Parcels Collection (page 4)

The Stronger Sex by Webster Murray
An elegant woman in fashionable fur collared coat and cloche hat enjoys some light Christmas shopping while her male companion follows behind laden with bags, boxes and gifts

Parcels for the troops WWII
A customer and shop assistant pack a parcel to go to the British troops in France during World War II

Army Comforts Depot WWII
Women working in the Army Comforts Depot where gifts are packed and despatched to British troops during World War II

Carrying his ladys luggage by Florence Hardy
Once I loved a Maiden fair. A young man carrying his ladys bags and parcels

Delineator front cover December 1929
Art deco cover featuring a woman surrounded by Christmas presents

Delineator Christmas Number 1927
Festive front cover design by Helen Dryden featuring a woman with fashionably cropped blonde hair clutching a heap of wrapped up Christmas presents against a candlelit background

Tatler Christmas Shopping Guide
A chaotic and bustling scene in a department store shortly before Christmas

By the Roadside - Madhya Pradesh - India
Men women and children, some carrying wrapped goods on their heads, pose for a picture on the roadside in Madhya Pradesh Province, India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts Date: circa 1940s

Grocery rations, World War I
Women making up grocery rations for soldiers during World War I

Posting Christmas parcels
Photograph showing a young boy with his mother posting Christmas cards and presents

Christmas mail arriving in the trenches 1916
Front cover photograph from The Sphere, December 1916 showing a joyful soldier in a trench laden with Christmas parcels

Birthday Party
Four children at a birthday party, wearing party hats and standing underneath multi-coloured balloons holding wrapped parcels. Ink drawing with watercolour washes by Malcolm Greensmith

Great Eggspectations
A fashionably dressed lady pauses to admire a pearl necklace in a shop window, and hopes that her handsome, parcel carrying partner will take the hint

Wrights Coal Tar soap
Advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar soap showing a British soldier (or Tommy ), writing a thank-you letter to his sweetheart

Red Cross food parcels
Voluntary workers packing some of the 70, 000 parcels of food dispatched each week by the Red Cross to the British prisoners of war

Preparing Red Cross food parcels
Packing and despatching; the duties of volunteers at the Red Cross headquarters. Acres of cardboard and miles of string were used each week in the distribution of 70

Hunting for Presents
Making a treasure hunt of handing out prsents - children hunt for hidden parcels

Angel Shops with Car
An angel does her Christmas shopping and loads it into the car, with her chauffeurs help

Ladys Leads in Tangle
A lady crossing a street with an armful of parcels gets into difficulties when her two dogs each decide to chase a cat - and another dog comes to share the fun

Euston Sq Station 1877
London and North Western Railway, enquiry and parcels office. Standing guard is the statue of Robert Stevenson, (1803-1859), engineer

Arrival of War Post
The arrival of the post orderly on horseback, the soldier in charge of the management of the post, to deliver letters and parcels to the men at the front

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