1848 Collection (page 17)

Fighting in Milan / 1848
Fighting in Milan

Conway Tubular Bridge
Conwy railway bridge was built by Robert Louis Stevenson and officially opened in 1849, although completed in 1848. The tube is 412 feet long and weighs 1300 tonnes

Pacific Marquesas
Entrance to the valley of Akaoui, on Nuku Hiva

Chirk Railway Viaduct
Built by Henry Robertson, the Chirk railway viaduct crosses the vale of Llangollen, Wales, running alongside Telfords aqueduct

Iran Tabriz
The principal entry to the town of Tabriz (formerly Tauris), renowned for its carpets

Afghanistan Attuck
Distant view of the magnificent fortress, seen from the south

Aj Balfour / Sambourne
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR 1st Earl of Balfour British politician, Conservative MP, enjoying a game of golf

Costume / French / Nat Guard
A member of the French National Guard in the revolutionary year of 1848: he wears a dark coat and holds a combined rifle and bayonet

John Quincy Adams / Holl
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS US President 1825-1829

John Quincy Adams / Hunt
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS US President 1825-1829 who negotiated a treaty with the Osage Indians

Franz Cramer
FRANZ CRAMER German-English musician

Josef Gersbach
JOSEF ANTON GERSBACH German musical composer - but is this Anton (1803 - 1848) or Josef Anton ? Date: 1787 - 1830

Cartigny as Capt. Coop
The French actor Cartigny as Captain Coop in La jeunesse d Henri V, evidently shifted to the 17th century !

W Indies St Kitts
(Leeward Islands) Distant view of the harbour from the sea

Female / Ladies Converse
CONVERSAZIONE OF LADIES Fashionable dress - overfed pets - handsome manservants - female accomplishments - these are the things that women talk about when they gather

THE YORKER PUB SIGN
The inn sign for The Yorker. depicting legendary English cricketer W.G. Grace (1848 - 1915) at Piccadilly, London, England

San Francisco, in 1848
Compare this 1848 view with our view from 1850, and you ll see the enormous expansion of the town during the Gold Rush of 1849 !

Meditating Monk
A monk (of the Societe du Bon Jesus) contemplates a crucifix and meditates on the sufferings of Jesus

Order of Vallombrosa
A monk of the ORDER OF VALLOMBROSA (Italian)

Monk of St Maur
Benedictine monk of SAINT-MAUR

Missionary in China
Jesuit Missionary in China

Premonstratensian
A regular canon of the PREMONSTRATENSIANS Date: 1848

Vanity Fair / Sketching
A fine summer evening

Jons Jakob Berzelius
JONS JAKOB BERZELIUS Swedish chemist

Stringfellows Model

The Holly Cart
The Holly cart - a street vendor sells holly from door to door

Hotel at St Petersburg
The waiting room at the hotel des Malles-Postes, Saint Petersburg

W. G. Grace as a Giant Bat
The Leviathan Bat..or many-centuried marvel of the Modern (Cricket) World, in his high-soaring, top-scoring, Summer-day flight. How he smites and thumps..!

Becky Refuses a Proposal
A young lady turns down a propsal from an older gentleman. (Becky Sharp and Sir Pitt Crawley in " Vanity Fair" )

Jenny Lind / Bellini 1848
JENNY LIND Soprano singer, seen here in the role of Amina in Bellinis opera La Sonnambula

Louis Bonaparte
LOUIS BONAPARTE - Brother of Napoleon I - made King of Holland before abdicating in 1810

Lochnagar Distillery
Exterior of the whisky distillery at Lochnagar, Scotland

Jons Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist, considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry

ADAMS (1767-1848)
John Quincy Adams sixth president of the United States

Ross / Return of Arcticsun
The return of the sun to the Arctic regions during the voyage of Ross to find Franklin. The crew leave their ships, Enterprise & Investigator, to enjoy the full effect

1848 / Anti-Papal Protest
Demonstrations in Rome against Pope Pius IX dissociating himself fromthe movement for Italian unification

1848 / Massacre / Castelnuov
Napoli royalists massacre liberals at Castelnuovo

1848 / Fighting in Rome
Fighting in Roman streets

1848 / Defence of Bologna
The defence of Bologna

1848 / Destruction / Messina
The destruction of Messina

New Orleans / Statehouse
The Statehouse in New Orleans

Donizetti / Eichhorn
GAETANO DONIZETTI Italian opera composer

Donizetti / Anon
GAETANO DONIZETTI Italian opera composer

Cartoon on Tea Duty
Ladies gather round a large urn of tea drinking from large cups since it is " A good cup of tea when the duty is taken off

Balfour / Golf / Sambourne
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR 1st Earl of Balfour, British politician and Conservative MP, enjoying a game of golf in snazzy attire

Aj Balfour / Stereoscopic
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR 1st Earl of Balfour British politician, Conservative MP

Servants at Table
Servants at table - a manservant, dining with the cook, reprimands the page for bringing him a steel fork (as opposed to silver)

G Stephenson / Glebe Farm
GEORGE STEPHENSON Glebe Farm House, Benton, where the engineer lived

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