Carries Collection (page 5)

C Squadron Inns of Court Regiment Memorial, Normandy
The Memorial is at la Breche de la Valette just behind Juno Beach. It carries their motto - Salus Populus Suprema Lex (The Welfare of the people shall be the supreme law)

2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers Memorial, Asnelles
The Borderers were part of 231st Brigade of 50th Northumbrian Division who landed here on D-Day. The black Memorial carries inscriptions in English

Mother carries her baby, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa
Mother carries her baby, in a sling on her back, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa Date: circa 1930s

Villagers in Sierra Leone with a captured Boa Constrictor
Villagers in Sierra Leone carry a captured Boa Constrictor. Date: circa 1930s

Fish Sellers - Cairo, Egypt. The taller gentleman on the left (holding the scales) appears to be blind. Date: circa 1910s

Mule-drawn Palanquin (Sedan Chair) - Tourist occupant
Mule-drawn Palanquin (Sedan Chair) - with an American Tourist occupant (note the Star and Stripes flag on the roof!) - probably in Syria. Date: circa 1905

Japanese Water Carrier ( Coolie ). Note the traditional costume of a rice farmer. He wears a reed cape (Mino), a traditional Japanese garment, a raincoat made out of straw

Loading Bananas - Port Antonio, Jamaica. Date: circa 1910s

China - carrying young children in baskets hanging on a pole
China - carrying two young children in baskets hanging on the ends of a pole resting on the shoulder. Date: circa 1910s

Bohdan Chmielnicki
BOHDAN CHMIELNICKI Russian military commander, hetman of the Cossacks and duke of Ukraine : he carries a mace as symbol of his office. Date: 1593 - 1657

Suffragette Trampling on Policeman Ceramic
A gloriously victorious suffragette stands with arms outstretched on the head of a prostrate policeman. She is dressed in the colours of the W.S.P.U - purple, white and green

Transport - Sedan Chair carried by donkeys - Beijing, China
Transport - Sedan Chair carried by donkeys - near Beijing, China Date: circa 1910s

The Cotton Harvest at Bondoukou, Ivory Coast
The Cotton Harvest at Bondoukou (Bonduku, Bontuku) a town in the Bondoukou Department of Ivory Coast, located in the Zanzan Region. Date: circa 1910s

Kabyle Children - Algeria. The Kabyle are Berbers from North Eastern Algeria - estimate population today approx. 5 million individuals. Date: 1910

Irish Girl from Kildare - A Little Irish Colleen Date: 1904

The Transit of Venus - Comic Postcard
A comic postcard depiting a rotund woman (a very classical frame!) being transported home from the pub by two stretcher-bearing Bobbies

Elderly lady fruit seller - Nassau, Bahamas Caption: " Anything Today Missus?" Date: 1945

Children carrying holly and mistletoe
Two small children wandering through the snow carrying huge sprigs of holly and mistletoe. c.1920

The results of getting married
Beautiful postcard by Lance Thackeray entitled Amateur Gardening - A Labour of Love. A handsome gent pushes his lovely wife around their walled garden in a green wooden wheelbarrow

Ambala, India - Women carrying chatties of water Date: circa 1910s

Old Woman carrying firewood - Northern India
Old Woman carrying firewood she has gathered on her back in a large bundle - Northern India Date: circa 1910s

Africa woman carrying maize on her head
A Native Beauty - Africa. A superb photograph of a young woman carrying corn (maize) in a basket balanced on her head. Date: circa 1930s

Ancient Irish Costume
A man and woman of ancient Ireland, well wrapped in their cloaks against the cold : he carries a spear against dangerous encounters. Date: early centuries AD

15th Century Ships
Warships of the period of Edward IV. The larger vessel carries three cannon amidships, behind closed ports which are lowered when the ship goes into action. Date: 1482

Dwarf and his Mistress
Dwarf from the Orient carries the train of his mistresss robe Date: 17th Century (?)

German recruitment poster designed by Lucian Zabel: Pioniere heraus! A German soldier carries a shovel, pickaxe and rifle, prepared for every eventuality

Tarsus, Turkey - Gate of St. Paul
The Gate of St Paul - Tarsus, Turkey. A city in Mersin Province, near to the city of Adana. With a history going back over 9, 000 years Tarsus has long been an important stop for traders

Link Boy, 18th Century
A barefoot LINKBOY carries a flaming torch with which he will illuminate the path of a gentleman, in the absence of any fixed street lighting

Hermes & Zeus (Lagrenee)
Hermes carries the infant Zeus to the nymphs of Melissa for safe-keeping

Berliner Helicopter 1922
American inventor Henry Berliner, son of helicopter pioneer Emile Berliner, carries on his fathers work and is here seen testing his 1922 model, one of a series

Suez Canal Opened 1869
The procession of boats, one of which carries the French Emperor, passes El Guist, watched by thousands - many of whom are doubtless workers who helped build the Canal

Dick Whittington by J. Hickory Wood and Arthur Collins. Card number 1 of eight cards produced to advertise the Drury Lane pantomime of 1908

Mayford School, Woking - Farmyard
Farmyard at Mayford School, near Woking, Surrey. Boys with pitchforks work at a haystack. Another carries buckets. Date: circa 1930

Fragment of a Krater. Italy 30-20 BC. Marble. Artemis carries a torch as the Goddess of the Night and Darkness, and a quiver as the Goddess of the Hunt. Behind her is a pine tree

Japan - Girl carrying her younger sister on her back - she is holding a paper lantern in her right hand and a wide parasol umbrella in her left. Date: circa 1910s

A porter, Aleppo, Syria
A porter with a heavy load, walking along a street in Aleppo, Syria. Date: circa 1920s

Women WW1 Work Milk Woman
Captioned, Womans Work in War Time, a young girl carries a lidded pail to deliver milk. Date: circa 1917

Carrying a heavy load on the head - Sudan. Date: circa 1910s

Farmer and his crop
Farmer standing amid his crop holding two sheaves of corn. Date: 1945

Programme cover - Dick Whittington - Pantomime at the Empire Theatre, High Street, Penge - A Feast of Fun for All Date: circa 1940

Mexico - Indigenous Village Scene - Mother on mule
Mexico - Indigenous Village Scene - Mother riding on mule with large wicker panniers, each ontaining one of her three children, the third leading the (laden) animal. Date: 1902

Mexico - Indigenous Village Scene - Mother and Child Date: 1902

Spanish Chestnut Seller (Castanero). Date: 1902

USA - Washington Bridge and Harlem River - Washington Bridge and Haarlem River. Carries 6 lanes of roadway and pedestrians. Crosses Harlem River. Locale: Manhattan and The Bronx, in New York City

Mexico - Seller of Wooden boards (which he is carrying on his back). He certainly looks a little bored, his face set with a plank expression... !! Date: circa 1910s

Transporting Hay by ox cart in Hungary - the load is so extensive (and so beautifully sculpted) - there is only the smallest indication of a spoked wheel peeking out at the rear. Date: circa 1910s

Come take a fly with me - Futuristic take on Airship Travel as a couple step aboard a shi perched on a high rise building. Date: 1911

Entrance to the Thermal Baths (Spa) at Aix-les-Bains, France. Date: circa 1905

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