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Slouching Girl 1960S
A girl wears a shapeless low waisted dress in a floral print & narrow contrasting belt & suede sling-back peep toe sandals. Her hair is cut in a long bob with a fringe. Date: 1960

The 35th Millennium
THE 35TH MILLENNIUM (Arthur G Stangland) War in space : the merciless Kulons (bad) seek to destroy the last of the Futurans (good). Date: 1931

Habakkuk, Prophet
Prophet who was chiefly concerned with the imminent invasion of the Chaldeans (Babylonians); he said things would be bad for the Jews and lo ! they were indeed bad Date: probably 7th century BC

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Goose
Goose. (Corhurnus Mandeville - The Eminent Tragedian). Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled Shadow and Substance, 1860

Music cover for Godfreys Chilperic Quadrille
Music cover for Charles Godfreys Chilperic Quadrille, based on airs from Herves popular opera buffa (or operetta) Chilperic

The Discomforts of the carriage - a young man suffers the result of Nanny attentiveness to Babys botty needs!!!

Porter Carrying an upright piano - Tunisia
An arab porter moves an upright piano by carrying the weighty instrument with his head, Tunisia

El Kantara, Constantine, Algeria
A woman carrying a huge bundle of palm branches on her back in the suburb of El Kantara, Constantine, Algeria

Elderly porter - Constantinople, Turkey
An elderly porter carrying a leather case with a rug on top

Coal Merchant, showing a classic example of a leather back support, which enabled such potentially heavy and awkward loads to be transported

Turkish porter carrying two suitcases
A Turkish porter bent double under his load of two suitcases, a selection of Gentlemans canes and a fez hatbox!

Turkish porters - Constantinople
Turkish porter carrying (struggling beneath!) an enormous wooden crate up a street in Constantinople, Turkey

A Capital Levy by George Studdy
Bonzo finds that Labour policy is worth following on occasion, and makes Capital Levy on his little mistresss presents. A rather tragic scene showing a little girl weeping after her naughty dog

Armenia - Carrying an immense wooden case
Extraordinary photographic postcard of an Armenian porter carrying a ridiculously large wooden box on his back

Ealing Common, Ealing, London
The record rainway of June 1901 - view of some rather soggy pedestrians and a struggling open-top (!) tram at Ealing Common, Ealing, London on the evening of the 15th June

Izmir (Smyrna) - Carpet porter
A carpet porter from Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

The Coming Storm - Boileau
The Coming Storm - a postcard reproduction of a painting by Philip Boileau (1863 - 1917), full of foreboding for the troubled times ahead

Bad Sauerbrunn, Austria (formerly in Hungary)
Bad Sauerbrunn - a mineral spa and the town in which it is located, in the district of Mattersburg in Burgenland in Austria

Model Repartee by Dudley Hardy
Humorous sketch by Dudley Hardy showing a frustrated artist trying to deal with a cheeky model. Artist (to refractory model): Do sit still! You are a little devil

Replace the... ?
How coal was first discovered in Scotland by a golfer playing bad golf. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the Estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans

People We Don t Envy
A humorous artist visits the offices of a magazine with his funniest cartoon to date, only to discover that its the day there happens to be particularly bad news about the war

Oedipus Tyrannus 4
Tiresias, blind soothsayer who foretells gloom and woe : a messenger from Corinth who brings bad news : a herdsman of Laius who has disquieting revelations

Seaman at the Ships Wheel, Atlantic, 1870
Illustration showing a sailor, dressed in souwester and waterproof, steering his ship through bad weather on the Atlantic crossing, c.1870

Switzerland Leuterbad
(or Bad Leut) - Interior of the medicinal baths at this noted spa

Festive Nutty Squirrel 4
Festive tableau with a stuffed nut munching squirrel with holly berries, ivy, a fir tress and a yule log

Crash Amid Crocodiles
To crash in central Africa is sufficient of a calamity in itself, but to crash into crocodile-infested Lake Victoria is more than anyones share of bad luck

Prince of Wales visiting the Great Eastern steam-ship
Engraving showing the Edward, Prince of Wales, visiting Isambard Kingdom Brunels Great Eastern steam-ship in 1865, prior to its voyage to lay the transatlantic cable

Testing the recovered Atlantic telegraph cable
Group of engineers testing the recovered 1865 Atlantic cable. The first attempt at laying a transatlantic cable had been in 1858

Shipping the Atlantic Telegraph onboard the Great Eastern
Engraving showing Isambard Kingdom Brunels steam-ship Great Eastern receiving the Atlantic cable from a smaller vessel. The cable was manufactured at Messrs

Bad News upon change

Radar navigation at a glance- a new device
Diagrammatic illustration of radar navigation. This was designed by the Admiralty Research Lab (mainly by Mr.J. Home Dickson)

Hunting in the Snow 2 / 2
ONE OF THE WRONG SORT Who goes out with hunters because it is the fashion " Confound the snow is not hunting bad enough without this..."

School Disco
Remember school discos, when all the boys looked lost and girls wore white stilettos with ankle socks?

Austrian Spa Town / C20Th
Bad Fusch: Austrian spa town

Donkeys in Sea
Business is bad at Weston- super-Mare, Somerset, England. The tide has come in on the poor huddled donkeys, much to the glee of one little boy swimming in the sea

Tsar Warned - 2
The ghost of assassinated tsar Alexander II appears to Alexander III and warns him to carry out reforms before it is too late. He doesn t - and things go from bad to worse

Beetles, Mosquitoes
Insects are very troublesome in summer : the beetles aren t so bad, but the mosquitoes are deadly to man and beast. The wasps aren t much fun either

Facing the Music 1923
A burly drummer with a bad temper finds that someone has tampered with his drum. He has words with a small drummer. Someone has to face the music

German Shepherd Dog
Formerly known as the Alsatian in the United Kingdom to avoid giving a dog a bad name during World War One

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Visit Bad Kreuznach

Sveaborg Rebellion, Suomenlinna, Finland
Scene at the Sveaborg Rebellion, which began on 30 June 1906. It took place at the sea fortress Suomenlinna (Sveaborg in Swedish and Russian) as part of the Russian Revolution

Farmer and Landlord 1886
Lady Day: The farmer complains to his landlord that hes going through a bad patch and can t pay the rent

Misbehaving husband in a Piccadilly night house
A wife persuades her erring husband to leave a Piccadilly night-house

Twin puppies in geranium bed
Twin puppies, Snip and Snap, bury a bone under the geranium bed and generally make a mess

Twin puppies burrow into rabbit hole
Twin puppies, Snip and Snap, try to make the rabbit hole bigger so that they can get through it

Twin puppies having a tug of war
Twin puppies, Snip and Snap, have a tug of war game with a once clean shirt which they have pulled down from the washing line

Snow Sweepers 1930S
Men sweeping snow from the pavements in central London during a bad winter

Caxton - Bad King
A bad king slain by his servant

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