Porters Collection (page 3)

Kago Travelling Chair at Hakone, Japan. The porters each wear a mino, a traditional Japanese garment, a raincoat made out of straw

Travelling chair - Japan Date: circa 1901

Japanese porters carrying a lot of luggage including suitcases, carpets and sundry other possessions - rural Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Japan - Kago Travelling Chair Date: circa 1908

Turkey - Hamals (Porters) dancing Date: 1910

Cov. Garden Breakfast
At Covent Garden, a breakfast stall for the market porters and merchants - pies and oysters, coffee enjoyed beneath the flaring oil torches. Date: 1870

Food preparation in the 17th century
Preparing foodstuffs of every kind - fowls are dressed, cows are milked, grapes are trod, soup is heated, bread and other items are carried by porters, biscuits are tasted Date: 17th century

Istanbul, Turkey - Turkish Fountain Date: circa 1901

Advertisement for Frys Cocoa & Milk Chocolate - I never travel without it. early 20th century

Porters and fishwomen revelling around the statue of Henri IV.. Handcolored aquatint engraving after an illustration credited to Victor Auver from A Tour through Paris, William Sams, London, 1825

Bath Characters by Edouart - George Cary, porter
George Cary, porter at Prices auction room where the silhouette Auguste Edouart lodged at Bath. Taken on April 4th, 1827 - one of a series of Bath characters taken by Edouart between 1826-7

Luggage on Wheels
The Latest Tip - But Not For the Porter! Luggage on Wheels Startling result of the appeal of the Railway Companies to the public to give as little trouble as possible to their under-manned staffs A

Warwick, hall porter of the Marlborough Club
(Mr) Warwick, the long-serving hall porter of the Marlborough Club, described by The Tatler as, probably one of the best-known men in London

A female hat shop porter, WW1
A lady porter at a hat shop in Regent Street, looking extremely smart in her uniform. Just one of the jobs women did in place of men who had joined up to fight during the First World War. Date: 1916

Turkish porters resting, Turkey. Date: circa 1870

CMS Missionaries travelling in West Africa
Church Missionary Society (C. M. S.) Missionaries travelling in West Africa Date: circa 1910

Howitzers being unloaded at a railway station, 1939
Station porters at a small country station at an undisclosed location in Britain, unloading heavy calibre howitzers from railway trucks. Date: 1939

Bringing goods ashore - Port Elizabeth, South Africa Date: late 19th century

An airport
Baggage is loaded by hand on to an aeroplane at an airport, while passengers mill about. Date: 1928

Japan - Geisha in travelling chair taking a rest. Another Geisha girl stands to one side and the two porters are taking the opportunity to have a quick smoke. Date: circa 1903

Porter from Bosnia and Herzegovina with rope over shoulder Date: circa 1910s

Gathering water in the Vietnamese Countryside
Villagers gathering water in the Vietnamese Countryside Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Otometoge Date: circa 1910s

China - Shanghai - Chinese Burial Chair Date: circa 1950s

China - Shanghai - Chinese Funeral Procession with Dragon model carried aloft before the funerary bier. Date: circa 1950s

China - Shanghai - Heavy cart pulled by a human team
China - Shanghai - Heavy street cart (laden with wooden crates) pulled by a human team. Date: circa 1930

Sedan Chair and porters - Seoul, Korea Date: circa 1907

Fresco of two porters from Knossos, Crete, Greece
Fresco of two porters of rhytons (a container from which fluids were intended to be drunk or to be poured in some ceremony such as libation) from the walls of Knossos, Crete, Greece. Date: circa 1910s

Madagascar - A Filanzane, a sedan chair used for passenger transport. Date: circa 1916

Thessaloniki, Greece - Porters Loading up Date: circa 1904

Istanbul, Turkey - Mevlevi Dervishes, Porter, Apple Seller Date: 1898

Istanbul, Turkey - Open Air market, Porters carrying load
Istanbul, Turkey - Open Air market and Porters carrying a load using poles. Date: 1898

Knife Sharpener, Coffeehouse, Porters, Fez Seller and Map
Istanbul, Turkey - Knife Sharpener, Coffeehouse, Porters, Fez Seller and Map of the Bosphorus. Date: 1898

Back from the Boer War - Scene at a London Terminus of a wounded soldie returning to his relieved family after his tour to Southern Africa. Date: circa 1901

Russian porter with a large wooden bucket on his head Date: 1902

Turkish Cafe and patrons, Istanbul, Turkey
Turkish Cafe and patrons, some of whom are smoking hookah or nargile pipes - Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Porters (Hamals) Cafe, Izmir, Turkey Date: circa 1909

Vietnam - Hue - Nam-Giao Festival - Imperial Chair
Carrying the Imperial Chair at the Nam Giao Festival, Hue, Vietnam - a ceremony held in honour of the earth and sky. Date: circa 1926

Madeira - Transporting Hammock
Amongst the three best-known unusual means of transportation to have be found on the Portuguese Island of Madeira was the transporting hammock

Japan - Taking brides possessions to new home
Japan - The removal (by porters) of a Japanese brides possessions to her new marital home owned by her future husband. Date: circa 1908

A, B, C, D, E, and F size porters governors

Arrival of Meat at Smithfield Meat Market, London, 1870
Engraving showing the arrival of meat at Smithfield Market, London, in 1870. The meat had just arrived by steam train (which can be seen in the background)

East Africa Transport poster
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, East African Transport - New Style Date: 1927-1933

Turkish porters. Turkish porters carrying a large crate on a pole, at the Worlds Columbian Exposition. Date c1893 March 23

Palanquins with porters. Drawing shows two types of palanquins: a Kago or basket attached to a frame, and a Norimbus? or the traditional enclosed, box-like palanquin with sliding panels

Women porters of the Italian Lakes with mules
Women porters of the Italian Lakes region with a man, a young boy, a mule and a young calf. Date: circa 1909

Italy - Lake Maggiore, Stresa, Someraro
Italy - Lake Maggiore. Horse wagon on the road between Stresa and Someraro. Date: circa 1910s

France - Sedan Chair - Mont-Dore
Sedan Chair porters and occupant - at Mont-Dore (Mont Dor in Occitan), formerly called Mont-Dore-les-Bains, a commune in the Puy-de-Dome department in Auvergne in central France. Date: circa 1910s

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