Hope Collection (#11)

Tom Raw : at the Cape
Tom Raw, a young officer on his way to India, is entertained at the Cape of Good Hope

Observatory / Feldhausen
Sir John Herschels Observatory at Feldhausen, Cape of Good Hope

Shooting Grouse (Harvey)
GROUSE - Two men hope their dogs will start up some grouse on a moor

Kaffirs shoot at Storm
Kaffirs fire their arrows at storm clouds in hope of saving their crops : French wine growers try similar methods

Sifting Dust, Paddington
Sifting dust beside the canal, Paddington : dustmen hope to make their living from what they find among the rubbish

Egan / Life London / Title
Title page: " Here are we met three merry boys, three merry boys I trow are we; & many a night we ve merry been, & many mae we hope to be."

Bubonic Plague, Portugal
When Portugal is struck by an epidemic of bubonic plague, the population burn infected homes in hope of destroying the source of the trouble

Hope Temple Photo
HOPE TEMPLE This Irish musician fails to get a mention in any of our reference books. Does she play the harp, compose jigs, sing folksongs ? Who knows ?

Thames at Dorney
Swimmers in the Thames near Dorney Church, Buckinghamshire. Let us hope that the fellow in the water is waving, not drowning

Mary Magdalen Repents
MARY MAGDALEN She repents of her evil life, reading a Good Book (what, I wonder ?) which assures her there is hope of salvation even for such as her

Scientific Weaponry
Lets hope we never have to use the weapons that todays science puts in our grasp !

Adamastor and Gama
At the Cape of Storms (later Good Hope) Adamastor, the spirit of the Cape, appears to Gamas crew and warns of disasters to all who seek to sail round the Cape to India

Achilles & Delegates
Sulking in his tent, making music not war, Achilles receives a delegation of the Greek leaders who hope to persuade him back onto the battlefield

Building Tower of Babel
In hope of reaching Heaven, Noahs descendants erect a ziggurat in the plain of Shinar, but construction is hampered by a breakdown in communication among them

Band of Hope Prize
C.E.T.S Church of England Temperance Society ? All England Challenge Competition for Band of Hope, Diocese of Canterbury, Herne Bay Branch. Claude Watkins wins a prize

School Prize 1864
A small prizewinners certificate or bookplate awarded to Charles Cooper for his improvement in Common Things 3rd class in hope that it will spur him on

Barbary Ape (Bewick)
Simia inuus...is wilder and more intractable than the others. It lives in most parts of Africa, from Barbary to the Cape of Good Hope

Trouser Suit by Worth
My friends looked askance, The first time they saw me in pants. I just hope this crepe de chine ensemble by Worth Doesn t excite their mirth

Saint-Simoniens
Followers of Saint-Simon hope that the July Revolution will enable his socialist ideas to be put into practice : they meet to present their case but they have no success

Duchesse at Toulouse
The duchesse de Berry, widow of the murdered duc, is a tireless royalist plotter : she visits Toulouse in the hope of drumming up support for the Bourbon cause

Spirit Photo Hope
Photo by William Hope, showing Harry Price with a spirit extra : Price showed that Hope had switched the plates, though he himself was accused of faking the exposure

East Indiaman in Gale
An East Indiaman in a gale off the Cape of Good Hope

Greenland / Baffins Bay
View of Sandersons Hope, near Upernivik, Baffins Bay, 3, 3000 feet high

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