelessly left on the floor

Sunny Boy by Muriel Dawson
A jolly little boy in a bathing suit having fun on the beach

Off We Go by Muriel Dawson
A little girl, laden with toys, bucket and spade heads off excitedly to the beach

Part of a room to let, East End of London
Interior of a house in the East End of London where the demand for cheap accommodation was such that even a part of a room might be sub-let as indicated by the notice on the window

House interior, East End of London
The interior of a house in the East End of London. A woman has her hands in a wooden wash tub and further buckets are on the floor nearby

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