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Snap Playing Card - Winners, newspaper seller. circa 1900s
Snap Playing Card - Old Clo, secondhand hats and clothes seller. circa 1900s
Snap Playing Card - Milk, milkman making a delivery of milk and eggs. circa 1900s
Snap Playing Card - Coals, coalman with his delivery cart. circa 1900s
Snap Playing Card - All a Growing, flower seller. circa 1900s
Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Swift the Runners Wife. circa 1930s
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
Edward GoldneyEDWARD 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 - ?
17th Earl of DerbyEDWARD 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
Disraeli / Derby CardBENJAMIN 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
Reserves / Braila / RomaniaSoldiers announce the calling out of reserves in Braila in connection with the peasants revolt of 1907. Date: 1907
Somewhere A Voice Is Calling by Joseph Millane & R CarletonPromotional 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
Crying the Neck at Gulval, CornwallA man in the village of Gulval near Penzance, Cornwall, in September 1984, following the harvest tradition of Crying the Neck
Hares and hooded rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, Lepus capensis, Lepus timidus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Ebenezer Siblys Universal System of Natural History, 1794
Favourite Sayings - He looks one way and pulls the otherBlack and white lantern slide of a man leaning over the prow of a ship calling to another man in a rowing boat which is about to collide with the ship. Painted scenery of waves surround them
Bobak / Steppe Marmot - adult - whistles warning others - near a burrow in steppe - observes an intruder from a distance (Marmota bobak). steppes of Orenburg region - South Russia - June
Snowy Owl - juvenile (a fledgling) - threatens a visitor by opening & clicking its beak - adults are watching from a distance. (Nyctea scandiaca). tundra near Dikson, Russian Arctic. Summer, August
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
Hazel Hen / Hazel Grouse - adult male sings defending his breeding territory (Tetrastes bonasia). common in taiga forest near river Bolshoi Ugan, near Ugut settlement; Uganskii Nature reserve
Black-tailed Godwit - nervous about intruders on his breeding territory on a typical marsh near river Bolshoi Ugan (Limosa limosa)
Japanese / Red-Crowned / Manchurian CRANE - leaping (Grus japonensis)
HEDGEHOG - calling (Erinaceus europaeus). Ural Mountains, near Ekaterinburg, Russia
Common Rosefinch - singing (Carpodacus erythrinus). Nepal
Rustic Bunting - nestlings (Emberiza rustica)
Suffragette Card Game PANKO ArtworkOriginal artwork by E.T Reed (Edward Tennyson Reed 1860-1933) for the suffragette card game PANKO. This shows Christabel Pankhurst holding a scroll labeled vfw and calling for Law Law Law
Dial 999 display in an LFB exhibitionA Dial 999 display in a London Fire Brigade exhibition with details on either side of the services available
Rescue following flying bomb attack, London, WW2Rescue following a flying bomb attack -- a man and a woman at basement window, calling for help. (1 of 4) Date: 1944
Two men on switchboard at LFB HQTwo men taking calls on the switchboard at LFB HQ. Date: 1925
Belgian boy scout in phone boxA Belgian boy scout (or cub) in a phone box
Boy at a sweet shopExcited young boy calling attention to a windowful of sweets. Date: circa 1912
Phoning SantaYoung girl calling Santa to make sure he brings her new toys ob Christmas Day. Date: circa 1908
From the Manger to the Cross, Jesus, Pilate and crowdScene from the silent movie, From the Manger to the Cross, or Jesus of Nazareth, showing Jesus before Pilate for the last time, with a crowd of people calling for the release of Barabbas
Womens Royal Air Force -- Class! SHUNIllustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing a male officer calling the women to attention. Class! SHUN!! Date: 1919-1920
John Keate - 2JOHN KEATE Headmaster of Eton college depicted calling absence. Date: 1773 - 1852
Muezzin calling the Hour of Prayer from a minaret - Syria Date: 1930s
Imam upon the minaret calling believers to prayer - SyriaThe Imam the minaret calling the believers to prayer - Syria. Date: circa 1910s
Street Urchin offers appraisal of passing pretty ladyThe London Street Urchin (to companion over the way) - " Ow would that suit yer, Bill?". A young scamp offering an honest appraisal to his pal of a passing well-dressed
A girl in need of rescue - Comic PostcardA humorous American seaside postcard with the caption: " Just a Mere Maid looking for a LIfe Guard!" An attractive girl in a revealing red swimsuit calls for help
Dacela novaeguineae, laughing kookaburraWatercolour 159 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Great Brown Kingfisher, Goo-ge-na-gan
Red owl, warbling flycatcher, purple finch, brown larkPage 82 from A. Wilsons American Ornithology, (1835). Annotated Red owl, Warbling flycatcher, Purple finch, Brown lark
Anthus novaeseelandiae, New Zealand pipitWatercolour 270 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled New-Holland Lark
Tringa totanus, common redshankPlate 54 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Cicinnurus regus, king bird-of-paradisePlate 74, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)
Sterna sandvicensis, Sandwich ternPlate 69 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Diphyllodes sp. bird-of-paradiseHand coloured lithograph by John Gould and Richard Bowdler Sharpe from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea, (1875-1888), 2nd Edition
Ichthyornis dispar, cretaceous birdPainting by Maurice Wilson (c. 1950)
Astrapia nigra, arfak astrapiaHand coloured lithograph by Richard Bowdler Sharpe from John Goulds The Birds of New Guinea (1875-88)