Luggage Collection

Advertising for Louis Vuitton by Mich (Michel Liebeaux, 1881-1923)
LSE4091061 Advertising for Louis Vuitton by Mich (Michel Liebeaux, 1881-1923): la voiture Vuitton force le passage aux trunks x - in " La Vie Parisienne" of 15/12/1906

1938 Scott Flying Squirrel motorcycle
1938 Scott Flying Squirrel 500cc twin two stroke motorcycle roadside circa 1938

Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Poster
Poster, Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd, Spithead Air Ferry to and from the island, winter fare seven shillings and sixpence return, seven services daily

Label Sorrento Hotel
A panoramic view of Vesuvius is promised by the label of the HOTEL MEDITERRANEO at Sorrento, Italy, from its dining terrace

The Railway Sleeper
An exhausted conscript on Nation Service sleeps at Darlington Railway Station en rout to or from a posting to the Northern military base at Catterick, York. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Old Orkney Whiskey
Old Orkney advert showing a porter delivering luggage to a scotsman which is a giant bottle of whiskey 1905 1905

Label, Hotel Post, St Anton am Arlberg, Tyrol, Austria
Luggage label from the Hotel Post, St Anton am Arlberg, Tyrol, Austria. Date: 20th century

Advert for Louis Vuitton luggage, 1935, Paris Date: 1935

Land Rover Defender Lara Croft Tomb Raider

Label, Hotel on Lakecomo
The label for the GRAND HOTEL at TREMEZZO on Lake Como is content just to show a view of itself - need we say more ?

Can t We Come Too? by Cecil Aldin
Can t We Come Too? Woggles Series LVI. A spaniel and a Sealyham terrier cast pleading looks at their owner as a pile of luggage indicates to them they are being abandoned for a time. Date: 1932

WW2 recruitment poster, Join the Wrens (Womens Royal Naval Service) and free a man for the Fleet. Printed for HMSO. Date: circa 1940

Triumph Spitfire 1500 1979 White
Triumph Spitfire 1500, 1979, White, Triumph, Triumph, TRI09605

1920s France La Vie Parisienne Magazine Cover

Man with Carpet Bag
The carpet bag is a symbol of the travelling salesman

Orient-Express

Any Girl, Any Station, Anywhere by S. Van Abbe
A fashionable young woman from the 1920s wearing a fur trimmed coat and a green cloche hat, rest her sore feet while sitting on a very large trunk at a railway station. Date: 1927

Luggage label, Zeppelin to South America
Luggage label, Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei (Airline) for the LZ 129 Hindenburg flight to South America. The passenger is a Mrs Sinclair, destination Rio de Janeiro, berth number 32. 1936

Label, Victoria, Murcia
Label from the HOTEL VICTORIA, MURCIA (Spain) features Spanish dancers

Railway station at Malvern, Worcestershire (on the Worcester and Hereford Railway route). Now known as Great Malvern railway station, it opened in 1860. Date: circa 1860s

1938 Scott Flying Squirrel motorcycle
1938 Scott Flying Squirrel 500cc twin two stroke motorcycle roadside circa 1938

Imperial Airways Poster, Travel Luxuriously in the Worlds largest air liners, serving Europe, Africa, India and the Far East. Showing two pilots in the cockpit of a Heracles, and passengers boarding

Businessman with luggage on travelator at Schiphol airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe

Front View of Wollaton Hall, Nottingham with Horse and Carriage
Artist: Redgate, Arthur W. - Title: Front View of Wollaton Hall, Nottingham with Horse and Carriage - Date: N/A - Original Medium and Size: Oil on Canvas 69 x 135

A West Country Mail Coach leaving Piccadilly, 1829 (pencil on paper) (b / w photo)
XJF354261 A West Country Mail Coach leaving Piccadilly, 1829 (pencil on paper) (b/w photo) by Scharf, George the Elder (1788-1860); Private Collection; German, out of copyright

Austrian Hotel Label
Art Deco label fron the TERRASSEN HOTEL, MARIABRUNN Hungerberg, Innsbruck, Austria

the camel in the room. Photocombination concept idea

KODAK ADVERTISEMENT, 1915. Take a Kodak with you. Advertisement for the Eastman Kodak hand-held camera, from an American magazine, 1915

Waterloo Railway Station, London 1912
The scene from the Waterloo Railway Station platform, London. Date: 1912

ELLIS ISLAND: IMMIGRANTS. Trunks at Ellis Island belonging to arrivals debarking for New York, c1900

Luggage label from the St. Enoch Station Hotel in Glasgow, Scotland. Early 20th century
LUGGAGE LABEL. Luggage label from the St. Enoch Station Hotel in Glasgow, Scotland. Early 20th century

