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Cartoon, W H Smith news stall
Cartoon, showing a man at a W H Smith news stall on a railway station platform. 1910

Mongrel puppy makes a mess of a cushion in his mistresss bedroom. Date: 1914

WW1 poster, Bad Form in Dress, advocating sensible attitudes to clothing in wartime. Date: 1914-1918

The Irrespressibles by J. H. Thorpe
Xmas 1913 - and 1914, but still smiling. The irrepressible spirit of the British Tommy illustrated by J. H. Thorpe in December 1914. Date: 1914

Street Scene, Bad Hall, near Wels, Austria. Date: 1910s

Cartoon, There are none so deaf, WW1
Cartoon, There are none so deaf, showing a typical pessimist talking about the war to two women in a restaurant. Surrounding them is a border of barbed wire, keeping out any item of good news

Cartoon, Victory singing, WW1
Cartoon, Victory singing, with happy soldiers walking along a road. A pessimistic civilian man watches them, and comments: Its unbelievable

Cartoon, The bad cloud, WW1
Cartoon, The bad cloud, showing a cloud of gas billowing across the battlefield, just as the French soldiers are preparing to charge

Cartoon, Kaiser Kabot, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Kabot (Kaiser Wilhelm II, the ham actor), showing the German Kaiser in four different theatrical roles: ignoring treaties, being deceitful, involved in litigation, and as Tartuffe

Cotillion Lounge, Jung Hotel, New Orleans, USA
View inside the Cotillion Lounge, Jung Hotel, Canal Street, New Orleans, USA. Date: 1943

Peregrine Falcon - adult feeds a chick in the nest (a single chick because of the bad year due to the lack of lemmings as food, a natural fluctuation) (Falco peregrinus)

Peregrine Falcon - chick in the nest (a single chick because of the bad year due to the lack of lemmings as food, a natural fluctuation (Falco peregrinus)

Hotel at Bad Wildungen, Hesse, Germany
Furstl Badehotel at Bad Wildungen, a spa in Hesse, Germany. Date: circa 1910

Hotel Victoria, Baden Baden, Germany
Hotel Victoria and street scene, Baden Baden, Germany

People at Golf Club, Baden Baden, Germany
People relaxing at the Golf Club, Baden Baden, Germany. Date: circa 1908

Wooden construction at Bad Nauheim, Hesse, Germany. Date: circa 1902

Aerial view of Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria, Germany
Aerial view of Bad Reichenhall, a spa town in Upper Bavaria, Germany

People enjoying a beer picnic, Germany
A group of people enjoying a beer picnic, Bad Lausick, Leipzig, Germany. 1927

Greetings card from Bad Ischl, Austria, showing the Sofienesplanade, Hotel Elisabeth, the Rechensteg and Franz Josef Warte (watchtower). late 19th century

Discussion about a patient - WWI humour
Lady Visitor: Thats a bad case - what are you going to do with him Orderly: Oh, es going back again to the front. Lady Visitor: Good heavens - whatever for Orderly: E thinks e know who done it

Rain and mud at Yser, 1914
British cavalrymen cleaning mud off accoutrements during a rain storm on the Yser line in 1914. The rain has come down in pitiless downpours and the flat meadows have become boggy in the extreme

How wireless beacons guide ships in the fog
The Marconi invention can determine distance of the ship from the beacon to steer the vessel into a Harbour during foggy weather

Sensations of the Times We Live In by George Studdy
What it feels like to read that another ship has been sunk. A metaphorical view of bad news received on the home front during the early months of the First World War

Winter rations for British troops in the trenches 1917
British commissariat methods: Army ration corps supplying hot food to the men in the trenches at the Battle of Arras on the Western Front in France; serving hot stew in bad weather often added very

Big gun transported in bad weather, Western Front, WW1
A British big gun being transported to the front lines in bad weather on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

How wireless waves guide aeroplanes during bad visibility
Method of directing the pilots of aircraft flying to and from Croydon has been revolutioned by the Marconi directional visual beacon station erected at croydon. WWII

Deerstalking above Loch Ettive, Argyllshire
Deerstalking in the forest of the Black Mount, Argyllshire: above Loch Ettive - a bad miss after a long stalk. Date: 1891

Woman reads the news of a great British victory, WW1
A woman reads the news of what is described by the newspaper as a great British victory in the early days of the First World War

Water Polo riot at 1932 Los Angeles Olympics
A page from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, reporting on a riot at the water polo during the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games

Nursery Rhymes -- man watching pigs in a sty
Nursery Rhymes -- a man watching pigs in a sty. In the first illustration the pigs are plump and happy, but in the second they are thin and crying. Date: early 20th century

Female Fishmonger
A smiling female fishmonger displaying bad teeth Date: 1930s

Superstition - Ladders
Is walking under a ladder really bad luck? These London pedestrians seem to think! Date: early 1930s

Walking under a Ladder
Is walking under a ladder really bad luck? These pedestrians think so, doing their best to avoid a ladder! Date: early 1930s

Bad Ischl, Austria
Bad Ischl - a spa town in Austria in the southern part of Upper Austria, at the Traun River in the centre of the Salzkammergut region

The Terrible Bogeyman - who steals away naughty children in his sack if they misbehave. Date: circa 1908

Man at the end of his tether with piano-playing singing wife
" Every Morning I feel like shooting." An American man seemingly at the end of his tether with the less-than-tuneful efforts of his enthusiastic piano-playing, singing wife

Earl of Halsbury and Erskine try to control Irish MP Tanner
The Story of Rackety Tanner (cont.). Hardinge Stanley Giffard, The Earl of Halsbury (1823-1921) - Three times Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and Sir Henry David Erskine (1838-1921)

Mauritania, Africa - Arabs remove bad dates from date palms. Date: circa 1910s

Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
The ruins of Freudenberg Castle at Bad Ragaz, a municipality in the Wahlkreis of Sarganserland, canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland Date: 1903

Dishevelled maid tries to explain lack of bread to Mistress
A dishevelled maid tries to explain lack of bread to her Mistress by explaining that the Baker has " been and gone", but obviously had intentions other than delivering a few loaves

Annoying teenager booted out of the front door for his own good after one minor indiscretion too many....!! Date: 1909

The Tenor hits a high note and is met by a special bouquet
An Operatic Tenor hits a high note and is met by a special bouquet, comprising of eggs, carrots, a turnip and a dead cat! " He who pitches too high, won t get through his song"

The Tenor hits a high note and a special bouquet awaits
The Tenors Top Note. An Operatic Tenor hits a high note and is about to meet a special bouquet, comprising of rotten eggs, a carrot and a turnip !! Date: circa 1910s

Market Reports illustrated - Game - Supply Strong. A Fair clearance was effected! A Butcher scares away his customers (a rather well-heeled family)

Old Yokel extols the fighting qualities of his son
" My Laad Garge as bin feaghtin t Booers. If e only whopped em like e did is did is Old Woman, ed mak em sit up, I tell ye." Date: 1900

Irony of a sweet child wearing an HMS Furious cap
HMS Furious - somewhat ironic picture showing an old soldier and the least likely ilor of the HMS Furious, a sweet little child in a sailor suit. Date: circa 1890s

Prodigal son sees a return home as dangerous to his health
The prodigal son (likely a cad and bounder who has run up a large debt on the family account back home in Blighty) seeing a return home as the poor option !

Ladies complaining od bad language from the pub
It must have been awful. Mrs Baggs: (after receiving a tornado of abuse from over the road) " Well, I never eard sich langwidge in all my life.I never was called such names before

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