1847 Collection (page 16)

Rosebery / 5th Earl / Vf 01
Archibald Philip Primrose 5th Earl of Rosebery Statesman and Author

Police Court
Marlborough Street police court

Hindenburg and Map
PAUL VON HINDENBURG German General Feldmarshall during World War One, studying a map of the front in his Hauptquartier

Thomas Edison / Tube Speak
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor speaking through his Perfected Phonograph in America

Thomas Edison / Scribners
THOMAS ALVA EDISON With his camera equipment in 1893

Ta Edison / 77th Birthday
THOMAS ALVA EDISON American inventor on his 77th birthday in his West Orange laboratory

Thomas Edison / Ilz C1900
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Testing his Phonograph, circa 1900

Steamship Leith 1847
The Leith arriving at Granton Pier, Edinburgh, while The Monarch leaves for London

Emma Albani / Cig Card
Marie Louise Cecile Emma Albani Canadian Singer

Besant at Arnhem 1920S
ANNIE BESANT lands at Arnhem airport, Netherlands, to take part in a Congress of the Star of the East, 1920s

Maria Fedorovna / Sepia 89
MARIA FEDOROVNA Wife of Alexander III, Tsar of Russia, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, mother of Tsar Nicholas II

Maria Fedorovna / Pj 1891
MARIA FEDOROVNA Wife of Alexander III, Tsar of Russia, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark

Maria Fedorovna / Roy 1901
MARIA FEDOROVNA Wife of Alexander III, Tsar of Russia, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark

Edward Vii / Mother 1847
EDWARD VII with his mother, Queen Victoria

Bal Des Fleurs 1847
BAL DES FLEURS The Flowers ball

Grandville Tulip 1847
TULIPE (tulipa)

Pineapples Hit London
Pineapples from the West Indies intrigue Londoners

J Franklin Birthplace
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN His birthplace at Spilsby, Lincolnshire

Covent Garden 1847
Old Covent Garden Theatre - during a performance of the opera Semiramide by Rossini

A G Bell in 1876
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL in 1876, at the age of 29 American inventor

An Unpopular Orator
An unpopular candidate at election time gets pelted with a variety of vegetables and an unfortunate cat by the hostile crowd

Simpson / Chloroform / 1847
James Young Simpson experiments with chloroform and is discovered by a colleague

Fanny Mendelssohn
FANNY CAECILIE MENDELSSOHN sister of Felix Mendelssohn, and a composer in her own right - later Fanny Hensel

Fanny Mendelssohn / Scrib
FANNY CAECILIE MENDELSSOHN sister of Felix Mendelssohn, and a composer in her own right - later Fanny Hensel

Mendelssohn / Rotary Music
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer, with a quotation from his Rondo Capriccioso below

Mendelssohn / Rotary
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer

Mendelssohn / Stengel
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer

Mendelssohn / Fr
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer

Mendelssohn / Nister
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer as a young man

Mendelssohn / Wills Cig
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer in middle age

Mendelssohn / Eichhorn
FELIX MENDELSSOHN the German composer as a young man

Mendelssohn / Friedrich
FELIX MENDELSSOHN as a young man, with a quotation from his Spring Song or Fruhlingslied

Second Class Carriage
Second class passengers (2 of 3)

First Class Carriage
First class passengers (1 of 3)

Henry Francis Lyte
HENRY FRANCIS LYTE Irish divine, author of the hymn Abide with me

Mania / Fleeing
Rash speculators flee to France to escape the recriminations of those who invested in their projects

MARY LAMB - English writer and sister of Charles Lamb

Satire Patent Medicines
The sick goose & the council of health : a satire on patent medicines

City Men at the Races
Jones I say, Brown, things are deuced bad in the city Brown Then I m deuced glad I m at Epsom!"

Dickens / Dombey & Son
Mr Toots - a student at Dr Blimbers school who loves Florence but marries Susan

CRICKET WRECK
An engine explosion on board the Thames paddle-steamer Cricket sinks her in Limehouse Reach

Election, Brentford 1847
THE MIDDLESEX ELECTION : the hustings at Brentford - the nomination of candidates - Lord Robert Grosvenor stands as the working mans hero

Pavel Yablochkov
PAVEL YABLOCHKOV Russian electric engineer, worked on telegraph system, developedthe first arc lamp, settled in Paris 1876

Nikolai Zhukovsky
NIKOLAI ZHUKOVSKY Russian engineer, known as the father of Russian aviation. His The soaring of birds proved that looping the loop would be possible

Alexander Karpinsky
ALEXANDER KARPINSKY Russian geologist whose work contributed greatly to the development of Soviet industry

Brit Mus Etruscan Room
They learnt Macaulays Horatius at school, so they know all about the Etruscans and can enjoy the Etruscan Room even if its mostly jars and pots

Brit Mus Coral Room
The new Coral Room : in 1881 visitors will have to traipse all the way to South Kensington to enjoy the natural history exhibits of the Museum

3rd Earl of Ellesmere
Francis Charles Granville Egerton, 3RD EARL OF ELLESMERE

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