Finding Collection

Mycenae - the Lion Gate
The Lion Gate at Mycenae. This early citadel was extensively excavated in the mid 19th century by Schliemann, who dug the Royal shaft graves, finding many treasures

The Good Shepherd
The parable of THE GOOD SHEPHERD finding the lost sheep

Fox-Hunting, the Find. Date: ca. 1865

Fossil trees in coal mine
Fossilised trees and plants found in a coal mine. Date: C.1870

Tennis Court Oath
Representatives of the non- privileged classes held a meeting in a tennis court after finding themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall in Versailles

Bali seashell gleaner, Kuta
Bali seashell gleaner. Silhouette of woman with head scarf bending over to gather shells in the shallow seawater near Kuta Date: 1989

Use of the Naval Rangefinder for Merchant Navy Navigation, 1
Illustration showing how a Naval Barrster or rangefinder could be used for Merchant Navigation

Zulu War - Recovery of the Colours of the 24th in the Buffalo River after Battle of Isandlwana (of 22 January 1879) and honouring the graves of Lts Melville and Coghill Date: 1879

Bonzo congratulates Chee-Kee by George Studdy
Bonzo congratulates Chee-Kee on finding her ancestors -- they can be seen as monsters on Chinese vases and plates. Date: 1924

National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap
The National Coal Strike of 1912 - searching through slag heap for pieces of coal to burn.. The national coal strike of 1912 was the first national strike by coal miners in the United Kingdom

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

Finding a Golf Ball
Illustration of a young golfer recovering his golf ball from a stream. Date: 1933

King Bunker Looks Into The Nest
A childrens short story illustration which shows King Bunker finding his lost golf ball in a bird's nest. Date: circa 1944

Lockheed EC-121T 52-3418
United States Air Force - Lockheed EC-121T 52-3418 (msn 1049A-4336, Model 1049A-55-86), at the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center, Davis-Monthan AFB

Alice, Where Art Thou, Christmas card
Alice, Where Art Thou, comic interpretation of a popular song on a Christmas card, with a frog finding his lost love, who is now an angel frog with wings up in the clouds. (3 of 3) Date: circa 1890s

Illustration, White-Ear discovers a dead fox in the coach house. Date: 1912

Cartoon, The happy meeting, WW1
Cartoon, The happy meeting, showing a French soldier in a tattered uniform finding a dead German soldier lying on the ground, and deciding he could help himself to some of his clothes. Date: 1915

German soldiers spotting buildings far in the distance, not realising that it's a setup consisting of a miniature country town coursing the perspective to be all wrong. Date: 1941

Two members of Gibraltar's police force questioning a Spanish boy on the gang-way of a refugee boat, August 1936

Maeterlinck Bluebird Theatre Plays Oiseau Bleu
maeterlinck, bluebird, theatre, plays, oiseau, bleu, 1908, land, memory, children, meet, dead, grandparents, finding, quiet, happy, well, old, age, history, historical, 10172529

X-ray had proven useful in World War One, for locating bullets and foreign bodies in wounded men and also detection of any contraband

New Ideas for using X-Rays for Medical use WWI
Used in the British, French and Russian military hospitals the Kompact, apparatus, to find foreign bodies in wounded soldiers

The Infant St George
Woodcut. Finding of the infant St George. Artist: Charles Gere Date: 1893

Lilian Braithwaite as Nancy Thistleton 1902
Miss Lilian Braithwaite in the part which made her famous, as Nancy Thistleton in The Finding of Nancy by Netta Syrett. 1902 1902

Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold with Dame Bewley
Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales and her husband Prince Leopold of Belgium finding Dame Bewley at her cottage door reading her old Bible. circa 1816

Searching for Hidden Presents on Christmas Day
A household has fun searching for Christmas presents hidden away in various parts of the house on Christmas Day. Date: 1903

One more unfortunate 1870
Policeman beaming a torch over the body of a woman found at the side of a canel in the streets of London. Date: 1870

BABY UNDER CABBAGE LEAF
Finding a baby beneath a cabbage leaf Date: circa 1820

Duchess of Gloucesters penance
Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester (1400-1452)

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

Alice in Wonderland, Alice finds a key
Alice in Wonderland -- Alice finds a key on a table in the Hall of Tears. Date: early 20th century

Mr Pickwick addresses the Club
" Samuel Pickwick addresses the club to propose that it form a " corresponding society" which will travel about the country and report its finding to the entire club back in London

Good-Morning, Mr Frog! by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl finds a frog in the garden. Date: 1936

Deep Sea Diver
A deep sea diver finds a bottle from a shipwreck. 1892

Finding of the body of Saint Thomas in India
The Portuguese in India find the body of Saint Thomas at Meliapur (near Madras) and take it to Goa

Flock of seagulls on a ploughed field
Seagulls swoop onto a newly ploughed field in the hope of finding food. 1960s

Professors T Child dowsing for Water, Pemfega, Portugal
Professors T Child of Ipswich dowsing for water in a vineyard, Pemfega, Portugal

Susi - finding a bone with her name on it
Susi - finding a large bone with her name on it. 1950s

Susi - finding a frog. 1950s

Moses rescued from the Nile. Engraving
Moses rescued from the Nile by the daughter of Pharaoh of Egypt. Exodus. Chapter 2, Verse 5. Engraving

Helicopter search and rescue using thermal camera
Helicopter search and rescue, early use of a thermal infrared camera to find missing people. A woman sits to the left of the pilot, with the camera in front of her. Date: 1972

Finding in the Temple. Miniature. 15th century. France
Finding in the Temple. Miniature. 15th century. Chateau of Chantilly. France

