Fleas Collection

Advertisement for Keatings Powder
An advertisement for Keatings Powder, to rid your clothes of bugs, fleas, beetles, moths, and other distressing insects. Remember to take it with you on holiday! Date: 1913

Flea Circus Chariots
Professor Tomlins flea circus: a flea is pushed into position at the start of the chariot race; fine harnessing wires attach the fleas to the chariots Date: 1960s

Flea Circus / Dr Paul
An advert for Doctor Pauls Performing Fleas

Cat Flea Powder
An unsuspecting cat is stroked and lulled into a false sense of security on a cushion before being dowsed in flea powder!

Comic postcard, Dog feeling up to scratch Date: 20th century

Emigration - Fleas and Rats. 19th century

Performing Fleas - Street Entertainment - North East London. Date: circa 1907

Tomlins Flea Circus
Professor Tomlin feeding the fleas on blood from his own arm; they perform on the miniature pieces of equipment in the foreground Date: 1960s

Giuseppe Crespi (1665 1747). Searching for Fleas. 1715 / 20
Giuseppe Crespi (1665 1747), nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo. Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. Searching for Fleas. 1715/20. Oil on canvas. Museum of Louvre. Paris

Moliere / Ecole Femmes
L ECOLE DES FEMMES Agnes complains that she has been bitten by fleas throughout the night Date: 1662

Hunting for fleas Date: 1843

Insect / Water Flea
A Daphnia Water Flea (Daphnia pulex). Date: 1960s

The Allied Barracks at Scutari, Crimean War, 1854
Illustration showing the Barracks for Allied troops at Scutari, Turkey, 1854. Although the barracks look substantial and well built from the outside, the interior was infested with rats and fleas

Humorous Card - Fleas & the Bedpan
Silly (yet rather funny) carton postcard, bearing the following caption: SOCIETY GOSSIP - this week the Duchess of Billingsgate in hunting

Flea Circus Feeding Time
Feeding time at the flea circus: the performers, on Professor Tomlins arm, drink his blood with relish; the wires are the fleas harnesses Date: 1960s

The Four Beggars
Beggars of France, Spain Germany and Italy complain of being infested by fleas, crabs, lice and bugs respectively

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