Collecting Collection

Collecting Turf from the Bog, Connemara, County Galway, Republic of Ireland

London Stock Exchange - The Stock Jobbers Pitches. Date: early 1960s

Horse-drawn harvester
Two shire horses pull a farmer sitting asride an basic harvesting machine. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Wartime pig food poster
We Want Your Kitchen Waste - poster encouraging the saving of food scraps for use as pig food, to be collected by the council. It also feeds poultry

A selection of common British Moths Date: circa 1920s

Bees in springtime
Bees enjoy collecting pollen from abundant catkins on pussy willow branches growing by a river

Collecting Scrap Metal. Conor, William 1881-1968

Little Lady Bountiful - a young girl in a white summer gown offers her less well-to- do friends (one of whom has been collecting reeds) a slice of cake

St. Georges Hospital, London
St. Georges Hospital, now the Lanesborough Hotel, London Date: circa 1903

Humboldt and his party collecting plant
Specimens at the foot of Mount Chimborazo. Detail from Plate 25 Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)

Charity Bootblacks
To raise money for hospitals, English girls offer their services as shoeblacks to passing gentlemen in the streets of London

High Street, Tonbridge, Kent, with Rathbone (watchmaker), Mayes (dyer and cleaner), and road sweepers collecting horse manure. Date: circa 1906

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

The Day before Christmas: Gathering the Holly by Millar Watt
From a painting in oils made for The Sphere Christmas number front cover by Millar Watt. Snowy scene showing a 1920s family gathering holly on Christmas Eve. Date: 25th November 1929

Christmas Presents
For many years it has been the custom of Mr. E. A. Anderson of Broadstairs to take out Christmas presents to the crew of the Goodwin lightship - collecting the presents. Date: 1930s

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

Cider Apple Picking
Cider making : collecting the grass-fruit

Londons new telephone-post kiosk
A new telephone kiosk in use in a London street, showing a caller inside, postage stamps being bought from the machine outside, and a postman collecting mail from the letterbox

Michelin Tyre Advert
A Michelin Tyre Advertisement, showing the Michelin Man aiding the local workers in rubber collection!

Burnham Beeches, Bucks
A woodland area near Slough, Berkshire, famed for its magnificent beech and other trees : a countrywoman and her dog are collecting firewood

The Gleaners, Blockley, Gloucestershire
A family group collecting left over corn at Blockley. The title might be a reflection of the painting by Jean-Francois Millet noted for depicting peasant workers in a sympathetic way Date: 1905

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

Specimens collected by Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle 18
A case displaying various beetle specimens collected by Charles Darwin during the Beagle voyage, as well as a map of the ships route

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

A woman of the Auvergne collecting walnuts
A woman of the Auvergne region of France loading a wickerwork pannier backpack with the walnuts she has been collecting in her straw basket Date: 1910

Dutch poster advertising a National Collection on behalf of the Fatherland (ie the German Reich), during the Second World War. May 1944

Farm Worker and Orange Tree, Southern California, 1888
Illustration showing a young black farm worker collecting oranges from a heavily laden tree, Southern California, 1888

French Philately Manual
Albert Laplanches popular guide to stamp collecting

Military Postman
A military postman for the British army collecting post from a mail box on an army camp site

Girl in Kitchen Garden
Girl working in a rural kitchen garden collecting cabbages

Ancient settlement of the Ice Age, Kazakhstan area
Ancient village settlement of the Ice Age or Stone Age, with a woman butchering a deer carcass, a man carving a stone, and people collecting firewood. 8700-2000 BCE

Duchess of York - National Playing Fields Association
Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later Elizabeth the Queen Mother 1900-2002) at a flag day in aid of the National Playing Fields Association - London, Spring 1934

Collecting gravel from West Bay, Bridport, early 1900s Date: early 1900s

Collecting gravel, Bridport Date: early 1900s

Boy collecting driftwood at seaside, 1930s

Boy collecting driftwood at seaside

Gathering seaweed, Mounts Bay, Cornwall, early 1900s

Mussel Gatherers Victorian period Date: 19th century

Collecting mussels Date: 19th century

Gathering shellfish, Whitby, Victorian period

Railway Mail Bag Collecting Device Victorian period

Canary Islands - Fountain in the Plaza de Santo Domingo, Las Palmas. Date: circa 1910s

Children Collecting Fir Cones Date: 1925

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

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)

Food donation for striking miners
A T.U.C. (Trades Union Congress)centre acts as a food donation collecting point during the miners strike of 1984-85. The long strike meant that miners families endured financial hardship

Bubonic plague in China
Bubonic plague outbreak in China: collecting and carrying the dead in Tientsin (now Tianjin). Date: 1911

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