Alan Mays' photos with the keyword: carrying

Novelty real photo postcard, date and location unknown.

A Halloween postcard dated 1908.

"And were it not for Friday's pain, that sadly comes in Thursday's train, I should be full of gratitude!"

I believe it was U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt who said, " Speak softly, carry a big stick , and go roller skating." Or words to that effect.

A pipe-smoking devil carries a "Louis Klug" sign across this nineteenth-century German calling card.

So why is a kid with a dopey expression hoisting a giant flower-filled slipper onto another kid's back? It's just another Victorian-era mystery waiting to be solved in this curious illustration from an unused advertising trade card.

Slide dated October 1959, location unknown. Hilarity ensued as these two men carried the woman through a doorway into a house. Judging by the corsage that the woman was wearing and the flower in the one man's lapel, I suspect that they may have been celebrating a wedding anniversary. Note, too, that a television set is partially visible behind the doll on the left.