Collecting Collection (page 3)

FLORIDA GOLD, C16
Indigenous natives of Florida collecting gold from river mud Date: 16th century

LAVOISIER BOTANISING
ANTOINE-LAURENT LAVOISIER French scientist, depicted collecting botanical specimens in a wood Date: 1743 - 1794

ART / COLLECTING / LADY 1901
A young woman browses through her collection of engravings A Good Impression Date: 1901

Dustman collecting refuse
Bring out your dust, the dustman cries, whilst ringing of his bell: If the wind blows, pray guard your eyes, to keep them clear and well. Date: 19th Century

Admiring a print Date: 18th century

WW2 - Home Front - Schoolchildren in Chelsea, London take part in a paper-salvage campaign, carrying a total of two tonnes of paper from their school in Glebe Place to the Kings Road

Throwing peat into trailer during peat cutting, County Clare
Throwing peat into a trailer during peat cutting, County Clare, Ireland Date: 1992

Salvation Army War Cry seller
A Salvation Army man stands in his bicycle clips while selling War Cries outside a corset shop. His bike leans against the wall. Stafford, England Date: 1986

Beirut, Lebanon - Metwalli women at the Fountain
Beirut, Lebanon - Metwalli (a derogatory term for Shi as / Shi ites) Women at the Fountain. Date: circa 1910s

Attleboro Massacussetts - WW1 War Chest. Community Chests grew in popularity in the United States and Canada during World War I

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

Pre-Columbian Art. Aztec period. Mexico. Collecting taxes. Codex. National Museum of Anthropology. Mexico City

Toll House Inn Restaurant, Whitman, Massachusetts, USA. The Toll House was built in 1709, and used for collecting tolls during the days when the whaling industry was at its height. Date: 1934

People at the well, Cana, Galilee, Northern Israel
People collecting water at the well in Cana, Galilee, Northern Israel. According to biblical legend, it was in Cana that Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding feast -- his first miracle

East Africa - Eritrea - Massawa - Salt Flats at Gherar Date: circa 1910s

Stamp Collecting 1960S
A boy stamp collector, sticking stamps into his stamp book

Cartoon, French boys gathering coal, WW1
Cartoon, French boys gathering stray pieces of coal during a supply crisis. One of them says he will sell a bag to an old gentleman he knows. Date: 1917

Remember the poor : a Salvation Army Christmas box. Collecting money for charity in New York, USA. Date: 1906

Walter Rothschild & collecting party, Algeria
Rothschild (second from right) undertook three separate ornithological collecting expeditions to Algeria in 1908, 1909 and 1911, along with Ernst Hartert

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

A selection of British Shells Date: circa 1920s

Collecting sphagnum moss for dressings, Dartmoor, WW1
Picking up sphagnum moss on the moors on the Royal Duchy of Cornwall estate near Princetown for use in surgical dressings during the First World War

Boy scouts on bicycles, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), WW2
Boy scouts on bicycles, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). They are collecting waste paper and old tins to help raise money for the War Fund, probably during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

Tobacco Plantation
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, Tobacco Plantation In Rhodesia Date: 1927-1933

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

Frontispiece from The Aurelian, by Moses Harris, 1766
Two men with butterfly nets

Lagenorhynchus obscurus, dusky dolphin
Delphinus fitzRoyi. Plate from The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Vol. 1 Part 2 Mammalia, 1838-1839, by Charles Darwin

Penny for the Guy
People You See. Penny for the Guy. From Teddy Bear (6 November 1965)

Tapping a rubber tree in Sri Lanka Date: circa 1910s

Fairy collects berries in the evening light
A fairy clad in greens, collects dark berries in a sack. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Maid collecting water. 1890

British troops collecting air-dropped supplies into the Admi
Photograph of British troops collecting air-dropped supplies into the Admin Box in Feb 1944; from collection covering Middle and Far East, World War Two. Date: 1944

Cartoon, Sir Michael Costa and Sir Julius Benedict
Cartoon -- Benefit Knights. They are (left) Sir Michael Andrew Angus Costa (1808-1884), an Italian-born conductor and composer, and (right) Sir Julius Benedict (1804-1885)

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

First and last postbox, Lands End, Cornwall, with Longships Lighthouse in the distance. Date: 1940s

Occupations 1882 - The Old Clothes Man. 1882

Mowing Corn With Scythes, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view in a field of men scything and ladies collecting the corn. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge). Date: circa early 1900s

Reaping the Corn, Toome, Co. Antrim - a view in a field of a horse drawn reaper, reaping the corn with people collecting the cut corn. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Londonderry: Toomebridge)

Susi - Penny for the Guy -- getting ready for Bonfire Night. 1950s

Hungary - Maboe XVII - Stamp Day (Philatelia Day). Date: 1940

WW2 - Home Front - Agricultural workers - Harvesting crops
WW2 - Home Front - Agricultural workers (including a group of land girls on left) - Harvesting crops Date: circa 1942

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

Chinese country boy with rake and laden backpack. Date: circa 1910s

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

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

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

Collecting eggs from a cliff-face
A group of people collecting eggs from a cliff-face. A man is lowered on a rope to steal the sea-birds eggs. Date: C.1860

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