Crate Collection (page 4)

Man and boy sifting tea, China. Date: circa 1890

Flower sellers outside St Pauls Cathedral, London. Date: 1936

British troops loading up ammunition, Western Front, WW1
British troops loading up limbers with ammunition on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldier washing clothes, Western Front, WW1
A British soldier washing clothes near the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers with shells, Western Front, WW1
British soldiers with a large stack of shells on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

WW1 - Men in uniform having a picnic - Mesoptamian Front?
Three men in uniform having a picnic in a barren landscape, watched by a dog - possibly on the Mesoptamian Front during WW1 Date: circa 1916

Men with crates of fish on quayside
Men working on a quayside with crates of fish labelled William Carnie and David Dow, Newhaven

Californian Sunkst Oranges, USA
A wooden crate/box of Californian Sunkist oranges, California, USA. Date: circa 1930s

WW2 - Home front - British housewives queue to buy eggs
October, 1940 - British housewives queue to buy eggs, both domestically sourced and supplied from the Dominions - in this case, Canada. Date: 1940

Three boys on a desert island captured by an indigenous man, who nails their packing case clothing to a long pole and carries them away midst weeping sore and wailing. Date: 1898

Three schoolboys on a desert island meet an indigenous man Date: 1898

Three schoolboys on desert island vanquish a rhinoceros
Three schoolboys on desert island bravely vanquish a rhinoceros using their makeshift bows and arrows. Date: 1898

Three schoolboys on desert island shoot at sparrows using makeshift bows and arrows made out of laces, bones and saplings. Date: 1898

China - Shanghai - Heavy cart pulled by a human team
China - Shanghai - Heavy street cart (laden with wooden crates) pulled by a human team. Date: circa 1930

South Korea - Chosen - Playing traditional local board game Date: circa 1920s

Box of Oranges from California. Date: circa 1910s

Thessaloniki, Greece - Porters Loading up Date: circa 1904

Russian Tradesman (trade unknown) driving his horse cart, which bears a large wooden crate/chest (contents unknown!). Date: 1902

Russian Mother helps teach her daughter to read by pointing to words on posters on a brick wall. Date: 1902

Packing Tea in India - Indian Tea Association. Date: circa 1910s

The Golden Fruit of Florida, USA - pickers picking oranges from a Floridian Orange Grove and a wooden crate packed with Vitamin C-providing delights from the Sunshine State. Date: circa 1940

Bermuda - Packing Onions
Packing onions into wooden crayes ready for international export - Bermuda. Date: circa 1910s

Boys paddling a crate, Longridge Centre

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

Young fisherman with crawfish, St Ives, Cornwall
A young fisherman on a fishing boat in St Ives harbour, Cornwall, surrounded by his catch of crawfish. Date: circa 1970s

American troops near Amphersbach, Germany, WW1
American troops from Kansas in action near Amphersbach, Alsace, Germany, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 28 August 1918

View of a street market, Vienna, Austria
View of a street market in Vienna, Austria. There are wooden crates piled up on both sides of the road, and stalls with produce on display. A stallholder on the left is adjusting her sun blind

Australian troops unloading transport wagon, France, WW1
Australian troops unloading a transport wagon in France during the First World War. Date: 22 May 1917

Time, gentlement, please! - anti-jazz music, 1913
The personification of Time drops her lyre in horror and covers her ears against the latest American import: Jazz. Date: 1913

Swedish scouts bring in the refreshments
Swedish boy scout with a crate of bottle of Coca Cola circa 1980s

Senegalese soldier in a trench, WW1
A Senegalese soldier in a trench during the First World War, location unknown. Date: 1914-1918

British artillery in action, Western Front, WW1
British artillery in action against the German position in northern France, Western Front, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Swedish Scout bringing drinks ashore

French Left Luggage Office
A French Left Luggae Office at a Railway Station with a variety of crates, trunks and cases, each containing some rather surprising (and alive!) contents!! Date: 1904

Man asleep in a garden, Mid Wales
A man in a straw hat and shirtsleeves, asleep in a garden, Mid Wales. He appears to have been doing some gardening, as he has left his clippers in front of the railings behind him

Three elderly people sitting outside their home
Three elderly people, two men and a woman, sitting outside their home, enjoying a glass of beer and a bite to eat

Paw Paw Seller - Bermuda, West Indies

Covent Garden Market Trader
A Covent Garden Market Trader unloads his wooden crates of fruit and vegetables

Selection and packing of dates at Nefta, Tunisia
The sorting / selection and packing into cases of dates at Nefta, Tunisia

Three-wheeler milkfloat
A Milkman on his morning round, fills up a crate from his vintage yet stylish three-wheeled float. This model is a Norwich Dairy milk electric, (DP Kathanode battery operated) delivery float

Railway Sleeper - Aberystwyth Station
The Railway Sleeper series - A snoozing Welsh shepherd takes forty winks leaning up against his crook, sitting on a wooden crate at Aberystwyth Station, his trusty Collie sheepdog at his feet

Baker, Morocco
A Baker selling his wares from a low streetside crate-mounted stall, Morocco

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - Native carriers crossing mangrov
This shows the difficulties of the native bearers as they tried to cross the mangroves on the river banks of the river Prah

Busy Fleet Street 1930S
Two labourers lift a box crate onto the back of an open carriage parked on busy Fleet Street

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WK (or KW) overalls (Canadian) - every pair full of wear

Worcestershire garage and owner before a fire
Worcestershire garage and seated owner surrounded by oils, engine treatments and lubricants. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

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