Carrying Collection (page 16)

Children dragging home a Christmas tree Date: c. 1910

Carry On - Women in wartime silhouette, WW1
Types of Britains women armies - Land lasses, Town toilers and Sea Sirens. Three types of women during the First World War depicted rather romantically in silhouette

From the Manger to the Cross, Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem
Scene from the silent movie, From the Manger to the Cross, or Jesus of Nazareth, showing Jesus in the Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem. Date: 1912

Decca gramophone advertisement, WWI
Advertisement for the portable Decca gramaphone featuring a British officer carrying his, and an endorsement a 2nd Lieutentant who stresses

Japan - Young Japanese Mother carrying her baby on her back and holding a paper umbrella / parasol. Date: circa 1904

Ouled Nails Woman in Covered Camel Palanquin
An Ouled Nails woman in Southern Algeria, showing her very distinctive and elaborate traditional clothing. The women earned money through belly dancing

Two Zulu Mothers carrying their children, using hide slings across their backs - Southern Africa. Date: circa 1909

Old man by the village well, Ukraine
Old man from the Village of Shishaky, Myrhorod region, Ukraine. He is carrying a bucket and rope in order to retrieve water from the village well. Date: circa 1910

First convoy of ships leaving Albany, Australia, WW1
The first convoy of ships leaving Albany, Western Australia, during the First World War. They were carrying Australian and New Zealand troops (later known as Anzacs)

Gladys Cooper with daughter Joan Buckmaster

Royal party with nurse Clara Cooper Knight
Members of the British royal family at a Leicestershire hunting event. Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother) walks in the centre

Short seaplane Type 184 hovering above the sea, WW1
A British Short seaplane Type 184 hovering above the sea during the First World War. It was a two-seater plane, used for reconnaissance, bombing and torpedo carrying. Date: 1915-1918

Senghenydd Colliery canary, Glamorgan, South Wales
Two miners at the Universal Pit, Senghenydd Colliery, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, South Wales, with a caged canary which was used to test the air for gas, or lack of oxygen

Camels sharing a private joke, Algeria
Two Algerian camels share a quality piece of humour, known only to themselves. The rider seems totally unaware of the jest!

A Giriama Woman, Kenya
A smiling Giriama Woman from Kenya, East Africa. She displays the traditional filed teeth of the Giriama and wears a stap across her forehead which aided the carrying of heavy loads on her back

Donkeys in World War I
Donkeys carrying soup to the front lines at Maurepas, Somme on the French front during World War I in October 1916

MILKMAID, 1867
A Victorian milkmaid carrying churns of milk

14th Century Soldier
A French soldier of the 100 Years War, carrying the oriflamme or standard : his page holds his armoured horse

Rail on Ice 1904
Railway tracks are laid over ice-covered Lake Baikal, and short trains cross carrying troops to the battlefront of the war with Japan

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