Handler Collection

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, handler at Peterborough Show
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Tom Newman, the Duke of Beauforts huntsman, taking part as a handler at the Peterborough Foxhound Show

Dog and Handler wearing gas masks at the battle front. Strecher bearers carry a wounded man in the background, the war dogs were frequently employed to locate wounded men in no mans land Date

Police Officer and Dog
Metropolitan Police dog handler taking his dog out of a police van

Market Reports Series - Country Ducks arriving
One of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series. Country Ducks arrived in excellent condition. Date: 1903

Police dog handler

Display of cattle at annual County Show, Devon
Display of cattle, led by handlers, at the annual County Show, Devon. Date: 1960s

Placing a bear in charge of the flock of sheep! Ax-les-Thermes - a commune in the Arige department in the Occitanie region of south-western France. Date: circa 1910s

Pit pony with handler underground in Lanarkshire mine
Pony is pulling trolleys, known as hutches, of coal along small railway lines. From a postcard posted from Hamilton to the French Legation in Tangier Date: 1902

POLICE OFFICER AND DOG
A Metropolitan Police officer dog handler and his Weimaraner dog discover the dead body of a missing person Date: June 1974

Longfellow - American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire
Longfellow (1867-1893) - an American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Date: circa 1890

South America, pack horse with its load and handler
Vintage 19th century photograph: South America, pack horse with its load and handler

Cheetah on bullock cart with handler, India, c. 1860 s
Tame cheetah on bullock cart with handler, India, c.1860 s

Police dog handler and dog, Camborne, Cornwall
A police dog handler training a young Alsatian dog in a field at Camborne in Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Giraffe and clove tree
Giraffe, Giraffa camelopardalis, with handler and clove tree, Syzygium aromaticum. Handcoloured steel engraving by Pfitzer after an illustration by A

The Police Dog Handler. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1966. Date: 1966

Feeding the Python - Port Elizabeth Museum - South Africa
Feeding the South African Python (Python Sebae) at the Port Elizabeth Museum - South Africa. The snake is 16 feet long! Date: circa 1908

Chinese falconer with a Goshawk Date: circa 1920s

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Butchery
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Butchery. Miniature. Fol. 77r

Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Selling salt
Tacuinum Sanitatis. 14th century. Medieval handbook of health. Establishment. Selling salt. Miniature. Fol. 62v

Women police dog handlers with drug sniffer dogs, London
Two women police dog handlers with drug sniffer dogs, Met Police, London. They are (left) Sandra Kertzen with Snoopy, and (right) Lyn Nicholson with Barry

Major Richardson leaves for Belgium with bloodhounds, WW1
Major Edwin Hauteville Richardson, Army officer and famous dog trainer, pictured at Charing Cross station with his Red Cross bloodhounds leaving for the seat of war in Belgium

Brazil - Sao Paulo - Serpentarium of the Instituto Butantan, a Brazilian biomedical research centre affiliated to the Sao Paulo State Secretary of Health

Hans the Clever Horse
Hans a horse of singular mathmatical skill, with his handler, and his tutor Wilhelm von Osten, who was convinced that animals possessed an intelligence equal to humans

Queen Mother at the Royal Cornwall Show, Wadebridge, standing with the Show Secretary Albert Riddle, and a prize bull wearing three rosettes. Date: circa 1982

Three dog handlers with six dogs in front of stables
Three dog handlers with six assorted dogs in front of stables. Date: circa 1920s

Police officers preparing to conduct a search, London
A group of police officers (including June Paterson, left), belonging to the Special Patrol Group, preparing to conduct a search with the aid of police dogs

Woman police dog handler with drug sniffer dog, London
Woman police dog handler Sandra Kertzen with drug sniffer dog Snoopy in action, Met Police, London. The yellow labrador was one of the first to be trained by a WPC. (4 of 5) Date: 1971

Woman police dog handler with dog, London
Woman police officer and dog handler (Amanda Reed, nee Longden) with police dog Zircon, Met Police, London. (3 of 4) Date: circa 1978

Handler and Ayrshire cow at a county show. Date: circa 1980s

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Crackers dog show inventions (with the authors apologies to Heath Robinson). Smoothing the Scotch Collie, Pampering the Pom, and Improving the Kerry Blues Beard

An Airedale sentry dog supplied to Navy by Major Richardson
A dog trained and supplied by Major Edwin Richardson for duty with the Navy at the Rock of Gibraltar and at points all around the coast

Russian Desman - caught for tagging (Desmana moschata). Okski Biospheric Nature Reserve, Central Russia, 50 km East from Ryazan town

Rissos DOLPHIN - Being helped to swim by researcher (Grampus griseus)

Rissos DOLPHIN - Being given medication by vet (Grampus griseus)

WW1 dogs, Keeper Reid with messenger dogs
Keeper Reid with three of his messenger dogs, trained to take messages between trenches and across dangerous stretches of the front line during the First World War

Training German Shepherd
Teaching German Shepherds (or Alsatians) to jump, Bellmead Kennels, Old Windsor, Berkshire, England (the Country Annexe of Battersea Dogs Home). Date: early 1930s

Algeria - Arabian Falconer
Algeria - Maghreb - Arabian Falconer. Date: circa late 1910s

Borracheiros - Madeira, Portugal
Madeira, Portugal - wine pickers ( Borracheiros ) and handlers who transport the grape juice as soon after it has been pressed as possible in a goatskin; a sight now fast becoming a rare sight

Russian Falconer Date: circa 1910s

Kanin-felle abliefern! an Handler und Zuchtvereine. Das Heer braucht sie!. Poster shows a rabbit holding a sign in its mouth

Metropolitan police dog handler training dog in field
A Metropolitan Police dog handler training an Alsatian dog in a field. The handler is in civilian clothes, playing the role of a criminal, and has just fired a gun near the dogs head

Metropolitan police dog handler with a dog in a field
A Metropolitan Police dog handler with a dog, little older than a puppy, in a field or park. Date: circa 1960s

Bear handler - Franco-British Exhibition
A bear handler and his bear at the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908 at White City, London - at the Hagenbecks Ceylon Village and Indian Arena Date: 1908

Dogs of the chase, 500BC. Marble slabs found in the ruins of Nineveh, depicting hunting dogs of Assur-bani-pal, the grand monarque of Assyria, on leashes with their handlers Date: 500BC

Kazakh Falconer in Mongolia Date: circa 1910s

Training a police dog
A Police Dog and handler at Twickenham Rugby Stadium. The dog is being trained to sniff out suspicious packages that could have been planted under the seats in the South Stand (now re-developed)

Training a police dog - catching a fleeing burglar. A police dog and handler lie in wait, ready to pounce on a burglar making his escape out of a ground floor window

Police dog handler and dog, Camborne, Cornwall
A police dog handler training a young Alsatian dog in a field at Camborne in Cornwall

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