Hens Collection (#2)

Farm cart with animals on a Christmas card
Farm cart full of pots and pans, with animals, birds and people on a Christmas card Date: circa 1890s

Woman feeding hens Date: 1790s

The Little Red Hen, the picture of domestic efficiency, sweeps her front doorstep while an nterested looking fox lurks nearby. Date: c.1915

Farmyard with chickens and geese, New York State, USA. Date: circa 1908

Boy with ice cream and chicken
Unusual Friends - boy with ice cream and chicken. 1950s

WW1 roof top poultry farm, 1917
A poultry farm on a London rooftop at the Central Prisoners of War Committee, 4 Thurlow Place, south west London, where the daily yield from a dozen hens is from six to nine eggs. Date: 1917

Chicken farm, central London
An intensive egg farm overlooking Westminster Abbey. A unusual rooftop poultry farm, run by A.W thompson at 2 Great George Street, Westminster

From the trenches to poultry pen: Fortunes from Eggs
A page from Fortunes from Eggs, a promotional publication by the Karswood Company, makers of Karswood Poultry Spice. Discharged soldier J.E Rogers, writing in October 1918

British soldiers with a hen coop at Gallipoli, 1916
British soldiers with a hen coop at Gallipoli: a source of fresh eggs for officers at the Dardanelles. Date: 1916

The Fountain, Poussay (Vosges), France
The Fountain, Rue des Halles, Poussay, Lorraine. Somewhat remarkably the scene is almost identical today! Date: circa 1910s

Woman feeding poultry in a farmyard, South Africa. 1906

Straidkilly, a Co Antrim Village - rural village scene with cart in the foreground and geese and hens and thatched buildings. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Straidkilly)

A farmyard scene with rope thatched buildings and two ladies standing outside, there is a turf stack and cart and hens in the foreground. (Location: Ireland). Date: circa early 1900s

WW2 poster, Healthy stock will breed good laying hens
WW2 information poster, Healthy stock will breed good laying hens, British Poultry and Egg Production No.3. For Victory. Date: circa 1940

Social / Country Children
Country children having their after-school snack while mother feeds the hens Date: circa 1920

Children Hatch out 1905
Lots of babies hatching out of eggs in a hen coop. Date: 1905

The Mothers Picture Alphabet -- H, showing a hen and her chicks in a farmyard. Date: circa 1860

The Spring Chicken by George Grossmith
Novelty promotional postcard for The Spring Chicken by George Grossmith, from Coquin de Printemps by Adolphe Jaime & George Dunval (Folies Dramatiques, Paris)

Tennal Approved School, Birmingham - Feeding Hens
Boys from Tennal Approved School (formerly Harborne School), Birmingham, feeding hens Date: 1940s

Front and back covers, Railway Ribaldry by W Heath Robinson, published by the Great Western Railway in the companys centenary year

Snow scene with ducks and pond on a Christmas card
Snow scene with farm buildings and a pond on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Little girl and boy with hens on a Christmas card
Little girl and boy with hens and eggs on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two girls with hens and chicks on a Christmas card
Two girls feeding hens and chicks on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Golden eggs, WW1
Cartoon, Golden eggs, a comment on the cost of eggs during the First World War. A cockerel says his wife has become very snooty since the value of her eggs went up to nine sous each! Date: 1916

Trade card, C A Rumpf, poulterer of Nebraska, USA
Trade card for C A Rumpf, wholesale poulterer of Hastings, Nebraska, USA, offering butter and eggs as well as live and dressed poultry at reasonable prices. Date: 1898

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Cock-O-Lorum. Showing a proud cockerel conducting a roll call of all his hens, and finding the independently-minded Hetty missing. Date: 1921

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, Cock-O-Lorum The Great, in the Letter Book Series. Showing a proud white cockerel surrounded by admiring hens. Date: 1921

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, Mrs Ticklers Caravan
Cover design, Mrs Ticklers Caravan, a story for children written and illustrated by Cecil Aldin. Showing Mr and Mrs Tickler with their horse-drawn caravan

Double page illustration, Mrs Ticklers Caravan, showing what happens when Mr Tickler blows his nose on his new magic handkerchief. Date: 1934

Scene on a dairy farm, Netherlands. Date: early 20th century

Hen in clump of leaves
A hen in a clump of leaves. Date: circa 1920s

Three Almond Tumbler Hens
A group portrait of three female Almond Tumbler pigeons ages 1 1/2 years, 2 1/2 years, and 4 years old. The illustration shows the distinctive features of an Almond Tumbler hen depending on its age

Woman with a dog and chickens in a garden, France. Date: circa 1910s

GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos鮠Birds
GUTIERREZ SOLANA, Jos頨 1886-1945). Birds. 1921. Expressionism. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Reina Sofia Art Centre National Museum

Illustration of a wolf lunging at a rooster with a knife
Hand coloured. Illustration of a wolf lunging at a rooster with a knife in its paw. The scene takes place in front of a chicken coop, and the wolf is dressed in a blue tailcoat and top hat

Hazel Hen / Hazel Grouse - female sits on nest (Tetrastes bonasia). near river Negustyah, a tributary of river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nature reserve, Siberia, Russia; spring

Hazel Hen / Hazel Grouse - adult male feeding on buds at dusk (Tetrastes bonasia). common in taiga forest near river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nature reserve, Siberia

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

Hazel Hen / Hazel Grouse - eggs in typical nest (Tetrastes bonasia). common but very difficult to find in taiga-forest near river Negustyah, a tributary of river Bolshoi Ugan

Cage of the unenfranchised. A wicker cage constrains hens and a parrot with a ticket listing those who are outside the democratic process criminals, aliens, Paupers, lunatics and women

Hungry Peter as a piglet stealing poultry food
First Come, First Served -- Hungry Peter as a piglet unwittingly stealing the food from the cock and hens, who peck at him and drive him away. Date: 1912

Poultry yard 1895
Three children feeding the chickens. Date: 1895

Peace in wartime, rural silhouettes, WW1
Peace in wartime, three silhouettes of the unchanging English countryside, vital for food supplies for a country at war. Depicting idealised views of Morning, Afternoon and Evening activities

Poland fowls and speckled Hamburg hens
Cocks and chickens: Poland fowls and speckled Hamburgs

Man feeding poultry, watched by a boy
A man feeding poultry in a large back garden, watched by a little boy. Date: 1920s

Feeding Poultry 1930S
An English farmer feeds his hens in between some haystacks. Date: early 1930s

Devon Farmyard
Hens, cows, barns and outbuildings, a typical farmyard scene, Devon, England. Date: early 1930s

John Rothenstein as a Child, Feeding Hens (1904). Rothenstein, Sir William 1872 - 1945. Date: 1904

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