Pulling Collection

Truckers
21st July 1951: A British Road Services truck pulls out of the Bermondsey depot as it sets out on a night run. Trunker is slang for long-distance lorry driver

Non-Stop Scotsman
11th May 1928: The 150 ton LNER Pacific class locomotive Flying Scotsman, pulling the train of the same name, leaving Kings Cross Station in London on its first non-stop run to Edinburgh

Magician pulling rabbit out of hat
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1930s: Hands of magician performing magic trick, pulling rabbit out of top hat. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Everglade Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus), pulling out flesh from the shell of a snail

Early Washing Machine
circa 1860: An early labour-saving machine for clothes washing, comprising a water barrel, water boiler, agitator and mangle. (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)

Saunders Roe A1; jet flying boat is towed to Westminster
Looking down on the lower Thames Reaches as the Saunders Roe A1 jet flying boat is towed to Westminster and moored off the South Bank. (Photo by Edward Miller/Getty Images)

Illustration of man driving tractor pulling a trailer in field

A Good Pull
25th May 1929: Cunard liner the SS Berengaria with tugs in attendance. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Tugboat Along The Chicago River
A tugboat at work pulls a larger boat along the Chicago River waterfront, Illinois, circa1905 (Photo by Hulton River/Getty Images)

SS Berengaria
4th May 1933: The giant Cunard liner Berengaria entering Southampton harbour assisted by tugs. (Photo by Edward G. Malindine/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Man wearing suit, looking distressed, pointing to empty pocket pulled out of pants
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Man wearing suit, looking distressed, pointing to empty pocket pulled out of pants

Exterior View of Hoffman House

Junction of Chatham and Centre Street, New York

Print After a Drawing of an Artillary Park by Leonardo da Vinci
1872-Greeley, Horace: Incident of Mr. Greeley's Western Tour. An enthusiastic citizen of Hamilton, Ohio, stops Mr. Greeley's carriage and presents his child to be kissed. Drawing

Man Pulling On Bell Rope; Lithograph
(Original Caption) America's most momentous rope. Lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1876

Large Team of Horses Pulling Thresher
It takes a team of thirty horses to pull a thresher through a wheat field in Oregon

San Francisco Cable Car
(Original Caption) San Francisco cable car at Market, Post and Montgomery Streets. Photograph, 1880

Magician Pulling Cards from Jacket
(Original Caption) Magician producing long sheets of cards from man's jacket. Undated photograph. BPA 2 #2918

Farming Family Standing on Horse Drawn Harvesting Vehicle
(Original Caption) 1890's-NE: Horse reaper on wheatfields. Farmer's family proudly models on top of the formidable machine

Horses Pulling Fire Wagon
A fireman pulls the reins on an old-time horse-drawn fire wagon

Ploughing Corn with No Animal
(Original Caption) Savannah, Georgia; A primitive style of ploughing corn. Stereograph photo by O. Pierre Havens, undated

Exterior View of Tombs Prison
The original Tombs Prison building, built in 1840 by John Haviland in Egyptian Revival style. It was demolished in 1897

Mother Pulling Out Son's Bad Tooth
(Original Caption) Mother pulling out her son's bad tooth. Photograph, 1897. BPA2 #853

Man pulling car

Color Print Showing the Corner of Liberty and William Streets After Daniel Carter Beard
COLONIAL DAYS IN NEW YORK CITY. CORNER OF LIBERTY & WILLIAMS STREETS. AFTER A WASH DRAWING BY D. BEARD

Walter A. Wood Single Apron Binder Advertisement
Late 19th Century advertisement

Boys Pushing & Pulling Stubborn Mule
(Original Caption) Stubborn as a mule. Boys on a beach try to coax a recalcitrant animal into action. Photograph, early 1900's

Early Tractor Pulling Plow
(Original Caption) Early tractor pulling plow owned by George Hildebrand of Wasco Sherman Company in Moro, Oregon. Photograph ca. 1890 by W. A. Raymond

Horse-Drawn Streetcar In The Bronx
(Original Caption) New York, NY: Horse-drawn streetcar in the Bronx (Pelham Bay Park). Photo, ca. 1895

Print of Carriage Traffic on St. Petersburg Street
(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Tank Pulling Truck Out Of Mud
(Original Caption) Belfast, Ireland: Belfast Boycott: Truck pulled from the mud by tank after attempt to save tobacco. Undated photograph circa 1920

