Bear Collection (page 12)

Three children sitting on a toy bear in a garden, with a woman in an open doorway in the background. Date: circa 1920s

Children with toy pram, Balham, SW London
Children playing with a toy pram on a Balham street, SW London. A small girl and a teddy bear are in the pram. Date: circa 1961

Polar bear, Ursus maritimus, standing on ice floe.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794

Skeleton, skull and tooth of the cave bear, Ursus spelaeus.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A. Schmidts Petrefactenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann. Dr

Great ant eater or ant bear, Myrmecophaga tridactyla.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalists Pocket Magazine; or

Ursiform sloth, ursine bradypus or sloth bear, Melursus ursinus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

European brown bear, Ursus arctos, and polar bear, Ursus maritimus (vulnerable).. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals, Paris

Sloth bear, Ursus ursinus (vulnerable) and hog badger, Arctonyx collaris (near threatened).. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuviers Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals

Yellow bear of Norway, Ursus arctos.. Copied from a specimen in Dresden Museum that appears to be a distinct variety of the brown bear

Cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, extinct species of bear from the Pleistocene.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by F

Canadians in camp at Salisbury Plain with bear mascot
Canadian troops in camp at Salisbury Plain posing with their regimental pet, a black bear. There is no hard fast evidence to suggest so in the caption but it is possible that this is Winnie

Locomotive Suspended Between Two Cranes, Crewe, Cheshire
The Great Bear (Great Western Pacific ) Locomotive Suspended Between Two Cranes, Crewe, Cheshire, England. Great Western Railway Date: 1920s

WW2 greetings card, Safety First, showing a sleeping bear with a barrage balloon on a piece of string. Date: circa 1942

Feeding a bear, Yellowstone National Park, USA
Tourists feeding a bear in Yellowstone National Park, USA. circa 1910

Performing Bear with Pole
Slide showing a picture of two men with a muzzled bear on a lead between them, holding a pole. Part of Box 366. Date: circa 1900

Birch Forest near river Sinara - trees trunks bear traces of frequent wild fires - evening - midsummer - June (Betula sp.). South Ural Mountains - Russia

River Sinara bend - birch trees on the high bank bear traces of wild fires - evening - midsummer - June. South Ural Mountains - Russia

Asiatic Black bear - in tree eating bark (Selenarctos thibetanus japonicus). Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region on Honshu Island, Japan

Asiatic Black bear - in tree (Selenarctos thibetanus japonicus). Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region on Honshu Island, Japan

Asiatic Black bear - in tree with blossom (Selenarctos thibetanus japonicus). Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region on Honshu Island, Japan

Giant Panda - two playing (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

Red Panda / Lesser Panda / Red Cat-bear Nest

Asiatic Black BEAR - eating berries (Selenarctos thibetanus). Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region on Honshu Island, Japan. Japanese Sub Species

Asiatic Black Bear - young. Japanese sub species (Selenarctos thibetanus japonicus). Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region on Honshu Island, Japan

Asiatic Black BEAR - Japanese subspecies - perched in tree (Selenarctos thibetanus japonicus). Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region on Honshu Island, Japan

ASIATIC BLACK BEAR - chewing bark (Selenarctos thibetanus japonicus). Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region on Honshu Island, Japan

Asiatic Black BEAR - climbing tree (Selenarctos thibetanus)

Asiatic Black Bears (Selenarctos thibetanus japonicus). Japan. Latin also: Ursus thibetanus japonica

Red Panda / Lesser Panda / Red Cat-bear (Ailurus fulgens)

Russian soldier with regimental bear mascot, WW1
Muska, a Russian regimental mascot pictured arguing volubly with his master on some important point. The caption assures the reader that, Muska is quite friendly

Asiatic Black Bear - Japanese sub species (Selenarctos thibetanus japonicus). Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region on Honshu Island, Japan

Asiatic Black Bear (Selenarctos thibetanus japonica). Japanese sub-species. Latin also: Ursus thibetanus japonica

Street in Kodiak, Kodiak Island, Alaska, USA
View of a street in Kodiak, Kodiak Island, Alaska, USA. Date: 1938

LA Govey. Feeding the bears
A Day at the Zoo. Feeding the bears. Date: 1927

Bear believed responsible for 1937yeti footprints on Everest
A page from the Illustrated London News in 1937, entitled The abominable snowman unmasked, reporting on confirmation that suspected yeti footprints discovered in the Himalayas were in fact those of

Miss Dorothy Ward & son with teddy in khaki
Miss Dorothy Ward, actress, pictured in The Tatler at the time she was playing the lead part in Light Blues which ran at the Princes Theatre, Manchester and later at the Shaftesbury Theatre, London

This is NOT a teddy bear Somewhere in France
This is NOT a teddy bear. Somewhere in France. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Two boys with teddy bears, Redruth, Cornwall
Two boys with teddy bears, en route to a Teddy Bears Picnic at their school in Redruth, Cornwall

Pug Peter -- animals on a seesaw
Pug Peter -- Playground in All-Animal-Land. A bear and many rabbits playing on a seesaw made of a tree trunk and branch. Date: 1905

Pug Peter -- a bear gathering fallen oranges
Pug Peter -- Orange Balls for the Cricket Match. A bear gathering fallen oranges. Date: 1905

Pug Peter -- animals playing cricket with an orange
Pug Peter -- There She Goes! Animals playing cricket with an orange. Date: 1905

Hagenbeck Circus and Zoo in London
The sights and sounds of the Christmas season at Olympia, London: Carl Hagenbecks Circus and Zoo from Hamburg. Showing the annexe with sea elephants (sea lions), penguins, polar bears

Advert for Stockings by Bear Brand 1938
Not a shadow of doubt ! Each stocking by Bear Brand ia as unblemished as its reoutation, and every bit as reliable! On the score of economy too, it may be said that a step in the right direction

Toddler in a red smock by Muriel Dawson
A toddler in a red smock by Muriel Dawson. Date: circa 1920s

Toddler with apple and teddy by Muriel Dawson
A toddler with a large red apple and a teddy bear, by Muriel Dawson. Date: circa 1920s

Pencil sketches of bears
Pencil sketches of a polar bear, a brown bear, and a girls head. Date: 1920s

Cartoon, The Cult of Queer Pets, showing people in the street, taking their various odd pets for a walk. A lady had recently been seen in Bond Street, London, with a small pig on a lead. Date: 1914

Polar bears celebrate Peary reaching the North Pole
Dancing Polar Bears raise glasses of champagne and toast Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (18561920), the American explorer who claimed to have led the first expedition, on April 6th 1909

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping