Carrier Collection (page 8)

Despatch-riders wearing gas-masks under their steel helmets
Two despatch-riders looking at their map at one of the villages on the British front near Salonika. Wearing gas-masks under their steel helmets to protect them against the fumes from Bulgarian gas

Water carrier, India, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

Locals - Samarkand, Uzbekistan Date: 1907

Pigeons for message-carrying WWI
Going going gone! During the First World War, homing pigeons were used extensively to transport messages back to their home coop behind the lines. 1917

Chinese boy carrying his younger sibling on his back. Date: circa 1905

David Livingstone (1813-1873) through a swamp with a porter
David Livingstone (1813-1873). Scottish explorer. Livingstone through a swamp with a porter during his expedition to Africa in 1872. Engraving by Charles Laplante (d.1903)

Egyptian Art. Offering-bearer. c. 2150 B. C. Ny Carlsberg Gly
Egyptian Art. Offering-bearer. c. 2150 B.C. First Intermediate Period. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Temple of Ramses III. Sacred solar boat carried by priests. Relief. New Kingdom. (1550-1069 b.C). Twentieth dynasty. Thebes. Medinet-Habou. Egypt

Sacred solar boat carried by priests. Relief. Ramesseum. Egy
Ramesseum. Relief depicting the sacred solar boat carried by priests. 13th century B.C. Nineteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom. Necropolis of Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Egypt

Cameron, Verney Lovett (1844-1894). British traveler and explorer. Camerons Expedition to Central Africa (July 15, 1875). Nineteenth-century colored engraving

Book of Trades, The Water Carrier. 1841

Pueblo water-carriers from New Mexico, here showing a man carrying two ceramic pots with the help of a strap handle

Pigeon Post
A German soldier with a carrier pigeon, used for delivering messages during warfare. Date: 1930s

Parisian Water Carrier
A L EAU ! A Parisian water vendor carries two pails of water suspended from a shoulder- yoke. Date: circa 1815

Training Carrier Pigeons
A German soldier with a board on his back used to train carrier pigeons to carry vital military information and news. Date: 1930s

FRENCH CARRIER BEARN
The Bearn of the French navy spent World War Two at Martinique to keep her out of German hands : by that time she was too slow for front line work, but did ferrying Date: launched 1920

Aircraft Carrier Langley
The U.S.S. Langley plane carrier of the American navy, carries planes on both its upper and lower decks Date: 1927

France / Paris / Chatelet
Scene at the Grand Chatelet, Paris, at the end of the 18th century, with market stalls, shops with street displays, a water-carrier and a porter Date: 1800

Leaving Home
Going to service a girl takes leave of her mother while her sister puts her things in the carriers wagon, on the way to a job as a servant Date: 1870

South Africa postman
Native South Africa letter carrier, carrying a message in a cleft stick Date: 1868

London water carrier in Hampstead
A London water carrier in Hampstead. He is carrying two wooden buckets hanging from a yoke across his shoulders. Date: 1850

Western Canada - British Columbia Indian Children Date: 1928

Toledo, Ohio, USA - Ore Boat on Maumee Bay. Lake freighters, or Lakers, are bulk carrier vessels that ply the Great Lakes. Date: 1925

Moroccan water carrier with containers and bell
Moroccan water carrier in a street with containers and bell. Date: circa 1930

Early Aircraft Carrier - HMS Furious
Aft view of HMS Furious, a modified Courageous-class battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the First World War. Modified during construction for use as an aircraft carrier

Mother baby and Mothers sister - Eastbourne, East Sussex. Date: late 1930s

Workers with delivery cart, Brighton, Sussex
Group of workers with delivery cart belonging to a Brighton company, but taken by a Hastings photographer. 19th century

RAF Seafox Seaplane
The Fairey Seafox - a 1930s British reconnaissance floatplane designed and built by Fairey for the Fleet Air Arm. It was designed to be catapulted from the deck of a light cruiser

Charcoal Carriers, Amalfi Coast, Italy
Two elderly Charcoal Carriers, with heavy sacks on their backs walk up a steep coastal road - Amalfi Coast, Italy. Date: 1904

Queen and Prince Philip inspecting parade on Albion
Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, stand in a Land Rover to carry out an inspection of a parade on board the aircraft-carrier, Albion

Sea Furies on HMS Centaur aircraft carrier
A line of Sea Furies on the flight deck of HMS Centaur (R06) aircraft carrier. Date: circa 1954

Pigeons and their motor lorry home at the front, WWI
H.M. " Air" Service - Petrol and Pigeons at the Front. A motor lorry behind the lines, converted into a home for carrier pigeons, used to carry message at the front

French Theatre -- Farce du Porteur d Eau
Farce du Porteur d Eau (Farce of the Water Carrier). A water carrier with two buckets suspended from a metal ring says how much he likes to see pretty girls as he walks along the street. Date: 1632

White Carrier Cock Pigeon
A portrait of a White Carrier Cock standing in full-length with one other of its kind nesting in the background. The portrait brings to attention its distinctive features

Dun Carrier Cock Pigeon
A full-length portrait of a Dun Carrier Cock. The Dun Carrier Cock is an English fancy breed of pigeon. The large cere above the beak is one of the characteristics

Sopwith 2F1 Camel aft, climbing away from carrier HMS Furious

Grumman F7F-2N Tigercat -too big for carrier operation and too late for the war

Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat -the US Navys highest scoring carrier fighter of the war

Fiesler Fi 167A -intended as a carrier -going torpedo bomber With no carrier, available, only 14 were built, 9 being sold to Croatia in September 1944

Blackburn Skua with arrester wire hook down landing aboard an aircraft carrier

Blackburn Roc-a woeful attempt to mimic all the shortfalls of the Boulton Paul Defiant onto a carrier-going fighter

Camaieu decoration on Sevres pottery.. Chromolithograph by Gillot of an illustration by Edouard Garnier from The Soft Paste Porcelain of Sevres, Maison Quantin, Paris, 1891

HMS Furious, . After conversion to aircraft carrier Date: 1940s

Aircraft Carrier HMS Indefatigable (R10), Portland, Dorset
Aircraft Carrier HMS Indefatigable (R10), Portland, near Weymouth, Dorset, England. Taken in Portland Harbour Date: 1940s

Aircraft Carrier HMS Implacable (R86), Portland, Dorset
Aircraft Carrier HMS Implacable (R86), Portland, near Weymouth, Dorset, England. Taken in Portland Harbour Date: 1940s

Distributing water, Golden Gate, Jerusalem
Distributing water at the Golden Gate, Jerusalem. Date: 1920s

HMS Vindictive, converted to an aircraft carrier
HMS Vindictive, former British Hawkins class heavy cruiser, after conversion to an aircraft carrier in 1918. Flying off platform fore, flying on deck aft. Date: 1918

USS Charles Ausburn, American destroyer
USS Charles Ausburn (DD294), American destroyer and sea plane carrier. Date: 1926

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