Carries Collection (page 10)

River Days - Couple going boating
A young couple spending River Days out boating The gentleman is doing the gentlemanly thing and carrying the picnic hamper, the cushions and the oars! Date: circa 1906

Rue Saint Vincent - Old Montmartre, Paris
An itinerant singer, his guitar strapped to his back, strolls along Rue Saint Vincent - Montmartre, Paris, France. Date: circa 1910s

Coronation. Queen Mother enters the Abbey
The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret enters the Abbey through the West Door. 1953

John Mark carrying the Olympic torch, opening ceremony, 1948
The athlete and Surbiton medical student John Mark, a former Cambridge blue and quarter-miler, circles Wembley Arena with the Olympic torch. Date: 1948

Stele-carrying turtle - Ming Tombs Nanjing, China
Stele-carrying turtle at the Ming Dynasty Tombs Nanjing, China Date: circa 1910s

John Mark lights the Olympic bowl, opening ceremony, 1948
The athlete and Surbiton medical student John Mark, a former Cambridge blue and quarter-miler, lights the bowl on the peristyle, on the east terrace of Wembley Stadium

Coronation. The Queen Mothers coach arrives
The Irish State coach carrying the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret arrives at the West Door of Westminster Abbey. 1953

Switzerland - Two women carrying logs - Contadine
Switzerland - Two Swiss rural farm women, standing on a high road in the morning light, carrying logs in huge wicker backpack baskets. Date: circa 1910s

Porter in Thessalonika
Indigenous barefooted elderly Turkish porter, carrying a small wooden cabinet - Thessalonika Date: circa 1910s

Aboriginal Mother and Baby with supplies
An aboriginal Mother, carrying her baby on her back, taking food obtained from the Tea and Sugar train back to her wurley (a shelter or hut, made of branches and leaves)

Street Trades / Bread
London characters: the BAKER spend his nights baking, then in the day he carries his loaves from door to door. Does he ever sleep ? Date: circa 1870

Dog with Card and Holly
A dog carries a blank card and some holly in his mouth on the front of this Christmas card. 1890

Scots Knight 14th Cent
A Scots knight - probably a chief of the Isles - depicted on the isle of Iona : he carries a spear as well as a long broadsword, and wears a tartan surcoat. Date: 1306

Horse Litter (Smith)
A well-to-do lady peers from beneath the canopy of her horse litter as it carries her bumpily through the English countryside, slowly and probably sickmakingly. Date: 1325

16th Century Knight
A knight rides forth, sword in hand, accompanied by his squire who carries his lance for him. Date: 1517 ?

Horse Bus, Denmark
A horse bus makes its way through the slushy Amagertorv, Copenhagen, at Juletid (Yuletide) : a pedestrian carries home a Christmas tree. Date: 1888

Two Ladies of 1800
Two ladies in morning dress; both wear round gowns caught at the neck, one carries a capacious bag - too big for a handbag, so perhaps its her knitting or sketch materials Date: February 1800

Racial / Asia / Vietnam 19C
Four people from Annam, central Vietnam; one man carries a spear, the other holds a fan made of feathers Date: late 19th century

German Townsfolk 1580
Respectable townsfolk : she carries a dangling reticule and wears several necklaces beneath her high ruff Date: circa 1580

Girl Minds Baby Brother
A young girl carries her baby brother. Date: circa 1900

Hospital Ward / 1888
A nurse carries a cup of tea to a patient in the one of the wards in London Hospital, Whitechapel Date: 1888

Bismarck Speaks Peace
Bismarck presents himself as a man of peace, holding out an olive branch... but he still wears his spiked helmet, and carries a sword... Date: 1888

Ships of the Conquest
696 vessels of this type, similar to Viking boats, are used by duke William to bring his forces to England. Each carries about 100 men. In the foreground is the Commander s. Date: 1066

Reconnaisance Airship
An airship of the future carries out a reconnaisance flight, using powerful searchlights to reveal the enemys defences. Date: 1907

Boy with Clover
A boy carries a basket of four-leaf clover which will surely bring you good luck during the year to come... Date: 1909

My Wonderful One by Lawson Wood
My Wonderful One - humourous postcard illustration by Lawson Wood

Mule transports Kerosene in Iraq
Iraq - a mule is used to transport wooden cases of Palm Tree refined petroleum (kerosene), manufactured by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company

Man and Woman of Issinia, Upper Guinea, West Africa. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

A man and woman of Naples, Italy. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

A man and woman from St Petersburg, Russia. A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Calcutta, India - Indian Palanquin
Calcutta (Kolkata), India - Indian Palanquin

Nigeria, Miango Man
Nigeria, Africa - A man from Miango

Japanese packhorse with bags of rice

Egyptian Orange Seller with hand cart shouts out the nature of his wares to everyone within earshot

El Kantara, Constantine, Algeria
A woman carrying a huge bundle of palm branches on her back in the suburb of El Kantara, Constantine, Algeria

Young Algerian girl and baby
A young Algerian girl carrying her baby

Street of Book Sellers, Grand Bazaar, Constantinople
A view of the Street of Book Sellers at the Grand Bazaar, Constantinople. In the old days of the Ottoman Empire it was said that the only thing a Gentleman could carry in the street was a watermelon

Brush salesman
A brush seller in Constantinople, Turkey

Elderly porter - Constantinople, Turkey
An elderly porter carrying a leather case with a rug on top

Coal Merchant, showing a classic example of a leather back support, which enabled such potentially heavy and awkward loads to be transported

Persian Dervish with young son, carrying a club. Dervish or Darvesh in Persian usually refers to a person who is a seeker of the truth i.e. universal truth

Carrying children in baskets - China
Chinese beggar woman in Shanghai carrying her two young children in baskets suspended from a yolk on her shoulders

Firewood Carrier - Japan
An old man carries two very large and very neat bundles of firewood on a yolk, Japan

Chinese Woman carrying a plant
Chinese Woman carrying a potted plant ina wicker bag

Kissing the Hand 1921
A lady in a ball dress is kissed upon the hand by an admirer. The large red fan she carries in the other may come in handy to beat the men away!

Carrying away an unexploded bomb
Volunteer carrying away an unexploded bomb, which fell in Bromley, Kent - one of a payload of twenty two bombs

Christmas dinner in danger
A small girl carries a steaming Christmas dinner thorough the snowy streets on a tray, although the hungry local dogs don t make her passage an easy afair. Date: 1882

Braila, Romania - Tea Seller
Tea Seller in Braila, Romania. The Turkish men give an idea of the extent of Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century)

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