Photograph Collection

Army patrol in Malaya, 1957
Photograph of an Army patrol in Malaya, 1957.From an album of photographs covering military and social aspects of army life in Malaya, 1957. Date: 1957

Womens Suffrage Millicent Fawcett
Photograph shows Millicent Garrett Fawcett ahead of a banner proclaiming Woman Citizens Mrs. Fawcett, President of the National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies

Frederick Courteney Selous (1851-1917) was one of the most famous big game hunters of his era. He spent much of his life in Africa, but also hunted in North America and Asia Minor

Natal Native Contingent (NCC) armed with assegais
Photograph of members of the Natal Native Contingent (NCC) armed with assegais (short spears) and shields, 1879 (c). The NNC was formed in 1878 to bolster the defences of the British colony of Natal

Paratroops landing on the outskirts of Arnhem
Photograph: Paratroops landing on the outskirts of Arnhem. Taken by Sgt D M Smith, Army Film and Photographic Unit, Arnhem, 17 Sep 1944

Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892)
Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. Born in Leicester 8 February 1825, died London, 16 February 1892

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937)
Carriage drawn by three zebra and a horse, driven by Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937), founder of the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London since 1937

Falco peregrinus, peregrine falcon
A peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) in flight. The peregrine falcon can be seen in most parts of the UK except around london and the home counties. They breed in rocky cliffs and uplands

Church During Thunderstorm with Lightning, Mere, Wiltshire
Church During Thunderstorm with Lightning, Mere, Warminster, near Gillingham, Wiltshire, England. Photograph taken 9.40pm, May 13th Date: 1906

WW1 Machine gunners
Official photograph, Machine gunners. From an album of 24 photographs, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), August to December 1918. Date: 1918

Worlds oldest surviving photograph - Niepce
" Image of Chateau by Nicephore Niepce. He developed heliography, a technique used to produce this image, the worlds oldest surviving photograph in 1825 Date: 1825

Woolwich Ferry
Photograph of the Woolwich Free Ferry. Date: 1909

Street fighting in Stalingrad
Photograph: Street fighting in Stalingrad. A picture from Axis sources shows German soldiers, glad of the shelter of a crater in a Stalingrad street

Capture of Kleve, men of 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders
Photograph, 11 Feb 1945: capture of Kleve, men of 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders supported by tanks of Guards Brigade. Associated with World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945)

Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937)
Lord Rothschild, founder of the Natural History Museum at Tring, riding on the back of a giant tortoise

Erithacus rubecula, European robin
An European robin (Erithacus rubecula) in flight, U.K. Photographed by Frank Greenaway

Result of running into a Teller Mine
Photograph: Result of running into a Teller Mine. Shows the back part of a tank with a broken track in a desert landscape

WW2 - British infantryman in desert fatigues
Photograph of a British infantryman in desert fatigues advancing with fixed-bayonet and a shell bursting in background, El Alamein, 1942

Crocodiles of a Squadron, 141st Regt, R. A. C. (The Buffs)
Photograph: Crocodiles of a Squadron, 141st Regt, R. A. C. (The Buffs) Supporting the 1st Rifle Brigade in the Attack on St Joost, 21st January 1945

Witley Station. The move to Westbury
Photograph: Witley Station. The move to Westbury. Photograph showing a number of tanks, having been loaded onto a train. From a photograph album containing 620 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred

First Aid Nursing Yeomanry ambulance
Photograph: First Aid Nursing Yeomanry ambulance.One of seven photographs relating to the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), 1911-1918, and as depicted in the Bath Tattoo, July 1958. Date: 1911

Three Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineer craftsmen
Photograph of three Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineer craftsmen repairing the engine of an A Squadron, 15/19th Kings Royal Hussars Saracen Armoured Personnel Carrier, Malaya

Giant Ground Sloth, Natural History Museum
Photograph of a Skeleton of the Giant Ground Sloth (Megatherium Americanum). July 1902. Archive ref: PH/173/244 Date: 1902

Coral Gallery c. 1895
Photograph of coral display cases by Anthony Gepp. The Coral Gallery opened in 1881 in the West Wing of the Waterhouse Building. Date: 1881

Henry Williamson in a cemetery somewhere in France
Photograph of Henry Williamson in a cemetery somewhere in France, on his honeymoon in 1925.. Photograph

Smokejacks Brickworks, Surrey
Smokejacks Brickworks in Ockley, Surrey shows part of the Upper Weald Clay Formation of Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) age

Tanks of the 3rd and 4th Sharpshooter
Photograph: Tanks of the 3rd and 4th Sharpshooters in the de-waterproofing area. Shows two lines of tanks with the sea in the background

