Absent Collection

Andrews Liver Salt poster by John Hassall
I must have left it behind. A bemused gent scratches his head as he searches his suitcase for his precious tin of Andrews Liver Salt. It is, of course, in his back trouser pocket. Date: c.1920

Whos Absent; Wwi Poster
Recruitment poster for the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, designed to shame the viewer into joining up. John Bull demands: Whos absent? Is it you?

WW1 Recruitment Poster -- Whos Absent?
Whos Absent? - Is It You? Chromolithograph recruitment poster, published by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. Printed by Andrew Reid and Company Limited, 50 Grey Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Cartoon, Wilson Barrett, preparing to play Hamlet
Wilson Barrett (William Henry Barrett; 1846-1904), actor, theatre manager and playwright -- More Study! Seen here preparing to play Hamlet, to the consernation of Henry Irving

Comic postcard, Woman worried about her husband Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Father not present at baptism Date: 20th century

To Absent Friends
Heres Health to Them Thats Awa Young girl in a floral dress making a toast to absent friends. Artist: Ethel Larcombe

Women Sewing for Troops WW1
Three young ladies sewing comforts for the troops Les Absent stop now and then to think of their menfolk waging war at the front Si parfois nos mainss arretent un peu

The Student by H. M. Bateman
A particularly studious student, so engrossed in the book he is reading, accidentally strides off the edge of a cliff. Date: 1925

Absent Daughter 19C
An elderly couple look at a picture of their absent daughter - has she run away, or has she died? Date: mid-19th century

Mother Misses her Son
A grey-haired mother sits musing on her absent son. As she wistfully gazes into a photograph album a vision of him appears in the fireplace. He too looks pensive. Date: 1922

Cartoon, There will be a party, WW1
Cartoon, There will be a party! A woman prepares for the Christmas festivities, with a picture of her absent soldier husband at the centre of the fireplace display. Date: 1915

WW2 greetings card, To Daddy. Date: circa 1942

WW2 greetings card from home to an absent soldier (inside). Date: circa 1942

WW2 Christmas card from home (inside). Date: circa 1942

A Kiss from the Trenches by John E. Sutcliffe, WW1 Christmas
A young woman, asleep in an armchair by an open fire dreams of receiving a kiss on the cheek from the ghost of her soldier husband or sweetheart. Date: 1916

Daddys Christmas Dinner by Samuel Begg, WW1
Illustration for the ILN 1916 Christmas number showing a mother and her children packing a special parcel to be sent to her husband at the front

WW1 knitting postcard - Absent yet Near
A young wife sits at home knitting comforts for the troops with her soldier husband very much in her thoughts, subliminally sending her a loving, but rather bad poem. Date: c.1915

The Empty Chair by Lawson Wood
A moving illustration featured in the Tatler in December 1915 showing a woman, head bent in grief, sitting by a fireside, while an empty chair beside her speaks volumes about the person who is

Cartoon, Our Society Portraiture, Mrs Grundy. Showing just the face, hat and folded hands of a docile-looking Mrs Grundy, the proverbial Mary Whitehouse figure of the early 20th century

Little girl asleep, dreaming of her soldier father, WW1
A little girl asleep in an armchair, dreaming of her soldier father who is away fighting in the First World War. The caption is written in English and French. Date: 1914-1918

Whos absent? Is it you?. Poster showing John Bull pointing and addressing the viewer, with burning buildings and a line of soldiers with gaps in the background. Date 1915

Couple cuddling during WW1
A couple cuddling a sofa during the First World War, with a picture of a saluting officer on the wall behind them -- no doubt her absent husband

Dreams of her absent loved one
Pretty young woman in a blue dress dreams of her absent loved one. Date: 1920s?

Town folk back from country / W H Robinson
An absent minded man fresh back from the countryside after the war, forgets that he is back in town and set off to work with a pitch fork and farmers smock

Absent Father Wwi
Family toasting the portrait of an absent father at Christmas during their meal during World War One

Christmas Toast to an Absent Soldier, 1916
Painting showing a young family raising a toast, at Christmas, to their absent father and husband, 1916. By 1916, the First World War had become a drawn out blood bath in the fields of France

1940S FAMILY
A typical British 1940s family during World War Two: Grandfather, grandmother, their daughter and her two sons. The father, being on active service, is absent

A Lady Watering
A lady waters her plants - but her mind doesn t appear to be on the job. She is probably thinking about an absent loved one

Ww1 Postcard Low Lights
" We miss you most when the lights are low" - a mother and daughter think of their absent loved one

Couple in Conversation
Speaking ill of the absent

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