Bored Collection (page 2)

Housewife 1940S
A bored housewife re-arranges her fruit in the bowl on the table of her panelled dining room. Date: 1940s

George V in Wartime
George V visits a naval establishment, accompanied by the Mayor and various officials and dignitaries. His attache looks rather bored, poor fellow. Date: 29 September 1915

Ladies Read at Table
Bored with male-dominated conversation, women find their own diversions in cards, books and magazines; the chaps seem rather peeved... Date: 1927

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Saint Bernard posing
Illustration by Cecil Aldin -- a Saint Bernard posing for Aldin to sketch, looking rather unwilling, uninterested and sleepy. Date: 1927

WW2 greetings card, RAF man at zoo
WW2 greetings card, RAF man visiting a zoo -- Grounded. Date: circa 1942

Nobbled, by Bairnsfather
Nobbled " Ow long are you up for, Bill?" " Seven years" " Yer lucky-, I m duration" Two British soldiers, Old Bill and Bert

Trifles Light as Air by Barribal
A pretty young woman idly blows bubbles with a pipe. Date: 1919

The Prize Fight, 1814 and 1914
Depictions of the Prize Fight, of 1814 (above) and of 1914 (below). In the earlier version there is as much fighting in the crowd as there is in the boxing ring. Date: July 1914

Pres(s)tige by Leo Cheney
A bored socialite or actress lies languidly in a luxurious bed blowing smoke rings and stroking her pet dog as she holds court with a group of journalists

James Nayler
JAMES NAYLER, Quaker, spends two hours in Westminster pillory, is whipped through the streets, his tongue is bored with a red-hot iron and he is branded B for blasphemer. Date: 1617? - 1660

Young gent - bored at Newlyn, Cornwall
A lugubrious young gent with hangdog eyes, bemoaning the lack of fun at Newlyn, Cornwall. Quite what the local tourist board felt about this card is anyones guess!! Date: circa 1905

Satirical cartoon, An Appropriate Text!, showing a street preacher preaching to four bored-looking people while a large crowd watches the launch of the Charles Green balloon

Indian Maypole Dance. A traditional English social custom, which seems to have been met with a sizeable lack of interest (!) by this group of Indian Children. Date: circa 1910s

Schoolchildren in class, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Schoolchildren photographed during a lesson at a school in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. Some of them are looking rather bored. circa 1946

Teacher telling mother her son is good for nothing

A Monday Popular Concert, London, 1872
Music lovers at a Monday Popular Concert, London, 1872.Some follow the score avidly, others stare into space and look bored. Date: 1872

A morning concert
Wife: " George! George! You are not in church!" A husband dozes off in the front row during a morning concert, to the despair of his wife. Date: 1865

Bored Lioness
A bored lioness, yawning. Date: 1960s

Portrait of a man
Studio portrait of man about 1910. Date: 1910

Syrian woman in Baghdad, Iraq
A Syrian woman in Baghdad, Iraq Date: circa 1930s

Victorian woman with two children
A middle aged Victorian woman poses with two children in the photographers studio. She has a rather serious expression on her face, and the children look bored. Date: late 19th century

Yawning Tiger
A tiger yawns widely, bored of sunbathing! Date: 1930s

Wounded German prisoners of war, WW1
Wounded German prisoners of war captured by the British on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Theatre from a Box 1909
A group of theatre goers watch a show of singing and dancing from a theatre box. Not all of them seem to be totally impressed. Date: 1909

Bored Teenager
A bored teenage girl, sulking in her bedroom, dreaming of being grown up and having fun, her Snoopy posters behind her. Date: 1979

Housewife and Pooch
An attractive housewife does a spot of window shopping outside the fruiterers, while her bored pooch waits for her. Date: 1960s

German prisoners in Champagne, France, WW1
German prisoners of war in a field in the Champagne region of north eastern France, during the First World War. Date: 26 July 1918

Two Victorian sisters and their brother in studio setting
Two Victorian sisters and their young brother pose in the photographers studio. They are all looking rather glum, or bored

Boy looking through a window on a rainy day
A bored little boy peers through a window pane on a rainy day

Double page spread in a diary for 23-28 October
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 23-28 October. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Navy wedding group, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A large group photo of a Navy wedding in Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales, during the First World War. Nobody seems very happy about it!

Family group on a sofa on a verandah
A family group of two children, mother, father and grandparents, all sitting on a sofa on a verandah. The grandmother is perching on the arm of the sofa

Patients relaxing at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing patients relaxing with visitors in a rest room. One patient has his leg in plaster, and is watching television

Nurse and patients at the Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing a nurse with two patients in a rest room

Moorish Algerian Women smoking
Two Moorish Algerian women smoking cigarettes

Mans Best Friend
A small puppy yawns while sitting in front of an old-fashioned wireless radio set

Izmir, Turkey - Travelling ironmonger
A travelling itinerant ironmonger with his young assistant and some of his wares at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey

Edwardian Schoolroom
The tutor of an Edwardian teaches the Young Master in the schoolroom of his home

Social / Women Gossip 19C
Two women gossipping, while their daughters look bored

1950S Evening Wear
A bored looking model poses wearing a long coral coloured evening gown, against a rather bizarre studio prop

Papal Audience 1898
Pope Leo XIII gives audience to a lady, while a cardinal sits nearby looking rather bored, and another religious person scratches his chin in a puzzled kind of way

Schoolgirls / Board School
Four bored schoolgirls at a Board School

Penelopes Suitors
At Ithaca, in the absence of Odysseus (Ulysses), Penelopes bored Suitors get drunk, while a minstrel plays his lyre to them. Telemachus, Odysseus son, watches with disapproval

Grandville / Marriage Mart
the Marriage Market

Bored Girl Sleeps C1880
A bored little girl sleeps on a chaise longue

Finishing School 1930S
A group of proper young ladies, possibly at a finishing school or university, compose themselves and read newspapers around a gas fire. One girl is smoking

Enforced Afternoon Nap
A group of children take an enforced afternoon nap in the open air, perhaps in a London park

Hunting Alphabet - B
B is the Bounder who brags about fences till hes bored the rest of us out of our senses

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