Locals Collection (page 2)

Locals with cart, Sacandaga Park, New York State, USA
Locals with bullock cart in the Backwoods, Sacandaga Park, Northampton, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1908

Locals collecting water at a public spring, Matanzas, Cuba Date: circa 1900

Pueblo Indians and locals, New Mexico, USA
Pueblo Indians and white locals, New Mexico, USA. Date: circa 1910

Christmas day at the Hackney street shrines, London, 1916
Christmas tide at war shrines: gifts for the fighters children, 1916. Father Christmas(aka the Reverend G. C Morrow) distributed gifts with the help of ladies and soldiers home on leave

Savages feel our muscle, Taiwan, 1890
Natives of the hill country of Bankimsing, Formosa(today Taiwan), explore the possessions of some English visitors that they encounter

Lady Sarah Wilsons bomb-proof shelter at Mafeking, 1900
Lady Sarah Wilson (1865 - 1929), formerly Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, youngest child of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough

French Infantry in Paris
French Infantrymen are cheered on their way as they march through Paris on their way to a train station to be carried to the front line. Date: August 1914

Vers la Fronti貥: The French advance
A French column on the march to the front line in north-eastern France. As they pass through a village, they are offered drinks by the locals. Date: August 1914

Silhouettes in the sunny south by H. L. Oakley
A page of silhouettes by the artist Captain Harry Lawrence Oakley at the time he was serving in Italy during World War One

Stunts silhouetted by H. L. Oakley
A page of silhouettes by Captain H. L. Oakley published in The Bystander depicting the trials and tribulations of a billeting officer

British soldiers in China, c. 1911
A Chinese man in traditional clothes and with a queue pigtail hairstyle talks to a pipe-smoking westerner, with other men in the background

Farnham Hole
Mother Ludlams Hole at Farnham, Surrey : she was a white witch and herbalist, known as GOOD Mother Ludlam, much frequented and esteemed by the locals. Date: circa 1770

Dutch and Spanish
Spanish soldiers fraternising with Dutch peasants. Like the Germans three centuries later, the occupying forces do their best to ingratiate themselves with the locals. Date: circa 1590

Thessaloniki aflame - 1917
A view of the Great Fire at Salonica, Greece, that raged between 18th-19th August 1917. In 32 hours 9500 houses were destroyed.which left more than 70000 people homeless

Homeless citizens assess damge to property - Thessaloniki. The Great Fire at Salonica, Greece, raged between 18th-19th August 1917

Completely bizarre conversation concerning identification
Completely bizarre conversation between two cabbies concerning identification - at least the participants seem to understand one another. Overheard on a Cab Rank

A Bit of Newlyn, Cornwall
The artist sizes up the painting possibilities amongst the cats chickens locals and pretty cottages of the Cornish village of Newlyn. Date: 1893

Three Natives of Nassau - Bahamas. Date: circa 1910s

Mont St Michel / Card 2
Seen across the sands at low tide - when its possible for tourists to be taken for a ride by enterprising locals Date: 1921

Needle Rock, Fishguard, Wales
The Needle Rock at Fishguard, Wales. It is a dolerite stack with a hole through its base, standing 130 feet high. Showing locals rowing a boat through the opening

French troops in Cape Town 1860
French troops from the ship La Dryade on their way to China mixing with the locals in Greenmarket Square in front of the city hall, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Date: 1860

Ravensworth Castle
The ruins of Ravensworth Castle, home of the Fitzhugh family. Built out of sandstone, the castle was used as a quarry by the locals. Abandoned 16th century

Sturminster Newton Cross
The remains of the ancient cross at Sturminster Newton, Dorset, where locals say that anyone can stand on the cross and say what they want with complete impunity from the law Date: 1940s

Thomas Cook Tour Party - Luxor
A party of travellers on a Thomas Cook tour pose in front the wonderful Temple of Columns at Luxor; their local guides wait patiently whilst tending to the camel and donkey. late 1880s

RAF cadet with local yokel
Cartoon of an RAF trainee cadet at Heaton Park, Manchester, during World War Two being given no doubt valuable local information by a yokel clutching a pint of mild

Locals gather along the canal to see the passing of a ship

Jersey - Beaumont, Jersey
Jersey - Beaumont - street scene with the local village store and some posing locals!

Egypt - Tourists hassled by locals
Humourous postcard, depicting the hardships endured by European Tourists in Egypt, cornered by a vast horde of helpful Egyptians who are aggressively " Dividing the Spoils" !

Tourist hassled by locals - Egypt
A cartoon postcard depicting the troubles encountered by tourists in Egypt, entitled The Battle of the Nile !

Sicilian Locals milking a goat
A Sicilian couple milk their goat

Amateur photography in the East End of London, 1895
Illustration showing a crowd of East Londoners gathering around an amateur photographer, 1895. At that time, the presence of an affluent photographer keen to take photographs of East End life

Basra under British Military Rule, 1916
Photograph showing locals repaving mud roads with stone and cement, under the gaze of a British Military Engineer, 1916

CASUALTIES
Casualties at the barricades, during the last days of the fighting : bodies are taken away by locals

Kings Sutton Church
East view of Kings Sutton Church. A small group of locals congregate outside

People Skating on Wisley
Locals make the best of the winter weather by skating on Wisley Pond whilst it is frozen over, Surrey, England

Austrians in Verona
Austrian troops march through the streets of Verona, which they occupy : the locals are less than thrilled

Russia / 1923 / Batum Riot
By order of the Soviet authorities, the Orthodox cathedral at Batum is turned into a cinema, but locals riot and destroy the equipment

Kingsteignton Roasting
A whole ram is basted as it roasts suspended on a spit over 2 baking trays at the Ram Roasting Fair, Kingsteignton, Devon. A group of hungry locals look on

Picnic on the Pyramids
British tourists picnic on the summit of the Great Pyramid, to the astonishment of the locals

Zep Downed on Brit Coast
A massive Zeppelin explodes into flame over the English coast, much to the delight of watching locals

Landing the Shore End
The locals watch with interest as the shore end of the cable is landed at Foilhummerum Bay, Port Magee, Ireland

Runaway Car / Ca 1900
I can t stop it Charlie; it must work differently from the one Father had. Two boys struggle to stop a runaway car as it alarms the locals

Switzerland / Fribourg
Fribourg including a view of the suspension bridge. A group of locals perform a folk dance to the tune of a fiddle player in the foreground

British Supply Wagons
The war has just begun - and the British troops are already hungry. Supplies on the way to the Front pass through the Place d Armes at Albert (Somme) watched by locals

Country Pub / Sussex / 1883
An unspecified country pub in Sussex

Belize / Davenport
Port of Belize (Balize) in what was British Hondurus. Troops watch as locals move about on rafts possibly made from the main export logwood used in the dyeing industry

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