Trunks Collection (page 4)

Boy with Genie (?)

Playing sandcastles

Boating

Trousseau of the Duchess of Roxburghe
A huge stack of trunks, portmanteaux, dress baskets and suitcases representing the substantial trousseau of Miss Mary Goelet, American heiress, who married Henry Innes-Kerr

Roadside Butter Market in Ireland Date: 1905

Village scenes, Romania
Village scenes in Romania including a wonderful well with huge timber lever bucket-lifting apparatus, an inset picture of a pretty Romanina woman in traditonal country costume and village houses

Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, Canada
Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Large Cedar tree trunks have been floated down the inlet and gather in the harbour. Date: circa 1910

Cedar Trees - Vancouver Island, Canada Date: circa 1910

Birds in beautiful surroundings
Two birds enjoy one anothers company surrounded by lush, beautiful scenery in this rural idyll. 1925

Scotland, Glenfarg (near Perth) - The Bein Inn
Scotland, Glenfarg (near Perth) - The single-storey Bein Inn, detailing it was worked on the Gothenburg System. The Gothenburg or Trust Public House movement originated as an attempt to control

Three Elephants
A trio of Indian elephants, with their trunks entwined. Date: 1960s

Disabled tank near Premont, Battle of Cambrai, France, WW1
Men of the 20th Manchesters resting by a tank which has been disabled by side-slipping down a railway embankment, near Premont, during the Battle of Cambrai, France, First World War

Ancient Woodland
Ancient woodland. Date: 1960s

Sunshine and Shadows : A study of sunlight streaming through tree trunks. Date: 1930s

Circus Elephants
A crowd watches a couple of poor circus elephants being pulled across a field by their trunks. Date: 1930s

Port, Naples, Italy Date: circa 1908

Lorries passing mine crater on way to Western Front, WW1
Lorries passing round a mine crater on their way to the Western Front during the First World War. The makeshift road is lined with tree trunks. Date: 1914-1918

Belgium - WWI - Remains of The Druid tank on the St Julien Poelcapelle Road Date: circa 1917

Summer holiday fashions from Simpson of Piccadilly, 1953
Advertisement for mens beachwear from Simpson of Piccadilly, showing four men wearing outfits that range from the faintly ridiculous to the outrageously camp. Date: 1953

French Left Luggage Office
A French Left Luggae Office at a Railway Station with a variety of crates, trunks and cases, each containing some rather surprising (and alive!) contents!! Date: 1904

Cutting Huge Logs
Two men operating a huge industrial chainsaw to cut equally huge felled tree trunks into logs. Date: 1950s

Eastbourne Lifeguards
A team of Lifeguards in action on the beach at Eastbourne, Sussex, England, showing the safety equipment used to reel in the guards themselves during a rescue. Date: 1960s

Leaping Athlete
A jumping German athlete striking a pose in mid air. Date: early 1930s

A Near Thing by William Heath Robinson
Humorous illustration showing two cars laden with trunks and Christmas parcels stuck in the snow while their two drivers pucker up for a kiss underneath some mistletoe

Dense foliage on Stanmore Common. Pen & Ink with wash drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Forest near Lake Kochel, Bavaria, Germany
Scene in a forest near Lake Kochel (Kochelsee) in Bavaria, Germany, on a sunny autumn day

Turkish porter carrying two suitcases
A Turkish porter bent double under his load of two suitcases, a selection of Gentlemans canes and a fez hatbox!

Poster depicting Timber Stacking
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting an elephant stacking timber

Family on beach
A glamorous family on the beach - a blonde woman in a bikini sunbathes while a boy plays on a swing and a man in white bathing trunks looks on

Mountain fir tree forest
A light, atmospheric view of mountains seen through the green silhouettes of fir trees on the lower slopes. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Elk Falls, Britsh Columbia, Canada
Elk Falls, near Courtenay, Britsh Columbia, Canada

Scene in a timber yard, Kashgar, western China
Scene in a timber yard in Kashgar, western China, with many logs stacked up. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Emigration. Emigration Vessel Between Decks
Sleeping quarters for women and children, with trunks and hat boxes and all kinds of luggage stowed away

Embarkation of an Emigrant Ship, Liverpool, 1850
Engraving showing a bustling dock yard scene as emigrants, with trunks and boxes, line up to board their ship at Waterloo Docks, Liverpool, 1850

Passengers claiming luggage at Liverpool Railway Station, 18
Engraving of the crowded Liverpool railway station, with children sitting on baggage in the foreground, and a huge luggage trolley holding hundreds of trunks in the background

Swimwear 1960S
A young couple, holding hands, and wearing fashionable swimwear, enjoy a splash in the sea!

Trees and their reflections
Trees reflected in the still water of a pond or slow-moving river or stream. Photograph by Norman Synge Waller Budd

Control Briefs 1935
And you thought tummy control knickers were a modern invention. This pair of Slenderline undies have a new point-yoke for a flat fit, without bulkiness

Knickers 1935
A lady models one of the many styles of undies available from this company. Others include a girls knicker with a pocket for keeping safe all manner of things

Booksellers, Paris Quay
Selling books out of trunks and suitcases on the Paris quay

Paddington Luggage Shop
Suitcases and trunks piled high outside a luggage shop in Paddington, London

Vigorous Underwear
Underwear for Vigorous Men ! You re a Real Man when you wear an Aertex Athletic Vest and Elastic Waisted Trunks, (not requiring braces.)

Madagascar Water
Madagascar. - Women water- carriers, some using pots others hollowed bamboo trunks

Longstrom Swimmer
Swedish swimmer Carl Fredrik Longstrom wears swimming trunks rather than a full- bodied bathing suit, which would shock public opinion in less open-minded countries

Spanish Swimwear 1934
The latest swimwear for men, women and children

Stopping the train at Woodford, Australia
A female passenger raises a signal to stop the train at Woodford, Australia

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