1845 Collection (page 15)

Queen Victoria visiting HMS Resolute, Cowes, 1856
Engraving showing Queen Victoria of Great Britain boarding the Arctic exploration ship HMS Resolute in Cowes Harbour, 15th December 1856

Ball Costumes, c. 1745
A glimpse into the costumes that were to be worn at Queen Victorias costume ball. The theme of the ball was court costume of the mid eighteenth century

France Harfleur
(Seine-Inferieure) street scene

Jean Camille Formige
JEAN CAMILLE FORMIGE French architect and restorer

Pilgrims in Desert
A caravan of Mecca pilgrims crosses the desert

Costume Men & Boys 1845
Boys: trousers, tasselled cap, short fitted jackets one with braiding. Men:1/2 length sac coat, pinched waists, waistcoats with a deep V opening & strapped trousers

Exotic Pipe 1845
Fashionable French gentleman leans against the stone urn of a chateau to have a chat with his friend and a smoke from his extemely long pipe

Julie (Clary) Bonaparte
JULIE BONAPARTE, daughter of Francois Clary, wife of Napoleons elder brother Joseph, sometime king of Naples and of Spain. Lived in America 1815 - 1832

Armstrongs hydro-electric machine
Hydro-electric machine invented by William George Armstrong (1810-1900), later Baron Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside, in the 1840 s

The Bude Lights in Trafalgar Square
Bude lights in Trafalgar Square, London. Patented by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney in 1839, the Bude light introduced oxygen gas into the middle of a standard oil lamp flame

Emperor in Italy
Guns salute Ferdinand I, emperor of Austria, as he steams into Capodistria, in the course of a visit to his Italian possessions

Birds Eye view of London Docks
A Birds Eye View of the London Docks. Started in 1802 and completed in 1805, they covered 90 acres, with 20 warehouses of 259 floors, 18 sheds, 17 vaults and 6 quays

Bernhardt / Phedre 1899
SARAH BERNHARDT French actress in the role of Phedre in 1899

Bernhardt / Campbell 1905
MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL English actress, not too excited at being read to by the French actress Sarah Bernhardt

Game of chess by telegraph
A game of chess played between London and Portsmouth, through the electric telegraph of the South Western Railway on April 10th, 1845. Suggested by Mr

Rosses Giant Telescope
William Parsons, 3rd earl of Rosse, built his giant telescope, known as the Leviathan, at Parsonstown, near Dublin and with it made several important discoveries. Date: 1845

Alexander Iii / Vf 1884
ALEXANDER III Tsar of Russia (1881-94)

Alexander Iii / Pj 1894
ALEXANDER III Tsar of Russia (1881-94) on his deathbed, watched over by his wife

George I / Greece / Beurre
GEORGE I OF GREECE King of Greece (1863-1913): a satirical view

The Brighton viaduct across the Preston Road
The Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway opened to Lewes. Train crossing the Brighton viaduct across the Preston Road. The first stone was laid by W. Nash, the chairman of Midland Railway in 1845

Cambridge Railway Station
The Eastern Counties Railway, the opening of the line to Cambridge and Ely

Mendelssohn at Leipzig
Mendelssohn conducts his own music at the Leipzig Gewandhaus

Paraguay Proclamation
Carlos Antonio Lopez, president of Paraguay, issues a proclamation calling for support and solidarity

Plas Mawr / Conway / Wales
Plas Mawr or The Great Mansion on the High Street in Conway. This fine building was built in 1576 by the Wynne family and has recently been restored

Stained Glass Cheshire
Window depicting the earls of Mercia and Cheshire : regrettably the source indicates neither the location nor when it was done, but Chester cathedral is likely

Zurbano Insurrection
During the prevailing unrest, general Zurbano mounts a rebellion, but he will be shot on 21 June 1845

Isabela in Madrid
Queen Isabela drives through the streets of Madrid : she passes La Buena Vista in La Alcala

Review in Madrid
A Grand review of the army is held before the royal palace in Madrid. Queen Isabela watches from a balcony

Lucerne Street Fight
Disagreement on religious and social issues leads to an attack on Lucerne by the Free Corps, and civil war breaks out here and elsewhere

Chalk Quarry
Quarrying chalk at Faxo, probably in Denmark

French Stone Quarry
Horses drag a wagon-load of stone from a French quarry : a massive windlass is used to raise the stone from the workings to the road

Tannhauser & Elisabeth
Tannhauser and Elisabeth in the woods

French Drum Major
Le Tambour-major (Drum major) in all his finery !

Farming for Ladies The scene in the farmyard when the ladies, bless em, take a fancy to farm management

Myanmar Yangon
Entry to the Grand Pagoda

Andrew Jackson
ANDREW JACKSON American statesman and president with his autograph

Elizabeth Fry
ELIZABETH FRY prison reformer with her autograph

F C Von Tettenborn
FRIEDRICH KARL von TETTENBORN German-Russian military commander during the Napoleonic wars : in 1815

Varna - Birds Eye View
Important Black Sea port : at the time of this picture it is under Turkish rule but it will be ceded to Bulgaria by the Treaty of Berlin 1876

England / Shrewsbury
Panoramic view of the city, from Lord Hills Monument

Plants / Mixed Species
Jacaranda Mimosifolia with Allamanda Cathartica

Mexico City
The main square, today labelled Plaza de la Constitucion

Kings / Cambridge / Chapel
The Chapel : interior

Louisa Fairbrother / 1845
LOUISA FAIRBROTHER Actress and dancer in the role of Aladdin in The Forty Thieves

Alexander Iii / Family
A family scene including Nicholas II (front row, 2nd from left) and Christian IX of Denmark. Alexander III is center, seated

William Upcott
WILLIAM UPCOTT collector of autographs

Sir William Barrett
Distinguished investigator of psychical phenomena and other anomalies such as dowsing : a founder member of the Society for Psychical Research

Bagne De Brest - 1
LE BAGNE DE BREST Convicts leave the notorious prison in the morning to go to work in the harbour or in naval establishments

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