Pelts Collection

All the animals whose pelts were favoured by the fashion industry in 1908. 1. American Wolf, 2. Brown Bear, 3. Skunk, 4. Canadian Wolf, 5. Coyote, 6. Grey Squirrel, 7. Common Squirrel, 8

Canadian Fur Exhibit - London Exhibition
Canadian Fur Exhibit by Holt, Renfrew and Co, Ltd. of Toronto (est. 1837) at the Franco-British Exhibition, London 1908

Two Mounted Stag heads and Beaver pelts given to King George
Two Mounted Stag heads and Beaver pelts yielded and paid to his Majesty King George VI by the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudsons Bay under the terms of their Charter

Paris Exhibition 1900 - Stuffed Animals and Pelts
Lantern slide of Russia - in Paris Exhibition 1889, showing stuffed wild animals and pelts.. Part of Box 198 Paris Exhibition, coloured slide, no. 30 Date: 1889

Edwardian Lady wearing furs Date: 1913

A young flapper woman reclining on a snow leopard pelt. Date: 1928- 1929

Politician pelted with rotten eggs
A Politician (Juggins) is pelted with rotten eggs at a hustings. A clever play on words on this postcard from the Market Reports series

Russian Fur Merchant
A Northern fur-merchant in Russia bargains a group of trappers over the price of some pelts. Date: 1913

Fur Traders Wife - Southern Russia
A Fur traders wife in fine attire standing alongside the results of her husbands work

Sheep Shearing in Bulgaria - tying up the recently-shorn fleeces

Ona Indians from Tierra del Fuego
Ona Indians - Indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego, Southern Argentina, wearing Guanaco skin cloaks

Stitching Fur Cloaks
Men at tables in a workshop surrounded by pelts stitch fur cloaks. A customer lays down his money & places his order. The fur could possibly be ermine

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