Jar Collection (page 7)

Three kittens on a cutout birthday card, playing with a pot of paintbrushes. Date: circa 1900s

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Spot returns home
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Spot finds his way home to his master. " I knocked over a china jar." Date: 1895

Two boys with jam jar on a Balham street, SW London
Two little boys with a jam jar on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Boys playing in a puddle, Balham, SW London
Two boys playing in a puddle on a Balham street, SW London. Date: circa 1961

These War Sensations by Bruce Bairnsfather
Insoluble A cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander Christmas Number 1916, offering a competition to fill in the blanks of a sentence uttered when Old Bill realises that his rum jar

Women carrying water, Holy Land, with cactuses in the background. Date: 1920s

Women at Marys Well, Nazareth, Northern Israel
Women at Marys Well in the city of Nazareth, Northern Israel. It is reputed to be where the Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary (the Annunciation). Date: 1920s

Suffragette Votes for Women Tobacco Jar
A porcelain bust, hand-painted of a woman wearing a black hat with purple, white and green ribbon. Over her left shoulder is a sash, also in the colours of the W.S.P.U

Greetings postcard from Munich, Germany, showing a figure sitting on a barrel, holding a beer jar in one hand and a vegetable in the other. Date: 1908

Suffragette Publicity Advertising BOVRIL. The tram terminus at Brislington, South East of Bristol. A large advertising placard on the right reads, Vote for Women who buy BOVRIL

Suffragette I ve got a Voter. Young woman, perched upon a sofa declares, I don t want a vote, I ve got a Voter. A man of course and to prove it, his pipe and tobacco jar lay beside her

German School glazed coloured pottery tobacco jar in the shape of a First World War German soldier. There is a No. 90 in red on the base of both the hat and the head. Commemorative Ware

Tobacco jar made from a 4 5 Howitzer shell case
Tobacco jar made from a 4.5 Howitzer shell case, dated 1915, with a matching lid. The base has copper handles and a copper inscription which reads Tobacco decorated with copper oak leaves

Tobacco jar made from the base section of a brass shell
A tobacco jar made from the base section of a 1915 18 pounder brass shell containing a Coldstream Guards pattern rank garter star. Trench Art

Man in curio store, Japan. Date: circa 1890s

Indian woman carrying a jar. Date: circa 1890s

Water carrier, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Pencil sketches of vases and jars. Date: 1920s

Sketch of working people -- a man carrying a basket on his head, and a woman carrying a jar. Date: 1922

Cartoon, The Bottling Season, WW1
Cartoon, The Bottling Season, now is the time to bottle fruit and other things. Showing a smiling British sailor of HMS Alert sitting on a glass jar containing battleships labelled as Preserves

Preparing to film The Thief of Bagdad, Hollywood, USA
Preparing to film The Thief of Bagdad (released in 1924), adapted from the Arabian Nights stories. Parts of the set, and prop items such as large jars, can be seen. Date: 1923

Advert for John Pound & Co dressing case 1914
Advertisement John Pound & Co dressing cases. John Pound became Lord Mayor of London in 1904. With less time to run his business, he gave contol of the company to his two sons

Nursery Rhymes -- two travelling scenes. Above -- a man walks along a road with a heavy bag and jar on a hot day, followed by a man on horseback

Columbine and Lelio
Harlequin illustration, showing Columbine standing, with Lelio seated on a chaise longue. Date: 1923

Nursery Rhymes -- Knave and Queen of Hearts
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- the Knave of Hearts takes a tart. Below -- the Queen of Hearts making her tarts. Date: early 20th century

Illustration to the story of Ali Baba
Design or illustration to the Arabian Nights story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, featuring a slim woman in eastern costume, discovering men hiding in jars

A Mexican Criada (House Servant) carrying a large jar on her shoulder. The caption to this card states that: " All the work about native households is performed by Such Women." Date

South Korea - Chosen - Storage Jars awaiting export Date: circa 1920s

Poole Pottery - A Coffee Set and various painted pieces. Poole Pottery was founded in 1873 on Poole quayside (East Quay), where it continued to produce pottery by hand before moving its factory

Greetings from Egypt - Water Carrier and Ramesseum, Thebes
Greetings from Egypt featuring inset photographs of a Water Carrier Girl and The Caryatids of the Ramesseum at Thebes Date: circa 1910s

Circular discussion concerning the catch of the day
" Did yer Father cotch ony fish?" " yes." " Was they Biggins?" " They was bigger than the Little uns." " How big was the Little uns

Young Arab girl carrying drinking water across a river or stream. Date: circa 1890s

A rather tall tale of the largest fish ever caught
" My Father e once caught a fishas big -as our street!" " Well, then, it must ave bin a Whale." " Garn, e were baitin wi Whales!" Date: 1901

Young boy admonished for fishin on the Sabbath
Clergyman - " My Boy, do you know its wicked to fish on the Sabbath?" Youngster - " I isn t fishing; I m teachin this ere wurm ter swim." Date: 1895

Mexican Ollas Seller - An olla is a ceramic jar, often unglazed, used for cooking stews or soups, for the storage of water or dry foods, or for other purposes. Date: circa 1910s

Morocco, North West Africa - Pot seller, Casablanca Date: circa 1950s

Making Chatties, Phini, Cyprus
Making Chatties (pottery jars / amphorae), Phini (Foini), Troodos Mountains, Cyprus Date: circa 1910s

University Student playing Portuguese Guitar on the street - Lisbon, Portugal. Date: 1930s

Portugal - Pretty girl from Minho Region Date: 1930s

Lebanese girl in Festival Costume Date: 1907

Corsica - Corsican woman with bucket on her head
Corsica - Corsican woman carrying a hard timber wooden bucket on her head, her other hand holding a jar (possibly containing oil?). Date: 1920s

Figure of Bacchus, by Francois Girardon
Figure of Bacchus (front), by Francois Girardon (1628-1715). Date: circa 1660s

Diphyllobothrium polyrugosum, tapeworm
Discovered inside a 3.8 metre killer whale washed up on a beach in Cornwall in 1978

The Tank Room, Darwin Centre
The Tank Room in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Moving specimens to the Darwin Centre
Moving zoological specimens from the old Spirit Building to the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Chamaeleo jacksonii, Jacksons chameleon
Jacksons chameleon specimen in spirit jar held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London. This image is on display in the link corridor from the Life Galleries to the Darwin Centre

Fish specimens
Specimen jars containing fish, held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London. Notice how over time the specimen jars have been warped by gravity and are no longer straight

Juvenile fish specimens
Specimen jar containing juvenile fish, held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

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