Blanket Collection (page 3)

A Sleepy Pear by Lawson Wood
A pair of adorable baby orang utans snuggle up together for a snooze under an orange blanket, a nibbled pear cast to one side. Date: 1932

Bringing horses to water
Horses belonging to the London horseguards are led towards water troughs for a drink. Date: circa 1960s

Patients waiting for VAD transport
Three stretchers with patients are on the ground at the back of some vehicles. The patients have probably just arrived by ambulance train at Ramsgate Town Station

Nurse & Newborn Baby
A smiling young nurse carries a newly born baby, cosily wrapped up in a blanket. Date: 1940s

Racial / Iroquois C1904
Elderly Iroquois chief wearing a feathered headdress and carrying a blanket over his arm, to illustrate Longfellows Song of Hiawatha Date: circa 1904

Six boys pillow fighting on a Christmas card
Six boys having a turbulent pillow fight on a Christmas card, with a notice on the wall: Love one another. Date: circa 1890s

Little boy and labrador dog
Little boy sitting on a sofa with a labrador dog (golden retriever). circa 1970s

Little with her new puppy, Foxhill Road, Eccles
A little girl plays with her new puppy on Foxhill Road, Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1976

White bulldog puppy and Pammy on boat to Ostend
A white bulldog puppy and his mistress Pammy on a boat to Ostend. She feels seasick, and huddles up in her deckchair, while the dog sleeps below. Date: 1905

Station scene, Amecameca de Juarez, Mexico
Busy railway station scene in Amecameca de Juarez, Mexico State, Mexico. Date: circa 1927

Woman with display of homemade arts and crafts
A young woman with a display of homemade arts and crafts. Date: circa 1920s

Boy scouts at camp, early morning, Mauritius

Scouts distributing blankets in Zakynthos, Greece
Scouts helping nurses with the distribution of blankets on the island of Zakynthos (Zante), Greece. Many earthquakes hit the island in August 1953

Scouting leader speaking at campfire event, Mauritius
A scouting leader speaking to girl guides and boy scouts at a campfire event in Mauritius. Date: 1960s

Local founder speaking at campfire event, Mauritius
The local founder giving a speech at a scouting campfire event in Mauritius. Date: 1960s

Island Commissioner speaking at campfire event, Mauritius
The Island Commissioner welcoming guests to a scouting campfire event in Mauritius. Date: 1960s

Governor at scouting campfire event, Mauritius
The Governor of Mauritius, Sir John Shaw Rennie (1917-2002), presented with a blanket by a female cub leader at a scouting campfire event. She had recently completed a Wood Badge Course in the UK

Group photo at Tijuana, Mexico / USA border
Group photo of men and women at Tijuana, on the Mexico/USA border. 1919

A blanket converted into an overcoat for British soldiers
The blanket as overcoat. With the shortage of military overcoats, a suggestion for converting a blanket into a warm and practical coat

Fighting oil fires by G. H. Davis
Fighting oil fires: smothering flames with a blanket of foam. Precautions against fire at oil reservoirs, and methods of extinguishing. Date: 1929

Baby in blanket by Muriel Dawson
A baby wrapped in a blanket, by Muriel Dawson. Date: circa 1930s

Nurses from Great Ormond Street Hospital examine bomb
Nurses from The Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital examine fragments from the bomb which struck the building but (thankfully) caused no loss of life - September, 1940

Chicken with flu

De Dion Car Poster
L Elegante Moteurs de Dion Poster. In 1900, de Dion-Bouton was the largest automobile manufacturer in the world, producing 400 cars and 3, 200 engines that year circa 1900

Blanket tossing at Tadworth Camp, Surrey
A new recruit is given a blanket tossing at Tadworth Army Camp, Surrey, England. circa 1911

Romanian Women - Sinaia. One appears to have purchased (or is about to sell) a fine angora rug or blanket. Date: circa 1900

A BABY
A baby with a blanket. Date: late 1960s

Maori Mother & Baby
How Maori mothers carry their babies - here with one arm clasped around the babys arm to prevent him falling. a young mother bends down to pick up a blanket. Date: circa 1940

Mexican Elite
Young women in a Guests of Honour box, possibly watching a bull fight. One of them is wearing a sombrero with a traditional zarape blanket draped in front of her. Date: 1930s

Putting Shoes On
A National Adoption Society little girl, sitting on a blanket as she learns how to put on her own shoes. Date: early 1930s

Nurse / New Baby 1930S
A nurse writes down the details of a new born baby Date: 1930s

Dunlop Tyre Advert 20
Parked outside a house where a lively Christmas party is in progress - note the blanket over the radiator... Date: 1933

Kids Picnic 1930S
A group of young children enjoy a picnic outdoors under the careful supervision of a woman - " don t speak with your mouth full, Jimmy!". Date: early 1930s

Mother and Baby 1927
A doting mother wraps her baby in an Otterburn Baby Rug. Date: 1927

Sancho Panza is tossed in a blanket held by many citizens. Date: First published: 1605-1615

Woman in profile, standing at a gate, Mid Wales
A woman in profile, standing at a gate, Mid Wales, with a thoughtful expression on her face. A patterned blanket or shawl is draped over the top of the gate

A Winter Rose by Muriel Dawson
A sweet looking baby wrapped in a pink blanket

Elderly Maori man wrapped in a blanket, New Zealand

Harry Price and C. E. M. Joad lying in and investigating a s
Photograph of Harry Price and C. E. M. Joad lying in and investigating a sixteenth-century carved walnut bed, alleged to be haunted, at a private museum in Chiswick, 15 September 1932. HPG/1/12/2

Merlin blues by Merlin Enabnit
Blonde pin up girl by Merlin Enabnit, posing coquettishly behind a midnight blue blanket. Enabnit was born in Des Moines, Iowa and was a successful commercial artist

Dryden / Beach Blanket
A fashionable group at the seaside

Thermega electric blanket, used to warm the sheets
Replacing the hot water bottle. Placing a Thermega electric blanket between the sheets. This invention meant that warmth in the bed could be stored for several hours

Picnic on the Beach
Family picnic at the beach

FROST FAIR OF 1683 / 4
A view of the Frost Fair held on the Thames. The stalls formed Friezland Street alias Blanket Fair and included a Tavern, Coffeehouse and Weavers

Boer War Armoured Train
Armoured train used by the British; the locomotive is given blanket protection

Nun Visiting Sick Woman
A sick woman, wrapped in a blanket, is visited by a nun, who stirs her cup of tea

Native American Weaving
Elle of Ganado, New Mexico, of the Navaho people, weaves a blanket in the traditional manner

Puritan Christmas 1621
A Puritan Governor interrupts Christmas sporting activities amongst early American settlers

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