Furry Collection

Charles Darwin with a lookalike ape
Charles Darwin holding up a hand mirror to an ape, showing how alike the pair of them are

Helston Cornwall Furry
THE FLORAL DANCE takes place during Furry day at Helston, Cornwall At noon, couples in evening wear dance between the houses to bring the occupiers good luck

Salix caprea, goat willow tree
An illustrative plate of goat willow foliage and catkins from the Botany Library Plate Collection, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Cossack Trousers 1820
Furry top hat, cut-away coat with long narrow tails, fawn colour cossack trousers, red under-waiscoat, shawl waistcoat, fob ribbon, watch seals & chain & tie-pin

Varecia variegata, ruffed lemur
LS Plate 74 of the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China, 1774-1856

Lynx sp. lynx
Stuffed specimen from the collection of the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Easter postcard with eggs and catkins. Date: circa 1930s

David Wright woman in black negligee on red telephone
Elegant woman with red hair, wearing a black negligee. She is lying on a furry white rug, speaking on her red telephone

Russian Pavilion, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889. Date: 1889

The Furry Dance, Helston, The Lizard, Cornwall, England. Date: 1960s

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881 - 1938) a Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, and founder of the Republic of Turkey as well as its first President. Date: 1922

Miss Estelle Ratcliffe
A portrait painting of a young woman, Miss Estelle Ratcliffe, wearing a fashionable hat with feather decorations, and a dress with furry collar. Date: circa 1916

Photographs of models in spring hats. Captioned, Veils and Flowers trim our spring hats'

Scott Peter Bald Balding Sir Markham 1909 1989
scott, peter, bald, balding, sir, markham, 1909, 1989, british, english, ornithologist, ornithology, birds, conservation, conservationist, painter, artist, naval, navy, officer, sailor, olympic

Original Artwork - Teddy bear gives girl a bunch of flowers
Original Artwork - A teddy bear gives his pretty young owner a bouquet of red flowers. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Christmas greetings from eight teddies
Original Artwork - Christmas greetings from eight teddy bears. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Get Better Quick card design
Original Artwork - Design for a Get Better Quick card featuring a poorly teddy bear with an attentive young nurse holding a bottle of Castor Oil. A play on the word bear ! Date: circa 1937

Design for a novelty 3rd birthday card featuring a teddy bear and a large blue number. Date: circa 1937

Design for a novelty 4th birthday card featuring a teddy bear and a large blue number. Date: circa 1937

Design for a novelty 1st birthday card featuring a teddy bear and a large blue number. Date: circa 1937

Design for a novelty 5th birthday card featuring a teddy bear and a large blue number. Date: circa 1937

Design for a novelty 6th birthday card featuring a teddy bear and a large blue number. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Folding Christmas card design
Original Artwork - Painted design for a folding childrens Christmas card featuring five teddy bears. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Christmas thank you card design
Original Artwork - Design for a Christmas thank you card - teddy bear holding a green balloon and sprig of mistletoe. Date: circa 1937

Original Artwork - Christmas card design - Two Bears
Original Artwork - Design for a Christmas card - Bearing Greetings. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1937

Birthday Greetings card - Teddy bear with umbrella
Birthday Greetings card - Teddy bear with an umbrella under a dark cloud - happy to ignore the forecast and Bear Up! Date: circa 1937

Artwork suggestion for Party Tableware - Two Christmas Mice
Artwork suggestion for Party Tableware - serviette ring place cards designed for paper serviettes (or crackers) - Two Christmas Mice. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design artwork - Posting Birthday wishes
Postcard design artwork - With lots of love, my wish I send - For a Happy Birthday Little Friend! A child posting a letter into a tall red postbox. Date: circa 1937

Postcard design artwork - Lots of fun and merriment. A young girl in red beret carrying a large birthday present whilst taking her toy duck for a walk. Date: circa 1937

