Hammock Collection (page 2)

Angolan nobleman being carried by servants in a hammock.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Selector portable wireless advertisement, 1929
Advertisement for the Selector Quality Portable featuring Mr Derek Oldham and Miss Winnie Melville listening intently from the comfort of a hammock and garden chair. Date: 1929

A fairy asleep on a cobweb
Silhouette depicting a fairy asleep on a cobweb hammock. Date: 1928

Madeira, The Hammock mode of Travelling
Lantern slide of Madeira, The Hammock mode of Travelling.. Part of Box 126, Canary and Madeira, slide no.31 Date: circa 1890s

Visit to Madeira - Boa Ventura - View in the Valley
Black and white lantern slide of a rocky valley with lush vegetation. In the bottom left corner some men can be seen carrying a white hammock.. Part of Box 125, Madeira, part of Boswell collection

Visit to Madeira - Hammock men resting
Black and white lantern slide of Hammock men resting, with the poles of the hammocks they were carrying resting on the stone walls - Visit to Madeira. Part of Box 125 - Madeira. Boswell Collection

Visit to Madeira - Entrance to Bella Vista Hotel
Black and white lantern slide of a woman being carried down some outside steps in a canopied hammock attached to a pole being carried by two men

San Francisco Loft 1969
A hammock hung from roof beams of the loft of a Victorian house in San Francisco, 1969 Date: 1969

Pentonville prison cell interior
Pentonville prison in London: interior of cell with a hammock for sleeping. Date: 1843

Portugal, Madeira - Transporting hammock or Rede
Portugal, Madeira, Funchal, Monte: Transporting hammock (a Rede). Date: 2013

The top hat as a sign of chieftaincy in Sierra Leone. The civilised mans head-dress as a symbol of sovereignty for women as well as men rulers

Story of the Knitted Scarf - World War One
Humorous cartoon showing how an enterprising soldier, having received an enormous scarf knitted by a kindly mother or aunt back at home, converts it into a comfortable hammock across his trench

Nursery Rhymes -- Hush-a-Bye Baby on the Tree Top. Showing a cute little child sitting in a hammock with toys. circa 1920s

Advert for Gamages garden furniture 1926
A wide range of garden furniture including wicker and cane tables and chairs, couch hammock, folding cane lounges, bathing tents and gaden shelters. Date: 1926

Madeira - Scenes from the Island including: Loo Rock, travel via a Transporting Hammock, a sheltered nook and a traditional Oxen carriage (Carro). Date: 1900

Madeira - Transporting Hammock
Amongst the three best-known unusual means of transportation to have be found on the Portuguese Island of Madeira was the transporting hammock

Pentalinon luteum, hammock vipers tail
Illustration by Mark Catesby (1683-1749) from Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

MART͎EZ COMPAѓN Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797)
MART͎ EZ COMPAѓ N Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797). Trujillo del Per� el siglo XVIII. 1782 - 1785. Vol. II. Illustration 7. Spaniard in a hammock. Engraving; Watercolour

Feeding ducks from a hammock

The Kings lost crown

In the Ormond Hammock. Date c1898

Sea Cadets in hammocks on a barge, Walton, Essex
Four sea cadets in hammocks under the watchful eye of an officer who was also the owner of The British King, a barge moored at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. circa 1960

Silhouette of a couple in a garden. He is relaxing in a deckchair while she attaches a hammock to a tree

Girl and Cat in Hammock
A little girl in a hammock with her pussy cat. Date: early 20th century

Anglo-Saxon Lady
An Anglo-Saxon lady of rank in full dress, wearing a double veil and perforated mantle, embroidered gown over her undergarment. Behind her is a hammock-like carriage. Date: 850

Hammocks in dormitory, Mettray Colony, France
View of a dormitory at the agricultural colony for delinquent boys at Mettray, near Tours, France, with a few boys asleep in their hammocks

Workhouse, Casual Ward
A workhouse casual ward which the poster on the right suggests is in the vicinity of Reading in Berkshire. The tramps and vagrants who occupied the room slept on hammocks slung between hooks attached

Tennis & Garden Frocks
Hammock girl wears green voile dress. Made by Robinson and Cleaver as are the two tennis frocks of heavy silk. Lemonade set is from Gamages

A Little Girl Reading
A small girl sits on a hammock amusing herself by reading an atlas

Travelling by hammock; H. M. Stanleys Emin Pasha Relief Expe
Photograph showing one of the members of Sir Henry Morton Stanleys Emin Pasha Relief Expedition being carried by hammock, Central Africa, 1888

Girl in Hammock 1885
A young woman sleeps in a hammock in the garden on a warm afternoon

Brazilian Natives
The indigenous people of Brazil, relaxing on hammocks with fresh fruit and fish to hand, as first encountered by Vespucci and his men

Nashs Special War No
Nashs " Special War Number" which will tell its readers " What WAR means to every man & woman". The girl on the front cover doesn t seem too worried about it all

Garden / Woman Sleeps 1886
A Midsummer Days Dream: a lady sleeps in her hammock as a man and a woman do her gardening chores

Girl and Doll in Hammock
A small American girl cuddles her doll in a hammock in the garden

Disraeli / Hammock / Rest
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Dizzy resting in his hammock at Hughenden, echoing the words of Ariel on his release from captivity

Vampire Bats / Rengade
A vampire bat bites the neck of a sleeping girl in as hammock

Girls / Garden Hammock 19C
Two little girls in a garden, one relaxing in a hammock, the other reading a book

Social / Ladies in Garden
Three elegant ladies relaxing in the shade in a garden

Hammock in Summerhouse
A hammock placed in a summer- house, surrounded by vegetation

Peruvian Rope Bridges
Three different kinds of rope bridge : apart from the usual walk-across type with its handrails on either side, there is a kind for carrying animals and a hammock variety

Hammock Bearers
Hammock bearers on the Atlantic island of Madeira

NOTES IN MADEIRA
A series of 6 sketches showing life in Madeira, including a bullock car, hammock bearers, Funchal, Loo Rock, Madeira peasants and a running car

Sheltering at Aldwych
Aldwych tube station used as a shelter during the London Blitz

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