Collecting Collection

Case of British Butterflies Lepidoptera
A collectors case of British butterflies. There are some 59 breeding butterflies in the UK and four former breeders, as well as rare migrants like the monarch all the way from America

London Stock Exchange - The Stock Jobbers Pitches. Date: early 1960s

Wartime pig food poster
We Want Your Kitchen Waste - poster encouraging the saving of food scraps for use as pig food, to be collected by the council. It also feeds poultry

Collecting Turf from the Bog, Connemara, County Galway, Republic of Ireland

Flora or Primavera, Roman wall painting from Pompeii, c1st century. Wall painting of Flora, goddess of fertility and abundance, or Primavera. At Naples National Archaeological Museum

Horse-drawn harvester
Two shire horses pull a farmer sitting asride an basic harvesting machine. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

A selection of common British Moths Date: circa 1920s

St. Georges Hospital, London
St. Georges Hospital, now the Lanesborough Hotel, London Date: circa 1903

Bees in springtime
Bees enjoy collecting pollen from abundant catkins on pussy willow branches growing by a river

Collecting Scrap Metal. Conor, William 1881-1968

Humboldt and his party collecting plant
Specimens at the foot of Mount Chimborazo. Detail from Plate 25 Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)

Little Lady Bountiful - a young girl in a white summer gown offers her less well-to- do friends (one of whom has been collecting reeds) a slice of cake

Honeybee in flight approaching cherry tree blossoms to collect pollen Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
SAS-440 Honeybee - in flight approaching cherry tree blossoms to collect pollen Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany Apis mellifera Steffen & Alexandra Sailer Please note that prints are for personal display

On The Long Mynd, Church Stretton, 1907. Creator: David Bates
On The Long Mynd, Church Stretton, 1907

Beekeeping, 19th century
Beekeeping, 19th-century artwork. Beekeeper extracting honey from honeycombs obtained from a beehive. Bees collect nectar from a wide range of flowering plants

Pika - Colorado - Storing vegetation to be used as food in winter - Inhabits talus slopes
CAN-2977 Pika - storing vegetation to be used as food in winter Colorado, USA Ochotona princeps Inhabits talus slopes and rock slides usually near timberline and high mountains. Lives in colonies

Charity Bootblacks
To raise money for hospitals, English girls offer their services as shoeblacks to passing gentlemen in the streets of London

Red Panda / Red Cat-bear - animal transporting bedding for den, Hessen, Germany
USH-2442 Red / Lesser PANDA / Red cat-bear - animal transporting bedding for den Hessen, Germany Ailurus fulgens Duncan Usher Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

High Street, Tonbridge, Kent, with Rathbone (watchmaker), Mayes (dyer and cleaner), and road sweepers collecting horse manure. Date: circa 1906

A futuristic alien plant harvest

Peat cutting with blocks drying Isle of Skye, Scotland
MAB-20 Peat cutting with blocks / briquettes drying Isle of Skye, Scotland Extracting fuel fossil seam. Mark Boulton Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

DOG. English springer spaniel carrying pheasant in mouth
JD-21239 DOG. English springer spaniel carrying pheasant in mouth John Daniels Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in anyway

Druids (ancient Priests) collect mistletoe
The Druids were highly respected by the Britons because of their wisdom and used to collect mistletoe to give to people on feast days

Rent Day, c1584-1638. Artist: Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Rent Day, c1584-1638. From the Burghley House Collection, Lincolnshire

The Day before Christmas: Gathering the Holly by Millar Watt
From a painting in oils made for The Sphere Christmas number front cover by Millar Watt. Snowy scene showing a 1920s family gathering holly on Christmas Eve. Date: 25th November 1929

The Eightieth Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, fought 21 October 1805
1041185 The Eightieth Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, fought 21 October 1805, Admiral Collingwood collecting his Fleet the Morning after the Battle (engraving) by Wyllie

Mlle. Lyska Kostio and her collection of dolls
One of the latest crazes in Paris in the early 1910s was doll-collecting. Apparently Mlle. Kostio took all her dolls with her when she travelled, and looked after them all herself

Collecting Eggs at Flamborough Head
Collecting seagulls eggs at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire. A traditional practice for farmers whose land adjoined the cliff edge

The Watercress beds in Footscray, Kent cared for by Mr and Mrs Johnstone seen walking across the bridge. 1938

Ichthyosaurus fossil C013 / 7904
Ichthyosaurus fossil

Dutch poster advertising a National Collection on behalf of the Fatherland (ie the German Reich), during the Second World War. May 1944

Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) adult, with sandeels and seaweed in beak, standing on rock, Inner Farne, Farne Islands, Northumberland, England, july

Bumble bee collecting pollen
Bumble bee (Bombus sp.) collecting pollen fom a flower. Bumble bees are important pollinators