WW2 - 25 pdr gun in action
Photograph of 25 pdr gun in action. One of 48 photographs collected by Maj M Budd, Royal Artillery, 1942-1952. Associated with World War Two (1939-1945). Date: circa 1860

East African Reconnaissance Regiment in Burma
Photograph of a soldier from the East African Reconnaissance Regiment, checking a machine-gun, Burma, 1945. The East African Reconnaissance Regiment, part of 11th East African Division

Bren Gunner, 7th Gurkha Rifles, Burma, 1944 (c)
Photograph: A well-concealed Bren Gunner of the 7th Gurkha Rifles amongst the thick foliage of the Burmese jungle, 1944 (c)

Dodo skeleton, Raphus cucullatus
The dodo is an icon of extinction, one of the first widely acknowledged cases of a species being wiped out by humans. There are so few complete dodo skeletons that we may never know exactly what they

Geologists at Piltdown
Geologists Association party visiting the pit at Piltdown on 12 July 1913

Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892)
Portrait of Sir Richard Owen, an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Picture shows Owen and the skeleton of Dinornis maximus, c. 1877. From The Life of Owen (1894)

Lynx sp. lynx
Stuffed specimen from the collection of the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

Piltdown forgery meeting
Meeting to present the extent of the forgery at the Geological Society of London at Burlington House on 30 June 1954

Waiting for the rabbit to bolt
Photograph: Waiting for the rabbit to bolt From an album of 101 photographs, with newspaper cuttings, 1st Bn Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge?s Own), Cyprus, 1955-1958. Date: 1957

Pte J Connington of Selby, Yorks, in action with Sten gun
Photograph: Pte J Connington of Selby, Yorks, in action with Sten gun. Taken by Sgt D M Smith, Army Film and Photographic Unit, Arnhem, 20 Sep 1944

Fitters local protection
Photograph: Fitters local protection. Shows a White scout car fitted with a gun and a number of men lying on the ground aiming machine guns to the left of the photograph

Emu by Gambier Bolton
Emu photogrpaph by Gambier Bolton, F Zs 354, held at The Natural History Museum at Tring

Group of Kangaroos by Gambier Bolton
Group of Kangaroos photogrpaph by Gambier Bolton, F Zs 553, held at The Natural History Museum at Tring

Geological Gallery Natural History Museum 1892
Photograph of the Geological Gallery, with American mastodon in the foreground. July 1892. Archive ref: PH/173/243 Date: 1892

Plecotus sp. long-eared bat
A long-eared bat in flight (a microbat belonging to the Vespertilionidae family of vesper or evening bats). Photograph published in Bats by Phil Richardson, a Natural History Museum publication, 2002

View of Sydney Harbour, Sydney, Australia
A photograph taken during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

British psychic medium Stella Cranshawe
Photographs of British psychic medium Stella C (Stella Cranshawe) and Harry Prices investigations into her ability, . Photograph of smoked tin plate marked by psychic structures during the Stella C

South Africa Hottentot. Bush woman
Old photograph from the Collection anthropologigue du Prince Roland Bonapart

Photograph of the steam locomotive Lord Faringdon 1169, fitted with the Robinson superheater. Signed Mr G Robinson, with specifications for the locomotive on the verso. Date: circa 1880s

David Frances Barry photo - Sioux Scout
Sioux Scout wearing full traditional native American clothing, including a feather in his hair and a hairpipe buffalo bone breastplate, He is holding a long calumet ( peace pipe )

David Frances Barry photo - American Indian man
American Indian man, one feather in his hair. His braids are wrapped with fur and cloth. He is wearing traditional trousers and an American army jacket and holdgin a pistol

Black magic experiment by Harry Price on the Brocken
Photographs concerning the black magic experiment conducted by Harry Price on the Brocken, Germany. Photograph of Harry Price and C.E.M.Joad standing in front of the Goose Girl fountain in Gottingen

Avro York C Mk. II prototype LV626
The sole Avro York C Mk.II prototype LV626, converted from the 1st prototype York, fitted with Bristol Hercules radial engines and the central auxiliary fin, as fitted to production Yorks

United States Army Air Force Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain 41-18608 (MSN 4769) to USaF 25 October 1942, bailed to the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE), Boscombe Down

Vintage Photograph China c. 1900 - Boxer rebellion or uprising
Vintage Photograph China c.1900 - Boxer rebellion or uprising, Yihetuan Movement - image from an album of a British soldier who took part of the supression of the uprising - Boxer hold-out near Anting

Photograph of Ginger Rogers, 1930 Date: 1930

Photograph of Chester Hales ballet at the Capitol Theatre, New York, 1931 Date: 1931

Photograph of a couple entering the 1343rd hour
Photograph of a very fatiqued couple entering the 1343rd hour in Chicagos dance marathon, 1931 Date: 1931

