Vermin Collection

Advertisement for Keatings Powder
An advertisement for Keatings Powder, to rid your clothes of bugs, fleas, beetles, moths, and other distressing insects. Remember to take it with you on holiday! Date: 1913

Boots advertisement WW1 - comforts for the trenches
Boots advertisement warning Remember, there are no Chemists Shops in the Trenches. Their suggestions for comforts to send to men at the front include foot comfort, Meloids for a sore throat

Dick Whittington by Arthur Rackham
Dick Whittington arrives on the coast of Barbary, and everyone from the ship is entertained by the Moors. When they are invaded by rats and mice

Photograph of Indian troops lined up to receive inoculations, 1916 (c). The high temperatures in Mesopotamia, alongside poor medical facilities, flies

Domestic goats and fallow or venison deer
Domestic goats, Capra aegagrus hircus, and fallow or venison deer, Dama dama. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from William Smellies translation of Count Georges Buffons History of the Earth

Cartoon, Horrible Incident in Real Life
The master of a household visits the kitchen to get a little supper after the servants have gone, only to find it crawling with cockroaches. 1852

Aberdeen Terriers were originally bred as hunters of vermin, foxes and badgers. Artist: Philip Stretton Date: 1908

Rat catcher with a wooden leg. 17th century

Brown rat, Rattus norvegicus (Mus decumanus). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

Black rat, Rattus rattus (Mus rattus), caught in a mousetrap. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from William Jardines Naturalists Library, Edinburgh, 1836

Emigration - Fleas and Rats. 19th century

Cot header design, Rat Landlord and Mouse

Cartoon, How to Treat the Female Chartists -- cockroaches, rats and mice should see off the most ferocious crowd of females. Date: 1848

Seeking to arrest the dread disease: ridding the infected district of creatures likely to carry plague-microbes. Illustrative diagram in The Illustrated London News showing how a major cull of rats

Galician granary - 02
Galician granaries, on a farm in Northern Spain Date: 1990

Galician granary - 01
Galician granary, on a farm in Northern Spain Date: 1990

Ratting in the trenches, WWI
Ratting: The New Sport in the Trenches. British soldiers follow a terrier as it dashes along a trench on the Western Front in pursuit of a rat

Cat and owl as rat catchers on a Christmas card
Cat and owl as rat and mouse catchers on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Wild Life on the Western Front - Rats in the Trenches
Rats grown to aldermanic size pictured scuttling around the trenches on the Western Front. The vermin were a perennial problem during the conflict. Date: 1917

Susi - on chair, with mouse below
Susi - on a chair, with a mouse below. 1950s

Boots - Comforts for Campaginers advertisement, WWI
Advertisement for Boots the Chemists and their various suggestions for comforts - gifts to send to men fighting at the front during the First World War

Dog with a rat on a kennel-shaped New Year card
Dog with a rat in its mouth on a kennel-shaped New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Dog with a rat on a kennel-shaped Christmas card
Dog with a rat in its mouth on a kennel-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Six mice on a table on a cutout Christmas card
Six mice nibbling food on a table on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

New Year card in the shape of a wickerwork basket containing white mice. Date: circa 1890s

Three mice and a pipe on a cutout Christmas card
Three mice, a pipe and playing cards on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two mice inside a coconut on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Uncovered cheese dish on a cutout Christmas card with verse, and three mice making a meal of it. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Three mice eating cheese on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Candle and two mice on a cutout greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Candle holder and mouse on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Two mice eating a playing card on a postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Two mice eating a Russian stamp on a postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Two mice eating a telegram on a New Year postcard
Two mice eating a telegram on a French New Year postcard. Date: circa 1906

Kitten, saucer and mouse. 1950s

Various Dogs of 1810
Cur or cattle dog : Bull or Beast Dog; Rough Water Dog; Mastiff or Guard Dog; Dalmatian or Coach Dog; Shepherds Dog; Newfoundland Dog : Terrier or Vermin Dog. Date: circa 1810

Two mice in an envelope on a Christmas card. 1880s

Two owls watching mice on a Christmas card
Two owls watching mice eating apples and cheese on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Four rats and a barrel on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Rat catching on the home front during WWI
The Emancipation of Women - another sphere of industry. A member of a family of a resident in Camberwell who is the official rat-catcher to the London County Council

Mrs Lawrence & Mrs Mason carbonising garments for troops, WW1
Mrs Lawrence and Mrs Barry Mason, pictured in workrooms where military garments were carbonised, in order to give protection from vermin

Three Blind Mice by George Studdy
Three little mice, somewhat the worse for wear having polished off a glass of wine at an empty restaurant table. Date: 1915

Rags the puppy catches a rat
Well Caught! -- Rags the puppy catches a rat. Date: 1912

Candle holder and mouse on a cutout Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas card in the shape of a honey pot with mouse
Christmas card in the shape of a honey pot with an escaping mouse. Date: circa 1890s

The Pied Piper
A rat catcher with a coat of many colours came forward and oprmised to rid the town of vermin for a large sum of money and the citizens were united with him and assured him of his salary

J Hassall. Dickory, dickory, dock
Dickory, dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, down the mouse run, Dickory dickory dock. A frightened little girl stands on a stool at the side of the clock. 20th century

Dutch poster warning against the Black Market
Dutch poster warning people that the Black Market is a form of theft -- don t steal from your countrymen, ensure equal distribution for all! Showing a rat eating grain from a torn sack. 1940s

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