Shocking Collection

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Princesse De Lamballe
MARIE THERESE LOUISE DE SAVOIE princesse LAMBALLE, friend of Marie Antoinette and one of the most shocking victims of the Revolution not long after this portrait was made

Bridge-Playing Girl 1907
A young woman in a red dress suffering from a shocking evening at bridge

Grave in a shell hole, Western Front, WW1
A soldier's grave in a shell hole on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Comic postcard, Ladies Only toilet - Put me among the girls! Date: early 20th century

English gentleman on an old nag rejected by a man on a bay horse. Mr. Jack Bunting rejected. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Robert Smith Surtees Plain or

Postcard booklet, workers cutting sugar cane, USA
Postcard booklet, workers cutting, shocking and stocking in the sugar cane fields, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

Ww1 / 1919 / Trench Skeleton
A shocking photograph of skeletons in a trench

London Life magazine - mother and child fashion 1966
Front cover of London Life magazine featuring mother and daughter models wearing evening and party wear for Christmas 1966

Discovery of the Adams mammoth, 1799
Discovery of a frozen mammoth in Siberia. A local chief spotted the creature, encased in transparent ice, on the banks of the river Lena in 1799

Bathing beauty reclining on a couch, wearing what was 9for the time) a rther shocking swinsuit. Date: circa 1920

The Host Who Forgot To Approve The Dish by H M Bateman, this illustration shows a group of people about to have dinner, but the host has forgotten to approve the dish

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)

Robot shocks a group of men
A robot strides across a room, shocking a group of men. They were hideous things, without brains, without feelings, without souls

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

Eve as a W. A. A. C, WW1
Eve, The Tatler magazines gossip columnist (and author of Letters of Eve ) muses on the charm of a W.A.A.C (Womens Army Auxiliary Corps)

Eve as a police woman, WW1
Eve, gossip columnist of The Tatler (author of Letters of Eve ) contemplates the charming idea of wearing a police womans uniform with a very short skirt in order to save on material during the First

Business Notes Illustrated - Receiving an Unexpected Rise A Gentleman is accidently lifted aloft by a warehouse crane outside a warehouse. Date: circa 1909

Lord Kitchener, headlines announcing his death
Newspaper headlines on a large poster, announcing the death by drowning of Lord Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916). He died when HMS Hampshire, on which he was travelling

Listening to the Banned by Kippa
Humorous illustration by Kippa featuring a group seated ready for after dinner evening entertainment, only to be shocked by a young woman reading aloud from a scandalous novel

Terrified by modern female fashion
The Harem Skar em!! Not in those trousers! A lady in the latest fashion, based on the costume of the Turkish Harem - causes men to flee from her path in surprise

Victorian Smokers
A lady and gentleman enjoy the cosy companionship of a shared cigarette. Quite shocking considering its about 1880

Stavisky Affair News
Stavisky affair - relevations!

Lelius Socinus
LELIUS SOCINUS (Sozzini) Italian theologian who - horrors ! - opposed the concept of the Trinity, shocking some but supported by others

Shocking Frock 1928
An example of the sort of clothing and type of dancing that seemed so shocking to the older generation

Bloomers / Leech
A girl wearing bloomers is the centre of attention

Natives of Florida sacrificing babies to their king
Natives of Florida sacrifice their first-born babies to their king, shocking a French witness

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