Trunk Collection (page 8)

Leadenhall St Shops
Premises of a furniture warehouse, a naval academy, a stationer, a trunk maker, a silversmith, a tea warehouse and inn, and a hair manufactory ! Date: 1825

Huge Tree Trunk
Two men standing under a huge tree trunk at Yellowstone Park, U.S.A. Date: early 1900s

Hugo De Groot - 7
HUGO DE GROOT (known as GROTIUS) Dutch scholar, imprisoned for his views in 1618 but depicted escaping in a trunk from the castle of Louvestein. Date: 1583 - 1645

A Gnarled Tree Trunk. Hicks, George Elgar 1824-1914

NYK SS Mishima Maru - Japan
N.Y.K. (Nippon Yusen Kaish line) Ocean Liner SS Mishima Maru - Japan - inset photograph on a beautiful decorative postcard Date: 1911

Ancient Plum Tree, Kinoshitagawa, Tokyo, Japan Date: circa 1910s

Mount Fuji, Japan - from Tagonoura (Takaido). Date: circa 1910s

Argentina - Indigenous Tribesmen roll a bottle tree trunk
Argentina - Indigenous Indian Tribesmen on the Pilcomayo River roll a bottle tree trunk. Date: circa 1930s

Mauritania, Africa - Arabs remove bad dates from date palms. Date: circa 1910s

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Is My Journey Really Necessary?
" We have to gain the Victory that is our Task." - Winston Churchill, The Prime Minister Is My Journey Really Necessary

Elderly lady not overly generous with her tipping
" Have you got change for a threepenny-piece, Adolphus? I want to give the porter a gratuity." The porter appears to already be expecting the impending disappointment! Date: 1894

Kenyan boy scaling a tree trunk on the hunt for honey Date: 1930s

Young boy standing amid the divergent trunks of a oak tree Date: early 1950s

WWI - The (German) Fox and the (Allied) Grapes
The Fox and the Grapes - A Hungry Fox, finding that he could not reach some tempting bunches of ripe grapes, declared that they were sour and that he did not want them

Resinier collecting resin of a pine tree, France
Resinier collecting the resin of a leaning pine tree in the Landes Forest, France. The forest is in the historic Gascony natural region of southwestern France now known as Aquitaine

Tapping a tree for resin at Arcachon, France
Woman tapping a tree for resin at Arcachon, France located in the Gironde department, in the Aquitaine region. Date: 1910s

The Undercut of a Californian redwood
The immense Undercut required in the felling of a Californian giant redwood tree Date: circa 1906

Two Edwardian Couples on a jolly jaunt in the countryside. They stop beneath a large tree and are lucky enought to be snapped by a passing photographer. Date: circa 1908

Tree planted by Archibald Bogle and his wife - Myanmar
Tree planted by Major-General Sir Archibald Bogle (1805-1876) and his wife Maynard Eliza Annie (niece of Sir Charles D Oyley) in 1831 at Sittwe (formerly Akyab), Myanmar (Burma)

Whaaru (Leader of the Hursthouse Rescue Party) wearing a cloak and holding a taiaha and his wife on the porch of Huatare Wahanuis House, Alexandra, New Zealand

Christmas card in the shape of a chopping log with axe and seascape. Date: circa 1890s

Dunkleosteus terrelli, fish
Head (larger specimen) and dorsal trunk plate of this placoderm fish seen in dorsal view originating from the Upper Devonian, Cleveland, Ohio

Tubicaulis africanus, tree fern
Common plants of the Palaeophytic. Part of a petrified trunk of the tree fern Tubicaulis africanus, approximately 14cm wide, from the Permian Period, Tanganyika, Africa

Forest giant sketched near Para
Drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace during December 1848

Psaronius, tree fern
Polished section through the trunk of the tree fern Psaronius, width approximately 15 cm, from Chemnitz, Garmany, dating back to the Permian period, 250 - 299 million years ago

Sigillaria laevigata, fossil lycopod bark
This carboniferous fossilised lycopod (prehistoric spore-bearing plants) bark specimen is 9 cm long

Protopteris
Cretaceous fossil trunk from the Czech Republic. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Cycadeoidea microphylla
Jurassic extinct bennettitalean cycad like plant from Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

Passage sur des Troncs d Arbres
Passage on tree trunks. Page 79 from Voyages dans l Amerique du Sud (1883) by J. Crevaux

Mineral replacement
This piece of wood has been replaced with metallic copper. Specimen is from the Mavovouni mines, Cyprus 2, 300 BP. Specimen on display at the Natural History Museum, London

Araucarioxylon arizxonicum, conifer
Polished section through the trunk of Araucarioxylon arizxonicum, the dominant conifer of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA. Width approx. 25 cm. Dates back to the Late Triassic period

Calamites sp. giant horsetail trunk
320-290 million year old specimen of a giant horsetail fern trunk from the Late Carboniferous period, U.K

Gymnosperm, palm & angiosperm
Composite photomicrograph comparing structures visible through a hand-held lens in transverse section of fossil tree trunks: gymnosperm (left), palm (centre) and angiosperm (right)

Sigillaria rugosa, fossil club moss
This section of a club moss trunk displays leaf scars where leaves grew straight out from. Club mosses could grow up to heights of 30 metres

Elephant trunk with numbers

The Treasure trove: a trunk bursts open releasing toys, book
The Treasure trove

A man carrying a shoulder pole with a trunk and bedding for a patron standing on the left. Date 18--

A tree trunk with branch and leaves in the foreground, with

Return of the greatest of all magicians, the Houdinis, Harry, Bessie original introducers of metamorphosis, greatest and finest trunk mystery the world has ever seen, challenge hand-cuff act

Man wearing ceremonial costume, carrying a long staff (possibly a small tree trunk sprouting a branch with leaves) and a fan made of feathers; appears to have wings that terminate in sharp points

Street Shrine in the base of a tree trunk - Pune, India
Street Shrine in the base of a Banyan tree trunk - Pune, India - formerly called Poona, also known as Punya-Nagari, the eighth largest metropolis in India

Log boat - Romania
Crossing a river by a log boat, Romania. Date: circa 1905

Montreal, Canada - Grand Trunk Railway Station Date: circa 1907

Cameroon - Douala. The Canoe Port Date: circa 1910s

Birds in beautiful surroundings
Two birds enjoy one anothers company surrounded by lush, beautiful scenery in this rural idyll. 1925

Hunter with game and shotgun
A hunter stands with one foot on a tree trunk, two dead birds in one hand and his shotgun in the other. Date: circa 1970s

Gabon, Africa - The arrival of a European into the village
Gabon, Africa (at this time one of the four territories of French Equatorial Africa) - The arrival of a European into the village

Tapping for pine resin - Arcachon, France
Tapping for pine resin - Arcachon, Gascony - West coast of France Date: circa 1910

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