Vienna, Wien Austria, Museum
Vintage 19th century photograph- Vienna, Wien Austria, Museum

Pont / bridge d Iena, and Trocadero, Paris France
Vintage 19th century photograph- Pont / bridge d Iena, and Trocadero, Paris France

Vienna, Wien, Austria Rathaus or City Hall
Vintage 19th century photograph- Vienna, Wien, Austria Rathaus or City Hall

Photograph of a portrait of Unwin by Speed Harold. Date: circa 1920

Alascheir Railway Asia Minor constructed by Samuel Bayliss
Photograph from an original album, Alascheir Railway Asia Minor constructed by Samuel Bayliss, CE, belonging and inscribed to Charles Goeschler, Smyrna Cassaba Railway by Bayliss

Photograph of Lord Dudley Gordon unveiling a plaque commemorating the founding of IMechE on the site. At the time, being the Curzon Street goods offices of the London Midland Region

Name plate for loco The Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Photograph of the casting of a name plate for a locomotive named The Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Date: circa 1980

Photograph showing a workshop / class room of IAE Members
Photograph showing a workshop/class room of IAE Members. Date: circa 1970s

Photograph of 30 ton freight carriage, 31177. Date: circa 1908

Set of wheels for Webbs compound passenger engine
Photograph showing set of wheels for Webbs compound passenger engine. Date: 1882

Locomotive no 300 Webbs patent compound engine
Photograph of Locomotive no 300 Webbs patent compound engine, side view. Date: 1882

James Watt Planing Machine
Photograph of James Watt Planing Machine, originally installed in the Soho Foundry of Boulton and Watt, Birmingham which was purchased by Avery in 1895

Photograph of Old Face Plate Lathe, originally installed in the Soho Foundry of Boulton and Watt, Birmingham which was purchased by Avery in 1895. The lathe taking work up to 26 feet diameter

Thames River Pleasure Steamer Golden Spray II, Westminster
The Thames River Pleasure Steamer Golden Spray II moored at a jetty on the Westminster Embankment, London - Photograph taken from Westminster Bridge - Coronation of Elizabeth II. Date: 1953

Photograph of Trees in light
Lantern slide of trees in the light Date: circa 1910

Redcurrants
Photograph of redcurrant bush laden with fruit. Date: 1936

David Frances Barry photo - Native American Pots
Various clay pots used by native American Indians.. Photograph by David Frances Barry. Date: 1880

David Frances Barry photo - Two young chiefs
Two young chiefs wearing American traditional dress, including beaded moccasin, beaded leather belts, hairpipe buffalo-bone breastplate and choker. The chief on the left is holding an axe

David Frances Barry photo - Chief Hand Horn
Chief Hand Horn and his two wives in full traditional native American dress including beaded moccasins and leather belt. Hand Horn is wearing tights and a roach headdress

David Frances Barry photo - Chief Hand Horn & his son
Chief Hand Horn and his son wearing full traditional native American dress including beaded moccasins, a leather belt and roach headdresses

David Frances Barry photo - Chief Vien
Chief Vien, wearing a western three- piece suit with a scarf is wrapped around his neck. Photograph by David Frances Barry. Date: 1880

David Frances Barry photo - Chief Bull Head
Chief Bull Head, two feathers in his hair, his braids are wrapped with fur and he is wearing traditional Native American necklaces.. Photograph by David Frances Barry. Date: 1880

David Frances Barry photo - Wolf Chief
Wolf chief wearing traditional dress and jewellery, including a beaded necklace, earrings and rings. His hair styled in plaits wrapped with fur and cloth. Wolf is wrapped with a heavy blanket

David Frances Barry photo - Son of his Star
Son of His Star seated outdoors in full traditional dess including moccasins and earrings. He wears a ceremonial Otter-fur turban and is holding a long calumet (peace pipe)

David Frances Barry photo - Chief Black Tongue
Chief Black Tongue of the Cheyenne tribe, wrapped in a blanket and holding a Head and Tail Fan traditionally used in ritual dance. Photograph by David Frances Barry. Date: 1880

David Frances Barry photo - Native American man
Native American man wearing traditional clothes and jewellery and an American soldiers hat uniform decorated with 2 feathers. He is holding a U.S. Cavalry sword in his hands

David Frances Barry photo - Ree Squaws
Ree Squaw women and children with wooden houses in the background. The wives and children of Struck𢹰 the𒥥, a chief of the Native American Yankton Sioux tribe

David Frances Barry photo - Sioux teepees
Gros Ventres Village depicting Sioux teepees on the plain.. Photograph by David Frances Barry. Date: 1880

David Frances Barry photo - Chief Rain in the Face
Chief Rain in the Face (1835𱹰 5) of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe, Sioux, Dakota, wearing a single feather in his hair

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