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Dog in human clothing on a comic greetings card. Date: circa 1850s
Old maid with cat on a comic greetings card with verse. Date: circa 1860s
Old maid on a comic greetings cardOld maid with birch twigs and alphabet book on a comic greetings card with verse and pull tab. Date: circa 1860s
Cartoon, Miss-Ann-Thropy. 19th century
Cartoon, Herbert Campbell as an Ugly SisterCartoon, Herbert Campbell as one of Cinderellas Ugly Sisters at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. 1884
The Ugly Duckling - Hans Andersens Fairy tale. Scene from TheUgly Duckling published by Raphael Tuck. Artist: Mabel Lucie Attwell circa 1912
Fairy tales: the ugly ducking in the old womans cottageThe ugly duckling at home with the old woman and her other beasts
MALE TYPE / MAN & GLOBE MALE TYPE / MAN & GLOBEA rather startled looking man poses in the photographers studio with a globe. Date: circa 1860
CINDERELLACinderella generously gives a large bowl of coffee to an old man asking for charity, while her sisters get ready to go to the ball
Cartoon, The Telephone CinderellaThe Telephone Cinderella: The general post and telegraphy shun the telephone. Date: 1892
Surgery cures ugliness 1847SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: young woman patient exchanges ugly head for pretty one Date: 1847
Bulldog with cigarUnusual Friends - bulldog with cigar. 1950s
People by the harbour, Mevagissey, Cornwall -- a bare-chested man seems to be upstaging the female model in a rather alarming way! Date: circa 1980s
Alice in Wonderland, Duchess, cook and babyAlice in Wonderland, Alice meets the Duchess, her cook and a screaming baby. Date: early 20th century
Cartoon, The New Dance Mistress, WW1Cartoon, The New Dance Mistress, showing an Austro-Hungarian or German officer in eastern costume introducing a plump German woman, Fraulein Gans (Miss Goose)
Suffragettes Never Been Kissed. Portrays five stereotypical suffragettes old, ugly spinsters as oil paintings in a dark wood frame
Repeating Pattern - Alice in Wonderland characters. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*
Gurning ManA male gurner with his ugly face through a leather ring at the gurning contest at Egremont Crab Fair, Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Misfitz - Hansel and Gretel - The Old Witch. early 20th century
Heil, Cinderella! The Wilton pantomime for the troopsPhotographs from Heil, Cinderella, produced by Cecil Beaton in aid of a Comforts Fund for H.M. Forces. The cast include Lady Pembroke and her son Hon
Palace Hotel SouthendPALACE HOTEL, SOUTHEND - a magnificently ugly hotel in the great English seaside tradition Date: 1926
Cartoon, German women as seen by the French, WW1Cartoon, German intellectual women as seen by the French. Date: 1916
Cartoon, Waking up Germania, WW1Cartoon, Waking up Germania. After the war, Madame Germania must pay the bill for all the damage she has done. The waiter is a macabre, thin man with a skull for his head. Date: 1918
Democritus / CoypelDEMOCRITUS Greek philosopher Date: 460 - 357 BC
Eccles Bus Station, now the site of a giant supermarket. Date: circa 1976
Cartoon, German women also Uber Alles, WW1Cartoon, German women are also Uber Alles. Six scenes depicting German women and their influence on everyday life. Date: 1916
Cartoon, The Bulgarian Cad, WW1Cartoon, The Bulgarian Cad (with a pun on his large nose), showing King Ferdinand of Bulgaria admiring himself in a hand mirror. Date: 1915
Ugly milk-cap Lactarius turpis and poisonous fire-milk mushroom Lactarius pyrogalus.. Chromolithograph from Leon Dufours Atlas des Champignons Comestibles et Veneneux (1891)
Cecil Beaton as an ugly sister in Heil Cinderella, 1940Cecil Beaton in costume as an ugly sister for a performance of the play he co-authored, called Heil Cinderella. Date: 1940
Suffragette Crested China BellA china bell with two sides, one showing an ugly, grinning woman with Votes for Women on her bonnet. The other shows an elegant lady with painted caption, She Shall Have Votes
German Kultur by Edmund SullivanThe Beast Breaks Loose - Kultur as it appears to Edmund J. Sullivan. The brutish, monstrous German soldier envisaged by Edmund Sullivan as a huge, hulking gorilla like monster
Two gargoyles on Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. Date: 1914
Cartoon on postcard, Kitchener news, WW1Cartoon on a postcard, showing a skinny woman in the early stages of the First World War, reading a news bulletin: Kitchener gets half a million men in a month
Street Vendor selling Nuts to Gentleman with a Simian VisageStreet Vendor cheekily offering the sale of some nuts to a diminutive Gentleman with a distinctive Simian visage!! Date: 1899
Mary Frith aka Moll Cutpurse, a notorious master thief & an Ugly who frequently dressed as a man; escaped from Newgate by bribery. Date: c.15841659
Riquet-with-the-Tuft by Charles Folkard. She saw a little man very ugly appearance. A fairy tale by Charles Perrault 1923
Cinderella ballet, Cinderella and Prince Charming danceThe Ugly Sisters watch with jealousy as Cinderella (in disguise) dances with Prince Charming at the ball. A scene from a ballet version of Cinderella, based on French and Spanish fairytales
Thumbelina and the Old ToadAn Old Toad tells Thumbelina that she must marry her ugly son. Illustration to a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published 1835
A scrapyard for cars, St Erth, CornwallA scrapyard for cars at St Erth near Hayle in Cornwall. A crane is about to drop another car on the heap
Old Man GurnerAn old man gurner with his ugly face through a leather ring at the gurning contest at Egremont Crab Fair, Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Comic postcard, woman and policeman in a street -- Could you see me across the road, Mr Policeman? -- Why, bless yer Mum, I could spot you a mile off. Date: circa 1900s
Grotesque Fish Merchants - AlgeriaGrotesque Fish Merchants, shouting their wares up to the houses - Algeria. Date: circa 1903
Closeup of a bulldogUnusual Friends - closeup of a bulldog. 1950s
Two small dogs in profileUnusual Friends - two small dogs in profile, one of them yawning. 1950s
Cinderella Flyer for the New Theatre Royal, WindsorBack and front covers of flyer for Cinderella at the New Theatre Royal, Windsor on 7th February ?. The artist is Arnold Mello. Six pages of text give the story
Two Siamese kittens with yellow backgroundUnusual Friends - Two Siamese kittens with yellow background. 1950s
Siamese cat and two kittensUnusual Friends - Siamese cat and two kittens. 1950s
The Beauty Baths revue, by George Ray. First produced at the Hippodrome Theatre, Devonport, April 1915. Ray is advertised as producer of Splash Me, Chase Me, Have a Dip and Something Doing