Sack Collection (page 9)

Newspaper Girl
People You See: The Newspaper Girl. From Teddy Bear (27 June 1964)

Coal Man
People You See. From Teddy Bear (11 April 1964)

Post Girl delivering letters
People You See: The Post Girl. From Teddy Bear (7 December 1968)

Michael and the Mighty Men

Slippery pole sack fighting at a London Fire Brigade sports event

Russian General Kuropatkin in a sack. Print shows Russian General Aleksei Nikolaevich Kuropatkin wrapped up in a sack with two horrified Russian officers standing next to him. Date 1904 or 1905

The Sack House, Brunswick (i. e. Braunschweig), Germany
The Sack House, Brunswick (i.e. Braunschweig), Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Farm boy with sack full of boll weevils which he has picked off of cotton plants. Macon County, Georgia. Date 1937 July

Xmas. Children follow Santa
In a winter scene, children follow Santa with his sack of toys. Date: 1908

Santa comes down the chimney

Piles of Bags of Wheat - Argentina. It is almost as if the construction of the sacks was a mimic of a great building!! Date: 1906

Postman with post from Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Postman with Post from Tunbridge Wells. His mail sack folds out to reveal small photographic views of this charming town in Kent. Date: 1913

Santa with his sack of presents
Santa delivering gifts at Christmas. From 1950s Christmas card. c.1950

Stock Exchange Notes (1 / 4) - Fall of Coal
An allegory on the The Fall of the Coal Price - Stock Exchange Notes: " Coal Fell Unexpectedly" !! 1903

Welsh Potato Sacks
Owing to the mild, wet winters in Rhossili, in the Gower Penninsula, Glamorgan, Wales, this district is noted for its new potatoes. Here the men weigh and sack the potatoes. Date: 1950s

Doggy Santa
Doggy santa with his reindeers, about to come down the chimney to deliver a sack of dolls and other presents to lucky children for Christmas! Date: early 1930s

Russia - Starotscherkassk - Resurrection Cathedral
Russia, Starotscherkassk. An old woman cleaning up the grounds of the Resurrection Cathedral. 2010

Santa on yule log with children
Santa Claus on a yule log, with four children. early 20th century

Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece
Mytilene, Island of Lesbos, Greece, to which the Greek army, had fled in twenty Greek ships after the Turkish Army retook possession of Izmir on 9 September 1922. Date: 1922

Poster, The Recruit Who Took To It Kindly. Showing an army recruit learning to use his bayonet and demolishing a row of stuffed sacks

Coronation Tea Party (advertisement)
As part of an advertisement for Bowater Paper Corporation Limited, artist Illingworth previews the typical scene in British villages during Coronation week. Date: 1953

Sheffield Workhouse - Coronation Sports Day
A sack race during Coronation Sports at the Sheffield Union workhouse at Fir Vale, Sheffield. Date: circa 1911

Dutch poster warning against the Black Market
Dutch poster warning people that the Black Market is a form of theft -- don t steal from your countrymen, ensure equal distribution for all! Showing a rat eating grain from a torn sack. 1940s

Four children with Santa Claus
Four children crowding round Santa Claus with his sack of presents. early 20th century

Children meeting Santa Claus
Three children meeting Santa Claus. circa early 20th century

May Bowley. C3001b Xmas
Christmas Greetings -- two children carrying a Christmas tree through the snow are followed by Santa Claus with his sack of presents. circa early 20th century

May Bowley. C3004 Xmas
A Happy Christmas -- three children spot Santa Claus with his sack of presents. circa early 20th century

Sack of Coffee Beans
A sack of coffee beans. Date: 1980

Peg Woffington
Suggestion for a fancy dress costume for a late Victorian party goer - Peg Woffington, a well known Irish actress of Georgian London

Boy on a farm, sitting in the back of a cart
A little boy on a farm, sitting in the back of a cart at harvest time. A yoked ox can be seen on the left, and sheaves of corn in the background

Escapologist - Charing Cross Road, London
A contortionist attempts to escape from a bound sack - Charing Cross Road, London. He is drawing quite a crowd as he attempts this feat

Grading Walnuts - California, USA
Grading Walnuts with a grading machine - California, USA

Laos - Sacks of cardamom being weighed. A very superior French overseer takes down the details in a jotter

Cleaning Boots
A man cleaning his boots in his bedroom

Briggs and the King Wenceslas Spirit by Graham
Strip cartoon Graham showing a loyal and put-upon butler helping his employer to dress in a Father Christmas costume, and heaving a huge sack of toys towards a childrens party where Father Christmas

Coal Merchant, showing a classic example of a leather back support, which enabled such potentially heavy and awkward loads to be transported

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

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