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Background imageCalling Collection: COSTERMONGER

COSTERMONGER
A costermonger leads his donkey laden with vegetables through the streets calling for people to buy his wares Date: 1869

Background imageCalling Collection: FRENCH CHIMNEYSWEEP

FRENCH CHIMNEYSWEEP
A French chimneysweep walks through the streets calling his trade : the caption calls him a type that is disappearing Date: 1907

Background imageCalling Collection: FLYPAPER PEDLAR C19

FLYPAPER PEDLAR C19
A street pedlar of FLY-PAPER, calling Catch em alive, oh! Date: 1887

Background imageCalling Collection: BADEN-POWELL / CHIEF SCOUT

BADEN-POWELL / CHIEF SCOUT
LORD ROBERT STEPHENSON SMYTH BADEN-POWELL English army and Chief scout rejects Boer embassy calling on him to surrender Mafeking Date: 1857 - 1941

Background imageCalling Collection: Dustman and cart collecting refuse

Dustman and cart collecting refuse
The dustman calls out to householders to bring out their refuse, while his mate tips the buckets into the cart. Date: circa 1840

Background imageCalling Collection: Market trader on mbile phone, Shrewsbury Indoor Market

Market trader on mbile phone, Shrewsbury Indoor Market
A market trader in a butchers apron finds a quiet corner to make a phone call in the Indoor Market Hall, Shrewsbury, Shropshire Date: 2019

Background imageCalling Collection: Young boy shouts out Merry Christmas through the snow

Young boy shouts out Merry Christmas through the snow, full of life and joy that the Great War is finally over. He has a pair of ice skates on a string around his neck and is wearing a red

Background imageCalling Collection: Algerian Shoeshine Boy

Algerian Shoeshine Boy. Date: circa 1907

Background imageCalling Collection: Balloon seller on a Victorian scrap

Balloon seller on a Victorian scrap
Balloon seller on the beach on a Victorian scrap. circa 1890s

Background imageCalling Collection: Kisby the Call Boy

Kisby the Call Boy
Promotional postcard for Kisby the Call Boy. Call boy (or call girl) is the job title of a stagehand in the theatre. They are hired by either the director, producer or stage crew chief

Background imageCalling Collection: Alpha -male Proboscis monkey aggressive display

Alpha -male Proboscis monkey aggressive display
Alpha-male Proboscis monkey aggressive display deters other males from his harem (Nasalis larvatus). after feeding at Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary

Background imageCalling Collection: Recruitment poster, Wake Up America!, WW1

Recruitment poster, Wake Up America!, WW1
First World War recruitment poster, Wake Up America! Civilization Calls Every Man Woman and Child! Showing an allegorical female figure in a stars and stripes costume

Background imageCalling Collection: Wedding Maskers a Sligo Marriage Custom

Wedding Maskers a Sligo Marriage Custom - a view of strawboys calling at the brides house. There are two other ladies in the picture. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Sligo)

Background imageCalling Collection: QUISPE TITO, Diego (1611-1681). Christ calling St

QUISPE TITO, Diego (1611-1681). Christ calling St. Peter and St. Andrew. 1681. Zodiac Series depicting parables of the life of Christ: Pisces or Vocation of the Apostles. Colonial baroque

Background imageCalling Collection: Indian army roll-call before starting for the Front

Indian army roll-call before starting for the Front
A commissioned officer of an Indian infantry battalion under orders to go to the front in Mesopotamia is seen calling the roll of his men

Background imageCalling Collection: The Gaiety Call Boy

The Gaiety Call Boy
The call boy at the Gaiety Theatre in London, tasked with calling the actors and actresses to ready themselves for the stage. Date: 1904

Background imageCalling Collection: Chippy Norton - Late Victorian era Bookmaker

Chippy Norton - Late Victorian era Bookmaker
Mathew Dawson (18201898) - a British racehorse trainer based at Newmarket. In a career which lasted from 1840 until his death in 1898, he trained the winners of twenty-eight British Classic Races

Background imageCalling Collection: Porzana parva, little crake

Porzana parva, little crake
Plate 90 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Background imageCalling Collection: Women of the Auxiliary Fire Service using a telephone, WW2

Women of the Auxiliary Fire Service using a telephone, WW2
Women of the Auxiliary Fire Service using a telephone

Background imageCalling Collection: Kpd Poster / Women

Kpd Poster / Women
Working Women - fight with us a German Communist party (KPD) poster calling for female members

Background imageCalling Collection: Edwardian man in studio photo

Edwardian man in studio photo
Edwardian man (Arthur Auerbach) in a studio photo designed for use as a calling card (carte de visite). Date: circa 1912

Background imageCalling Collection: Grotesque Fish Merchants - Algeria

Grotesque Fish Merchants - Algeria
Grotesque Fish Merchants, shouting their wares up to the houses - Algeria. Date: circa 1903

Background imageCalling Collection: Babette and Graham, Vivian and Rinder and Dickenson and Culv