Steerage passengers on their way to America, 1800s
European emigrants in steerage section of steamship to the US, 1890. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Children prepare to be evacuated from Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, 11th September 1939

Man on his 1956 / 7 Royal Enfield motorcycle
Travelling biker on his 1956/7 Royal Enfield Meteor motorcycle outside the Post Office at John O Groats in the late 1950s

WW1 - Troops returning to front, Victoria Station, London
WW1 - British troops gathered by Victoria Station, London. They prepare for their return to the front after leave

Baggage Label for the Cunard Line
A fine example of a luggage label - a bag label for the Cunard Line, featuring a picture of the RMS Mauretania

The Wreckers
Artist: Morland, George - Title: The Wreckers - Date: c.1790 - Original Medium and Size: Oil on Canvas 50.8 x 68.6

Leather bags for sale, San Lorenzo Market, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Label San Marco Venice
Label from the Albergo and Ristorante San Marco, Venice, Italy

Platforms 4 and 5 at Paddington Station, c. 1910
A view of Platforms 4 and 5 at Paddington station, London, c.1910, showing hoards of passengers gather to board a train on Platform 4 under the glass train shed roof

Poster, Experienced Travellers Fly British - BOAC and BEA offer services to and from nearly 70 countries Date: circa 1955

Everton football team off to Wembley. The 1968 FA Cup Final was contested by West Bromwich Albion and Everton at Wembley, West Bromwich won by a single goal. 16th May 1968

Euston Station, London terminus of London and Birmingham Railway, 1840. A man greets a female passenger while luggage on the cariage roof is untied. Iron pillars and trusses support the station roof

The children of the Templeton family seen here arriving in the United Kingdom from Jamaica to join their parents who had emigrated to Britain earlier. 25th November 1954

Bus service, Khewra, Punjab, British India
Bus service on a street in Khewra, a salt mining district in Punjab, British India (now in Pakistan). Date: 1933

Moment of Departure - all the staff line up to say Goodbye
A quite wonderful German postcard illustrating the Moment of Departure - all the staff line up to say Goodbye! Date: circa 1910s

Passenger Transfer
Passengers disembarking from the Cunard liner SS Mauretania onto a tender at Fishguard, Pembroke. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Market Reports Series - Country Ducks arriving
One of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series. Country Ducks arrived in excellent condition. Date: 1903

Travellers at Jersey Airport, Channel Islands
A group of travellers make their way towards a small aeroplane on the tarmac at the States of Jersey Airport, Channel Islands. Date: circa 1970s

NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS, 1861. The 7th Regiment of New York volunteers marching on Broadway on their way to the Pennsylvania Station and on to Washington, D.C

Ladies Luggage on Train
Three ladies are about to set off on a railway journey, while the porter copes with their ample luggage

Wallingford station, Cholsey and Wallingford Railway, Oxfordshire, UK
Antique luggage at Wallingford station, Cholsey and Wallingford Railway, Oxfordshire, UK

Food Served on a Flight
An Airline Steward and Air Hostess serve a roast meal to flight passengers

Label, Rock, Gibraltar
Label for the ROCK HOTEL, GIBRALTAR

Ladies Travelling 1399
La Dame de Courcy, one of queen Isabellas attendant ladies, returns to France when king Richard II is deposed : she and her luggage are seen landing at Boulogne

Ad / What to See / Austria
This lady is about to board the train to see what there is to see in Austria

Customs, 19th Century
THE CUSTOM HOUSE Searching imported goods and luggage thoroughly

Stirling Station, 1887-88 (oil on canvas)
3551020 Stirling Station, 1887-88 (oil on canvas) by Kennedy, William (1859-1918); 54x81.6 cm; Glasgow Museums

Troupes anglaises: le bagage de campagne, 1815 (hand-coloured etching)
3664699 Troupes anglaises: le bagage de campagne, 1815 (hand-coloured etching) by Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugene (1798-1863); Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

Disembarkation at the Medina River, Isle of Wight (w / c & and pen and ink on paper)
CEC43144 Disembarkation at the Medina River, Isle of Wight (w/c & and pen and ink on paper) by Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827); 16.5x25.5 cm; The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum, Bedford

With a view to helping aged and infirm passengers on the often considerable walks along corridors at Londons Heathrow Airport

Two women police officers and woman with suitcase
Two women police officers (Jean Grasy and Margaret Findlay or Knight), one of them a sergeant, talking to a young woman with a suitcase on a London street. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1960s

Advert for John Pound & Co cases 1913
Advertisement John Pound & Co dressing cases. John Pound became Lord Mayor of London in 1904

