Birth Collection (page 6)

Girl on Rock 1950S
Fifties brunette, standing atop a barnacle encrusted rock in the sea, recreates the Birth of Venus wearing a plaid swimsuit & hiding her modesty with a towel. Date: 1950s

Babies by Plane-Load
Babies by the plane-load. Date: 1950s

Babies by Train-Load
Babies by the train-load. Date: 1950s

Watering Babies
Babies thrive when well watered from the can. Date: 1950s

Coachload of Babies
A coach-load of babies. Date: circa 1908

Baskets of Babies
Take a basket to the river, you ll soon catch all the babies you could want ! Date: circa 1905

Babies from the River
A woman catches a good haul of babies in the river. Date: circa 1905

Babies by Basketsful
There are babies by the basketful to be caught in the river ! Date: circa 1905

Freak Birth / Early C16
Twins born with additonal limbs, Germany. Date: early 16th century

Siamese Twins / C18Th
Siamese twins sharing one set of legs. Date: 18th century

Multi-Limbed Child / 1560
A freak birth with four arms and four legs. Date: 1560

Jan Hus / Birth / Husinec
JAN HUS House at Husinec, Czechoslovakia, where the Bohemiam religious leader and martyr was born Date: 1372? - 1415

Freak Birth of 1547
Alleged birth of creature with human head and trunk-like nose, and heads of dogs, sheeps and monkeys over its body and webbed hands and feet Date: 1547

The Birth of the Blues
THE BIRTH OF THE BLUES...and from a jail came the wail of a down-hearted frail, and they played that as part of the blues... Date: 1926

Princess Charlotte
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE Only daughter and heir to George IV; married Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld in 1816; died giving birth to a stillborn son in 1817. Date: 1796 - 1817

Children Hatch out 1905
Lots of babies hatching out of eggs in a hen coop. Date: 1905

Nativity: angels announce birth of Jesus to the shepherds
The angels announce the birth of Jesus to the shepherds

Christmas card with angels and shepherds. Date: circa 1900s

Gipsies Camp, C17 France
Gipsy encampment in France: cooking & preparing food, gambling and giving birth... Date: circa 1630

Three Wise Men visiting Mary and the Christ Child
The Three Wise Men visiting the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child, depicted in Art Nouveau style. Date: 1900

ILN cover - birth of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
Front cover of The Illustrated London News, reporting on the birth of Prince William of Wales, elder son of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales at the Lindo Wing of St

Angel and Baby Jesus on a cross-shaped Christmas card
Angel holding the Baby Jesus on a cross-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two angels with star and cross on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Baby in cradle made of flowers on a greetings card
Baby in a cradle made of flowers on a greetings card, advertising Jacobs & Bernstein, Shoe Emporium, New York City, USA. Date: 1881

Man, woman and twin babies on a greetings card
Man, woman (nanny or midwife) and twin babies on a greetings card. Date: early 1900s

Stork with basket on an audible good luck card (German). Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card, angel and shepherds, Glad Tidings
An angel points three shepherds towards the star over the stable at Bethlehem: Glad Tidings. circa 1900s

The birth of Samson. Date: circa late 19th century

Stork on the dole - falling birth rate in the 1920s
On the Dole! by David Wilson. Cartoon showing a stork feeling rather unemployed as he sits on a chimney pot above the roof tops of a snow covered town

Royal banquet to celebrate the birth of Dauphin Louis XVII, 1729. Engraving

LOUIS IX, Saint Louis, of France (1214-1270). King of France (1226-1270). Depicting the kings life. Gothic art. Miniature Painting

Shepherds watching their flocks
Winged angel directing shepherds to the birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Artist: Ada Dennis Date: circa 1903

Bottlenose Dolphin - birth process has started - with tail out (Tursiops truncatus). Oltremare lagoon Riccione Italy. The pregnancy lasted 54 weeks

Bottlenose Dolphin - Female (Mother) communicating with Newborn Baby / Calf immediately after birth, keeping the baby under water to control its breathing (Tursiops truncatus)

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Bab y Calf whistling to its mother immediately after birth (Tursiops truncatus). Part of a sequence of imagesDolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Bottlenose Dolphin - Baby / Calf dolphin being nudged to surface by mother. (Tursiops truncatus). Just after birth the mother will control the babys breath by pushing it under the water or

Bottlenose Dolphin - Mother giving birth to Baby / Calf. (Tursiops truncatus). Birth Sequence 2. The tail of the baby is out, from this moment normally within two hours birth will occur

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby / Calf first swim with Mother (Tursiops truncatus). Part of a sequence of imagesDolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Bottlenose Dolphin - Newborn Baby / Calf with Mother immediately after birth (Tursiops truncatus). Part of a sequence of imagesDolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Bottlenose Dolphin - Research of birth and Newborn Baby / Calf behaviour. (Tursiops truncatus). Part of a sequence of imagesDolphin gestation / pregnancy lasts approx

Stork Nest Turckheim Alsace
A stork nesting on a platform erected over the Porte de la France entering Turckheim, a town in the Gewurztraminer wine region west of Colmar in Alsace

1916 - Just arrived by Lawson Wood
A British soldier alights from a train at a station only to be met by his wife and a surprise addition to the family. Date: 1915

The Patriots by Annie Fish
Humorous illustration by Annie Fish showing an officer returning home on leave to discover his wife has patriotically given birth to triplets. Date: 1915

Various scenes from the life of Christ including his birth and crucifixion Date: 1493

To a Mother at Churching
Document with instructions to mothers at the Christian ceremony of churching, where a woman returns to church after giving birth and is blessed

Illustrated page, stork and baby, by Muriel Dawson
Illustrated page, showing a stork and baby, with a verse below, by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1920s

Title page design for The Stork, by Muriel Dawson. Showing a little baby riding on the neck of a stork. Date: 1920s

Dr Marie Stopes presented at Court
Marie Stopes (1880-1958), Scottish author, palaeobotanist, campaigner for womens rights, and pioneer in the field of family planning pictured in court dress to be presented to King George V

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