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Background imageConfusing Collection: Mon cher ami, nous avons appris... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier

Mon cher ami, nous avons appris... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Mon cher ami, nous avons appris... 19th century. Friends - My dear friend we learned

Background imageConfusing Collection: Collecting Ivory; Life in a South African Colony, 1875. Creator: Unknown

Collecting Ivory; Life in a South African Colony, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Collecting Ivory; Life in a South African Colony, 1875. From, Illustrated Travels by H.W. Bates. [Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London] Belle Sauvage Works.London E.C

Background imageConfusing Collection: Plate 15 from the Disparates : Clear Folly, ca. 1816-23 (published 1864)

Plate 15 from the Disparates : Clear Folly, ca. 1816-23 (published 1864)

Background imageConfusing Collection: Plate 39, from World in Miniature, 1816. 1816. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson

Plate 39, from World in Miniature, 1816. 1816. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Plate 39, from " World in Miniature", 1816

Background imageConfusing Collection: New metric system of selling bacon, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1966

New metric system of selling bacon, Stocksbridge, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1966. A customer look bewildered as the new metric sytem is explained to her at Cranshaws Store in Stocksbridge

Background imageConfusing Collection: The new metric system of buying food, Stocksbridge, near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1966

The new metric system of buying food, Stocksbridge, near Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1966. A mother and two children have the new metric sytem explained to them at a tradittional butchers shop in

Background imageConfusing Collection: Love and the Vices Disarm Judgement, late 17th or early 18th century. Artist: Paolo de Matteis

Love and the Vices Disarm Judgement, late 17th or early 18th century. Artist: Paolo de Matteis
Love and the Vices Disarm Judgement, late 17th or early 18th century. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Background imageConfusing Collection: Railway Puzzle, 1883

Railway Puzzle, 1883. An illustration of the problems caused to a traveller by advertising at railway stations. From Punch, or the London Charivari

Background imageConfusing Collection: Metropolitan Prize Puzzles. No. 7. 1883

Metropolitan Prize Puzzles. No. 7. 1883. An illustration of the problems caused by a plethora of clocks at Waterloo station, all of which show a different time

Background imageConfusing Collection: Muddleby Junction, 1872. Artist: Joseph Swain

Muddleby Junction, 1872. Artist: Joseph Swain
Muddleby Junction, 1872. A signalman wonders what train should be running on which line, and what order all the trains will come through

Background imageConfusing Collection: Missing the Point, 1872

Missing the Point, 1872. A case of jargon being taken literally. A legal man confuses an elderly distressed gentleman. From Punch, or the London Charivari, May 18, 1872


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