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Background imageSearch Collection: RAF 22 Squadron Search and Rescue

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Spain. Asturias. Woman fetching water. Fount Castaneu. Engra

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Four women police officers doing luggage search, WW2

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Police officers with dogs, conducting a search, London

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Police officers preparing to conduct a search, London

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Woman police dog handler with drug sniffer dog, London

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Warming apparatus - Sir John Franklin search expedition

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

Background imageSearch Collection: LA Perouse Anchor Found

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Siegfrieds Farewell

Siegfrieds Farewell
Prelude : Siegfried leaves Brunnhilde in search of adventure

Background imageSearch Collection: Dowsing / Holding the Rod

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Dog War Work Red Cross

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

Background imageSearch Collection: St Bernard Finds Victim

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

Background imageSearch Collection: French police searching a suspect

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Mr. Young describing search for Livingstone

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Water Divining

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Testing Candidates by William Heath Robinson

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Foxhunters and hounds in pursuit of the fox

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Illustration, The Water of Life

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

Background imageSearch Collection: WW1 - Zeppelin holding up Norwegian Vessel, North Sea, 1915

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Cl魥nt-Bayard Vintage Car

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Gold Mining in California. Scenes of the 1849 Californian

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Search for Collared (Dicrostonix torquatus)

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Russian Desman - pops out of water to search the

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)

Background imageSearch Collection: Russian Desman - pops its nose out of water to

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)

Background imageSearch Collection: Taiga forest in winter - Old oil search cutting

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Darkling Beetle - runs around a sand dune in search

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Northern Red-backed Vole - in search of food

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Blitz in London -- rescue squad at sub-station, WW2

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Woman Power

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Lincoln Ellsworth and pilots trans-Antarctica flight

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Found long missing Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Lincoln Ellsworth and pilot making preparations

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

Background imageSearch Collection: The Missing Mas-Cat by H. M. Bateman

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Searchlights in London 1914, by Joseph Pennell

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

Background imageSearch Collection: Bonzo in search of his forefathers by George Studdy

Bonzo in search of his forefathers by George Studdy
Bonzo finds a trace of his ancestral courage in an old tapestry -- he notices his ancestor running away from a wild boar, while bigger and braver dogs confront it. Date: 1924

Background imageSearch Collection: Homeless women at Melle, Belgium, WW1

Homeless women at Melle, Belgium, WW1
Homeless women searching through rubble for lost belongings at Melle, Belgium, in the early weeks of the First World War. Date: 1914

Background imageSearch Collection: Longest syphon in the world, built by Yukon Gold Company

Longest syphon in the world, built by Yukon Gold Company
Longest syphon in the world, built by the Yukon Gold Company to facilitate the search for gold during the Klondike Gold Rush. It was 15, 760 feet long. Date: circa 1906

Background imageSearch Collection: Piltdown Man: Dawson and Smith-Woodward search for more bone

Piltdown Man: Dawson and Smith-Woodward search for more bone
Seeking remains of the oldest known Englishman: looking for relics of the Piltdown Man. Charles Dawson and A. Smith-Woodward searching for other parts of the skeleton on the site of the first

Background imageSearch Collection: Habitual Criminals Bill

Habitual Criminals Bill
As a result of the Habitual Criminals Bill which has recently passed through the House of Lords, constables were authorised to summarily apprehend, without warrant, ticket-of-leave men

Background imageSearch Collection: Up the Bole! by William Heath Robinson

Up the Bole! by William Heath Robinson
Curious disguise assumed by wireless enthusiast to escape payment of his licence. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Date: 1925

Background imageSearch Collection: Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello
LUIGI PIRANDELLO Italian playwright, author of Six characters in search of an author, Enrico quattro etc. Date: 1867 - 1936

Background imageSearch Collection: Hannah more (Clint)

Hannah more (Clint)
HANNAH MORE prolific writer (mainly religious) and teacher, her best known work Coelebs in search of a wife : friend of Johnson, Horace Walpole etc. Date: 1745 - 1833

Background imageSearch Collection: Hannah more (Bird)

Hannah more (Bird)
HANNAH MORE prolific writer (mainly religious) and teacher, her best-known work Coelebs in search of a wife; friend of Johnson, Horace Walpole etc. Date: 1745 - 1833

Background imageSearch Collection: Humphry Mill

Humphry Mill
HUMPHRY MILL writer, author of The night search Date: circa 1646

Background imageSearch Collection: Tot Inchley

Tot Inchley
TOT INCHLEY You may search the land From Frome to Finchley, But no one will tell you WHO was Tot Inchley... Date: CIRCA 1823

Background imageSearch Collection: Bell Model 47 being used to aid the search for oil in Pa?

Bell Model 47 being used to aid the search for oil in Pa?
Bell Model 47 being used to aid the search for oil in Papua in 1954 unloads supplies near Seismic One Camp

Background imageSearch Collection: Bell Model 47D being used to aid the search for oil in W?

Bell Model 47D being used to aid the search for oil in W?
Bell Model 47D being used to aid the search for oil in Western New Guinea in 1953

Background imageSearch Collection: Digging for gold in British Guiana (now Guyana)

Digging for gold in British Guiana (now Guyana). Placer washing as carried out by the tributor or Port Knocker. Date: circa 1910s



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