Wicker Collection (page 13)

Peat Carriers, Scotland
Scottish Peat Carriers, their heavy loads tied into wicker backpacks. Date: circa 1908

A Newlyn Fishwife, Cornwall. Date: 1893

Congo - Africa - Arrival of India Rubber, transported in specially-designed wicker carriers. In the early 1900s, the Congo Free State was also a significant source of natural rubber latex

On deck on the way to Holiday in Norway
Slightly windswept passengers on deck aboard the ferry on the way to a Holiday in Norway. Sitting on wicker chairs close to the rail, wrapped up in raincoats and mittens! Date: early 1950s

French country gent with a large red umbrella
" I always take my umbrella when I go shopping!" A French country gent from Normandy with a large red umbrella. (top line is the likely translation of the French pattoir on the card)

Baby in a basket
A Baby in a basket, what a delightful treat! Date: 1904

Charming Alleyway in Zermatt, Switzerland. Date: circa 1910s

Lisbon, Portugal - Fish Seller carrying two wide wicker baskets of fresh fish on a pole over his shoulder - he is wearing traditional national costume

Portugal - Lisbon - Baker Boy Date: circa 1910

Portugal - Madeira - Children in traditional costume, featuring pointed red carapuca caps. Date: circa 1909

Portugal - Wandering Salesman
Portugal - A Poor wandering salesman, with a small basket of wares in his wicker basket at the end of a long pole. Date: circa 1908

Three kittens in a basket on a cutout Christmas card
Three grey kittens with holly in a red basket on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a jug in a basket
Christmas card in the shape of a jug in a wickerwork basket. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a basket of wine bottles
Christmas card in the shape of a wickerwork basket full of wine bottles. circa 1890s

Sommer?s Farman biplane
?Wicker chair and foot control of Ailerons in Sommer?s Farman biplane?. ?Vehicles of the air? by Victor Lougheed. p.440a

Theatrum sanitatis (Codex 4182). Tacuinum Sanitatis. sheet CXXIII: Galli. Hens in a wicker cage; remedy for those who suffer with colic. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. ITALY. Rome

Rice - paddy threshing - Rangoon - Three white bullocks with a driver walked in a never-ending circle, around and around on the piled paddy, walking the grains out

Roadside Butter Market in Ireland Date: 1905

Woman of the Sablaise Region, France
Woman in traditional costume from Sable-sur-Sarthe, (commonly referred as just Sable), a commune in the Sarthe department in the Pays de la Loire region in west France

Romania - National Costume
A girl in the National Costume of Romania - striped embroidered shirt, long embroidered skirt with additional decorative over-skirt. She is carrying a small basket of fresh flowers. Date: circa 1900

Romanian Woman by a village gate
A House in the Country. Romanian Woman by a village gate Date: 1902

Women porters of the Italian Lakes with mules
Women porters of the Italian Lakes region with a man, a young boy, a mule and a young calf. Date: circa 1909

Italy - Lake Maggiore, Stresa, Someraro
Italy - Lake Maggiore. Horse wagon on the road between Stresa and Someraro. Date: circa 1910s

Making popcorn - Romania
A Gypsy woman cooking corn to make popcorn. Date: circa 1910

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

Rural scene on the banks of Lake Maggiore. An Italian woman of the region pauses to chat to a man working metal outside his stone house

A Bhutia Coolia. The Bhutia are ethnic Tibetans who speak a Tibetan dialect. Their ancestors migrated from Tibet to Sikkim, Darjeeling

Italy - Siena - Local country folk in an ox carriage
Italy - Siena - a beautiful postcard depicting local Sienese country folk in an ox carriage. Date: circa 1908

Housewife Shopping
A young housewife, with her dog on its lead and her wicker shopping basket over her arm, looking at the display in a greengrocers shop window. Date: 1960s

Bolivian Woman carrying many baskets - she is Fruit seller Date: circa 1910s

Gandria - Lake Lugano - Alleyway
Backstreet in Gandria on the shore of Lake Lugano, Switzerland. A woman walks up a steep cobbled passageway with a wicker basket on her back, past a large wood store

Raking Fir cones
Women raking up and gathering fir cones into wicker backpacks Date: circa 1910s

Bringing home the turf
A Colleen (a young unmarried Irish girl) bringing home a wicket backpack full of cut turf. Date: 1909

British Columbia Indian Shaman in full fur attire, standing with totemic wooden carved objects outside his canvas abode. Date: circa 1910s

Hungarian Country Wine
A young Hungarian man pours himself a glass of fresh country wine. Date: 1930s

Trendy Conservatory
A trendy new conservatory on a modern house. The man reads a book on a wicker chair in the conservatory; the woman sips a cold drink on a garden lounger chair! Date: 1960s

Waste Paper Basket
A wicker waste paper basket. Date: 1930s

Weighing Baby
A nurse weighing a baby in a wicker basket on a set of weighing scales. Date: 1930s

Girl in a garden, reading a book
A young girl sitting in a garden, reading a book under a tree. first published 1879

A Crack Truffle-hunting team setting out, France
A Crack Truffle-hunting team setting out, Lot, France. The fruits of their sniffing, snuffling and truffling labours can be seen in the basket on the right. Date: circa 1908

George Frederic Watts - Painter
George Frederic Watts (1817 1904) - English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement, pictured in his studio. Date: circa 1900

Winter Gardens, Strand Palace Hotel, London
View inside the Winter Gardens of the Strand Palace Hotel, London, with art deco style decor. Date: circa 1930s

Man with racing pigeons
A man with racing pigeons, sent to London from all over Britain and from European countries to take part in an Old Comrades Show involving over 2000 birds at the Royal Horticultural Hall. circa 1940s

Plump woman in a fur wrap, studio photo, Mid Wales
A rather indomitable-looking, plump Edwardian woman in a fur wrap poses for her photo in the photographers studio, Mid Wales. She is seated, with a painted backdrop and draped curtain behind her

Overdressed baby in ornate pram, Mid Wales
An overdressed baby in an ornate pram, in a garden in Mid Wales

Woman in Traditional Cretan Dress - from the Anogia district of Crete

Bosnia & Herzegovina - Street Market
Bosnia & Herzegovina - Street Grocer (selling fruit, vegetables and bread) from large wicker baskets

Ladies from Edinburgh using a Singer Sewing Machine

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