Sack Collection (page 10)

Cocoa beans being lifted from a canal barge
Two workers lift Gold Coast cocoa beans from a low canal barge. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Grain Market - Antioch, Turkey
Antioch - Antakya (Turkish) - on the Orontes River in the far south of modern Turkey. Founded in the 4th century BC, eventually rivalling Alexandria as the greatest Near Eastern City

Britannia and Eve, November 1956
Elegant front cover illustration featuring a a woman in a sack coat and pillbox hat clutching two blooms to her chest

Moving large sacks in a warehouse
An operator uses a small picker to stack and manoeuvre piles of sacks, containing cotton or wool, into place in a large warehouse. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The Corn Merchant s
The Corn Merchants - two girls talk to the Corn Merchant standing behind his counter

Toby Xmas Number 1922
Front cover illustration for Toby childrens magazine or comic, featuring Father Christmas driving through snow on a motobike

Lear / Nonsense / Crete
There was a Young Person of Crete, whose toilette was far from complete; She dressed in a sack, spickle-speckled with black, that ombliferous person of Crete

Competitors in a Sack Race at Lillie Bridge, London, 1874
Engraving showing a number of competitors in a sack race held at the Lillie Bridge stadium, London, 1874

A Flight across the Herring Pool
Pitt and Dundas encourage the flight of Irish MPs across the Irish channel offering them places and sinecures. Colour Engraving. Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1789-1856). Published 20th June 1800

Dog on Stilts
A girl on stilts and her amazing dog, also on stilts, cause quite a stir as they entertain a crowd in central London!

Children & Fircones 1929
Children in the autumn woods, gathering fir cones and leaves in a sack

Father Christmas / Sack
Father Christmas in the street with a sackful of presents

Happy Xmas Cake
A fine Christmas cake, decorated with holly and berries a plastic Santa. A pretty ribbon tied in a bow is the perfect finishing touch

Fairy Tale / The Turnip
A man riding on a horse waves to another man who for reasons best known to himself is suspended in a sack from a tree with his head sticking out

Old Clo Man (Petherick)
London characters: the OLD CLOTHES MAN buys and sells the garments you re tired of, but which the poor are happy enough to wear

Destruction of Mogul Emp
The Persians under Nadir Shah take Delhi and destroy the Mogul empire

On the Footplate
On the footplate of the Night Mail : the railwayman is preparing to catch the sack of mail suspended beside the line

Polonaise Dresses 1868
Polonaise dresses: double skirts, chemisettes & low bodices & over-skirts caught up with bows. The girls dress has a sack back & the over- skirt opens at the front

Romans Sack Jerusalem
The Romans, led by Titus, take Jerusalem, and burst into the Holy of Holies in the Temple

Santa with Children
Santa with a sack of toys and a Christmas tree is welcomed by a boy and girl

Catching the Mails
A moving train picks up a sack of mail as it passes through a station : the letters can then be sorted on the train

Sack Racers
These contestants in a sack race are enclosed in neck-high sacks, preventing the use of the arms should they stumble or tumble

Louis XVIII and Decazes
Louis XVIII is begged by his family to sack his minister Decazes, a liberal who has antagonised many by his reformist policy. Reluctantly, Louis yields

Misers Just Love Gold
A miser hugs his sack of gold coin

French burn a Cuban town
The French occupy the Spanish-held town of Chiorera (Chorrera) in Cuba, pillage it and finally destroy it by fire, because of the perfidy of its inhabitants

Myth / Iliad / Troy Aflame
Troy in flames

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