Sad Collection (page 6)

Meal on the beach, Hawaii, USA
Meal on the beach for 19 people, including Europeans, Hawaii, USA. Date: 1925

Pueblo Indian boy, New Mexico, USA
Pueblo Indian boy, Na-Na-Tse, New Mexico, USA. Date: circa 1925

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Spot and a policeman
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Spot wanders around the streets of London looking lost and is taken in charge by a policeman. " A melancholy troop we must have looked." Date: 1895

Rags wonders why he wasn t invited to Tabithas tea party. Date: 1914

Cover design, Cecil Aldin, Joyeux Amis, Passepartout
Cover design, Cecil Aldin, Joyeux Amis, Les Aventures de Passepartout, with text by Magdeleine du Genestoux. Date: 1925

Mongrel puppy unhappy after a beating. Date: 1914

Mongrel puppy with two pedigree dogs in the park -- the spaniel and terrier question the puppys parentage, but he has no answer for them as his mother didn t tell him. Date: 1914

RAMC football team, WW1
Group photo, Royal Army Medical Corps football team. Date: circa 1918

Illustration, King Thrushbeard -- The Beggar took the Princess by the hand, and led her away with him on foot. Date: 1909

Little girl looking glum
A little girl looking glum. Date: circa 1960s

Plump baby crying in a garden
A plump baby crying in a garden. Date: circa 1960s

ZOO - Young Tiger in a Cage, young female, close up to bars (Panthera tigris atta). Ekaterinburg, Ural Mountains, Russia

The fascinating Fez, circa 1941
A woman models a knitted swathed fez, decorated with a bunch of flowers, circa 1941. Date: c. 1941

Little girl at a New Year party, Soho Fire Station, London
A little girl with Father Christmas (fireman Pester) at a New Year party, Soho Fire Station, London, 2 January 1955. A total of 65 children attended the party

Children at a party, Soho Fire Station, London
Children at a New Year party, Soho Fire Station, London, 2 January 1955. A total of 65 children attended, seen here sitting at tables in the appliance room

Tatler cover - Soldier at Gallipoli with grave
A moving front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring the silhouette of a soldier at Gallipoli visiting the grave of a fallen comrade who had gone west. Date: 1915

Lady Diana Somerset
Lady Diana Maud Nina Somerset (12 September 1898 6 May 1935), married 19 September 1925 Captain Lindsey Shedden (18811971). Date: 1918

Umberto III The Blessed, Count of Savoy
Umberto III, surnamed The Blessed (1135-1189), Count of Savoy from 1148 to 1189. He preferred the monastic life to being a prince, but married four times for dynastic reasons

Gods and Fighting Men by Edwin Morrow
An illustration from the Bystander of soldiers watching the opera from a high vantage point, all in full military uniform and showing a saddened expression. Date: 1916

Off to perform a sad duty A burial party
Off to perform a sad duty. A burial party. 386202 Acting Sergeant Herbert Gibson, Mm, 1St Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Born September 1889

Mary, Queen of Scots, forced to abdicate
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587), forced to abdicate in favour of her one-year-old son James, while imprisoned at Loch Leven Castle. Date: 24 July 1567

Limpid Pools by Barribal
A pretty young woman with brown hair, hooped earrings and sorrowful eyes. Date: 1919

Village elder, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

Bonzo finds the bedtime story too much for him
Bonzo finds the bedtime story on the radio too much for him, and he bursts out crying. Date: 1923

Bonzos dud show by George Studdy
Bonzos dud show. He had been expecting first prize, but loses out to two pedigree dogs, a bull terrier and a bulldog. George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948), was the creator of Bonzo

Forager the puppy waiting for more food
Waiting for Something to Turn Up -- Forager the puppy, having been kicked out of the pantry by the cook, waits for more food. Date: 1912

Hungry Peter as a piglet looking for food
The Outcast -- Hungry Peter as a piglet wanders away from the farm looking for more substantial food. Date: 1912

Cartoons, What He Will Look Like, WW1
Cartoons, At the End of " The Day", What He Will Look Like. Showing Kaiser Wilhelm II during the First World War, His Own Version (left) and That of the Allies (right). Date: September 1914

Poor Teddy! by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl sits chatting with her doll, ignoring her teddy bear. Date: 1942

Soldier and girlfriend, WW1
A soldier and his girlfriend posing for their photo in front of a tree, around the time of the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Trade catalogue for irons 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a selection of irons. Date: 1911

William Thom, Poet
WILLIAM THOM Scottish weaver and poet, best-known for his poem The mitherless bairn which I haven t read because it is probably rather sad. Date: 1799 - 1848

Cruel Model
Head and shoulders portrait of a dark haired woman who appears to be topless. Date: late 1960s

Wilhelm Hauff
WILHELM HAUFF German writer who, sad to say, died in his 20s. Date: 1802 - 1827

Street Scene - Novi Sad - Serbia Date: circa 1910s

A refugee in Thessaloniki - sitting in the Vardar District
A refugee in Thessaloniki, Greece - sitting in the Vardar District - WW1 era. Date: circa 1910s

Memories - WW1 Blinded soldier - RNIB postcard
Memories - WW1 Blinded soldier looking back on his past life and the activities he is unable to continue to pursue due to his lost sight - Fund-raising postcard for the Home Teaching Branch of

Comic Postcard - Woman bemoans lack of male interest
Comic Postcard - Woman bemoans and mourns the loss of 500 men in a (fictional) disaster, not that it appears she is (unfortunately) a magnet for male interest! Date: circa 1910

Comic Postcard - Married to a Policeman on Night Duty
Comic Postcard - " Might as well be single again if you re married to a policeman whos always on night duty!" Date: 1914

The Loneliness of Penury - Pierrot upset having gone bust
The Loneliness of Penury - Pierrot upset and woeful having gone bust and been abandoned by society Date: 1911

Mourning at the grave of his lost love Thora - " Speak from your heaven to me; Child of my dream, love of my life..." Date: circa 1905

A little girl loses her beau to a prettier model
The Jilt. A little girl loses her beau to a prettier model. She is dreadful upset and even her dolly is sharing her pain and loss! Even her puppy seems to be off! Date: circa 1890s

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

Alone - portrait of an elderly widow by Phil May
Alone - portrait of an elderly widow with a Pathetic Grandeur lifting the scene above the commonplace. Date: 1893

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

Old Man with pair of wooden legs advertising corn plasters
Very black humour - An Old Man with a pair of prosthetic false legs advertising corn plasters! Date: 1895

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

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