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A Crack Truffle-hunting team setting out, FranceA 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 - PainterGeorge 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, LondonView inside the Winter Gardens of the Strand Palace Hotel, London, with art deco style decor. Date: circa 1930s
Man with racing pigeonsA 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 WalesA 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 WalesAn 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 MarketBosnia & Herzegovina - Street Grocer (selling fruit, vegetables and bread) from large wicker baskets
Ladies from Edinburgh using a Singer Sewing Machine
Bosnian Street MarketTraders at a street market in Bosnia Herzegovina. Selling wares from large wicker baskets
Basketry - AlgeriaTwo Algerian men weaving a very large (and rather magnificent) straw basket
Baker delivering bread - Constantinople, TurkeyA Turkish Baker delivering the morning bread in Constantinople, Turkey. He lifts a stack of loaves out of one of a pair of large reedwork panniers, strapped to the flanks of his pony
Elderly date seller - ConstantinopleAn elderly date seller - Constantinople, carrying a fine set of metal scales. He also carries a large wicker basket on his back
Apple Salesman with a gigantic pannier - TurkeyApple seller standing alongside his large pannier, filled to the brim with fruit. The weight of this woven backpack must have been immense
Collector of Dung - Constantinople, Turkey with his pony bearing two wicker panniers to hold the gathered refuse and a spade to pick it up with!
Picking Jasmine - Grasse, FrancePicking Jasmine at Grasse, France
Two ladies sitting out on the terraceTwo rather stern-faced ladies sit outside on an English terrace in large wicker chairs. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts
Seller of Quince, Constantinople, Turkey
Pottery MerchantsA pottery merchant and customer stand between wares piled high in a large wicker backpack and engage in tense negotiation
Cooking Utensil SalesmanItinerant cooking utensil salesman, with a wicker backpack and hand basket, containing brushes and wooden platters
Niagara Peninsula - Peaches for exportCanada - province of Ontario - The Niagara Peninsula - a microclimate, where a wide variety of fruit and vegetables (which could not be grown in any other area of Canada) are grown
Mametz 1916A British 4.5 inch Howitzer, the standard British field artillery unit of World War One, in a captured German gun position
Baby poses for the cameraA baby sits on a wicker chair and is centre of attention as a group of children encourage it to smile for its photograph, taken with a Eastman Kodak Hawk-Eye camera
A Modern Turkish LadyA Modern Turkish veiled woman reclining on a wicker couch. The beginning of modern Turks
Businessman relaxes in his officeA Businessman (possibly a Company Director) sits back in a modern round wicker chair with hands behind his head and wearing a Warriors helmet
Chinese Woman carrying a plantChinese Woman carrying a potted plant ina wicker bag
Hot chestnut sellerA jolly Hot Chestnut seller keeping warm by the fire, with a cat sheltering beneath him. He has a wicker basket full of uncooked chestnuts on his arm
Fishing in IndiaA wonderful photograph showing colonial life in India in the early 1920s. A British diplomatic service gentleman fishes from the comfort of a wicker chair by the banks of a wide Indian river
South Africa - President Kruger, Dr. Leyds and MinistersPresident Kruger, Dr. Leyds and his Ministers of State - South Africa
For big projectiles used by the Germans in the Great War: Wicker cases for shells
Cornish Coal LorryCornish coalmen unloading coal from their lorry onto a ship before it sets sail from the harbour with its cargo of China clay
Russian Students / C1900Two Russian students with a variety of baggage
Woman with DaffodilsA young woman, wearing a princess line, sleeveless dress with bow shoulder straps, holds a small wicker basket full of daffodils
Housewife / BasketA young housewife smiles as she opens the front door before going shopping with her basket over her arm
On the Beach 1899A lady in a blue gingham dress sits in a high-backed wicker beach chair while her companion in red striped gown carries a shrimping net
Ladies on Beach 1904Two ladies at the beach with their changing hut and upholstered wicker beach chair; the dresses, one blue, one salmon red, are trimmed with lace
Street Trade / LettuceA young man sells lettuce and other green salad ingredients on the street. He is using a distinctive large-framed backpack wicker basket
Stonemason at WorkA Stonemason prepares a large block of stone whilst sheltering from the hot sun below a wicker shade
Selling from BoatMen selling furniture from a boat, Madeira
Water Baby / Tom / LobsterTom helps the lobster out of the lobster pot
Farmer Feeding CatsA farmer or farm hand sits in a wicker basket and feeds two hungry cats, one of them begging on its hind legs! Note the hopeful dog on the right. Date: early 1930s
Posy of RosesA decorative arrangement of roses in wicker basket
Lady Shopper 1970A woman in a green floppy hat and green dress browses in a shop selling various mirrors and ornaments. She holds a rather full wicker basket full of shopping over her arm
Children Read in GardenA girl sits on a wicker chair in the garden and reads to her three sisters. The youngest one sits on her lap and their puppy crouches on the ground
Old Chairs to MendOLD CHAIRS TO MEND ! a boy brings a broken chair for the chairmender to mend with wicker
Husband / Wife WoodstonA Hampshire couple pose for their photograph
Children in Nursery 1878Two children in the nursery: baby is having a ride in a wicker pushchair
Two Females on BeachSUR LA PLAGE Mother & daughter on a French beach : maman sits in a wicker seat which protects her from sun or rain : her daughter sits reading in a deckchair
