Transporting Collection (page 4)

World War One artillery moving down a London street, as a crowd looks on. Date: C. 1914

British soldiers transporting Lewis guns, WW1
British soldiers transporting Lewis guns on a cart on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Tracked machine guns and in fights by G. H. Davis
Mechanical supports for the infantry of the British Army as depicted by ILN special diagrammatic artist, G. H. Davis, showing tankettes with trailer wagons for transporting machine-guns together with

Train Transporting Typhoid Sufferers
A Russian train being used as a temporary hospital specialising in treatment for patients suffering from Typhoid fever. Date: 1920

Transport methods used by soldiers, WW1
Methods used by soldiers for transporting their equipment during the First World War. Showing a French cyclist scout aiming his rifle with his cycle on his back

Italian soldiers climbing precipice, WW1
Italian soldiers transporting themselves and their artillery up a sheer mountain face by means of ropes during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Embarkation of Inniskilling Fusiliers
The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, stationed in China, disembarking from a train at Tientsin (now Tianjin) docks for transfer to a troopship to take them back to Europe

Inniskillings in transit
The Inniskilling Fusiliers, stationed in China, are recalled to Europe to fight in World War One. Here photographed in transit at Tientsin (now Tianjin) docks

Colombia - Picking and transporting bananas, en route for export to Europe. Date: circa 1910s

Russian Locomotive transported by road
View of a bridge over which a locomotive is being pulled by fourteen horses to be delivered to the Orlovsko-Kitebskaya line. Crowds of people have gathered in the snow to watch it go by. Date: 1867

Bringing home some jumbo spuds
A farmer brings home a splendid crop of giant potatoes.... Date: circa 1910s

Mexico Archeology
Transporting a massive monument, known as The Goddess of Water. Date: 1890

The General Strike - lorry transporting passengers
A lorry-load of Londoners in Kingsway, returning home after a days work during the General Strike. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts

Benson log raft - Columbia River, USA
A fine view of a Benson raft - a huge seagoing log raft designed to reliably transport millions of board feet of timber (at one time - this card says 8 million feet) through the open ocean

Rickshaw on the Nanjing Road (The Maloo) - Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1920

Tram, rickshaw and wheelbarrow - Shanghai, China
Tram, rickshaw and wheelbarrow - Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, China Date: circa 1909

Transport by wheelbarrow, Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1908

One-wheeled Chinese wheelbarrow, Shanghai, China. Date: circa 1909

Beijing, China - Bactrian Camels by the City Walls Date: circa 1910s

Beijing, China - Bactrian Camel Train Date: circa 1910s

Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine - Loading Coal - Harbour
Japan - The Mitsui Miike Coal Mine at Omuta, Fukuoka and Arao, Kumamoto Loading Coal at the Harbour. Date: circa 1910s

Yams & Canes taken to market - Constant Spring Road, Jamaica
Yams taken to market by women (baskets carried on the head) along with canes transported by a solitary donkey - Constant Spring Road, Jamaica Date: circa 1910s

Namibia - The Consolidated Diamond Mines at Elisabethbucht. Date: circa 1930s

Russian porter with a large wooden bucket on his head Date: 1902

Mali - Timbuktu - The Ponds (Mares) - Fetching water
Mali - Timbuktu - The Ponds (Mares) - Large excavations dug out of the sand to draw up water from the depths. Date: circa 1910

The State Elephant of H H Gaekwar of Baroda, India
The State Elephant of the H H Gaekwar of Baroda, India - Sayajirao Gaekwad III (born Shrimant Gopalrao Gaekwad, 18631939) - pictured here seated at the rear of the howdah. Date: circa 1910s

A Pair of Donkeys loaded with fuel, Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

Travelling across the Sahara, Egypt - Camel Date: circa 1910

Bananas awaiting transporting by rail - Costa Rica Date: circa 1910s

Madeira - Scenes from the Island including: Loo Rock, travel via a Transporting Hammock, a sheltered nook and a traditional Oxen carriage (Carro). Date: 1900

Water Carrier at Beja, Portugal. Date: circa 1910

Borracheiros - Madeira, Portugal
Madeira, Portugal - wine pickers ( Borracheiros ) and handlers who transport the grape juice as soon after it has been pressed as possible in a goatskin; a sight now fast becoming a rare sight

Transporting Sugar Cane - Madeira, Portugal
Transporting Sugar Cane by Ox-pulled sled - Funchal, Madeira, Portugal Date: circa 1910s

Madeira - Transporting Hammock
Amongst the three best-known unusual means of transportation to have be found on the Portuguese Island of Madeira was the transporting hammock

Japan - Taking brides possessions to new home
Japan - The removal (by porters) of a Japanese brides possessions to her new marital home owned by her future husband. Date: circa 1908

Containers for transporting & storing plants & seeds. Illustration from John Ellis, Directions for bringing over seeds and plants from the East Indies to which is added

Mozarabic Bible. 10th c. Transporting the Ark of the Covenant. Mozarabic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. Le󮮠 Library of the Royal Colegiate Church of Saint Isidoro

Oxen transporting water. ITALY. Piazza Armerina. Villa Romana del Casale. Roman art. Late Empire. Mosaic

A young Farmers boy taking a pig to market
A young Farmers boy taking a pig (in a basket!) to market on a basic wheelbarrow - Hong Kong, China. Date: circa 1904

Picture of Western traders at Yokohama transporting merchandise and westerners. American and French(?) ships in a harbor transporting cargo and passengers. Date 1861

Carrying grapes - Portugal. A line of men with large heavy baskets of grapes leave the vineyard. The baskets are supported with thick leater head straps

Transporting corn or wheat - Italy
Spedaluzzo, near Greve (not too far from Florence), Italy - an ox cart transporting bales of corn Date: circa 1910s

Woman of the Italian Lakes with straw backpack
A woman of the Northern Italian lakes region carrying a large wicker backpack containing what apears to be hay. This traditional mode of transporting such goods is often depicted in the postcards

Finland - Transporting timber Date: circa 1909

Mexican Porter - Carrying massive wooden crate
Mexican Porter - Carrying a massive wooden crate on his back. The card is captioned as: " The Poor Mans Burden in Mexico". Date: circa 1909

Ambala - Hill Milkmen. Ambala is in the state of Haryana, Northern India, Date: circa 1908

Transporting a tree
A tree is moved from the railway station to an avenue, Landskrona, Sweden 1916. Date: 1916

Turkish troops transporting supplies, WW1
Turkish troops transporting supplies by horse and camel during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

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