Poultry Collection (page 9)

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

Dutch scout feeding chickens, Holland
A Dutch scout feeding chickens on a farm, Holland

Hen coops
Various hen coops from the Gardeners & Poultry Keepers Guide Date: 1908

Duck houses
Various duck houses from the Gardeners & Poultry Keepers Guide Date: 1908

Dog kennels
Various dog kennels from the Gardeners & Poultry Keepers Guide Date: 1908

Poultry coops
Various poultry coops from the Gardeners & Poultry Keepers Guide Date: 1908

Pigeon cotes
Various pigeon cotes & pigeon houses from the Gardeners & Poultry Keepers Guide Date: 1908

Guinea-pig house from the Gardeners & Poultry Keepers Guide Date: 1908

Bicycle shed
Lean-to bicycle shed from the Gardeners & Poultry Keepers Guide Date: 1908

Keepers hut & store from the Gardeners & Poultry Keepers Guide Date: 1908

Aftermath of major fire, Smithfield Poultry Market, London
The aftermath of a fire at Smithfield Poultry Market, London, on 23 January 1958, looking north along the eastern gangway, taken about 36 hours after the fire had broken out

Third act of the play Chantecler by Rostand, 1910
A scene from the third act of the play Chantecler by Edmond Eugene Alexis Rostand. Lucien Guitry plays the cockerel Chantecler, the eponymous hero of the play. Date: 1910

Major fire, Smithfield Poultry Market, London
A major fire at Smithfield Poultry Market, London, on 23 January 1958 -- firefighters with hosepipes and a Dennis fire engine (rubble from roadworks not connected with fire)

Scenes from the play Chantecler by Rostand, 1910
A page from Femina magazine, showing scenes from the first and second act of the play Chantecler by Edmond Eugene Alexis Rostand

Bonzo, Chee-Kee and Jock by George Studdy
Bonzo, Chee-Kee and Jock suddenly remember their New Years Resolutions, and help to remove the feathers from a delivery of poultry. Date: 1924

The Seven Good Deeds of Bonzo (Saturday) -- he gives the fattened Christmas turkey a little exercise. Date: 1923

Hungry Peter as a piglet stealing poultry food
First Come, First Served -- Hungry Peter as a piglet unwittingly stealing the food from the cock and hens, who peck at him and drive him away. Date: 1912

Poultry yard 1895
Three children feeding the chickens. Date: 1895

Poland fowls and speckled Hamburg hens
Cocks and chickens: Poland fowls and speckled Hamburgs

Man feeding poultry, watched by a boy
A man feeding poultry in a large back garden, watched by a little boy. Date: 1920s

Geese at Bolingey, near Perranporth, Cornwall
Geese in the village of Bolingey, near Perranporth, Cornwall. A man stands at the side of a cart in the background. Date: 1922

Nursery Rhymes -- bull and dog, cockerel
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations, showing a bull tossing an unfortunate dog into the air, and a cock crowing at sunrise, waking all the farmyard animals. Date: early 20th century

Nursery Rhymes -- Golden Egg
Nursery Rhymes -- two scenes from the Goose that laid the Golden Egg, showing Mother Goose and her owl outside her cottage (above), and two men on a country road with the golden egg (below)

Cover design, Nursery Rhymes, showing Mother Goose flying through the air. Date: early 20th century

Baby Scouts -- crying baby
Baby Scouts -- Why, what are all these sobs and tears about -- they said he was too young to be a scout! Date: 1900

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