Donation Collection

WW2 poster, Merchant Navy Comforts Service
WW2 poster advertising the Merchant Navy Comforts Service, which organised parcels of food, drink, clothing and other comforts during the war. Date: 1940s

Sir Richard Aclands Gift to the Nation Starts a Controversy
The MP Sir Richard Acland handed over to the National Trust the 16, 000 acres of beautiful West Country property which comprise his Killerton Estate and his Holnicote Estate

Cartoon, The Macmillion (Andrew Carnegie)
Cartoon, The Macmillion -- Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919), Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist

The Princess Mary Caravan. The Girls Friendly Society supported young women by help in finding work, providing hostels etc

Buy War Bonds and Stamps, WW2 envelope
Buy War Bonds and Stamps - WW2 American postal cover envelope Date: 1945

Receipt, Ragged School Union, London
Receipt for donation to the Ragged School Union, London, 22 May 1894 Date: 1894

National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London, invitation for donations. Date: 1907

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

Homeless man asks for donation from PDSA collector
A homeless man asks PDSA collector for donation, Central London. Date: circa 1950s

Buskers on a street in North London
On a street in North London, one man plays the clarinet whilst his disabled partner waits to approach a passer-by for a donation. Date: circa 1940s

Cartoon, Victimised Citizen - Here comes that cadger, Old Father Christmas, again! John Bull digs in his pocket for some change. 1884

A gift to Exeter Cathedral - statues being hoisted into plac
Statues of patron saints, donated anonymously in thanksgiving for the end of the Great War, are hoisted into position in the empty niches round and above the north porch of Exeter Cathedral

Nieces of Duchess of York selling RNLI flags
Jean and Elizabeth Elphinstone, nieces of the Duchess of York, selling Royal National Lifeboat Institute flags. 1935

Lockheed SP-2H Neptune 204
Koninklijke Marineluchtvaartdienst - Lockheed SP-2H Neptune 204, (base code V) of 320Squadron, based at Valkenburg Air Base, visiting RAF St.Mawgan in Cornwall

The Princess Mary Caravan - The Caravaners at work. The Girls Friendly Society supported young women by help in finding work, providing hostels etc

Kudurru (stele) of King Marduk-zakir-shumi (852-828 BC). An act of donation to a priest of the temple of Eana of Uruk. Mesopotamia. Limestone. Cuneiforme. Babylon exposore. Louvre. Paris

Guys Hospital - Henriette Raphael Nurses Home. Henriette Raphael gave her name to the first purpose-built nurses home at Guys Hospital which opened in 1902 & was funded by donations from her husband

Cylindrical Torah scroll case. Tripoli, Libya, 1935. Silversmi
Cylindrical Torah scroll case.Tripoli, Libya, 1935. Silversmith: Raphael Aton. Wood overlaid with silver sheet, repousse?

Mesopotamia. Limestone statue of a woman. Kingdom of Lagash. 2500BC. From Tello (ancient Girsu). Iraq. Probably a votive donation in a temple. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Constantine I the Great (285-337). Roman Emperor. The Donation of Constantine. The emperor makes donation from the city of Rome to Pope Sylvester I. Fresco. 13th century. Chapel of St

German fundraising poster, WW1
German poster encouraging people in Frankfurt to make financial donations to support the Army and Navy during the First World War. Showing three German soldiers in a trench in snowy weather

Womens Voluntary Service (WVS) canteen van, WW2
Women from the WVS providing refreshments to National Fire Service London firefighters. The canteen van was presented to the London Region by the township of Inchfawn Bar Harbour, USA

NFS mobile kitchen / canteen unit, WW2
A mobile kitchen used by the National Fire Service (NFS), donated to the British home front war effort by the Canadian Red Cross, seen here on display at Regional (London) headquarters, Lambeth. SE1

Emptying the Missionary Box -- a smartly-dressed woman empties coins onto a plate. 1894

Girl puts a penny in the cap of a Pavement Artist, London
A little girl puts a penny in the cap of a Pavement Artist, displaying his works - London. Date: circa 1910s

