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South Sea Annuities certificate
Home-made red money envelopes

These home-made red envelopes were found among the possessio…
Money envelope with an illustration of ancient money

This envelope has a four-character inscription across the to…
Money envelope with an illustration of traditional money

The inscription on this tall red envelope translates as 'Goo…
Printed money envelope

The inscription on the diamonds at the top of this brightly …
Printed money envelope

This envelope, with a colourful design on its front and a re…
Printed money envelope

With its colourful design on the front and red background an…
Printed money envelope

As the name xiao hongbao , literally translated as 'little r…
50 markka note

In 1860, the Finns, already self-governing under Russian rul…
$20 banknote issued by the Mauritius Commercial Bank
Appointment of the British Museum's Head Housemaid

In 1772 the Archbishop of Canterbury asked the Principal Lib…
East Wing exterior of The British Museum (the King's Library), a print

The East Wing, built between 1823 and 1828, was the first pa…
One of the King Edward VII Galleries under construction, a photograph

The King Edward VII's Galleries were built between 1906 and …
Teaching from the Collections, an engraving

The Clore Centre for Education follows a long association wi…
The Prints and Drawings Students' Room, a photograph

In 1914 the Department of Prints and Drawings moved from the…
Dartmouth, £1 note

This note was issued by Benjamin Tanner, a shipbuilder. War …
Diploma of the Yixing Gongsi, or Patriotic Rising Society

This secret society certificate is full of hidden symbols. T…
Red money envelope

On this envelope is a cartoon figure of a young man in tradi…
10 guinea note, Great Yarmouth Bank

Civic emblems such as the coat of arms or seal of a town wer…
£20 note, Halifax Joint Stock Bank

Featured on this note is the magnificent Piece Hall, or Clot…
£5 note of the Union Bank of Scotland

This powerful scene evokes the traditional heavy industry of…
The Ruthwell Cross, illustrated in Itinerarium Septentrionale by Alexander Gordon

The Ruthwell Cross is Anglo-Saxon in orgin and dates from th…
Trade card of Philip Fruchard, Coal Merchant, an etching

Philip Fruchard's trade card shows coal-heavers taking coal …
Mexican codex map

Painted on rough native Mexican paper known as amatl , it h…
Tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent

The tughra is an intricate decorative device that served as …
Chinese Ming bank note

These banknotes continued to be issued by the Board of Reven…
Miniature of a Mughal prince

The holy man is a dervish, a person who has taken vows of po…
Admission ticket to the British Museum

The British Museum opened its doors to visitors for the firs…
Application for a post on the staff of The British Museum

Frank Derrett was born in London in 1883 and was educated at…
Arthur Conan Doyle's application for a ticket for The British Museum Library

All prospective users of The British Museum Library had to a…
Bram Stoker's application for a ticket for the British Museum Library

Bram Stoker (1847-1912) describes himself in this letter as …
Catalogue of casts of classical sculpture in the British Museum

Today, replicas of many objects from The British Museum's co…
Design for illuminating the front gate of Montagu House

The reign of King George III began on 25 October 1760, thus …
Design for the title page of A Catalogue of Benefactions to the British Museum...

One of the main series of records of the British Museum is c…
Donald Macbeth, One of the Ethnography Galleries, a photograph

In 1883, with the move of the Natural History collections of…
Early accounts of the British Museum

Between 1761 and 1803 the Principal Librarian's clerk kept a…
Frederick York, Main Entrance Hall and Grand Staircase, a photograph

It is early morning in 1875 in the Main Entrance Hall of The…
Frederick York, Mastodon and Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, photographs

In the nineteenth century there were 'dinosaurs' of sorts on…
Frederick York, The Central Saloon, a photograph

This photograph of 1875 shows one of the most popular exhibi…
Frederick York, The Eastern Zoological Gallery , a photograph

The Eastern Zoological Gallery used to be above the King's L…
Frederick York, The First Egyptian Room, a photograph

This is one of a collection of photographs taken by Frederic…
George Saunders, Design for the West Wing (elevation and section)

In 1803 George Saunders, the British Museum's architect, was…
Henry Wood's application for a ticket for The British Museum Library

Henry Joseph Wood (1869-1944) used the Reading Room of The B…
Insurance certificate for part of Montagu House

The Trustees of The British Museum bought Montagu House in 1…
Jacob Richter (Lenin): signatures of readers for the British Museum Reading Room

The real name of the architect of the 1917 Russian Revolutio…
Memorial from the National Sunday League on the Sunday opening of the British Museum

For more than a century the British Museum has opened on Sun…
Minutes of the first meeting of the Trustees of The British Museum

The British Museum Act of 1753 set up a Board of Trustees to…
Plans of Montagu House by Henry Flitcroft

In 1725 the architect Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) was asked …
Poster advertising the sale of building materials

Between 1823 and 1852 the new British Museum building design…
Sir Hans Sloane, an engraving from a portrait by T. Murray

Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was the founder of The British M…
Sir Robert Smirke, Design for showcases for The British Museum

As the present-day Museum building was erected, between the …
Sir Robert Smirke, Seat proposed for the Gallery of Antiquities, a drawing

The architect Robert Smirke was a follower of the Greek Revi…
Sir Robert Smirke, The South Wing, a drawing

By 1841 the East Wing, North Wing and half of the West Wing …
The British Museum Security Staff, by an unknown photographer

Here we see The British Museum Security staff photographed o…
The Eastern Zoological Gallery in the East Wing of The British Museum, a coloured engraving

The two-storey East Wing of The British Museum was designed …
The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery on the introduction of the electric light, an engraving

Until the late nineteenth century The British Museum was lit…
The Grand Saloon and the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, an engraving

The engraving shows the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery soon afte…
Ticket of admission to the gardens of Montagu House

The Trustees of the British Museum bought Montagu House in 1…
Tom and Bob in search of the Antique, an anonymous cartoon

In the early nineteenth century, two important collections o…
Comic pictures and verses (toba-e), a handscroll painting

Toba-e were quickly executed, comical pictures with a lightl…
Dutch Woman with a Parrot, a colour woodblock print

A European woman holds a parrot on a perch and herein lies a…
Gan Tai, Eagle and a Monkey, a hanging scroll

In this impressive scene, an eagle has just alighted on a ro…
Hagiwara Hideo, 'In the Valley between the Buildings' (Biru no tanima ni), a colour woodblock print

This view of Mount Fuji is from Shinjuku on the west side of…
Kano school, Ibuki-doji ('Boy from Mt. Ibuki'), a set of 3 handscroll paintings

Shuten dōji ('The Sake -Drinking Boy') was a popular me…
Matsumura Keibun, View of Arashiyama, a 6-fold screen painting

This is a view of Arashiyama, in north-western Kyoto, in the…
Men hunting wild boar, painting in gouache on paper

In this large painting five men are shown in a dense forest …
Nguyen De, a watercolour

Rice is the main carbohydrate of the Vietnamese diet. Three …
Nguyen Tho, a crayon drawing

During the American-Vietnam War (1965-75) Vietnamese workers…

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