sleeping

47 photos and 77 illustrations tagged sleeping, from 18 members of Flickr Commons.

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1865

2017

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Two young boys in sailor outfits and straw hats in Mareeba, Queensland from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2025
Men sleeping on park benches in the City Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, 1949 from State Library of Queensland uploaded February 2025
Sunbathers, Bondi beach, Sydney, 1938 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded December 2024
Polo Match, Sam Hood, c. 1935 from State Library of New South Wales uploaded April 2024
Domestic Scene from National Library of Medicine uploaded December 2023
Young child fast asleep on the floor next to his rocking horse, Saltbush Park, near Mackay, 1900-1910 from State Library of Queensland uploaded December 2021
Drinks in the afternoon ... sleeping pills in the evening ... the combination can be hazardous from National Library of Medicine uploaded June 2020
British Library digitised image from page 51 of "Le Chemin des Écoliers; Promenade de Paris à Marly-le-Roy, en suivant les bords du Rhin. Avec 450 vignettes" from British Library uploaded November 2018
British Library digitised image from page 153 of "Csataképek a magyar szabadságharczból ... Kimnach László rajzai után készült fametszetekkel. Hatodik illusztrált díszkiadás" from British Library uploaded July 2018
British Library digitised image from page 303 of "A Ramble round the World, 1871 ...Translated by Lady Herbert" from British Library uploaded July 2018
British Library digitised image from page 149 of "Peeps into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall. Being reminiscences of Cornish character and characteristics, etc" from British Library uploaded March 2018
British Library digitised image from page 31 of "Illustrated Penny Tales. From the 'Strand' Library. no. 1-10" from British Library uploaded December 2017
British Library digitised image from page 309 of "John L. Stoddard's Lectures [on his travels] . Illustrated ... with views of the worlds famous places and people, etc" from British Library uploaded November 2017
British Library digitised image from page 291 of "Dicks' English Library of Standard Works: containing ... novels and stories, etc. (Edited by P. B. St. John.) no. 1-26" from British Library uploaded October 2017
British Library digitised image from page 255 of "The Works of G. J. Whyte-Melville. Edited by Sir H. Maxwell [With illustrations by J. B. Partridge, Hugh Thomson, and others.]" from British Library uploaded September 2017

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Asleep in Battery Park on hot day (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Wystan said:
The photo was taken during a July, 1911, New York City heat wave that lasted six days and killed 146. Six hundred horses also died. Story in The New York Times, July 8, 1911: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9505E...

Young child fast asleep on the floor next to his rocking horse, Saltbush Park, near Mackay, 1900-1910

from State Library of Queensland

Vesna Verencevic said:
After a long ride, sweet dreams on the floor.

Poor in North France sleeping in church (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

xiphophilos said:
Probably war refugees, or why else would there be a German soldier standing guard?