Lifting Collection (page 7)

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

Lowering a tram, Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, North Wales
Lowering a tram full of slate onto the rails at Penyrorsedd Slate Quarry, Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales. From here the slate will be transported to the dressing sheds

Tramway, Dinorwig Slate Quarry, North Wales
View of part of the tramway at the top of Dinorwig (or Dinorwic) Slate Quarry, near Llanberis, North Wales, with rope haulage and brake equipment

Glyn Pits, Pontypool, South Wales
External view of the Glyn Pits in Pontypool, South Wales

Machine stone cutting, Portland Prison, Dorset
A machine with toothed blades and a rotating saw cutting up stone. Portland Prison, Dorset, opened in 1848 as a public works prison for convicts who were employed in quarries in the area

Lifting a proof off a large forme at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Granite quarry, Aswan, Egypt
Granite quarry, Aswan, unfinished obelisk, 41.75 m = 137 ft, 1152 tons, cracked. If it had remained whole, it would have been the largest obelisk ever raised. Photograph by Lionel Coates

Laying railway tracks at night
A very atmospheric shot of a steam engine and cranes aiding the laying of a new set of railway tracks. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Lightering the Lighter, Lorain
Lightering the Lighter, or lifting the crane after an accident, Lorain, Lake Erie, America

Sidi-bou-Medine, Algeria - The Koubba Wells
A superb photograph of a man and a young boy at the Wells of Koubba at Sidi bou Medine, Algeria. The gentleman (right) is possibly the Well operator?

Elderly porter - Constantinople, Turkey
An elderly porter carrying a leather case with a rug on top

Coal Merchant, showing a classic example of a leather back support, which enabled such potentially heavy and awkward loads to be transported

Elephant shifting large pieces of timber
An elephant removing a large piece of timber from a large stack, India

Installing an engine for a diesel locomotive
Three railway engineers install a large diesel engine onto the positioned wheel, axle and undercarriage. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Turkish woman with long white veil
A postcard from Egypt depicting a Turkish Ottoman Woman wearing a long white veil

New design for train snow plough
A new design for a railway snow plough - the unit on a non snow-bound track showing the interior workings

Indian Rope Trick Poster
Undated coloured poster featuring illustration of Thurston, the famous magician, performing the East Indian rope-trick. HPF/5B/17

Joanna Southcotts pregnancy with Shiloh
Colour illustration/cartoon, " A medical inspection, or miracles will never cease" by Thomas Tegg concerning Joanna Southcotts pregnancy with Shiloh, 8 September 1814. HPG/8/2/1 i)"

Zonguldak, Turkey - Jetty Building
A crane boat lifts a large stone (or concrete block) to build a new jetty at Zonguldak (formerly Heraclea), a city and the capital of Zonguldak Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey

Moving large sacks in a warehouse
An operator uses a small picker to stack and manoeuvre piles of sacks, containing cotton or wool, into place in a large warehouse. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Manchester Ship Canal - Creating a new dock
Workmen operate a temporary pulley-based device used in the process of the construction of a new dock for the Manchester Ship Canal

Pump House
A Pump house at the bottom of a slope, Iran

The Baby Linen Shop
A Young girl lifts up her very young baby sibling outside the fron of the Baby Linen Shop, displaying little dresses and bonnets for little people

A Pair Of Silk Stockings
Lady lifting her skirt in a carefree way, exposing her stockings

Itinerant Coffee Vendor - Istanbul, Turkey
Itinerant Coffee Vendor carrying a yoke, with two buckets containing the tools of his trade hanging from either end. Possibly standing/crouching in the grounds of a marble factory

Shadoof - Egyptian irrigation system
Two Egyptian men operate a Shadoof - Egyptian irrigation system - the pivot arm lifts a bucket which raises water onto a higher field level

Mr De Morgan at Dahshur
Mr De Morgan lifting a golden crown from the mummy of Queen Khnemit. De Morgan discoved many important tombs during 1894-1895

Cooking Soup on an Emigrant Ship, 1849
Engraving of the galley on the deck of an emigrant ship, where passengers are being doled out soup, 1849. In the foreground is a cannon and a door down to the hold with lifting gear

2 Adventurers & Talisman
THE TWO ADVENTURERS AND THE TALISMAN: one knight takes up the profferred task of fording the river, lifting a stone elephant and carrying it to the mountain top

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