Smell Collection

His Masters Breath - Satire
His Masters Breath Satirical play on the dog/gramophone logo for His Masters Voice, substituting the music player for a whiskey jar and funnel

Joy of Perfect Cooking
The Joys of Perfect Cooking promises delicious food for the home. Woman, women, kitchen, advert advertising, advertisement

Hamemalis Mollis (Witch Hazel)
Hamemalis (or Hamamelis) Mollis (Witch Hazel), a large shrub or small tree of the Hamamelidaceae family, native to areas of China

Sulphur Well at Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales - a spa town, which grew up following the discovery of waters with amazing healing properties in 1732, by the Rev. Theophilus Evans

Strong Cheese repels diner and waiter
One of the Market Reports illustrated postcard series. Cheese: " Supply much stronger, but very little demand." This commodities phrasiology is illustrated by a waiter struggling to cope

Surrey Cottages
Picturesque black and white cottages and the fragrant smell of woodsmoke complete this beautiful corner of rural England, Eashing, a tiny hamlet near Godalming, Surrey

Cheery Families - Mr Fin the Fishmonger. 1890s

Blackfly antenna
Scanning electron microscope image of a blackfly antenna (x 350). These long sensory organs feel and taste objects as well as sensing vibrations and smells (x 1.1K)

Seaside Weather Forecasts - Strong smelling Fish
Seaside Weather Forecasts - Very Fresh - Strong Wind Blowing Some rather strong-smelling Fish causes a group of beachgoers to be blown-away by the asault of the pungent aroma encountered!

Fox Hounds
The foxhound is a type of large hunting hound bred for strong hunting instincts, a keen sense of smell, and their bark, energy, drive, and speed. Artist: George Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

Advert, Hudson's Extract of Soap, railway signalman shining a beam of light Date: 1888

Advert, Bryant & May's Patent Safety Matches. Date: 1868

GAS LIGHTING IN 1807
THE GOOD EFFECTS OF CARBONIC GAS !!! - neighbours complain of the smoke or of being asphyxiated, pedestrians whinge about the smell and one coughs himself to death... Date: 1807

Comic postcard, Two women argue in street Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman and plumber Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Little girl in train compartment Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Pretty young woman and pig - enjoying the country air Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, family wearing gas masks, WW2 - beans for dinner! Date: circa 1940s

Foxhound
A foxhound is a type of large hunting hound bred for strong hunting instincts, great energy, and, like all scent hounds, a keen sense of smell. Artist: Cecil Aldin Date: circa 1910

Man beating a stubborn horse with a cudgel, while the owner Widow Carzy waves a broom at him. Sign reads Neat chaises and saddle horses to lett by the Widow Carzy. Symptoms of Restiveness

Cartoon, Don t You Smell Fire? (Mr and Mrs Bull)
Cartoon, Don t You Smell Fire? Mrs Britannia Bull tells her husband John that he should investigate a nasty smell of something smouldering -- smoke can be seen on the right

Anatomy of the human nose, mouth and finger
Anatomy of the human nose, mouth, tongue, jaw and teeth, showing the senses of taste, smell and touch. Lithograph from Lorenz Okens Universal Natural History

The Young Chemist or Young Scientist. 19th century

Cartoon, Sanitary and insanitary matters
Larger figure representing the industries surrounding the River Thames like the soup boiling factory where bones were used and the knackers yard where injured animals were taken to be slaughtered

Comic Spanish postcard -- Look through that window, you ll see an elegant woman, but don t get too close, because of asphyxiating gases! Date: circa 1930s

The sweetness of spring. A woman dressed in a pink summer dress and sun hat, holds a bunch of freshly picked wild flowers. Date: C. 1920s

Tourists in a Greek street
Tourists from Western Europe find the smells in a Greek street hard to take. Date: 1896

Droste Drinking Chocolate Tin - Haarlem, The Netherlands
Droste Drinking Chocolate Tin - manufactured at Haarlem, The Netherlands. Date: circa 1930s

Palawan Monitor Lizard - rests on a path with its tongue outstretched (the tongue has a highly developed olfactory sense) to smell a visitor (Varanus marmoratus)

Russian Desman - searches environment with its sense of smell after feeding on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture (Desmana moschata)

Photography of a Smell by F Breitenbach
The odour of camphor made visible: photography of a Smell by F Breitenbach. Exhibited in the Royal Photographic Societys annual exhibition, with an explanatory note headed

Lawson Wood - Pre-War Gran pop?
Humorous illustration by Lawson Wood showing a small monkey and the famous orang utan character called Granpop eating boiled eggs

1906 / RUSSIA / FUMES
Do I smell something burning? Tsar Nicholas II becomes aware of the fumes of discontent from the Duma and hate from anarchists

Tourist and food in Egypt
A tourist in Egypt rejects a plate of food brought to him by a waiter, as the smell is too offputting for his delicate nose. Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Take back the Heart that thou gavest -- a female customer rejects the heart delivered by the butcher as it seems to be past its use-by date. Date: circa 1905

Two women with smelling salts. 19th century

Boy and girl with a basket of flowers on a Victorian scrap. circa 1890s

Dog slipping off Tabithas window sill
A dog, Rags, spying on Tabithas tea party, slips off Tabithas window sill when Forager, supporting him on his back, decides to sit down. Date: 1914

Hungry Peter dressing as the Fat Boy in Pickwick
Hungry Peter dressing for a fancy dress ball as the Fat Boy in Pickwick -- he is finding the breeches rather tight, but then that is the general idea. Date: 1914

Cartoon, Asphyxiating gases, WW1
Cartoon, Asphyxiating gases, showing a French soldier standing in a hole and holding his nose. He says: They re not dead yet, but they already stink! Date: 1915

Russian Desman - adult - searches environment with its sense of smell - probing air with flexible nose - typical posture (Desmana moschata )

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)

Russian Desman - adult on hind legs, searches environment with its sense of smell (Desmana moschata). Okskii Biospheric Nature Reserve; river Oka valley, Central Russia

Russian Desman - female searches environment with its sense of smell, typical posture (Desmana moschata). Okskii Biospheric Nature Reserve; river Oka valley, Central Russia

Russian Desman - adult female - searches environment with its sense of smell after feeding on a fresh-water mussel, typical posture (Desmana moschata)

Dutch boy scouts training their sense of smell
Dutch boy scouts wearing blindfolds, training their sense of smell

Fire safety at bedtime -- a staged photograph for a Safe at Night fire prevention scheme, 28 February 1969. This family have been woken by a smell of smoke

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