1827, 1839, Collecting British Insects
Frontis colour plate by Spry, and title " Instructions for Collecting, Rearing, and Preserving British and Foreign Insects" by Abel Ingpen. Published by William Smith, London

The lesser of two weevils
Two species of weevil showing the size disparity even in single families of insect. The larger is the Bamboo weevil of East Asia Cyrtotrachelus dux

19th Century kit for Collecting Insects
Colour plate by W. Spry in " Instructions for Collecting, Rearing, and Preserving British and Foreign Insects" by Abel Ingpen. Published by William Smith, London. Second edition 1839

Egyptian palm tree, 16th century artwork. The fruits of this palm tree are being harvested. The palm tree most commonly cultivated in this way is the date palm tree, which has sweet edible fruit

Cider Apple Picking
Cider making : collecting the grass-fruit

Londons new telephone-post kiosk
A new telephone kiosk in use in a London street, showing a caller inside, postage stamps being bought from the machine outside, and a postman collecting mail from the letterbox

Michelin Tyre Advert
A Michelin Tyre Advertisement, showing the Michelin Man aiding the local workers in rubber collection!

Long-tailed Tit - making nest with floor cloth stolen from washing line
ME-2170 Long-tailed Tit - making nest with floor cloth stolen from washing line Aegithalos caudatus Johan De Meester Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Great Bowerbird
HB-1610 Great Grey BOWERBIRD - decorating bower with red hibiscus flowers, bones and empty shells Australia Chlamydera nuchalis Hans & Judy Beste Please note that prints are for personal display

Burnham Beeches, Bucks
A woodland area near Slough, Berkshire, famed for its magnificent beech and other trees : a countrywoman and her dog are collecting firewood

Beautiful Butterflies: A collector at work in New Guinea (colour litho)
6003270 Beautiful Butterflies: A collector at work in New Guinea (colour litho) by Twidle, Arthur (1865-1936); Private Collection; (add.info.: A collector at work in New Guinea)

The Gleaners, Blockley, Gloucestershire
A family group collecting left over corn at Blockley. The title might be a reflection of the painting by Jean-Francois Millet noted for depicting peasant workers in a sympathetic way Date: 1905

Rent Day, engraved by Abraham Raimbach (1784-1868), published 1817 (engraving)
STC169277 Rent Day, engraved by Abraham Raimbach (1784-1868), published 1817 (engraving) by Wilkie, David (1785-1841) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

The Colza (Harvesting Rapeseed), 1860 (oil on canvas)
CGW443187 The Colza (Harvesting Rapeseed), 1860 (oil on canvas) by Breton, Jules (1827-1906); 93.9x137.1 cm; Corcoran Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. USA; William A

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychw- yrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Collecting railway tickets in Wales. A Third Class ticket issued on 14th August, 1908 between Llanrhaiadr-yn-Mochnant to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Christmas Presents
For many years it has been the custom of Mr. E. A. Anderson of Broadstairs to take out Christmas presents to the crew of the Goodwin lightship - collecting the presents. Date: 1930s

Specimens collected by Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle 18
A case displaying various beetle specimens collected by Charles Darwin during the Beagle voyage, as well as a map of the ships route

S Teerwood. The mail van
A red mail van stops at a remote village in the Scottish Highlands to collect and deliver post

Farming - harvesting potatoes
CK-2372 Farming - harvesting potatoes Chris Knights contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: +44 (0) 20 8318 1401

A woman of the Auvergne collecting walnuts
A woman of the Auvergne region of France loading a wickerwork pannier backpack with the walnuts she has been collecting in her straw basket Date: 1910

Vinegar production, 19th century cutaway artwork. This is a trickling method developed in 1823 by the German chemist Schutzenbach. The barrel is divided into three sections

Farm Worker and Orange Tree, Southern California, 1888
Illustration showing a young black farm worker collecting oranges from a heavily laden tree, Southern California, 1888

Honey Bee - feeding on Rudbekia flower in garden, Lower Saxony, Germany
USH-4354 Honey Bee - feeding on Rudbekia flower in garden Lower Saxony, Germany Apis mellifera Duncan Usher Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Bumble Bee on Echinopsritro - Probably Bombus terrestris - England - UK - Gathering pollen
CAN-3267 Bumble Bee - Gathering pollen and nectar from Echinopsritro UK Bombus spp John Cancalosi Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Swallow - In flight with feather for nest Hirundo rustica Minsmere, Suffolk, UK BI009826
COS-2475 Swallow - In flight with feather for nest Minsmere, Suffolk, UK Hirundo rustica Bill Coster Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only

Buddhist monks collecting alms, Maung Sing, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Chinese man gathering seagrass on Li Jiang River, Guangxi Province, China, Asia

Blackbird - female gathering nest material
USH-772 BLACKBIRD - female gathering nest material Turdus merula Duncan Usher Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

