Archive Collection

Take something home with you from the Natural History Shop
General Museum poster. Drawing of a child leading a dinosaur out of the Museum, with the slogan Take something home with you from the Natural History [Museum] Shop, South Kensington, London

The Illustrated London News Festival of Britain issue
The Festival of Britain exhibition opening, a special number from The Illustrated London News. The front cover was created by Terence Cuneo 1907-1996

St Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line Benoist Xiv / 14 Biplan?
St Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line Benoist Xiv / 14 Biplane Seaplane, 43 Lark of Duluth - the Original Flight of the Worlds First Scheduled Airline over Tampa Bay, Florida

Rolls-Royce Merlin 61 Piston-Engine Date: 1942

Zebra-drawn trap of Lord Walter Rothschild
Rothschild broke in and trained several zebras to pull a trap, which he memorably used to visit Buckingham Palace in 1898 Date: 1898

The coronation of King George VI in Westminster Abbey, London, showing the moment the king is crowned.Date: 1937

Lilienthal No 11 Glider
Otto Lilienthal Taking-Off in His Normal Segelapparat Number 11 Gleitflug, at His Fliegeburg in Lichterfelde, Germany Date: 1895

Bernat Martorell (died 1452). Manuscript. Book of hours, 144
Bernat Martorell (died 1452). Catalan painter. International Gothic style. Manuscript. Book of hours, 1444. Folio I. Historical Archive. Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain

Northrop Gamma
Lt-Cdr Frank M. Hawks First Prototype Northrop Gamma Named Texaco Sky Chief Texaco No.11 Parked at New York Floyd Bennett Field, Usa, Msn1 Date: 1933

Thylacinus cynocephalus, thylacine
The last known thylacine, or Tasmanian Wolf, to survive in captivity. It died on 7 September 1936 in the Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart, Tasmania

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937)
Carriage drawn by three zebra and a horse, driven by Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937), founder of the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London since 1937

Fish Gallery, September 1890
The Fish Gallery attractions included a 8.5m (28 ft) long basking shark caught near Shanklin, Isle of Wight, and wood from a whaling ship, the Farquharson, pierced by swordfish lances

Indian elephant, c. 1898
Jung Pasha or Jung Pershad was one of four Asian elephants brought back to London Zoo by Bertie, Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) following his tour of India during 1875-76

Movie Chief Technical Advisor General Adolf Galland (Lef?
Movie Chief Technical Advisor General Adolf Galland (Left), Former Head of the Real Luftwaffe, Standing Shaking-Hands with Actor Hein Riess Playing Reichmarschall Hermann Goering (Right)

Actor Hein Riess (Left) Playing Reichmarschall Hermann G?
Actor Hein Riess (Left) Playing Reichmarschall Hermann Goering Commander-In-Chief of the Luftwaffe in Uniform During the Filming of the Movie The Battle-Of-Britain 1968 / 1969 Date: 1968

RAF Squadron Gloster Meteor Based at Duxford in 1950S

Boeing F-15 Eagle
Mcdonnell Douglas / Boeing F-15 Eagle

Mitsubishi A5M4 Claude
A Japan - Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A5M4 Claude Parked Date: 1940s

Mitsubishi A5M Claude
A Japan - Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A5M Claude Parked Date: 1940s

Vought XF5U-1 Flying Pancake
Vought Xf5U-1 Flying Pancake Unusual Design Parked Flying Flapjack Date: 1948

Nathaniel Charles Rothschild (1877-1923)
The younger brother of Tring Museum founder Walter Rothschild, Charles was a keen entomologist, discovering the plague vector flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, in Shendi, Sudan

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937)
Lord Rothschild, founder of the Natural History Museum at Tring, riding on the back of a giant tortoise

