Collecting Collection (page 8)

19th Century Dive Bell
A diving bell in use, collecting materials from the sea-bed : note the lights, powered from the boat anchored overhead. Date: late 19th century

Looking at Pictures
A lady shows her pictures to a visitor and her daughter Date: 1880

Hay Harvest
Tying up bales of hay to be stacked. Date: 1880

Harvest - Gathering the Hay

Sketches in Africa - Burning Shells for Lime
Native farmers on the Mozambique coast, near the mouth of the Zambesi river pictured collecting and burning shells in order to make lime to fertilise the soil they are working

Little boy working on his stamp collection
A little boy working on his stamp collection at a table. He has various stamps laid out, and is sticking them carefully into an album

Summerleaze Sands, Bude. A workman collects sand in a small wagon on a rudimentary railway running across the beach, pulled by a horse

Postcard Collectors
A fabulous French postcard depicting two postcard collectors

Collector of Dung - Constantinople, Turkey with his pony bearing two wicker panniers to hold the gathered refuse and a spade to pick it up with!

A machine collects coloured yarn onto rolls
An employee checks a machine which is collecting different coloured wool yarns onto large rolls at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Collection of transport memorabilia
A display of memorabilia and artworks, including model aircraft, a Great Eastern Railway plaque, flying or driving goggles and leather hats, and books and prints

Serbian Woman collecting Water
A Serbian Woman collecting water at the Allied Troops Well during the First World War

Collecting horse chestnuts
A woman in a skirt, patterned v-neck jumper and beret sweeps up conkers from the ground and collects them in a basket. Date: c.1932

English postman
A postman collects the mail from a red letterbox on a snowy winter morning

Collecting water in Kashgar, western China
People collecting water in Kashgar, western China, and carrying it in buckets on poles across their shoulders. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

People collecting water, Kashgar, western China
People collecting water in Kashgar, western China, using buckets on poles. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Processing reeds and plants
Agricultural processes in a province in North-west India, now a part of modern-day Pakistan. The men are collecting reeds and drying plants on a long string from a rapidly-drying riverbed

Men and women collect and tie reed bundles
Collecting and tieing reed bundles by a stream in a province formerly part of India and now wiithin modern Pakistan. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Woman at a well, India
A woman collecting water from a well in an unidentified location in India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Hampstead Turnpike
The turnpike, collecting tolls in the Hampstead Road : on the right you see St James church

Andreas Reischek - Austrian
Andreas Reischek (1845 - 1903), an Austrian taxidermist, naturalist, ornithologist and collector notable for his extensive natural history collecting expeditions throughout New Zealand as well as

Tapping a rubber tree - Ceylon
A woman in Ceylon tapping a rubber tree with traditional techniques

Girl in yellow bonnet collecting flowers
Cartoon-style illustration by Malcolm Greensmith of a young girl in yellow spotted dress and bonnet, pausing for a rest on a tree stump on her way back from collecting flowers

Carrying water - Luxor, Egypt
Luxor, Egypt - Native girl carrying water on her head in a large amphora

Collecting the first pension cheque at the post office
Collecting the first weekly pension instalment at the post office. The Old Age Pension Act was introduced by David Lloyd George in 1908 with the first pensions available on the 1st of January 1909

Collecting and applying for pensions at the post office
The introduction of pensions for the elderly. Images of men and women filling out applications in post offices after old age pensions were introduced by David Lloyd George in 1908

British and American troops stacking dynamite on the Nijmege
Photograph showing British and American troops stacking dynamite charges against the railing of Nijmegen Bridge, September 1944

England vs. Scotland Football Match, 1926
Photograph showing Hill of England (left) and Gallacher of Scotland fighting for possession during the British International Championship of 1926

Acoustic Umbrellas
Umbrellas can be used as sound-collecting devices, enabling two people to conduct a whispered conversation without others overhearing

Rubber : Collecting
After preliminary processing, the rubber is taken to market or trading post

Rubber : in Africa
Collecting rubber in Africa

Collecting Winnings
Punters collect their winnings from a bookmaker at Dingle racecourse, County Kerry, Ireland

Botanists Botanising
Bontanists at work in the field, collecting specimens in a case after examining them with a magnifying glass

Scraps Thankfully
SCRAPS THANKFULLY RECEIVED This is probably intended as the front page of a scrap album

Lavoisier Botanising
ANTOINE-LAURENT LAVOISIER French scientist, depicted collecting botanical specimens in a wood

Collecting Firewood
Peasants collecting firewood

Collecting Rainwater
Many a siege has been won when the defenders run short of water : ths castle is taking every chance to gather rain water to augment its supply

Collecting Eggs 2 / 2
Collecting eggs from battery hens at Norwich School of Agriculture

Collecting Eggs
Collecting eggs from battery hens

Collecting Salt, France
Collecting salt on flats in France

Collecting on Cradle Day
A policeman puts some money in a charity box on Cradle Day in London. Nurses collect money for the babies and infants they care for

Musaeus Collecting
The German writer J K A Musaeus collects traditional stories from peasants, which he worked up as fairy-tales and published in 1782+

Jersey / Seaweed Harvest
Harvesting seaweed and loading it on to carts in Jersey

Little girl with coloured eggs in a poultry yard
A little girl collecting eggs in a poultry yard fills her basket with coloured eggs

Challenger / Specimens
Collecting specimens on board the research ship Challenger

Cheshire Oat Harvest
Collecting and carting oat stocks in the Wirral, Cheshire

Collecting Latex / Brazil
Collecting latex in Para, Brazil. The tree is tapped and the sap is collected

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