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  • Red Cross and Red Crescent National Flag Day : official seller.
  • A flowering blue flag iris (Marica caerulea) Chromolithograph, c. 1888, after H. Moon.
  • A Belgian soldier in front of the Belgian flag. Colour process print, 191-.
  • A French soldier in front of the French flag. Colour process print, 191-.
  • A French soldier in front of the French flag. Colour process print, 191-.
  • A Belgian soldier in front of the Belgian flag. Colour process print, 191-.
  • First World War wounded soldiers holding the Union Jack flag: group portrait. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Fred Barnes, inset in various poses, over a Union Jack flag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1912.
  • Fred Barnes, inset in various poses, over a Union Jack flag. Photographic postcard, ca. 1912.
  • A Parisienne liqueur label illustrated with Frenchmen saluting their national flag. Coloured engraving, 19th century.
  • The resurrected Christ appears with a flag before the apostles; God spreads his hands above. Woodcut.
  • Barge-flag: achievement of arms of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons of London. Gouache on cloth.
  • Barge-flag: achievement of arms of the Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons of London. Gouache on cloth.
  • Return of wounded Confederate prisoners, under a flag of truce, during the American Civil War. Wood engraving.
  • A man carrying a flag is riding on a camel. Coloured lithograph by Hullmandel after A. Orlowski.
  • [French charity stamp incorporating the French tricolore flag, Red Cross in a circular wreath and other devices].
  • A man carrying a flag is riding on a camel. Coloured lithograph by Hullmandel after A. Orlowski.
  • Nepal; town life in the Khumbu, 1986. Namche Bazar (altitude 3446 metres), a bustling and prosperous market town, is the largest Sherpa settlement in the Khumbu. Many of its Tibetan-style houses devote the ground floor to animal shelters while the family lives upstairs. Most have windows and doors at the front of the building only, the back being built into the side of the mountain. Firewood is stacked against walls, and small terraced fields grow staples (potatoes, barley, wheat). At left is a Buddhist shrine or stupa, on each side of which is painted the eyes of the Buddha. Prayer flags are strung out from its summit.
  • A Chelsea Pensioner, standing in a landscape: a building, flying the Union flag, behind him. Coloured aquatint, 1813.
  • Zimbabwe: people and a flag-covered train at the opening of Victoria Bridge. Photograph by J. Lomas, 1905.
  • Flag iris (Iris x germanica): flower and rhizome with some leaves. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
  • Four flowering plants, including cuckoo-pint, sweet flag and two pondweeds. Chromolithograph by W. Dickes & co., c. 1855.
  • [French charity stamp showing a woman holding a Red Cross flag in her right hand ("Pensez à nos blessés")].
  • Nepal; deforestation in the Khumbu, 1986. Stacked firewood outside a Sherpa house at Phakding (altitude 3200 metres). Also shown are carrying baskets (bottom right) and prayer flags attached to thin sticks stuck into the ground. In common with many smallholdings, the ground floor of the house is reserved for animals while the family lives upstairs. By the early 1980s, it was estimated that massive deforestation was contributing to the loss of 240 million cubic metres of topsoil in Nepal each year. Sherpas rely on wood for fuel but lack of chimneys in most homes contribute to the coughs and bronchial congestion common to most. Poor hygiene is prevalent because precious wood must be destroyed to create hot water.
  • A sailor adrift on a raft in the ocean; a flag flies from a flagpole. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • A warrior holding a flag seated on a drum, with troops firing in the background. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoshi, 1875.
  • A sailor adrift on a raft in the ocean; a flag flies from a flagpole. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • A variegated tulip (Tulipa species) and blue flag iris (Iris versicolor): flowering stems. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
  • A postcard with a pressed sprig of Edeilweiss and ribbon of Belgium flag, saluting the Belgium soldiers. Pressed flower on card.
  • A bottle of alcoholic drink with a red flag attached to it; advertising the danger of driving after drinking. Colour lithograph, 193-.