Picture No | 12517414 |
Date | 1882 |
Description | Ladies' wheelbarrow race at Bad Homburg, 1882 |
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Ladies at the fashionable spa town of Bad Homburg take part in an energetic wheelbarrow race during a picnic, despite being encumbered with corsets and bustles. King Edward VII, a regular visitor to Homburg was the judge of the race.
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Source | Photograph reproduced in The Graphic, 13 June 1931, page 447 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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