Bee Collection

United States Naval Construction Battalions - Seabees We Build and Fight with all our might! Date: 1942

Whither Away by Florence Mary Anderson
A group of delicate looking fairies and pixies ride around on dragonflies and bees. c.1925

Shakespeares Bees by Pauline Baynes
William Shakespeare, lost in thought, and inspired by a swarm of honey bees as he writes Henry V

Ophrys apifera, bee orchid
Watercolour by Arthur Harry Church, 17 June 1913

Bees in springtime
Bees enjoy collecting pollen from abundant catkins on pussy willow branches growing by a river

Beehive / Bee / Honey 1926
A beehive, and one bee

Egyptian Art. Relief depicting a bee, symbol of Lower Egypt
Egyptian Art. The Karnak Temple Complex. Relief depicting a bee, symbol of Lower Egypt. New Kingdom. Egypt

Elephant Castle Beehive
A unique elephant castle beehive at Beeston, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Doolittle / Gee Bee Plane
Captain James Doolittle, American aviator, and his Gee Bee plane

The Apiarist - a bee keeper demonstrating the examination of frames of brood

Beekeeping / Diderot
Various procedures of apiculture

Insects / Bee
Humble bees; the wood bee (top) and earth bee (bottom)

Bee Jackson dancing the charleston
Dancer Bee Jackson demonstrating the Charleston which she was performing at the Piccadilly Revels cabaret at the Piccadilly Hotel after making a name for herself in America

The Pontic Rhododendron, engraved by Caldwall after Henderson, in a book entitled The Temple of Flora by Dr Robert John Thornton (1768-1837). The book was published between 1799 and 1807. Date: 1802

The Borrowers

Bee Hives Near Welwyn
A cyclist stops to admire the many rows of bee hives situated here along the Great North Road near Welwyn in Hertfordshire, England

Plants / Ophrys Apifera
BEE ORCHID

Bertolonis bee orchid, Ophrys bertolonii. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Rural scene with honeysuckle and poppies
A pretty rural scene with pink honeysuckle, yellow primroses and red poppies growing by a stone wall, with a cornfield and a windmill in the background

Looking for Queen Bee
Bee keeping - a method of holding a Brood Frame, when looking for the Queen Bee

Bee Pollinating
A bee pollinates a flower

Fairyland
Sleeping fairy awakened by a grasshopper and bumble bee. Artist: Constance Symonds. Date: 1918

United Consultants UC-1 Twin Bee N87589 (msn UC1-R158). One of twenty-three conversions of Republic RC-3 Seabee amphibians, with two 180 hp Lycoming IO-360-B1D engines

McKinnon G-21G Turbo-Goose ZK-ERX (msn 1226) of See Bee Air ltd. At Auckland, New Zealand. The Turbo-Goose is a turboprop powered conversion of Grumman G-21 Goose amphibian aircraft

An apiary, Mandeville, Jamaica, apiary early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Bee hives, Mandeville, Jamaica Date: early 1900s

A bee keeper, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Bee Keeper Victorian period

Dandelion-Puff Balloon Club by Thomas Maybank Date: 1920

Anonymous portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1815)
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1815). Emperor of France (1804-1815). Anonymous portrait, copy of a painting by Francois Gerard. 19th century. San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Madrid. Spain

Hawker Siddeley HS-125 Series 1A LN-NPE
Hawker Siddeley HS-125 Series 1A/S522 LN-NPE (msn 25097), the first HS-125 for Busy Bee of Norway, at London Heathrow Airport. Date: circa 1970

Putting bee-hives into mourning 1856
Telling the bees, traditional European custom in which bees would be told of an important event in the beekeepers life, such as long journeys, births, marriages and deaths

Elves with honey bee by Phyllis Chase

Comic postcard, Boy and girl, birds and bees Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Chauffeur buying petrol Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl up a tree Date: 20th century

Dancers around the world, 1929 1-2
Dancers around the world, 1929 1/2 - Georgia Graves, an American dancer appearing at the Folies Bergere, Paris (top left), Angna Enters, who has appeared in Europe (top right)

Photograph of Busy Bee PH, Stepney, London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Corner on view of the pub. The back of the print (available on request) details: Trading Record 1913

How Doth the Little Busy Bee by John Hassall
A Study of Young Life by John Hassall. The picture, signed Dallinghoo, 1904, pictures his three eldest children, Dorothy, Ian and Isabel, watching beehives at the rectory of Dallinghoo, Suffolk

Woman in a garden scared by a bee, 1913
Woman in a garden scared by a bee. She wears a dress by Paul Poiret in blue wool crepe, with white fichu and cuffs. Petite robe de jardin par Poiret en crepe de laine bleu

Woman in linen dress looking at herself in the mirror. Robe de linon de fil. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by Adrien Etienne Drian from Tommaso Antonginis Journal des

Silhouette, Girl and Beehive. 1926

1932 Gee Bee Model R Racer Aircraft - in which Mr James Doolittle won the Thompson Trophy at a speed of 252.6 mph - built by Messrs

And golden honey from the hive, by Minnie Asprey. circa 1918

Bee Jackson doing her Charleston dance in Playtime at the Piccadilly ca Date: 1925

Common Humble Bees (Bombus terrestris) -- male, large female, and worker. Date: 1843

Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, and hive
Western honey bee or European honey bee, Apis mellifera (Apis mellifica). Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Sand bee parasite, Stylops melittae. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804

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