Stilts Collection

Lieutenant Cameron's Sketches in Central Africa: a lake dwelling on Lake Moheya, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Lieutenant Cameron's Sketches in Central Africa: a lake dwelling on Lake Moheya, 1876. A...feature of some interest is one of the "lake dwellings

Costumes de Différent Pays, Homme des Landes de Bordeaux Mettant ses Échasses, c1797
Costumes de Different Pays, Homme des Landes de Bordeaux Mettant ses Echasses, c1797

Brazilian Landscape with a Worker's House, c1655. Creator: Frans Post
Brazilian Landscape with a Worker's House, c1655

Costumes de Différent Pays, Homme des Landes de Bordeaux Allant à la Ville, c1797
Costumes de Different Pays, Homme des Landes de Bordeaux Allant a la Ville, c1797

Costumes de Différent Pays, Berger des Landes de Bordeaux, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Different Pays, Berger des Landes de Bordeaux, c1797

The Vision of the Sunday Child, 1660. Creator: Cornelis Saftleven
The Vision of the Sunday Child, 1660

Two Ainu women standing outside by the wall of a wooden hut, 1908. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Two Ainu women standing outside by the wall of a wooden hut, 1908

View of a Town on a River, 1645. Creator: Jan van Goyen
View of a Town on a River, 1645

Travel views of Japan and Korea, 1908. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Travel views of Japan and Korea, 1908

Ainu standing outside by the wall of a wooden hut, 1908. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Ainu standing outside by the wall of a wooden hut, 1908

Les Parisiens ayant trouvé le moyen de circuler... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Les Parisiens ayant trouve le moyen de circuler... 19th century. Parisians have found a way of getting around on tarmacked boulevards during rainy weather

The Stilts, n.d. Creator: Louis Marin Bonnet
The Stilts, n.d

Various Sketches, 1800. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Various Sketches, 1800

School Fete at Codrington College, Barbadoes, 1850. Creator: Unknown
School Fete at Codrington College, Barbadoes, 1850. Caribbean schoolchildren at...the oldest of our Colonial Colleges...particularly interesting from its position amongst a large Negro population

Food caches, Hooper Bay, Alaska, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Food caches, Hooper Bay, Alaska, c1929

King Island, Alaska, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
King Island, Alaska, c1929. Sea-cliff dwellings on poles

Common-Wealth, The Colossus, 1766. 1766. Creator: Anon
Common-Wealth, The Colossus, 1766

Colemans Soul Food, 2622 Welton Street, Denver, CO. Creator: Chris Suspect
Colemans Soul Food, 2622 Welton Street, Denver, CO

Foreign Children at Play (Gaikoku kodomo yugi no zu), 1860. Creator: Yoshikazu
Foreign Children at Play (Gaikoku kodomo yugi no zu), 1860

Young Nobleman and His Attendant, 19th century. Creator: Kubo Shunman
Young Nobleman and His Attendant, 19th century

Les Echasses, c. 1790. Creator: Louis Marin Bonnet
Les Echasses, c. 1790

East Gloucester #1, n. d. Creator: Muriel Walcoff
East Gloucester #1, n.d

Grands Sauteurs!, from La Caricature, 1823-60. Creator: Alexandre Gabriel Decamps
Grands Sauteurs!, from La Caricature, 1823-60

The Dream of the Doctor, ca. 1498. Creator: Albrecht Durer
The Dream of the Doctor, ca. 1498

Bruni, or Borneo Proper - from a sketch by a correspondent, 1845. Creator: Unknown
Bruni, or Borneo Proper - from a sketch by a correspondent, 1845....Borneo, the capital of the kingdom of Borneo Proper, or Brunai, lying on the north-west coast of the Island of Borneo

American Woman with Her Child on Stilts, 1st month, 1861. Creator: Utagawa Yoshitora
American Woman with Her Child on Stilts, 1st month, 1861

