1844 Collection (page 3)

Vice admiral in the French Navy, 1844
Uniform of a vice admiral or vice-amiral in the French Navy, 1844. Handcoloured woodblock print by Pauquet after A. Gusman from Eugene Paninis Marine, arsenaux, navires, equipages, navigation

Railway station at Leamington (Spa), Warwickshire 1844
Railway station at Leamington (Spa), Warwickshire, with a large number of people in attendance, probably around the time of the stations opening. Date: 1844

Scene from the Merry Wives of Windsor
Scene from Shakespeares Merry Wives of Windsor playing at the Haymarket Theatre, London, in January 1844. 1844

London and Brighton Railway terminus
Exterior of London and Brighton Railway terminus. Date: 1844

The Entrance of Mr O Connell into St. Marys Hall, Coventry
The Entrance of Mr Daniel O Connell (1775 - 1847), into St. Marys Hall, Coventry for a meeting to " consider the grievances of Ireland." 1844

Sir Benjamin Louis Cohen (1844-1909) was a businessman and Conservative politician. From 1887 to 1900 he was president of the Jewish Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Poor

Illustration, Selim and Zuleika, The Bride of Abydos
Illustration, Selim and Zuleika, in The Bride of Abydos, a poem by Lord Byron (1813). 1844

The Great Pabst Brewery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, with an oval inset dating back to 1844 when the company began. Date: 1909

Confession of Japanese Penitents
Confession of Japanese penitents ( a person repenting their sins). If the penitents fail to make a proper confession, the priest causes the balance to project them down the mountainside. Date: 1844

Quartobus 1844
New, patent Quartobus public cab in London. 1844

Ice skating at St. Jamess Park, London 1844
Victorian man and women enjoying skating on St. Jamess Park lake. 1844

Wolverhampton Racecourse 1844
Onlookers watching the horse racing from the crowded grandstand at Wolverhampton Racecourse. Date: 1844

Opening of the New Royal Exchange, London 1844
Page from The Pictorial Times, 1844, celebrating the opening of the New Royal Exchange, London. Date: 1844

Fashionable bonnets for September 1844
Selection of womens fashionable bonnets hats. Date: 1844

First Cunard steamship Britannia in the ice, Boston, USA
The First Cunard steamship Britannia in the ice at Boston, USA. 1844

Henley Regatta 1844
Henley Regatta, at Hammersmith Bridge. Date: June 1844

The Secret Office at the General Post Office, 1844
The Secret Office, at the General Post Office in London, 1844. Letters were opened and re-sealed in the Secret Office under the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. 1844

Gentlemens fashions for November 1844
Latest fashion for French men. Date: 1844

Womens fashionable bonnets 1844
Selection of womens bonnets with ribbons, floral arrangements and large feathers. Date: 1844

April fashion 1844
Two women wearing the latest fashion for spring. 1844

Interior of Court of Exchequer Chamber, showing the ancient ceremony of chopping sticks and counting horse-shoes and hob-nails, this tradition was abolition in 1882. Date: 1844

Dalkey Atmospheric Railway, opened in August 1843 till April 1854, . Extension of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (D&KR) to Atmospheric Road in Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland. Date: 1844

Provident racegoers enjoy a picnic between races at the Ascot meeting Date: 1844

French War steamer Gomer, alongside the victory in the dock at Portsmouth. Served in the Caribbean in 1843, and later served off France and England. Date: 1844

New Royal Exchange, London
South-East view of the New Royal Exchange, London. Date: 1844

A Christmas parade by Alfred Crowquill
Father Christmas and other Christmas-themed characters parading through the snow. Date: 1844

Palm Sunday Procession in Spitalfields, London, 1844
Palm Sunday procession in Spitalfields, London, 1844. On Palm Sundays, at that time, members of the weaving trade (then flourishing in Spitalfields) would walk out to the Essex fields

Elkington & Co, Electro-Plate Works, Birmingham 1844 Elkington & Co
Scenes from Elkington & Co, Electro-Plate Works, Birmingham, woman worker, burnishing. Date: 1844

Steel Casting at Fitzalan Steel Works, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Interior of a steel casting at Fitzalan Steel Works, Sheffield. Two men draw crucibles of molten metal from furnaces. Two others pour the metal into moulds to produce ingots. Date: 1844

Button-making, Elliots Button Factory, Birmingham 1844
Women working at long benches stamping, pressing and punching on buttons at Elliots Factory, Birmingham. Date: 1844

Button Making, Elliotts Factory, Birmingham 1844
A woman sits in front of a gilding oven at Elliotts Button Factory, Birmingham. The buttons are coated in a mixture of mercury and gold

DICKENS / THE CHIMES
Trotty Veck - a poor ticket porter whose outlook is converted from despair to hope by the spirits of the chimes on New Years Eve. Date: First published: 1844

Royal Italian Opera - Foscari
The first English production of this opera set in Venice, staged at the Royal Italian Opera House, London : it is based on a play by Byron. Date: first performed 1844

EXETER HALL / MEETING 1844
Exeter Hall: interior view, with a large May Meeting in progress (many charitable organisations held their meetings there) Date: 1844

VICTORIA / LOUISP / GOSPORT
Queen Victoria entertains Louis Philippe at Osborne: scene at Gosport station Date: 1844

SIR JF Bridge, musician
SIR JOHN FREDERICK BRIDGE Musician Date: 1844 - 1924

Verney Lovett Cameron
VERNEY LOVETT CAMERON Traveller in Africa Date: 1844 - 1894

Royal Exchange, clock 1844
The Great Clock at the Royal Exchange, London. Date: 1844

ALEXANDRA / WEDDING / LITH
ALEXANDRA QUEEN TO EDWARD VII In her wedding dress Date: 1844 - 1925

Cartoon, The London Mission -- Loading the Gun at Exeter Hall. Punch mocks evangelical calls for British military intervention in Tahiti

Lancashire cotton industry 1844
Women at work in a power-loom factory, Lancashire Date: 1844

Andre Galle
ANDRE GALLE French medallist from St Etienne, member of the Institut Royal de France, Academie des Beaux Arts (gravure en medaille) etc. Date: 1761 - 1844

Alexandra / Olaf Stuart
QUEEN ALEXANDRA Wife of Edward VII, with her grandson Olaf (son of her daughter Maud) Date: 1844 - 1925

John Dalton, English chemist and physicist
John Dalton (1766-1844), English chemist, meteorologist and physicist, formulator of Daltons Law of Partial Pressures concerning gases in water

French conquest of Algeria. 1830-1847. Expedition to Morocco in 1844 against Abd el-Kader. Camp French of the column of chasseurs (huntmen) of Africa in the field of the battle of Isly on 14 August

ILYA REPIN
ILYA YEFIMOVICH REPIN Russian artist Date: 1844 - 1930

Friedrich Ratzel
FRIEDRICH RATZEL German geographer Date: 1844 - 1904

Locomotive luggage engine, cross sections Date: 1844

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