Rolling Collection (page 5)

Scouts distributing water in Zakynthos, Greece
Scouts unloading and distributing water on the island of Zakynthos (Zante), Greece. Many earthquakes hit the island in August 1953, the worst one on 12 August destroying many buildings

Two geishas playing dice
Two geishas rolling the dice in a country setting. Artist: Raphael Kirchner Date: circa 1901

Roller Chairs, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
People in their Roller Chairs, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. The chairs were used to ferry tourists around the city. Date: circa 1920

Rolling Chair Parade, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. People who don t wish to walk are wheeled along a boardwalk. Youngs Million Dollar Pier can be seen in the distance. Date: circa 1910

Suffragette, poker Rolling Pin. Scruffy woman with a poker in one hand and a rolling pin in the other declares, I want my Vote Date: circa 1910

Deck flying by G. H. Davis
Deck flying: problems met by pilots of the Fleet Air Arm. The arts of flying from and landing on naval aircraft carriers: difficulties created by rolling and pitching ships, by bumpy air

German prisoners in Britain, baking bread, 1946
German prisoners in Britain post-World War Two. Rolling dough for the camps bread, a highly skilled job performed by prisoners who were all bakers before the war, with excellent results

Calton Hill, Edinburgh Scotland Date: late 19th century

Country scene with water and hills
A beautiful country scene with a stretch of water (Portmore Loch, Scotland), a tree, and rolling hills with a scattering of snow on top

Steel Rolling Mill 1901
A steel rolling mill in Germany. Date: 1901

African Bread Maker
A woman in West Africa, making bread on the banks of a river. Date: early 1930s

Argentina - Indigenous Tribesmen roll a bottle tree trunk
Argentina - Indigenous Indian Tribesmen on the Pilcomayo River roll a bottle tree trunk. Date: circa 1930s

View of Haidar Pasha and Kadikoy - Istanbul, Turkey
View of the tracks leading to the Haidar Pasha Railway Terminus (Haydarpasa Gari) and Kadikoy - Istanbul, Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Flying Terms Defined - Flier Education. A jolly cartoon dog demonstrates some flight terminology: Power Diving (attempt to grab a bone thwarted)

Panama Hat makers in Indonesia - the hats are made from the plaited leaves of the Carludovica palmata plant, known locally as the toquilla palm or jipijapa palm Date: circa 1904

Burmese Cheroot makers
A group of Burmese women Cheroot makers. Date: circa 1906

Alexandria - Muhammad Ali Pasha Place
Alexandria, Egypt - Muhammad Ali Pasha Place/Square. Muhammad Ali Pasha (1769 - 1849), is regarded as the " founder of modern Egypt"

Spectacular Skies

Fish Fillets
Preparing fish fillets, rolling them in flour, for baking in the oven. Date: early 1930s

Nursery school

Firefighters winding up their hoses

NFS firefighter rolling out fire hose, WW2
A London Region NFS firefighter in an instructional photograph demonstrating the correct method of rolling out a line of hose

Mr. Sisyphus Cortelyou rolling it up. Illustration shows George Cortelyou, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, as Sisyphus rolling a large boulder labeled Majority for Roosevelt up a steep

A man, wearing a large conical hat and a straw or feather garment, leaning on or rolling a large barrel-like object, possibly a mochi tub; he is carrying a long-handled tool, possibly a mallet

Bessemer steel plant and rolling mills. Lake Superior Corpoation, Sault, Ontario, Canada

A small dog dressed as a pilot ready for take off. He is surrounded by birds who find this hilarious. The caption reads: " What a get-up!" Date: 1928- 1929

Cuban Cigar Factory interior - Havana, Cuba. Interestingly, this postcard shows a lector (or reader) who was always employed to entertain cigar factory workers by reading books

An idyllic rural scene: a farmhouse surrounded by fertile land, with a hedgehog and rabbit roaming peacefully, and a bird singing happily in the foreground. 1925

Twelve proverbial silhouettes given a literal depiction: the fat is in the fire, to have a finger in the pie, sending coals to Newcastle, one sows and another reaps

Silhouette, A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss -- silhouette showing three stones rolling down a cliff face by the sea

Covered in Snow
Oops! This little girl has fallen whilst out skiing and ended up rolling in the snow! Date: 1930s

Dunderpate speaks to the pastrycook about marrying his daughter, but the pastrycook doesn t like the idea of making him free food for the rest of his life. Date: 1938

Ladies cricket match at Ascott under Wychwood
Ladies cricket match at Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire Date: circa 1910s

Mexico - Lady making tortillas. She is rolling out the dough on a stone (with a rolling pin), shaping the tortillas and cooking them on a hot stove, with a elaborate stone chimney. Date: circa 1905

Quantocks Rambler
A rambler pauses to take in the breathtaking view of the rolling Quantocks, from the castle mound at Nether Stowey, Somerset, England. Date: 1930s

CUTE FOX
A cute fox rolling on its back like a 60s model. Date: 1960s

Rolling Pastry
Rolling pastry with a rolling pin. Date: 1980

Disc Rolling Plough
A disc-rolling ploughing scene in a farm in Suffolk, England. Date: 1960s

Brighton West Pier
A lovely study of waves rolling onto the beach at Brighton, Sussex, England, with the West Pier in the background. Date: 1950s

Welsh Landscape
The rolling Welsh landscape near Kerry, Montgomeryshire, Wales. Date: 1960s

Dice Rolling
A man about to roll some dice. Date: late 1960s

Farming in France 18Th
Various agricultural activities in 18th century France. One man is ploughing, two people are sowing, another one is rolling a field. Date: Circa 1760

Ploughing with a horse team
A team of two heavy horses plough the upslope of an English farmers field, with spectacular rolling countryside disappearing away to a distant horizon. circa 1950s

Keep it rolling -- children with a large snowball
Keep it rolling -- two children with a large snowball, probably intending to build a snowman. 20th century

Fairy flannel is the skin of peaches (Useful Hints). 1922

View of Dovedale, Derbyshire, from Thorpe Cloud
View of Dovedale, in the Derbyshire Peak District, from Thorpe Cloud. Date: circa 1920

Filling and Rolling Christmas crackers, 1905
A female worker filling and rolling Christmas crackers at Tom Smith s, the famous cracker manufacturer in 1905. Workers were paid piece meal with the average output being 600 crackers per day

Plate rolling machine and workers at a Sunderland shipyard
A team of men feed a sheet of metal through a rolling machine at Messrs Droxford & Sons, a shipyard in Sunderland

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