Cartoons Collection (page 8)

Going with the Wind
Cartoon, punning on the title of the recently released film Gone with the Wind'. Date: 1940

You Can't Be Too Careful!
Cartoon showing an over-enthusiastic ARP warden at a pantomime. He appears to be indulging in some unexpected audience participation. Date: 1940

Secret Service Santa
Cartoon showing how even Father Christmas has a role to play in the war effort. Date: 1940

Time Marches On!
Cartoon showing how times change... And how they don't. Date: 1940

The Colonel and the Carols
Cartoon depicting the enlivening effect of carol singing upon a snoozing colonel. Date: 1940

Old Bill Goes East
Cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather (1887-1959), speculating that in 1940 Europe could be considered the darkest continent. Old Bill was a popular recurring character in his cartoons. Date: 1940

Training regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
Cartoon by Mel depicting the officers of an army training regiment, part of the Royal Armoured Corps. Date: 1940

Wearing gas masks
Cartoon demonstrating how the social graces can still flourish, even when gas-masked. Date: 1939

Put out those dress shirts
Cartoon by Mel highlighting the risks run by gentlemen in immaculate eveningwear during the Blitz. Date: 1939

Pwllheli Golf Club and golfers
Cartoon illustration by Mel depicting members of Pwllheli Golf Club. This was to be the last in a weekly series of such illustrations, due to the outbreak of war. Date: 1939

West Sussex Golf Club and golfers
Cartoon illustration by Mel depicting members of West Sussex Golf Club, Pulborough. Date: 1939

East Brighton Golf Club and golfers
Cartoon illustration by Mel, depicting participants in the News Chronicle £1000 tournament at East Brighton Golf Club. Date: 1939

Bognor Golf Club and golfers
Cartoon illustration by Mel, depicting members of Bognor Golf Club in West Sussex. Date: 1939

Tommy Trinder
Sketch depicting comedian Tommy Trinder (1909-1989) appearing in Band Waggon at the London Palladium. Date: 1939

Freddie Schweitzer and Marion Bellet
Sketch depicting variety acts Freddie Schweitzer and Marion Bellet & The English Brothers. Presumably they were supporting Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch at the London Palladium. Date: 1939

Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch
Sketch depicting comedians Arthur Askey (1900-1982) and Richard Murdoch (1907-1990). Their radio show Band Waggon had been a hit in 1938, and was turned into a stage show which they took on tour

Wallasey Golf Club and golfers
Cartoon illustration by Mel depicting members of Wallasey Golf Club, Cheshire. Date: 1939

Coombe Wood Golf Club and golfers
Cartoon illustration by Mel depicting members of Coombe Wood Golf Club. Date: 1939

Sutton Coldfield Golf Club and golfers
Cartoon illustration by Mel depicting members of Sutton Coldfield Golf Club. Date: 1939

Wysard's Waxworks
Artist Tony Wysard (1907-1984) depicted a series of celebrity victims in his Wysard's Waxworks illustrations. Here are shown Nina Studley-Herbert, 12th Countess of Seafield (1906-1969)

Ashridge Golf Club and its golfers
Illustration by Mel showing members of Ashridge Golf Club. Date: 1939

Roehampton Golf Club members
Cartoon illustration by Mel depicting members of Roehampton Golf Club. Date: 1939

A golf club and its members
Cartoons of golfers at Broxbourne Golf Club in Hertfordshire. Date: 1939

Cartoon by George E Studdy
George Studdy or G E Studdy (1878-1948) was a British commercial artist and cartoonist, best known for his creation Bonzo the Dog, who became a popular character in the 1920s

A range of DIY ideas for the home, including a vacuum cleaner storage rack, an office area in the kitchen, and a "husband's corner" in a converted larder. Date: 1954

Advert for Osram light bulbs, made by the General Electric Company. Date: 1954

Cartoons showing the activities of a diligent wartime housewife, operating without the assistance of a maid. Date: 1943

Advert for Morley's range of silk, mercerised stockings. Date: 1932

Cartoon, Photographic Phenomena, by George Cruikshank
Cartoon, Photographic Phenomena, or the New School of Portrait Painting, by George Cruikshank Date: 1842

Cartoon, Monument to Napoleon! by George Cruikshank. Showing a skeleton on top of a pyramid of skulls, to reflect the many deaths caused during his military campaigns. Date: 1842

Cartoon, The Man who Discovered the First Brew - medieval types drinking beer. Date: 1930

Cartoon, The Stage Door of the Future
Women's suffrage cartoon, The Stage Door of the Future, with stage door Johnnies waiting for women MPs to emerge from the House of Commons. Date: 1920

Artist Norman Keene replicating the original drawings done by William Heath Robinson on boarded up shop fronts in London. Heath Robinson designed pictures to illustrate the particular merchandise

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Cartoon, The Last of the Last Lines, WW1
Cartoon, The Last of the Last Lines. Showing a scarecrow version of Paul von Hindenburg holding a sword, with Kaiser Wilhelm and the Crown Prince on the right

Cartoon, The Merry Widows, WW1
Cartoon, The Merry Widows. A reference to the operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehar, showing widows of the First World War in a cafe looking anything but merry

Cartoon, A Specialist, WW1
Cartoon, A Specialist. A group of GVC (Gardes-Voies et Communications) soldier are talking. The corporal tells a guard to keep an eye on ouvrages d'art

Dirty Father Thames 1848
Dirty Father Thames stands in the river water hooking detritus and rubbish that's floating there: old shoes and boots, dead fish, bottles, dead mice and rats

NUS President Charles Clarke and three colleagues
NUS President Charles Clarke (standing, b.1950, later a Labour MP and Cabinet Minister)) with NUS executive colleagues, from left to right, Alastair Stewart (b)

Cartoon, Reckoning without their host, WW1
Cartoon, Reckoning without their host. Defeated at Verdun, Germany, Prussia and Death walk away despondently. A smiling French soldier in the background says they had everything planned

Cartoon, Bread and Circuses, WW1
Cartoon, Bread and Circuses. The figure of Death kneels by his broken sword. He says he's done enough now, and would like some bread to eat. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Now you have peace, WW1
Cartoon, a figure of death says: Your wishes are granted, now you have peace. A silhouette of Kaiser Wilhelm hangs from a gibbet, with a flock of vultures gathering around his body. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Kaiser Carnival and his cortege, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Carnival and his cortege, showing Kaiser Wilhelm being carried along on a float, with various figures around him, including Death, a spy, a sorceress

Cartoon, A good idea, WW1
Cartoon, A good idea. A French soldier says he has asked his father to write to say he is dead: that way, he will be able to get leave of absence from the Front. Date: 1916

Cartoon, German women in uniform, WW1
Cartoon, plump German women in uniform, one of them causing a horse to collapse under her weight, and another two who have just been called the last bastions of the empire. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, by James Gillray. Depicting Napoleon (ironically in the role of John Bunyan's pilgrim, Christian) having to confront an array of problems

Cartoon, More Pigs than Teats, or, the new Litter of hungry Grunters Sucking John Bull's Old Sow to death, by James Gillray

Cartoon, Sin, Death, and the Devil, Vide Milton, by James Gillray. A parody of a scene from John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, showing Prime Minister William Pitt (left) as Death

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