Miserable Collection

Charlie Chaplin
The movie legend Charlie Chaplin in classic pose

Periscope and All by Gerald C. Hudson, WW1
Humorous cartoon depicting the grimness of life in the trenches. THOMAS (encountering a pal on the surface of a flooded crater): Lor! Enry, ow you did make me jump. I thought you was a submarine

Street music: a family of singers
A pathetic scene: an impoverished family of street singers, shoeless and ragged, singing in the rain. Date: 1870

The Beach - Carnoustie, Scotland
The Beach - Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland. Date: circa 1906

Miserable Sunday
Between them, the holier-than- thou crowd, and the powers- that-be, combine to make Sunday miserable

Man with broken umbrella stands in pouring rain
Man in raincoat, hat and galoshes standing in the middle of a field in pouring rain holding up a broken umbrella for protection. (John Turner self-portrait.) Date: 1930s

Nicholas Nickleby as an assistant to Wackford Squeers
Nicholas Nickelby (left) gets a low-paying job as an assistant to Wackford Squeers, who runs the school Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire

Amateur Studio portrait photograph of a teenage girl
Amateur Studio portrait photograph - shot in the back garden with suitable table and plant pot props - the subject is not the most jolly ever - I don t think that hat was a regular personal choice

An old man with a donkey in a back street of Avanos, Nevsehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. He wears rough clothes

A postman wishes a Merry Christmas to a Miserly Old Man! Date: circa 1910s

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AMERICAN TOBACCO GROWER
An American tobacco grower sits leaning on a barrel of the tobacco which will be sent away to poison the lives of millions of wretched victims doomed to a miserable death Date: 1871

Hop Frog
HOP-FROG The miserable end of the King & his courtiers. Date: First published: 1850

A rather morose looking young woman poses for a studio photograph. Date: c. 1923
A rather morose looking young woman poses for a studio photograph. Date: c.1923

Whats left?, woman and children waiting for leftovers
A woman and a group of children wait for leftovers at a fishmonger and poulterers shop. A well-to-do mother and daughter are seen leaving the shop

SULLEN GIRL IN CAPE
Unhappy girl in a party frock, apple green silk cloak with rows of gauging (shirring) across the shoulders & a ruched collar, calf length socks & ballet slippers. Date: 1930s

LAWYER / FARMER / LEASE
Awkward scene at lawyers office as farmer is refused renewal of his lease Date: 1865

Rear view of man walking Belmont Bank, Shrewsbury
Rear view of man walking Belmont Bank, a cobbled street in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on a wet winter day Date: 2019

Mother and her two boys in the garden
Mother (with fag in her mouth) and her two (rather glum-faced) boys, pose for a photograph in their neat garden. Date: 1938

A Jolly Wedding Party from the late 1940s. Love, rapture and excitement is etched on all the faces of the participants... Date: circa 1948

Advertisement - 1930s Germany Knoll Klimakton Tablets - aiding the symptoms of the menopause Date: 1930

Napoleon Bonaparte after Battle of Fontainebleau
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French Emperor downcast in defeat following the Battle of Fontainebleau in 1814. Date: circa 1880

Despairing man with his head in his hands
" The Mind and visage oft are things apart; a smiling face oft masks a breaking heart." - character study by Phil May of a man in the deepest throes of despair. Date: circa 1890s

Musicians with instruments on a Christmas and New Year card
Musicians with instruments on a Christmas card, with a quotation from The Merchant of Venice: I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Date: circa 1890s

WW1 - 96th Batt. Canadian Highlanders - Terrified Germans
WW1 - Humorous patriotic postcard in support of the 96th Battalion (Canadian Highlanders), an infantry battalion of the Great War Canadian Expeditionary Force

Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be blind and wet
Black Humour - It could be worse, you could be a blind beggar singing for your supper/lodging in the rain... Date: circa 1904

A Classic English Summers Day on the beach! The rain is pouring, it is freezing cold and even the dog appears to not be relishing his daily stroll

The coal yard in Kings Arms Yard, Drury Lane, London
Concern over the outbreak of Cholera highlighted this scene at night in the coal yard of The Kings Arms Yard in Drury Lane

An African-American boy sat sadly by a lake Date: circa 1880s

The Bird of Paradise by Richard Walton Tully. First produced in England Lyric Theatre on the 11th September 1919. The setting is Hawaii

Bukhara, Uzbekistan - The Chief of Sindan (clearly a real barrel of laughs). Date: circa 1910

Mongrel puppy unhappy after a beating. Date: 1914

WW1 cartoon - the water logged Western Front
Illustration originally reproduced in the trench newspaper, The Gasper, featuring soldiers wading waist deep through a water-logged landscape on the Western Front

Married Suffragette Support. Huge lady and suffragette, perches on the lap of her diminutive and miserable looking hubby. Captioned, Monster

Sheil & O connell
RICHARD LALOR SHEIL Irish politician and writer, with his colleague Daniel O Connell seemingly comforting him about the miserable state of Ireland... Date: 1791 - 1851

The Glums - a rather dour-faced German Extended Family
An extended German family in traditional costume - it would appear that the Photographers hand slipped on the shutter-release button a few seconds before he asked his subjects to smile

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Is My Journey Really Necessary?
" We have to gain the Victory that is our Task." - Winston Churchill, The Prime Minister Is My Journey Really Necessary

Beauties - Four fine British Bulldogs and their two young female owners, one of whom (on the right) does not seem to be too happy with proceedings. Date: circa 1910s

Character study by Phil May of an old man in a raincoat, seemingly down on his luck somewhat. Date: circa 1890s

Spinster Street Singer sings her tale of woe
Spinster Street Singer and her tale of woe, sung in tremulous tones !! Street Singer (in tremulous tones) - " An oi tell them they need not come wooin ter me." Date: 1900

Ragged Street singers - looking decidedly worse for wear
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a pair of ragged street singers singing about fair and stormy weather - the perfect illustrative template for their undoubtedly

Hard Luck Sir - Young lad lets in a goal
" Hard Luck Sir" - Young lad lets in a goal... Date: 1906

East Beach at Lytham - Donkey Rides / Windmill
East Beach at Lytham St. Annes - Donkey Rides / Windmill Date: 1904

Scruffy young miserable Scottish golfing caddy bemoans his lot... " They call me " Breeks" But my Maiden names McIntosh!" Date: 1907

223 E. 107th St. NY Rent sign states that these are Eleganti Apartmenti. License was recently revoked and after that, our investigator found eight families doing home-work there

People living in miserable poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Date 1936 Aug

Street music: a ballad singer, 1865
A ragged ballad singer sings on a street corner. Ladies in crinolines hurry past him, but three ragged children show interest. Date: 1865

Street music: orphan ballad singers
Orphan ballad singers perform in a street. An audience of children listen, whilst a woman seated on a bench looks thoughtful

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