St. Peter finding the tribute money or The Ferry Boat to Ant
Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). Flemish painter. St. Peter finding the tribute money or The Ferry Boat to Antwerp, 1623. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Illustrated London News cover - the Diamond Diggers
Front cover of The Illustrated London News showing two diamond diggers in South Africa, in the valley of the Vaal river, Orange Free State

Frog and egg on a comic card
A frog finds a duck egg -- Eggspectation. (1 of 5) Date: circa 1890s

Female Type / Flirt 1914
A pretty young woman in a maroon shepherdess-style dress, finding a pretext to flirt by checking her stockings. Date: 1914

Speke / Grant / Cartoon
Speke and Grant confirmed the source of the Nile (1860-63). Britannia finds the Nile: " Ah, Mr Nile! So I ve found you at last!" Date: 1862-63

Dionysos & Ariadne
Dionysos is carried in procession with his wife Ariadne, whom he married after finding her on the island of Naxos, deserted by her lover Theseus

Finding Station Name
Railway Puzzle To find the name of the station among the many bill- boards Date: 1883

Little girl finds three Easter eggs
A little girl finds three Easter eggs under a cushion. Date: 1903

Prospectors in Australia rejoice at finding gold at last. Date: 1850s

Water Divining - A Book of Practical Instruction by S. N. Pike MBE. Date: 1945

Finding Nemo. Saltburn by the Sea 1970s 1970s

Desert Elephants - Family fInding shade (Loxodonta africana). Kaokoland - Namibia - Africa

Boy scouts tracking, South Africa
Boy scouts belonging to a South African troop, doing a tracking activity

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

Hansel & Gretel
Scene from Hansel & Gretel, finding the house of the wicked witch. Date: 1899

Womens home front ambulance service 1917
Owing to the shorage of male labour, the London County Council established a Womens ambulance service, quailfied in first aid and competent motor drivers

Bonzo Discovers the Bonzosaurus Egg by George Studdy
Bonzo Discovers the Bonzosaurus Egg -- clearly an ancestor from prehistoric times! Date: 1924

British soldier with birdcages, Western Front, WW1
A British soldier finds birdcages in the ruins of Ovillers, on the Western Front in France (Somme) during World War One. Date: circa 1916

The aeroplane in warfare by G. H. Davis
The aeroplane in warfare: aeroplanes used for finding the range of the enemys entrenchments. Left: a fire bomb, attached to a parachute, dropped from a Taube monoplane

Wheres Your Mummy? by Muriel Dawson -- a little boy finds a kitten all alone in the garden. Date: 1944

Two toddlers in their cot by Muriel Dawson
Two toddlers standing up in their cot and finding their Christmas presents, by Muriel Dawson. Date: 1928

British target-finding invention by G. H. Davis
Bombing through clouds during the Second World War: a British target-finding invention. Illustrating the Gen-Box principle, which sees targets invisible to the human eye. Date: 1944

Findings Keeping by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl holding yellow flowers on a hilltop. Date: 1935

Nursery Rhymes -- foxhunters, Mary in her garden
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Three foxhunters find a hedgehog (above). Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? (below) Date: early 20th century

Marie-Jeanne Vignon
MARIE-JEANNE VIGNON (nee Dubois) - Frenchwoman who in 1821 pulled her paralysed partner in a handcart from Bordeaux to Paris in hope of finding work there. Date: 1792 - ?

Colonel Maurel
COLONEL MAUREL French military officer, president of the Conseil de Guerre which conducted the first trial of Dreyfus, finding him guilty of treason. Date: CIRCA 1894

Helenas Vision
Saint HELENA, wife of Constantius and mother of Constantine, aged 63+, has a vision of the invention (= finding) of Jesuss cross, which miraculously comes true. Date: CIRCA 250 - CIRCA 330

RAFVR at Gatwick. The chief Ground Instructor gives a lesson on finding the course to steer by the aid of a course and speed calculator

Landscape with the Finding of Moses

Dinner Party / Du Maurier
Guests finding their places at dinner Date: 1882

JOB SHOP
A Job Finding shop, an early form of employment agency, with the latest vacancies plastered all over the windows in gaudy colours! 1980

Gathering Limpets - Birsay, Orkney
An old man gathering Limpets from the rocks on the beach at Birsay, Orkney, Scotland Date: 1908

HARRISONs NO 5
Harrisons number 5 timekeeper or chronometer for finding longitude (an improved version of the number 4). Date: circa 1760

Children paddling and finding sea creatures
Four young girls paddling at the edge of the sea and examining the crabs and starfish they have found in the shallow water and placed in their buckets. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

The preparation of a kite-balloon before take-off
Allied soldiers photographed putting the finishing touches to the envelope of a kite-balloon shortly before take-off

Fairy stories by photography, Grimm stories illustrated
The prince finding the sleeping beauty. Grimms fairy stories told with photographs and illustrations. From the Christmas Number 1907

Gulls in Ploughed Field
Seagulls swoop on a newly ploughed field in the hope of finding food

Dog Meets Hedgehog
A dog apprehensively raises his forepaw with the intention of finding out what this prickly creature is

Strike Transport / Punch
The pressures of finding transport during the General Strike

Edward VII & Relatives
Finding that his train will pass that of the Tsar, Edward arranges for both to stop at Le Bourget, France, so they and their wives can briefly pass the time of day

Nausicaa & Alcinous
Nausicaa tells King Alcinous, her father, that she and her maids must wash her brothers clothes in order to increase their chances of finding suitable brides

Harrisons Fourth
Harrisons number 4 timekeeper or chronometer for finding longitude

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