Babette and Graham, Vivian and Rinder and Dickenson and Culv
Three exhibition dancers: Babette and Graham (dancing in London Calling at the Duke of Yorks Theatre, London), May Vivian and Michael Rinder (dancing at the Riviera Palace Hotel)

Background imageCalling Collection: Joyce Barbour with Noel Coward in London Calling

Joyce Barbour with Noel Coward in London Calling at the Duke of Yorks Theatre, London, 1924 Date: 1924

Background imageCalling Collection: Women WW1 WaC Christmas Card

Women WW1 WaC Christmas Card
A WW1 Christmas card sent by a cheerful W.A.A.C calling Cheerio, Alls Well, France 1918. Picture of her camp behind. Date on reverse, December 1918. Date: 1918

Background imageCalling Collection: Victorian Scrap -- Coster

Victorian Scrap -- Coster. late 19th century

Background imageCalling Collection: Victorian Scrap -- Orange Seller

Victorian Scrap -- Orange Seller. late 19th century

Background imageCalling Collection: Victorian Scrap -- Boot Black

Victorian Scrap -- Boot Black. late 19th century

Background imageCalling Collection: Hear the Calling of the Moon by Pierrot

Hear the Calling of the Moon by Pierrot, with a quotation from a poem by Rupert Brooke. 1925

Background imageCalling Collection: Occupations 1897 - London Flower Seller

Occupations 1897 - London Flower Seller near St Pauls Cathedral. 1897

Background imageCalling Collection: Occupations 1882 - The Costermonger

Occupations 1882 - The Costermonger. 1882

Background imageCalling Collection: Occupations 1882 - Hot Cross Buns Seller

Occupations 1882 - Hot Cross Buns Seller. 1882

Background imageCalling Collection: The Calling of St Matthew, 1621, by Hendrick ter Brugghen (1

The Calling of St Matthew, 1621, by Hendrick ter Brugghen (1
Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588-1629). Dutch painter. The Calling of St Matthew, 1621. Centraal Museum. Utrecht. Netherlands

Background imageCalling Collection: Snap Playing Card - Sweep

Snap Playing Card - Sweep, a soot-covered chimney sweep. circa 1900s

Background imageCalling Collection: Snap Playing Card - Winners

Snap Playing Card - Winners, newspaper seller. circa 1900s

Background imageCalling Collection: Snap Playing Card - Old Clo

Snap Playing Card - Old Clo, secondhand hats and clothes seller. circa 1900s

Background imageCalling Collection: Snap Playing Card - Milk

Snap Playing Card - Milk, milkman making a delivery of milk and eggs. circa 1900s

Background imageCalling Collection: Snap Playing Card - Coals

Snap Playing Card - Coals, coalman with his delivery cart. circa 1900s

Background imageCalling Collection: Snap Playing Card - All a Growing

Snap Playing Card - All a Growing, flower seller. circa 1900s

Background imageCalling Collection: Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Swift

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Swift the Runners Wife. circa 1930s

Background imageCalling Collection: Woman blowing the Lure, Vasterbotten, Sweden (now Finland)

Woman blowing the Lure, Vasterbotten, Sweden (now Finland)
Woman of Westrobothnia, Vasterbotten, Sweden (now in Finland) blowing the Lur (Lure, Lurr), a long horn, from a hilltop. Its purposes included signalling and calling cattle. circa late 18th century

Background imageCalling Collection: Edward Goldney

Edward Goldney
EDWARD GOLDNEY senior, widower, religious writer, whose motto was Love without dissimulation, depicted writing at 4 am, with a night watchman calling the hour. Date: 1710 - ?

Background imageCalling Collection: 17th Earl of Derby

17th Earl of Derby
EDWARD GEORGE STANLEY, 17th earl of DERBY - statesman who achieved popularity despite calling workers blackmailers; he was responsible for conscription in World War One. Date: 1865 - 1948

Background imageCalling Collection: Disraeli / Derby Card

Disraeli / Derby Card
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Calling for an extension to the electoral franchise, in a suggestion that Lord Derbys government is a bit of a horserace Date: 3 June 1865

Background imageCalling Collection: Reserves / Braila / Romania

Reserves / Braila / Romania
Soldiers announce the calling out of reserves in Braila in connection with the peasants revolt of 1907. Date: 1907

Background imageCalling Collection: Somewhere A Voice Is Calling by Joseph Millane & R Carleton

Somewhere A Voice Is Calling by Joseph Millane & R Carleton
Promotional postcard for Somewhere A Voice is Calling by Joseph Millane and Royce Carleton. First produced at the Empire Theatre, Rotherham, 29th May and Elephant & Castle, 15th November 1915

Background imageCalling Collection: Crying the Neck at Gulval, Cornwall

Crying the Neck at Gulval, Cornwall
A man in the village of Gulval near Penzance, Cornwall, in September 1984, following the harvest tradition of Crying the Neck

Background imageCalling Collection: Hares and hooded rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus

Hares and hooded rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, Lepus capensis, Lepus timidus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794



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