Search Collection (page 3)

Young fashionable lady searches for linen in her Dower Chest
A fashionable young lady kneels in front of an Old English oak Dower chest, searching for a specific item of household linen! Date: 1923

Helicopter search and rescue using thermal camera
Helicopter search and rescue, early use of a thermal infrared camera to find missing people. A woman sits to the left of the pilot, with the camera in front of her. Date: 1972

Air crash investigators with sniffer dog
Three air crash investigators with a sniffer dog in an indoor location with pieces of wreckage from a plane crash set out on the floor. Date: 1960s

Air crash investigator examining debris
An air crash investigator examining a vast pile of wreckage following a plane crash. Date: 1960s

Air crash investigator with sniffer dog
Air crash investigator Ken Jones with Rusty the Alsatian, an air crash investigation sniffer dog, whose task it is to search a vast pile of wreckage for the vital black box (flight data recorder)

Air crash investigation sniffer dog
Rusty the Alsatian, an air crash investigation sniffer dog, searches a vast pile of wreckage for the vital black box (flight data recorder), following a plane crash. Date: 1960s

RAF 22 Squadron Search and Rescue helicopter
A 22 Squadron Royal Air Force Search and Rescue helicopter, based at Thorney Island near Chichester, West Sussex, lands safely

RAF 22 Squadron Search and Rescue
Crew jackets belonging to the No. 22 Squadron, Royal Air Force Search and Rescue, based at Thorney Island near Chichester, West Sussex

Spain. Asturias. Woman fetching water. Fount Castaneu. Engra
Spain. Asturias. San Esteban de Pravia. Woman with traditional costume next to the source of Castaneu. Engraving. 19th century

Four women police officers doing luggage search, WW2
Four women police officers doing a luggage search at an internment camp, Port Erin, Isle of Man, during the Second World War

Police officers with dogs, conducting a search, London
A group of police officers, male and female, belonging to the Special Patrol Group, with police dogs, conducting a search. The WPCs are wearing the Norman Hartnell uniform, introduced in 1968

Police officers preparing to conduct a search, London
A group of police officers (including June Paterson, left), belonging to the Special Patrol Group, preparing to conduct a search with the aid of police dogs

Woman police dog handler with drug sniffer dog, London
Woman police dog handler Sandra Kertzen with drug sniffer dog Snoopy in action, Met Police, London. The yellow labrador was one of the first to be trained by a WPC. (4 of 5) Date: 1971

Warming apparatus - Sir John Franklin search expedition
Warming apparatus on board the ships used in the search for the missing Sir John Franklin expedition. Date: 1848

LA Perouse Anchor Found
The French admiral Dumont d Urville sails to Polynesia in the Astrolabe in search of remains of La Perouse : he dredges up an anchor of the explorers ship off Vanikoro. Date: 1826 - 1829

Siegfrieds Farewell
Prelude : Siegfried leaves Brunnhilde in search of adventure

Dowsing / Holding the Rod
The correct way of holding the hazel twig for dowsing - the search for hidden springs or underground streams. Date: mid 20th century

Dog War Work Red Cross
A Belgian Sheepdog (Groenendale) trained by the French Red Cross, wearing the distinctive medical marking, stands waiting, ready for action. Date: World War One 1914-1918

St Bernard Finds Victim
St Bernard dog finds man burried in the snow Date: circa 1910

French police searching a suspect
Searching a suspect at a prefeture Date: 1869

Mr. Young describing search for Livingstone
Edward J. Young, British explorer of Africa, describing his search for Dr Livingstone at the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society at Burlington House in 1868. 1868

Water Divining - A Book of Practical Instruction by S. N. Pike MBE. Date: 1945

Testing Candidates by William Heath Robinson
Testing candidates for the position of water diviner on the Metropolitan Water Board. Credit must appear as: Courtesy of Mrs J. C. Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library Date: 1947

Foxhunters and hounds in pursuit of the fox. Date: 1926

Illustration, The Water of Life -- Good Dwarf, can you not tell me where my brothers are? Date: 1909

WW1 - Zeppelin holding up Norwegian Vessel, North Sea, 1915
WW1 - An illustration from a German paper, showing a German airship holding up a Norwegian steamer, the Muyrek, in the North Sea

Cl魥nt-Bayard Vintage Car
Cl魥 nt-Bayard Vintage Car, England. Showing Vesta Tilley (Spell as Clement Bayard for search purposes) Date: 1910s

Gold Mining in California. Scenes of the 1849 Californian Gold Rush showing cradling, panning, washing with a long tom and hydraulic mining. Coloured lithograph by Currier and Ives 1871. Litography

Search for Collared (Dicrostonix torquatus) and Siberian Lemmings (Lemmus sibiricus L.) in Russian Arctic. near Kara sea. Russian Arctic, Siberia, Russia

Russian Desman - pops out of water to search the environment with its sense of smell for danger (desmans rarely come out of water), disguising itself in waterplants (Desmana moschata)

Russian Desman - pops its nose out of water to search the environment with its sense of smell for danger (desmans rarely come out of water) (Desmana moschata)

Taiga forest in winter - Old oil search cutting in snow-covered taiga-forest near river Taz. Midwinter; North Tumen region, Siberia, Russia

Darkling Beetle - runs around a sand dune in search of grass sprouts - feeds in dusk and dawn (Sternodes caspicus Pallas). Central Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

Northern Red-backed Vole - in search of food. (Clethrionomys rutilus). Taiga Forest, Hadita near Salehard, North Russia

Blitz in London -- rescue squad at sub-station, WW2
Blitz in London -- a rescue squad at work, searching the debris at 72Z fire sub-station following an air raid, 18 September 1940. Date: 1940

Woman Power
An illustration from the Bystander in 1918, showing the power of women as rays of light, apparently from a pair of female eyes shine upon a soldier

Lincoln Ellsworth and pilots trans-Antarctica flight
Lincoln Ellsworth and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, loading supplies into the " Polar Star", before the flight of the 2000 miles from Dundee Island across the Antarctic to the Bay of Whales

Found long missing Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot
American Lincoln Ellsworth and his British colleague and pilot, Herbert Hollick-Kenyon who on 23 November 1935, started from Dundee Island in an aeroplane Polar Star

Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot making preparations
Lincoln Ellsworth (left) and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon (right), his pilot, making preparations for their trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island in an aeroplane Polar Star

The Missing Mas-Cat by H. M. Bateman
The crew of a Royal Navy battleship search high and low for the ships cat, which is hiding mischievously in the barrel of one of the large guns. Date: 1918

Searchlights in London 1914, by Joseph Pennell
The new lights of London, searchlights playing across the sky from Charing Cross and Lambeth Bridge, by Joseph Pennell. Date: 1914

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