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Sorts Collection

Background imageSorts Collection: Sorting Post 1930S

Sorting Post 1930S
A postal worker at the General Post Office (GPO), at Mount Pleasant, north London, sorts out parcels on a conveyor belt in the warehouse

Background imageSorts Collection: Fig sorting - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, Turkey

Fig sorting - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, Turkey
Fig sorting at the Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory and depot at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageSorts Collection: Ice Skating Children

Ice Skating Children
What larks! Ice skating gives children the chance in indulge in all sorts of mischief

Background imageSorts Collection: It Takes All Sorts To Make A World - An - Heres Two Of The Sorts

It Takes All Sorts To Make A World - An - Heres Two Of The Sorts! Little Girl and tiny pig - Fun Comic postcard by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Date: circa 1930s

Background imageSorts Collection: WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Takes all sorts to make a world

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Takes all sorts to make a world
The caption says It takes all sorts to make a world and I m glad that you re one of the sorts! The postcard was sent one month before war was declared. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1939

Background imageSorts Collection: James Braid at the Bystander Trophy

James Braid at the Bystander Trophy
James Braid and comparing match cards at the Bystander Trophy at St Georges Hill 1928

Background imageSorts Collection: The Brush Salesman

The Brush Salesman. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1966. Date: 1966

Background imageSorts Collection: JAPANESE GYMNASTS 1860S

JAPANESE GYMNASTS 1860S
Japanese gymnasts performs all sorts of contortions for an audience at Kyoto. Date: 1860s

Background imageSorts Collection: Louis Wain - All sorts of Comical Cats

Louis Wain - All sorts of Comical Cats. circa 1900s

Background imageSorts Collection: Fig packing - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, Turkey

Fig packing - Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory, Izmir, Turkey
Fig packing at the Djanik Elmassian Fig Factory and depot at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. A very traditional scene in the main fig-producing region in Turkey. Date: circa 1910s

Background imageSorts Collection: Sideric Pendulum

Sideric Pendulum
With the Sideric Pendulum you can learn the future and do all sorts of other amazing things

Background imageSorts Collection: W. P. Hartleys Aintree Works - Grading Seville oranges

W. P. Hartleys Aintree Works - Grading Seville oranges
W. P. Hartleys Aintree Works - Women workers grading and classifying Seville oranges and selecting those good enough for Hartley s. Date: circa 1906

Background imageSorts Collection: Henri Et Antonine Ferry

Henri Et Antonine Ferry
ANTONINE ET HENRI FERRY- BIAGIOLI Talented brother-and-sister team who created and performed musical compositions of many sorts. Date: circa 1867

Background imageSorts Collection: Sorting Laundry

Sorting Laundry
A young housewife sorts out a pile of laundry. Date: 1940s

Background imageSorts Collection: Fairy tale, Jack the Giant Killer

Fairy tale, Jack the Giant Killer
An illustration to the fairy tale, Jack the Giant Killer -- Jack blows his horn at the door of the Giants castle. Two dragons lurk round the corner, breathing fire, while a lizard

Background imageSorts Collection: Pounding rice - Malabar region of Southern India

Pounding rice - Malabar region of Southern India
Sifting, sorting and pounding rice with a large pestle and mortar - Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea). Date: circa 1910s

Background imageSorts Collection: A Land-rush in the United States. A Minute after the signal

A Land-rush in the United States. A Minute after the signal
Horses and wagons of all sorts take the participants in the land-rush to stake a claim for their plot. The land on which Arkansas City was to be built had belonged to the Cherokees until they were

Background imageSorts Collection: Olaus Magnus Dogs

Olaus Magnus Dogs
Different types of dog in medieval Scandinavia

Background imageSorts Collection: Cottage Flower-Grower

Cottage Flower-Grower
A cottage flower-grower of Tresco, Isles of Scilly, sorts daffodils into bunches ready for market

Background imageSorts Collection: Sheep Marker

Sheep Marker
Joe, a well-known sheep marker at Sandwich market, followed the same trade for fifty years. Here, he sorts the sheep in the pen

Background imageSorts Collection: A Handful of Jewellery

A Handful of Jewellery
A pair of hands holding all sorts of jewellery

Background imageSorts Collection: Hagar Leaves Abraham

Hagar Leaves Abraham
Hagar, mother of Abrahams child, mocks his sterile wife Sara, for which she is turned away into the desert : but an angel sorts matters out and reconciles each to all

Background imageSorts Collection: Various Sorts of Mill

Various Sorts of Mill
Various sorts of mill including a water mill over a river and two windmills

Background imageSorts Collection: Dogs at Hippodrome

Dogs at Hippodrome
Dogs performing all sorts of clever tricks at the Paris Hippodrome


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