Nuisance Collection

The people of Coed-y-Moch, Wales, found the wyvern a terrible nuisance, eating their flocks and so on : but the valiant youth Meredydd beheaded it with one stroke

Comic postcard, French man notes down street name - Commit No Nuisance Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, French man notes down street name - Commit No Nuisance Date: 20th century

Omnibus nuisances. Caution to ladies who like to occupy the seat next to the door. A mans hobnail boots kick a woman on the head as his feet swing in from the window of the omnibus. Date: 1853

Egoism personified. This gentleman occupies six chairs on his own, and without regard to the arrival of strollers, he stretches out an army boot with spur and waves his whip

Woman catching her hat on a street sign
Woman getting her headdress caught in a street sign, while another woman tries to stop some dogs pulling at her petticoats. Copperplate engraving and illustration by Daniel Chodowiecki, Berlin, 1790

Crossing-sweeper nuisance Crossing-sweeper nuisance 1856
Group of young children with brooms, sweeping the ground as a gentleman walks alone, asking for a ha penny. Date: 1856

Ratting in the trenches, WWI
Ratting: The New Sport in the Trenches. British soldiers follow a terrier as it dashes along a trench on the Western Front in pursuit of a rat

Musca domestica, house fly
Top view of a Natural History Museum model of the common house fly, a pest species always found in association with humans or human activities

A capitol nuisance. Illustration shows President Theodore Roosevelt sitting at a desk that is overwhelmed with papers requiring his immediate attention; reaching through the stacks of paper is a

A chattering nuisance. Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan as a parrot chattering at an old woman labeled Democratic Party; the parrot is perched on a stand labeled Dead Issues with its food

St. Anthony Comstock, the Village nuisance. Illustration shows Anthony Comstock as a monk thwarting shameless displays of excessive flesh, whether that of women, horses, or dogs

Father christmas about to go down the chimney
Another result of zeppelin raids! searchlight nuisance 1916

Street music: The organ grinding nuisance, 1864
A difference of opinion: an old lady and a child encourage an organ grinder to play in the street, despite the pleas of a maid on behalf of a suffering invalid. Date: 1864

Pied Piper / Rats / Woodward
The rats of Hamelin cause a nuisance, annoying cats, ladies and a small baby in a cradle

Italian Steam Tram
Steam trams are a nuisance in cities, but on rural routes like this Italian example they are economical and provide low cost transportation for low- paid workers

Drunken Blind Granny
Blind Granny: a half blind, drunken nuisance who would beg by using her paricularly long tongue to wash her blind eye then spend the money on drink. Poems were written about her!

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