1847 Collection

Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life in Norse mythology
Yggdrasil (Yggdrasill), the sacred ash, the Tree of Life, the Mundane Tree of Norse mythology, whose branches overhang the Universe

Auguste Escoffier
AUGUSTE ESCOFFIER French Chef. Director of Kitchen for many large Hotels. Known for his culinary innovations

Old Hartlepool Lighthouse, north east England
View of the old Hartlepool Lighthouse, north east England (County Durham), completed in 1847. A man with a telescope scans the horizon

Struwwelpeter Cover
Struwwelpeter The cover of the book

Jane Eyre & Rochester
Mr. Rochester declares his love for Jane

GUNN
Clan GUNN

Clan Sinclair
Clan SINCLAIR a young barefoot woman wears a long tartan plaid

Bram Stoker (Photo)
BRAM STOKER writer of Dracula etc

Camden Round House
A notable example of railway architecture, the Round House - the engine house of the North-Western Railway at Camden-Town depot. Today it is a theatre. Date: 1847

Queen Victoria
QUEEN VICTORIA With family

FRANKLIN'S WRITING
Document transcribed by Sir John Franklin stating that H.M.S Erebus & Terror wintered in the ice at Beechey Island. Informs of his death & signed by Capt.s Crozier & Fitzjames. Date: 28 May 1847

Captain Sir John Franklin (1786-1847)
Engraving of Captain Sir John Franklin in his Royal Navy uniform, pictured shortly before departing on his ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845

Ducklings by Fred Morgan
Painting by Fred Morgan (1847-1927) showing a blonde little girl sitting by a pond holding a duckling

Jane Eyre & Rochester
Jane meets Mr. Rochester by the stile

Clan Gordon
clan GORDON engaged in fishing

Clan Macdonald
Clan MACDONALD OF THE ISLES clad in a coat of chain-mail, the chieftain with an angry look gives orders for some miscreant to be punished

Thomas Edison / Phonograph
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor with his Edison Business Phonograph

Jane Eyre & Gipsy
Jane and the gipsy

Clan Macpherson
Clan MACPHERSON armed with a brace of pistols, as well as his sword and his dagger

Hoffmann / Augustus / Soup
THE STORY OF AUGUSTUS WHO WOULD NOT HAVE ANY SOUP "...& on the fifth day he was dead!"

Hoffmann / Suck-A-Thumb
THE STORY OF LITTLE SUCK-A- THUMB The great, long, red-legg d scissor-man cuts off Conrads thumbs

Am Broadley / Vanity Fair
ALEXANDER MEYRICK BROADLEY Lawyer, writer, and collector of Napoleona Date: 1847 - 1916

Tamworth Station
Trent Valley Railway Date: 1847

Birkenhead Park Gateway
The fine Neo Classical entrance gateway to Birkenhead Park, Merseyside, England. The park was opened in 1847. 1950s

Birkenhead Park Gateway
The fine Neo Classical entrance gateway to Birkenhead Park, Merseyside, England. The park was opened in 1847. Date: mid 19th century

Alderney Harbour
The founding of a harbour of refuge on the island of Alderney

Clan Fraser
Clan FRASER resting his hand on his drawn sabre

Clan Macgillivray
Clan MACGILLIVRAY guarding the battlements 0f his castle

Clan Farquharson
clan FARQUHARSON holding a pike

Auguste Escoffier French Chef

Jrm Chard / Woodbury Photo
JOHN ROUSE MERRIOTT CHARD Military, notably at Rorkes Drift

Surgery Cures Stupidity
SATIRE:RESULTS OF ETHER - surgery as a cure-all: young mans stupidity cured by replacing straw head- stuffing with a brain!

Hoffmann / Johnny Head-Air
THE STORY OF JOHNNY HEAD-IN- AIR Johnny falls into the river, much to the bewilderment of the fish

Hoffmann / Inky Boys / Story
THE STORY OF THE INKY BOYS The great Agrippa dips the boys in his enormous ink well

Hoffmann / Shock / Head / Pete
SHOCK HEADED PETER..." Never once has comb d his hair"

Marie-Louise of Austria
MARIE-LOUISE OF AUSTRIA second wife of Napoleon I with their son le Roi de Rome

Hoffmann / Johnny Head Air
THE STORY OF JOHNNY HEAD-IN- AIR Johhny collides with a dog

Hoffmann / Man Shooting
The Story of the Man that Went out Shooting

Sikh Warrior on Horse, India 1847 Date: 1847

Earlswood Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles, Redhill
A view of the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles, Redhill, Surrey, founded in 1847. It later became known as the Royal Earlswood Hospital. Date: circa 1854

St Mary Abbots Workhouse, Marloes Road, Kensington, London
In 1847-8 the parish of St Mary Abbots, Kensington, south west London, erected a workhouse at the east of Wrights Lane (now Marloes Road)

Gretna Green Certificate
Certificate issued by the Kingdom of Scotland, confirming the marriage of William Scott and Frances Bell at Allisons Bank Toll-House, Gretna Green, Dumfries

Cover design, Dombey and Son
Cover design, Part XI of Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, August 1847, with illustrations by Hablot K Browne. 1847

Bram Stoker, novelist and theatre manager
Bram Stoker, novelist and short story writer, best known for the gothic novel Dracula (1897). He was also theatre manager for Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London

Galileo Ferraris
GALILEO FERRARIS Italian physicist, discoverer of the rotating magnetic field. Date: 1847 - 1897

