Shabby Collection (page 3)

Woman with a dog outside a house. Date: circa 1920s

Three Russian men in a studio photo
Three Russian men looking disreputable and drinking vodka in a studio photo

Man and woman performing a comic song
Man and woman in shabby costume, performing a comic song. Date: C.1942

The Patriots by George Belcher, WW1
Three rather shabby, working class women, who probably don t have much choice about how extravagantly they choose to dress

Egyptian knife-grinder, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Mosque of El Hakim, Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1857

Bab Al Azab citadel gates, Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1857

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

Man banging a drum to advertise public entertainment
A man banging a large drum to advertise some public entertainment -- business as usual, even though a war is on. Date: August 1914

Harbour scene with ship and equipment, Scotland
A harbour scene in Scotland with a ship and various equipment, all looking rather run-down and shabby

Harbour scene with ships and equipment, Scotland
A harbour scene in Scotland with ships and various equipment, all looking rather run-down and shabby

Ramshackle cottage and courtyard, Scotland
A ramshackle cottage and courtyard, Scotland

Two men in an outdoor setting, wearing slightly shabby, rumpled suits -- no doubt their working clothes. One wears a buttoned waistcoat, the other wears a knitted one

Four coaches outside Vauxhall building
Four rather dusty-looking coaches parked outside a Vauxhall building. Men are working on the engine of the nearest one

Nursery Rhymes -- couple arguing, blacksmith
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- an elderly couple argue in a bare room, with bags of gold and silver on the floor

Two men sitting by a smoking brazier. The man on the right is putting items into a sack

Phil May receives a caricature request - duly granted
What our artist has to endure. Mr Kaddie (who has borrowed the Artists sketchbook to look through) - " Very Clever! Very Clever indeed

Christmas card in the shape of a battered top hat -- May you spend a jolly time under the old roof. Date: circa 1890s

Battered old boot-shaped Christmas card with blue tits and snow. Date: circa 1890s

Title page and frontispiece, Travels through Africa

Billboard advertisements, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Billboard advertisements at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, for Whiteways Devonshire Cyder and The Royal Navy. circa 1949

Two brothers and their sister in a backyard
Two brothers and their sister pose for their photograph in a rather untidy-looking backyard. Date: circa 1940s

Dorchester Hotel
The exterior of the Dorchester Hotel, in exclusive Park Lane, London. Date: 1972

Two prisoners of war captured by Canadians, WW1
Two young prisoners of war with tins hanging round their necks, captured by the Canadians during the First World War. Date: 23 April 1918

Frenchwoman at her door, Bouchain, France, WW1
A Frenchwoman speaks with a British soldier at her front door in Bouchain, northern France, during the First World War. The German words painted on her door say No lodging for troops. 25 October 1918

King & Eight Bells Pub
The King and Eight Bells public house, Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London, once a popular haunt of Londons artistic Bohemian set. Date: 1930s

Austrian prisoner of war, WW1
An Austrian prisoner of war captured during the First World War. He has two medals pinned to his jacket. Date: 1914-1918

British troops relaxing, Croix du Bac, near Armentieres, WW1
British troops relaxing at Croix du Bac, near Armentieres, northern France, during the First World War. An elderly Frenchwoman is serving them with coffee in china cups. Date: May 1916

Cuba / Havana Floridita
Havana: the Floridita Bar, Ernest Hemingways favourite drinking place. Date: 1983

Racial / Gipsies / Bible
Mrs Tanner receives a Bible from a rather shabby-looking evangelist Date: 1950s

Green gipsy caravan at the side of the road
A green gipsy caravan at the side of the road, painted green with red and yellow decorations, and a blue door

Edwardian workman on his front doorstep, Pembrokeshire
A middle-aged Edwardian workman, standing on the front doorstep of his newly built house, somewhere in Pembrokeshire, South Wales

Transformation from young tramp to soldier
Before-and-after pictures of a young vagrant transformed into an army cadet over a three-month period with the help of former Oxford Liberal MP Frank Gray

Vagrants asleep on bench on Thames Embankment, London
Two tramps in shabby overcoats, flat caps and muddy shoes, spend the night on a bench on Londons Thames Embankment

Red-haired gipsy boy looking out of his caravan
A young red-haired gipsy boy looks out of the back of his caravan at an encampment in Surrey

Gipsy family looking out of the back of their caravan
Members of a gipsy family -- two women and three boys -- looking out of the back of their caravan at an encampment in Surrey

Colourful but shabby gipsy caravan
A colourful but shabby gipsy caravan, with a guard dog chained to it. In the background some washing is drying on a hedge

Gipsy man and his pet dog
A gipsy man and his pet dog, at an encampment in Surrey. The man sits precariously on a crumpled red tin

The Unemployed and the Workhouse, satirical postcard
Two workmen are digging a hole outside a workhouse. A dishevelled tramp figure asks them why they are working when the workhouse would give them a home for free

Union Workhouse, Tonbridge, Kent - Billy Brown
Two inmates of the Tonbridge Union workhouse with a handcart. The men are in the standard workhouse uniform of jacket, trousers, waistcoat, and billycock hat

Old man in Kashgar, western China
An old man sitting at the side of a road in Kashgar, western China. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Steaming a Hat
Photograph demonstrating how to steam a hat in order to freshen shabby headwear

Dan Leno / 1927 Pyke
DAN LENO Music hall entertainer

Girls Making Dolls 1878
Three little girls sit at a table in a shabby-looking room, making dolls for children better off than themselves

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