Carrying Collection (page 52)

Tuscania Steamship
Passenger liner of the Anchor Line, plying between England and India, on one occasion carrying the writer of this caption as a small boy

Railway Scheme - 2
An alternative scheme is seriously proposed : that a railway be constructed capable of carrying ships across the isthmus. But the idea never gets off the ground

Turkish Caique
Turkish caique, carrying an assortment of sails on its single mast

Belgians Leave Antwerp
The Belgian Army is forced to evacuate Antwerp, overwhelmed by the German advance : at Maldeghem, near Bruges, a train carrying infantry crosses a column of cavalry

Racial / Mexico / Mother1909
Mexican mother wearing a large sombrero hat and carrying her child on her back

Racial / Apache Baby 1903
An Apache baby in its carrying case

Airship over New York
A large passenger-carrying airship pictured over New York

AKRON ACCIDENT - 1
AKRON : the ship suddenly takes to the air, carrying three men with her : one saves himself by clinging to a rope, but his companions fall 200 metres to their deaths

Greek Armour Race
Ancient Greeks race while running in armour and carrying a shield

Ordinary Girl 1932
A young woman walking down a street in East Finchley, London wearing a beret, fur mittens, an overcoat and T- bar shoes and carrying her shopping in a paper bag

Roman Licteurs & Fasces
Roman lictors carrying fasces - an axe within a bundle of sticks - which are used as symbols of their authority

Mother Girl Flowers 1896
A little girl, carrying some potted flowers, with her mother

Montenegro Priest
A priest of Montenegro, in his battle costume, carrying the banner of his church Date: 1876

Saucer Postcard 1950S
A comic postcard from the early days of the Flying Saucer era

Welsh Bus on Hill
Wales is a hilly country, and its buses are frequently called on to perform quite remarkable feats of climbing, especially when carrying their full complement of passengers

Trevithicks Steam Car
Trevithicks first passenger- carrying steam carriage looks pretty much like a railway locomotive: it runs at Camborne, Cornwall

LA Fleche D or
The Fleche d Or - the Golden Arrow - is a pullman express carrying travellers rapidly between Calais and Paris

Fetching Water from Well
A working class woman carries two buckets of water she has fetched from the well outside a rural cottage

A Word with the Driver
A WORD WITH THE DRIVER - The engine driver as childrens hero : four children talk to the footplate crew who will soon be carrying them to the seaside

Delivery Boy Costume
Boy carrying a basket: boots, trousers, light coloured shirt style jacket in a coarse fabric, white collar & narrow bowtie, apron, quartered cap. A knife hangs from his belt

Female Type / Basket 1909
A young woman in a frilly dress, carrying a basket of flowers

Girl with Fruit 1869
Little girl in a fashionable black and white dress, carrying a basket of fruit

Anghor Thom / Cambodia
A procession of elephants, some carrying Howdahs, from the terrace of Dam-reys at Angkor-Thom

Ivory Tusks / Congo / C19Th
Carrying ivory tusks in the Congo

Children Gather Wood 19C
Children in a wood in the autumn, gathering firewood

Girl with Spring Blossom
A little girl in a field, carrying some spring blossom

Girl with Flowers & Bees
A little girl carrying a parcel of flowers is surrounded by bees

Leaving for Algeria
A French family prepare to embark for Algeria - at this time, a French colony. Two servants accompany the family, as well as porters carrying their luggage

Plump Passenger Carried
A plump holiday-maker is carried ashore after a trip in a Brighton pleasure boat

Policemen W / Suitcases
A large group of uniformed policemen walk along an unidentified street carrying suitcases, perhaps before a training session

Fish Peddler Attacked
At Toul, France, a fish peddler carrying a basket of herrings is ambushed by a swarm of crows who rob him of his stock while he beats them off with his stick

Saint Christopher
- Child, you feel so heavy, I feel I m carrying the whole world. - Its because you are carrying not only the world, but its creator !

Space Rocket Carrier
Interplanetary Spacecraft, Carrying Four Smaller Rockets

Sightseers + Horseguard
Sightseers pause to admire a horse guard on sentry duty in Whitehall : unusually, he is carrying a gun

Jewish Immigrants
Jewish men, women and children arrive in London carrying their possessions in suitcases and bundles

Hungarian Resistance
A train, carrying to Siberia persons convicted of resistance to the Russian take-over, is stopped by a resistance group and the prisoners liberated

Woman Carrying Fern 1848
A woman carrying fern, Scotland

Dog Carries Train
A small girl, playing at being a grand lady with a long dress, persuades her small dog to play the page, carrying her train in its teeth

Selling Sand / Cries / Lndn
Sand ho! A man sells sand in London. His donkey is carrying the load. Two boys play a game on the pavement

Paris-London Crash
A British plane carrying passengers from Paris to London runs into bad weather and crashes : only two of the six travellers survive

Blunt / Aquarius / Plate 48
The constellation of Aquarius, a figure of a man carrying a jar of water

Yaks Carry Wool to India
Yaks and ponies carrying wool from Tibet into India

AMPHITRITE WRECKED
Carrying female convicts to New South Wales, she is wrecked on Boulogne sands; of 131, only 3 are saved

Classical Myth / Hymen
Greek god of marriage, carrying a veil and a torch

Chef Gaulois
CHEF GAULOIS - Gallic chief - at the time of the war with Julius Caesar : dressed for the fight and carrying the standard of war

Carrying the Lamp
A Chinese opium smoker prepares to smoke, carrying his lamp to the divan

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