Story Collection (#32)

Bonzo finds the bedtime story too much for him
Bonzo finds the bedtime story on the radio too much for him, and he bursts out crying. Date: 1923

Geppetto and Pinocchio
Geppetto finds that the wooden puppet, Pinocchio, is already displaying signs of bad behaviour despite not being finished. Date: 1936

Miss Susan Bligh as Calypso, by Madame Yevonde. Calypso played hostess to Ulysses when he was shipwrecked on her island. Susan Rachel Bligh (1916-1983)

George Bernard Shaw - Irish playwright
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) - Irish playwright Date: 1926

Cartoon story, Escaping the War, WW1
First World War cartoon story, Escaping the War. A man looks forward to the weekend in the country, thinking he will escape all the war news

Book cover design, La Vanghetta del Fante
Book cover design by Duilio Cambellotti, La Vanghetta del Fante by Giuseppe Zucca, showing an Italian light infantryman carrying a spade (the title also means Jack of Spades). Date: circa 1920

Round the clock with a bomber squadron. The bomber pilot and captain starts his day with a wash; he sets out with his crew on the back of a vehicle; the crew climb a ladder to board the aircraft

Cover design, German wartime story, WW1
Cover design for a German story entitled To Victory, about two volunteer soldiers during the First World War. Depicting a young German soldier with a flag, and a battle charge going on behind him

Seasonable Cakes. Christmas Design Date: 1936

Wonderland by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl in overalls sits looking through a picture book. Date: 1940

The story of a cold chicken and a hot wasp. Cartoon strip from Bonzos Annual, 1935 Date: 1935

Advertisement for Judy, featured in Tit-Bits
Advertisement for Judy, a womans thrilling adventures featured in Tit-Bits. Date: March 1953

Cartoon story, An Attempt on Antwerp, WW1
Cartoon story, An Attempt on Antwerp, illustrating an attempt on the part of the journalist " Jingle" and the artist Norman Morrow to obtain passports in order to visit Antwerp at their

A tale of Clarks O. N. T. Spool Cotton
A tale of Clarks O.N.T. Spool Cotton. Mournful the tale, and sad the sight, o, shed a tear for Joness plight. His clothes were new but ah, the cotton theyd sewed them with, alas was rotten

Illustration to the story of Ali Baba
Design or illustration to the Arabian Nights story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, featuring a slim woman in eastern costume, discovering men hiding in jars

Illustration telling the story of Chance the Fire Dog: Stop me not, but onward let me jog, For I am the London Firemens Dog. Date: 1834

Humpty Dumpty by Charles Folkard
Humpty Dumpty sits on a stone wall wearing a crown with a castle in the distance, while a little girl and a boy watch from below

Westminster Govt Mews
The Government Mews in Princes Street, Storys Gate. Date: 1829

A Christmas Story, by C. Rebel Stanton
A colour illustration showing a young couple flirting oblivious to the the animated story teller who is entertaining the rest of the group. Date: 29th November 1929

Edward Bulwer Lytton
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON writer and occultist, author of Zanoni, A strange story, The coming race etc. with his autograph Date: 1803 - 1873

Whittington Stone
The milestone at which Richard Whittington turned back towards London where he would become Lord Mayor. The story must be true, because here is the stone to prove it ! Date: circa 1400

Thackeray Reading
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY depicted reading The Rose and the Ring to Miss Story. Date: 1811 - 1863

Joseph Story - 3
JOSEPH STORY American jurist Date: 1779 - 1845

Joseph Story - 2
JOSEPH STORY American jurist with his autograph Date: 1779 - 1845

Frank Richard Stockton
FRANK RICHARD STOCKTON American writer, whose best known work was the short story The lady or the tiger ? Date: 1834 - 1902

Marguerite Roberval
MARGUERITE ROBERVAL Unfortunate French girl abandoned on an island off Canada coast until rescued 1545 after two years : read full story in source below. Date: CIRCA 1542

