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Poster: Save kitchen scraps to feed the hens! Keep it dry, free from glass, metal, bones, paper, etc. It also feeds pigs. Your council will collect. 1940s

Boys Scrumping
Two boys, use a long pole, to knock apples from a tree while a little girl makes ready to collect them. The elder girl seems unconvinced regarding the legality of scrumping

Kent Hop Pickers
Hop-pickers in Kent collect their pay

Druids (ancient Priests) collect mistletoe
The Druids were highly respected by the Britons because of their wisdom and used to collect mistletoe to give to people on feast days

Miniature card, Nestles Happy Families, offering a full size pack to anyone who can collect a full miniature set. Each penny bar of chocolate contains one. 1935

Mlle. Lyska Kostio and her collection of dolls
One of the latest crazes in Paris in the early 1910s was doll-collecting. Apparently Mlle. Kostio took all her dolls with her when she travelled, and looked after them all herself

Collecting Eggs at Flamborough Head
Collecting seagulls eggs at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. A traditional practice for farmers whose land adjoined the cliff edge

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Collecting railway tickets in Wales. A Third Class ticket issued on 14th August, 1908 between Llanrhaiadr-yn-Mochnant to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

S Teerwood. The mail van
A red mail van stops at a remote village in the Scottish Highlands to collect and deliver post

Horse mail, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
Delivery of the mail by horse to the Post Office in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed, South Wales

Water Melon Seller, Cairo
A water melon seller with his laden donkey in a narrow Cairo street; baskets are lowered on ropes to collect slices of melon Date: 1912

WW2 Birthday Card, Queue Of Bees
An illustrated WW2 birthday greetings card, Even if a queue were a mile long, I'd join it to wish you a happy birthday

Advert, Great Player's cigarettes, with cricketers
Advert, Great Player's Medium Navy Cut cigarettes, with caricatures of cricketers (cards to collect) Date: 1926

Christ collecting his vestments, ca. 1646, by Alonso Cano
Alonso Cano (1601-1667). Spanish painter. Christ collecting his vestments, ca.1646. San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Madrid. Spain. Date: 2019

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Cornet call to collect for the fighters of the Popular Army (Madrid, 1936-1937)

Collection for South African rail strike
Two men brandish collection buckets for the South African rail strike to support Rail Against Apartheid. Signs show that the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR)

Boeing WC-135B Constant Phoenix 61-2666
United States Air Force - Boeing WC-135B Constant Phoenix 61-2666 (msn 18342) at McCleelan Air Force Base. Designated Constant Phoenix to collect atmospheric samples for the purpose of detecting

United States Air Force - Boeing OC-135W 61-2670 (MSN 18346), on approach to RAF Mildenhall circa February 1999. Built as a C-135B-BN Stratolifter and converted to WC-135B weather aircraft

United States Air Force Boeing WC-135B 61-2666 (msn 18342) at McCleelan Air Force Base. Boeing C-135B-BN Stratolifter (Boeing 717-185)

Local Women fetching drinking water from a well - Venice, Italy. Date: circa 1901

Comic postcard, Boy and girl with book - Advice to Young Mothers Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Making money on the horses, one way or another Date: 20th century

Moving Post Office in Worcestershire 1909
Ombersley in Worcestershire had a service were a travelling bus with a post box fixed to the rear, when passing two or three times daily you could post your letters

Countrywoman going to the spring
Picturesque scene of a rustic woman going to a stream to collect water, 1890s. She has an armful of flowers. Date: 1890s

Douglas DC-6A N6540C (msn 45368, line number 932), of the United States Department of Commerce, attached to the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), Research Flight Facility (RFF)

WW1 - A group of young girls collecting for wounded soldiers
WW1 - A group of young girls dressed as nurses collecting for wounded soldiers in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France circa 1915

Commerce Under Bridge. Philadelphia. Date: 1954

Collecting Oysters - Arcachon, Southwestern France
Arcachon is a seaside resort town in southwest France thats known for oyster harvesting Date: 1909

The First and Last Postman - Lands End, Cornwall. Date: 1964

France. Tributes to the King. French people paying their tax
History of France. 18th century. Tributes to the King. French people paying their taxes. Engraving. Colored

The Collectors Office, 1615 by Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1636). Flemish painter. The Collectors Office, after 1615. German Historical Museum. Berlin. Germany

Tacuinum Sanitatis. Women taking roses to make rose water wi
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Women taking roses to make rose water with its petals. Folio 93r

WW1 - Dead and wounded kit collection, W Beach, Gallipoli
WW1 - A view of " W" Beach in Gallipoli after a night of heavy battle with counter-attacking Turks. The beach parties of officers, blue jackets, the detachments of engineers

Three cartoons at the start of the First World War: at the top, a comment on needing another war to collect the debts for this one

Stamp market on the Champs Elysees, Paris, France
Stamp market and stamp collectors on the Champs Elysees, Paris, France. Date: circa 1910s

Burmese monks (hpongyees) collecting alms, Burma. Date: circa 1905

France. Tributes to the King. The people of France paying th
History of France. 18th century. Tributes to the King. The people of France paying their taxes. Engraving of the time

A gang of young rice harvesters - Rural China Date: circa 1902

Myanmar - Village Scene - Women drawing water from the well Date: circa 1910

House of Lucius Ceius Secondus or House of the Ceii. Tetras
Italy. Pompeii. House of Lucius Ceius Secondus or House of the Ceii. 1st century a.C. Tetrastyle atrium and the Impluvium, designed to collect the rainwater coming from the compluvium in the roof

Roman Art. Syria. Farming. Collecting dates. Mosaic. Theatre of Bosra. 2nd century. Hauran region

Jesus said to the paralytic, Arise and walk. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Myanmar - Mandalay - Riverside Pagoda - Irrawaddy River
Myanmar - Mandalay - Riverside Pagoda on the banks of the Irrawaddy River Date: circa 1910s

Japan, Two children digging for shellfish, low tide riverbed
Japan - Two children digging for shellfish on a low tide riverbed. Both hold small picks/shovels suited for this purpose. Date: 1906

Recycling Pig Swill
The Lobb Brothers (Charles & Henry) collect pig swill in special pails, twice a week from the homes of 25-30 neighbours, who are pleased that their waste is recycled. Date: 1930s

Stamp Fair 1930S
A stamp fair in France; a girl looking at the sets of stamps for sale. Date: 1930s

Babies Await Parents
Babies in the cabbage field wait for their parents to collect them. Date: 1950s

French Postbox
La petite Poste aux Lettres a lady posts a letter in a Paris street, a man comes hurrying to catch the post, the postman waits till its time to collect the mail Date: 1831

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