Advert for Asprey selection of household items 1937
Selection of items from Asprey, Bond Street: Glass luminous World lamp, gentlemans pigskin compactus case with ivory fittings, miniature reproduction clock in walnut, brocade evening bag

NYC: PENN STATION, 1942. Passengers waiting for their train at Penn Station in New York City. Photograph by Marjory Collins, 1942

Queen Victoria at the railway ticket office
Queen Victoria depicted at the railway ticket office with her luggage, about to travel to London to open Parliament. Date: 1886

X-ray security machine, 1900
X-ray security machine. Historical artwork of a fluoroscope being used in a late 19th-century French customs hall

Laden Donkey owned by a Bakhtiari Tribesman, Iran - this lantern slide has the caption - A Bakhtiari Tribesmans Pantechnicon !

Jack Hulbert / Cicely
JACK HULBERT British actor and comedian with his wife Cicely Courtneidge in By the Way

ELLIS ISLAND, c1910. A Dutch family at Ellis Island. Photograph, c1910

Elegant Luggage
Elegant luggage for elegant ladies

Male Type / Traveller 1922
Happy chap in a cosy double- breasted overcoat lined in opossum & with a fur roll collar, also a flat cap, narrow trousers with turn-ups, spats & gloves

Soldiers Marching
SOLDIERS MARCHING British troops advancing cross-country : some of them have their wives and even children with them, to say nothing of their luggage !

Dressed for Trip C. 1920
Young woman showing the barrel-line silhouette of the period. She wears a wrap over coat with high fur collar & checker board motif on the hem & a high brimless hat

A Lady and her Luggage
A lady and the various items of luggage she will need when travelling - small case, trunk with drawers, bag for her make-up and so on, and her handbag

Arrivals by German Boat
At the docks: arrivals by a German steamer; men and women, some Jewish, wait on dockside having travelled by boat from Germany

1954 Tallest woman in the world Katja Van Dyk, 8 foot 4 and a half inch tall and wighs 32 stone checking into her London hotel. 2nd March 1954

Hotel Bouwes

No parking drop off and pick up only sign post in sky at airport

Comic postcard, Cupid with fig leaves - Luggage in advance. Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard - A Sore Point - Label your Trunk, Sir? - a younf porter uses a slightly ill-advised phrase whe addressing a Gentleman with a rather pronounced and protrusing proboscis !! Date: 1911

Erecting A Tent By The Way, c1929. Creators: Howard Davie, Harry Payne
Erecting A Tent By The Way, c1929. The last voyage of Captain Scott - British naval officer and explorer Robert Falcon Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole, 1910-1913

Travellers
A painting portraying two travellers, a gentleman in black, holding his top hat and some luggage, accompanied by a woman wearing a striped shawl, riding a donkey. Date: circa 1914

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EDITORS COMMENTS

"Travel in Style: A Journey through Time with Luggage" Step back in time and embark on a captivating journey as we explore the fascinating world of luggage. From the bustling streets of Portsmouth to the serene shores of Southsea and Isle of Wight, this captivating adventure takes us through various eras, each with its own unique tales. Imagine strolling past an old aviation poster at Portsmouth, where dreams took flight amidst promises of thrilling adventures. Or perhaps you find yourself gazing at an advertisement for Old Orkney Whiskey, a reminder of the indulgent luxuries enjoyed by travelers long ago. As we delve deeper into history, our eyes are drawn to an enchanting advertising piece by Michel Liebeaux for Louis Vuitton. The elegance exuded from this artwork transports us to a glamorous era filled with sophistication and refined taste. Labels from hotels on Lake Como and Sorrento evoke images of grandeur and opulence; their exquisite designs hint at lavish travels that once captivated discerning globetrotters. And what better way to traverse these magnificent destinations than atop a 1938 Scott Flying Squirrel motorcycle or accompanied by Louis Vuitton luggage? The Land Rover Defender Lara Croft Tomb Raider edition adds a touch of adventure to our voyage, reminding us that exploration can be both stylish and daring. Meanwhile, labels from Hotel Post in St Anton am Arlberg whisk us away to picturesque Tyrol in Austria – a haven for winter sports enthusiasts seeking thrills amidst breathtaking landscapes. But let's not forget the humble railway sleeper or the iconic Orient-Express; they symbolize journeys filled with anticipation as passengers embarked on unforgettable voyages across continents. Even smaller stations like Malvern Railway Station in Worcestershire played their part in connecting people far and wide. In this captivating tale woven together by hints scattered throughout history, one thing remains constant – luggage has always been more than just bags; it is an expression of our desires, dreams, and aspirations.