Surprised Collection (page 2)

Comic postcard, Vicar and little girl Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman chats with sailor Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Vicar, woman and five children Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Pretty woman in solicitors office Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman, man and boat at the seaside Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman with six children at the insurance office Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women at a fairground, near the fortune tellers tent Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Two women chatting - one of them in tears, confiding in her friend Date: 20th century

Oh! I Say!! by Sydney Blow and Douglas Hoare, at the Pavilion Theatre, Weymouth, from the Criterion Theatre, London Date: circa 1914

Comic postcard, old geyser taken in part exchange Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Looking for a sleeping partner Date: 20th century

Isobel Violet Hunt (1862 - 1942), British author and literary hostess; writer of feminist novels. She founded the Women Writers Suffrage League in 1908

How do yo do? - a frog greets a rather startled bird
How do yo do? - a frog greets a rather startled colourful small bird on the branch of a fuschia. Date: 1932

Ada Blanche in The Telephone Girl at the Grand Theatre, Islington in 1896. Date: 1896

Cook from The Little Pipe. 1928

Tatler Cover, Summer Number 1954
Front cover of The Tatler Summer Number with a stylised illustration of a seaside resort in the Edwardian era with bathing beauties being surprised by a lusty looking Neptune in the water. Date: 1954

The head of a very surpised male Tara! Date: 1960s

Finishing Touches
A crowd of children and adults look somewhat surprised by what this artist is painting at his easel! Date: 1902

Cartoon portrait, GEORGE JOACHIM GOSCHEN, 1st VISCOUNT GOSCHEN MP, as a parrot on a perch, whose allegiances shift from Conservative to Liberal according to circumstances. Date: 1881

Napoleon and Cossacks at Battle of Brienne
At Brienne, Napoleon is surprised by a band of Cossacks, only narrowly avoiding capture. The Battle of Brienne (fought on January 29th 1814)

BROKEN PLATE IN KITCHEN
Two children clearing up broken plate in kitchen are surprised by maid entering Date: 19th century

Child finds a crab on its toe
Children playing in the shallows discover a crab at the end of one of their toes. Date: 1922

Oh I don t know
" Oh" - I don t know. A clear message being presented on this card, unafraid to illustrate a certain lack of knowledge on the part of the sender!! Date: 1907

Many kittens and a Santa cat on a Christmas card by Louis Wain. Have they behaved well enough to receive their presents? Date: circa 1900s

Tall blonde with pink nightdress and stockings
Step-in High! A tall blonde girl in profile, with long long legs and stockings and a sheer pink nightdress -she stands in front of some fine floral wallpaper. Date: early 1940s

Pretty girl caught getting dressed
Caught " Una-wears" - a curly-haired lovely is shocked to be discovered whilst getting dressed into a tiny sheer green undergarment. Date: early 1940s

Comic postcard, Mother and son in department store Date: 20th century

Cartoon, Laugh It Off Annual
Cartoon in the Laugh It Off Annual -- Demobbed! and glad to be back on the old job, sir! An employee returned from the war sits in his office with a young woman on each knee

Little boy carrying a dog over his shoulder
A little boy carrying a rather surprised-looking dog over his shoulder. Date: circa 1960s

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

No Peeking! A brunette lays down the law to a Peeping Tom
No Peeking! A brunette lays down the law to an invisible onlooker, who is seemingly admiring her choice of tiny red (with black spots) beach wear and red high heeled shoes. Date: early 1940s

Peek-a-boo! A Blonde starlet with tights and bare back
Peek-a-boo! A Blonde starlet standing alongside a some red stage curtains covered in little black stars, looks back over her shoulder

RUBENS, Peter Paul (1577-1640). Diana and her Nymphs Surprised by Fauns. 1638-1640. Detail. Flemish art. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. Madrid. Prado Museum

Penelope & the Suitors
Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus, is surprised by her Suitors, whilst weaving at her loom with her maid at her home in Ithaca

3 Men in a Dog Cart
Three men travelling in a private horse-drawn carriage along a country lane are surprised to encounter the hounds of a fox hunt

Kitten surprised to see puppy in a basket
Unusual Friends - a kitten is surprised to see a puppy emerging from a basket. 1950s

The Days of Cromwell by Charles Rogers and Carter Livesey. First produced at the Borough Theatre, Stratford, on 19th October 1896 The caption reads Toby, I can hear fightin

Cousin Kate by Hubert Henry Davies. First produced at the Haymarket Theatre on 18th June 1903. Directed by Percy Hutchison, with arrangement by Messrs. Harrison and Maude

District Railway line - London Underground - A sudden stop! (see: 10176658) Date: circa 1910

Scenes from the modern opera You d Be Surprised at Covent Ga
Scenes from the modern opera You d Be Surprised at the Covent Garden Opera House, London, 1923 featuring Lydia Lopokova, Leonide Massine and Margaret Sousa Date: 1923

Christmas present gift tag -- boy in chair with book and cat. Date: circa 1950s

A study of the dancer Ninette de Valois, London, 1923 to appear in You d be Surprised the new revue at Covent Garden Opera House Date: 1923

Susi - surprised by rabbit
Susi - surprised when a rabbit pops out of a magicians hat. 1950s

Office Boy burns his bridges and threatens to give notice
Office Boy burns his bridges (disobeying every commandment on his behaviour in sight) and threatens to give notice to his (rather surprised) Boss! Date: 1907

Man hit by football on a greetings card
Man hit on the head by a football on a greetings card. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

The Hold Up by Harold Earnshaw
The Hold Up! A Startling Christmas Eve Incident. A small child emerges at the top of a chimney on a snow-topped roof offering his empty stocking to a rather startled looking Father Christmas

Man surprised by elephant on a cutout Christmas card
A man working in his office is surprised by an elephant putting its head through the window and spilling a pot of ink on a cutout Christmas card (front). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Woman looks surprised entering room decorated for Christmas
Woman in 1970s dress and headscarf is caught with surprise when entering room decorated for Christmas with a heavy wallpaper pattern. Middlesbrough, England. Date: 1970s

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