Drawer Collection (page 2)

Hotel Foyer Fashions
Well-heeled people in evening dress mingle in an hotel foyer. Some sit at tables possibly waiting for drinks ordered from the cocktail waiter at the hotel bar. Date: 1930s

Entomological Specimens from the Wallace Collection
Display showing differences in colouring between male and female butterflies of the same species. Wallace believed that males fight to compete for females but that female choice was not a factor

White bulldog puppy looking for chocolates
A white bulldog puppy looking for chocolates in an actresss dressing room, but only finding theatrical makeup. Date: 1905

Ink-stand with inkwell - Badge of the Royal Engineers
A commercially made ink-stand with inkwell and nib drawer by RB Limited. The lid to the inkwell shows the badge of the Royal Engineers. Trench Art

Young woman washing, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Business card design, woman with clothes
Business card design, depicting a young woman in a yellow underslip, wondering where to put all her clothes. Date: 20th century

Cukoo and host eggs
From the collection of ornithologist Edgar Percival Chance (1881 - 1955)

Drawer from Insect Collection of Sir Joseph Banks (1743 - 18
A collection of more than 4, 000 insects, including butterflies, flies, bugs and moths

Mineralogy corridor
The mineralogy department within the Natural History Museum

Drawer of botanical specimens from the Sir Hans Sloane collection. Held in the botany department at the Natural History Museum, London

Theatre des Merveilles de la Nature
Plate VII from Theatre des Merveilles de la Nature, by Levinus Vincent, 1719

Various beetles and arachnids
Drawer of a selection of various entomological specimens from the Sloane Collection at the Natural History Museum, London

Entomology Department
Entomology department at the Natural History Museum, London. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Cerambycinae specimen drawer
A specimen drawer from the Natural History Museums Entomology Department in London containing beetles from the family Cerambycinae and from the Genus Trachyderes

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Shells from Sir Joseph Banks collection
Some of these shells featured in this museum drawer were collected during the first of Captain Cooks voyages 1768-1771

Mollusc specimen drawer
The shells in this specimen drawer were collected by Charles Darwin from various localities during the voyage of the HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836

Weevil specimens
Specimen drawer of weevils held at the Natural History Museum, London. Weevil beetles are characterised by their long snouts or rostrums

Butterflies on display
Detail of drawer R19/251 containing George Forrests specimens of Lepidoptera in the M. J. Mansfield collection drawers

Botanical specimens stored in the herbarium at the Natural History Museum, London

Library
The library at the Natural History Museum, London

Pharmacopoea drawer
A pharmacopea drawer dating back to before 1753 from the Sir Hans Sloane collection. A drawer containing the different ingredients for the preparation or mixing of medicines

Preserving Apples
Apples keep better of they are wrapped in paper and placed in a cool dark drawer. Date: 1930s

Craftsman at a cabinet makers, Shoreditch, London
An old craftsman finishes off a drawer with a plane, at a Shoreditch cabinet makers. 1940s

Japnese Lady Washing
A Japanese lady at her toilet is washed by one servant while another holds a drawer of combs ready to do her hair

Box of Old Letters
a drawer-full of old letters

Racial / Japan / Lady 19C
A Japanese lady at her toilet is washed by one servant while another holds a drawer of combs ready to do her hair

Three Kittens in Drawers
A kitten in each drawer. These three kittens appear to be having fun in this small chest of drawers

Polishing Furniture
She polishes a chest of drawers Date: 1923

She Takes Gloves
She takes her gloves from their drawer. Frenchwomen are said to put on their gloves before leaving the house unlike Englishwomen who wait till they are in the street

Flemish tooth-drawer with patient and audience
A Flemish tooth-drawer has an audience gathered round him while he operates on a patient

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