Words Collection (#11)

Two Actors outside a theatre comment on a Flea Circus
Two Actors outside a theatre (on observing the playbills displayed) pass comment on a Performing Flea Show. First Actor (resting) - " H m - a scratch company." Date: 1892

Mistaken identity - Gentleman and Jewish woman
Mistaken identity - " Good Morning Mis Voss!" " My name is not Voss. It never Voss and it never vill be!". Date: 1900

A rather feeble suitor with a rather loud suit
He: " Oh! Smile upon my suit." She: " I do, I do. I can t help it." Date: 1895

Comic caricature in a lunatic asylum by Phil May
Dottieville Lunatic Asylum Visitor to the Asylum - " Is that Clock Right?" The Dotty One - " O course it ain, or it wouldn t be here." Date: 1900

Drunk writer refuses tract from a benevolent lady - Irony
Drunk refuses temperance tract from a benevolent lady, unaware that her sizzled target was actually the author of the aforementioned words of wisdom - wonderfully ironic cartoon by Phil May

Cockney ladies discuss their romantic life
Two Cockney ladies discuss their romantic life - cartoon by Phil May. There appears to have been a muddle up between the word clandestine and the word incandescent

Russian Mother helps teach her daughter to read by pointing to words on posters on a brick wall. Date: 1902

Canadian postcard mourning death of Edward VII
Commemorative Canadian postcard mourning the death of King Edward VII - " The Peacemaker" (1841-1910). The card features the Kings last words: " Well, it is over now

Comic Postcard - Romance at Piccadilly Circus " I meant t ge on the tube at Piccadilly last night, but I Got Off there instead!

Humorous postcard - Worthing, West Sussex
Humorous postcard for the seaside resort of Worthing, West Sussex, featuring a bear who has caught a fish and bearing the caption

Baby with German Measles - WWI connection
Screaming baby with German Measles - both a reference to this childhood ailment and a reaction to the state of European relations during World War One! Date: circa 1915

Humorous Pharmacy postcard
Young Boy: " Gimme three-pennorth of pills. Chemist: " Anti-bilious?" Young Boy: " No Sir - Fathers bilious!" Date: 1905

Cricket Illustrated - Bounder-y
Cricket Illustrated - " Bounder-y!" A superb postcard (as ever) by Bradshaw showing three caddish English Bounders of the Top Drawer, ready to cause some larks and pranks at the seaside

Love story without words (Histoire d amour sans paroles). Story of Jean III de Brosse and his wife Louise de Laval (16th c.). Fol. 14r. Man and woman at the room ready to go to bed

Ornithological Humour at the Cinema
Two Usherettes discuss the finer merits of English Garden Birdwatching: " My Husbands a Bird Watcher - Guess what he was getting excited about last night - Blue Tits!" Date: circa 1950s

Fashionable melange of English words. Japanese print showing illustrated sampler of foreign everyday objects such as a watch, lamp

Foreign words - America. Japanese print shows a Russian woman playing the flute and an English man holding a rifle. Includes Japanese translations of English words on recto of print, e.g

Foreign words - Dutch. Japanese print shows a French woman and a Dutch man seated near the waterfront; ships in background

Foreign words. Japanese print shows an American on horseback and a Chinese man standing nearby. Japanese-Dutch(?) vocabulary chart of numbers and unidentified price code(?) on recto of print

A Quaker letter to Lincoln, words by Elmer Ru?Coates, mus A Quaker letter to Lincoln, words by Elmer Ru
A Quaker letter to Lincoln, words by Elmer Ruan Coates, music by E.M. Bruce. Date c1863 May 9

Just a few words about the song and dance. Print shows several actors in various costume, posture, and roles. Date 1868

Old words to a new air. Illustration shows John Bull, standing with one foot on England and the other on Ireland, holding strings attached to many warships which encircle the United Kingdom

Early scouting certificate
An early scouting certificate, with the handwritten words: You are now a Scout. I trust you - on your honour - at all times to do your best to carry out your duty

Peace illuminations at the Royal Exchange, London
The peace illuminations at the Royal Exchange, London, celebrating the end of the war in the Crimea. Words are illuminated on the front of the building, reading

Fork Over What You Owe play on words Date: 1868

Death of General Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), 12th President of the United States. At the Presidents House July 9th 1850, 35 minutes past 10 o clock P.M. His last words

Humorous Postcard - Underwear Department
A couple are directed to the Sports Department " Straight through the Ladies Underwear". This comment causes much delight to the Gentleman

Frenchwoman at her door, Bouchain, France, WW1
A Frenchwoman speaks with a British soldier at her front door in Bouchain, northern France, during the First World War. The German words painted on her door say No lodging for troops. 25 October 1918

Community singing
The man who sang the words of the wrong verse. Date: 1928

Humorous card from Hellingly, depicting a man getting some Fresh air ! Amusingly, Hellingly was the site of a famous lunatic asylum between 1903 and 1994...! circa 1905

Answer Mr Wilsons Call, a song by Billy Gould
Answer Mr Wilsons Call, a song with words and music by Billy Gould. Sheet music cover, with a photograph of President Woodrow Wilson at the centre, a soldier on the left and a sailor on the right

Poster, Join the Thrift Column (a play on words -- not the Fifth Column!). Advertising the Post Office Savings Bank. Showing a long queue of people waiting to open their accounts. 20th century

Humorous Card - Fleas & the Bedpan
Silly (yet rather funny) carton postcard, bearing the following caption: SOCIETY GOSSIP - this week the Duchess of Billingsgate in hunting

Metropolitan Police Glossary of Words instruction book
A Metropolitan Police instruction book: Glossary of Words in Common Police Use

Music cover for I Want To Be A Bloomer! Sung by Miss Rebecca Isaacs, words by Henry Abrahams, music by W H Montgomery. A young lady is depicted

Music cover for The Excursion Train, a Tender Narrative, sung by E Marshall at the Canterbury Music Hall in Lambeth, London. Words by W F Vandervell, music by Willem Vandervell

Music cover for I Met Her In The Crystal Halls, a Ballad inspired by the Great Exhibition, with words by J E Carpenter (1813-1885) and music by Stephen Glover (1812-1870)

Music cover for The Keepsake, a Sequel to the Celebrated Song, The Cavalier, sung by Miss Poole. Words by W H Bellamy, music by Charles W Glover

Music cover for The Cavalier, a song sung by Miss Poole, with words by W H Bellamy, music by Charles W Glover. A very elaborately dressed Cavalier of the 17th century is depicted with a guitar under

Music cover for Jetty Treffz Popular Song, Trab, Trab, or The Ride, as sung at Her Majestys Concerts. With the original German words and an English version by Count de Horsey

Music cover for Wavering Sea Waltzes by J [Isabella] Scales. The words of the song are from the Swedish of Baroness Barnekow, translated by Margaret Elenora Tupper

Music sheet cover for I Would Not Have Thee, Call Me Back, a ballad with words by H Tolkien and music by G Tolkien. A lady of the Restoration period is depicted in a garden with her King Charles

Music sheet cover, Far, Far, Upon the Sea
A music sheet cover for a song by Henry Russell, Far, Far, Upon the Sea (words by Charles Mackay), from an entertainment entitled Far West, or the Emigrants Progress from the Old World to the New

Music sheet cover for Down Went the Captain, with words by Frederick Bowyer and music by Kate Royle, who was also the singer of the song

Smiling lady on a music sheet
A pretty, smiling lady on a music sheet, wearing a white dress and a wide-brimmed hat trimmed with pink roses. The song is called Take Me

Czech Republic - Promoting Sokol Rally 1920s
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Alphabet education, 1955
A sweet, studious little girl at Harwich Road Primary, Colchester, with two large plaid ribbons in her hair sits and arranges letters of the alphabet into the words, Father, Mother, Sister, Brother

Rye, Sussex
View of Rye, east Sussex, from the south

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