Carmina Burana 13th C
A page from a Latin manuscript of the Carmina Burana, a collection of poems, songs and short plays; published in 1847 by Johann Schmeller, the name means songs of Beuren Date: 13th century

Tunbridge Wells from Calverley Park. Date: 1847

Locomotive passenger engine no 73, side elevation, built 1846-1847 to Stephensons patent Date: 1847

The Clearing House, Lombard Street, London, 1847
Engraving showing the interior of the Clearing House in Lombard Street, London, 1847. This was an important financial institution, located at the back of the Guardian Insurance Office

Wombwells Menagerie at Windsor Castle, 1847
Engraving showing the tents of Wombwells Menagerie in the Great Quadrangle of Windsor Castle during the Windsor Michaelmas Fair, October 1847

Clan Menzies
Clan FORBES an 18th century gentleman dressed in the height of fashion

Flotow Martha Quartet
The delightful spinning quartet from Act Two, as the two posh ladies, disguised as country girls, reveal their inability to perform mundane household tasks

GIRLS FASHIONS 1847
Grey dress: corsage a caraco made to resemble a jacket & skirt. Blue dress trimmed with black rosettes: pointed waist, skirt pinned up to reveal an underskirt

Antoine Drouot (Card)
ANTOINE DROUOT French bakers son whose diligent studies as a boy, while working for his father, led to his becoming a great military figure

Annie Besant / Fuller
ANNIE BESANT English theosophist and Indian political leader - portrait

Thomas Edison / La Nature
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Listening to the first phonogram sent to New York from England

Hoffmann / Harriet / Matches
THE DREADFUL STORY ABOUT HARRIET & THE MATCHES " She burns all over everywhere"

Wimborne railway station, Wimborne, Dorset, on the Southampton and Dorchester Railway route. Seen here in the year it opened, with the viaduct over the River Stour on the right. Date: 1847

Syria / Damascus / Barrada
Damascus: the River Barrada, the ancient Pharpar Date: 1847

Rosebery / 5th Earl / Vf 76
ARCHIBALD PHILIP PRIMROSE 5TH EARL OF ROSEBERY Statesman and author Date: 1847 - 1929

Major Esterhazy
MAJOR MCFW ESTERHAZY French Major and German spy, connected with the Dreyfus Case Date: 1847 - 1923

Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER Zoologist Date: 1847 - 1929

A Tiki at Raroera Pah, New Zealand. Plate from The New Zealanders illustrated by George French Angas (1822-1886). Date: 1847

Besant Circa 1900
ANNIE BESANT circa 1900 Date: 1847 - 1933

Modern Athenians plate 32 - Edinburgh
Mr David Tweedie and his brother John Tweedie (c. 1773-1847) on the Streets of Edinburgh. Both brothers partners in law

Modern Athenians plate 37 - Edinburgh
Capt. The Honorable Augustus G. F. Jocelyn (d. 1847) approaching Lieutenant General Sir Niel Douglas (1790-1853) commander and chief of the British army

Royals at St Johns
Scene during the royal visit to the college

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visiting Wombwells Menager
Engraving showing Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children looking at the animals of Wombwells Menagerie

Rome Centenary
Patriotic Romans celebrate the 26th centenary of the founding of their city by Romulus and Remus

Clan Mackinnon
Clan MAC KINNON engaged in archery practice

CLAN ROSE
Clan ROSE engaged in digging peat

Clan Chisholm
Clan CHISHOLM

O connell / Derrynane
DANIEL O CONNELL Irish National leaders country seat, Derrynane Abbey, County Kerry, Ireland

O connell / Cahirciveen
DANIEL O CONNELL Irish National leaders birthplace at Cahirciveen, near Tralee, Ireland

Mackerel Fishing / 1847
The Brighton Boats fishing for mackerel

Wedding Cake / 1847
The Bride Cake for the wedding of the Marquis of Kildare

Queenwood College
Housed in the former Richard Owen Socialist community building Harmony Hall (built 1841) between 1847-1896. Burnt down in 1903. Former maths master: John Tyndall

First Mormon Township
The first township at Salt Lake City, Utah

Hoffmann / Shooting Man
THE STORY OF THE MAN THAT WENT OUT SHOOTING " At last he stumbled at the well, head over ears, & in he fell. The hare stopp d short, took aim, & hark!"

Nakamura Kansuke Tadatoki - The 47 Ronin
Nakamura Kansuke Tadatoki by Kuniyoshi Utagawa (1797-1861) - from The Series The 47 Ronin or Forty-seven pictures of loyal retainers'

The Old Presque Isle Light (Lighthouse), Michigan, USA
The Old Presque Isle Light (Lighthouse), built in 1847 - when this card was published it was the property of Mr Bliss Stebbins, Michigan, USA. Date: circa 1910s

Milena Vukotic (1847-1923). Queen consort of Montenegro (1910-1918), as the wife of King Nicholas I of Montenegro (1841-1921). Portrait. Engraving. La Guerra de Oriente (The Russo-Turkish War)

Fashionable woman with hat box sitting in a milliners, Paris, 1847. She wears a bonnet, embroidered shawl, and luxurious dress. A customer examines fabric on a table behind her

Spain. Royal Casino of Murcia. Detail of a relief
Spain. Royal Casino of Murcia. The construction of this building began in 1847, on the site of a former palace. Detail of a relief with Islamic decoration on one of the interior walls

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