Unhealthy Collection

Sketch map of proposed improvements, Birmingham
Sketch map of a locality around Stafford Street in Birmingham with the proposed new street running through it. The boundary of the unhealthy area referred to in the Birmingham Improvement Scheme as

If Unhealthy, Be Healthy; If Healthy, Be Healthier
Keep fit exercise for the morning, lift the lad over your chest of drawers twister. llustration by William Heath Robinson. Date: 1912

A Smoking Party C. 1825
A gentlemens smoking party

Jane Lewson (116)
JANE LEWSON a London widow as renowned for her eccentricities as her age, such as a belief that washing in water is unhealthy : she used pigs lard instead

Annotated illustration warning about the dangers of tight laced corsets on the female body. Date: 1906

Cartoon, The Hero and The Saint (Giuseppe Garibaldi)
Cartoon, The Hero and The Saint -- Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionary, fights against the unhealthy influence of religious superstition

Tight-Lacing - Corsets Date: 1888

The Waist of Fashion - Corsets Date: 1888

Longwood House, St Helena, the place of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte on 5th May 1821. Following exile to the Island, Napoleon moved to Longwood House in December 1815; it had fallen into

Illustration, Bowled out. first published 1838

Foot x rays showing damage done by wearing high heels
A double page spread from The Sketch reporting on the unnatural stresses put on the feet by the wearing of high heels, which had been banned by the French medical profession being bad for the feet

Russian Commune
Withered looking Men and women eat lunch in a 1920s Russian commune. Date: circa 1920

Womens Royal Air Force -- Dopers Tea
Illustration, Eight Months with the Womens Royal Air Force. Showing women painters and dopers having a tea break, while one toasts a slice of bread at the open door of a hot stove

A portly Landowner enjoying a puff. Date: 1895

The public in a divorce court
Illustration by Steven Spurrier showing young women in the public gallery of a divorce court. The image accompanied an article in the ILN suggesting that divorce courts should be private

Etheric Double Sick
The ETHERIC DOUBLE or ASTRAL SELF in an unhealthy state

Punch / Motoring Cartoon
A quiet Sunday in our village. Cars bringing traffic, noise, pollution and general chaos to a small village

Futuristic central heating
A futuristic form of central heating, using radium -- perhaps not the healthiest of ideas, as it is radioactive?

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