French Philately Manual
Albert Laplanches popular guide to stamp collecting

Military Postman
A military postman for the British army collecting post from a mail box on an army camp site

Girl in Kitchen Garden
Girl working in a rural kitchen garden collecting cabbages

Authentic original Goebel M.I. Hummel figurine called "artist painter" dated 1955 Germany Europe The three dimensional handcrafted Hummel figurines show childhood activities like playing doing their

A collection of traditional Goebel M.I. Hummel figurines Germany Europe The three dimensional handcrafted Hummel figurines show childhood activities like playing doing their chores enjoying time with

Russian historical revenue stamp: type of fiscal stamps for payment of various state fees, taxes and duties. Pasted on documents, Russian Empire

Ancient settlement of the Ice Age, Kazakhstan area
Ancient village settlement of the Ice Age or Stone Age, with a woman butchering a deer carcass, a man carving a stone, and people collecting firewood. 8700-2000 BCE

Ona Large Rubber Tree Plantation near Suva, Fiji Island - Hindu Laborer Gathering the Sap or Latex from a Scored Tree, c1930s. From " Tour of the World"

Harrison Schmitt works the scoop on the lunar surface, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. US astronaut Harrison Schmitt (born 1935), the 12th man to walk on the Moon

Harrison Schmitt collects lunar rake samples, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. Creator: NASA
Harrison Schmitt collects lunar rake samples, Apollo 17 mission, December 1972. US astronaut Harrison Schmitt (born 1935), the 12th man to walk on the Moon

Washington hikers collecting, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Washington hikers collecting, 1913. Shows suffrage hikers who took part in the suffrage hike from New York City to Washington, D.C

Scramble for pennies, Thanksgiving, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Scramble for pennies, Thanksgiving, between c1910 and c1915

Noah's Ark (colour litho)
5198069 Noah's Ark (colour litho) by Pinchon, Joseph Porphyre (1871-1953); Private Collection; (add.info.: Noah's Ark)

A conductor collecting tickets, 1850
3478424 A conductor collecting tickets, 1850; (add.info.: Illustration depicting a conductor collecting tickets from first class passengers on a train)

Collecting cinchona bark, the source of Quinine, in the forests of Ecuador, South America. Late 19th century engraving
865468 Collecting cinchona bark, the source of Quinine, in the forests of Ecuador, South America. Late 19th century engraving.; Universal History Archive/UIG

Mail Coach on the Bath-London run collecting mail from Postmaster (right in nightcap) without stopping. Aquatint c1840
530705 Mail Coach on the Bath-London run collecting mail from Postmaster (right in nightcap) without stopping. Aquatint c1840.; Universal History Archive/UIG

James Watt (1736-1819) Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor depicted at the fireside collecting steam from a
528452 James Watt (1736-1819) Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor depicted at the fireside collecting steam from a kettle

Israelites in the wilderness collecting the manna that fell from heaven. Bible: Nehemiah 9.15. Wood engraving 1869
535931 Israelites in the wilderness collecting the manna that fell from heaven. Bible: Nehemiah 9.15. Wood engraving 1869.; (add.info)

Collecting letters in 19th Century Canada
673364 Collecting letters in 19th Century Canada; (add.info.: Collectingh letters, north Canada 19th Century); Universal History Archive/UIG

Washing ore to extract gold, 16th century (engraving)
540732 Washing ore to extract gold, 16th century (engraving); (add.info.: Water is fed into a sieve containing crushed ore)

The Labour of the Danaids, 1878 (oil on canvas)
658685 The Labour of the Danaids, 1878 (oil on canvas) by Weguelin, John Reinhard (1849-1927); 114x92 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: The Labour of the Danaids)

Woman dressed as winter, swaddled in rag and carrying fire wood. Date: c. 1915
Woman dressed as winter, swaddled in rag and carrying fire wood. Date: c.1915

Father and Son, c. 1859. Creator: Elihu Vedder
Father and Son, c. 1859

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From the bustling Stock Jobbers Pitches at London Stock Exchange to the delicate Case of British Butterflies, collecting takes many forms. Whether it's a wartime pig food poster or a horse-drawn harvester, humans have always been drawn to gather and preserve. In Sudan, General Dinka children collect shea butter fruit with joyous enthusiasm, while in Connemara, County Galway, turf is carefully collected from the bog. Bees buzz busily in springtime as they diligently collect nectar for their hive. A selection of common British Moths showcases nature's beauty captured by collectors' hands. Little Lady Bountiful shares her treasures generously with those around her. Even scrap metal has its value when collected and repurposed for a greater purpose. St George's Hospital in London collects stories of healing and hope within its walls every day. Beekeeping in the 19th century was an art form practiced by dedicated individuals who understood the importance of these tiny creatures' work. Collecting connects us to our past, present, and future - preserving moments that would otherwise be lost.