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Aboriginal Mother and Baby with suppliesAn 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)
Boarding a CoachTravellers board the mail coach which will carry them over the Saint Gotthard pass, Switzerland. Date: 1877
Zeppelin Lz-7The Zeppelin LZ-7 is the first designed to carry passengers, but on its first flight it is forced down by a storm and breaks in two in a forced landing in Teutoberg forest. Date: July 1910
Breton Carol SingersBreton Chanteurs de Noel carry their hat through the streets of the town Date: 1855
Cressets and Street LampParis streets illuminated by lamps of slowly-burning material placed in strategic locations : the nightwatchmen carry cressets using similar technology Date: 16th century
Little Smeaton, near Pontefract, YorkshireView of the village of Little Smeaton, near Pontefract, Yorkshire, with two little girls carrying milk in pails. Date: circa 1900
Family ShoppingA family shopping expedition in London. The little boy drops a doll as he struggles to carry all his new toys. Date: circa 1890
Four-Leaf CloverThe four leaves of this clover each carry a romantic picture representing happiness... Date: circa 1910
Twenty mule Borax team, Mojave, California, valley line
Workman with slate quarry tram, North WalesA workman with a slate quarry tram, somewhere in North Wales. This small tram can carry half a ton of raw slate, and one man can operate it
Two toddlers wheeling carry cots across a stretch of gravel
My Wonderful One by Lawson WoodMy Wonderful One - humourous postcard illustration by Lawson Wood
Mule transports Kerosene in IraqIraq - a mule is used to transport wooden cases of Palm Tree refined petroleum (kerosene), manufactured by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company
Calcutta, India - Indian PalanquinCalcutta (Kolkata), India - Indian Palanquin
Algeria - Camel TransportA camel palanquin (covered litter), used to transport wives and children across the arid desert of southern Algeria, each with a central ventilation shaft
Young Algerian girl and babyA young Algerian girl carrying her baby
Street of Book Sellers, Grand Bazaar, ConstantinopleA 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
Elderly porter - Constantinople, TurkeyAn 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
Turkish porter carrying two suitcasesA Turkish porter bent double under his load of two suitcases, a selection of Gentlemans canes and a fez hatbox!
Porters carrying a large barrel on two long yolksTurkish Porters carrying a large strengthed barrel (possibly containing oil?) on two long yolks
Tenerife - Itinerant Re-sellersTwo women in traditional costume on the Island of Tenerife. The card caption translates as re-sellers - these ladies are likely to be itinerant traders of goods of some description
Turkish Woman carrying vegetablesTwo Turkish peasant women carrying a variety of vegetables and animal fodder in baskets balanced on their heads
They carried him off with three cheers and three times threeThe star player of the cricket team is paraded past a crowd of admiring fans
Carrying children in baskets - ChinaChinese beggar woman in Shanghai carrying her two young children in baskets suspended from a yolk on her shoulders
Firewood Carrier - JapanAn old man carries two very large and very neat bundles of firewood on a yolk, Japan
Carrie Nation, the Saloon SmasherCarrie Nation (1846-1911), American temperance campaigner known as the Saloon Smasher because of her use of vandalism to get her views across -- she would generally enter a saloon
Boys Club, carrying milk churns 1935Four boys from a boys club demonstrate how to carry three large milk churns between them
Bulgaria - Borovets - bringing home fruitBulgaria - Borovets - Women return home with baskets of berries. Borovets is now a popular Bulgarian ski resort
Bakhtiari Women carrying water, Iran
By the Roadside - Madhya Pradesh - IndiaMen women and children, some carrying wrapped goods on their heads, pose for a picture on the roadside in Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts Date: circa 1940s
Izmir, Turkey - Camel TrainA camel train passing through (or entering/leaving) Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey close to the Roman Aqueduct
Egypt - Open Air Restaurant and Water SellerAn open Air restaurant in Egypt and a water seller / carrier
Tea Culture in India: 1. Bridge over the River Ool, on the Road to Kulu. 2. Rolling the leaves by hand. 3. Weighing and packing for the London market. 4
Carrying a lightweight boat - Adirondacks, USAGrenville Collins Collection
Lear / Nonsense / NoseThere was a Young Lady whose nose, was so long that it reached to her toes; So she hired an Old Lady, whose conduct was steady, to carry that wonderful nose
Porter carrying a heavy loadA Porter bends his back to carry a heavy barrel - Constantinople, Turkey
Barnes Railway BridgeThe railway bridge at Barnes, carrying the loopline across the Thames to Smallbery : the sailing boat in the foreground is evidently used to carry cargo by water
Russian ReprisalsThe Russians carry out savage reprisals for the insurgents attacks : the village of Mologoszcza is left smouldering by Russians seeking revenge
The Inside of a School - or the first meeting - after the -A satire on the return of Fox to Parliament, for a debate on the peace overtures from France, having left in 1797. He is in the centre of the classroom wearing a fools cap labelled Truant
Poles ConscriptedPoles are understandably reluctant to help their Russian overlords fight the Japanese : men are forced into railway wagons which will carry them to the front
Fete De LA ConcordeGarlanded girls carry banners at the Fete de la Concorde : all is sweetness and light - but the revolution is only weeks away
Pedaloes on the Lake in Central Park, New York, 1891Engraving showing pedaloes made to resemble swans cruising the lake in Central Park, New York, 1891. Each of these pleasure boats was able to carry up to 12 passengers
Train that runs on a single curve, the Gyroscopic carThe train that runs on a single rail. The Gyrscopic car invented by Louis Brennan, exhibited at Gillingham in Kent. The 22 ton car was designed to carry 10 to 15 tons
Trial of a Channel Ferry Model on the Serpentine, February 1Engraving of a trial of a Steam Channel Ferry design on the Serpentine, Hyde Park, from The Graphic, 26th February 1876. This working steam scale model appears an ambitious project, with three hulls
The American Pony Express. En Route from the Missouri RiverThe famous American Pony Express to carry post from coast to coast was set up by Mr WH Russell. The first journey was made on April 9th 1860 and took seven and a half days for ponies to cover 1
Canadian guide making a canoe, 1858Engraving showing a French Canadian voyageur (guide) making a canoe on a framework of cedar covered with sheets of birch bark
Rus / Jap War: over IceTo carry troops and supplies across frozen Lake Baikal, tracks are laid across the ice to guide the horse-drawn wagons