Lifting Collection (page 8)

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

Phillipss Toilet Aquarius
An advertisement from 1891 for Phillipss Toilet Aquarius, a new water container for wash stands where...no muscular effort required

Two bearers and patient (1 of 2)
Method of lifting a patient onto a stretcher, with two bearers. (1 of 2)

Four bearers and patient (5 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (5 of 6)

Four bearers and patient (3 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (3 of 6)

Four bearers and patient (4 of 6)
Method of carrying a patient, with four bearers. (4 of 6)

Fire / Scandinavia / 1555
Fighting a fire in Scandinavia

Easter Lifting
Lifting - an old English north-country custom at Easter

A Farrier at work, Worcestershire
A Farrier at work, fitting a shoe to a large working horse, Worcestershire. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Harvest Festival, White Hart pub, Worcestershire
Harvest Festival at the packed and rather smoky White Hart pub, Worcestershire. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd 1960

Lifting Potatoes / 1960S
A close up of someone lifting potatoes with a fork

Heavy Guns / Valparaiso
During the war between Chile and the combined forces of Bolivia and Peru, heavy guns are mounted onto moveable carriages at Valparaiso

Electro-Magnet / Cig Card
Electro-magnet capable of lifting 46 tons

Tourist Climbs Pyramid
A tourists aided in his ascent of one of the Giza pyramids

Harvesting Scene C1845
Harvest scene with mother and child

Man Lifts Car
An unnamed market porter of Asnieres, France, demonstrates his strength by lifting a car which weighs 450 kilos

Prison Hulk, Woolwich
Convicts from the hulks anchored in the Thames off Woolwich, at work on the river-bank handling timber with the aid of a huge lifting device

Lifting Water 1690
Device for raising water : the lower end of the tube is submerged, so when the string of discs is pulled through it by turning the handle, they bring water with them

Lifting Machine 1690
Machine for raising heavy objects

Showgirl Schychowa 1929
Mademoiselle Irina Schychowa of the Folies Bergere, lifting her leg with her hand and proving her suppleness as a dancer

Devil Lifting Table
The Popes solution of table- lifting - its the Devil who is responsible

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