Calling Collection (page 3)

Snap Playing Card - Winners, newspaper seller. circa 1900s

Snap Playing Card - Old Clo, secondhand hats and clothes seller. circa 1900s

Snap Playing Card - Milk, milkman making a delivery of milk and eggs. circa 1900s

Snap Playing Card - Coals, coalman with his delivery cart. circa 1900s

Snap Playing Card - All a Growing, flower seller. circa 1900s

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Swift the Runners Wife. circa 1930s

Woman blowing the Lure, Vasterbotten, Sweden (now Finland)
Woman of Westrobothnia, Vasterbotten, Sweden (now in Finland) blowing the Lur (Lure, Lurr), a long horn, from a hilltop. Its purposes included signalling and calling cattle. circa late 18th century

Edward Goldney
EDWARD GOLDNEY senior, widower, religious writer, whose motto was Love without dissimulation, depicted writing at 4 am, with a night watchman calling the hour. Date: 1710 - ?

17th Earl of Derby
EDWARD GEORGE STANLEY, 17th earl of DERBY - statesman who achieved popularity despite calling workers blackmailers; he was responsible for conscription in World War One. Date: 1865 - 1948

Disraeli / Derby Card
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Calling for an extension to the electoral franchise, in a suggestion that Lord Derbys government is a bit of a horserace Date: 3 June 1865

Reserves / Braila / Romania
Soldiers announce the calling out of reserves in Braila in connection with the peasants revolt of 1907. Date: 1907

Somewhere A Voice Is Calling by Joseph Millane & R Carleton
Promotional postcard for Somewhere A Voice is Calling by Joseph Millane and Royce Carleton. First produced at the Empire Theatre, Rotherham, 29th May and Elephant & Castle, 15th November 1915

Crying the Neck at Gulval, Cornwall
A man in the village of Gulval near Penzance, Cornwall, in September 1984, following the harvest tradition of Crying the Neck

Hares and hooded rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, Lepus capensis, Lepus timidus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794

Favourite Sayings - He looks one way and pulls the other
Black and white lantern slide of a man leaning over the prow of a ship calling to another man in a rowing boat which is about to collide with the ship. Painted scenery of waves surround them

Bobak / Steppe Marmot - adult - whistles warning others - near a burrow in steppe - observes an intruder from a distance (Marmota bobak). steppes of Orenburg region - South Russia - June

Snowy Owl - juvenile (a fledgling) - threatens a visitor by opening & clicking its beak - adults are watching from a distance. (Nyctea scandiaca). tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August

Bottlenose Dolphin - Female (Mother) communicating with Newborn Baby / Calf immediately after birth, keeping the baby under water to control its breathing (Tursiops truncatus)

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Bab y Calf whistling to its mother immediately after birth (Tursiops truncatus). Part of a sequence of imagesDolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Hazel Hen / Hazel Grouse - adult male sings defending his breeding territory (Tetrastes bonasia). common in taiga forest near river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nature reserve

Black-tailed Godwit - nervous about intruders on his breeding territory on a typical marsh near river Bolshoi Ugan (Limosa limosa)

Japanese / Red-Crowned / Manchurian CRANE - leaping (Grus japonensis)

HEDGEHOG - calling (Erinaceus europaeus). Ural Mountains, near Ekaterinburg, Russia

Common Rosefinch - singing (Carpodacus erythrinus). Nepal

Rustic Bunting - nestlings (Emberiza rustica)

Suffragette Card Game PANKO Artwork
Original artwork by E.T Reed (Edward Tennyson Reed 1860-1933) for the suffragette card game PANKO. This shows Christabel Pankhurst holding a scroll labeled vfw and calling for Law Law Law

Dial 999 display in an LFB exhibition
A Dial 999 display in a London Fire Brigade exhibition with details on either side of the services available

Rescue following flying bomb attack, London, WW2
Rescue following a flying bomb attack -- a man and a woman at basement window, calling for help. (1 of 4) Date: 1944

Two men on switchboard at LFB HQ
Two men taking calls on the switchboard at LFB HQ. Date: 1925

Belgian boy scout in phone box
A Belgian boy scout (or cub) in a phone box

Boy at a sweet shop
Excited young boy calling attention to a windowful of sweets. Date: circa 1912

Phoning Santa
Young girl calling Santa to make sure he brings her new toys ob Christmas Day. Date: circa 1908

From the Manger to the Cross, Jesus, Pilate and crowd
Scene from the silent movie, From the Manger to the Cross, or Jesus of Nazareth, showing Jesus before Pilate for the last time, with a crowd of people calling for the release of Barabbas

Womens Royal Air Force -- Class! SHUN
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a male officer calling the women to attention. Class! SHUN!! Date: 1919-1920

John Keate - 2
JOHN KEATE Headmaster of Eton college depicted calling absence. Date: 1773 - 1852

Muezzin calling the Hour of Prayer from a minaret - Syria Date: 1930s

Imam upon the minaret calling believers to prayer - Syria
The Imam the minaret calling the believers to prayer - Syria. Date: circa 1910s

Street Urchin offers appraisal of passing pretty lady
The London Street Urchin (to companion over the way) - " Ow would that suit yer, Bill?". A young scamp offering an honest appraisal to his pal of a passing well-dressed

A girl in need of rescue - Comic Postcard
A humorous American seaside postcard with the caption: " Just a Mere Maid looking for a LIfe Guard!" An attractive girl in a revealing red swimsuit calls for help

Dacela novaeguineae, laughing kookaburra
Watercolour 159 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Great Brown Kingfisher, Goo-ge-na-gan

Red owl, warbling flycatcher, purple finch, brown lark
Page 82 from A. Wilsons American Ornithology, (1835). Annotated Red owl, Warbling flycatcher, Purple finch, Brown lark

Anthus novaeseelandiae, New Zealand pipit
Watercolour 270 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled New-Holland Lark

Tringa totanus, common redshank
Plate 54 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Cicinnurus regus, king bird-of-paradise
Plate 74, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Sterna sandvicensis, Sandwich tern
Plate 69 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Diphyllodes sp. bird-of-paradise
Hand coloured lithograph by John Gould and Richard Bowdler Sharpe from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, (1875-1888), 2nd Edition

Ichthyornis dispar, cretaceous bird
Painting by Maurice Wilson (c. 1950)

Astrapia nigra, arfak astrapia
Hand coloured lithograph by Richard Bowdler Sharpe from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea (1875-88)

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