Poles Collection (page 8)

Polish Hq in Rome
Polish general Karl Kniaziewicz establishes the HQ of the Polish Legion in the Capitol. Officially in the Italian army, they fought for France against Russia. Date: 3 May 1798

Indian Circus Entertainers - Gustav Hagenbeck Date: circa 1910s

Fisherwoman of Le Touquet, France
Fisherwoman of Le Touquet, Paris-Plage, France Date: circa 1910s

Ski Poles. Gloves. Skis
Skiing gloves, poles and skis, but no skier? On the snow slopes above Zermatt, Switzerland, with the Rack Railway behind. Date: 1960s

Kitwanga Totem Poles
Totem poles at Kitwanga, British Columbia, Canada. Date: early 1930s

Calgary, Alberta, Canada - 1st Street West looking north from 13th Avenue Date: 1910

Djibouti, East Africa - Avenue de la Republique. It is nice to compare the difference between the colonial French mode of transportation

Polish Scouts carrying turf. circa 1930s

Polish Scouts in traditional dress
A large group of Polish Scouts and other Poles in traditional dress stand together in a field. 1930s

Carved Korean Mountain Gods at the roadside. Date: 1909

British soldier checking telephone lines, WW1
British soldier checking telephone lines during the First World War, with low poles high enough to form an air line. Date: 23 October 1917

Norwegian Types (3 / 5) - Two skiing girls
Norwegian Types - Two skiing girls Date: circa 1906

Thomas Cook, Winter Sports, 1932-33
Cover illustration for Thomas Cooks Winter Sports, 1932-33, showing a lady in winter sports clothes on skis, going downhill

Skiing on a Shoestring with Thomas Cook
A poster or handbill advertising Skiing on a Shoestring, new low-cost holidays through Thomas Cook. Ski boots, ski poles and skis are arranged in a cartoon-style image

Cooks for Winter Sports
Poster or handbill advertising Cooks for Winter Sports, showing a cartoon of a couple skiing downhill, dressed in blue and red ski wear

Winter Sport in Switzerland
Holiday-makers enjoying the winter season at Murren in Switzerland. Commander and Mrs Locker-Lampson pose on their sledge whilst Viscount Gort and Dr. and Mrs Walpole seem happy on their skis

The Winter-Sports Season
Attractive garbs for snowy hills: Miss Marie Lancret, the pretty Parisian actress chamingly arrayed for the ski or the skate

Toronto, Canada - Yonge Street looking north. Crowds of onlookers are waiting for something, or lots of people are shopping at once

100 Stone steps - Yokohama, Japan
Steep flight of 100 stone steps - Yokohama, Japan

Shimbashi Street, Tokyo, Japan

Archaeological excavations, Roman Forum, Rome, Italy

Yokohama, Japan - Isesakicho-Dori Street. Note the complete lack of cars, even at this date

King William Street - Adelaide, Australia
A wonderful photographic postcard of a muffin man. The caption on the reverse reads thus:

Turkish Firemen - Constantinople, Turkey
Buyukdere fire brigade team in their striped uniforms and bobble hats! They surround their highly decorated maual firefighting pump

Roadside Picnic with Lanchester
Five chaps have a roadside picnic alongside their parked Lanchester (10 HP) car

Frost covered telephone wires
Telephone wires weighed down by frost and ice in Albert on the Western Front in France during World War I in February 1918

Raising telegraph poles
A group of workers erect a telegraph pole with the help of a winch on the back of a truck

Argentina - Camp of Obrajeros
Argentina - Camp of Forestry Workers (Obrajeros), Gran Chaco. The bed pallets are lifted off the ground on poles

Allan Gardens and Sherbourne Street, Toronto, Canada

Collecting water in Kashgar, western China
People collecting water in Kashgar, western China, and carrying it in buckets on poles across their shoulders. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Fishing in India
A wonderful photograph showing colonial life in India in the early 1920s. A British diplomatic service gentleman fishes from the comfort of a wicker chair by the banks of a wide Indian river

People collecting water, Kashgar, western China
People collecting water in Kashgar, western China, using buckets on poles. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina - Market scene
Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina - general street/market scene with a small covered market (right) with a mosque in the background and general sellers of a variety of wares in the open square

Admiral Richard Byrd, c. 1929
Photograph of Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd (1888-1957), the American explorer, pictured in his cold weather furs with two snow-shoes, c.1929

Kiev under the Poles
Kiev is occupied by a Polish force opposing the Bolsheviks. But the Red Army will counter- attack and drive them out again before they can start to enjoy their victory

Trains Sabotaged
In protest against the forced enlistment of Poles to help Russia fight the Japanese, patriots sabotage the railways on which they will have to travel

War with Russia - 2
Bolshevik Russia attempts to seize the new republic of Poland, but the Poles fight for their independence with patriotic fervour : Russian prisoners and their captors

War with Russia - 1
When Bolshevik Russia attempts to seize Poland, the Poles fight for their independence with patriotic fervour : Polish cavalry in the streets of Warsaw

Poles Conscripted
Poles are understandably reluctant to help their Russian overlords fight the Japanese : men are forced into railway wagons which will carry them to the front

Dryden / Ravenklau / Advert
Advertisement for Ravenklau cigarettes. Carrying ski poles

The Main Base, Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1913
Photograph of the main base of Australian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14, Adelie Land, Antarctica, 1913. The stores and wireless telegraph poles can be seen in the foreground

American Indians. Indian Burial
Typical Indian burial site, with the body, wrapped, on a wooden platform, supported by poles about 6 feet high

Native American Indian Totem Poles, British Columbia, 1882
Image showing several monumental totem poles outside native American Indian dwellings, British Columbia, 1882. The figures on the totem poles are dressed in a mixture of Indian and European dress

Polish V. Russians / 1863
Poles fight against the Russians at Zagosc

MENs KNITWEAR 1950S
A dashingly sporty man with a chiselled profile poses with ski poles in his light coloured ribbed round necked jumper

A City on Ganymede
Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, is inhabited by cat-like people, who build their cities at the poles to exploit the magnetic force to provide heat, light and energy

Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd, in the Antarctic, c. 1929
Photograph of Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd (1888-1957) setting out on skis from his polar exploration ship City of New York, c.1929

Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd, Antarctica, c. 1929
Photograph of Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd (1888-1957), the American explorer, pictured in his cold weather furs and with his dog Igloo ; Antarctica, c.1929

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