Carry Collection (page 17)

An Adirondack carry. Date c1902

Rustic Lodge and Indian carry, Upper Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mountains. Date c1902

Oh carry me back to ole Virginny. Tobacco package label showing African American banjo player, woman, and three children in cabin. Date c1859

Dhule, India - A beggar is carried in a two-man litter
A beggar is carried in a one-man litter (with two bearers) at Dhule, India - a city and a Municipal Corporation in Dhule district in northwestern part of Maharashtra State. Date: circa 1910s

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

Sugar means ships - The consumption of sugar sweetened drinks must be reduced For your beverages 400 million lbs. of sugar were imported in ships last year - Every ship is needed to carry soldiers

Land Army Girls carry milk pails, 1939
Two women at the Cheshire School of Agriculture pictured carrying milk pails to the dairy. Here, Womens Land Army volunteers learnt all classes of farm work from feeding pigs to milking the cows

Carrying grapes - Portugal. A line of men with large heavy baskets of grapes leave the vineyard. The baskets are supported with thick leater head straps

Shot Indian tiger carried on elephant, Nepal
An Indian tiger shot by the Maharajah of Nepal, carried on the back of a hunting elephant. This photograph was taken by Johnston & Hoffman of Calcutta

Fruiterers Sports Day, Crystal Palace, London

Empire Exhibition - South Africa
Empire Exhibition - Johannesburg, South Africa, 1936. A group of native ladies carrying large gourds filled with beer on their heads

Costume of a Woman Of Lake Como, Italy
The costume of a Woman from near Lake Como, Northern Italy. She carries an immense bundle of hay on her back and is taking a short (and seemingly well-deserved/required) rest from her labours

Betsimisaraka man carrying reeds
A Betsimisaraka man from Madagascar carrying two large bales of rushes/reeds, canes. The Betsimisaraka constitute the second largest group (15%) of Madagascars population. Date: circa 1910s

Women porters of the Italian Lakes with mules
Women porters of the Italian Lakes region with a man, a young boy, a mule and a young calf. Date: circa 1909

Spring Voices - A K Macdonald
Spring Voices by A. K. Macdonald. A glamorous young lady (taking a stroll through the park on her way home from a serious hat-purchasing spree)

Woman of the Italian Lakes with straw backpack
A woman of the Northern Italian lakes region carrying a large wicker backpack containing what apears to be hay. This traditional mode of transporting such goods is often depicted in the postcards

India - Women carrying milk on their heads in stacked pots Date: circa 1910

Mexican Porter - Carrying massive wooden crate
Mexican Porter - Carrying a massive wooden crate on his back. The card is captioned as: " The Poor Mans Burden in Mexico". Date: circa 1909

Filtering drinking water - Cairo, Egypt. An egyptian man has collected water from the River Nile in his animal skin container and now transfers this water to a large terracotta pot

Ambala - Hill Milkmen. Ambala is in the state of Haryana, Northern India, Date: circa 1908

Hat shopping
Young lady has been on a serious hat-purchasing spree, she has bought so many hats, that she is struggling to carry the large hatbox, so she has decided to put some hats on her head. Date: 1928

Turkish Porters carry large barrel
Turkish Porters carrying a large strengthed barrel (possibly containing oil?) on two long yolks Date: circa 1900

Bolivian Woman carrying many baskets - she is Fruit seller Date: circa 1910s

Eruption of Vesuvius, Naples, Italy in April 1906. Villagers from Boscotrecase (living close by) flee with the possessions they can carry on their backs. Date: 1906

Georgian Porter carrying large furniture
Georgian Porter carrying a large piece of strapped to his (bent) back. furniture Date: circa 1910s

Weak Railway Bridge Sign
Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company NOTICE : This bridge is insufficient to carry weights beyond the ordinary traffic of the District. By Order. Date: 1960s

Commer Charabanc - 2
Commer Torpedo Char-a-banc built up to 7 rows of seats to carry up to 33 passengers. Date: 1914

Israel - Peasants laden with cauliflowers
Peasants laden with cauliflowers in Jerusalem - at this stage under Ottoman control. Date: 1905

Bringing home the turf
A Colleen (a young unmarried Irish girl) bringing home a wicket backpack full of cut turf. Date: 1909

Maori Mother & Baby
How Maori mothers carry their babies - here with one arm clasped around the babys arm to prevent him falling. a young mother bends down to pick up a blanket. Date: circa 1940

Venetian Water Carriers
A couple of female water carriers, who carry their metal buckets over their shoulders with a wooden yoke, Venice, Italy. Date: 1870s

Australian ambulance men at Bernafay, France, WW1
Australian ambulance men carrying soldiers suffering from trench feet at Bernafay, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1916

Peshawar - 10th Day of Muharram
Taziahs paraded in Peshawar on the 10th Day of Muharram, which commemorates the martyrdom of the prophets Grandson Hussein. The Taziahs are replicas of his tomb. Date: 1909

Allied troops in Mesopotamia, WW1
Allied troops (mostly of the Indian Army) next to a railway line in Mesopotamia during the First World War. Sixteen men are needed to carry each rail. Date: 1916-1918

Djibouti, Two women water carriers
A very odd photographic postcard from Djibouti, East Africa, featuring two women of starkly differing physical stature. On the left is a small woman smoking a large cigarette

The Princess, walking along in a beautiful renaissance style dress, with a pageboy to carry her train. 20th century

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

An oil transport ship
A carrier of the new fuel: the petroleum. An oil transport ship which can carry over 6000 tons of oil fuel. Date: 1910

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

Aix les Bains, France - Porters with Sedan Chairs (Covered Litters), complete with viewing holes, in order to protect the modesty of the under-dressed spa visitor! Date: circa 1910s

3 Cheyne Walk Chelsea
3 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, left to right are Carry, Count, Josephine. Date: circa 1840s

All happiness be yours this Merry Christmastide -- a man and woman carry holly and mistletoe home through the snow. 20th century

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

Man carrying an eel trap
A man carrying a wickerwork eel trap on his back. More traps can be seen in the background

Pyrenean Mountain Men carrying ice
Pyrenean Mountain Men carrying large blocks of ice on their heads, France 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)

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