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Victorian scrap - dentist pulling a tooth. late 19th century
The benefits of taking the water at Bad Wildungen, GermanyComic illustration of the wonderful benefits to a ladys urinary tract (!) having taken the water at Bad Wildungen - a German therapeutic spa Town with springs that bring forth water containing iron
A wife who is unusually early alarming her husband. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to the Sketch, the Tatler and the Bystander
Chinese Emperor Wu Wang creates loud explosionsChinese Emperor Yeou Wang (Zhou Dynasty) alarms his enemies with loud explosions. Date: circa 781 - 771 BC
People by the harbour, Mevagissey, Cornwall -- a bare-chested man seems to be upstaging the female model in a rather alarming way! Date: circa 1980s
Comic postcard, Couple about to fly in a monoplane - alarming advice from an expert pilot Date: 20th century
Fijian Man with war clubA Fijian Man with war club resting on his shoulder. He wears a spectacluar neckace of carved bones and wears his hair brushed upwards in a wild and alarming fan-shape
FURIESThe ERINYES were so alarming that the Greeks dared not use their true name but called them the EUMENIDES ( the good tempered ones ) : here they pursue Orestes and Pylades
Napoleon from ElbaNapoleon returns from Elba, alarming the authorities at Paris
August Bebel CaricatureAUGUST BEBEL German radical statesman, depicted as a volcano, alarming his political colleagues. Date: 1840 - 1913
Celebration / 1848 / StreetsCelebrating La Steaoa in Bucharest, Romania : children process through the streets, singing and alarming the dogs Date: 1848
Wife despairs at Husbands awful choice of attire and colour - " Strike me pink!" Date: circa 1940s
A charm against Fairies by M. ReedA rather alarming illustration (at least to any new parents) depicting a baby being spirited away by fairies who leave a wizened changeling of their race in its place while its mother sleeps
Silhouette - Children and Birds (" Small Animal-friends" ) - by Karl Frohlich 1856
Leopard attack on zoo keeper, 1870An alarming occurance at a menagerie-a keeper attacked by five leopards. Date: 1870
The Inner WorldTHE INNER WORLD (A Hyatt Verrill) A traveller to the Inner Earth encounters its alarming fauna Date: 1935
Death in StratosphereDEATH IN THE STRATOSPHERE (Henry J Kostkos) Explorers encounter alarming wildlife up there : the heroine, dressed for golf, defends her spacecraft Date: 1937
Alarming prospect 1853 / LeechAlarming prospect - The single ladies ladies off to the diggings. The early days of the Victorian gold rush were famously male dominated
Correcting a SkidProviding that the car is not travelling at excessive speed a skid need not be an alarming occurrence... avoid if possible applying the brakes
Overdoing the PolkaPolka Mania : the alarming effects of over-indulgence !
ST PAULs INTERIOR 1789The service of thanksgiving at St Pauls Cathedral for the Kings recovery from a series of alarming fits and madness. His sons chewed biscuits rudely during the service
Children / Hoops / C19ThTwo boys race their hoops, alarming the geese
Socialism / Social PerilAn alarming view of the social(-ist) peril!
Fairy Tale / Seven RavensA little girl sets out to find her seven brothers, and is confronted by an alarming sunrise
Alice Meets HumptyAlice meets Humpty Dumpty and hears the alarming story of his great fall
Pretending GhostA man dresses up as an archetypal ghost and stands in a graveyard flapping his drapes, alarming passers-by