Horse blankets and covers, Camille & Fils, Paris. 19th century

Hat shop in Tiflils (Tibilisi), Georgia, 1903
A hat shop, selling traditional fur and skin hats in Tiflis, modern day Tibilisi, capital city of Georgia. Date: 1903

Fancy dress - men dressed up as cowboys
Two men in The Fancy Dress Studio, 37 Oxford Street, London, dressed in cowboy costumes complete with very hairy chaps! Date: c.1920

Japanese machine gunners at Chinchow (Jinzhou), China
Japanese machine gunners fighting the Chinese at Chinchow (Jinzhou), China. 1933

Camille & Fils, Paris - Horse Covers and Blankets. 19th century

Cartoon advert for Shuck Maclean and Co Ltd, makers of printing inks. The winner of a beauty competition writes: I ascribe my success entirely to the use of your charming inks. 20th century

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Pluto. In perpetual twilight, and fiercely cold compared to Earth, fur-covered bats would be the best equipped life form, dwelling underground. Date: 1940

Fearsome Warrior of the South African Ndebele Tribe, one of the Nguni tribes - he is wearing a remarkable headdress. Date: circa 1910s

Gothic Art. France. Paris. Notre Dame. Facade. the archangel
Gothic Art. France. Paris. Notre Dame. Sculptures decorating the portal of the Last Judgment. It was built in the 1220s-1230s. Facade

New Year card in the shape of a purse. Date: circa 1890s

Three baby guinea pigs held in someones hand -- their mother had died when they were born, so they were being looked after by a woman and her labrador dog. (3 of 3) Date: circa 1970s

Girl & Fur Hat 1890S
A little girl wears a double- breasted coat of a pale furry fabric with fur cuffs & ostrich feather trimmed cape collar, a high feather trimmed bonnet & gaiters. Date: 1890s

Young Pine Marten - close-up on forest floor (Martes martes). Ural Mountains, Russia

Silhouette of a chow chow

Dorothy Compton, Movie Humor magazine
Dorothy Compton, performer, appearing in an elaborate costume at the French Casino (probably the one in New York City), in Movie Humor magazine, November 1937. Date: 1937

Little boy in cowboy costume in studio photo
Little boy in cowboy costume sitting on a pony in a studio photo. Date: circa 1910s

Cartoon, Hamilton Aide, writer, artist and composer
Cartoon, Charles Hamilton Aide (1826-1906), French-born writer, artist and composer -- described here as All-Round Talent. 1884

Uzbekistan - Bukhara - A soldier Bodyguard of the Emir
Uzbekistan - Bukhara - A magnificent portrait photograph of a soldier of the Bodyguard of the Emir. Note his traditional Uzbek sheepswool hat and tunic with cartridge pockets. Date: 1914

Woman wearing a tall black hat and furry white scarf. circa 1900

Crimean War, Russian guardhouse
Crimean War -- a Russian guardhouse, with soldiers. 1855

Glove box with greeting on a Victorian Christmas card (closed). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Stuffed dogs, Walter Potter Museum, London
Three stuffed dogs sitting in a furnished room at the Walter Potter Museum, Jamaica Inn, London. Sadly the museum was sold off and disbanded in 2003. Date: 1960s

Stuffed dog, Walter Potter Museum, London
A stuffed dog sitting at a writing desk in a furnished room at the Walter Potter Museum, Jamaica Inn, London. Sadly the museum was sold off and disbanded in 2003. Date: 1960s

Studio photo, boy putting blindfold on dog
Studio photo, boy putting a blindfold on a dog, perhaps to avoid a flash from the camera. Date: circa 1920s

Cat

Fur Coat & New Hat 1919
A red coat with deep white fur hem, cuffs & high all-round collar worn with a broad brimmed furry or feathery hat. Her new hat in a hatbox is carried in by the manservant. Date: 1919

Colette / Postcard / Dogs
SIDONIE-GABRIELLE WILLY French novelist with her dogs Date: 1873 - 1954

