Sacks Collection (page 5)

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

Sailors carrying potatoes onto HMS Coventry, Second World
Photograph showing the seamen of HMS Coventry carrying sacks of potatoes onto their ship, as it is refitted at a British dockyard in 1940. HMS Coventry was an anti-aircraft cruiser of 4290 tons

Bullion Office. Bank of England. Compartment in the Bullion
Engraving of vauly in the Bank of England used for storing sacks full of Mexican Silver Dollars. A Bank official in uniform with tricorn hat is unloading a cart stacked with sacks

Reforms at Athens
A day of bloodless revolution in Athens led by Kalergis leads to political reforms : Otto sacks his Bavarian ministers and grants a new constitution

Mistaken Identity
A group of children pursuing an old man carrying sacks and baggage through the snow, in the belief that he is Father Christmas

Putting the Mail on the Viceroy, Galway, 1850
Engraving showing sacks of mail leaving Galway in rowing boats to be put aboard the Viceroy, on its maiden voyage to New York, 1850

Phosphate Mining
Sacks of phosphate, the salt of phosphoric acid, mined in Sfax, Tunisia, North Africa

Social / Romanian Mats
Romanian mat sellers

Meal-Man / 1647 / Broadside
A meal-man with sacks of wheat These tradesman are preachers in the City of London, 1647. A satirical broadside on non- conformist preaching in London

Fong-Pe, God of Winds
FONG-PE, the Chinese god who controls the winds. In this aspect he is an old white- bearded man who carries the winds in sacks. He can also be a dragon

Marseille Docks / Photo
A view of the docks at Marseille - full of sacks and barrels

English Chimneysweeps
A London chimneysweep offers his services - or rather, those of his two lads who will go down the chimneys getting rid of the accumulated soot which they cart away in sacks

Taking on Mail / Port Said
Taking on the mail, Port Said, Egypt

Roman Wagon Loaded
Roman soldiers load a packhorse and a horse-drawn wagon with sacks of food preparatory to making an expedition from their fort

Barents Voyage / Polar
Men unload provisions stored in sacks & barrels onto the ice while others sleep. Winter quarters on Ledyanaya Gavan (Ice Haven)

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

Trade in Paris, France Unloading sacks from a boat

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