Soaked Collection

Periscope and All by Gerald C. Hudson, WW1
Humorous cartoon depicting the grimness of life in the trenches. THOMAS (encountering a pal on the surface of a flooded crater): Lor! Enry, ow you did make me jump. I thought you was a submarine

Street music: organ grinder rejected, 1858
Repelling foreign invasion: paterfamilias tries the cold water cure in a case of organ grinding. Date: 1858

Carhampton Apple Tree
APPLE TREE CUSTOM Trees are toasted with mulled cider while singing a wassail song; cider-soaked toast is left for robins, and guns are fired to frighten evil spirits

HAND OF GLORY
THE HAND OF GLORY - the hand cut from a dead man's corpse, soaked in oil, and used as a magic torch by robbers because its light was visible only to the carrier Date: 1829

Johnnys Pa soaked by an Elephant at the Zoo
Comic Postcard - Johnnys Pa - Johnnys Pa takes the children to the Zoo (and gets a little more than he was bargaining for...!). Date: 1907

Woman gives up trying to keep dry - floods, Venice
A woman gives up trying to keep dry in the floods in St Marks Square, Venice, She wades straight though the water while tourists queue on the temporary walkways Date: 2013

Naughty boys with hose pipe, Dublin - 2
Naughty boys play on a hose pipe in Moore Street, Dublin - and show off Date: 1990

Naughty boys with hose pipe, Dublin - 1
Naughty boys play with a hose pipe in Moore Street, Dublin - and get soaked Date: 1990

American anti-gambling cartoon
An American anti-gambling cartoon, showing a Rum-Soaked Old Sport sitting at a table. The verse below ends: It would be very hard to find / A more worthless, useless sample of mankind. Date: 1906

April showers 1896
A wet woman standing under an umbrella (more like a parasol), looking a bit fed up. Date: 1896

Billiards Illustrated - A Little Too Fine
A fisherman fly fishing in a Scottish Loch is thwarted in his attempts to land a sprightly salmon by his choice of fishing line, which appears to be far too thin

ROUGH SEAS
Holidaymakers getting soaked by waves crashing against a pier at a British seaside resort! Date: 1960s

British soldiers 1916
Two British soldiers, muddy and soaked but looking cheerful, stand in the middle of a cemetery, somewhere in the Somme region

Louis XI Soaked
Early one morning Louis XI is riding to mass through the streets of Paris when a student empties a basin from the window onto the kings head. The king forgives him. Date: circa 1470

A Visitor to an Emigrant Ship being soaked by Seamen, 1884
Sketch showing sailors scrubbing the decks and an early visitor getting soaked by them, 1884

Gideons Second Sign
When he asks God to confirm his first sign with a second, a sheeps fleece is soaked in dew while the ground around remains dry, such is the power of the Almighty !

Shepherd and Storm
Fleeing the storm - a shepherd returns home with his flock before they all get soaked

Back from Longchamp 1799
A lady makes her way back from Longchamp, on the outskirts of Paris, in a shower of rain : her high-waisted, low-cut dress will be soaked, making it more revealing than ever

A French Master
A French Lodge admits a Master who lies on the ground with a blood-soaked cloth over his face, while the existing Masters point their swords at his body, very symbolically

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