Distressed Collection

WWI Poster, Belgian & Allies Aid League
Design by Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956), Belgian & Allies Aid League, Will you help these sufferers from the war to start a new home. Help is better than sympathy

Woman patient, St Marys Hospital, Paddington, London
LFB Special Services trying to help a woman patient at St Marys Hospital, Paddington, London, on 15 April 1959. She has climbed out of a ward window at fifth floor level

Cartoon - Swallowing a yarn
A little blackbird fails to consume a length of twine: " I can t swallow that yarn." Date: circa 1915

WW2 - US Troops comfort a distressed child and puppy - likkely in France following the D-Day landings of June 1944. Date: 1944

Chained To A Bed
A photograph used for advertisement purposes, portraying a distressed man wearing pyjamas, struggling as he is chained to his bed. Date: circa 1939

White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic - brochure
White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic, The Largest Steamers in the World - red cover foldout cutaway brochure, The Central Shipping Agency, Bath. Date: early 20th century

Illustration, Malbrough is going to war
Illustration, Malbrough s'en va t'en guerre (Marlborough is going to war). Elegant ladies faint when they hear that Monsieur Malbrough is dead and buried as a result of going to war

With the distressed hop pickers in Kent - a series of drawings by ILN Special Artist Mr H. C. Seppings Wright showing the poor conditions for hop pickers in Kent during bad wet weather

HMS Pinafore, Captain Corcoran and daughter
HMS Pinafore. Captain Corcoran and his daughter Josephine. The good captain was distressed to see his dear daughter in this bilious frame of mind. Date: 1908

Meeting of unemployed men on Tower Hill, London
Meeting of unemployed men on Tower Hill, East London. 1892

The Distresst Poet
A distresst poet writes the verses which will, he hopes, bring him enough money to buy new clothes, food and drink, and enable him to move to somewhat better accommodation. Date: circa 1750

Fund Committee in Coventry 1861
Meeting with distressed ribbon weavers, Relief Fund Committee was held in the kitchen of St. Marys Hall, Coventry, due to the cotton famine. Date: 1861

HOGARTH DISTRESSED POET
The Distressed Poet A poor poet wonders what to write, while his wife is unable to pay the milkmaids bill. Date: 1736/37

Black horse, Menorca, Spain
Black horses nose over an old wooden stable door,s Algar, Menorca, Spain Date: 2012

Montagu Monuments, St Edmunds Church, Warkton, Northants
The Montagu Monuments are four stunning marble statues in the unlikely setting of Grade I listed St Edmunds Church in Warkton, Northamptonshire

Gothic Art. Spain. 15th century. Jesus walked to Calvary (1483-1487). Altarpiece of the Holy Cross of Blesa. Oil painting on wood by Martin Bernat (1454-1497) and Miguel Ximenez (1462-1505)

The Rescue by Fortunino Matania
The Rescue - a scene on a Swiss snow slope. One skier leans over to rescue a small pet dog who has fallen over the edge of a snowy ledge, much to the distress of a small child. Date: 1922

Liverpool Mail in Snow
The Liverpool Mail encounters heavy weather near Saint Albans, Hertfordshire, and can t spare a thought for the distressed lady stuck in her private carriage

Lifeboat to the Rescue -- a shipwreck, with lifeboat crew and distressed people. 1890

The end of love
The Honourable John Maler Collier (18501934) - Pre-Raphaelite Painter and one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation

Fantastic Adventures - Return of Sinbad by Chester S. Geier. A man in Arabian dress flies in space on a giant bird of prey. The distressed bird is being attacked by the lasers of several spaceships

Chinese Toddlers - one of whom is rather upset
Chinese Toddlers - one bawling his/her eyes out at some frightful injustice (or having just been poked in arm/eye/back by another 2-year-old...). Date: circa 1910s

Forced Marriage
THE FORCED MARRIAGE a young girl is distressed at having to marry a monster Date: circa 1770

When The Angelus Is Ringing by H Schrier & C Lodge-Percy
Promotional postcard for When The Angelus Is Ringing by Henrietta Schrier & C. Lodge-Percy. First produced at the Theatre Royal, Stratford, 1st November 1915

Gai! Tsigane: Hungarian Gypsy orchestra
A Hungarian Gypsy orchestra fails to lift the spirits of a solitary drinker. Date: 1886

Man at the end of his tether with piano-playing singing wife
" Every Morning I feel like shooting." An American man seemingly at the end of his tether with the less-than-tuneful efforts of his enthusiastic piano-playing, singing wife

Language of Flowers - Geranium. The captions reads: Friendship Distressed - When you come back? Date: circa 1904

Scotsman shocked by expensive of the Worlds Fair in Chicago
The Chicago Exhibition McPherson - " Four Dollars for a bed! The extravangance. I canna sleep for thinking o t." Date: 1893

Kindy Old lady asks if a little lost girl is alright
Kindly Old Woman - " Poor little fellow. Are you lost?" " No - boo hoo. But me Muvver is." !!! Date: 1895

Distressed Model
A distressed model hides her face behind her hands and tangled hair. Date: late 1960s

good Samaritan Cyclist
The Helping Hand : A male cyclist helps three distressed females to mend a punctured bicycle tyre! Date: 1930s

Consoling Madonna by Bouguereau
The Consoling Madonna (Vierge Consolatrice) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) -- the Virgin Mary, seated on a throne, comforts a distressed woman. Date: circa 1870s

Outside the Soup Kitchen
The poor and distressed throng the entrance to a soup kitchen : well-to-do passers- by look apprehensive as they are assailed by beggars Date: 1871

Horse & Cart Accident
Four men trying to help a distressed cart horse which has fallen onto a river onto a riverbank, somewhere in Germany. Date: 1920s

Lear / Nonsense / Chertsey
There was an Old Lady of Chertsey, who made a remarkable curtsey; She twirled round and round, till she sunk underground, which distressed all the people of Chertsey

Lear / Nonsense / Jamaica
There was an Old Man of Jamaica, who suddenly married a Quaker; But she cried out, Alack! I have married a black! which distressed that Old Man of Jamaica

The Female Emigrants Home, Hatton Garden, 1853
Engraving showing the main room of the Female Emigrants Home, Hatton Garden, London, 1853. A fund was set up in 1849 to send distressed needlewomen to Australia

Balfour Rescues Erin
Balfour depicted as the modern Perseus rescuing the distressed Erin (as Andromeda) as she perishes on the rocks

Take a camera with you by H. M. Bateman
Humorous illustration by H. M. Bateman showing a rather distressed man clinging for his life to a seaside cliff while his blase companion takes his photograph

Happier Now
Revelations from the beyond - a distressed widow learns that her husband is far happier now than when he was living

Emigratino to Australia
Shipboard scene on The Madagascar featuring distressed needlewomen

Hamelin Mayor Upset
The Mayor of Hamelin and his Council members are distressed when the towns children follow the Piper away

Hogarth Distressed Poet
The Distressed Poet A poor poet wonders what to write, while his wife is unable to pay the milkmaids bill

Hogarth Poor Poet
The Distressed Poet and his wife both have problems : he wonders what to write, while his wife wonders how to pay the milkmaids bill

Mahatma Gandhi arrested for civil disobedience
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, is arrested by the Indian government for his civil disobedience tactics

Coriolanus banished from Rome
The Roman general, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, is banished from Rome because of his arrogance, and suspicion concerning his political ambitions

Carnival revellers in a Roman street
Carnival revellers in animal costumes in a Roman street, surrounding a rather distressed looking priest

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