From Top to Bottom, or Cause and Effect (Du haut en bas... ou les causes et les effet
From Top to Bottom, or Cause and Effect (Du haut en bas...ou les causes et les effets), April 1814

The Notre-Dame Pump, Paris, 1852. Creator: Charles Meryon
The Notre-Dame Pump, Paris, 1852

Tropical Scenery, Native Hut, Turbo, 1871. Creator: John Moran
Tropical Scenery, Native Hut, Turbo, 1871

Vue de la Ville Chinoise (Cholen) Feuille No. 6, Saigon, Cochinchine, 1866

Bonzerie de la Grande Pagode, 1866. Creator: Emile Gsell
Bonzerie de la Grande Pagode, 1866

With Anger Foaming... from Benevolent Epistle, 1790. 1790. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
With Anger Foaming... from Benevolent Epistle, 1790

Houses on stilts, Bangkok, Siam, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers
Houses on stilts, Bangkok, Siam, 1898. Bamboo buildings by a drawbridge over the river. From " Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers

House on stilts and fishermen in Singapore Harbour, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers
House on stilts and fishermen in Singapore Harbour, 1898. Fischer im Hafen von Singapore. From " Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers

A Native Hut, Sariba, British New Guinea, c1909. Creator: George Rose
A Native Hut, Sariba, British New Guinea, c1909. This style of building is peculiar to this particular island. Traditional building with curved roof line on Saliba Island

The Village of Ela-Varia, British New Guinea, c1909. Creator: George Rose
The Village of Ela-Varia, British New Guinea, c1909. A comprehensive view of the native houses, built on piles. Traditional stilt houses in what is now Papua New Guinea

One of the Public Tea-Gardens, Shanghai, China, 1895. Creator: W &s Ltd
One of the Public Tea-Gardens, Shanghai, China, 1895. Teahouse on stilts reflected in a lake. From " Round the World in Pictures and Photographs

Traditional house on stilts, Sumatra, c1928. Creator: Unknown
Traditional house on stilts, Sumatra, c1928. House with space underneath for livestock. From " Die Welt in Bildern", (The World in Pictures), cigarette card album, c1928

Emergency Water Supply Pump Platform, Westminster Bridge, London, WWII, 1944
Exterior of Emergency Water Supply Pump Platform, Westminster Bridge, London, WWII, 1944. Small building on piles in the River Thames, built to supply water in an emergency

View across Piccadilly Circus looking up Regent Street, Westminster, London, 1830, with the County Fire Office on the right

The Carpenter, from Four and Twenty Toilers, pub. 1900 (colour lithograph). accompanies verse by E.V. Lucas (Edward Verrall Lucas) (1868 – 1938);

The Times, 1762. Artist: William Hogarth
The Times, 1762. Satire on King George III and the Seven Years War. The burning city is an allegory for the state of Europe. William Pitt is depicted on stilts, fanning the flames of war

`The Pont aux Meuniers and Part of the Palais du Roi de la Cite in 1556, 1915
The Pont aux Meuniers and Part of the Palais du Roi de la Cite in 1556, 1915. From Paris Past and Present. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1915]

The Modern Dance of Death, c1895. Artist: Joseph Kaspar Sattler
The Modern Dance of Death, c1895. From The Studio Volume 4. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1894]

Canoa and Barbacoa, 1920s
Canoa y Barbacoa. In the north coast of the Island. Rooms were built in Horcones. Cigar card from the History of Cuba, Geografico Universal, Propaganda de los Cigarros Susini y La Corona

A Village at Nancowry, Nicobar Islands, 1799. A print from Asiatic Researches or Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal, for Inquiring into the History and Antiquities, the Arts

It is necessary to suffer to be beautiful, 1882-1884. Artist: EA Tilly
It is necessary to suffer to be beautiful, 1882-1884. A print from the La Gazette du Bon Ton. A print from La France et les Francais a Travers les Siecles, Volume IV, F Roy editor, A Challamel

Dhows and houses on the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok, Thailand, 1900s. Stereoscopic card. Detail

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