1887 Collection (page 2)

Marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
Wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at St. Jamess Palace on 10 February 1840. Date: 13 June 1887

Highlands Hospital, Winchmore Hill, Enfield, Middlesex
The entrance to the Highlands Hospital, Winchmore Hill, Enfield, Middlesex. The site began life as the Northern Convalescent Fever Hospital (or Northern Hospital)

Pussys Picture
A young girl shows her cat her likeness in a picture-book, but the cat shows little if any interest

Victoria / Portrait 1887
QUEEN VICTORIA Portrait in 1887

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). Self-portrait. Bust with brown
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890). Dutch post-Impressionist painter. Self-portrait. Bust with brown jacket and gray hat. Oil on pasteboard. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Netherlands

Advert for Beechams Pills 1887
What are the Wild Waves saying ? Try BREECHAMs PILLS! 1887

Waifs and Strays Society Home, Sunny Side, Frome, Somerset
Boys and staff outside the Home for Boys, at Sunny Side (or Sunnyside), Frome, opened by the Waifs and Strays Society in 1887. Date: circa 1893

Aerial view of Newcastle, Jamaica, West Indies. 1887

Aston Villa win the F. A Cup, 1887
Aston Villa win the F.A Cup, 1887: the winning team. Date: 1887

Lawn Tennis Championship at Wimbledon 1887
A page of vignettes from the 1887 Wimbledon Championships in London SW19 including the champion H.F. Lawford, E. Renshaw, C.Cole and that years ladies winner taking centre page, Miss Lottie Dod

The Man Who Bid Half-A-Guinea At Tattersall s, by H. M. Bat
A humorous illustration showing a man who has caused havoc at the races. Bateman (1887-1970) was a popular artist and regularly contributed to the Sketch, the Tatler and the Bystander

Royal Irish Constabulary going by sea to enforce evictions
Members of the Royal Irish Constabulary going in open sailing boats called hookers to enforce evictions on the Islands of the West Coast of Ireland

The first motorcycle
Invention by Edward Butler, created in 1887

Costa Rica Mountain Road
View on the road between Port Limon and San Jose

VICTORIAs JUBILEE 1887
Victoria depicted with her loyal lion - the workman with his clay pipe and side of beef - and her unicorn - the upper class with its cigars and champagne

Jenny Lind / Punch 1850
JENNY LIND Swedish singer she bowls over the audiences of America

Mackonochie / Vfair 1870
ALEXANDER HERIOT MACKONOCHIE Ritualist clergyman

Chiang Kai-Shek & Wife
CHIANG KAI-SHEK Chinese general and politician with his wife

Boris Karloff / Universal
BORIS KARLOFF British actor who appeared in American films, most notably as the monster in Frankenstein (1931)

Cowboys / Saloon Brawl
A brawl in cattle town - cowboys get into a fight in a saloon. Aside from guns being fired, chairs are thrown and cracked over peoples heads

The late Charles Darwin
Article on Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) with illustrations of his statue at the Natural History Museum, the exterior of his house at Down, near Beckenham, his study and green-house

Elgars Birthplace
SIR EDWARD ELGAR This small cottage in Broadheath, Worcestershire was the birthplace of Elgar. He was born here in June 1887. Date: 1857 - 1934

CRAIK (1826 - 1887)
DINAH MARIA CRAIK writer, wearing black satin dress and lace cap Date: 1826 - 1887

Sheila Kaye-Smith - 3
SHEILA KAYE-SMITH Writer, notably of novels about Sussex such as Sussex Gorse. Date: 1887 - 1956

GIRL / MOTHERs POSY 1887
A little girl prepares a posy for her mother

Agneta Ramsay / Punch 1887
AGNETA FRANCES RAMSAY Fellow-founder of Girton College, Cambridge, honoured by Mr Punch, June 1887

Stage Effects / Prompt
Cross-section of the stage (and below) at l Opera, Paris, showing the Prompt in his box

Lionel L. Cohen, Vanity Fair, Lib
LIONEL LOUIS COHEN (1832-1887) English financier, politician, and communal worker. Trustee and later manager of the London Stock Exchange. MP for Paddington North

Throwing snowballs
A group of cheeky monks, step outside of their monastery to throw snowballs and unsuspecting passers-by

Royal Playthings
An advertisement by F.Ad. Richter of Fenchurch Street, London for real stone building blocks, as played with by the Royal children

Zodiac / Taurus (Maxims)
portrayed as a bull in a china shop (although the china shop is seemingly a combination of the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum)

Sister Louisa Mackay, of Canterbury (Kent) hospital

Sister Edith King, of Netley Hospital, Hampshire

Victoria / Coronat / Jubilee
Two scenes from Queen Victorias reign: 1. her coronation, 1837 2. Golden Jubilee procession, 1887

Verdi / Otello / Liebig Card
Otello arrives in Cyprus, a triumphant hero

LIGHTING AT L OPERA 1887
The illumination of the new stage lighting and gas and electric lights at l Opera, Paris

May Queen and Sweep
The Queen of the May is presented with a bouquet of flowers by a chimney sweep

Cowboys in Camp
An outlying camp

Country Letter Box
A boy stretches to post a letter in the box at Bowlers Green, Surrey : this was before all letter-boxes were painted red

Remington / Cowboys Lasso
Cowboys roping with lassos in a horse-corral

Remington / Cowboyexplore
An exploring outfit - two cowboys on horseback with a spare horse to carry extra supplies

Sheila Kaye-Smith
SHEILA KAYE-SMITH Writer; known especially for her novels set in Sussex

Chrysanthemum / Eng. Dic. Gn
Three new chrysanthemums

Whaling / Faroe Islands
The slaughter Whaling in the Faroe Islands

Horse Racing / Jockeys
British Jockey

Newquay Docks
Newquay Harbour

BORODIN
ALEKSANDR PORFIRYEVICH BORODIN Russian composer, and chemist

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
Notice, Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, Victoria House, Victoria Street, Westminster, London SW. Free supplies of water for man and beast in the streets of London. 1887

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