Fainting Collection

Trams causing havoc on a Belfast street
Horses, 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

Operating Table 1930S
A group of student nurses in theatre, observing a surgeon performing an operation

Irish sea serpent off Kilkee, Ireland
A large and frightening sea monster seen by several people off the coast of Kilkee, Ireland. 1871

Comic postcard, Drunk man speaks to woman in the street Date: 20th century

The Wasp Sting
Reproduction of a painting by Margaret Mower White. Date: circa 1930

Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre (1832-1916). Spanish engineer, playwright, politician and mathematician. Leading of the Spanish dramatist of the last quarter of the 19th 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

WOMAN FAINTS
"Found Daisy in a dead faint on the floor, and Captain Hallam bending over her." Date: 1890

Comic postcard, Policeman and fainting woman Date: 20th century

Stick figures, Dot and Line, dancing and fainting
Dottator et Lineator Loquitor. Stick figures Dot and Line dancing the poussette, hornpipe, and then fainting and being led out drunk

View and plan of Napoleons final residence on Saint Helena
View and plan of Longwood House, Saint Helena. Final residence of Napoleon Bonaparte, exiled after the Battle of Waterloo

Girl Faints in Mans Arm
Girl faints into gentlemans arms after reading the fatal telegram Date: circa 1890

Lady and Smelling Salts
A lady faints and is revived with smelling salts

Queen of Scots Meets Ei
Elizabeth meets Mary Queen of Scots in the park of Fotheringhay - a scene from Schillers Mary Stuart which never really occurred

Shocking by H. M. Bateman
The A. B. who asked for a light! Commanding officers on board a Royal Navy ship are so shocked to have a subordinate abke seaman ask for a light for his cigarette

Much Ado About Nothing - title page - the wedding between Hero and Claudio is interrupted. 1862

Nursery Rhymes - Level Crossing - 6 Birley Station
Level Crossing - 6 Birley Station - Birley Station - Two men with newspaper, porter & man with fainting woman. Part of Box 52 Boswell collection. Nursery Rhymes. Date: circa 1890s

The Rescue - Group of people fainting lady. Part of Box 79 Boswell Collection. Trap to Catch a Sunbeam. Date: circa 1900

Sacrifice of Joachim and faintness. Codex of Predis (1476). Royal Library. Turin. Italy

Music cover, The Piccolomini Waltz, from Verdis opera La Traviata, as performed at Almacks and the Court Balls. Marietta Piccolomini (1834-1899)

Boy on beach with Sea Mine
" Look what I ve found Mummie!" A small boy discovers a mine on the beach whilst making a sandcastle. His Mother is fainting in shock at this explosive discovery. Date: 1940s

Panic in the Year 1000
Panic in the church in the year 1000

Dismissed for Pregnancy
Pregnant, is she ? Well, you know the rules - tell her she needn t bother to come to work tomorrow

Fall of meteorites at Hatford, Berkshire, UK
When meteorites fall at Hatford, Berkshire, Mistress Greene, a witness, has one dug up, though one of the diggers swoons in terror

Girl Faints in Street
A girl passes out in the street, but luckily there is a handsome young man at hand to carry her inert but graceful form to a nearby shop

The Lady Faints
The Ladys Sorrow Lady collapses - her concerned maids gather round to attend to her while gentlemen look on unconcerned

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