Branch Collection (page 10)

Map of the French Department of Charente - No. 16
Map of the French Department of Charente - No.16, featuring inset illustrations of Paper production industry, La Rochefoucauld

All Moonshine, by Dorothy Wheeler
All Moonshine, While we sleep theres a whisper in the trees, by Dorothy Wheeler. 1925

Angel with branch on a Victorian Christmas scrap
Angel with a branch on a Victorian Christmas scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Mark Lester, child star
Mark Lester (b.1958), child star, best known for his title role in the film version of Lionel Barts musical, Oliver! Seen here sitting on a tree branch. Date: late 1960s

Virgin Mary with Child and angels singing, 1477, by Sandro B
Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510). Italian painter. Virgin Mary with Child and angels singing, 1477. Gemaldegalerie. Berlin. Germany

Early Christian. Roman tombstone with Christian iconography
Early Christian Art. Italy. Early Christians. Roman tombstone with Christian iconography. Inscription: Victoria, consecrated virgin, who lived 28 years. Christian phrase appears in pace

Snap Playing Card - card back design. circa 1900s

CS Winifred Barker and Superintendent Shirley Becke
Winifred Theodora Barker (c1909-1995), third commander of the Met Police A4 (Women s) Branch, rising to the rank of Chief Superintendent in 1960

Two women police officers mounting horses, London
Two women police officers in the process of mounting their horses in a Central London street. Women were appointed to the Mounted Branch in 1970. Date: circa 1977

Chief Superintendent Winifred Barker in her office
Winifred Theodora Barker (c1909-1995), third commander of the Met Police A4 (Women s) Branch, rising to the rank of Chief Superintendent in 1960

Book illustration -- January, with a robin on a bare branch and a snowy country scene. Date: circa 1880

Frodsham National Childrens Home (NCH), Cheshire
Toddlers at the National Childrens Home branch at Frodsham, Cheshire. Date: Date unknown

Cheque from the Bank of Friendship Unlimited, Goodwill Square Branch, with one thousand kind wishes from Ernestine Edgcumbe to Ernest Cust. circa 1890s

Immature Golden Eagle and Bald Eagle
Originally titled: Ring-tailed Eagle and Sea Eagle. Alexander Wilson, American Ornithology, 1824. Hand-coloured engraving. Date: 1824

Spiders, insects and hummingbird on guava tree
Hand-coloured engraving based on Maria Sibylla Merian watercolour. From Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, 1726 edition. Date: 1726

Chinese art, bird on a branch with butterflies and flowers
Chinese art, a bird on a branch with two butterflies and pink flowers. Date: early 20th century

Illustration, Cymatophoridae -- Acronyctidae -- Thyatira Batis, Cymatophora Or, Asphalia Flavicornis, Asphalia Ridens, Acronycta Leporina, Acronycta Alni, Acronycta Psi, Acronycta Aceris

National Childrens Home (NCH) branch Ballacloan at Ramsey, Isle of Man. Children stand outside the house. Date: circa 1909

Girls Friendly Society (GFS) Girl Guide Company Southwold
Girls Friendly Society (GFS) Southwold Branch - the Girl Guide Company pose in their uniforms. Date: circa 1920s

Advertisement for Cummings umbrellas, silk umbrella covers in different colours, walking sticks, sword sticks and parasols

A young Common Monitor Lizard rests (sunbathing in order to raise the body-temperature) on a tree-trunk, fallen in a small stream in rainforest (Varanus salvator)

Women welders at work, WW1
Women welders at work on pieces of metal at a school opened at Notting Hill Gate by the Womens Service Branch of the London Society for Womens Suffrage during the First World War

Murrays Club opens at Maidenhead
Murrays River Club at fashionable Maidenhead, opened in 1915 as a sister club and alternative summer venue to the original Murrays club opened by Jack May in Beak Street, London in 1913

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and Russian Bear, WW1
First World War cartoon on a postcard, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany on the branch of a tree, looking worried as a Russian Bear starts climbing up towards him

Pyrocephalus rubinus nanus, vermilion flycatcher
Plate 7, hand coloured lithograph by John and Elizabeth Gould from Charles Robert Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle, Part 3 Birds, (1838-41). This is not one of Darwins finches

Columba palumbus, woodpigeon
Plate 23 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Ara ararauna, blue-and-yellow macaw
Large Series plate 27, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Gracula religiosa, hill myna
Plate 71, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Lorius garrulus, chattering lory
Plate 44, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Plate 80 of the Reeves Collection (Zoology)
LS Plate 80 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856

Megalaima rubricapillus, crimson-fronted barbet
Plate 29, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

LS Plate 14 from the John Reeves Collection
Large Series plate 14, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Balsamodendron myrrah, myrrh gum tree
Plate 60 from Medicinal Plants by Robert Bentley & Henry Trimen, Vol 1 1880. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Falco vespertinus, red-footed falcon
Plate 20 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Falco subbuteo, Eurasian hobby
Plate 18 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Gracula religiosa indica, Acridotheres cristellus, Paroaria
Large Series plate 12, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China

Gallus gallus, red junglefowl
Plate 32, a watercolour by Joseph Wolf from Daniel G. Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Barnardius zonarius, Australian ringneck
Plate 21 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

Lepidodendron, fossil tree trunk
The reptilian appearance of the branch of this fossil tree is cause by the diamond-shaped pattern, which indicates the points of attachment of the leaves. This specimen is about 6cm in diameter

Strix aluco, tawny owl
Plate 68 from Archibald Thorburns second edtition of British Birds, Vol. 2 (1925)

Psidium, guava
Plate 929 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Platycercus exmius, eastern rosella
Plate 18 from Ferdinand Lucas Bauers zoological watercolours and drawings observed during Captain Matthew Flinders circumnavigational survey of Australia (Investigator 1801-1803)

Phasianus colchicus elegans, common pheasant
Plate 58 by Joseph Wolf from Daniel Giraud Elliots A Monograph of the Phasianid, or Family of the Pheasants, (1872)

Small child feeding the birds from his window
A young boy feeds a solitary bird who perches on a branch outside his window. c. 1910

Training volunteers of an industrial works
Industrial works fire brigade firefighters being instructed in the use of a hose line and the correct method of controlling a branch (jet of water)

Insignia of branch or arm of service. Poster showing the insignia for several branches of military service. Date between 1941 and 1943

The Magpie Magazine
An Advertisement for the holiday magazine The Magpie published on 5th July 1923 depicting a glamorous woman in an elaborate black and white dress on a tree branch accompanied by two magpies

Sainsburys Supermarket
A housewife wearing a mini skirt, outside a branch of Sainsburys supermarket, England. Date: 1970

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