Ugly Collection (page 4)

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. Showing three yellow ducklings with their foster mother, an old white hen. Date: 1921

First page of a book by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. It is in Aldins own handwriting, with his home address at the top: The Kennels, Purley, near Reading. Date: 1921

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. Showing a yellow duckling just emerged from the egg. Date: 1921

Title page design by Cecil Aldin, Ugly Duckling, in the Letter Book Series. Showing three yellow ducklings just emerged from the egg. Date: 1921

Gabrielle Ray, English actress, with a dog in a garden
Gabrielle Ray (1883-1973), English actress, dancer and singer, with a bulldog in a garden. She was best known for her roles in Edwardian musical comedies. Date: circa 1900s

Cartoon, German man eating, WW1
Cartoon, a fat German man eating a plate of pork and cabbage. Date: 1915

Cartoon, Boche, Wild Mammal, WW1
Cartoon, Boche, Wild Mammal, on display in a zoo, an imaginary scene looking forward to 1956. Date: 1915

Suffragette Votes for Women Crested Figurine
A two-sided head and shoulders figurine of a suffragette with Votes for Women on her bonnet. One side has the crest of Tettenhall (now in the West Midlands)

Suffragette Votes for Women, Manners for Men. Ugly suffragettes with placards rampage down the road, policemen floored and running for cover

Suffragette, Blokes for Women. Stereotypical ugly suffragette stands on a stool seeking converts to the cause, while two children wave placard with caption, Blokes for Women

Silhouette. Cinderella. Cinderella, her fairy godmother and the ugly sisters. Date: circa 1910

Cartoon, One For Papa, WW1
Cartoon, One For Papa, depicting Kaiser Wilhelm II and his son, Crown Prince Wilhelm, during a lull in the fighting during the First World War

Cartoon, Attractive Holiday Resorts, August 1914, WW1. Showing suggested posters for advertising the latest attractions at continental holiday resorts, including boating on the canal at Kiel

Nursery Rhymes -- daffodil lady, giant on sea shore
Nursery Rhymes -- two illustrations. Above -- a lady dressed as a daffodil is pulled along by three white mice. Below -- an ugly giant stands on the sea shore

Multi-Storey Car Park
An ugly new multi-storey car park, on the banks of the River Thames, London. Note the cranes and modern office blocks under construction behind and St. Pauls (left). Date: late 1960s

GUI PATIN French physician Date: 1602 - 1672

Singapore Modern Flats
Ugly modern housing. Date: 1984

Black Forest Bride
A German Black Forest bride, in her traditional wedding dress. Date: early 1930s

Comic Postcard - Somebodys Darling! (possibly just his Mother?!!) Date: circa 1910s

Very un-stuck-up woman, stuck-up with sticking plasters
" Gracious me. But, ain t you the stuck up thing!" Very un-stuck-up American woman, stuck-up with sticking plasters Date: 1908

The Sneezing Man - Alphonse Levy illustration of Jewish Life
Postcard illustration by Alphonse Levy, a painter of Jewish life, depicting The Sneezing Man (possibly making a noise at an inappropriate moment?)

Comic Postcard - Woman bemoans lack of male interest
Comic Postcard - Woman bemoans and mourns the loss of 500 men in a (fictional) disaster, not that it appears she is (unfortunately) a magnet for male interest! Date: circa 1910

Beauty and the Beast - Bathing Humour, featuring a hairy, rather ugly man surrounded in the surf by a bevvy of bathing beauties! Date: circa 1905

Pteronotus davyi fulvus, Davys naked-backed bat
A Davys naked-backed bat (Pteronotus davyi fulvus) photographed in Belize by Frank Greenaway

Diphylla ecaudata, hairy-legged vampire bat
A hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata) photographed in Belize by Frank Greenaway

Rhynchonycteris naso, proboscis bat
A proboscis bat (Rhynchonycteris naso) photographed in Belize by Frank Greenaway

Latimeria chalumnae, coelacanth
A coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) specimen caught in the Indian Ocean in the 1960s

Pteronotus parnellii mesoamericanus, common mustached bat
A common mustached bat (Pteronotus parnellii mesoamericanus) photographed in Belize by Frank Greenaway

The Ugly Duckling

Jugend front cover, two soldiers with poultry
Front cover design for Jugend magazine, depicting two rather ugly soldiers in red uniform, leering at a turkey and a goose. Perhaps they are looking forward to cooking and eating them. Date: 1898

Marrying for Love or for Money
" Either Choice is Painful" If I marry for love I am poor, if I marry for Money I lose out on true love. This German gentleman is suffering a severe emotional quandry on this issue

Witch and goblins by Reverend Baden Powell
A delightful and typically Victorian sketch of a witch and her goblin friends, by Reverend Baden Powell (1796-1860), father of Robert Baden Powell

Catering staff at Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Hove
Two of the catering staff in the dining room of the Convalescent Police Seaside Home at 205 Kingsway, Hove, East Sussex. The are the head chef and a steward preparing the lunch menu. Date: late 1960s

Grotesque puppeteer
A rather grotesque and gigantic puppeteer performs a lewd puppet show for an equally lewd looking audience of considerably smaller people. Date: 1919

Residents in lounge, Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Hove
Residents relaxing over their morning coffee in the first floor lounge of the Convalescent Police Seaside Home at 205 Kingsway, Hove, East Sussex

Convalescent Police Seaside Home, Hove, East Sussex
A close-up of the sign outside the Convalescent Police Seaside Home at 205 Kingsway, Hove, East Sussex. The building opened in the mid-1960s, and closed in 1988. Date: late 1960s

Sorceress and the Kings children
John Bauer ( 1882-1918) Sorceress and the Kings children, watercolour 1909 Date: 1909

Telegraph Poles Eyesore
Even motoring on a quiet lane, the beauty of the countryside is spoilt by ugly telegraph poles; a scene in Warwickshire, England. Date: 1960s

Anti-German cartoon, on the road to Paris, WW1
An anti-German cartoon by a French satirical cartoonist, showing an ugly German soldier who has fallen off his bicycle by a milestone on a country road 40 kilometres from Paris

Halfords, Birmingham
The strikingly ugly modern Halfords Building, facing Brick Kiln Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands, England. Date: 1960s

Waitomo Glow-Worm Caves
Why on earth are these fashionable young women putting on such ugly boots? So they can enter Waitomo Glow- worm Caves, New Zealand, silly! Date: 1940s

Old man abducting a little boy

Cinderella tries on the glass slipper. 20th century

Anti-German cartoon, German boar and French rabbits, WW1
An anti-German cartoon by a French satirical cartoonist, showing some French rabbits making fun of a large German boar during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

The Ugly Duckling by Lilian Govey. They threw grain and bread into the water. A fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen Date: 1912

Cinderellas Ugly Sisters. 20th century

Ugly Duckling 2
Passers-by comment on the ugly ducklings ungainly appearance

Ugly Duckling 1
The ugly duckling with the other ducklings

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