Shack Collection

Interior of a jacal (shack). 1853. Oil. MEXICO

Zermatt, Switzerland - with the distinctive shape of the Matterhorn in the distance. Date: circa 1908

Mojave Apache Indian Woman cooking outside her home
Mojave Apache Indian Woman cooking outside her simple shelter made from tree branches cloth and foliage from the surrounding area. Date: circa 1910s

Two jolly Grandmothers with their Grandchildren
Two very jolly Grandmothers with their Grandchildren (or Great Grandchildren) seated outside a shed. Note their matching striped aprons. Date: circa 1920s

Dinahs Shack, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, USA -- Hors d Oeuvre Table and Fireplace Dining Room. A popular dining place for motorists, on Highway 101. Date: circa 1928

Barrel House - Tonopah, Nevada, USA - one of the first houses built in this silver boom mining town. Date: circa 1910s

An extended African-American family round the fire Date: circa 1890s

General store in a mining area, Australia, with numerous advertising posters on display. The poster Whose Was the Hand? is advertising a novel of 1890 by the English author Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Men and women with rifles, Lumbermans Rest, USA
Men and women with rifles at the Lumbermans Rest, somewhere in the USA -- probably arranged for tourists to visit. Date: circa 1910

Dad Lees Dirty Rose Hotel, Oreana, Nevada, USA
Dad Lees Dirty Rose Hotel, Route 40, Oreana, Nevada, USA, showing the legendary Dad Lee Baker standing outside. Date: circa 1935

Seminole Indian home, Florida, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Early days at Twin Falls, Idaho, USA -- a wooden shack advertising Beds. Date: circa 1910

Jamaica - On the Road to Mandeville Porous
Slide showing a photograph of the road heading to Mandeville. Pictured is a shack on the side of the road serving as a pub

Barnardo Wolf Cubs in Australia
A group of Wolf Cubs from the Barnardo Training Home in Picton, New South Wales, Australia. They built the rough shack on the right

Zermatt, Switzerland - Matterhorn
Zermatt, Switzerland - with the distinctive shape of the Matterhorn in the distance. In Visp, a district in the Canton of Valais in southern Switzerland. Date: 1905

Cambodia - Water Buffalo and hanging elephants feet
Cambodia - A small settlement with Water Buffalo and a rack of hanging elephants feet - destined to become fashionable western furniture items - (see picture 10528268). Date: circa 1910s

General Grants Log Cabin - Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, USA
General Grants Log Cabin - Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Date: circa 1910s

Interior of a shack occupied by berry pickers. Anne Arundel County. Maryland. Courtesy of Maryland Child Labor Committee. Location: Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Date ca. 1909?

Southeast Missouri Farms. Family of sharecropper in kitchen of shack. Date 1938 May

Marcus Miller and family in shack that he built himself. Spencer, Iowa. This is half the house. Miller is a hired hand who has managed to save enough to make a part payment on seven

Mrs. Charles Benning sweeping steps of shack in Shantytown, Spencer, Iowa. Date 1936 Dec. Mrs. Charles Benning sweeping steps of shack in Shantytown, Spencer, Iowa. Date 1936 Dec

Mother washing feet and cleaning up daughters in sharecroppers shack. Southeast Missouri Farms. Date 1938 May

Interior of workers shack. Porta de Tierra, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Date 1938 Jan

View toward the Matterhorn - Zermatt, Switzerland
Zermatt, Switzerland - with the distinctive shape of the Matterhorn in the distance. Date: circa 1910s

Chinipis Indians, Argentina Date: 1910

Argentinian Slum Dwelling Date: circa 1920s

A Romanian cottage and occupants Date: 1904

Trouters Hut, St. Pauls Inlet, Newfoundland Date: circa 1910s

Old wooden cabin - Alabama, USA - " At de Ole Cabin Door..." Date: circa 1909

Dieppe, France - A Troglodyte, one of a group of people who built homes into the faces of cliffs, connected by underground passageways Date: circa 1910s

Santa Cruz Province Argentina - Smallholding
Santa Cruz Province, Argentina - Smallholding at the end of the glacier Date: circa 1920

Bush hut at Gembrook, Melbourne, Australia Date: 1903

Ecuador - Workmans Shack
Workmans Mansion (!) - Santiago de Guayaguil, Ecuador. Date: circa 1910s

Central France - Soup of the Day
Central France - A farming family tuck into the Soup of the Day

Bosnia - Sarajevo - Bakers
Bosnian Bakers - Sarajevo

Macedonian Woman spinning
A Macedonian woman spinning wool in her cottage

The Bonus Army Camp Defended
Fighting between war veterans and United States troops where at its height on 28th July, 1932. Men of the Bonus Army flinging stones and bricks at police who advance upon them

Unidentified group outside a hut
An unidentified group of western people posing for their photograph outside a hut. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Hermit living on Mount Vesuvius
Highly likely to be two slices short of a toaster, this hermit has decided to live on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius in Italy!

The Birthplace of the Empress Josephine
The birthplace of the Empress Josephine (wife of Napoleon) on the Caribbean Island of Martinique

South Carolina - Large family and their shack
South Carolina - Black African American woman with her seven children posed (in age/height order) outside their rather rickety-looking shack

Racial / Settler & Wife
A settler stands ready with a gun outside his shack, with tin bath and washboard hung on the outside wall, while his wife comforts the baby

Moonlit Hut & River
A sense of foreboding pervades as a man & boy hurry past a wooden shack with its red glowing windows to a boat moored on a river bank beneath a castle & moonlit sky

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