Sacks Collection (page 4)

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

Albert I of Morocco - Parody
" The Supreme law is the Kings Purse" " Roulette is the Source of my Strength" French parody souvenir postcard from Monte Carlo, depicting Albert I of Morocco (1889-1922)

Turkish merchants, Constantinople, Turkey
Turkish merchants at the entrance to a shop in Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey. Date: early 20th century

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

Italian Lakes - Commercial Craft (5 / 7)
Lake Garda (Italian - Lago di Garda or Benaco) - the largest lake in Italy. A two-masted sailing barge (barque) moored up at a harbour at Riva to receive a cargo of sacks of grain. Date: circa 1910s

Small Market in Rouen, Normandy
Small street Market in Rouen, Normandy. The tressle table in the foreground appears to be seeling a wide a array of bric-a-brac! Date: circa 1910s

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

Selenge River near Ulan-Ude, Transbaikal, Russia
Transport ship loading grain on the banks of the Selenge River, near Ulan-Ude, the capital of the Buryat Republic, close to Lake Baikal, Transbaikal, Russia

Indian Water Carrier and his Bullock, India
Indian Water Carrier (Bhisti) and his Bullock, India Date: circa 1909

The delivery and weighing of textiles - Iran
The delivery and weighing of textiles with scales on a simple three post frame at Qazvin Iran Date: circa 1903

Turkish transport en route to Baghdad, WW1
Turkish transport of carriages and tents en route to Baghdad during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Decorative Christmas frieze - Santas helpers
Two mischievous looking elves dressed in Father Christmas hooded red suits, creep through the snow carrying sacks, presumably bulging with presents for good boys and girls. 1920s

Mexico - Donkeys carrying pulque
A tlachiquero on a burro with a load of pulque (an alcoholic beverage) in the saddlebags of a group of other donkeys. Date: circa 1905

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

Mersin, Turkey - Central Street. The site of Turkeys largest port today (sadly not visible here...). Date: circa 1910s

German troops at Krusevac, Serbia, WW1
German troops with catering vehicles in front of a supply depot at Krusevac, Serbia, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British battleship HMS Mars, WW1
The British predreadnought battleship of the Majestic class, HMS Mars, during First World War. Launched 1896, served as a troopship during the Dardanelles campaign. Date: 1914-1916

Djibouti, East Africa - Avenue de la Republique. It is nice to compare the difference between the colonial French mode of transportation

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

Men searching for coal on slag heap
A line of unemployed men carrying sacks search for lumps of coal on a slag heap in South Wales. In the background are railway lines and clouds of smoke and steam rising from the engines

Izmir, Turkey - Activity on the quayside
Busy activity at the port of Smyrne (Smyrna, modern Izmir), Turkey Date: 1905

Double page spread in a diary for 14-19 February
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 14-19 February. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

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

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sarajevo - Market traders weighing large sacks of grain in the main Sarajevo Market

Bosnia - Sarajevo - General Store
A General Store in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - probably selling all kinds of wares, but all that is on show in this scene are some brushes and some sacks of grain

Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina - Grain Market
Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina - The Town Market

Municipal Theatre - Algiers
The Municipal Theatre, Algiers

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

Boulogne Docks 1917
Under the instruction of a British officer, Chinese labourers load sacks of oats at Boulogne Docks

The Petrovski Quay at Baku, Azerbaijan

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

Manchester Ship Canal - Railway and warehouses
Manchester Ship Canal - Railway line and mulit-storey warehouses. The trade coming through the Ship Canal (often originating from Ireland)

Natives unloading cargo from boats
Native men unloading cargo from boats, in an unidentified location. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Turkey, Chanak - British Fleet Sports Final. A rather funny game is in progress between the 8th Flotilla and HMS Emperor of India

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