Cage Collection (page 2)

Comic postcard, Woman with her hands full on a train - Which shall I drop? Date: 20th century

Black country strikers: miners at the pit bank, Stoke-on-Trent, coming up in the cage for the last time. Date: October 1920

Facey Romford hands his candle to a footman
English gentleman in formal clothes attending a dinner, 19th century. Facey Romford hands his candle to a footman at the bottom of a staircase. Lucy Somersville in yellow crinoline dress follows him

Albrecht III, Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg, died 1475. In a scarlet cape lined with ermine over a gold suit of armor. From an altar painting in St. Gumbertus church, Ansbach

Woman in half-mourning outfit of cape and gown, 1913
Woman in half-mourning outfit of black-and-white striped cape over a black gown. Demi-deuil. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil)

Woman in striped linen dress holding a bird and cage, 1913
Woman in green striped linen dress with pink linen border and fichu, holding a bird and cage. Robe de linon raye, bordee de linon rose, fichu aussi de linon rose

Woman in walking dress - chequerboard surah - hand-painted
Woman in walking dress in chequerboard surah and hand-painted taffeta with a black velvet border, straw hat with swan plume

USS Illinois March - respectfully dedicated to the U.S.S. Illinois and to the good people of that state. Note the new " cage" masts 1915

Claire Heliot and her performing lions 1903
Claire Heliot (1866 -1953), renowned female lion tamer, photograph showing her in a huge cage caressing and talking to the large cats. Date: 1903

Stationery, Spratts Patent Limited, London
Stationery, Spratts Patent Limited, Fenchurch Street, London, manufacturers of biscuits, foods and appliances for dogs, poultry, game, cage birds, etc. 1901

Barnsley Detachment Tankersley Brigade Rescue Party
Mine Fire at the Hamstead Colliery, Great Barr, Birmingham on 4th March, 1908. The Barnsley Detachment Tankersley Brigade Rescue Party

Porcelain inkstand and birdcage from Delft, Netherlands, 18th century. Underside of birdcage decorated with painting of birds and insects

Audience with the Sultan of Bornu, Kanem-Bornu
Audience with the Sultan of Bornu, 19th century. Visitors sit 100 paces away from the sultan who views them from inside a bamboo cage

Harold Davidson, former rector of Stiffkey, Norfolk
Harold Davidson (1875-1937), defrocked former rector of Stiffkey, Norfolk, seen here lion taming at Skegness in July 1937. Unfortunately, this kind of activity led to his being attacked and killed

Victorian silk birthday card, Girl and Doves. 19th century

The Bystander - The Sultana of Johore by Yevonde
The Sultana of Johore, wife of H.H. Sir Ibrahim, Sultan of Johore, photographed by Madame Yevonde contemplated a wicker bird cage on the front cover of The Bystander magazine. Date: 1931

Bird Market, Paris, France
The Bird Market, Paris, France Date: 1893

The Natural History of Cage Birds - Title Page - Their Management, habits, food, diseases, treatment, breeding and the methods of catching them by J M Bechstein M.D. Date: 1845

The Sale of the Royal Windsor Castle Menagerie 1884

Josephine Baker with pet bunny rabbits and many small dogs
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) - American-born French entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent - with pet bunny rabbits and many small dogs Date: 1931

First 4 HP Daimler engine for an airship

Cartoon, Just in Feeding Time! A lion at the zoo. circa 1833

Rat-catcher 1850s
Jack Black, was a rat-catcher and mole destroyer from Battersea. Date: circa 1850s

Ladies Fashion -- evening dress
Ladies Fashion - ornately decorated evening dress. 1829

Young Spanish couple -- El Pajarito (the little bird). Do you want to show me your little bird? I have heard that its very cute! Date: circa 1908

People visiting the Monkey House at London Zoo. Date: circa 1900s

Jumbo the elephant: his attempted removal
Jumbo the African elephant was purchased by the American showman P.T Barnum from the Zoological Society of London in 1882

Jumbo the elephant: on the way to Millwall docks
Jumbo the African elephant was purchased by the American showman P.T Barnum from at the Zoological Society of London in 1882

Jumbo the elephant: on the way to St Katherines docks
Jumbo the African elephant was purchased by the American showman P.T Barnum from the Zoological Society of London in 1882

Canaries in a cage - Two pretty young girls gazing at two canaries in a cage. Artist: Millicent Sowerby Date: circa 1920

Iron Hans - Scene from Iron Hans. Iron Hans locked in a cage for public view. Artist: Millicent Sowerby Date: 1909

East Bergholts unique 16th century Bell Cage and bells
circa 1910s

St. Mary the Virgin Church, East Bergholt, Suffolk - Bell Cage. The church bells are housed in this cage built in 1531. They are thought to be the heaviest five bells still being rung in England

Lion mauling woman 1870
Performance in the Bowery Theatre in New York, were young woman Minnie Wells the Lion Queen, was doing her usual act, but on this fateful night, two lionesses sprang upon her

Bird show, Crystal Palace 1865
Exhibitions of canaries, parakeets, cockatoos and some game birds, being shown at Crystal Palace, London. Date: 1865

Corner of Leadenhall Market, London 1900
Covered market, selling live poultry in cages. Date: 1900

Poultry show at the Crystal Palace 1870
Poultry show at the Crystal Palace, at the same time as the cattle show was being held at Islington. There was above 1100 pens of fowls, besides turkeys, ducks, geese and pheasants

Button Making, Elliotts Factory, Birmingham 1844
A woman sits in front of a gilding oven at Elliotts Button Factory, Birmingham. The buttons are coated in a mixture of mercury and gold

MENTAL PATIENT AND LION
A mental patient enters a lions cage at Jackson, USA but is unharmed. Date: 1870

USE FOR CRINOLINES
A novel suggestion for the use of cage crinolines - an ornament for the Fire Stove! Date: 1859

GIRL WITH BIRD AND DOG
A little girl gives her caged bird his breakfast, while her dog looks on. Date: circa 1890

LA GOULUE / PJOURNAL 1904
LA GOULUE (Louise Weber) French entertainer and her animal-tamer husband grapple with a puma in a cage Date: 1870 - 1929

MARRIAGE / A GILDED CAGE
A gilded cage A Victorian view of marriage Date: 1894

Theres Millions In It! Tivoli Theatre, Hull
Theres Millions In It! a musical farcical comedy at the Tivoli Theatre, Hull -- Polly swears! 1923

Hold Birdie, a farce, Duke of Yorks Theatre, London
Hold Birdie (Jerry), a three-act farce, at the Duke of Yorks Theatre, London, starring Yvonne Arnaud and Charles Windermere

Two bird cages hang outside a barred house window, Hong Kong
Two bird cages hang outside a barred house window in Hong Kong Date: 1982

Judge with exhibit at poultry show, Staffordshire, England
A judge at a poultry show in Staffordshire examines an exhibit while leaning on a cage of turkeys. He wears a hat and has bushy whiskers. The Times Date: 1987

Junk shop, Lisbon
An elderly man smoking a pipe walks past a junk shop in a Lisbon street, Portugal Date: 1989

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