Anne Ritchie
Lady ANNE ISABELLA RITCHIE (nee Thackeray) novelist, biographer and essayist, author of The story of Elizabeth, Tennyson and his friends etc. Date: 1837 - 1919

Phil. Chr. Konigsmark
PHILIP CHRISTOPH KONIGSMARK Swedish soldier, lover of Sophia Dorothea (wife of George I) - a scene from a play Count Konigsmark based on the scandalous story. Date: 1665 - 1694

Beatrice Harraden
BEATRICE HARRADEN English novelist and short story writer; an active suffragette, she also authored Our warrior women in 1916. Date: 1864 - 1936

Pagoda at Kofukuji Temple Complex, Nara, Japan
Kofukuji (Kofuku-ji) temple complex - the five-storey pagoda (Goju-no-to - pictured) at Nara, Japan Date: circa 1910s

Sarusawa Pond, Nara, Japan - a small pond at the east end of Sano-dori with Nara Park behind or Naramachi to its south is a very popular viewing spot for Kofukuji (Kofuku-ji)

John Morley MP pulled out by Labby and Campbell-Bannerman
The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air (cont.). John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (18381923) - British Liberal statesman

John Morley MP trips over Charles Frederic Hamond MP
The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air (cont.). John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (18381923) - British Liberal statesman

Earl of Halsbury and Erskine try to control Irish MP Tanner
The Story of Rackety Tanner (cont.). Hardinge Stanley Giffard, The Earl of Halsbury (1823-1921) - Three times Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and Sir Henry David Erskine (1838-1921)

Sir William Vernon Harcourt - His political journey
The Story of the Protestant Who Wouldn t. Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904) - Chancellor of the Exchequer (1892-1895)

Arthur James Balfour has hands cut off by Joseph Chamberlain
The Story of the Pushful One (cont.). Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour (1848-1930) - Prime Minister (1902-05) has his hands cut off by Pushful Joe Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914). Date: 1899

Arthur James Balfour instructed by 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
The Story of the Pushful One. Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour (1848-1930) - Prime Minister (1902-05) instructed by Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil

Labouchere, Healy and Gibson Bowles covered in black ink
The Story of the Wicked Wags (cont.). Radical MP Henry Du Pre Labby Labouchere (1831-1912), Timothy Michael Healy (1855-1931)

Sir Wilfrid Lawson with Labouchere, Healy and Gibson Bowles
The Story of the Wicked Wags (cont.). Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet (18291906) an English temperance campaigner and radical

Sir Wilfrid Lawson - English temperance campaigner
The Story of the Wicked Wags (cont.). Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet (18291906) an English temperance campaigner and radical

Ashmead-Bartlett, Labouchere, Gibson Bowles and Healy
The Story of the Wicked Wags. Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (18491902) - an American born British Conservative politician, Radical MP Henry Du Pre Labby Labouchere (1831-1912)

Rosebery conquers Hugh Price Hughes and Labby Labouchere
The Dreadful Story about Primrose and the Gee-Gee (cont.). Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian (1847-1929) - a British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister

Rosebery menaced by Hugh Price Hughes and Labby Labouchere
The Dreadful Story about Primrose and the Gee-Gee. Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian (1847-1929) - a British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister

Emmy Destinn - Czech Operatic Soprano
Emmy Destinn (1878-1930) - Czech Operatic Soprano. Long career in Europe and with the New York Metropolitan Opera. Pictured here in the title role of Herodiass daughter Salome

Whittington Stone - Highgate Hill, London - where Dick Whittington heard the Bow Bells Date: circa 1940

Library of Congress Mural - Tale of the Eastern Story Teller
Washington DC, USA - Mural - The Evolution of the Book by John White Alexander (1856-1915). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Oral Tradition

Nursery Tale - Baby Bunting - Bewitched
Nursery Tale - Baby Bunting - Baby Bunting Bewitched and turned into a white rabbit. Date: 1880

Nursery Tale - Fighting for the Crown - Lion and the Unicorn Date: 1880

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