Donation Ali Vali, Duke of Denia and the Balearic Islands to Bishop Guislabert of Barcelona. 1057. Parchment

Parchment. 11th century. Land donation for Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll. Document signed by the Abbot Oliva (972-1046). Episcopal Museum of Vic. Catalonia. Spain

Portrait of a Donor in Scarlet and St. Anthony, c. 1450, by P
Petrus Christus (1425-1476). Dutch painter. Portrait of a Donor in Scarlet and St. Anthony, c.1450. Altar panel. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Donation boxes. Jewish Museum Berlin. Germany
Donation boxes. Jerusalem, about 1940-1941, sheet metal. It shows a pictures of the grave of Rabbi Meir Baal Hanes near Tiberias

Empress Irene. Mosaic. Turkey
Empress Irene (1088-1134). Byzantine empress. Mosaic of the South Gallery. Hagia Sophia. Istanbul. Turkey

Spousal donation of Ramon Berenguer I the Old to Almodis de la Marche. 11th century. Parchment. Archive of the Crown of Aragon. Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain

Dotalia Ecclesiae Dertosensis. Consecration and donations to a Cathedral (1148). Original parchment. Tortosa, 1178. Chapter Archive. Tortosa. Catalonia. Spain

Odo of France (860-898A?a?A?a?). King of Western France. Odons donation to the Vics Cathedral for his consecration on 890. Copy of 1202. Archives of the Cathedral of Vic. Catalonia. Spain

Ramon Berenguer I the Old (1023-1076). Count of Barcelona. Document with the donation of the Counts of Barcelona to the cathedral chapter. Original parchment of 1055

Abbot Oliba manuscript
The Abbot Oliba donated to Bernat Seniofre the allods of Suria and Heures in benefit of the canonical of St. Peter. 11th century manuscript. Vic Cathedral Archive. Catalonia. Spain

John II Comnenos and Empress Irene. Mosaic
John II Comnenos (1087-1143) and Empress Irene (1088-1134). Byzantine emperors. In the centre, the Virgin Mary and Infant Jesus. Mosaic of the South Gallery. Hagia Sophia. Istanbul. Turkey

Constantine IX Monomachos (1000-1055). Byzantine emperor. Mosaic of the South Gallery. Hagia Sophia. Istanbul. Turkey

On a Bed of Nails
A passer-by gives a donation to a fakir who lies on a bed of nails Date: 19th century ?

Receipt, Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey
Receipt from the Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey, dated 6 June 1889, confirming one years subscription of one guinea from Mrs R Blake Byass, signed by James Downing, Secretary

WW2 poster, King Georges Fund for Sailors
WW2 poster, Help all who go down to the sea in ships, their families and their dependants by sending a donation to King Georges Fund for Sailors, Trinity House, London EC3. Date: 1944

WW2 poster, Books are needed now
WW2 poster, An appeal from the Prime Minister, books and magazines for the Forces are needed now. Date: 1944

Elevation of the Sacred Host. Illustration on Gospels of Paris to use of Charles, Duke of Angouleme. Early 16th century. French School

Book of Hours. 15th c. Fol. 152v. Mass of St Gregory. Work known as Hours of the Queen of Sweden. Illuminations of the school of Bruges

Elevation of the Sacred Host. Page on Gospels of Paris to use of Charles, Duke of Angouleme. Early 16th century. French School

Book of Hours. 15th c. Epiphany scene. Work known as Hours of the Queen of Sweden. Illuminations of the school of Bruges. Donation by Cardinal Francisco Javier de Zelada in 1798 to the Cathedral of

Interior of log cabin, Palmer Park, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Interior of a traditional log cabin, Palmer Park, Detroit, Michigan, USA. The land for the park was donated to the city by ex-Senator Thomas W Palmer in 1893

Fire station staff in meal break, London, WW2
Fire station staff having a meal supplied from a mobile canteen van in a school playground in London during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

First mobile kitchen donation, WW2
The Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison, receiving the keys to the first mobile kitchen from Lord Bennett (Richard Bedford Bennett)

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