Paper Collection (page 9)

Inkstand, blotter, paper knife and letter opener. Lithograph from a catalog of metal products manufactured by Wuerttemberg Metalware Factory, Geislingen, Germany, 1896

Greater argonaut octopus, Argonaut argo
Greater argonaut octopus or paper nautilus, Argonaut argo, female in its shell and without its shell. Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Games unknown, 14th century. A variant of hide and seek, and boys playing a guessing game where one holds up a certain number of fingers and his colleagues have to show the same, similar to scissors

Medieval childrens games: badminton with racquets and shuttlecock, boy with paper windmill, boy flying a butterfly on a string, and boys playing bob-cherry with an apple

Classical musical instruments: lyres 1, 2, plectrum 3, cithara 4, lute 5, percussion instruments 6, 7, 8, 15, pan pipes 9, crotales 11, tuba 12, flutes 10, 14, 18, 19, triangle 16, cymbals 17

Fashionable people playing the memory game of the gentle knight. Players who have made errors have to wear paper horns in their hair. At the beginning, everyone is a gentle knight

Method of cutting paper material in China (after a Chinese illustration). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Greater argonaut octopus, Argonauta argo. Lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1848

Greater bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea apoda, and papyrus grass, Cyperus papyrus. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Adolphe Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire

Paper wasp and nest, weevils and sea slugs on seaweed
Polistes gallicus, paper wasp and nest, blue weevil, Eupholus schoenherri, root weevil, Diaprepes abbreviatus, Polycera sea slugs, Ancula gibbosa, Atlantic ancula, on seaweed

Papyrus grass root, Cyperus papyrus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst

Papyrus grass, Cyperus papyrus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816

Exotic cicadas and wasps
Speckled black cicada, Gaeana maculata 1, Platypleura capensis 2, Lystra lanata 3, Andrena thoracica 4, Acrotelsa collaris 5, hoverfly, Milesia virginiensis 6, and paper wasp, polistes annularis 7

Exotic bees and wasps
Eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica 1, lychee stink bug, Tessaratoma papillosa 2, Leptoscelis balteatus 3, Surinam bee, Euglossa surinamensis 4, long-tailed ophion, Ophion macrurum 5

Chinese seller of paper kites, Qing Dynasty. Kites in the shape of winged men, birds, snakes and a great bell. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Milton after Antoine Cardon

Chinese printing, Qing Dynasty. Printers workshop with engraved boards, paper sheets, printing ink, etc. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Chinese paper making, QIng Dynasty
Chinese paper making: young bamboo shoots are stripped of their bark, beaten and soaked in river water for a fortnight. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon

Chinese man writing with a brush at a desk, Qing Dynasty
Chinese man writing with a brush at a desk. The brush is made of rabbit hair and bamboo. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Freschi after Antoine Cardon from Henri-Leonard-Jean-Baptiste

Oriental paperbush, Edgeworthia tomentosa
Oriental paperbush or mitsumata, Edgeworthia tomentosa (Golden edgworthia, Edgworthia chrysantha). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake

Paper mulberry tree, Broussonetia papyrifera (Morus papyrifera). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis Botanical Magazine

A worker using mechanical power to press paper in a mill. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Caper spurge or paper spurge, Euphorbia lathyris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Dr. Willibald Artus Hand-Atlas sammtlicher mediinisch-pharmaceutischer Gewachse

The Illustrated London News - publishing office 1843
Saturday scene at The Illustrated London News publishing office. 1843

Adverts, Annandale & Son Ltd, John Mackay & Co, Scotland
Adverts for Annandale & Son Ltd, Polton Paper Works, Midlothian, and John Mackay & Co, Manufacturing Chemists, Edinburgh, Scotland. 1905

Stationery, Walter Llewellyn & Co, Eastbourne, Sussex
Stationery, Walter Llewellyn & Co, Carpenters, Joiners, Plumbers, Painters, Glaziers, Paper Hangers and House Decorators, Ceylon Place, Eastbourne, Sussex. 1900

Advert, Clyde Paper Company Ltd, Rutherglen
Adverts, Clyde Paper Company Ltd, Rutherglen, and John & James White, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Lady reading the newspaper in bed. circa 1900

Box lid, Kindergarten Paper Modelling game
Box lid, Father Tucks Kindergarten Paper Modelling, childrens game

Female clowns, Nouveau-Cirque, Paris, France
Female clowns at the Nouveau-Cirque, Paris, France. circa 1900

Lady with Chinese lantern
Lady at a masked ball holding a Chinese lantern. 1920s

Early form of typewriter by Hall, USA 1885
An early form of inexpensive, portable typewriter by Hall, USA. Date: 1885

Children making silhouette portraits 1885
Children making silhouette portraits by casting a shadow on the wall, drawing the outline and then cutting it out. Date: 1885

Material shortage during First World War
Material shortage during the First World War - a man with rope, string and rolls of paper. Date: 1914-1918

Cartoons, Gymnastics for Ladies. 1870

Paper cutout silhouette. 19th century

Chinese Rice Paper Drawing - Two Women. 19th century

Chinese Rice Paper Drawing - New Year Celebration. 19th century

Front page of the Military Mail, 4 December 1903
Front page of the Military Mail and Volunteer Review for 4 December 1903, showing advertisements, with a photo of guards in Whitehall, London, in the middle

America - The Stamp Act - Celebrating the repeal of the Act of March 22, 1765 in May 1766 with The Liberty-Pole Festival. The Liberty Pole was known to be a symbol of dissent against Great Britain

The King of Mosquitia in Council 1847
A council session for the King of Mosquita, George Augustus Frederic II. The king sits at the farthest end of the council table, only 14, surrounded by 3 child guards with halberds

Colonel P H Fawcett
Colonel Percy H Fawcett (1867 - 1925), British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America. 1932

Amazonian Adventure - article in the Sphere
Amazonian Adventure - an account of a 3, 000 mile-journey along the Amazon written and illustrated by Victor Coverley-Price Date: 1st March 1932

Note paper cover: Pekingese and cockerel
Front cover of a book of note paper( The Aristocrat - a note paper of style ), featuring a Pekingese and a cockerel, framed with an stylized border. Date: c. 1920s

Front cover of How to be Happy though Married, E J Hardy
Colour front cover of How to be Happy though Married, Being a Handbook to Marriage by Reverend E J Hardy. Published by T Fisher Unwin, London, 1885. Date: 1885

Front cover of Manners and Rules of Good Society, or Solecisms to be Avoided, By a Member of the Aristocracy, published by Frederick Warne and Co, London, 1887 Date: 1887

Front cover of Manners for Men By Mrs Humphry
Colour front cover of Manners for Men by Mrs Humphry, " Madge" of " Truth", showing a lady and gentleman greeting each other cordially

Stitchery, edited by Flora Klickmann
Black and white advert for Stitchery on the inside back cover of The Etiquette of To-Day, edited by Flora Kliclmann published by the Girls Own Paper, circa 1914

Illustration - The Large Establishment
Black and white illustration of a parlourmaid attending to the lady of the house in her drawing room, page 105 of The Etiquette of To-day book, published by the Girls Own Paper, circa 1914

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