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Girls on LaddersGIRLS 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 CoalOLDER GIRL CARRYING COAL I carry a hundredweight and a quarter (60kg+) on my back, and am frequently in water up to my calves (Report)
Mines : Children HaulingCHILDREN WORKING AS PUTTERS Three children hurrying - hauling a laden wagon through a low gallery, on hands and knees : boys and girls both did this work (Report)
Mines : Trapper BoyA TRAPPER BOY opens & closes doors in the galleries : Everything shows the life of the little trapper to be one of the most solitary and painful description
Lowering Children MineTwo children are lowered down the mine-shaft to the coal- face by a woman working a winch
Jean Nicolas BouillyJEAN NICOLAS BOUILLY French writer
Massanet with ColleaguesJULES MASSENET French composer, with fellow- musicians D Ennery and Gailhard
Henry and HerneWINDSOR CASTLE Henry VIII is startled by Herne the Hunter while out riding
Henry VIII BanquetingWINDSOR CASTLE Henry VIII enjoys a grand banquet in St Georges Hall
Herne and HenryWINDSOR CASTLE Herne the Hunter appears to Henry VIII on the terrace in the midst of a storm
Herne DisappearsWINDSOR CASTLE Henry VIII looks of helplessly as Herne the Hunter disappears from the Curfew Tower
The Royal ChaseWINDSOR CASTLE The Royal Chase in Windsor Forest. A stag is cornered and the hounds close in
Searching for HerneWINDSOR CASTLE Henry VIII directs the search for Herne the Hunter
Baptism of Albert EdwardVictoria and Albert at the baptism of their first born son, Prince Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, later to be crowned as Edward VII
Johannes ZukertortJOHANNES HERMANN ZUKERTORT Polish chess master
Whaling in DeptfordCatching a whale off Deptford Pier
Cherubini PostcardLuigi Carlo Zenobio Salvadore Maria CHERUBINI Italian musician
THE FOLLYLondons floating Coffee House The Folly on the Thames
Fremont Exploration 4At Fort Laramie, in present- day Wyoming, Fremont explains to skeptical native Americans that his expedition to the West is entirely in their best interests
Fremont Exploration 3Fremont camps near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, as he explores the viability of the Oregon Trail to the West
Fremont Exploration 2Americans are so proud of their flag, they plant it wherever they go. Fremont is no exception, claiming the Rocky Mountains in the name of the United States
Fremont Exploration 1John Fremont, in the course of his exploration of the Oregon Trail, encounters native Americans who for some reason suspect his motives
Texas MilitiaTexas wins independence from Mexico in 1836, and Texans such as these mounted militia- men are determined to keep it an independent Republic. But it will become a state 1845
Josef Breuer 1869JOSEF BREUER German medical, associate of Freud : in 1869
Josef Breuer 1905JOSEF BREUER German medical, associate of Freud : in 1905
Elisabeth Vigee Le BrunELISABETH VIGEE LE BRUN (nee Vigee) French artist
Oxford Univ Students 19CStudents amuse themselves in their rooms
Food and Drink / BanquetsA banquet in the Egyptian Hall, Mansion House
Arrigo Boito / PhotoARRIGO GUISEPPE GIOVANNI BOITO Italian composer and librettist
Js C Dumont D urvilleJs C DUMONT D URVILLE French naval explorer, noted for voyages with Astrolabe and Zelee to the South Seas and Antarctica
Bismarck / Rohling / Page 11Bismarck saves his groom from drowning
Shaftesbury InspectingLord Shaftesbury inspects the conditions endured by children working in a coalmine
Massenet / PostcardJULES MASSENET French composer
Opium War: Chin-KeangBritish take Chin-keang
Opium Wars / Chin-KeangBritish take Chin-keang
Opium Wars / Nanking 1842Meeting between British and Chinese before the Treaty of Nanking
Events / Asia / China / Hong KThe British take over the island, occupied by them since 1839 but now formally ceded by the Chinese and confirmed by the Treaty of Nanking 1842
Ambrose BierceAMBROSE BIERCE American writer
