Old Fashioned Canvas Water Bags

Old Fashioned Canvas Water Bags. Vintage Canvas Water Bag with Rope Handle Etsy Back in the '50s, while travelling across the US deserts, you would hang one of these vintage bags filled with water, slightly soaked on the outside, and let the wind blow on it so that it keeps the water cool enough for drinking or preventing your car from overheating. Vintage Desert Brand Water Bag Canvas Ames Harris Neville Co San Francisco USA

Vintage Canvas Water Bag "The Superior Water Bag"
Vintage Canvas Water Bag "The Superior Water Bag" from www.icollector.com

Back in the '50s, while travelling across the US deserts, you would hang one of these vintage bags filled with water, slightly soaked on the outside, and let the wind blow on it so that it keeps the water cool enough for drinking or preventing your car from overheating. In fact, when first filled the water pours through the weave until the water causes the bag material to swell up

Vintage Canvas Water Bag "The Superior Water Bag"

At the top, of the bag, and on one side only, is a brown coloured bakelite spout. They work quite well hanging under a verandah, caravan awning or tree branch - always have cool water on tap as it were. This "Aberdeen" long flax canvas water bag is held together on two sides and the top by strong heavy cotton stitching

Vintage Canvas Water Bag with Rope Handle Etsy. They work quite well hanging under a verandah, caravan awning or tree branch - always have cool water on tap as it were. Back in the '50s, while travelling across the US deserts, you would hang one of these vintage bags filled with water, slightly soaked on the outside, and let the wind blow on it so that it keeps the water cool enough for drinking or preventing your car from overheating.

Bag Canvas Water, Circa 1950. Vintage US Army 1952 Drinking Water Carry Backpack Canvas Bag 5 Gallon At the top, of the bag, and on one side only, is a brown coloured bakelite spout.