Fiat CR-20 BIS
An Italian Air Force Fiat Cr-20 Bis Parked on Grass Date: 1930s

WW2 Fighter Air Ace Mike Kolendorski of 71 Eagle Squadron Date: 1940s

Short S-29 Stirling B-1
An RAF Short Stirling Heavy Bomber with Pilot, Air & Ground Crew. it Has a Top Speed of 280Mph, a Loaded Weight of 70, 000Lb, a Wingpan of 99 Feet and a Length of 87 Feet 3 Inches Date: 1942

Frost Ornithopter
Mr Edward Purkis with a Frost Ornithopter in 1877 Date: 1877

Giant Ground Sloth, Natural History Museum
Photograph of a Skeleton of the Giant Ground Sloth (Megatherium Americanum). July 1902. Archive ref: PH/173/244 Date: 1902

Stuart Stammwitz working on blue whale model, 1938, The Natu
Stuart Stammwitz is shown here working on the whales eye, before the model was painted

Reptile Gallery, November 1889
The Reptile Gallery displayed a collection of stuffed specimens and skeletons of reptiles, including crocodiles, lizards, snakes and tortoises

Supermarine Scimitar F-1
Royal-Navy Supermarine Scimitar F-1 Landing with Tail-Hook Down Operating on Aircraft-Carrier Hms Ark Royal During Trials and Test Date: 1950s

An RAF Air Gunner Wearing His Chain of Office the Reg?
An RAF Air Gunner Wearing His Chain of Office the Regular Way in Which Ammunition Was Carried to Aircraft to Be Loaded in to the Gun

C. M. Harris tending 29 live Galapagos Tortoises, 1898
The Tortoises were collected on the Webster-Harris expedition & were en-route to Walter Rothschilds collection. Probably photographed in Hyde Park, Massachusetts

Piltdown forgery meeting
Meeting to present the extent of the forgery at the Geological Society of London at Burlington House on 30 June 1954

Barcelona (19th c. ). Geometrical map, by Jos項
Barcelona (19th c.). Geometrical map, by Jos頍 as y Vila. SPAIN. Barcelona. Historical Archive of Barcelona

WW2 Fighter Air Ace Red Tobin of 71 Eagle Squadron Sitti?
WW2 Fighter Air Ace Red Tobin of 71 Eagle Squadron Sitting in the Cockpit. Tobin Was Killed in Action 7th September 1941 Date: 1940s

de Havilland DH-106 Comet
Flight Crew in the Cockpit a de Havilland Dh-106 Comet Date: 1960s

Avro 504K
Wing-Walking on an Avro 504K Flying over Fields Date: 1920s

Santos Dumont No 14bis
Mr Alberto Santos Dumont Taxiing His 14Bis before Flying a Distnce of 60 Metres at a Height of 3 Metres to Gain the Archdeacon Prize, Paris, France Date: 1906

R M Bolstons Large Model Ornithopter in 1907 Date: 1907

Geological Gallery Natural History Museum 1892
Photograph of the Geological Gallery, with American mastodon in the foreground. July 1892. Archive ref: PH/173/243 Date: 1892

George the elephant, 1935
Two attendants brush down the African elephant George in the Central Hall in one of several shots of Museum staff taken by Weekly Illustrated photographers for an article that appeared in February

Augustus H. Bishop with elephant tusks, May 1912
Augustus Bishop arrived at the Museum in 1904, aged 23, after three years training as a taxidermist

African elephant in Central Hall, February 1910
Photographed in 1910 just three years after his arrival, the African elephant later nicknamed George, was obtained from the taxidermists Rowland Ward Ltd

Contract of sale. The clergyman Bruno sell to Sentefred several lands. Parchment with visigothic writing. 815. From Sant Pere de Codinet Monastery. Chapter Archive. Seu d Urgell. Catalonia. Spain

Two females handstands on beam

Geologists at Piltdown
Geologists Association party visiting the pit at Piltdown on 12 July 1913

Mahometan Mosque, Ki Dulan, Moluccas, Indonesia
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

Mastodon in Geological Gallery, December 1919
The Guide Lecturer, John Henry Leonard, took this shot of two girls inspecting a primitive elephant or mastodon (Mammut americanus), in December 1919

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