Satyrs Pulling Chariot
(Original Caption) Hypnerotomachie, /Ov/Discours du Songe/De Poliphile, /Deduisant comme Amour le combat/a l'occasion de Polia

Barnum's Museum by Thomas Benecke
During winter in New York, a sleighing party crowds the street in front of Barnum's Museum

Men on a Bike Pulling a Woman in a Rickshaw
Five British students wearing top hats and spats smoke cigars as they peddle a bicycle pulling a smiling young woman in a rickshaw to the Cotterham Races

Five Children Bring Home Christmas Tree
(Original Caption) Five children bringing home Christmas Tree. Engraving, ca. 1870

Hauling In The Yule Log
(Original Caption) Hauling in the yule log. Engraving by H. M. Paget. BPA2# 2875

Painting of the Tearing Down of the Statue of George III by William Walcutt
(Original Caption) Tearing down the statue of George III in New York City during the Revolutionary War. Painting, 1857 by William Walcutt

Setting the Capstone of the Washington Monument Magazine Illustraton after Sketch by S
On December 6, 1884, workers placed the 3, 300 pound marble capstone on the Washington Monument, and topped it with a nine-inch pyramid of cast aluminum

Walter A. Wood Single Apron Binder Advertisement
(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Illus/Woman Pulling On Spirometer
(Original Caption) Inhalers: Brown's Spirometer. Woodcut from the catalogue of a medical mail order house, ca. 1880

Magician Pulling a Rabbit out of a Hat
(Original Caption) Rabbit being pulled from top hat by magician. Undated photo

Body Snatchers Dtealing A Corpse
(Original Caption) Picture shows body snatchers stealing a corpse from the grave. Undated engraving. BPA2# 1023

Engraving of Russian Caravan with Migrating Peasants by P. Naumann
(Original Caption) The Distress in Russia: Migration of Peasants

Drawing of a Storming Wagon and a Tank-Like Vehicle by Leonardo da Vinci
(Original Caption) Drawing by da Vinci from his book on submarines and inventions. Undated

Strong Man Breaking a Metal Chain
(Original Caption) An athlete prepares to demonstrate his strength by breaking a metal chain. Photograph, 1901

Germans, Austrians Pulling Cannon
(Original Caption) Germans and Austrians preparing a Big Bertha. Undated photograph

Figure Pulling a Sled
Boy pulling sled through snow (Stephen Rutrauskas) Released by mother Mary Rutrauskas. Photo by John B. Piccinola

Silent Film Actor Chester Conklin
Comedian Chester Conklin pulling on a muscle building machine

Horse-Drawn Fire Engine Going Down Broadway
(Original Caption) New York, NY: Horse-drawn fire engine at 72nd Street and Broadway, New York City, racing to a fire. Photograph, ca. 1910

Nurses Pulling During Tug of War Competition
A crowd surrounds a team of nurses as they compete against aides at the annual Bigger, Brighter and Better Labor Day Carnival at the Fox Hill Hospital for the wounded

Robert Scott's Final Expedition
Robert F. Scott and two of his four companions set out for the South Pole pulling a sled. The expedition found Roald Amundsen had arrived a month early, and all five men perished on the route back

Suffragette Parade in Washington, D.C

Horses Pull People on Frozen Lake
(Original Caption) 1914-St Moritz, Switzerland: Photo shows people ski-joring on the lake of St. Moritz. Here, thoroughbred horses are in training

Ski-Joring on Lake in St. Moritz
(Original Caption) 1914-Ski-joring on the lake of St. Moritz. This picture shows thorough-bred horses in training

Soldiers, Horses Pulling Cannons/ Street
(Original Caption) 11/30/1914-Constantinople (Istanbul): Turkish artillery on its way to the front. Scene shows soldiers on horses pulling canons through city street

Robert Scott And Co. Draggin Load In Sno
(Original Caption) 1915-The death of Captain Robert Scott and companions- returning from the South Pole and the arrival of the Southern party at the pole. The last days sledding southward

Oxcart Loaded With Casts Of Wine
(Original Caption) 4/22/1915-Messina, Italy: Oxcart loaded with casts of wine

Elephant pulling sleigh in snow
12/15/1917-New York, New York-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Picture shows a Central Park Zoo elephant helping to clear the snow on the park roadway

