Porters Collection

Daybreak at Shinagawa, ca. 1834. ca. 1834. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Daybreak at Shinagawa, ca. 1834

Je voudrais pouvoir me faire promener comme ça dans les rues de Brest... 1859. Creator: Honore Daumier
Je voudrais pouvoir me faire promener comme ca dans les rues de Brest, on m'prendrait pour un mandarin!... 1859. I wish I could get myself paraded around like that in the streets of Brest

The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition - Portaging a Canoe and Baggage, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition - Portaging a Canoe and Baggage, 1858. Engraving from a photograph taken during...the expedition sent out last spring by the Canadian Government

The Revolution in Sicily - the people relanding with their chattels at Messina... 1860
The Revolution in Sicily - the people relanding with their chattels at Messina, after the Battle of Melazzo, from a sketch by T. Nast, 1860

Mizuguchi, 19th century. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Mizuguchi, 19th century. From the Kyoka, or Comic Poem Set. Series: Fifty-three Stations of the T¯okaid¯o

Moving the lions at the Zoological Society's Gardens, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Moving the lions at the Zoological Society's Gardens, 1876. Lioness in her new home. The lions, tigers, and panthers of the Zoological Society's collection in the Regent's Park Gardens

Our Coolie Porters; Black Bear Shooting in the Himalayas, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Our Coolie Porters; Black Bear Shooting in the Himalayas, 1875. From Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] and Galpin

Labour, 1899. Creator: Jan de Waardt
Labour, 1899. Two men with wheelbarrows, porters at work on a quay, barrels, stone bridge. On the right is a thin man in top hat and jodhpurs

Labourers pulling a heavy cart on Jacob van Lennepkade, Amsterdam, 1900. Creator: George Hendrik Breitner
Labourers pulling a heavy cart on Jacob van Lennepkade, Amsterdam, 1900

'Caravane de porteurs Senoufos; L'Ouest Africain, 1914. Creator: Unknown
'Caravane de porteurs Senoufos; L'Ouest Africain, 1914. From "Grande Geographie Bong Illustree", 1914

'The Duke and Duchess of Connaught in Japan- Starting for the Chiuzenjii Lake, 1890. Creator: Unknown
The Duke and Duchess of Connaught in Japan- Starting for the Chiuzenjii Lake, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 41. January to June, 1890

The Graphic Stanley Number; The Vanguard of the Expedition Marching throughthe Primaeval Forest, Creator: Unknown
The Graphic Stanley Number; The Vanguard of the Expedition Marching throughthe Primaeval Forest, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 41. January to June, 1890

Porters; Industrious Classes in Constantinople, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Porters; Industrious Classes in Constantinople, 1854. From "Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper; London Weekly 31 Dec 1853 to 30 Dec 1854"

Yang Pu Moving His Family, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Creator: Unknown
Yang Pu Moving His Family, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Long scroll ink painting depicting people with their animals and belongings crossing a river. Detail from a larger artwork

Yang Pu Moving His Family, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Creator: Unknown
Yang Pu Moving His Family, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368). Long scroll ink painting depicting people with their animals and belongings crossing a river. Detail from a larger artwork

The Main Gate, New Yoshiwara, c. 1745. Creator: Torii Kiyotada
The Main Gate, New Yoshiwara, c. 1745. Detail from a larger artwork

Arrival of the Korean Embassy in Edo, c. 1709. Creator: Torii Kiyonobu I
Arrival of the Korean Embassy in Edo, c. 1709. Detail from a larger artwork

Arrival of Christmas Train, Eastern Counties Railway - drawn by Duncan, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Arrival of Christmas Train, Eastern Counties Railway - drawn by Duncan, 1850. Porters unloading Christmas parcels at a station. Illustration to a poem by D

Receiving goods at the International Exhibition Building, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Receiving goods at the International Exhibition Building, [South Kensington, London], 1862. Our Illustration represents a section of the busy scenes within the building of the International

Zeze Castle: Returning Sails at Yabase (Zeze, Yabase no kihan), published in 1863. Creator: Toyohara Kunichika
Zeze Castle: Returning Sails at Yabase (Zeze, Yabase no kihan), published in 1863. Series: Scenes of Famous Places along the Tokaido Road (Tokaido meisho fukei)

