Sack Collection (page 7)

Santa with sack of toys
Christmas postcard. Santa with a sack brimming with toys. Artist: Florence Hardy Date: 1905

Victorian Scrap - Santa with sack and girl
Victorian Scrap - Santa with a sack of toys and a girl carrying holly. late 19th century

Santa delivering gifts
Spellbound children gaze at Santa about to descend a chimney with his sack of toys. Artist: Ada Leonora Bowley Date: 1913

Sponge clipping, Nassau, Bahamas, West Indies. Date: 1924

How King Christmas Comes by C. E. Bernard
A very modern Father Christmas delivers presents by jumping out of an aeroplane holding a large bunch of balloons. Date: 1921

Handful of brewers hops, Cornwall
A handful of brewers hops taken from a sack, Cornwall. circa 1970s

Dockers unload sugar at the West India Docks, London Date: 1889

R T Parkins shop, Butler, Pennsylvania, USA, with Mr Parkin himself, the driver and a female assistant standing in the doorway, shortly before closing time. Date: 1909

Father Christmas with sack of presents
Father Christmas with a sack full of presents, standing on a doorstep. circa 1970s

Face in garage window, Sale, Greater Manchester
A face peeps out through a garage window in Sale, Greater Manchester. Date: circa 1979

Cartoon, Cost of food and drink, WW1
Cartoon illustrating the cost of food and drink during the First World War. Various tradesmen comment on the cost of their produce. Date: 1916

Mississippi River landing, Mississippi, USA
Mississippi River landing at Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, with two steamboats, the Belle of Calhoun (left) and the Belle of the Bends (right). Date: circa 1905

People at a sports event in a field, with a row of men about to set off in a sack race. Date: circa 1920s

Egyptian farmer on a threshing machine pulled by two oxen.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Postman pixie delivering mail to a flower
A pixie postman carrying a big sack of mail, delivers a letter to a large yellow primula flower. Date: c. 1930

WW2 Christmas card, Blackout
WW2 Christmas card, with Father Christmas on the roof of a house with his sack of presents -- Blackout or not, I m here to greet you! Date: circa 1942

WW2 greetings card, OHMS, showing a soldier picking up litter from a lawn -- his contribution to the war effort! Date: circa 1942

ALARCӎ, Hernando de (1466 - 1540). Spanish military that excelled in the Italian Wars. He participated in the Battle of Pavia in 1525

Scene inside a mill, Holy Land, with the miller at work grinding corn. Date: 1920s

Favourite Sayings - Empty Sacks
Black and white lantern slide of a man holding an empty sack. Painted background of interior of a barn with sacks along one wall.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection

Wild Common Hamster - Checks a sack, feeding in a granary (Cricetus cricetus L.). Summer, Middle Ural Mountains, Russia

Highlanders practising bayonet work at base, WW1
Soldiers in a highland regiment learning how to use bayonets on dummies which swing from a cross-beam. Date: 1918

Scouts unloading supplies after earthquake, Greece
Scouts unloading supplies soon after an earthquake in the Ionian area of Greece. Many earthquakes hit the islands of Kefalonia and Zakynthos (Zante) in August 1953

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

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

English sea scout returning home from World Jamboree
English sea scout returning home from the World Jamboree, wearing a French sea scouts beret. He is Trevor Thomas of Staines, Middlesex, arriving back at Victoria, London

Suffragette Breaking Window Gem Library. An issue of The Gem Library in which a suffragette hurls stones through the window of a grocers shop in a story entitled, The Suffragette and the Sack

Edwardian Santa Claus. Christmas postcard depicting a traditional Santa Claus emptying his sack of gifts. Date: 1904

Children on a sleigh. Xmas/New Year. Boy and girl in snowy winter scene sledging, with a pig in a sack. Swedish. Date: circa 1920

Firefighters in action with hosepipes, Poplar, East London
Firefighters in action with hosepipes at a fire in Simpsons Road, Poplar, East London, 25 January 1958. Showing the east side of Block D

Oh why did I eat 10 mince tarts. Oh why
Oh why did I eat 10 mince tarts, 9 ice cakes, 11 queen cakes, 6 oranges, a sack full of nuts and other things too numerous to mention. Oh why

The Sack of Aerschot, 1914
An illustration of the alleged stabling of horses by German troops in the church at Aerschot, Belgium, during the German occupation of the town, early in the First World War. Date: 1914

Land girl in Lincolnshire, WW1
A lady worker raising a sack of wheat to be carried to a wagon during the First World War. Date: 1916

British soldier with corrugated iron for transport, WW1
A British soldier on horseback, using a piece of corrugated iron for transport of supplies across a muddy field on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Father Christmas with his sack, by Muriel Dawson
Father Christmas walking through the snow with his sack, by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1924

American first world war propaganda: liberty bonds
We eat lots of chow over here, and liberty bonds pay for it

Patriotic British postcard, bayonet practice, WW1
First World War patriotic postcard, showing an imaginary German soldier standing behind the dummy used for bayonet practice

Russian Farmer with his Harvest
An elderly and substantially bearded Russian Farmer carrying a large sack over one shoulder. Date: 1925

Nursery Rhymes -- Knave and Queen of Hearts
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- the Knave of Hearts takes a tart. Below -- the Queen of Hearts making her tarts. Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- Jolly Miller, Tom Thumb
Nursery Rhymes. Above, the Jolly Miller, carrying a sack. Below, a woman sits at a table, watching Tom Thumb riding a tiny horse. Date: early 20th century

Young man processing wool, Scotland
A young man in the textile industry in Scotland, processing wool

Hop picking in Kent. Date: circa 1910

Workman standing in a yard
A workman in waistcoat and trousers, standing in a yard with a sack on a trolley behind him. Two other men look out from a doorway

Fathers sack race in Seaford
Sporting fathers take part in a sack race designed specially for them at a school sports day in Seaford, Sussex. Several of them have fallen over, or are in the process of doing so. Date: 1934

Two men sitting by a smoking brazier. The man on the right is putting items into a sack

Adver for Huntley and Palmers biscuits
Huntley and Palmers biscuits advertisement with Father Christmas holding a box of Empire Assorted biscuits Date: 1947

WW2 - Land Army Girls having a sack race
WW2 - Home front - Land Army Girls having a sack race during some time off. Date: August 1942

South Africa - Women carrying mealie-meal - a relatively coarse flour made from maize (called mielies or mealies). A staple food in South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping