Hopeless Collection

Cartoon on the Trenches
Well, if you knows of a better ole go to it! A comic glance at the desperate reality of the trenches

Comic postcard, Woman in expensive underwear chats to cleaning lady Date: 20th century

Slightly Tipsy Rakish Cad attempting to play billiards, but likely to only succeeding in spoiling the baize. Date: circa 1908

Leslie Henson Golfing
Comedian Leslie Henson (1891-1957) posing on the golf course. At the time he was appearing in the farce It's A Boy! at the Strand Theatre. Date: 1931

Comic postcard, Woman worried about her husband Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Elegant woman and scruffy man selling sheet music in the street Date: 20th century

When Love was Lost and Life was Vain: Pierrot Forlorn. In the Autumn of Youth: " Fallen Leaves". Date: 1912

LONDON HOMELESS MISSION
A mission to the homeless and hopeless, in the East End of London Date: 1895

Shakespeare - The Merry Wives of Windsor - Anne Page (to the bashful Slender): Will t please your worship to come in, sir? circa 1830

This Vacant Lot for Sale - Comic Postcard - Three rather eager young men (all highly optimistic - possibly a little out of their league)

Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany - Caricature
Savage caricature of (useless) son of German Kaiser Wilhelm II, Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany (Friedrich Wihelm von Preussen - 1882-1951)

London North Eastern Railway LNER Lorry Delivery, England. (Hopeless quality) Date: 1940s

George Edward Pickett
GEORGE EDWARD PICKETT American confederate soldier, best known for his brave but hopeless charge at Gettysburg - his greatest feat was at the 1865 battle of Five Forks. Date: 1825 - 1875

A hopeless case. Illustration shows two women dressed for horseback riding and fox hunting gossiping about another womans femininity. Date 1914 October 3

The Tatler Appeal for Victims of the Titanic Disaster
A full page appeal in The Tatler magazine, speaking with mournful and patriotic eloquence about the Titanic disaster ten days beforehand, and asking readers to donate to a fund to help the victims

German Navy lampooned - World War One
Propaganda postcard from the First World War lampooning the German Naval capability as a rusting weed-encasted hulk, unable to repond to the effective and nimble Allied naval fleet

Cartoon on Laziness
" Whats that! You ve got the sack at the Munition Works! - What for?" " I Dunno - I never done nothing!" Date: circa 1915

Hopeless Plumber - Flooded House
" What is home without a Plumber." He leaves the water tap runnning... A family wakes up in the morning to discover that the rather hopeless plumber

Macmahon / Comte / Gill
Marie-Edme-Patrice-Maurice, comte de MACMAHON French soldier and statesman, a good soldier but a hopeless statesman

London Homeless Mission
A mission to the homeless and hopeless, in the East End of London

Rus / Jap War / Linievich
Russian general Linievich contemplates the hopeless task before him in Manchuria

Burke & Wills
The explorers on the way to Mount Hopeless

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