Ear Collection (page 7)

Primula Auricula (Bears Ear Primrose) Celtic King
Primula Auricula (Bears Ear Primrose), Celtic King variety, a flowering plant of the Primulaceae family. The Latin name primula refers to flowers that are among the first to open in spring

Primula Auricula (Bears Ear Primrose) with bee guard
Primula Auricula (Bears Ear Primrose), Alexandra variety, a flowering plant of the Primulaceae family with yellow flowers. It grows on rocks in mountain ranges of Central Europe

Primula Auricula (Bears Ear Primrose), a flowering plant of the Primulaceae family with yellow flowers. It grows on rocks in mountain ranges of Central Europe

A pair of long-eared owls, one large, one small, inside a shallow alcove in Paradise Park, a wildlife sanctuary in Hayle, Cornwall. The long-eared owl is medium-sized

Ear Picker - India
A wonderful postcard depicting an Indian ear picker and client in Bombay (Mumbai)

Distributor of free water - Constantinople
A distributor of free water - Constantinople, Turkey - he is listening out for the call of the thirsty man

Factory control board
Technicians, wearing ear pieces, keep close watch on a factory control board, ensuring systems run correctly, power supply levels remain constant and automated processes operate correctly

A technician adjusts delicate pipework
A technician, wearing a white laboratory coat and acoustic earmuffs, adjusts a section of thin copper pipework. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

What to Wear for Winter Sports
An ideal outfit for skiing in 1935 from Army and Navy Stores consisting of black and white check plus fours in proofed serge

A secret is shared
A woman whispers something into the ear of a humbly dressed servant who carries a bible. The painting is entitled Peine Perdue, meaning a waste of time

Universal Exhibition, Paris
Members of the public testing out telephones and phonographs at the L Exposition Universelle in Paris

Old Salt shows a young lad his telescope
An elderly sailor seated on the end of a weathered groyne lets an inquisitive young lad peer through his telescope, as the terns swoop overhead

Locating sappers by ear
Illustration showing British soldiers crawling close to the ground at night in No-Mans Land, in a bid to locate enemy sappers by ear

Queen Victoria Investing Disraeli with the Order of the Gart
Engraving showing Queen Victoria investing Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Ear of Beaconsfield with the Order of the Garter at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, 1878

Switchboard operators wearing gas-masks
Photograph showing switchboard operators in Faraday Building, City, London, wearing special gas-masks with ear-phones and mouthpieces; a precautionary

1940S LADY
A head and shoulders portrait of an attractive young women

Sailor Girl and Apple
A head and shoulders portrait of a young woman wearing a sailors hat, nautical striped T-shirt, lipstick and ear rings while eating a crunchy apple

Examining the Ear
Examining the ear

Raising Hand to Child
A mother raises a hand to her child in anger

Chester Conklin / Flashes
CHESTER CONKLIN American silent film actor who appeared in Keystone and Sennett comedies

Young Girl on the Line
A young girl on the line holding the ear-phones to the side of her head

Underground Ticketoffice
A railway clerk, with a pencil tucked behind his ear, serves a customer in the ticket office of an unknown London underground station

Mickey Rooney
MICKEY ROONEY American actor of stage, screen and TV. His ear is not a deformity, but part of his make-up for A midsummer nights dream

Maori Girl (Hardy)
Maori girl with tattooed chin, hair ornaments and ear-rings

The Sound of the Sea
A little girl holds a sea- shell up to her brothers ear so that he, too, may hear the sound of the sea

Girl Pulls Puppys Ear
A little girl pulls her puppys ear, and has spilt some black polish on the carpet - what kind of person will she be when she grows up?

Green Hat with Bow 1930
Emerald green hat by Rose Valois with an irregular brim and bow trim over one ear

Continental Motor Coat
An American motor coat - the Continental" : full-length, double-breasted with stand- fall collar & adjustable straps at the cuffs. N.B peaked cap with ear-flaps

Office Dispute
Trouble at the office? Is the Manager (in the checked jacket and pencil behind the ear) patronising a male colleague and invading his personal space by touching his shoulder?

Boy Tickles Sleepy Girl
A naughty little boy mischievously tickles the ear of a sleeping girl with a long straw. A naughty kitten mirrors his behaviour as it torments a bird in a cage

Alice: humpty & Messenger
Humpty-Dumpty screams into the ear of the messenger

N Holds Soldiers Ear
During the Italian campaign he congratulates the heroic soldier Coignet, holding him by the ear : by such means winning the adoration of his men

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