Shepard Collection

Mercury 7 Astronauts
The Mercury Project astronauts standing beside a 106-B plane. (l to r) Ms Carpenter, L G Cooper, John H Glenn, V I Grissom, Walter M Schirra, Alan B Shepard and D K Slayton

Project Mercury 7
The original 7 Project Mercury astronauts. Top row (l to r): Alan Shepard, V I Gus Grissom, L G Cooper. Front row (l to r) Walter M Schirra, D K Slayton John Glenn and Scott Carpenter

Paphiopedilum haynaldianum orchid (Cypripedium haynaldianum).. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants

From left: Alan Shepard Jnr, John Glenn and Malcolm Sco?
From left: Alan Shepard Jnr, John Glenn and Malcolm Scott Carpenter during training at Langley Field, Virginia, for their forthcoming Mercury space flights, 11 January 1961. Date: 1961

Flor de Mayo or Christmas orchid, Cattleya trianae. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Lee Shepard

From left: Alan Shepard Jr and John Glenn Jr in the Mer?
From left: Alan Shepard Jr and John Glenn Jr in the Mercury control center on 18 July 1961 prior the sub-orbital flight of Virgil Grissom on 21 July. Date: 1961

Front cover of the Sketch, 19 October 1921, featuring an illustration by E H Shepard. The Sketch clarifies that it has " no connection whatsoever with the " Daily Sketch.". Date: 1921

Autumn laelia orchid, Laelia autumnalis. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Lee Shepard, Boston, 1885

Loddigess cattleya orchid, Cattleya loddigesii. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Lee Shepard

Mosss cattleya or easter orchid, Cattleya mossiae. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Lee Shepard

The beautiful cattleya or azucenas, Cattleya quadricolor. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants

Veitchs masdevallia, Masdevallia veitchiana
Veitchs masdevallia or king of the masdevallias, Masdevallia veitchiana. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids

Paphiopedilum niveum orchid (Cypripedium niveum). Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Lee Shepard

Cymbidium hookerianum orchid. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Lee Shepard, Boston, 1885

Vanda tricolor var. suavis orchid (Vanda suavis). Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Lee Shepard

Ainsworths hybrid dendrobium orchid, Dendrobium x ainsworthii. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after an illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Boston, 1885

Sweet scented lycaste orchid, Lycaste aromatica. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Lee Shepard

Dancing lady orchid, Oncidium alexandrae (Odontoglossum alexandrae). Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids

Dancing lady orchid, Oncidium spectatissimum (Odontoglossum triumphans). Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids

Pansy orchid, Miltoniopsis roezlii (Odontoglossum roezlii album). Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants

Cat s-tail or fox brush orchid, Aerides quinquevulnera. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants

Christmas orchid hybrid, Calanthe x veitchii. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Lee Shepard, Boston

Dancing lady orchid, Oncidium tigrinum (Oncidium barkerii). Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants

Laelia dayana or Cattleya bicalhoi orchid. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after a botanical illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Lee Shepard, Boston

Devons dendrobium orchid, Dendrobium devonianum. Chromolithograph by Hatch Company after an illustration by Harriet Stewart Miner from Orchids, the Royal Family of Plants, Boston, 1885

Astronauts are introduced to the American and foreign p?
Astronauts are introduced to the American and foreign press at a press conference in Washington in summer 1959. From left: Maj Deke Slayton, Cdr Alan Shepard, Cdr Walter Schirra, Maj Virgil Grissom

The first American in space, Commander Alan B. Shepard ?
The first American in space, Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr, is greeted by his daughter, Juliana, 9, on his return home in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on 9 May 1961

President John F. Kennedy presents the National Aeronau?
President John F. Kennedy presents the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Service Medal to Commander Alan Shepard Jr, left

President John F. Kennedy has a National Aeronautics an?
President John F. Kennedy has a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Service Medal returned to him which he dropped while presenting the award to Commander Alan Shepard Jr, left

President John F. Kennedy stoops to retrieve the Nation?
President John F. Kennedy stoops to retrieve the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Service Medal which he dropped while presenting the award to Commander Alan Shepard Jr, left

Alan Shepard Jr walks to Redstone launcher - Cape Canaveral
Alan Shepard Jr walks towards the Redstone launcher at Cape Canaveral prior to his successful 302mile suborbital lob on 5 May 1961. Date: 1961

Alan Shepard Jr lies on his back in a tilting chair dur?
Alan Shepard Jr lies on his back in a tilting chair during final pre-launch checks at hangars Area, on 5 May 1961, shortly before his successful 302mile suborbital lob. Date: 1961

Poppy field and grave of unknown soldier
Wild flowers, including numerous poppies, growing over a ravaged battlefield in France with a solitary wooden cross marking the grave of an unknown soldier. The picture, by Captain E. H

Northern Campus of the City College in New York City
Shepard Hall and Hamilton Gate at the Northern Campus of the City College in Harlem (Manhattan) - New York City, USA. Date: circa 1908

Ernest Howard
ERNEST HOWARD SHEPARD (1879 - 1976), English artist and cartoonist, best known for his illustrations to books by a Milne and Kenneth Grahame

E. H. Shepard & Bruce Ingram, Royal Garrison Artillery, WW1
Some officers of the Royal Garrison Artillery, self-styled The Press Gang. Standing left to right is Sec.-Lieutenant E. H. Shepard of Punch (best-known for drawing Winnie-the-Pooh), Sec. Lieut. D. C

The Christmas Tree by F. Newton-Shepard
A colour illustration of a tree being dressed for Christmas. Date: 22nd December 1900

A Sikorsky UH-34 helicopter lifts the Mercury capsule, Freedom 7, out of the Atlantic following the first US sub-orbital spaceflight carrying astronaut Alan B. Shepard. 5 May 1961. Date: 1961

Celebrated Boston team mill boy and Blondine, owned and driven by John Shepard, esq: record 2:22. Date between 1882 and 1890

Shepherdesses by E. H. Shepard
Gorgeous illustration, a homage to the title of the magazine, The Sketch Book, with shepherdesses in varying states of dress and undress temporarily leave the pages of E. H

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