Elephant Collection (#14)

Elephant Statue Chedi, Wat Chiang Man temple, Chiang Mai
The Chedi decorated with elephants in Wat Chiang Man, the oldest temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand Date: December 2012

Chedi, Wat Chiang Man temple, Chiang Mai
The Chedi decorated with elephants in Wat Chiang Man, the oldest temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand Date: December 2012

Elephant, Wat Chedi Luang temple, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Elephant statue on the Stupa at the Wat Chedi Luang temple, Chiang Mai, Thailand Date: December 2012

Little child with white elephant toy by Muriel Dawson
A little child with a white elephant toy, by Muriel Dawson. Date: circa 1920s

Good-Night! by Muriel Dawson. Two little girls and their toys go off to bed. Date: 1929

Europeans on elephants, India. Date: circa 1890s

Ganesha Statue, Wat Prathat Doi Suthep temple, Chiang Mai
Gold statue of the Thai god Phra Phikanet (Ganesh or Ganesha) at Wat Prathat Doi Suthep temple, Chiang Mai, Thailand Date: December 2012

Bernheimer Japanese Garden, Santa Monica, USA
Group of elephants at the Bernheimer Japanese Garden, Santa Monica, USA. Date: 20th century

The Queen at Indias Republic Day
The Queen visits the Republic Day Parade in New Delhi, during her 6 week tour of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Iran. Date: 1961

The Queens royal visit to India
Queen Elizabeth II riding on an elephant in Jaipur during her royal visit to India. Date: 1961

Bongeunsa Buddhist Temple in Seoul, South Korea
Elephant statue in Bongeunsa Buddhist Temple in Seoul, South Korea Date: 2012

Londons Victorian palaces put to patriotic use, WW1
Londons Victorian palaces put to patriotic use during the early stages of the First World War. Above, the Alexandra Palace in north London is used to house homeless allies

Liberty toys, including a range of stuffed animals such as a llama, a raccoon, a horse, a cow, a hippo, an owl, an elephant and a sheep

British troops with elephants, India
British troops travelling with elephants in India. Date: 1918

Men and elephants on the Kandy road, Sri Lanka. Date: 1920

Men with baby elephant, Sri Lanka
Men with a baby elephant in Sri Lanka. Date: 1921

Birthday card, two today, depicting a monkey riding on an elephant. Date: 20th century

An archaeologist sits next to the unearthed remains of a st
This is the first discovery of a pre-historic straight tusked elephant, which is larger than a mammoth. The discovery was made at Upnor, near Chatham in Kent. Date: 1916

The General Strike - Sphere emergency number
Front cover of The Sphere emergency number issued during the General Strike. Photograph shows mounted police controlling crowds at Elephant and Castle in South London

Trade catalogue for hunting trophies 1937
Trade catalogue for Army and Navy Stores, showing a selection of hunting trophies including rhinoceros as a tobacco jar, elephants foot as a liqueur stand, deer slot mounted as a flower vase

Eugenio Prince Ruspoli
EUGENIO prince RUSPOLI Italian traveler and naturalist in Africa, has an exotic bird named after him but died in a one-sided encounter with an elephant. Date: 1866 - 1893

Boring Ivory Tusks
" From jungle to dressing table." Boring ivory elephant tusks, for making into brush handles, billiard balls and other beautiful objects for ladies dressing tables. Date: February 1933

Baby Elephant & Keeper
A baby elephant with its keeper, Muncich zoo, Germany. Date: early 1930s

Toy Elephant
A toy elephant mascot, made from wire and wool. Date: early 1930s

Toy Lion & Elephant
A toy elephant and lion, mascots, made from wire and wool, confronting one another. Date: early 1930s

Embossed greetings card, featuring a white elephant
Embossed French greetings card, featuring a white elephant on a red background. Date: circa 1910s

Namibia - Rock Painting by San Bushmen of an Elephant
Philipps Cave, Ameib, Namibia, West Africa - Ancient prehistoric Rock Painting by San Bushmen of an Elephant Date: circa 1910s

A Gentleman of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Date: 1892

The Great Headless Radical Party Elephant
The Great Headless Radical Party - The sort of thing no fellow can understand!. Joseph Chamberlain mocking the ruling government, labelled the Radical Party )

Indian Elephant taking Doctor Serravallo for a ride
Indian Elephant taking Doctor J Serravallo (the Italian inventor/creator of Serravallo Tonic Wine) for a ride. Date: circa 1910s

Cambodia - Water Buffalo and hanging elephants feet
Cambodia - A small settlement with Water Buffalo and a rack of hanging elephants feet - destined to become fashionable western furniture items - (see picture 10528268). Date: circa 1910s

Stranded Sea Elephant - Falkland Islands
Stranded Sea Elephant (Southern Elephant Seal) - Falkland Islands Date: circa 1920s

The State Elephant of H H Gaekwar of Baroda, India
The State Elephant of the H H Gaekwar of Baroda, India - Sayajirao Gaekwad III (born Shrimant Gopalrao Gaekwad, 18631939) - pictured here seated at the rear of the howdah. Date: circa 1910s

Carved Ivory Figure - Travancore State Court - British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, London, 1924. Date: 1924

Auguste, the First Elephant ever born in France
First Elephant ever born in France - named Auguste - on 5th August 1936 at Douai. Baptised with Champagne by the unlikely combination of pachyderm Admirers, Maurice Chevalier and Josephine Baker!!

Processional Way - Ming Tombs, Beijing
Processional Way with Animal Statues - Ming Tombs, Beijing. Photograph prior to complete French restoration of the site in the late 1920s. Date: circa 1920s

Stone Elephant, Ming Tombs, Beijing
Kneeling Stone Elephant, Sacred Way, The Ming Dynasty Tombs - located some 42 kilometers north-northwest of central Beijing, within the suburban Changping District of Beijing municipality

Kneeling Stone Elephant, Ming Tombs, Beijing
Kneeling Stone Elephant, Sacred Way, The Ming Dynasty Tombs - located some 42 kilometers north-northwest of central Beijing, within the suburban Changping District of Beijing municipality

de Havilland Vampire F2 TG276
de Havilland Vampire F2, TG276, experimentally fitted with a Rolls-Royce Nene I turbojet and elephant ear intakes

Sydney Camm with a Martinsyde Elephant in c 1916
Sydney Camm with a Martinsyde Elephant in circa 1916. Date: 1916

Design with wild animals. Watercolour on detail paper. Silver Studio. 1950

Pygmy elephant tooth shown here next to one of normal size. Discovered around 1901 by Dorothea Bate (1878 - 1951)

Missourium theristrocaulodon, jaw bone
Unearthed in 1840 on the shore of the Pomme de Terre River in Missouri by Albert Koch. The enormous skulls, jaws and bones all belonged to an extinct relative of the elephant

Elephant; Walk Quietly
A Natural History Museum poster with an elephant design asking visitors to walk quietly. 1968

Hoxnian anters, bones & hand axe from Swanscombe
Part of a deer antler, fragment of elephant bone and flint hand axe all discovered at Swanscombe, Kent, south of the River Thames

Elephas maximus, Asian elephant & rhinoceros
Plate 221 from Capter 11 of Gleanings of Natural History by George Edwards (1694-1773), published 1758-1764

Missouri Leviathan
Kochs Missourium. The reliquia of animal indigenous to North America exhibited in 1842 at the Egyptian Hall, London

Elephas maximus, Asiatic elephant
An Asiatic elephant, on display in the Mammal and Whale Gallery (number 24), at the Natural History Museum, London

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