Forage Collection

Wind Blown by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in a coat and hat picks nuts from the branches of a tree which is rapidly losing its leaves in the autumnal breeze

Two Badgers in a wood
Two badgers (Meles meles) forage for food in a wood. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Two Nationalist volunteers reloading their rifles as they fire at a Republican position near San Sebastian, northern Spain, during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War, 1936

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - But you said Fall In
The Caption is But you said - Fall In.The lad in the pool is wearing a forage cap, the Officer has a wooden sword and the girls has an oar and a walking stick for rifles

Wandervogel Movement - vegetarian hikers forage for food
The leader of an expedition of vegetarian hikers gives a lecture on foraging for food ini the great outdoors. Date: 1932

Blackberry picking 1880
A woman on the edge of a field picking wild blackberries. circa 1880

Gathering wood violets 1872
Two young women gathering wood violets, sweet scent of this flower was popular in Victorian times and was used in sweets and baked goods. Date: 1872

Gathering cowslips 1872
Two young girls picking wild cowslips from the woods. Date: 1872

Gathering blackberries 1872
Victorian women and a girl picking blackberries from a blackberry bush. Date: 1872

2nd Dragoons - Royal Scots Greys - Insignia
2nd Dragoons - Royal Scots Greys - A mounted soldier, his field cap, collar badge, shoulder strap, bearskin headdress badge (back) and field cap badge. Date: circa 1910

GATHERING NUTS (IN MAY?)
Some elegant ladies and children gather nuts from the tree and put them into baskets. Date: 1883

CLIMBING THE POLE / FAIR
Climbing the pole. This game originated from an idea by M. Franck, a doctor who decided that humans should re-learn such skills previously used to climb trees & forage for food

French Countryfolk and their Pigs - the caption reads: " The campaign to promote repopulation has its effect in the region." !! Date: circa 1920s

Forage cap, peaked pillbox, West India Regiment, 189
Forage cap, peaked pillbox, warrant officers? or senior non commissioned officers?, West India Regiment, 1895 (c).Blue cloth crown and sides

Carlton (Stoke on Trent) china forage cap
A Carlton (Stoke on Trent) china forage cap inscribed The Victory of Justice - Armistice of the Great War - dated November 11th 1918. With the Coat of Arms of Man of Ross. Commemorative Ware

Three scenes in German occupied Vise, Belgium, WW1
Three scenes in German occupied Vise, Belgium, at the start of the First World War. Top left: a damaged house, with German soldiers in the street

Mylodon darwinii, ground sloth
Jaw bone collected by Charles Darwin when he stepped off the Beagle in Argentina. First officially recorded by Richard Owen, the first Superintendent of the Museum

The Straw-Yard, Winter. Horses in the snow in a farmyard Date: ca. 1865

Autumn painted by Pauline Baynes
A boy and a girl in the Elizabethan era pictured picking blackberries while in the background, horsemen are hunting a stag

German Forage Wagon - Polish Road
A German forage wagon held up by the slush of a Polish Road

Costume / Children 1855
Girls: broderie Anglaise jacket, plaid skirt, dress with 3 flounces, pantalettes, open body & bands over the chest. Boys: black trousers & round jacket & belted tunics

Costume Men & Boys 1848
Evening dress; a sac overcoat or wrapper & window-pane check trousers; bowler style hat, short trousers, red velvet coat, forage cap, wrapper with hood & soutache trim

Man & Boys Fashions 1844
Boys: plaid tunic, gigot sleeves, belt, tasselled cap, strapped pantaloons, forage cap, short jackets, vandyked collar, neckerchief, page boy hair-style. Man: D-B coat

1860 Costume / Women & Boy
Boy: forage cap, knickerbocker suit with side buttoning tunic. Women: dress with single flounce, Swiss belt & unusual headdress; grey & blue, double-breasted coat

Costume / Children 1859
Boy: tunic, gaiters, sash & knickerbockers. Girls: black pardessus, plaid tunic dress with velvet trim, chemisettes with bishop sleeves, other short dresses with sashes

Sentinel at Sebastopol
A sentinel of the Zouaves (French) before Sebastopol, while his colleagues forage for firewood - a scene evocative of the harsh conditions of the war

Satirical Fashions 1844
Albert Smiths gents: loud cravats, huge tie pins, pinched waists, boys in kilts, plaid trousers, bizarre top hats, hunting pinks, sac coat with large buttons

Mcclellan Retreats
Union troops under McClellan are forced to retreat from the Chickahominy, Virginia : as he pulls out from his hq at Dr Trents Farm, stores and forage are destroyed by burning

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