1865 Collection (page 8)

Ranzania laevis, or Slender Sunfish, of the Molidae family, also known as Longer Sunfish. Date: 1865

Balistes capriscus, or Grey Triggerfish (described here as a Filefish). Date: 1865

Salvelinus alpinus alpinus, or Alpine Char (also known as Arctic Char), a member of the Salmonidae family. Date: 1865

Salvelinus willoughbii, or Willoughbys Char
Leuciscus leuciscus, or Common Dace, a freshwater or brackish water fish of the Cyprinidae family. Described here as Graining. Date: 1865

Salmo salar, or Parr and Samlet
Salmo salar (Salmo salmulus) Parr and Samlet, also known as Branlin, Palmer Trout, Trotter, Hipper and Farthing Trout. Date: 1865

Belone belone, or Garfish, also known as Sea Needle, Longnose and Hornbeak. Date: 1865

Exocoetus exiliens, or Greater Flying Fish. Date: 1865

Clupea harengus, or Atlantic Herring, an abundant species of the Clupeidae family. Date: 1865

Azurine or Blue Roach -- a fish that didn t actually exist, but still managed to wriggle its way into a few 19th century reference books. Date: 1865

Carassius carassius, or Crucian Carp, a member of the common carp Ciprinidae family. Date: 1865

Toms Coffee House, Covent Garden, London
Toms Coffee House in Russell Street, Covent Garden, London in 1865. Established in about 1700 by Thomas West who died after throwing himself from a second storey window in 1722 in a delirium

LEOPOLD I of Belgium (1790-1865). King of Belgium (1831-1865). WINTERHALTER, Franz Xavier (1805-1873). Oil on canvas. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. YVELINES. Versailles. Palace of Versailles

Jje Lenoir / Figuier Eng
Photograph of Louis Lumiere (1865-1948), French pioneer of cinematography, scrutinising a strip of film. Together with his brother Auguste, Louis invented the cinematograph

Rodriguez De Guzman, Manuel
VALLOTTON, F lix (1865-1925). Interior. Oil on cardboard. Symbolism. Les Nabis. Oil

Pontoon bridges across James River at Richmond, Va. April, 1865. Horse-drawn wagons crossing bridge. Date photographed 1865, printed later

William Allingham - English poet
William Allingham (1824-1889) - Irish poet and Man of Letters and husband of the artist Helen Allingham RWS whom he married in 1874. Date: 1865

Lewis Thornton Powell aka Lewis Payne
Lewis Payne was implicated in the plot to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The group also included John Wilkes Booth, David Herold, Samuel Bland Arnold, Michael O Laughlen and John Surratt

Frost in London, 19th century
A touch of frost in London brings chaos to the streets, with horses slipping on the icy surfaces. Date: 1865

Union Workhouse, Preston, Lancashire
The massive Preston Union workhouse erected in 1865-8 on Watling Street Road, Fulwood, Lancashire, for up to 1500 inmates

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884), Queen Victorias fourth son and eighth child shown reading. The most academic of the Queens sons, Leopold led a closeted existence due to his haemophilia

Princess Helena 1860
Princess Helena (1846-1923), later Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

King George V in Royal Air Force Uniform
Photographic portrait of King George V of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1865-1936), pictured in his Royal Air Force uniform, date unknown

King George V beside a portrait of the Czar, 1909
Photograph showing King George V (1865-1936) when Prince of Wales, standing beside a portrait of Czar Nicholas II of Russia (1894-1917) in 1909

Queens Amelie / Alexandra
AMELIE, QUEEN OF PORTUGAL Queen Amelie, wife of King Carlos I of Portugal, pictured together with Queen Alexandra. The pair were great friends

Grant and Sherman
THE COUNCIL OF WAR Union generals Grant and Sherman discuss plans during the closing stages of the war between the States. Note Grants open box of cigars !

Sweden / Scenery / Smaland
Watering horses outside a country inn in Smaland

Sven Anders Hedin / Flodin
SVEN ANDERS HEDIN Swedish traveller and geographer in 1914

Kurdish Horseman / Royal
A Kurdish Horseman - One of the escort during a Royal Hunt in 19th century Persia

W B Yeats - Young
William Butler YEATS Irish poet and statesman as a young man

Winans Cigar-Ship
One of the series of cigar- ships built by the American engineer Ross Winans. This one is seen under construction at Blackwall, on the Thames. It was not very successful

Rafael Carrera
RAFAEL CARRERA Guatemalan revolutionary and statesman, president who established Guatemalas independence but pursued conservative policies

Joseph Paxton / Jenkins
SIR JOSEPH PAXTON Architect and horticulturist, designer of the 1851 Crystal Palace

Carroll / Mock Turtle
Alice with the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon

Alexandre Becquerel
ALEXANDRE-EDMOND BECQUEREL French physicist in 1865

The Gobbins, Islandmagee (1865). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1865

Cripplegate Church Part of the Remains of London Wall
Cripplegate Church - Part of the Remains of London Wall (1865). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1865

Foot of Northumberland Street, Strand, London, now being Filled up by the New Embankment (1865). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1865

St. Giles, Cripplegate, London (c1865). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1865

New Embankment, Hungerford, Thames, London Morning
New Embankment, Hungerford, Thames, London (Morning) (1865). Moore, James 1819 - 1883. Date: 1865

Cover of the ILN 26th August 1865
Cover of the Illustrated London News, 26th August 1865, featuring the breaking of the Atlantic telegraph cable on board the Great Eastern, engraving from a sketch by special artist Robert Dudley

John of Bohemia (1296-1346). Count of Luxembourg from 1309
John of Bohemia or John the Blind (1296-1346). Count of Luxembourg from 1309, King of Bohemia from 1310 and titular King of Poland. Engraving by Kaeseberg. Historia de Alemania, 1865. Colored

Italy. Milan. Victor Emmanuel Gallery. 1865-1877. Built by Giuseppe Mengoni (1829-1817). Interior

Algernon Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale
Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale (1837-1916), at the age of 28, British diplomat, collector and writer, paternal grandfather of the notorious Mitford sisters. 1865

Augusta Gordon-Hallybtn
Lady AUGUSTA GORDON- HALLYBURTON (nee Fitzclarence) daughter of William IV by Mrs Jordan; wife (1) of Hon. J Kennedy-Erskine, and (2) of Lord John Frederick G-H. Date: ? - 1865

Goethe : Gretchen
GRETCHEN Childhood friend of the future poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman and philosopher. Date: 1789 - 1865

Goethe : Minna Herzlieb
MINNA HERZLIEB The original of Ottilie in his autobiographical novel Wahlwerwandtschaften (1809) Date: 1789 - 1865

Francis Fowke
Captain FRANCIS FOWKE Engineer and architect, notably the Great Exhibition building in London 1861. Date: 1823 - 1865

Edward Everett - 5
EDWARD EVERETT American churchman and statesman Date: 1794 - 1865

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