Unpleasant Collection

Italian dentist - Naples
Postcard entitled Neopolitan Customs ! An elderly lady about to have one of her teeth removed courtesy of the dentist and his rather serious-looking pair of pliers!! Date: circa 1910

Nicholas Nickleby as an assistant to Wackford Squeers
Nicholas Nickelby (left) gets a low-paying job as an assistant to Wackford Squeers, who runs the school Dotheboys Hall in Yorkshire

Uriah Heep, law clerk in David Copperfield
Uriah Heep, law clerk in the novel David Copperfield (1849-1850) by Charles Dickens. Date: 1884

Indian, Canadian and South Africa Troops Fighting 1914
An Unpleasant Surprise for the Kaiser! Date: September 1914

WILL OF THE WISP
WILL O THE WISP (feu follet, marsh light &c) depicted as a mischievous spirit, luring victims to an unpleasant death in the marsh circa 1830

Cartoon, Unpleasant Duties of Club Life. When the new French chef Victor Achille Petroly is summoned to receive a reprimand, the club members lose their appetite for complaining about the food

Poster, anti-smoking campaign
Poster for an anti-smoking campaign, showing a hand with tobacco stains on the fingers. Date: circa 1960s

Old Man / Young Woman 1919
An elderly, well-dressed man approaches a young woman in the street: she tells him to get lost! Date: 1919

The War of the Worlds - Comtemplating life in the sewers
" We will have to lead a life underground, do you understand? I thought about the sewers..." Date: First published: 1898

Pug Peter -- vultures, dog and rabbit
Pug Peter -- The Vultures smiled disagreeably. A dog comforts a rabbit in the face of four predators. Date: 1905

Stressed Secretary
A stressed-out secretary or typist answers an unpleasant telephone call. Date: 1978

Gifts for vagrants / W H Robinson
Post War Britain - Making the best of an unpleasant necessity. A tramp is offered a cigar by two friendly smiling policeman so that he may move

Dr Syntax / Bees / 2nd Tour
BEES Dr Syntax and the bees

The Golf Amateur Championship, Hoylake, 1906
Photograph of the crowd at the Golf Amateur Championship at Hoylake, May 1906. Rain and strong winds combined to make conditions unpleasant for the final round of Mr. James Robb and Mr. C.C. Lingen

Women and unwelcome dog
Two ladies out walking in crinolines are barked at by a rather unpleasant sheepdog so one of them decides to attack it with her parasol

Emigration Vessel
Scene between decks on an emigrant ship showing the crowded and unpleasant conditions

Sandford & Merton / C18Th
A humourless, moral tale in which the unpleasant & rich Tommy Merton is contrasted with the virtuous Harry Sandford

Ratcatcher in Sewer 1870
A ratcatcher at work in the sewers of London

Caracallas Baths
Though overall an unpleasant character, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, k.a. Caracalla, did one good deed, building the Thermae Antonianae or Baths of Caracalla for Romes citizens

12th Century Hell
A medieval conception of Hell, with the sinners being rounded up and punished in various unpleasant ways

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