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Sad Collection (page 9)

Background imageSad Collection: Little Flower Girl 1880

Little Flower Girl 1880
A sad little flower girl

Background imageSad Collection: Imitation Xmas Tree

Imitation Xmas Tree
An imitation Christmas tree, with a cuddly toy and assorted presents underneath it

Background imageSad Collection: Police Officer and Boy

Police Officer and Boy
Police officer telling off little boy for fishing in Trafalgar Square fountain making him upset and sad. Metropolitan police London

Background imageSad Collection: Happy Evacuees 1940S

Happy Evacuees 1940S
Not all evacuees were sad to leave the city for the country. Here are two boys (brothers), grinning with excitement in anticipation of the adventures to come

Background imageSad Collection: Husband & Wife Parting

Husband & Wife Parting
A husband bids his tearful wife goodbye on a railway station platform. During World War Two, married couples were often apart for long periods

Background imageSad Collection: School Dinners 1988

School Dinners 1988
Rather sad looking young people queueing up for even sadder looking school dinners!

Background imageSad Collection: Frozen Feet

Frozen Feet
A little girl sitting on a bench in the snow, crying because shes got frozen toes! Earlswood Lakes, Redhill Common, Surrey, England

Background imageSad Collection: Samuel Wilberforce

Samuel Wilberforce
SAMUEL WILBERFORCE bishop of Oxford, opponent of Darwins natural selection. Sad to say, he was known as Soapy Sam

Background imageSad Collection: Girl with Missing Glove

Girl with Missing Glove
Why is this little girl looking so sad ? Because she lost one of her gloves while she was out picking flowers, and she knows her Mama will not be pleased

Background imageSad Collection: 1399 Ship in Harbour

1399 Ship in Harbour
One sailor reefs the sails, another prevents the ship from drifting off the shore, when the Lady de Coucy lands at Boulogne, returning from England with sad news

Background imageSad Collection: Burne-Jones / Oval

Burne-Jones / Oval
SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES English artist

Background imageSad Collection: French Women 1780

French Women 1780
Aristocratic ladies on the eve of the Revolution - sad to think that many of them will shortly lose not only those elegant bonnets, but also the heads wearing them

Background imageSad Collection: Christina Rossetti / 1887

Christina Rossetti / 1887
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI English poet

Background imageSad Collection: Sad End to Nice Day

Sad End to Nice Day
A family outing comes to a sad end when their carriage goes over the edge on a mountain road

Background imageSad Collection: Forster / Woodbury Photo

Forster / Woodbury Photo
WILLIAM EDWARD FORSTER British statesman responsible for the Education Act of 1870

Background imageSad Collection: Chaucer / Thomson

Chaucer / Thomson
GEOFFREY CHAUCER English poet, writer of The Canterbury Tales

Background imageSad Collection: Jm Barrie / Elderly

Jm Barrie / Elderly
SIR JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Scottish novelist and dramatist, best known for writing Peter Pan

Background imageSad Collection: Dl Bramante / Larmessin

Dl Bramante / Larmessin
DONATO LAZZARI BRAMANTE Italian architect

Background imageSad Collection: Waving Tearful Farewell

Waving Tearful Farewell
A young lady waves a sad farewell to her soldier lover as he returns to the front - for this is 1915, and World War One is taking its toll

Background imageSad Collection: Electric Light Bath

Electric Light Bath
An electric light bath in the Bilz Sanatorium, Berlin. " The copious perspiration promotes increased assimilation efficacious in cases of gout asthma, etc." Early sunbed ?

Background imageSad Collection: Great Eastern Remains

Great Eastern Remains
The last, sad remains of the great ship at New Ferry, on the Mersey, Lancashire

Background imageSad Collection: So Sad to Go to School

So Sad to Go to School
A young mother in a mini dress stands sadly at her front door and watches her downhearted little son, hands behind his back, as he walks down the garden path to go to school

Background imageSad Collection: John Love / Fat Man

John Love / Fat Man
Mr John Love, a bookkeeper from Weymouth, is the fatest and heaviest man ever known in England!

Background imageSad Collection: Female Type / Beaute

Female Type / Beaute
A lady wearing a lace dress and jewelry holds her hands upon her head and looks rather melancholic

Background imageSad Collection: Despondency in Rome

Despondency in Rome after learning of their armys defeat at the battle of Cannae

Background imageSad Collection: Sioux Attack Feds

Sioux Attack Feds
Sioux, showing a sad disregard for property rights, attack a Federal baggage-train : lives are lost on both sides

Background imageSad Collection: Christmas once a Year

Christmas once a Year
A wait of 365 days until the next Christmas Day is an upsetting thought for this small boy

Background imageSad Collection: Female Type / Posy 1894

Female Type / Posy 1894
A sad young woman dressed in black, with a posy of flowers

Background imageSad Collection: Children / Orphan Girl

Children / Orphan Girl
An Orphan girl dressed in black and looking very lonely and sad

Background imageSad Collection: Alice / Hatter in Prison

Alice / Hatter in Prison
The Hatter in prison



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