Shock Collection (page 5)

Notes on Etiquette - Greeted with a Kiss. Nothing more readily conduces to a pleasant visit than a kindly, hearty greeting. Date: 1908

Fantastic Adventures - The Singing Skulls
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, April 1945, featuring the story The Singing Skulls by Don Wilcox. Glamorous woman shocked by floating (and singing)

Louis Wain, Daddy Cat - spilt soup. circa 1910s

Happy Families - Mr Teacher. circa 1940s

Happy Families - Mr Flower. circa 1940s

Gibbs Happy Families - Master Sparks the Electricians son. 20th century

Monkey and cat on a Christmas card
Monkey pulling a cats tail on a Christmas card. Date: early 20th century

Two robins alarmed by a cat on a Christmas card. Date: early 20th century

Cockatoo and monkey on a Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century

Monkey and cockatoo on a Christmas card
Monkey having his tail pulled by a cockatoo on a Christmas card. (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century

Chinese man and monkey on a Christmas card
Chinese man on a Christmas card has his pigtail pulled by a monkey. (2 of 2) Date: early 20th century

Illustration, More Than He Expected -- an old man seeking the elixir of life is shocked to see a sudden outpouring of babies. circa 1910

Dollie Goo Goo surpised by a duckling
European take on Japanese style... Dollie Goo Goo is surpised by a duckling Date: circa 1910s

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Wing the Airmans Wife. circa 1930s

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Mrs Wood. circa 1935

Music cover, You Are Always Sure to Fetch Them with Wst, Wst, Wst, written by Henry Pettitt, sung by G H MacDermott. circa 1880s

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Master Pint. circa 1935

Rough Rides at the Sea Side - Bathing Machine. circa 1850s

Snap card - Dickory Dickory Dock
Nursery Rhyme Snap card - Dickory Dickory Dock, the mouse ran up the clock. early 20th century

Man on a donkey on a bridge on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

George Ernest Studdy, Bonzo rides an elephant, who snatches away his bun in payment. Artwork for a story, Taking the bun, originally published in The New Bonzo Book (Partridge, London). Date: 1927

Frog and duckling on a Christmas card
Frog and newly hatched duckling on a Christmas card -- Consternation. (4 of 4) Date: circa 1890s

Advert for Ch. Lalanne hair dye 1912
Oh, what a shock for the man in your life, when your first grey hair appears! Ah, but thanks to Lalannes wonderful colorant, he need never know the awful truth.. 1912

Electric Shock Trader
A German street entertainer offers to give you an electric shock from his machine for one schilling Date: circa 1815

The Dirt-Track Rider who appeared in Rotten Row. A motorcyclist causing noisy havoc amonst the genteel riders on Rotten Row in Hyde Park, London. 1929

The Probationer who Disagreed with the Matron, H. M. Bateman
A hospital matron goes puce and faints with shock at a rookie nurse who has dared to contradict her over the diagnosis of a patient. Date: 1934

Russian soldiers in action on the eastern front, Russia, WW1
Russian soldiers in action in " no mans land" on the eastern front during the First World War -- a shock battalion taking German trenches

The Lady Dandies by Basil Hood
Promotional postcard for The Lady Dandies by Basil Hood from the play by Victorien Sardou; music Hugo Felix. First produced at the Dalys Theatre, 27th October 1906

Two dogs and frog on a Christmas and New Year card
Two dogs surprised by a speaking frog on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Christmas 1918 in Hospital Mess at Quex
A group of patients and staff, together with the three Powell-Cotton daughters are gathered in the Hospital Mess in the Winter Garden at Quex Park VAD Hospital pn Christmas Day 1918

Christmas 1918 in A Ward at Quex Park VAD Hospital
A Ward in the Drawing Room of Quex House on Christmas Day 1918. The room is highly decorated with flags, greetings, paper decorations and festive greenery

Hospital Mess, Quex Park 1917. The Winter Garden, between Quex House and the Museum buildings served as the Mess for the VAD Hospital at Quex Park

1914 VAD staff in 1917
Members of Birchington VAD staff who were the longest serving when the photograph was taken in 1917. Standing (left to right) Camille Van Dyck (Belgian, origianlly a patient)

Little boy with jack in the box on a Christmas card
Little boy frightened by a jack in the box on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Nurses & patients, Winter Garden, Quex Park
Nurses and patients in the Winter Garden, Quex Park. This room was used as the Hospital Mess. Nurse Fanny Watson is standing, second left

Fox and five chicks on a New Year card. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, How to get hold of some plonk, WW1
Cartoon, How Herbinet used System D to get hold of some plonk. Showing how a soldier gradually extracts wine from a large barrel in a stable. Date: 1916

White bulldog thrown into the water by a bull in a field
A white bulldog is thrown over a hedge into the water by a bull in a field. Date: 1905

Illustration, White-Ear runs out of the kitchen
Illustration, White-Ear the fox runs out of the kitchen as a maid throws boiling water on him. Date: 1912

Mother goose and goslings in a fright after one of them has been stolen by the fox. Date: circa 1933

Mongrel puppy in a state of shock, having discovered that he is not a bloodhound after all. Its a difficult world for little dogs! Date: 1914

Torpedo torpedo, or eyed electric ray, also known as Common Torpedo, Ocellate Torpedo, Cramp Ray, Turpaena and Numbfish. It can deliver a strong electric shock of up to 200 volts. Date: 1862

Alice in Wonderland, Alice and the White Rabbit
Alice in Wonderland, Alice sticks her arm out of the window and the White Rabbit falls into a glass frame. Date: early 20th century

Cartoon, The Salesman, WW1
Cartoon, The Salesman, flirting with a customer as she tries on some gloves. Behind the salesman is a shadow of German soldiers with severed hands skewered on a sword. Date: 1915

San SebastiᮮFestival 2009. The Shock Doctrine
SPAIN. Donostia. British film directors Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross take part in a photocall at Kursaal Palace, after the screening of their film The Shock Doctrine

Hut Life Illustrated, WW1 cartoon
Cartoon showing the soporific atmosphere in a Y.M.C.A hut recreation room somewhere on the Western Front during the First World War, where soldiers can spend their leisure time reading magazines

Electric eels shock horses
Some electric eels(Gymnotus Electricus)wreak havoc on a herd of terrified looking horses. A large eel with a particularly mischievous expression reclines in the foreground

Savoy China Jug - WWI
Savoy China Jug, inscribed and showing a Private of the Grenadier Guards with the Kings Colour and Union Flag. On reverse, Shakespeare prose - This England never do

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