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Florida Tourist Postcard - Waiting AlligatorsFlorida Tourist Postcard - Alligators awaiting the descent of a boy from a coconut palm tree, up which he has escaped. Their mocking message to the unfortunate youth: " Honey, come down
A Common Pheasant alarmedA Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) flies up in alarm. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Trams causing havoc on a Belfast streetHorses, carts, wagons and pedestrians in an almighty crash involving two trams in Donegal Place in Belfast. The card caption reads: " Our Trammelled Streets" Date: 1905
Terrible accident - Lady ablaze - Figure 1Figure 1 of 2. Terrible accident - Lady ablaze, her dress has caught fire and she is engulfed by the inferno. This illustration shows that if one is upright
Mutoscope postcard - Laden girl in a spot of botherHelp Wanted !! Humorous Mutoscope postcard featuring an attractive young lady in a spot of bother as her pet dog dashes off in the wrong direction (the lead causing a skirt mishap)
Landlady discovers the lodger in the bathThe Lodger was in the bath. A landlady receives a nasty surprise as she comes across the lodger taking a bath
The Doggy Bag by Bert WilsonColour illustration by Bert Wilson showing a 1920s flapper girl powdering her nose. Her compact has come from a small bag in the shape of her dog, which appears to have alarmed her pet cat
Seaside Weather Forecasts - Strong smelling FishSeaside Weather Forecasts - Very Fresh - Strong Wind Blowing Some rather strong-smelling Fish causes a group of beachgoers to be blown-away by the asault of the pungent aroma encountered!
Siberian Stonechat / Asian Stonechat - adult femaleSketch 18, Newfoundland Volume. From a collection of original drawings and sketches by Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Camels and Iron HorseNORTH AFRICA : flesh-and-blood camels are alarmed by the iron horse
Town & Country MouseLE RAT DE VILLE ET LE RAT DES CHAMPS (the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse) - The country mouse alarmed by the sounds of the town house
WW2 - Comic Postcard, Home Front - Intruder Raid - A little girl (with ginger pigtails) is alarmed at the sight of a small brown mouse and has leaped up onto the piano stool. Date: 1944
Le Ciel - Paris Cabaret Nightclub - The ConfessionTwo performers acting out The Confession at Le Ciel - Montmartre, Paris Cabaret Nightclub. The Cabaret du Ciel (Cabaret of Heaven) was an early version of modern theme restaurants
Adelicia of Louvain and the Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, alarmed at the approach of Henry's nephew, Stephen of Blois (later King Stephen). Date: 12th century
STORY OF THE FISHERMANI am only going to grant you one favour, and that is to choose the manner of your death ! - the fisherman is alarmed by the djinn he has released from the jar
STUDENTS & SPIRITTwo scholars, dabbling in the occult as scholars will, invoke a spirit of the dead - and are alarmed when their invocation is successful ! Date: circa 1850
Alarmed chimp at London ZooAn alarmed chimp is paraded in front of visitors at London Zoo. Date: circa 1950s
Cook from The Little Pipe. 1928
Les Nymphes de Trianon at Versailles, FranceLes Nymphes de Trianon (The Trianon Nymphs) -- alarmed at the arrival of the diplomats for the Versailles Treaty talks. 1919
The General Election - Free FoodersComic Postcard series - The General Election - Free Fooders. Candidates at a hustings face the warth of the electorate and also face a barrage of eggs and vegeatbles
Teens Help with Dishes Date: 1948
Woman runs from wavesA young woman in a clinging red tank style one-piece swimsuit with a ruffle edged collar & a beret style bathing cap encounters a large wave. Alarmed, she runs for her life Date: 1926
SOCIAL / US COACH / TRAINThe horses of a stagecoach are alarmed by one of the first American railroad trains Date: 1830s
GIRL ALARMED BY MOUSEA girl screams at the sight of a tiny mouse... and her dog seems to share her alarm... Date: circa 1920
MAN-TRAP / HEATHMan alarmed by man-trap warning Date: 1837
FLIGHT OF EMIGRESAlarmed by attacks on their property and themselves, nobles emigrate, generally to Germany and Switzerland Date: circa 1790 - 1791
ACCIDENTS / WATER LEAKA family are alarmed when water starts to drip from the ceiling Date: circa 1860
ELIZABETHAN FAMILYFamily alarmed by sight of father smoking a pipe. Date: 17th century
Anna Zinkiesen - Mariegold in Society -... ushered into the presence of Two FemaleAnna Zinkiesen - Mariegold in Society -...ushered into the presence of Two Female Officials. Date: 1927
Down by the Sea - Catch of the Season - Crab biting a toeDown by the Sea - The Catch of the Season - A pesky Crab bites the toe of a late Victorian / early Edwardian lady having a paddle through the rockpools
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Date: 1906
Cartoon, Hearing cannon fire in Constantinople, WW1Cartoon, Hearing cannon fire in Constantinople, showing the ladies of the Turkish Harem alarmed by the sound of the guns of Gallipoli - likewise the Sultan himself! Date: 1915
Affront from the Rear by Charles CrombieA British officer, enjoying a meal in a restaurant is alarmed by the shadow of a fruit bowl being carried by a waiter. Date: 1915
Belfast riots, 1921A page from the Illustrated London News, dated 10th September 1921, reporting on rioting in Belfast. An armoured car is shown on duty in Royal Avenue
Louis Wain Postcard - The Seaside BillFather cat is horrified at the scaleof his hotel bill as the cat family head home from their summer vacation to Catterick (or Purfleet, Mousehole, Shrewsbury etc.) Date: 1904
Driving two horses down a snowy laneA farmer sits side-saddle as he rides/drives two working carthorses down a country lane in the middle of winter. Watercolour painting by Malcolm Greensmith
Home Sweet Home - A Young wife invites her family to stayHome Sweet Home - A pretty young wife invites her family (Ma, Pa and Sister Gertie - from Scotland)to stay, to the alarm of her careworn older husband, already holding the babies! Date: circa 1905
Two robins alarmed by a cat on a Christmas card. Date: early 20th century
Dollie Goo Goo surpised by a ducklingEuropean take on Japanese style... Dollie Goo Goo is surpised by a duckling Date: circa 1910s
William ForbesWILLIAM FORBES Copperbottoms retreat, or a View of Carron Work - a Scottish manufacturer alarmed by a product test ! Date: CIRCA 1797
CALCUTTA IN ROUGH SEAThe Royal Mail screw steam- ship in a hurricane off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean - the wretched passengers below deck must have been alarmed and uncomfortable. Date: 1853
Sleeping Beauty - 10Refreshed after a good nights sleep, Beauty awakes to find a strange man beside her bed : however, since he is a prince, and therefore handsome, she is delighted rather than alarmed
The Dirt-Track Rider who appeared in Rotten Row. A motorcyclist causing noisy havoc amonst the genteel riders on Rotten Row in Hyde Park, London. 1929
American Art Deco Playing Card Back - Female bather (1) Date: circa late 1920s
Fox and five chicks on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
Cartoon, Confederated Coalition, or, The Giants storming Heaven, with the Gods alarmed for their everlasting abodes, by James Gillray. Depicting government ministers Hawkesbury, Addington and St
A Bit Off by H. M. BatemanA Bit Off! The Chiropodist Who Dropped Her Knife. An alarmed podiatrist tries to calm her patient, a blustering, Colonel-type typical of H. M
Yellow Wagtail - adult female - alarmed on a dry burdock - territorial behaviour during breeding period - June (Motacilla flava L.). Ural Mountains - Siberia - Russia