Carrier Pigeon Collection

Donkerque [i.e., Dunkerque], shipping carrier pigeons, between c1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Donkerque [i.e., Dunkerque], shipping carrier pigeons, between c1914 and c1915. Carrier pigeons in baskets, being loaded onto a train car, Dunkerque, France.

Reading the News of the Fall of Sebastopol at Ceylon, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Reading the News of the Fall of Sebastopol at Ceylon, 1856. Crimean War news. Engraving...from a photograph by Mr. Parting...representing the scene in the Colombo Observer office during the reading

'Precieux Auxiliaires; Un lacher de pigeons, 1915. Creator: Unknown
'Precieux Auxiliaires; Un lacher de pigeons, 1915. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1926]

Pigeon Post, 20 February 1943, (1947). Creator: Unknown
Pigeon Post, 20 February 1943, (1947). Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) and her younger sister Princess Margaret Rose, members of the Buckingham Palace Company of Girl Guides

Prize Pigeons at the recent show of the Halifax Fancy Pigeon Association, 1862. Creator: Harrison Weir
Prize Pigeons at the recent show of the Halifax Fancy Pigeon Association, 1862. Engravings...(from a sketch by Mr. H. Crossley)

Carrier Pigeon, from the Birds of America series (N4) for Allen &
Carrier Pigeon, from the Birds of America series (N4) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands, 1888

The Toilette of Venus, 1751. Creator: Francois Boucher
The Toilette of Venus, 1751

The Dispatch of the Messenger, 1765. Creator: Francois Boucher
The Dispatch of the Messenger, 1765

British Army Carrier Pigeons in France: Horse-Drawn Lofts, (1919). Creator: Unknown
British Army Carrier Pigeons in France: Horse-Drawn Lofts, (1919). Pigeons were used to send messages during the First World War, 1914-1919

British Army Carrier Pigeons in France, (1919). Creator: Unknown
British Army Carrier Pigeons in France, (1919). Carrier pigeons being sent up the line, scene from the First World War, 1914-1919

Messenger pigeons being released at the front line, World War I, 1915

French military manoeuvres: using carrier pigeons to communicate, 1897. Artist: Oswaldo Tofani
French military manoeuvres: using carrier pigeons to communicate, 1897. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 2nd May 1897

The search for the 1897 Andree expedition to the North Pole. In 1897 a Swedish explorer named Salomon Andree made an attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon

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