Obtaining Collection

Trees, Covent Garden
Buying Christmas trees in Covent Garden market, London

NEWS OF VICTORIA'S DEATH
The death of the Queen - press representatives obtaining the news at Osborne from Superintendent Fraser 1901

Tinder Box, before matches were widely used
A Tinder Box, before matches became the chief means of obtaining fire

WATER IN WINTER
Cottage folk obtaining water from the frozen stream in winter Date: 1870

Three schoolboys apply themselves and become Oxford scholars
Three schoolboys apply themselves, becoming first class Oxford scholars. They then lend their acquired wisdom to become a Bishop, a Physician and a great warrior! Date: 1898

Jacob obtaining the blessing of his father Isaac
Jacob by the instructions of Rebekah obtaining the blessing of his father Isaac - Thomas Bankes Bible, Genesis 27.27. 1787

Leipzig Tree Market
A Christmas tree market in the Augustus Platz, Leipzig: people buying trees in the evening winter darkness by the light of lanterns and lamps Date: circa 1870

Mary Ann Clarke - 4
MARY ANNE CLARKE nee Thompson : wife of Joseph Clark; mistress of Frederick, duke of York : at the time of the scandal regarding unlawful obtaining of favours. Date: 1776 - 1852

Mary Ann Clarke - 3
MARY ANNE CLARKE nee Thompson : wife of Joseph Clark; mistress of Frederick, duke of York : depicted giving evidence regarding unlawful obtaining of favours. Date: 1776 - 1852

Mary Ann Clarke - 2
MARY ANNE CLARKE nee Thompson : wife of Joseph Clark; mistress of Frederick, duke of York : depicted giving evidence regarding unlawful obtaining of favours. Date: 1776 - 1852

Mrs Fletcher on Trial
Susie (Willis) Fletcher is found guilty of obtaining the property of Mrs Hart Davies by spiritualistic fraud, and is sentenced to twelve months hard labour Date: January 1881

Christmas / Tree Dug Up
Lifting the tree Date: 1851

Gnomes bring home Christmas tree
Two gnomes bring home a Christmas tree. Date: circa 1900

Gnomes shop down Christmas tree
Two gnomes chop down a Christmas tree Date: circa 1900

Obtaining Encyclopaedia Britannica books
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 16 larger double volumes instead 32 single volumes. General knowledge books with some colour illustrations. Small monthly payments. Date: 1925

Griffith Brewer, the first Englishman to ride in an aero?
Griffith Brewer, the first Englishman to ride in an aeroplane (1908) after obtaining his Pilot?s ?A? Licence in 1930 at the age of 63

Kosciusko and the Polish nobles obtaining their liberty by the generosity of the Emperor Paul I

Portrait of M. Louis Daguerre
A portrait of Louis Jacques Maude Daguerre (1789-1851). The French artist was famed for inventing the Daguerretype in conjunction with Joseph Nicephore Niepce

Christmas on Board a British Battleship, 1894
Engraving showing the scene on the deck of a Royal Navy Warship in the Mediterranean, at Christmas. The women have come onto the warship to sell figs, nuts, apples

Obtaining Possession
Rich Merchant of Jugon, is captured by Charles of Blois, obtaining possession of Jugon

Gathering Trees 1912
Two children take their sledge into the woods to gather Christmas trees

Lourdes / View in 1877
Lourdes in 1877; the Basilica has been erected above the grotto, but the esplanade and the places for obtaining holy water and candles have as yet to be constructed

Buying Tree
Selling Christmas trees from door to door

Tobogganing with Tree
Brother and sister toboggan home with the tree they have acquired

Fetching Tree on Sledge
Two girls have found a suitable tree and are bringing it home on a toboggan

Children Obtain Tree
Four children have found a snow-covered tree and some presents

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