Anxious Collection

First Day of Holidays
Two children eat their breakfast on the first day of the school holidays, anxious to leave the table and play in the garden

Women Lobbying Mp / 1880
Women lobbying an MP on the subject of Womens Rights during the general election

RMS Lusitania - postcard, George Marks and wife, WW1
RMS Lusitania - postcard dated 5 May 1915 to a Miss Powell in Southampton. The card refers to a George Marks and his wife

Louise Hampton in Late Night Final
British actress Louise Hampton (1881-1954) in a publicity photograph for the play Late Night Final at the Phoenix Theatre. Date: 1931

RMS Queen Mary guided by tugs on River Clyde
RMS Queen Mary, dexterous and anxious manoeuvring as tugs guide the ship downstream on the River Clyde Date: 1930s

Colour illustration by G E Studdy, captioned The Doctor'. Showing scene in barn, with rodent doctor listening to egg in cot, whilst anxious geese parents look

Recording the nation's anxiety outside Buckingham Palace in London. Waiting for a bulletin notifying of the development of King Edward illness. Date: May 1910

Tokyo postman delivering letters to the rubble
Laden with letters from anxious enquiries from relatives. A Japanese postman amongst the ruins of where the house were once situated

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

Comic postcard, Woman buying material in a shop Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Dog with a wasp on its tail Date: 20th century

Passengers about to board a ferry. A young girl looks back anxiously. Date: circa 1930s

Comic postcard, Little boy sitting on doorstep Date: 20th century

Christmas scene by Cecil Aldin
Mischievous children seated at the front of a stagecoach greeting everyone they pass with a snowball with their mother looking anxious at the back

Anxious to Please - Le Desir De Plaire. 1743

CROWD AT A HORSE RACE
A crowd, one man in particular who is wearing glasses and has a pair of binoculars round his neck, watch expectantly as the horses approach the finish. Date: 26 May 1935

Cartoon, The London Mission -- Loading the Gun at Exeter Hall. Punch mocks evangelical calls for British military intervention in Tahiti

Five humanised cats on a Christmas card -- three of them are ill in bed, and the doctor cat asks one to: Show your tongue! Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and Russian Bear, WW1
First World War cartoon on a postcard, showing Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany on the branch of a tree, looking worried as a Russian Bear starts climbing up towards him

Falling To - and In by H. M. Bateman
The Small Boy: Ma! Ma! Quick Ma! Come ere; babys eating all the plum-pudding mixture. Occupational hazard during Christmas food preparation in a busy family home, as imagined by H. M

Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, Sussex, the site of many deaths and rescues. Seen here are members of the coastguard rescue party, setting off on an emergency call with ropes and other equipment

Cartoon, Music Hall Licensing -- anxious moments for proprietors. 1881

Cartoon, Gladstone, Bradlaugh and Labouchere
Cartoon, Charles Bradlaugh, atheist, republican and Liberal MP for Northampton, supported by his fellow-MP Henry Labouchere but a worrying presence for the Liberal leader W E Gladstone. 1881

Doctors Prescription
A doctor writes out a prescription for a female patient. 1960s

Costume Blue Dress 1820S
Young woman in a blue dress with short ornamented puffed sleeves & hemline & a round neckline & a ribbon ceinture with floating ends at the back. 1820s

Lady motorists headwear 1906
What to wear on ones head, when one is invited out for a motor ride but is anxious about ones expensive coiffure Date: 1906

Disraeli / Curzon Street
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl of Beaconsfield Anxious enquirers at his home in Curzon Street during his fatal illness, 1881 Date: 1804 - 1881

Cartoon, On the eve of repatriation, WW1
Cartoon, On the eve of repatriation. A German patient in a French hospital asks an orderly if he will be ok with his reconstructed chin containing silver

Cartoon, Uneasiness, WW1
Cartoon, Uneasiness, showing a naturalised German couple living in France. The man reads his newspaper, looking for reassurance, while his wife asks what is wrong. Date: 1915

Enquirers at the British Consulate, Paris at outbreak of WW1
Enquirers at the British Consulate, Paris at the outbreak of WW1 Date: 1914

Suffragette, The House That Man Built. Pro-Suffrage Viewpoint showing suffragettes handing out Votes for Women leaflets. All are anxious to write M.P after their name

Soldier and family at Victoria train station, WW1
Illustration showing soldiers either returning home from the front or returning to France at Victoria Station accompanied by anxious wives and families. Date: 1915

A man fishing in a river
An Anxious Moment. A three pounder sure. Date: ca. 1880

Marcus Miller and family in shack that he built himself. Spencer, Iowa. This is half the house. Miller is a hired hand who has managed to save enough to make a part payment on seven

Miss Maud Jefferies, 1895
Actress Miss Maud Jefferies as Virginia in Virginius. Date: 1895

Looking at the book of the lost and at news of the Titanic
In the anxious hours which followed the greatest of Maritime disasters: At Lloyd s, the famous association of Marine Underwriters. After the sinking of the Titanic. Date: 27th April 1912

American election cartoon with Uncle Sam voting
Cartoon by Clifford K Berryman entitled Anxious Moments, showing Uncle Sam voting in an American presidential election, about to drop his voting paper into the ballot box

Cartoon, President Wilson reading Germans Reply
Cartoon entitled Standing By, showing the American President Woodrow Wilson at his desk in the White House, with Uncle Sam standing behind him with a worried face

A Motor Tour of Lakeland If you desire to go the pace, try motoring through this lovely place !! circa 1920s

Embassy to Austria
Anxious for an heir, Napoleon decides to dump Josephine, who can t oblige : he sends an embassy to Vienna suggesting marriage to Maria Luisa (Marie-Louise)

Fisherman and Family looking out to sea
Engraving, originally entitled An anxious moment, showing a small family and a fisherman standing on a quay looking out to sea

Granpop Floats a Company
Comic illustration by Lawson Wood showing Gran pop pushing off three anxious little monkeys on a log down a stream

Fable / Discontented Bee
The discontented bee complains to Jupiter about her wretched and anxious life, but Jupiter considers the bee ungrateful as he has provided her with all she needs for good living

Fugitives from Paris
Anxious Parisians attempt to leave the city at the Gare du Nord

Creswell colliery, where eighty men perished in a fire. Aeri
Creswell colliery where eighty miners perished in a fire at the junction of two conveyer belts. An aerial view showing ambulances approaching the pithead and anxious families gathered at the offices

Little Bridesmaids
Five little bridesmaids wait at the church door with their baskets of primroses and anxious expressions

Monkeys Reincarnated
Two Japanese monkeys, anxious to know the life of Buddha, help a scholar to copy the Buddhist bible, and the senior, later reincarnated as a man, completes the task

Daily Mail Composing Rm
Anxious moments in the Daily Mail composing room

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