Lifting Collection (page 6)

Children Crabbing
Children searching the rock pools for crabs, etc. at Beer, Devon, England. Date: 1960s

LFB strength test for recruits
LFB strength test -- every recruit must carry a man of approximately his own weight 100 yards in one minute

China - Shanghai - Chinese Funeral Procession with Dragon model carried aloft before the funerary bier. Date: circa 1950s

Embroidered Postcard - Can Can Dancer - A Kiss from France
WW1 - Fantastic Embroidered Postcard depicting a French Can Can Dancer - A Kiss from France. Our lady holds aloft the corners of her skirt to reveal their decoration - the flags of the allies

The Lady of the Lake - Old Soak fished out of the water
The Lady of the Lake - A Drunken Old Soak is fished out of the water by a dapper gent in a punt. Her bottle heads for the bottom and perhaps the dunking has sobered her up! Date: circa 1915

Russian Village and Villagers. The unusual tall structure to the right centre of the image is a well with a huge timber lever bucket-lifting apparatus. on a tall frame. Date: circa 1902

A Court Jester raising the punch cup high! The illustration for the Contents page of the Phil May Folio. Date: 1892

A Korean Basket Seller - Seoul, South Korea. He is carrying well over 40 baskets! One would imagine they are empty... Date: circa 1910s

Selecting turtles to sell at market, Costa Rica Date: circa 1910s

Billiards Illustrated - Trying for the pocket - A youthful pickpocket has a rummage through an elderly gentlemans trouser pocket whist he browses some titles on a bookstall. Date: circa 1903

Loading a Camel onto a ship at Aden, Yemen
Loading a Camel onto a ship using a crane at Aden, Yemen Date: circa 1930

Are We Downhearted? WWI postcard
Patriotic WWI poem - relating to the early part of the conflict and the Little Army sent in as the British Expeditionary Force to combat German advances in 1914/15

Young Russian Girl holding up a bunch of flowers
I m going to give you a bunch of flowers and then make a swift departure! (very loose translation!) Young Russian Girl holding up a bunch of flowers. Date: 1908

Thanksgiving Card - USA - Bringing in the Turkey (which appears to be full of life at this stage of proceedings!) Date: circa 1910s

Northrop HL-10 wingless lifting body glides in to land at Edwards AFB, California

Model of the flow past a lifting slender wing
Figure 2 from 56007286. Model of the flow past a lifting slender wing. After R.L. Maltby

Baden-Powell man-lifting kite

Major Baden-Powell demonstrating his man-lifting kite

Hargrave and James Swaine experimenting with four man-lifting kites. Hargrave Slide 38

Short S8 Calcutta engine nacelle for the Bristol Jupiter radial showing the engine lifting gear

Lawrence Hargrave and James Swaine experimenting with four man-lifting kites, based on Hargraves invention of the box-kite structure

Various helicopters lifting load/jeep/bridge, c.1960s/1970s Date: circa 1970

Arenaria interpres, ruddy turnstone
Plate 72, hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731-43) Vol. 1 by Mark Catesby

Lifting of the siege of the Island of Rh鬠 a Huguenot resistence centre situated in front of the city of La Rochelle, 8th November 1627. Work attributed to Jacques Callot. Date: 1627

Crane Driver
People You See. Crane Driver. From Teddy Bear (25 November 1967)

Horse rescued from basement by NFS breakdown lorry
A horse being led to safety after falling into a basement access area of a building in Spa Road, Bermondsey. An NFS London Region fire brigade breakdown lorry was used to lift it

NFS (London Region) Southall horse rescue, WW2
Firefighters from K2Z Southall fire station area attempting to rescue a horse that fell into a deep, water filled ditch and was unable to get out unaided

London Fire Brigade breakdown lorry rescuing a horse
London firefighters extricating a horse from an excavation in Portland Place, London, using a special horse sling. The Brigades breakdown lorry is lifting the horse to safety using its crane and winch

Satirical cartoon, raising a balloon
Satirical cartoon, Moyen infaillible d enlever les Ballons -- a group of commedia dell arte characters trying to raise a balloon on a wooden frame. circa 18th century

A man lifting a sake barrel. Print shows a man from behind lifting a sake barrel and holding it aloft with one arm. Date between 1804 and 1818

Iron foundry in the Ural Region of Russia Date: 1905

Business Notes Illustrated - Receiving an Unexpected Rise A Gentleman is accidently lifted aloft by a warehouse crane outside a warehouse. Date: circa 1909

Village scenes, Romania
Village scenes in Romania including a wonderful well with huge timber lever bucket-lifting apparatus, an inset picture of a pretty Romanina woman in traditonal country costume and village houses

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

Thulin A car
A Thulin A, car manufactured at the Thulinfactory, Landskrona, Sweden, 1923, Date: 1923

Georgian Porter carrying large furniture
Georgian Porter carrying a large piece of strapped to his (bent) back. furniture Date: circa 1910s

Can Can Dancers
Any " can can" girl who can " can can" can " can can" here!! Date: circa 1930s

Street music: Gypsies playing guitar, 1855
Gypsies playing guitar on the streets of Paris attract the attention of a passing shop girl and some gentlemen. Date: 1855

Scouts with their Model T Ford
Two boy scouts of Troop 176 of Leavenworth, Kansas loading their Model T Ford with scrap metal. The car hauled much salvage material and enabled the Troop to buy War Bonds. circa 1940s

Polish Scouts carrying turf. circa 1930s

Air Scouts preparing a glider
Two Air Scouts lift and place the canopy on a glider with another Scout already in the cockpit. 1958

Weight-lifters and wrestlers, 1948 London Olympics
This full page of the Sphere shows weight-lifters Joe de Pietro of America (top) and Shams of Egypt (bottom right), and wrestlers Anderberg of Sweden and Toth of Hungary. Date: 1948

Expressions and Impressions, 1948 London Olympic Games
A selection of striking athletic images captured at the 1948 London Olympic Games. Date: 1948

Humorous Card - Fleas & the Bedpan
Silly (yet rather funny) carton postcard, bearing the following caption: SOCIETY GOSSIP - this week the Duchess of Billingsgate in hunting

Lifting up the Keepnet
Checking how many fish are in the keepnet at the end of a days angling Date: 1950s

Outdoor Exercises 1930S
A class of British schoolgirls doing physical exercises in a school playground. Date: early 1930s

Potatoes, Lancashire
Lifting potatoes at Rainhill, Lancashire, using a tractor Date: 1960

Rhiwbryfdir Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales
View of Rhiwbryfdir Slate Quarry, near Blaenau Ffestiniog, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales, showing the slate store, a crane

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