Catching Collection

French and English artificial fishing flies. circa 1900

French artificial fishing flies. circa 1900

Catching the 5: 15 at Liverpool Street by Grace Golden
Scene inside Liverpool Street Station in the City of London showing commuters and travelling swarming around the station concourse and platforms as they rush to catch trains to NE London suburbs

I kiss your little hand, madame, by J. Nicolson
Illustration of a glamorous lady catching butterflies

Coughs & Sneezes Poster
Humorous poster issued by the Ministry of Health during the Second World War and featuring a woman sneezing without catching the germs in a handkerchief

Wizard Oz / Dorothy / Toto
Dorothy and Toto are caught up by the tornado : she manages to save him by catching him by the ear

Horrors, my wife! by Webster Murray
Wife tracks her husband down, under the sea in a diving suit having an affair with attractive mermaid. Date: 1928

Learning words
A boy catching the alphabet and words in his net 1922

Fan with Fairies
A highly ornamental lace folding fan by Duvelleroy of Paris with painted scenes depicting fairies by a pond & with sticks carved in imitation of feathers

Orient Express
Catching the Orient Express in the year 2000

Southern Railway Ratcatcher
Official Rat catcher for Southern Railway with Terriers and quarry. Date: 1924

Scottish Types - Leistering Salmon, Clan MacGregor. 19th century

Jumping Sheet Drill - London Fire Brigade Date: circa 1940s

Met Police stopwatch -- inside face
A Metropolitan Police issue stopwatch for the purpose of catching speeding motorists. This method worked on the principle of timing motorists over specific distances to estimate their speed

Modern Athenians plate 8 - Edinburgh
John Irvine (d. 1839) beautifully described as a " creeping figure, of too solid flesh, so sadly restricted in locomotion". Facing him is Captain Hugo Arnot (d)

Animal Bicycle Race
Various animals compete in a cycle race : the ostrich leads on his penny-farthing, but the kangaroo is catching up

Taking Elephants 1671
The Catching of Elephants on the Island of Ceylon

Loki and Sigyn
The gods seek to punish Loki the trickster with the poisonous venom of Gemheil, but his loving wife Sigyn saves his life by catching the venom in a bowl

Illegal salmon fishing in Galway, Ireland

Rich Woman fishes for suitors
Leap Year - A Sure Bait A rich woman sits on the riverbank, loading up her hook with her riches ( LSD - pounds shillings and pence) - a sure bait for the mass of suitors she has already caught

Western Canada - Cowboy roping a steer. Date: 1928

Swan-Upping / Robertson
Swan-upping on the Thames (catching young swans to mark them)

Jewelers Shop Raided
Two thieves break into a jewelers shop by making a hole in the ceiling, catching the debris in an umbrella, and using a ladder to get in and out

RWF Willie Poole - shrimping
Fat man with big bum shrimping in rock pools on a beach, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria, England. This is RWF Willy Poole 1940-2017. Writer, countryman, humourist, master of foxhounds

Tuaghs (from the Gaelic, tuagh-chatha), also known as Lochaber axes, a type of poleaxe, Scottish battle axes used in medieval times, preserved at Edinburgh

Fishers of the Seine, illustration by Sepping Wright
Fishers of the River Seine, Paris, pen and ink illustration of men catching fish along the canalled bank of the river by H C Seppings Wright

Shark Fishing in the Caribbean
A group of men gather around the carcass of a large shark they have caught on the coast of a caribbean island. Shark fishing is still legal in much of the world, including the Caribbean, to this day

Basket Trap for Salmon
A basket trap, used for catching salmon in the River Severn. Date: 1933

Eel or fish nets on a river Date: circa 1890s

WW2 - Home Front - Land Girl hunting rats with ferrets and the results of one day's offensive in a Hereford Barn. Date: circa 1942

An air-trawling device for the use of British troops in Egypt, a drive against Marshal Graziani in the Western desert. Date: 1940

Homeless people catching up on sleep in St. James's Park in London at mid-day. This was in the summer months where the homeless enjoyed the sunshine in an enclosure popularly known as the Bull

One of Canadian industries was the catching and packing of salmon. The geat flat-bottomed square-ended boat, locally know as a scow

Catching a crocodile on the River Nile, Egypt
Vintage 19th century photograph: group of men and boys catching a crocodile on the banks of the River Nile, Egypt

Catching rays at Belize
Foxy-Golf on tour catching rays at Caye Chapel on the second biggest Barrier Reef in the World. Date: 1990

The Butterfly Series - Please Come In! early 20th century

The Butterfly Series - I se Got You! early 20th century

Women entomologists catching butterflies in a garden, mid 19th century. Handcoloured lithograph from Musee du Naturaliste dedie a la Jeunesse, Histoire des Papillons, Hippolyte and Polydor Pauquet

Hippo
Thanks!!! Illustrated comic postcard of a hippo catching a bun. Nister series 172/4. Artist: GH Thompson (1842-1909)

One, Two, Three, Four, Five, I Caught a Fish Alive by Agnes Richardson

Cartoon, Fisherman catching a ladys bonnet. 19th century

Shoal of mackerel 1873
Fishermen bringing in their fresh catch of mackerel. Date: 1873

Catching German spy in the act 1915
Catching German spy in the act. 1915

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

Cupid and spiders web on a Valentine card
Cupid with net and spiders web on a Valentine card -- Caught in Loves Web. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

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

Fresh water fishing. 19th century

Quail catching in Syria 1862
A tradition among Syrian peasants using branches and sheets to encircle terrified quail. 1862

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