Vet Collection

Dog Dentist 1930S
Girls watching a dog undergoing a dental check at Bellmead Kennels, Old Windsor, Berkshire, England (the Country Annexe of Battersea Dogs Home). Date: early 1930s

WW2 German U-Boat And Vet
A pair of WW2 illustrations from a children's ABC book. The left image shows a German man smoking from the open hatch of a U-Boat, while the right picture portrays a military vet. Date: circa 1940

Peoples dispensary for sick animals of the poor, established for the sick pets for the poor parts of London. Caravan was fitted with a miniature hospital within

A Cats Hotel in Hammersmith
Page from The Tatler reporting on a cat hotel at Gordon Cottage, Hammersmith. Main photographs shows the cats enjoying their daily brush

Women unloading van outside veterinary hospital 1918
Women photographed unloading a forage van outside a veterinary hospital in London, specialising in the treatment of injured horses

Women queuing with their dogs for RSPCA advice, Sept 1939
A group of women queuing with their dogs for advice on pet safety from two RSPCA doctors. The Sphere informs the reader of clinics in London established by the RSPCA to offer information with regards

Greyhound Derby entries with vet, Northaw, Hertfordshire
Greyhound Derby entries being inspected by a vet at Northaw, Hertfordshire. Date: circa 1934

Days Black Drink - Cures for animals
Advert for Days Black Drink, Cures for Horses, Colts, Cattle and Sheep. 1893

French vet and a sheep
A French vet vaccinates a sheep. Date: 1882

Female vet at horse repository, WWI
A woman vet administering to a horse at an English horse repository during the First World War. 1917

Welfare of horses on His Majestys Service. A female vet giving a horse a check-up during World War I

RSPCA with chimpanzee, Heathrow Airport, London
RSPCA staff with a young chimpanzee, Animal Rescue Centre, Heathrow Airport, London. 1965

RSPCA tending a sick animal, Heathrow Airport, London
RSPCA staff tending a sick animal at the Animal Rescue Centre, Heathrow Airport, London. Date: 1965

Joseph Clover
JOSEPH CLOVER Vet of Norwich, known as the Father of the Veterinary Art. Date: 1725 - 1811

Advert for St Jacobs Oil in yellow wrappers 1888
St Jacobs Oil in yellow wrappers, it conquers pain quickly and surely. It acts like magic, penetrates to the seat of the disease, causes thousands of cases of rheumatism and neuralgia. 1888

Back cover design by Cecil Aldin, The Snob. Fluffikins is given some medicine by the vet, to bring him back to health again after his ordeal. Date: 1904

Marshals and Sherrifs, Marion, Ohio, USA
Veteran Marshals and Sherrifs at a memorial park in Marion, Ohio, USA. Date: circa 1910

Two dogs at a veterinary hospital in Surrey. A partially paralysed smooth fox terrier (above) and a boarhound with a broken tail, wearing an arrangement of surgical bandages to stop him wagging it

Mongrel puppy identified by the vet -- he is a mongrel who has already reached his full size. Date: 1914

Rissos DOLPHIN - Being given medication by vet (Grampus griseus)

Horse ambulance, First World War
A horse drawn ambulance for horses during the First World War, part of a feature on the work of the Army Veterinary Corps in the British Army. Date: 1915

John Keast Lord
JOHN KEAST LORD Naturalist : worked as vet, studied snake-charming, discovered animal species in the course of travels, built private collection. Date: 1818 - 1872

A Back Country Doctor in his Surgery - Australian Outback -combining the facilities of a chemist, doctor, pharmacist and veterinary! Date: circa 1910

Officers of No24 Squadron RAF in France 29 November 1918
Officers of No24 Squadron RAF in France, 29 November 1918. Back row: Lt R.D. Bridgewater, 2nd-Lts J.V. Flanagan, R.A. Eldridge and H.A. Young, Lt V.H. Simmers, 2nd-Lt G.H. Whitehead, Lts N.H

At the vets
People You See. From Teddy Bear (2 July 1966)

Young Vets

Cockatoo undergoing surgery
A Japanese cockatoo in the hands of a surgeon at the Animals Hospital, Pimlico, London. The bird suffered from the inconvenience of an abnormally long beak. (NB: this is not a dead parrot) circa 1911

English vets on the Western Front tend to wounded cavalry horses, injured in recent combat action. Date: circa 1944

French Country Vet
The village doctor in this French country district turns his hand to veterinary work, purging a cow as he might do its owner Date: 1837

Horse in Sling
A horse is placed in a sling by the vet, in order that he can examine and treat it more easily. Date: 1886

Artificial Insemination
A vet uses a syringe to artificially inseminate an unsuspecting cow

Vet Inoculates
A vet inoculates sheep against carbunce at Agerville, using Pasteurs method

Cleaning a Horses Teeth
Cleaning a horses teeth

Vet Gives Tb Jab to Cow
A pedigree Red Poll heifer being inoculated against tuberculosis

Lamb with Foot Rot
Treating a lamb for foot rot on a Warwickshire farm, England

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping