Catching Collection (page 2)

Fresh water fishing. 19th century

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

Winter scene on the coast of Bergen, Norway, fishermen bringing in their catch of herring and men packing the them in barrels. Date: circa 1851

B. A. T. FK. 25 Basilisk (F2907 or F2908)
B.A.T. FK.25 Basilisk (F2907 or F2908). One of the three Basilisk aircraft built by the British Aerial Transport Company (BAT) and designed by Frederick Koolhoven; the first, F2906

Trapezist Makes Catch Date: 1950

BUTTERFLY CATCHING
Young naturalists examine a new specimen. Date: circa 1920

Bird catching by clap-net. Date: 13th century

Chinese fishing boats 1857
River life among the Chinese, fishermen raising a large baskets. Date: 1857

Shrimping at Ambleteuse 1858
French woman drags her net through the shore to collect shrimp. Date: 1858

SWAN UPPING 1
Swan-upping on the Thames (catching young swans to mark them) Date: 1873

Children shrimping at Ostend. Date: circa 1885

Seeking to arrest the dread disease: ridding the infected district of creatures likely to carry plague-microbes. Illustrative diagram in The Illustrated London News showing how a major cull of rats

Westman Islands, Iceland - Puffin Catching. Date: circa 1903

Bali fisherman up to his neck in water
Bali fisherman pushing fishing net frame while up to his neck in seawater Date: 1989

Man with fish, Bangkok
A man with tattooed arms and chest smiles happily after catching a fish for his dinner in a Bangkok canal, Thailand Date: circa 1985

Destroyers attacking a Battleship by night. Date: circa 1910s

Purse Seinors Catching Salmon, Seattle, Washington, USA. A purse seine is a large wall of netting deployed around an entire area or school of fish

The Duchess of York - Fishing in New Zealand - Royal Tour
The Duchess of York hooks a big one - Fishing at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand - Royal Tour. She caught twenty fish in half an hour! Date: 1927

Black Model 1960S
A black model wears the 60s Look : Huge eye-catching bauble earrings, thick black eyeliner and heavy eyeshadow and a short hairstyle wig with full fringe. Date: 1960s

Butchering an animal at Bacalar, British Honduras
Boy scouts watching the butchering of an animal at Bacalar, British Honduras (now Belize), Central America, 24 May 1951. Date: 1951

Silhouette, A Drowning Man Catches at a Straw
A Drowning Man Catches at a Straw -- silhouette showing a man in water, reaching up to a tree branch

People at the zoo on a Christmas card -- irritating the lions. Date: circa 1890s

Cupid with butterfly net on a greetings card
Cupid with butterfly net on a romantic greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Cupid and fairy with red hearts on a Valentine postcard
Cupid and fairy with red hearts growing on a tree on a Valentine postcard -- Of my Love, the Angels in Heaven might tell. Date: circa 1890s

Pan Catching Fire
A cautionary tale in the use of pans which are not made of aluminium branded with an official safety mark from the Societe Francaise des Metaux Ouvres ! Date: 1928

Steamer Orion - Pacific Whaling Company, Victoria, B. C
Steamer Orion - Pacific Whaling Company, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Date: circa 1910s

Catching the Hare
Humorous illustration by George Studdy, creator of Bonzo, with a Bonzo-like dog messing up proceedings at the greyhound track

A Sea Bass catching whitebait
A superb painting by Malcolm Greensmith of a Sea Bass, wheeling to catch a whitebait, its spiney dorsal fin raised in agressive pose

Catching Sprats / Bridport
A good haul Catching sprats, West Bay, Bridport

Fishing in the Neolithic era
Fishing with nets from a boat in the Neolithic era

Children fishing while on holiday
Two children on holiday paddle in the sea with fishing nets - a little girl shouts with excitement on catching some shrimps. Date: c.1920

Dick Whittington. Lyceum Theatre. Artist E. P. Kinsella
Dick Whittington. The cat is shown here ridding Morocco of its plague of rats, thus earning the gratitude of the King and making Dicks fortune. For the Lyceum Theatre, Christmas 1911

Two-Gun George, Worlds Lasso Expert
Captain George Ash, known as Two-Gun George, world lasso expert, showing off his skills lassoing cattle. Date: 1932

A railway smoke catcher
Impression of a chimney designed to extract bothersome smoke from stationery steam engines in use at a station in Chicago. Date: 1932

Summertime Scene - A family in the fields in Rural Germany Date: circa 1930s

Old-Fashioned Country Cottages by Fougasse
Sequential cartoon by Fougasse (Kenneth Cyril Bird) showing a man staying at a funny little country cottage only to find its comforts lacking to the point that he eventually makes his escape

Lobster Fishing on Sark - lay lines hanging from rings
Lobster Fishing on Sark, Channel Islands - lay lines hanging from rings and ladder Date: circa 1906

Label design, Ken Kat Sweet Potatoes
Label design, Ken Kat Louisiana Porto Rican Sweet Potatoes. early 20th century

Device for catching salmon, Sognefjord, Norway
Device for catching salmon at Balhomen, Sognefjord, Norway. Nets are spread in the water in a horseshoe shape; when a salmon enters, the man waiting at the top pulls a rope and closes the opening

Two men fishing on the Esserfjord, Norway
Two men fishing from a boat on the Esserfjord, Norway. Date: circa 1910s

Susi - walking in the rain under umbrella
Susi - walking in the rain and catching drops of water from an umbrella. 1950s

Crimean War, foraging party after landing at Kerch
Crimean War -- a foraging party after the allies landed at Kerch, showing soldiers catching poultry and pigs. 1855

Doctor bounded out
Doctor catching boy in basket. Part of Box 22 Boswell Collection. Date: circa 1900

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Gnome riding a mouse
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Gnome (or elf) riding a mouse to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for)

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Gnome riding a frog
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Gnome riding a frog to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for breakfast...!)

Hand-drawn Greetings Card - Goblin riding a hare
Hand-drawn Greetings Card - a Goblin riding a hare to post a letter of Best Wishes into a mushroom postbox (a sight often seen by those who may have had too many mushroom postboxes for breakfast)

Little boy with net on a palette-shaped greetings card
Little boy with a butterfly net on a palette-shaped greetings card. Date: circa 1880s

Cricket - Run-It-Out card game - Caught
Run-It-Out card game - Caught. mid-20th century

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