Tigers Collection

Navin Field (Briggs Stadium), Detroit, Michigan, USA - Home of the Tigers. Date: circa 1920s

Poster advertising Travancore State, India
Poster by K I Nixon advertising Travancore State, India, with two tigers in the foreground. Printed for the Government of India by G Claridge, Bombay. Date: circa 1930

King George V shooting Tigers in India from a howdah - 1911. Date: 1911

Tiger Trainer 1930S
Tiger trainer Miss Cilly Heyderich, giving one of her tigers a piggy back! Date: early 1930s

Close quarters with a tiger 1889
An incident of the Duc D Orlenas recent hunting tour in India. Date: 1889

King George V hunting
King George V, on a big-game hunting expedition in India, Nepal, (photographed here in Howdah of the big elephant in centre) inspecting the results of a mornings sport including four tigers

Poster design, Billy Smarts Circus

Tiger hunt in India Date: circa 1910

No. 4 Detachment, 3rd Middlesex Artillery Volunteers
The No. 4 Detachment of the Third Middlesex Artillery Volunteers, the winners of the Queen's prize at the recent artillery meeting at Shoeburyness, 1885

The Custom House, the Press Gang and the Tower of London. The New Custom House opened in 1817 on Lower Thames Street 10, Press Gang men armed with swords

The Puma or Cougar, Puma concolor
Cougar or The Puma, Puma concolor, in the Gardens of the Zoological Society. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Smellies translation of Count Georges Buffons History of the Earth

Carved figures from Benin placed at the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, SE London, thought to be associated with the hideous sacrificial rites of Benin. Date: 1897

Performing cats 1903
Herr Litz with his performing cats. Date: 1903

Babs the tiger cub at the London Hippodrome
Babs, a male tiger cub bred by Herr Richard Sawade, who was exhibiting his troupe of performing wild animals at the London Hippodrome

Herr Sawade, with two tigers, part of his troupe of performing lions, tigers and bears, appearing at the London Hippodrome in 1901. 1901

Richard Sawade with lions & tigers at the London Hippodrome
Richard Sawade aka " King of the Beasts" pictured with an assortment of his lions and tigers with which he was appearing at the London Hippodrome in 1901 1901

Zoo Misfitz card game - tiger. 1938

Poster, Probst Circus, Hungary. 1972

Articulated tiger greetings card. 20th century

Wall painting from the Casino of the Palazzo
Wall painting with cupids, tigers, foliage, satyrs, and herons from the Casino of the Palazzo del Te, Mantua, 16th century

Wall paintings of monsters from the Palazzo del Te, Mantua
Wall paintings of monsters, masks, tigers, winged creatures and chimera from the Palazzo del Te, Mantua. Handcoloured lithograph by Konter after an illustration by Wilhelm Zahn from his Ornament of

Tigers, Panthera tigris, endangered. Handcoloured steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire Pittoresque d Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History)

A colourful and exotic gathering of animals
Elaborate illustration showing all manner of exotic creatures. 1933

Scrap - decoupage design - Tiger. 1865

Exterior and interior of Prince Ranjitsinhjis portable shooting-box, which could be despatched by rail to any given point in the jungle on a trolley by oxen or by elephants. 1907

Lion mauling woman 1870
Performance in the Bowery Theatre in New York, were young woman Minnie Wells the Lion Queen, was doing her usual act, but on this fateful night, two lionesses sprang upon her

GAME / TIGER HUNTING 1901
Three children hunt a tiger - one of their friends wearing a tigers skin (no doubt borrowed from the fireplace!) Date: 1901

Lord Curzon in India
Lord Curzon of Kedleston with the Maharaja of Rewa and Captain Wigram in the jungle with his bag of tigers. Date: 1903

COLONIALISM / LORD CURZON
Lord Curzon of Kedleston with the Maharaja of Rewa and Captain Wigram in the jungle with his bag of tigers. Date: 1903

Big Game at the Circus
Big game at the circus. In the ring with two large, fierce tigers

Sketches from Tigers Cub, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Sketches from the dramatic play, Tigers Cub, at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Scotland, previously at the Garrick Theatre and Queens Theatre, London. With Sybil Arundale. circa 1916

Bagh-nakh
Bagh Nakh, Tigers Claw. Two brass rings (for the fingers) attached to a brass plate with four steel claws. For the left hand. Obtained from a dacoit in Belgaum District, india, 1945

Queen Marie of Romania (1875 - 1938), the consort of King Ferdinand I of Romania. Daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and therefore a granddaughter of Queen Victoria

Victorian Scrap, hunter shooting tiger at close quarters. circa 1880s

Aerial view, Briggs Stadium, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Aerial view of Briggs Stadium and the skyline of Detroit, Michigan, USA. The stadium was the home of the Detroit Tigers (baseball) and the Detroit Lions (football)

Old Japanese Matchbox label with a man fighting a tiger made in Japan Date: c. 1910s

Man swimming with tiger
A man and a tiger enjoying a dip in a swimming pool. (2 of 3) circa 1970s

Bengal / Indian Tiger - at night, with eyes glowing in the dark (Panthera tigris). India

Prince of Wales in Nepal Terai, shooting tigers 1876
Prince of Wales, (later Edward VII) with Colonel Sir Arthur Ellis, in close quarters with tigers. Date: 1876

Prince of Wales tiger shooting 1876
Prince of Wales, (later Edward VII) on a shooting expedition in the Terai, padding a tiger. Date: 1876

Fantastic Adventures - Toka fights the big cats
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1947, featuring the story Toka fights the big cats by J. W. Pelkie. A man with a sword fights against a huge tiger with a black shiny collar

Man and tiger by swimming pool
A man and a tiger by a swimming pool. (3 of 3) Date: circa 1970s

Zoological Misfitz - Mr Bengal Tiger. early 20th century

George Ernest Studdy, tiger cub and rhinoceros
George Ernest Studdy, illustration for an animal book. Mother said I was old enough to hunt for my own food, said Tiger Cub, but I think you are too big for my supper, Mrs Rhinoceros! Date: 1941

King Emperors great shoot in Nepal 1911
King George V, in Nepal on a great shooting expedition with the Maharajah of Nepal (left), lying at the feet of his Majestys elephant is a tiger that the King has just killed. December 1911

ZOO - Young Tiger in a Cage, young female, close up to bars (Panthera tigris atta). Ekaterinburg, Ural Mountains, Russia

Bengal / Indian Tiger - Pug marks (Panthera Tigris). Nepal

Tiger Scratch / Pug Marks - outside village house

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