Stork Collection

Messageries Maritimes poster
Poster illustrated by a stork advertising the arrival of the Felix Roussel of the Messageries Maritimes French steamship line

Stork / Baby / Allers Jrnl
A stork carrying a baby flies to its destination over snowy rooftops

The fox & the stork. Aesops fable.Date: 15th century

Various birds on a sheet of Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Stork-powered baby transport! Date: circa 1910s

Japanese Nara Dolls - wooden carved dolls used for decorative purposes at a festival of the Kasuga shrine at the time of Emperor Sutoku in 1137

Child Playing Stork bringing baby Children's
Child, Playing, Stork, bringing, baby, Children's, Postcard, design, Watercolour, painting, Norah, Ann, Birch, 12022720

The Southern Aviary at London Zoo
The Southern Aviary (White Stork, Gannet, Manderin Drake, Brown Pelicans, Black-winged Kite, Egyptian Kite, Goliath Heron, Comorants) at London Zoo by Charles Howard

Cover design, All about Fruit Cakes by the Stork Margarine Cookery Service Date: 1951

All about Sandwich Cakes, Sponges and Swiss Rolls by the Stork Margarine Cookery Service Date: 1951

Comic postcard, Couple getting married. Wedding bells ring at the church, all is joy and jubilation. But, somewhere the stork sits on his perch, doing a little calculation! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, two storks on a roof Date: 20th century

Japanese scenes
Mother and children watching a stork hovering over a lake. Artist: Alice Cook Date: circa 1918

Congratulations card, Stork on her nest
Congratulations card for arrival of new baby, showing a stork on her nest. 20th century

White stork, Ciconia ciconia (Ciconia alba). Handcoloured steel engraving from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches, Liepzig, 1842

Roseate spoonbill and American wood ibis
Roseate spoonbill, Platalea ajaja, and American wood ibis or wood stork, Mycteria americana (Spoonbill or shoveler and jabiru or crane of Guiana)

Black-necked stork, Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus (Australasian jabiru, Mycteria australis). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Jabiru mycteria, Galbula ruficauda and Jacamaralcyon
Stork, Jabiru mycteria, rufous-tailed jacamar, Galbula ruficauda and three-toed jacamar, Jacamaralcyon tridactyla. Handcoloured steel engraving drawn

Coconut palm tree, jackal, snakes and birds of India
Coconut palm tree, jackal, adjutant stork, vulture, cobra, kite, and centipede of India. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri after Francois Solvyns from Giulio Ferrarios

View of the village of Nikali, Thessaly, Greece, 1821
View of the village of Nikali, near Larissa, the capital of Thessaly, Greece. Villagers draw water from a well, a man plays a lute, women spin and weave. Copied from Edward Dodwells Views of Greece

Unclean Water Birds - Judaism
Engraving of unclean or non - kosher water birds. In Judaism, the concept of impure or unclean animals, plays a prominent role in Jewish law that specifies which foods are allowed (kosher)

Stork with baby in blue ribbons on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Stork with baby in pink on its back on a greetings postcard
Stork with baby in pink bonnet on its back on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Stork with baby riding on its back on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Stork with two babies on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Stork with baby in pram on a greetings postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Stork bringing a baby - A stork flies over a house carrying a newborn baby. (German). Date: circa 1900

SWEDISH NEW YEAR 1928
Bringing in the New Year, Swedish style. Date: 1927

BABY BROUGHT BY STORK
A stork surprises a couple with a baby - again! Date: 1912

Northern Gateway - Gruyeres, Switzerland
Northern Gateway - Gruyeres, canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Date: circa 1910s

Stork & baby
A card announcing a birth, depicting a stork carrying the baby. Artist: Anon. Date: circa 1908

Stork and newly hatched chick on a New Year card designed by Robert Dudley. (3 of 3) Date: circa 1880s

Stork and hatching egg on a New Year card designed by Robert Dudley. (2 of 3) Date: circa 1880s

Stork and egg on a New Year card designed by Robert Dudley. (1 of 3) Date: circa 1880s

Constantine, Algeria - a stork nest on Perregaux Street
Constantine, Algeria - a pair of storks nest on the top of a brick building on Perregaux Street (Rue Perregaux), while groups of people pass below. circa 1910s

Japanese art postcard - Stork in flight beneath the moon Date: circa 1909

SPADs VII French fighter plane
SPADs VII, a leading French fighter plane introduced in 1916. The stork emblem painted on the side identifies it as belonging to the famous Groupe de Chasse 12 commanded by Felix Brocard

Martial Eagle - attacking White Stork - the fight lasted more than an hour but finally the Eagle was victorious (Polemaetus bellicosus)

Storks Nest - On a Chimney in Heidelberg, Germany
Storks Nest - On a Chimney in Heidelberg in the State of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Date: circa 1910s

Anastomus lamelligerus, African open-bill
Watercolour and pencil by Claude Gibney Finch-Davies (1918). This species is a member of the stork family and mainly hunts in marshes and wetlands

AFS car and trailer pump at LCC-LFB HQ, Lambeth
Beresford Stork light-trailer pump with saloon car. Such combinations were utilised by the Auxiliary Fire Service in London to supplement the full time force in preparations for the forthcoming

Arrival of the storks to their nest - Strasbourg (now in Alsace, France, then in Germany). Date: circa 1905

The storks lay a precious egg in their nest - Strasbourg (now in Alsace, France, then in Germany). Date: circa 1905

Bird life in Salonika: Macedonian stork & British areoplane 1917

A Question of Precedence by Dennis Mallet
Father Christmas and a stork bringing a new baby find they have arrived at a chimney pot at the same time. Date: 1938

Caliph Stork, an eastern tale -- the Caliph asks Selim the Learned to decipher a document for him which he has bought from the peddler

Mascot of the HMS Stork
Buster, mascot of the HMS Stork, active during WW2. Date: 1942

Frog and stork on a cutout Christmas card, with verse (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

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