Poultry Collection (page 8)

Turkey and pudding on a Christmas card
A live turkey with a little boy, and a pudding in a saucepan, on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Father Christmas apparition on a Christmas card
Father Christmas awful apparition on a Christmas card -- he appears to be terrorising three edible birds with strings of sausages and onions. Date: circa 1890s

Little girl and boy with hens on a Christmas card
Little girl and boy with hens and eggs on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two girls with hens and chicks on a Christmas card
Two girls feeding hens and chicks on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Five cats and a dog on a cutout Christmas card. The cats are enjoying their Christmas dinner, watched hungrily by the dog. Date: circa 1890s

Two clowns with cockerels on a New Year card
Two clowns separating fighting cockerels on a New Year card, with a comic verse. circa 1890s

Clown stealing goose on a Christmas card
Clown stealing a goose from an angry woman on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Clown and jester on a Christmas card -- the clown has dropped all the food and drink from his tray. Date: circa 1890s

Hen and chicks on an Easter card
Hen and chicks on an egg-shaped Easter card. circa 1890s

Three turkeys on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Ducks and a frog on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Children in car chasing goose on an audible greetings card
Two children in a car chasing a goose on an audible greetings card -- The Squawker. Date: circa 1920s

Two boys snowballing on a Christmas card, when they should be making deliveries. Date: circa 1890s

The Brass Rail restaurant, New York City, USA
The Brass Rail restaurant, 7th Avenue and 49th Street, New York City, USA, showing meat cooking in front of burning coals on an English Roasting Jack. Date: circa 1940

Two turkeys and a goose on a Christmas card
Two turkeys and a goose at the wolf hairdressers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Man greeting hog and turkey on a Christmas card
Man greeting a hog and a turkey on a Christmas card, telling them that they are welcome guests for roasting and toasting. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, A false rumour, WW1
Cartoon, A false rumour from the Western Front. Four market women talk about cannibalism among the troops. Date: 1916

Man delivering to butchers shop, Liverpool Road, Eccles
A man delivering meat and poultry to a butchers shop on Liverpool Road, Peel Green, Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977

Cartoon, Golden eggs, WW1
Cartoon, Golden eggs, a comment on the cost of eggs during the First World War. A cockerel says his wife has become very snooty since the value of her eggs went up to nine sous each! Date: 1916

Cartoon, Christmas preparations, WW1
Cartoon, Christmas preparations on the Western Front. French soldiers gather everything together for their Christmas feast, including a bird, some cheese, and some bottles of wine. Date: 1915

Cover design, Two Simple Tales for Simple Folks, a pocket book for children with text by Hs Stirling, illustrated by John Hassall and Cecil Aldin. Showing a crowing cockerel. Date: 1904

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, Farm Babies, showing a white gosling and a yellow duckling. Date: 1909

Trade card, C A Rumpf, poulterer of Nebraska, USA
Trade card for C A Rumpf, wholesale poulterer of Hastings, Nebraska, USA, offering butter and eggs as well as live and dressed poultry at reasonable prices. Date: 1898

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, The Bobtail Puppy Book. A goose laughs at Bill for not having a tail. Date: 1914

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Cock-O-Lorum. Showing a proud cockerel conducting a roll call of all his hens, and finding the independently-minded Hetty missing. Date: 1921

First page of a book by Cecil Aldin, Cock-O-Lorum The Great, in the Letter Book Series. It is in Aldins own handwriting, with his home address at the top: The Kennels, Purley, near Reading. Date: 1921

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, Cock-O-Lorum, in the Letter Book Series. Showing a white cockerel looking directly at the viewer. Date: 1921

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, Cock-O-Lorum The Great, in the Letter Book Series. Showing a proud white cockerel surrounded by admiring hens. Date: 1921

Seminole Indian home, Florida, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Farmyard Friends Painting Book, in Father Tucks Young Artist Series. Showing two geese with their respective young -- The Rivals. Date: 1912

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, Mrs Ticklers Caravan
Cover design, Mrs Ticklers Caravan, a story for children written and illustrated by Cecil Aldin. Showing Mr and Mrs Tickler with their horse-drawn caravan

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. Showing three yellow ducklings with their foster mother, an old white hen. Date: 1921

First page of a book by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. It is in Aldins own handwriting, with his home address at the top: The Kennels, Purley, near Reading. Date: 1921

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. Showing a yellow duckling just emerged from the egg. Date: 1921

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. Showing three yellow ducklings just emerged from the egg. Date: 1921

Illustrations by Cecil Aldin, Black Billy
Two illustrated pages, with handwritten text, by Cecil Aldin, in Black Billy, in the Letter Book Series. Showing Black Billy chasing a cockerel and taking a large bone from his brother Peter

Double page illustration, Mrs Ticklers Caravan, showing what happens when Mr Tickler blows his nose on his new magic handkerchief. Date: 1934

Scene on a dairy farm, Netherlands. Date: early 20th century

Cockerel in blackberry brambles
A cockerel in blackberry brambles. Date: circa 1920s

Hen in clump of leaves
A hen in a clump of leaves. Date: circa 1920s

Cockerel design
A cockerel design. Date: circa 1920s

A duck and a frog. Date: circa 1920s

Swans and geese on water. Date: circa 1920s

Poultry Cross, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Date: 1910s

Woman with a dog and chickens in a garden, France. Date: circa 1910s

WW2 Christmas card, barrage balloon with a delivery of food and drink. Date: circa 1942

Two boys with geese, Allerford, Somerset
Two boys watching white geese in a stream at Allerford, Somerset. Date: circa 1959

Cock in a village yard, typical colouring. Middle Ural mountains, Russia, summer

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