Herring Collection (page 6)

Siglufjordur (Herring Town), Iceland
Siglufjordur (Sigulufirdi) used to be the center of the herring fisheries in Iceland, and the herring played a very large role in the nations economy and industry. Date: 1939

Miss Rachel Sanger in The Bonnie Fishwife
Miss Rachel Sanger in the role of Maggie MacFarlane in The Bonnie Fishwife, a comedietta or farce in one act by Charles Selby. circa 1880s

R E Herring, MC, British soldier, WW1
R.E Herring, MC, British soldier during WW1. 1917

Herring Boats at Portavogie - a view of the fishing boats at Portavogie harbour. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Portavogie). Date: circa early 1900s

Herring Boats, Kilkeel, Co. Down - an elevated view of the harbour and boats. (Location: Northern Ireland; County Down; Kilkeel). Date: circa early 1900s

Pollan, Or Fresh Water Herring, Coregonus Pollan, Export 1900, 447 Ton. Lough Neagh, Food. Mysis Religta - a photograph of two fish on a grey background with a penny for scale. (Location: Ireland)

The Prague Haggadah. Prague, Bohemia, 1526. Israel Museum. J
The Prague Haggadah. Prague, Bohemia, 1526. Illustration: Hayyim Shahor Schwartz. Letterpress and woodcuts on paper. Gift of John D

Herring Boats in Ardglass Harbour - a view of the boats at the harbour with loads of barrels on the pier. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Down: Ardglass). Date: circa early 1900s

Ardglass in the Herring Season - an elevated view of the harbour pier with loads of barrels, fish for sale, horse vehicles, people and boats and the town in the background

Herring Harvest, Yarmouth
Yarmouth - The Herring Harvest. The largest herring port in the country in 1921, with Scottish girls working at the fisheries in the autumn Date: 1921

Skirts favour a circular cut 1929
Three women wearing casual day-time clothing. Date: 1929

Holidaymaker feeding herring gulls, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Patient fishermen, illustration by William Heath Robinson
A party of benevolent philanthropists rewarding the patience of unfortunate fishermen, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C

Alosa fallax, or Twait Shad
Alosa alosa, or Allis Shad, of the Clupeidae family, also known as Scadina, Alewife and Damin Herring. Date: 1865

Atlantic thread herring, Opisthonema oglinum, and European anchovy, Engraulis encrasicolus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Storm and Herring Gulls, Brighton, Sussex, England. Date: 1930s

Herring drifter in St Ives Bay, Cornwall
A herring drifter (lugger) and crew in St Ives Bay, Cornwall. 1938

Albert Herring, Aldeburgh Festival 1962
Benjamin Britten taking a curtain call after Albert Herring performed in the Jubilee Hall on 20 June 1962 during the Aldeburgh Festival

Full length mink coat 1935
Full length wrap-over mink coat, the pelts are worked in a herring-bone design, giving an effect of light and shade. A leather belt around the waist, can be taken off

Thomas Herring - 2
THOMAS HERRING archbishop of Canterbury, depicted with his mitre and crozier. Date: 1693 - 1757

Thomas Herring - 1
THOMAS HERRING archbishop of Canterbury Date: 1693 - 1757

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk - Landing Herring at the harbour Date: circa 1907

Whitby, North Yorkshire - The Herring Fleet Unlading. Date: circa 1908

France - Departure of the Herring Fleet - Boulogne-sur-mer. Date: circa 1910s

Landing Herring at Minehead, Somerset (and the fleet)
Landing Herring at Minehead, Somerset (and the fleet setting out in the inset image). Date: 1904

Yarmouth Fishery, Norfolk - Pickling Herring. Date: 1906

Ducks by a Stream, by John Frederick Herring Jr. (1820-1907)

A painting of the Curtiss-Herring No 1, the aircraft which won the 1909 Gordon Bennett Cup at Rheims, France. Date: 1909

The Curtiss-Herring No 1 the aircraft
The Curtiss-Herring No 1, the aircraft which won the 1909 Gordon Bennett Cup at Rheims, France. Date: 1909

Glenn Curtiss flying the Curtiss-Herring No 1, the aircraft with which he won the 1909 Gordon Bennett Cup at Rheims, France. Date: 1909

Herring illustration

Clupea finta, twaite shad
Page 68 by W Houghton from his British Freshwater Fishes, 1879

Scientists at play, 1899
An attendant in the Botany Library, Robert Hugh Bunting captured his colleagues at play in this humorous private photograph of Museum life taken in 1899

Clupea alosa, shad
Plate 57 by Edward Donovan from his British Fishes, Vol 1, 1802

CLAESZ, Pieter (1597-1661). Breakfast. 1646

Making a herring barrel, Lowestoft
A cooper making a herring barrel in Lowestoft, Suffolk. By the mid-1960s, fish catches from Lowestoft were greatly diminishing, particularly the herring. Date: 1909

Scotland / Girvan
A corner of the harbour at Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland. Girvan is the centre of a thriving herring fishing industry. Date: 1950s

Women gut Herring - Lowestoft, Suffolk
Women gut Herring at Lowestoft, Suffolk Date: circa 1910s

Herring gull on a wall, Brixham, Devon
A herring gull (Larus Argentatus) standing on a wall at Brixham, Devon

Herring boats off St Ives, Cornwall, on a calm sea

Sorting the herring catch at St Ives, Cornwall
Fishermen sorting the herring catch from nets into boxes and baskets on the beach at St Ives, Cornwall

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