1889 Collection (#32)

Chaplin / Peach Lady / Ff
CHARLIE CHAPLIN (Sir Charles Spencer) English comedian and actor raises his hat to a pretty lady: " Mmm! A Peach!!"

Chaplin / Cartoon Postcard
CHARLIE CHAPLIN (Sir Charles Spencer) English comedian and actor in cartoon style

Chaplin / Pola Negri / Ross
CHARLIE CHAPLIN (Sir Charles Spencer) English comedian and actor with Pola Negri

Cambridge / Partridge
AUGUSTA OF HESSE DUCHESS of CAMBRIDGE Wife of Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge

Pegoud / Bleriot Monoplane
Adolphe Pegoud, French aviator, noted for his acrobatic flying feats and looping the loop

John Bright / Anon Photo
JOHN BRIGHT radical statesman, in 1876

Hamel / Morane Saulnier
Gustav Hamel, British pioneer aviator, and his Morane Saulnier

Cambridge / Augusta / Chalon
AUGUSTA OF HESSE DUCHESS of CAMBRIDGE Wife of Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge

Menelik Ii / Ethiopia / Pj
MENELIK II Emperor of Ethiopia (1889-1913) in ceremonial dress

Menelik Ii / Ethiopia / Vf
MENELIK II Emperor of Ethiopia (1889-1913)

Gustav Vi / Sweden / 1923
GUSTAV VI as Crown Prince King of Sweden (1950-73) with his second wife Louise of Battenberg (1889-1965)

Father Deken, Explorer
Pere de DEKEN Belgian traveller in Siberia, Tibet and other parts of central Asia, with Bonvalot and Henri d Orleans

J Boissiere
J BOISSIERE French traveller and administrator in China, where he died at age 33

Camille Douls
CAMILLE DOULS French explorer in southern Morocco and the Sahara, where he was murdered, probably by his touareg guides

Krakow - Market Place
Jews bargaining in the Market Place

Krakow - Jews Quarter
Jews, in the Jews Quarter

Decima Moore / Piccadilly
Decima Moore Actress

PETIT JOURNAL PRINTED
Newspapermen handing out copies of Le Petit Journal, printed at the 1889 Paris Exposition

Racial / Settler & Wife
A settler stands ready with a gun outside his shack, with tin bath and washboard hung on the outside wall, while his wife comforts the baby

Greenaway Girls & Dolls
Three Greenaway girls and their dolls, one in a cart

French Work at Panama
French operations - giving some idea of the enormous task challenging the engineers : later this year the French will abandon the project

The Canal at Mindi
Part of the canal is successfully constructed such as this stretch at Mindi, but this is the year when the French are forced to abandon their operations

Game / Daisy Chains 1889
Two little girls make daisy chains

Game / Mary Gone A-Milking
A group of girls play Marys Gone A-Milking in a field

Game / Puss in Corner 1889
A group of girls play Puss in the Corner

Game / Queen Anne & Maids
A group of children play Queen Anne and Her Maids in a garden

Game / Touch Wood 1889
A group of children play Touch Wood, with the help of some trees and a wooden fence

Game / Tom Tiddler 1889
A group of children play Tom Tiddlers Ground in a garden

Girls Swinging 1889
Watched by a companion, a girl swings in a garden

Girls Playing Ball
Two young girls playing catch

Victorian See-Saw
A group of Victorian children on a makeshift see-saw, fashioned from a tree trunk and a plank of wood

Girls Skipping / 1889
Victorian girls in bonnets skipping

Game of Marbles
Children playing a game of marbles

Game / Soap Bubbles / 1889
A mother and her daughter blow soap bubbles

Hide and Seek 1889
Three children play hide and seek outdoors

Follow my Leader 1889
A line of children walk along a stone wall, following their leader

Hunt the Slipper / 1889
A group of Victorian children playing Hunt the Slipper

Games / Hopscotch / 1889
A group of Victorian children play hopscotch in the garden

Children / Hoops / 1889
Victorian children play with their hoops in the street

Macbeth / Shakespeare
Act IV, Scene I The third apparition: a child crowned, with a tree in his hand, speaks to Macbeth

Golf at St Andrews 1889
Beautifully attired ladies enjoy a game at St Andrews, Scotland; a lady putts out on the fourteenth hole (note the double green that is shared with the fourth hole)

Garnier / Circus Clowns
A clown wearing a yellow spotted outfit holding a fan

Girls Play Battledore
Three girls play battledore and shuttlecock in a summer garden (picture includes text below)

Cairo Street / Exhibition
A popular exhibit was the recreation of a Cairo street and bazaar. Visitors to the exhibition mingle with authentic Egyptians invited to participate in the event

Maxim Project 1889
Hiram Maxims first flying machine - a monster which became less ungainly in subsequent models

Francis Poulenc / Helios
FRANCIS-JEAN-MARCEL POULENC French musician

Exploring Bamboo Jungle
An explorer hacking his way through a bamboo jungle in Burma

Great Eastern Remains
The last, sad remains of the great ship at New Ferry, on the Mersey, Lancashire

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