Landes Collection

Landes-Kriegsfursorge-Ausstellung. Poster shows a disabled veteran with a prosthetic arm using a scythe to harvest wheat. Text announces the National War Relief Exhibition in Pozsony. Date 1917

Men on stilts in Les Landes, south west France
Men on stilts in the marshy Les Landes, south west France. When resting they slant the stilts as if sitting down, and prop themselves up with a third pole. Date: 1922

Shepherdess of les Landes, southwest France, mounted on stilts Date: circa 1840

Shepherd of les Landes, southwest France, mounted on stilts Date: circa 1840

Dax, France - Thermal Baths - Mud bath Treatment. Date: 1923

Dax, France - Hauling a Barge
Dax, France, a commune in Aquitaine in south-western France, sub-prefecture of the Landes department. - Three men haul a Barge along the L Adour River, past a gaggle of geese. Date: circa 1910s

Dancers on stilts in the Champs Elysees.. Handcolored aquatint engraving after an illustration credited to Victor Auver from A Tour through Paris, William Sams, London, 1825

Walking on Stilts
French hand coloured engraving of stilt walkers titled Milord Court visitant les Landes

Ideal homes near the Aisne, WW1
Some very rustic but well made huts constructed by artillery men from Landes, near the Aisne. The buildings were in the style of those from their own locality in South West France. Date: 1915

Resinier collecting resin of a pine tree, France
Resinier collecting the resin of a leaning pine tree in the Landes Forest, France. The forest is in the historic Gascony natural region of southwestern France now known as Aquitaine

Tapping for pine resin - Landes, France Date: circa 1910

House interior at Landes, France
The interior of a house in Landes a departement in south western France, where the livestock can join in the evenings discussion round the fire and tuck into the large basket of grass

Men from Landes, France on stilts
Stilt walkers from the Landes Departement, France. They used their stilts to traverse difficult and marshy terrain. Mounted on their stilts

Poster advertising Aero Club event
Poster advertising an Aero Club Montguyonnais event at the Aerodrome des Landes de Bussac, with planes and parachutes

The Flying-boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris, February 193
Photograph of the 37-ton flying-boat Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris during public trials on the Etang de Biscarosse in the Landes, France

Shepherds of Les Landes in south-western France, using stilts to help them keep an eye on their flocks

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