Hamper Collection

Wind in Willows / Grahame
Wind in Willows/Grahame

Wind in Willows / Grahame
The Water Rat & Mole picnicking: " The Mole begged as a favour, to be allowed to unpack it all by himself." Date: First published: 1908

Poster - Eat More Fruit - for Health and Vitality - published / issued by the Retail Fruit Trade Federation Ltd. Date: 1950s

Fortnum & Masons Christmas Box for soldiers, WW1
Advertisement for quintessential London department store, Fortnum & Mason, in particular their Thirty Shilling Xmas Box of selected provisions which could be sent to the front for lucky soldiers

Christmas at the Front - Unpacking the Parcels from Home
A group of British soldiers share the contents of a hamper which has been delivered to them at the Front. A Christmas pudding is held aloft and the scene is of general jollity

Wind in Willows / Mice
The field mice & harvest mice join Ratty & Mole at their picnic. Date: First published: 1908

Market Reports Series - Country Ducks arriving
One of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series. Country Ducks arrived in excellent condition. Date: 1903

The Humorist Cover 1939
A jolly cover by William Heath Robinson showing a couple on a motor cycle helping themselves, in transit, to a picnic hamper on the back of a car

First aid hamper supplied by St Johns Ambulance
A large first aid hamper (ie first aid kit) for ambulance station and railway purposes, supplied by St Johns Ambulance Association

Basket maker weaving a basket from willow taken from an osier-bed. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810

Party of people picnicking at Henley Regatta
A party of people picnicking at the Henley Royal Regatta, an annual rowing event held on the River Thames near the town of Henley-on-Thames, South Oxfordshire. Date: July 1888

Rich Woman fishes for suitors
Leap Year - A Sure Bait A rich woman sits on the riverbank, loading up her hook with her riches ( LSD - pounds shillings and pence) - a sure bait for the mass of suitors she has already caught

A Day at the Races
3 To 1, - Bar Two The singer Miss Annie Adams is pictured in the foreground enjoying champagne and lobsters from her Fortnum and Mason hamper

Baby in a Christmas Hamper

Illustration, A Day at the Races
Colour illustration, A Day at the Races showing men and women with carriage and picnic hamper. From the coloured lithographs Les Cocottes Aux Bains De Mer

Motor Car with luxuries, tea and picnics
Photographs of women and a man, taking tea, playing bridge, and enjoying a picnic from a hamper installed in a motor car. Captioned, If Goodwood were run on the Cowes system

Girl with a basket full of Easter chicks, 1930 s
Portrait of a girl with a basket full of Easter chicks, 1930 s

Trades in Norfolk, Regency England. Barley, turnips and game. Farm laborers on a straw bail after a barley harvest 34, sheep eating turnips 35, and hunter poaching for game rabbits 36

Cartoon, The Dispatch of Business (Disraeli and Gladstone)
Cartoon, The Dispatch of Business -- a satirical comment on the conflicting approaches of Benjamin Disraeli (Conservative) and William Gladstone (Liberal) to electoral reform. Date: 1866

Sunny gaiety of Henley 1906
Men and women watching the rowing race taking place on the River Thames. 1906

PICNIC HAMPER
Neat and practical is the slogan for a well-ordered picnic hamper. This seasons gagets simplify matters - boiled egg cases and plates with sandwich compartments! Date: 7 June 1935

PICNIC FOR ONE 1930S
Smiling woman, wearing finely striped dress, bangles & sandals, enjoys bread & butter alfresco from a picnic hamper. The food & tea flask is laid out upon a gingham cloth. Date: 1930s

GIFTS FOR OLD COTTAGER
The lady of the manor brings a hamper of goodies to an old cottager on the estate. Date: 1877

40S AUSSIE BEACH BABE
A skirtless bathing costume composed of a transparent blue lace or net lined with a flesh-coloured jersey. Lightweight, its guaranteed not to hamper the swimmer. Date: 1940

Goose Club at Christmas 1853
Goose Clubs in London, sixpence every Saturday evening after wages received for ten or twelve weeks before Christmas for a goose or turkey and a bottle of spirit, to be carried home on Christmas eve

BRITISH / INDIA / CHRISTMAS
A Christmas hamper in the jungle Date: 1878

Lunch at the Races - Louis Wain postcard. A dog raids the cats hamper and runs off with the lunchtime duck, whilst a bottle of bubbly is uncorked and the plates set out. Date: 1911

A Christmas Hamper Victorian period Date: 19th century

Boy with a basket of fruit on a cutout New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a wickerwork food hamper. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Four people in a car outside a Post Office
Four people sitting inside a car outside a Post Office with their picnic things set out. Date: circa 1930s

Family Picnic 1960S
A young family enjoy a picnic together on a sunny day

Girls Picnic by Sea
Two young women enjoy a splendid picnic by the sea

Mowing. Engraving, 19th century. Colored
History agriculture. Mowing. Engraving, 19th century

The Single Life - Living on his punt
The Single Life - A young gent living alone on his punt Date: 1907

Catherine of Alexandria, Saint (d. 305)
Catherine of Alexandria, Saint (d.305). Christian martyr of Alexandria. Sculpture dating from 1410-1420. Hungarian National Gallery. Budapest. Hungary

Lamprey Traps. The National Museum of Finland. Helsinki
Lamprey Traps. Lampreys have been fished from at least the Middle Ages mainly in the rivers flowing in the Bothnian Gulf and the Gulf of Finland and related bodies of water

Fairies carrying a hamper on a New Year card
Three fairies carrying a hamper of food on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas Hamper
A Christmas hamper, full of seasonal treats such as ox tongue, young stem ginger, jellied fruits and fresh meat and of course, a fresh turkey. Date: 1930s

New Year Baby with gifts on a New Year card
New Year Baby with gifts, sitting on top of a train on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Family opening hamper on a Christmas card
Family opening a hamper on a three-part Christmas card, with holly and mistletoe. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, During the bombardment, WW1
Cartoon, During the bombardment. A British soldier eats from a hamper during a bombing raid. He tells another soldier, Jim, that when he eats quickly he gets the hiccups -- can he suggest a remedy

Cartoon, Christmas preparations, WW1
Cartoon, Christmas preparations on the Western Front. French soldiers gather everything together for their Christmas feast, including a bird, some cheese, and some bottles of wine. Date: 1915

WW1 - Belgians destroy railways to hamper German advance
WW1 - Belgians destroy the railway between Landen and St. Trond to hamper German advance Date: 1914

No use crying over Spilt Milk
Black and white. Boy carrying a hamper and pitchfork, and two girls (one is holding flowers behind her back). They are standing around a pail of spilt milk on a leafy pathway

People loading a car at Perranporth, Cornwall. Date: 1931

Puppies attaching the post - Ridways Tea Advertisement
" The Pick of the post". An advertising postcard for Ridgways Tea, showing a pack of young puppies making some tasty discoveries while the Postmans back is turned

Twins in a Christmas basket
" A Merry Christmas" Twins in a Christmas basket - one of whom is not enjoying the experience... Date: 1906

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