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Anything can be an object: a thousand-year-old coin in a museum, a painting in an art gallery, a plant in a botanical garden, an animal in a zoo, a building in a city, even a person.
Browse online collections on OOKL and discover for yourself. Find objects in museums, galleries, historic houses, and many more.
Delph Reservoir 2
Bolton Museum
Cutting of sod ceremony with Mayor and crowd. This image is from the Archive's Bolton Archives collection
Dryopteris affinis
RHS Wisley
Dryopteris can be deciduous, semi-evergreen or evergreen ferns, with stout, erect or decumbent rhizomes and...
Cattle egret
Whipsnade Zoo
These birds are members of the heron family. Herons usually eat fish, but not the cattle egret: it eats insects. Its...
A Lord of Creation
Torre Abbey
A rural scene depicting two shire horses ploughing the fields. The dark horse is carrying a male figure. The...
Rivington Gardens 2
Bolton Museum
View f of Dovecote and Garden House This image is from the Archive's Bolton Archives collection
Nepeta govaniana
RHS Wisley
Nepeta can be annuals or, more commonly, perennials, with paired, usually aromatic leaves, and terminal spikes or...
Bactrian Camel
Knowsley Safari Park
The two-humped Bactrian camel lives in the highlands of central Asia, where it feeds on prickly scrub and salty...
Anstey's Cove
Torre Abbey
A Sepia Ink Drawing of Anstey's Cove.
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Abies koreana 'Silberlocke'
RHS Wisley
Abies are evergreen conifers, often very tall, with whorled branches bearing flattened, linear leaves, often whitish beneath, and on the upper branches, large cones...
Commuting by Cable
Old Treasury Building
Travel by cable tram through the streets of Melbourne between 1885 and 1940. This documentary presents rare archival footage detailing the story of the largest cable...
Horse Ramp (in canals)
London Canal Museum
The ramps in the canals were once used to save horses after they fell into the river. Animal safety was important, or at least it was important to retain the animals...
Canal Gate
London Canal Museum
These gates were put in place to stop the flow of the river. It was necessary to do this in the instance of bombs falling on the Canal and ceasing the flow of debris....
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