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Family on holiday in their beach hutA family on holiday, sitting in their beach hut
Middle class woman in residential streetA middle class woman in smart clothes standing by a shiny car in a residential street
Costume design by Freddy Wittop for la Parrure de Paradis for show at the London Casino, London, 1930s Date: 1930s
Middle-aged woman with potted plantsA middle-aged woman, smartly dressed, sitting in front of a window surrounded by potted plants including an aspidistra. Date: C.1910
Advert for Bradleys quality mink 1934The exclusivenessof Bradley furs. 1934
Three new toque hats 1909The new lamp shade toque after the gigantic popular of the Merry Widow. 1909
Advert for Peter Robinsons tailor -mades 1913Early spring smart tailor suits. 1913
Advert Scott Adie womens tartan skirts 1916Advertisement for Scott Adie, a variety of tartan skirts made from the finest quality hand-woven Scotch yarn to select from. Date: 1916
Repeating Pattern - Hand with Quill Pen. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*
Lady Fortune out to capture one more heart... Date: circa 1910s
Raphael Kirchner - Portrait of a smart lady with high hatRaphael Kirchner - Portrait of a smart lady with hat festooned with ostrich feathers. Date: circa 1903
Japan - Silk Industry - Gathering silkworms from egg paperJapan - Silk Industry - Gathering the silkworms from the egg paper using a delicate feather brush. Date: circa 1909
Red Indian Chief - Circling Bear (1800-1854), sporting a fantastic feather headdress and long pipe. Chief Conquering Bear was a Brule Lakota leader who signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1851
Jamestown Exhibition, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. The card features an aerial view of the Exnibition site, a fine illustration of a Red Indian Brave and two inset illustrations
Ostrich Feather Seller at Aden, Yemen. Date: 1892
Pipe Player of the Solomon Islands, a collection of nearly one thousand islands in Oceania (that form a sovereign country) - performing music for a traditional dance. Date: circa 1930s
Miss Rose Cambry - Comedienne - and stage actress Date: circa 1910
Patriotic French postcard - WWI eraPatriotic French postcard, featuring a rather non-plussed model as French Heroic Archetype Marianne, sending glorious good wishes for swift military victory to French forces in the early years of
Jolly French beauty trying on her new hat. She seems to have forgotten to put her dress on first.... Date: circa 1890s
Athene blewitti, forest owletDonated to the Museum in 1954 by Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, it was discovered that he had in fact stolen the specimen from the Museum and changed its label
Oceanites maorianus, New Zealand strom petrelThis skin is one of only three in the world that can prove the New Zealand storm petrel is a living species
Fregilupus varius specimen collected in Reunion
Bird-of-paradisePlate 612 from Konrad Gesners Historia Animalium, Vol.3, (1555)
Phaethon rubricauda, red-tailed tropicbirdWatercolour 360 by the Port Jackson Painter from the Watling Collection titled Red-tailed Tropic-bird
Lophura ignita macartneyi, Tragopan melanocephalusPlate 70, lithograph by K.I. Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der V� -Gattungen, (1831-1833)
Phoenicurus phoenicurus, common redstart nest and eggsPlate 54 from James Boltons third edition of Harmonia Ruralis: or an essay towards a natural history of British Song Birds, Vol.2, (1845)
Red owl, warbling flycatcher, purple finch, brown larkPage 82 from A. Wilsons American Ornithology, (1835). Annotated Red owl, Warbling flycatcher, Purple finch, Brown lark
Polyplectron bicalcaratum, grey peacock-pheasant
Cacatua sulphurea, yellow-crested cockatooPlate from William Hayes Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds, With Their Descriptions, From the Menagery of Osterley Park, London, (1794)
Pegesimallus teratodes, robber flyA robber fly, a predatory fly from Tanzania. Only the males have the long scales on the hind-legs, their use is not known but could be used to attract females
Paradisaea rudolphi, blue bird-of-paradisePlate 29 from Richard Bowdler Sharpes Monograph of the Paradiseidae, Vol.1, (1893)
Natives of Aru shooting Paradisaea apoda, greater bird-of-paPlate opposite page 443 from Alfred Russel Wallaces The Malay Archipelago (1874)
Bubo bubo, Eurasian eagle-owlPlate 38 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Dryocopus martius, black woodpeckerPlate 25 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)
Lophura nycthemera, silver pheasantLarge Series plate 51, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Gallicolumba luzonica, Luzon bleeding-heart and another unidLarge Series plate 53, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Archaeopteryx [Berlin specimen]Cast of the Archaeopteryx fossil specimen held at the Berlin Natural History Museum. It shows clearly the spread-out wings and long clased fingers
Lymnocryptes minimus, jack snipePlate 80 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 4 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph
Dipus annulatus, gerbilPlate 10 from Recherches pour servir a l histoire naturelle des Mammifcres, Vols. 1-4, 1868-74, by Dr. Henri Milne-Edwards (1800-1885) & Dr. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900)
Gallus gallus, red junglefowlLarge Series plate 39, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Bubo bubo bengalensis, Eurasian eagle-owlLarge Series plate 9, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Urocissa erythrorhyncha, red-billed blue magpieLarge Series plate 8, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Falco subbuteo, hobby, Terpsiphone sp. Paradise-flycatcherLarge Series plate 3, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Paradisaea minor, lesser bird-of-paradisePlate 11, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Chrysolophus pictus, golden pheasantLarge Series plate 47, a watercolour from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China
Diphyllodes magnificus x Cicinnurus regius, magnificent x kiPlate 32 from Richard Bowdler Sharpes A Monograph of the Paradiseid, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorynchid, or Bower Birds, (1891-98)
Dendrocopos leucotos, white-backed woodpecker