Trainman signalling from a "Jim Crow"coach, Saint Augustine, Florida, 1943. Creator: Gordon Parks
Saint Augustine, Florida. Trainman signalling from a " Jim Crow" coach

Railroad yards, Kearney, Nebraska, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Railroad yards, Kearney, Nebraska. Overland train passengers go back to their cars after ten minute train stop on trip between San Francisco and Chicago

Mr. H. M. Stanleys return to civilisation; Mr. Stanley and his Porters at the British... 1890. Creator: Unknown
Mr. H. M. Stanleys return to civilisation; Mr. Stanley and his Porters at the British Agency, Zanzibar

Korean Embassy Parade, 1682. Creator: Hishikawa Moronobu
Korean Embassy Parade, 1682. Attributed to Hishikawa Moronobu

A Passing Palanquin, from the series "Scenes of Flower-viewing at Ueno"
A Passing Palanquin, from the series " Scenes of Flower-viewing at Ueno (Ueno hanami no tei)", c. 1681/84

Fujisawa, from the series "A Record of a Journey to Enoshima (Enoshima kiko)"
Fujisawa, from the series " A Record of a Journey to Enoshima (Enoshima kiko)", 1833

A Prosperous American Merchant Building in Yokohama (Yokohama asanban shokan hanei no zu), 1871

The Main Gate, New Yoshiwara, c. 1745. Creator: Torii Kiyotada
The Main Gate, New Yoshiwara, c. 1745

The Bride Traveling in the Rain, from the series "The Foxes Wedding", 1765
The Bride Traveling in the Rain, from the series " The Foxes Wedding", 1765

Nihon Bridge to Edo Bridge (Nihonbashi Edobashi), from the series "Famous Places in Edo... 1853
Nihon Bridge to Edo Bridge (Nihonbashi Edobashi), from the series "Famous Places in Edo (Edo meisho)", 1853

Frontispiece for Juvenal, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Frontispiece for Juvenal, 1894. An elderly woman is just glimpsed between the curtains of a sedan chair carried by monkeys. From The Yellow Book, Vol. IV

Laborers, late 18th-early 19th century. Creator: Hokusai
Laborers, late 18th-early 19th century

Cherry blossom viewing, late 18th-early 19th century. Creator: Hokusai
Cherry blossom viewing, late 18th-early 19th century

The Three Porters. Creator: Allart van Everdingen
The Three Porters

Poem by Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki), 1760-1845

The Top of Mount Fuji, ca. 1800. Creator: Hokusai
The Top of Mount Fuji, ca. 1800

Nakahara in Sagami Province (Soshu Nakahara), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), ca. 1830-32

Fukui Bridge in Echizen Province (Echizen Fukui no hashi), from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyo kiran), 1827-30

Hodogaya on the Tokaido (Tokaido Hodogaya), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), ca. 1830-32

Fuji Seen from Kanaya on the Tokaido (Tokaido Kanaya no Fuji), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), ca. 1830-32

Surugadai in Edo (Toto Sundai), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), ca. 1830-32

View from the Other Side of Fuji from the Minobu River (Minobugawa ura Fuji), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjurokkei), ca. 1830-32

Cherry Shell, from the series Genroku Poetry Shell Games, probably 1821. Creator: Hokusai
Cherry Shell, from the series Genroku Poetry Shell Games, probably 1821

Shariki, or Cart-Pushing Coolies, ca. 1860. Creator: Felice Beato
Shariki, or Cart-Pushing Coolies, ca. 1860

The Newly Opened Port of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, 2nd month
" The Newly Opened Port of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture", 2nd month, 1860

[Japanese Woman in Traditional Dress Posing with Two Men], 1870s. Creator: Unknown
[Japanese Woman in Traditional Dress Posing with Two Men], 1870s

The Chapel of the Enfants-Trouves in Paris: La Suite des rois mages: chameliers et porteur... 1756
The Chapel of the Enfants-Trouves in Paris: La Suite des rois mages: chameliers et porteurs de presents, 1756. [Dernier tableau du cote gauche lateral - entourage of the Magi

Shin Yoshiwara Emonzaka Aki no Tsuki, ca. 1836. ca. 1836. Creator: Ando Hiroshige
Shin Yoshiwara Emonzaka Aki no Tsuki, ca. 1836

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