Vombatus ursinus, common wombat
Plate 8 from a collection of 49 original watercolour drawings of animals by Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (1760-1826), from the H.M.S. Investigator expedition to Australia, 1801-1803

Actress Freda Wyn doing handstand in cat costume
Freda Wyn, English actress (aka Winifred A Ryeland, 1916-1989), doing a handstand on stage in her cat costume during rehearsals for a pantomime, Puss in Boots

Actress Freda Wyn relaxing in cat costume during a pantomime
Freda Wyn, English actress (aka Winifred A Ryeland, 1916-1989), taking a cigarette break in her cat costume during rehearsals for a pantomime, Puss in Boots

Actress Freda Wyn in cat costume for a pantomime
Freda Wyn, English actress (aka Winifred A Ryeland, 1916-1989), posing in her cat costume for a pantomime, Puss in Boots

Actress Freda Wyn doing cat makeup for a pantomime
Freda Wyn, English actress (aka Winifred A Ryeland, 1916-1989), making herself up as a cat for a pantomime, Puss in Boots, in which she appeared with the comic actor Jimmy Edwards

Studio portrait, middle aged woman with terrier
Studio portrait, middle aged Edwardian woman with a terrier, photo by H Wallis, Cambridge. circa 1900s

Studio portrait, woman with dachshund
Studio portrait, woman holding up a treat for a dachshund. Date: circa 1910s

Studio portrait, two girls with terrier dog, photo by Barber, Faversham. Date: circa 1900s

Studio portrait, boy and girl with large dog
Studio portrait, a boy and a girl with a large dog. circa 1900s

Red SQUIRREL - eating fir cone (Sciurus vulgaris). Ural Mountains, Russia

Young Pine Martens - three play on forest floor (Martes martes). Ural Mountains, Russia

Young Hare / Leveret - stands on hind legs. Ural Mountains, Russia, spring

Collared Lemming - adult in winter fur, looks like a furry ball from its back while feeding on buds and bark of dwarf willow it digs in snow (Dicrostonyx torquatus)

ORANG-UTAN - Mother kissing baby (Pongo pygmaeus)

Woman on a Douglas motorbike
A woman on a Douglas motorbike at the side of a house. She is wearing a large beret and enormous furry gloves

Three cats impatient for their fish supper
Three furry moggies wait (im)patiently for their Fish Suppers... " Hurry Up Waiter!" Date: 1907

Petaurus australis, yellow-bellied glider
Hepoona Roo. Drawing 47 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Nesolagus netscheri, Sumatran rabbit
Photograph, viewed from above, of a Sumatran rabbit skin specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Pithecia sp. saki and Pithecia leucocephala, white-headed s
Pithecia pogonias & head of Pithecia leucocephala. Hand coloured lithograph from a drawing by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1889)

Fungi in the Wildlife Garden
Close-up of fungus growing in the Wildlife Garden at the Natural History Museum, London. Photograph taken by Derek Adams, March 2003

Child with Explorer Pack
A child explorer viewing a stuffed polar bear specimen on display in the Mammals Gallery within the life Galleries of the Natural History Museum, London

Ratufa macroura, grizzled giant squirrel
Sciurus Macrouru (Pennant), Detail of Plate 102 from the Loten Collection (1754-57), a painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere (1722-c. 1781)

Bradypus tridactylus, pale-throated three-toed sloth
Pale-throated three-toed sloths. Plate from a collection of original watercolour drawings, c. 1781-1785, by Sarah Stone, held at the Natural History Museum

Colobus guereza, guereza
Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Moths of the family Saturniidae
Mounted specimens of the Emperor moth (Saturnia pavonia Linnaeus) and the great peacock (Saturnia pyri) moths

Moths of the family Notodontidae
Mounted specimens of the swallow prominent, coxcomb prominent, pale prominent, small chocolate-tip, figure of eight, pine processionary, and oak processionary moths

Phascolarctos cinereus, koala
Illustration from The Mammals of Australia (1863) by John Gould

Ailuropoda melanoleuca, giant panda

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