Sacks Collection (page 3)

Illustration, Good King Arthur. Date: 1895

Snap Playing Card - Coals, coalman with his delivery cart. circa 1900s

Camel Caravan close to Valley of Tombs, Palmyra, Syria
Camel Caravan close to Palmyra, Homs Governate, Syria. Dating back to the Neolithic, Palmyra was first attested in the early second millennium BC as a caravan stop for travellers crossing the Syrian

Road Workers Pakistan
Men at work in one of the main streets at Sukkur, West Pakistan. Date: 1984

Music cover, The Lilac Domino, For Your Love I am Waiting, J L Sacks, Empire Production by Charles Cuvillier. 1918

Music cover, Going Up at the Gaiety Theatre, London
Music cover, Going Up at Gaiety Theatre, London - depicting people standing on a flying biplane. Ev rybody Ought to Know How to do the Tickle Toe. circa 1916

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

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

Charcoal Carriers, Amalfi Coast, Italy
Two elderly Charcoal Carriers, with heavy sacks on their backs walk up a steep coastal road - Amalfi Coast, Italy. Date: 1904

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

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

Favourite Sayings - Grasp all and lose all
Black and white lantern slide painted scene of mice in a granary making holes in the sacks of corn.. Part of Box 197 Sayings, Boswell Collection. Grasp all and lose all. Lantern slide creations of C

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

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 and sea scouts from British Guyana, South America, with a flag, surrounded by luggage

Shipping wheat, San Francisco, California, USA. Date: circa 1910

Christmas parcels for Tommy at the front
Army postmen dealing with hundreds of letters and parcels sent from home to active soldiers abroad, showing them that they are not forgotten during the festive season. Date: 1916

The night mail train. Men loading sacks of mail to be despatched around the country. Date: 1904

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

Departure of mail to British Soldiers
The regular despatch of soldierss letters and parcels throughout World War One. Several million letters and cards are sent weekly to different fronts

Naval reserves called up at the outbreak of World War I
Naval reforms inaugurated by Lord Fisher included the establishment of a Naval Reserve which could be added to the strength of the fleet whenever was necessary

Wartime Paper Recycling
In Holt, a Wiltshire village, Lady Cecilie Goff and members of the Womens Co-Operative Guild check sacks of paper collected to be recycled in order that it might be used in munitions manufacture

Children making mail bags for sending parcels to the front
Farnborough children making mail-bags for sending Christmas presents to the men in the trenches during the First World War. Date: 1915

Two British soldiers chat with millers daughter, WW1
Two British soldiers chat with the local millers daughter on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

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

Nursery Rhymes -- monkey, horse and cart, butcher
Nursery Rhymes -- three illustrations, showing a monkey falling from a tree, a horse pulling a cart full of sacks, and a butcher who has cut his hand on a knife. Date: early 20th century

Carrying Mail Sacks
Trusty workers at the General Post Office, lugging huge sacks of heavy mail over their shoulders. Date: early 1930s

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

Samsun, Turkey - Landing Flour at the quay. Date: circa 1910s

Cuba - Havana - Wharf Scene in the harbour - The Cuban Treasury is on the left and the Cabana Fortress is in the distance across the bay to the right. Date: circa 1909

Transportation in the French Pyrenees - laden pack mules Date: circa 1910s

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

Congo, Africa - Sacks of Coffee prepared for export. Date: 1911

Afghanistan - Bazaar at Chaman - Pathans selling grain
Afghanistan (at this stage) - Bazaar at Chaman - Pathans selling grain. Chaman is now the capital of Qilla Abdullah District, Balochistan, Pakistan. Date: circa 1910s

Damascus, Syria - Wheat Seller Date: circa 1910s

Indian man cleaning cotton Date: circa 1910s

Team of Oxen - Basque Country, France
Team of Oxen (wearing hats?!) - Basque Country, Southern France Date: 1909

Coal saleswoman
People You See. From Teddy Bear (22 January 1966)

People with ponies and sacks, Yugoslavia
Scene in a street in former Yugoslavia -- people walking along the road with ponies carrying goods on their backs. Date: September 1965

Scene on a street corner, Yugoslavia
Scene on a street corner in former Yugoslavia -- two men and two women, together with a pony or mule carrying heavy sacks. Date: September 1965

Loading Threshed Barley
Loading sacks of threshed barley from a combine harvester onto a trailer for conveying to the farm, a harvest-time scene in Suffolk, England. Date: 1950s

Cyprus poster
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, Cyprus camel train carrying trade goods Date: 1927-1933

Delivery of the mail at Rand Airport - Johannesburg
Card issued for the Empire Exhibition - Johannesburg, South Africa. The airmail section of the General Post Office in Johannesburg

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