Collecting Collection (page 5)

WW1 knitting, woollen belts - gift to the troops from Queen
Gift to the Troops at the Front from the Queen and the Women of the Empire. Leaflet giving instructions on how to knit woollen belts for troops during the First World War

Dutch cub scouts collecting items, Holland
Dutch cub scouts collecting items on a cart, perhaps for a fundraising sale, Holland

Greek sea scouts on the seashore, apparently collecting seaweed

Collecting holly for Christmas Decorations
A family driving out in the snow to gather holly for their Christmas decorations. Date: 1931

Woman railway officials on the Underground, WW1
Two women in uniform working on the London Underground during the First World War in jobs which were previously carried out by men. Date: 1914-1918

Bystander- Military officer collecting images of Gaby Deslys
A 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

Alexandra Day Collecting Box with photo of the Queen, and the tin still has its original cloth handle. This item includes a postcard dated 1917 showing flag day collectors accompanied by a couple of

Boy Scout on Ascension Island, South Atlantic
A Boy Scout on Ascension Island, South Atlantic, collecting scrub wood for the fire on the lava flows. Date: 1981

Six-sided offertory or collecting box, WW1
Six-sided offertory or collecting box belonging to West Kent Regiment - stamped Arras 1917, No. 140535. Trench Art

Scout selling Coronation programmes
Boy scout (left) selling Coronation programmes to people lining the route in a London street for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953

Scouts with Coronation programmes
Two Scouts with supplies of Coronation programmes and collection tins at the time of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953

Lady Kindersley as a waste paper merchant, WW1
Lady Kindersley, formerly Miss Gladys Beadle, pictured near her home in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, collecting waste paper with the aid of her children and two donkey carts

Lady with Red Cross fundraising dog, WW1
A fashionable lady holds her pet dog on a lead, who is wearing a collection box on his back, marked, for wounded soldiers. Date: 1915

Lloyd George & daughter on French Flag Day, WW1
David Lloyd George, Minister for Munitions and future Prime Minister, pictured on the front cover of The Sketch magazine being waylaid by his daughter

Collecting for the Princes Fund, WW1
A small little girl collects money for the Prince of Wales fund during the First World War. Date: 1914

Officer at the front, obtaining German pointed helmets 1915
British officer dodging bullets from every direction, while picking German pointed helmets from a near by enemies trench, using a couple of bayonets, some string and a bar of soap

German prisoners captured in WWI, 1918
Some of the German prisoners of war captured by the Canadian forces in August 1918: a typical scene in the preliminary collecting cages

Sketches in Ostend, Belgium, after WW1 bombing
Sketches in Ostend, Belgium, after bombing during a Zeppelin raid in the early stages of the First World War. Showing scenes at the railway station, in the fish market

Collection of TV Rental
Collection of TV rental from two housewives Date: 1930s

Two boys with pony on country lane, Scotland
Two boys with a pony on a country lane in Scotland. The wickerwork basket contains peat (cut turf)

People collecting for War Savings
People on a street, encouraging War Savings to help the war effort. Date: 1939-1945

Collecting maple tree sap
A man collecting sap from maple trees in a Canadian forest; the sap is turned to sugar in the traditional way by heating it in a large metal bath over a wood fire. Date: 1934

Collecting Turpentine
A native of Dixieland at work on a turpentine plantation - in the southern states of the USA. Date: circa 1930

Ida Pfeiffer - 2
IDA PFEIFFER (nee Reyer) Austrian traveller who made two round-the-world journeys, collecting plants and minerals for the British Museum. Her last trip was to Madagascar. Date: 1797 - 1858

Gathering Hay 1930S
Collecting hay with horses 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 Breakfasts
18, 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

Bailiff very well treated
Bailiff (who has been very well treated and settled with) - " Well good-bye, Sir. See you again soon, Sir, I ope!" Date: 1902

A Buryat (or Buriyad) man - Siberia, Russia
A Buryat (or Buriyad) man - the largest indigenous group in Siberia, mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryat Republic, a federal subject of Russia

Women in fancy dress collecting for charity
Three women in fancy dress collecting for The Romford Cottage Hospital, Essex. Date: circa 1933

Strawberry Farm - British Columbia - Canada Date: circa 1910s

Collecting Sea Urchins - Barbados
A young boy collecting Sea Urchins - Barbados Date: circa 1910s

Singapore - Tapping a rubber tree. Date: circa 1930

Russian village girls - all wearing white headscarves. They may be out picking soft fruits, judging by the woven reed basket held by the central figure.. Date: 1904

Diving boys at Nassau, Bahamas. Diners taking luncheon of the terrace at the Prince George Hotel are treated to the aquatic antics of the islands diving boys who retrieve coins tossed into

Mussel Collectors by Karl Daubigny (1846-1886). Date: 1867

A Hayu or Vayu of Nepal, age 60, c. 1840
Photograph, plate 33, from the collection made by Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894), an employee of the Indian Civil Service from 1818-1843

Scientists in Sri Lanka
Scientist searching for apple snails in a drain at Kabugannawa, Sri Lanka. Scientists on a trip that was part of a programme funded by the Darwin Initiative

Collecting insects
A trap of funnels set out in the forest to collect insects as they fall from the trees after fogging

Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus: Head only
From the Lower Jurassic, Lyme Regis, Dorset. This specimen is the first articulated plesiosaur ever found and one of Mary Annings greatest discoveries

Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus: Head and neck
From the Lower Jurassic, Lyme Regis, Dorset. This specimen is the first articulated plesiosaur ever found and one of Mary Annings greatest discoveries

Fossil collecting equipment
Including: tools for developing, brushes for cleaning, sieve for extracting fossils from clay, hand-lens, tools for extracting, and helmet and goggles for protection

Boxes for conveying plants by sea
Illustration showing boxes used for plant collection and transportation. From The Naturalist & Travellers Companion, by John Coakley

Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus skeleton
From the Lower Jurassic, Lyme Regis, Dorset. This is the first articulated plesiosaur ever found and one of Mary Annings greatest discoveries. Length 2.9 meters

Darwins beetles
Display box of beetles collected by Charles Darwin with a map of the voyage of his ship, The Beagle

Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894)
Portrait of Brian Houghton Hodgson, taken in 1860, aged 60. Plate 1 from the collection made by Brian Houghton Hodgson, a ethnologist

Drawing of the British Embassy, Kathmandu, Nepal. Signed by

Prionotus miles, Galapagos gurnard
Fish collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

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