Alarmed Collection

A Common Pheasant alarmed
A Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) flies up in alarm. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

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

Terrible accident - Lady ablaze - Figure 1
Figure 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 bother
Help 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 bath
The Lodger was in the bath. A landlady receives a nasty surprise as she comes across the lodger taking a bath

Seaside Weather Forecasts - Strong smelling Fish
Seaside 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 female
Sketch 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

The Doggy Bag by Bert Wilson
Colour 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

Camels and Iron Horse
NORTH AFRICA : flesh-and-blood camels are alarmed by the iron horse

Town & Country Mouse
LE 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 Confession
Two 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 FISHERMAN
I 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 & SPIRIT
Two 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 Zoo
An 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, France
Les Nymphes de Trianon (The Trianon Nymphs) -- alarmed at the arrival of the diplomats for the Versailles Treaty talks. 1919

The General Election - Free Fooders
Comic 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 waves
A 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 / TRAIN
The horses of a stagecoach are alarmed by one of the first American railroad trains Date: 1830s

GIRL ALARMED BY MOUSE
A girl screams at the sight of a tiny mouse... and her dog seems to share her alarm... Date: circa 1920

MAN-TRAP / HEATH
Man alarmed by man-trap warning Date: 1837

FLIGHT OF EMIGRES
Alarmed by attacks on their property and themselves, nobles emigrate, generally to Germany and Switzerland Date: circa 1790 - 1791

ACCIDENTS / WATER LEAK
A family are alarmed when water starts to drip from the ceiling Date: circa 1860

ELIZABETHAN FAMILY
Family alarmed by sight of father smoking a pipe. Date: 17th century

Anna Zinkiesen - Mariegold in Society -... ushered into the presence of Two Female
Anna Zinkiesen - Mariegold in Society -...ushered into the presence of Two Female Officials. Date: 1927

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Date: 1906

Cartoon, Hearing cannon fire in Constantinople, WW1
Cartoon, 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 Crombie
A 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, 1921
A 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

Down by the Sea - Catch of the Season - Crab biting a toe
Down 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

Florida Tourist Postcard - Waiting Alligators
Florida 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

Louis Wain Postcard - The Seaside Bill
Father 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 lane
A 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 stay
Home 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 duckling
European take on Japanese style... Dollie Goo Goo is surpised by a duckling Date: circa 1910s

William Forbes
WILLIAM FORBES Copperbottoms retreat, or a View of Carron Work - a Scottish manufacturer alarmed by a product test ! Date: CIRCA 1797

CALCUTTA IN ROUGH SEA
The 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 - 10
Refreshed 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. Bateman
A 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

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