Sticks Collection (page 5)

Crossing the Mer de Glace - Chamonix
A smartly attired group of walkers cross the Mer de Glace at Chamonix, France. circa 1880

Dolly Sisters in Diamond Mine tableaux
The Dolly Sisters wearing creations by Jean Patou in the Diamond Mine scene in Paris En Fleurs, Casino de Paris, Paris, 1925 1925

Two little girls on a beach, Scotland
Two little girls on a beach, somewhere in Scotland. The girl on the left is investigating something in a rock pool

Bukhara - Uzbekistan - A fine camel (carrying sticks?) and driver

Humourous photographer card
A very silly postcard depicting a photographers subject suffering a rather revealing fate, falling backward over some sticks

Kashgar Trip - Uyghur Woman - Headdress
Indigenous Uyghur woman of Kashgar with a remarkable headdress. A wonderful photographic portrait by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Indigenous Uyghur men of Kashgar. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Guari wood carrier, Northern Nigeria, Africa - she is standing on a Train Station platform

Serbian Worker
A Serbian Worker with backpack and sticks, standing on the cobbled apavement of a provincial town

Morocco - Tangiers - Fuel Market

Pogo Golf
Cartoon, Pogo Golf. Men playing golf using clubs as pogo sticks and putting on the second green. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary

Footman from Sais, Egypt
A Footman from Sais, Egypt (on the Western Nile), wearing a fine patterned waistcoat / jerkin and holding a long thin stick

Two Egyptian Footmen
A hand-tinted card depicting two footmen from Sais, Egypt (on the Western Nile), wearing white tunics, patterned waistcoat and sashes and holding long sticks

Egypt - Nile - Children with Crocodiles
Children on the banks of the Nile in Northern Egypt attack a group of crocodiles with sticks

HARROW / ILN 1862
An exterior view of Harrow School, showing boys playing tennis and others standing around with cricket bats and hockey sticks

The Coorg Harvest Festival, Madras, 1852
Engraving showing the Coorg Harvest Festival held in Madras, India, 1852. This festival was an annual event held just prior to the farmers gathering the harvest

Jeu De Graces
Two French players play le jeu de graces which involves quoits and sticks

Burning Incense China
Religious devotees burn incense sticks in a temple which actors perform as Gods in the rear

Joss-House at Ning-Bo
Chinese joss-house, a place of worship where joss-sticks (incense) are burnt, at Ning- bo (previously Ning-po, aka Ning-hsien), Treaty Port opened to European trade 1842

Death & the Woodcutter
DEATH AND THE WOODCUTTER A wretched woodman, worn down by lifes woes and the weight of his load of sticks, calls on Death to relieve him of his suffering

The Preparation of Cinnamon in Ceylon
Series of illustrations in The Graphic showing the preparation of cinnamon in Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka). 1. Cutting cinnamon sticks. 2. Peeling the Sticks. 3. Stretching the Cinnamon Bark. 4

Not in the Scouts Rules! Tracking the Ghost
Colour illustration by Harold Earnshaw showing a group of boy scouts holding a ghost at bay with their walking sticks among a snowy woodland scene

Macmahon Stuck in Mud
Macmahon sticks to his conservative principles, stuck in the mud despite the rising tide of Republicanism

1555 / Fighting Snakes
Swedish countryfolk fighting serpents

FAN / BALLOONS / 1785
A silk folding fan with decorative carved sticks depicting various balloons and other attempts at flight, including those by Dollfus and Montgolfier

Iron Smelting / Africa
Central Africa: iron smelting with long sticks

Social / Moscow Late 18C
A Moscow street scene at the time of Catherine the Great

Rabbits for Sale 1804
Rabbits, fine rabbits for sale

BAKER 1827
A baker kneading dough. He wears an apron and there is a bundle of sticks of firewood (for the kiln) beside him

Sponge Sellers / Turkey
Sponge sellers from Istanbul carry their goods in baskets and tied onto sticks

Boy Selling Barley Sugar
A boy sells sticks of barley sugar from a tray around his neck

Chinaman with Chopsticks
A Chinese diner using chop sticks

Roman Licteurs & Fasces
Roman lictors carrying fasces - an axe within a bundle of sticks - which are used as symbols of their authority

French Senate Cartoon
The French Senate personified as an old man putting sticks in a wheel to prevent progress

Children Marching 19C
Five children marching with swords and sticks

Roman Lictor
A Roman LICTOR : the fasces - an axe within a bundle of sticks - is the symbol of his authority

Greenland Bedroom
Sleeping accommodation in a Greenland home - each compartment has its own heating in the form of a small fire. I don t know what those sticks or poles are for

Primitive Firemaking
Our first ancestors made fire by rubbing sticks together : they used fire for heating, cooking and toolmaking

1845 NY Election Vote
Tough men with big sticks ensure a fair and honest election as New Yorkers go to the polls. They will elect James Polk as president, and they will be proved right

Fairy tale, The Three Little Pigs
The three little pigs build their respective houses out of bricks, straw and sticks

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