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Myanmar - Mandalay - Riverside Pagoda - Irrawaddy RiverMyanmar - Mandalay - Riverside Pagoda on the banks of the Irrawaddy River Date: circa 1910s
Japan, Two children digging for shellfish, low tide riverbedJapan - Two children digging for shellfish on a low tide riverbed. Both hold small picks/shovels suited for this purpose. Date: 1906
Recycling Pig SwillThe 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 1930SA stamp fair in France; a girl looking at the sets of stamps for sale. Date: 1930s
Babies Await ParentsBabies in the cabbage field wait for their parents to collect them. Date: 1950s
French PostboxLa 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
On Entend Partout - Music Sheet Cover. A french illustration of a woman and much papers with hands on the left bottom who wants to collect the papers. Date: circa 20th century
Barnardo Waif Saturday, BirminghamA well-dressed woman and two children collect money at a Barnardos fund-raising Waif Saturday held in the Birmingham area. A railway station entrance is nearby. Date: 1906
Bystander- Military officer collecting images of Gaby DeslysA military officer, second in command, collecting images of the actress Gaby Deslys (1881-1920), as a way of improving the morale while fighting abroad. Date: 1916
Boy Scout on Ascension Island, South AtlanticA Boy Scout on Ascension Island, South Atlantic, collecting scrub wood for the fire on the lava flows. Date: 1981
Boy scouts drinking from bottles, AustraliaTwo boy scouts in Australia, drinking from bottles of Coca Cola. They have been nicknamed The Scroungers, as they collect discarded empty bottles for the refund money
Collection of TV RentalCollection of TV rental from two housewives Date: 1930s
Two boys with pony on country lane, ScotlandTwo boys with a pony on a country lane in Scotland. The wickerwork basket contains peat (cut turf)
People on horseback, going to collect peatTwo people on horseback, a man and a woman, going with their wickerwork baskets to collect peat (cut turf). Date: 1920s
Children HaymakingChildren on horseback helping to collect hay on an English farm. Date: early 1930s
Japan - Women collecting mussels on the beach at low tide. Date: circa 1910s
18, 000 farthings for London Slum Childrens Breakfasts18, 000 farthings collected in 1907 by R Arnold of 15 Mount Pleasant, Tunbridge Wells, Kent for the charitable purchase of London Slum Childrens Breakfasts. Date: 1907
Women in fancy dress collecting for charityThree women in fancy dress collecting for The Romford Cottage Hospital, Essex. Date: circa 1933
Aptenodytes fosteri, emperor penguin eggCollected on the British Terra Nova Antarctic Expedition (1910 - 1913) by Edward Wilson
Pongo pygmaeus, Orang utanThis glorious orang utan was shot by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the mid-1800s
Boxes for conveying plants by seaIllustration showing boxes used for plant collection and transportation. From The Naturalist & Travellers Companion, by John Coakley
Children collecting paper to aid war effort, Walton, EssexThis group of children at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, have collected paper and cardboard for salvage to support the war effort. circa 1940
Irish Tourist BoatA boat on its way to collect tourists who have descended from the Gap of Dunloe, at the meeting of the Waters and Old Weir Bridge, Muckross Estate, Killarney, County Kerry, Eire. Date: 1950s
Drawing seal blood - GreenlandWomen from Greenland drawing blood from the carcasses of hunted seals. Date: circa 1910
Arab pearl divers at work, 1903Arab pearl divers at work. As a result of long practice, they are able to remain underwater for some minutes, during which time they collect the pearl oysters from the ocean bed. Date: 1903
Collecting Albatross eggs - Laysan IslandCollecting Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) eggs on Laysan Island, Hawaii (for sale in the markets of Honolulu) Date: 1905
Ladies collect water - Constantinople city wallsWomen collecting water in their water bottles/jars at a fountain in Istanbul, located just outside the city walls
Collecting charitable donations and votesA biddable dog collects money for charity surrounding by a group of little boys in Croydon during the elections of 1909. He is a supporter of Robert Hermon Hodge, MP for Parliament
Men and women collect and tie reed bundlesCollecting and tieing reed bundles by a stream in a province formerly part of India and now wiithin modern Pakistan. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts
Hairdressers Collar, 1921Illustration showing a then-newly invented hairdressers collar and cape, which was designed to collect hair as it was being cut, 1921
Romanian Troops attacking Ghemesh Station, Austro-HungariaIllustration showing the surprise attack launched by Romanian troops on Ghemesh railway station in Austro-Hungaria, 1916. On the first day of hostilities between these two countries the Romanians
Postman circa. 1840An early photograph of a postman, circa 1840 wearing a cape and top hat. Before postage stamps, he would have to collect payment for each individual letter
Armed Police Collect TaxFrench Government officials seeking to make an inventory of church property meet resistance from peasants who regard it as an attack on the Church
A Trip on a Tricycle Chair, 1890Illustration showing a Trip on a Tricycle Chair that leads to disastrous consequences for the chairs driver. At top right, the young man in the bowler hat purchases the machine
Collecting WinningsPunters collect their winnings from a bookmaker at Dingle racecourse, County Kerry, Ireland
Children Gather FirewoodBrother and sister go into the woods to collect firewood
Russian Paper SellersRussian newspaper sellers line up to collect their consignments
Collecting on Cradle DayA policeman puts some money in a charity box on Cradle Day in London. Nurses collect money for the babies and infants they care for
French DruidsIn a forest near Chartres, France, druids collect mistletoe for ritual purposes
Social / Romania ChildrenTwo young children collect flowers on the high slopes of a mountain in Romania
Tapping Rubber TreesA woman and young boy tap rubber trees in Malaya and collect the sap in buckets
Chaucer, the PardonerThe Pardoner was a medieval cleric licensed to preach, and collect money in exchange for letters of indulgence; such letters were denounced by Chaucer among others
Cloak Room 1913Gentlemen in evening dress queue to collect their overcoats from the cloakroom
Collecting DinnerChildren collect Sunday dinner from the baker
AIR MAILPostal services will be revolutionised - flying postmen will collect the mail even from country villages without even needing to make a landing !
BABY ABANDONED IN TOURThe " tour" in which parents could place infants they wished to abandon. When the bell was pulled the sisters would revolve the tour 180 degrees and collect the baby
C16 AlchemistsAn alchemist and his assistant heat the substances whose essence will collect in the flasks at the top of the apparatus, shedding impurities as they rise up the column