Men Pulling Camels
(Original Caption) 1918-Egypt: Picture shows men in Egypt pulling their camels with women and children on their backs. They are in the desert with a small body of water behind them

President Wilson Drawing Capsule
(Original Caption) 9/30/1918-Washington, DC: President Wilson drawing capsule at the Great Draft Lottery to determine the order in which the 13, 000, 000 names will be called

Black Residents Moving Belongings
A police officer provides protection to Black residents of the South Side of Chicago, moving shortly after the riots of 1919

England Beats USA in Tug of War
1920: England team beats USA team in tug of war, during the 1920 Summer Olympics, Antwerp, Belgium. This was the last Olympics with tug of war as an event

Man Pulling Against Two Horses
(Original Caption) 4/6/1920-Mexico- A 40-year-old Jack Johnson conditions hinself by pitting his strength against that of two horses

Jack Johnson Testing His Strength
(Original Caption) 4/6/20- Mexico - 40-year-old Jack Johnson conditions himself by pitting his strength against that of two horses

Sir Thomas Lipton And Lord Inverforth
(Original Caption) 8/14/25-Cowes: Sir Thomas Lipton, with Lord Inverforth

Children Pull Float with Miss Pittsburgh
(Original Caption) 9/11/1925-Atlantic City, NJ- PIRATES AMONG THE BEAUTIES AT ATLANTIC CITY PAGEANT- The Pittsburgh Pirates, National League leaders who are practically assured of the pennant

Crowd Helps Pull Norge Dirigible to Earth
(Original Caption) 4/21/1926- Pulham, England- The Amundsen-Ellsworth Expedition's arctic dirigible Norge, which leaves Leningrad, Russia, on April 24th for Spitzbergen

Tractors Being Used to Clear Land in USSR
(Original Caption) Russia: Photo Shows New Tractor At Work In Soviet Russia

Tug A War At All Girls School
(Original Caption) 11/12/1926-New York, NY: Outdoor study courses and games played in the fresh air, even in winter weather, have won great popularity at the girls high school, Brooklyn

Clara Bow Canoeing
Actress Clara Bow canoes outside her beachfront home

Jimmy Braddock
There is little sign of "a morning after" here as James J

Riding in Horse Drawn Sleigh
(Original Caption) Two people ride across an open field in a one horse open sleigh. Photo circa 1930

James Cagney Appearing with Mae Clark
(Original Caption) 1933- Picture shows a scene from the movie, "Lady Killer"

Vintage photograph showing young women playing tug of war with motorboat
(Original Caption) 4/1/1933-Long Beach, CA-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: speed boat aces prepare for the "Champions Day" races at Long Beach, CA

Grace Allen Pulling George Burns on Sled
(Original Caption) 12/21/1933: Photo shows Gracie Allen and George Burns finding a bit of time between scenes to take some exercises. However, it seems as though George is doing all the work

Tug-Of-War Team Pulls Train
(Original Caption) 4/17/1934-Philadelphia, PA- The lightness of the diesel-powered

Seven Models Pulling One Man
(Original Caption) 7/30/1934- Seven girls pulling for one man should get some place, but they didn't at the Columbia Studios, where that number of beauties tried it

Nanjing Road, the busy commercial thoroughfare of Shanghai, in September 1936

Horses Pulling Truck out of Muddy Road
(Original Caption) Our good country roads: Farm truck stuck in rut. Photograph, Madison, Wisconsin, 1938-39

Little Girl on Skis Behind a Sled Dog
A little girl tries skijoring behind a sled dog

Woman Pulling Egg From Glass/Coloring
(Original Caption) Photo shows a young woman coloring Easter eggs. She is retrieving an egg she has dipped in a glass of colored water. In front of the glasses stands a baby chicken

Weight Pulling Contest For Horses
(Original Caption) 1941-Weight pulling contest for horses at New Engalnd Country Fair, 1941. Photograph

Picketers Pull Wilfred Johnson from Car
(Original Caption) 4/3/1941-Dearborn, MI: Angry pickets at the Ford Automobile Plant converge on a car driven by Negro Wilfred Johnson

Japanese Troops Advance on Chinese Army
(Original Caption) 11/27/1941-Honan Battlefront, China: The famous Mori Unit of the Japanese army pushes its way forward in the area North of the Yangtze River in pursuit, says the Japanese caption

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