Eager Collection

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Tatters chasing the car
Illustration by Cecil Aldin -- Tatters, a wire-haired fox terrier, not wishing to be left behind, chasing his masters car on hearing the horn sounding. Date: 1927

Cartoon, theatre managers and Queen Victoria
Cartoon, theatre managers (Irving, Toole, James and Bancroft) besieging Queen Victoria at Windsor. Now that a rumour has gone abroad that Her Majesty will one more give theatrical entertainments at

Illustration, foxhounds howling in chorus
Illustration, a pack of foxhounds howling in chorus, eager to go out hunting. Date: 1912

Marriage, Ancient Greece
Eager groom, shy bride

Comic Postcard - WW1 Home Front - Air Raid Alert - Take Cover - an eager volunteer
Comic Postcard - WW1 Home Front - Air Raid Alert - " Take Cover" - an eager volunteer warden shouts down an alert of any occupants of a Ladies Public Convenience! Date: circa 1917

Cookery demonstration
Eager housewives enjoying an in-store cookery demonstration Date: circa 1960

Photograph of New York buildings, showing double image of skyscrapers. Captioned, With eager fingers straining at the stars... A Study in Perspective and Double Exposure'. Date: 1933

LADY GALLOPER
A lady hunter gallops, side- saddle, eager to be in at the death of the fox. Behind her is a horse that has jettisoned its rider, and two gentleman riders

Comic postcard, Woman at Information Bureau Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Family arriving at the seaside in the rain Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Couple passing shop window Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Hotel guest on the phone Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Hotel guest on the phone Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man with suitcase striding off to the sea, leaving wife and baby behind Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man approaches bathing hut - mixed bathing Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Water Chute, Edinburgh Exhibition - shooting the chute Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Last Boat on the Water Chute, Edinburgh Exhibition Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Off to the Edinburgh Exhibition Date: 20th century

Cartoon, John Slow and John Fast (Russell and Bright)
Cartoon, John Slow and John Fast -- a satirical comment on the disagreements among MPs regarding reform, and the extension of the franchise to include more working men

Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs
Image of Snow White and the hungry seven dwarfs eager for food. Postcard advertising Katharina Pratos Die Suddeutsche Kuche, first published in 1858

Santa handing gifts to children - Santa Claus handing gifts to eager children. Artist: KR Date: circa 1910

FALL / STAFF. BULL TERRIER
EAGER LAD Owner: Roebuck Date: 1938

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

ADVERT / POST TOASTIES 16
Post Toasties breakfast cereal - crisp, delicious, the perfect corn flakes Date: 1916

BASKET SACRIFICE, DAHOMEY
In the Basket Sacrifice of Dahomey, captives from other tribes are tied in a basket and thrown down from a tower to the eager crowd below... Date: circa 1860

TOURISTS AT THE TOWER
Holiday time at the Tower - an influx of eager tourists Date: 1871

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, dogs eager for a walk
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Micky, Cracker and two other dogs eager for a walk, having spotted the signs. Date: 1927

Sketch of a hound in action. Date: 1936

Germans / Attack England?
German troops, having overrun Belgium, are eager to attack England. Date: 1914

John Eager Howard
JOHN EAGER HOWARD American statesman Date: 1752 - 1827

Book for Boys
Buckle of Submarine V2, by Rowland Walker, will stir the blood of every true British schoolboy and make him eager to take his place in battle against Britains evil foes Date: circa 1915

Father Christmas delivering Xmas presents
Father Christmas seems to have hidden his presents in the trees, but he hands them out to eager children Date: 1905

Hungry Peter the pig in his best clothes, ready to go out for tea. Date: 1914

Puppies eating from a large bowl
Puppies eating eagerly from a large bowl -- Hard At It. Date: 1893

Cricket Stumped
Some players can be very eager to get runs therefore this results in them getting stumped. Date: 1845

Wolseley at Myat-Toons stronghold, Burma, 1853
Sir Garnet Wolseley(1833-1913) as a young officer in the British army, storming Myat-Toons stronghold, Burma, February 1853

Rush to recruit, Central London Recruiting Depot, WW1
The rush to recruit at the Central London Recruiting Depot. Men gather outside the doorway, eager to enlist on the outbreak of the First World War

Moscow, Russia - Clothes Seller
A Moscow clothes stall from around the turn of the 20th century. Date: circa 1900

Hungry Peter the pig arrives at Tabithas for tea
Hungry Peter the pig arrives at Tabitha the cats for tea, wearing his best clothes and very eager for food. Date: 1914

Eager for the race. Seven jockeys on horseback. Date c1893

Christmas. A girl and her obedient dogs. Artist: Anon. A girl, dressed in coat, bonnet and muffler, prepares to go out for a walk in the snow withher eager dogs. Date: circa 1902

Enthusiasm on the eve of King Faruks wedding
Police keeping the eager populace at bay during one of King Faruks many public appearances in Cairo prior to his marriage to Farida, the daughter of Yussuf Pasha Zulficar

Public celebrations at the royal wedding
Public entertainments in Cairo to celebrate the royal wedding of King Faruk to Farida. Military bands played in public parks and native quarters

A busy time for the police: King Faruks wedding
Attempting to hold at bay the people that thronged round the Abdin Palace and nearly penetrated the courtyard. The Sphere reports that, " The crowds were good-humoured enough

Car jumpers escort Nahas Pasha to the royal wedding
Cairos youth escort Nahas Pasha, the recently deposed premier, when he returned to the city for the royal wedding of King Faruk to Queen Farida

The Advertisement for a Wife. Dr Syntax has had lots of respondents to his advertisement and the room is filled with ladies. He fends them off with an armchair

Edwardian group at the seaside
An Edwardian group at the seaside (four women and one man), sitting in front of some rocks. The man is holding a dog, which seems eager to go racing off

The Spring of Love
Two young lovers almost literally spring into each others arms, eager as they are, to embrace - in the Spring

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