1842 Collection (page 14)

Sullivan / Cig Card
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN Musician, noted for his collaboration with Gilbert on a series of operettas

MASSENET
JULES MASSENET French composer

Kabul / British Retreat
The British retreat from Kabul

Rowland Hill Congratula
Rowland, first viscount HILL military commander, congratulated by the duke of Wellington after one of the many brilliant battles he fought in the Peninsula war

Abdul Hamid Ii / Pj 1897
ABDUL HAMID II Ottoman Sultan (1876-1909) who went to war abroad, misgoverned at home, and was eventually deposed

Abdul Hamid Ii / Rire 1897
ABDUL HAMID II Ottoman Sultan (1876-1909) who went to war abroad, misgoverned at home, and was eventually deposed

Wellesley / Lawrence
RICHARD COLLEY 2nd EARL of MORNINGTON MARQUIS of WELLESLEY British politician, born in Ireland

Brooke Negotiates Treaty
James Brooke negotiates his first treaty with the Sultan of Borneo

Victor Largeau
VICTOR LARGEAU French explorer of the Sahara, subsequently French Guinea

Alfred Amedee Dodds
ALFRED AMEDEE DODDS French general, active notably in Dahomey which he conquered and pacified

The Showman
A street entertainer sets up his stand, while his assistant blows his trumpet to attract an audience

London Draymen
Two London draymen - carriers - wagoners - whose job is to carry beer from brewery to alehouse

An Insolvent Debtor
An insolvent debtor makes a court appearance : soon, no doubt, he will find himself in a debtors prison

Fanny Cerrito / Alma 1842
FANNY CERRITO Italian ballet dancer, seen here in Alma

Gabrielle Krauss / Moloch
(Marie) GABRIELLE KRAUSS Austrian operatic soprano

Alverstone (In Wig)
Richard Everard Webster, viscount ALVERSTONE Lawyer : it is unlikely that in 32 years at the bar any man had more work to do, or earned more money

Glinka / Ruslan & L - 3
Costumes for the two principal characters- Ruslan, a warrior, and Lyudmila, daughter of the Grand Duke: they are betrothed in Act One, and are united in Act Five after a deal of fuss

Glinka / Ruslan & L - 2
Setting for Act One : the castle of the Grand Duke of Kiev (Kyiv) whose daughter is betrothed to Ruslan, but he needs to sing his way through five acts before he gets her

Glinka / Ruslan & L - 1
Setting for Act Three : the castle of the witch Naina

Stockport Workhouse Riot
The workhouse at Stockport, Lancashire, is attacked; bread is handed out to the rioters

Cricket in Sydney, Auz
The old days of merry cricket club matches at the Hyde Park Ground, Sydney, Australia

Charles Jackson / Anaesthe
Charles Jackson experiments on himself with sulphuric ether

HENSONs 1842 PROJECT
HENSONs PROJECT William Samuel Hensons steam- powered flying machine project (England)

Ross at Mount Erebus
The Erebus and Terror in open water off James Ross Island, with the active volcano Mount Erebus in the distance

India / Afghan Wars / Kabul
The British army stationed before Kabul (Cabul)

Rayleigh / Strutt / Reid
John William Strutt, 3rd baron RAYLEIGH scientist, circa 1911

Amenemhet Iii, Pharaoh
AMENEMHET III, PHARAOH also known as Nymaatre (12th dynasty) son of Senusret III

L C Zs M Cherubini
Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvadore Maria CHERUBINI Italian musician

American Notes / Dickens
The Gold Digger. A character from the chronicle of Dickens first American visit in 1842 which was written largely from letters sent home to his friend John Forster

Dss of Richmond 1807
CHARLOTTE, DUCHESS OF RICHMOND Daughter of 4th Duke of Gordon and wife of George Henry Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond from 1806

Royal Naval Museum 1842
The exhibition of ship models at the Royal Naval Museum, housed at Somerset House, London

The Pool of London 1842
The Pool of London, below Waterloo Bridge, with Somerset House to the left, the Shot Tower on the right, the Tower of London in the distance

Old Bm Reading Room
The old Reading Room of the British Museum, replaced in the 1860s by the great domed Reading Room

Vigee Le Brun (Miniature
ELISABETH VIGEE LE BRUN (nee Vigee) French artist

Dickens & Wife & Sister
CHARLES DICKENS Dickens with his wife and her sister in 1842. Date: 1812 - 1870

Mine, Trolley Boys / B / W
TROLLEY BOYS Two boys on all fours drag a laden wagon up a sloping gallery : a shift can be as little as 11 hours a day, or in Scotland up to 18 hours

Mine, Trapper (B / W)
TRAPPER AND PUTTERS A small boy opens and closes the trapdoor while another child pushes a laden wagon along a narrow gallery

Massenet / Balestrieri
JULES MASSENET French musician, shown composing Manon

Mine, Trolley Boys
TROLLEY BOYS Two boys on all fours drag a laden wagon up a sloping gallery : a shift can be as little as 11 hours a day, or in Scotland up to 18 hours

Mine, Trapper (Colour)
TRAPPER AND PUTTERS A small boy opens and closes the trapdoor while another child pushes a laden wagon along a narrow gallery

Trapper and Putters
TRAPPER AND PUTTERS A small boy - maybe only 5 - holds a trapdoor open for a young boy and girl to push their loaded wagon through, for 11 to 15+ hours a day

Children Winched Down
CHILDREN WINCHED DOWN A MINE SHAFT - children may be employed from the age of 5, girls and boys alike, working underground for shifts of 11 to as much as 18 hours a day

Boy Working at Coalface
OLDER BOY WORKING WITH A PICK Young men work as getters from age 18 : they work from as little as eleven to as much as 18 hours a day

Boy Working at Coalface
BOY WORKING A LOW SEAM Eighteen is the age at which boys are allowed to get coal, and they are at that age considered " three-quarters of a man (from the Report)

Girl Putting a Slype
GIRL PUTTING A SLYPE In low galleries, children crawl on hands and knees for 100 to 200 metres, hauling a slype holding up to 250 kg (from the official Report)

Children Putting a Tub
CHILDREN WORKING AS PUTTERS A girl and a boy haul a hutchie laden with 3-10 cwt (150-500kg) of coal from the coal-wall to the pit-bottom

Girls on Ladders
GIRLS CARRYING COAL UP LADDERS Mary Duncan began to carry coals when 12 years old... many have wrought from 8 years old, and know no other...can carry 2 cwt (100 kg+) - Report

Girl Carrying Coal
OLDER GIRL CARRYING COAL I carry a hundredweight and a quarter (60kg+) on my back, and am frequently in water up to my calves (Report)

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