Catching Collection (page 3)

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

Smiling boy with large fish on a Valentine card
Smiling boy with a large fish on a Valentine card -- I m fishin fer a little girls love. Date: early 20th century

Snap Playing Card - man losing a fish. circa 1910s

Bird catching in the Faroe Islands, using boats and ropes. It looks perilous. Date: C.1860

Frog, owl and mouse in moonlight on a Christmas card
A frog and an owl both catch hold of a mouse in the moonlight on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Goblin and dragonfly on a New Year card
Goblin sitting on a lily leaf, trying to catch a dragonfly on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Two men fishing on a comic Christmas card by Ernest Griset. Date: circa 1890s

Catching Post 1884
Catching the post - a daily event at the General Post Office, London, as the last letters arrive for todays dispatch. Date: 1884

1808 / Canning / Gillray
Disciples catching the Mantle - the Spirit of Darkness overshadowing the Priests of Baal George Canning reaches for Pitt the Youngers mantle Date: 1808

Kitten and butterfly on a New Year card
Kitten in a garden trying to catch a butterfly with a net on a New Year card. Date: circa 1900s

Catching the Eye: the latest accessories, 1927
Catching the Eye: the latest Paris accessories, 1927 - hats, bags, bangles and two ensembles Date: 1927

Bull terrier with hare
A bull terrier running with a hare in its mouth -- Cracker catches the hare (Aldins own dog). Date: 1930

Illustration, stopping a runaway pony
Illustration, Robin riding Jerry attempts to stop Dumpling from running off with Elizabeth on her back. Date: 1930

Illustration, The Jolly Anglers, showing a happy group of men fishing and relaxing on a riverbank. Date: 1832

Women helping to catch rabbits on a farm, WWI
Women helping to catch rabbits on a farm in Cheshire during the First World War. 1918

Rat catching on the home front during WWI
The Emancipation of Women - another sphere of industry. A member of a family of a resident in Camberwell who is the official rat-catcher to the London County Council

Young girl shrimping. Young girl with net catching shellfish on the shore Date: circa 1890

Bird-catching spider or pink-toed tarantula spider, Aranea avicularia.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Encyclopaedia of Sport - Luring Wild Lap-Dogs
IV - Luring wild lap-dogs by the Mull of Cantire. Another wacky sport from the imagination of William Heath Robinson. Date: 1914

Small boy with football in Balham, SW London
Small boy catching a football in front of a concrete wall in a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Bobak / Steppe Marmot - a pair of fat adults near a burrow - marmot on the left stretches after just coming out of a burrow - catching the first sun (Marmota bobak)

Moor FROG - watching beetle (Donacia sp), (Rana arvalis Nilsson). Russia

Cricket Catching
A fielding performing the right way to catch. Date: 1888

People jumping from a burning building -- firefighters hold a sheet below to catch them. Date: 19th century

Cricket Short Slip
A fielder has been placed as short slip so he stands to the right or left of the wicket keeper to aid any catches delivered behind the batsman. Date: 1888

Rags the puppy catches a rat
Well Caught! -- Rags the puppy catches a rat. Date: 1912

Pug Peter -- chained dog in prison cell
Pug Peter -- Catching the Mice with Cheese. A chained dog in a prison cell, with a crowd of mice at the open door converging on a piece of cheese. Date: 1905

The Cow and Plate Polecat Trapper
Another ingenious idea from the inventive mind of William Heath Robinson, the gadget king, for a cow and plate pole-cat trapper on the Catskill Mountains

The Water Crawl Widgeon by Heath Robinson
The " Water Crawl" Widgeon - bluffing device on the Norfolk jungle. Another mind-boggling idea from the inventive mind of William Heath Robinson

The Ice Hole Clam Spearer by Heath Robinson
An ingenious, though perhaps rather complicated device to catch clams through ice in the frozen north, part of a series of drawings in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News entitled

The Chipmunk Bagger by Heath Robinson
Ingenious contraption for use in the wilds of Brazil, a chipmunk bagger, part of a series by William Heath Robinson in the Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News called Very Patent Aides to Sport

The Lifelyke stilted giraffe lurer by Heath Robinson
The Lifelyke stilted giraffe-lurer, part of a series called Very Patent Aides to Sport by William Heath Robinson in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News

A Mako Shark Hooked
A huge Mako shark being hooked off the coast of New Zealand. Date: 1928

Pinocchio -- pursued by a sea monster
Quick, Pinocchio... but it was too late! The monster had overtaken him. Date: 1911

Nursery Rhymes -- A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go. A white cat catches Uncle Rat (above), and a white goose catches the Frog (below). Date: early 20th century

Baby Scouts -- fishing
Baby Scouts -- A baby scout his pole will sometimes take, and fish for salmon on the silver lake. Date: 1900

Robinson Magician
William Ellsworth Robinson, stage name Chung Ling Soo, enjoyed a successful career as a stage magician until his catching-a-bullet-in-his-mouth trick went fatally wrong... 1861 - 1918

Woman Diver 1929
A trim lady dives from a board into the sea, catching the eyes of two male bathers who look on in admiration. Date: 1929

A Mongoose on the Arm
Peggy Hill of Camden Town, London, with her rat-catching mongoose. Date: November 1932

The Parcs at low tide - Dieppe, France - Trap for fish
The Parcs at low tide - Dieppe, France. These constructions of long supported poles and igh nets were arranged as a trap for fish

Three boys on a desert island attract a passing ship using their robes and spears as signal flags. Date: 1898

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