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Felix Mendelssohn BartholdyJakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809ÔÇô1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn - German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Date: circa 1840s
Dorothy MadisonDOROTHEA PAYNE MADISON wife of American statesman and president James Madison with her autograph
Poor Childs NurseTHE POOR CHILDs NURSE Date: 1849
Mexico ChapultepecDancing and strolling in the cypress grove : Chapultepec is near Mexico City and is a favourite place to escape to
Mexico Sierra MadreThis was the location for John Hustons memorable film
Cuba LandscapeLandscape in the interior
Cuba SantiagoSantiago de Cuba, viewed from the sea
Coffer Fish 1849Coffer Fish Ostracion Auritus Date: 1849
Queen AdelaideQUEEN ADELAIDE princess of Saxe-Coburg Meiningen, wife of William IV
Edgeworth / Sepia AnonMaria Edgeworth Novelist
A Domestic Republic 1849A DOMESTIC REPUBLIC The horrid scene when a mans wife and daughters, sons and servants, insist on what they perceive as their rights
Gold Miners Ball / Usa1849A ball for the gold miners in California
A Von Tirpitz / JuttnerALFRED VON TIRPITZ German naval commander, portrayed as Poseidon/ Neptune, God of the North Sea
San Francisco, CalifThe former Spanish settlement of Yerba Buena was taken from the Mexicans in 1846 and renamed San Francisco : it expanded rapidly during the Gold Rush of 1849
San Francisco, in 1848Compare this 1848 view with our view from 1850, and you ll see the enormous expansion of the town during the Gold Rush of 1849 !
Strindberg / MorganJOHAN AUGUST STRINDBERG Swedish playwright and novelist
Maria Edgeworth / HomeMARIA EDGEWORTH Home of the novelist at Edgeworthstown, near Dublin
Black Stele / ShalmaneserThis obelisk of black marble was found by Layard in the centre of the mound of Nimrud, and it is now in the British Museum. The four sides depict the life of Shalmaneser III
William MillerWILLIAM MILLER American millennarist who predicted the End of the World, mistakenly, for 23 April 1843
FOLLOWERSFollowers ! Servants seem to have an inexhaustible supply of friends and relations
Oh, Heres MissusOh, heres missus !
Mirandola / Mag Pitt 1849PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA Italian humanist and leading scholar of Italian Renaissance
Edgar Allan Poe (Ilz)EDGAR ALLAN POE American writer
Emigration / USASHIPBOARD SCENE German emigrants on their way to America : scene on deck
Strindberg / Self PhotoJOHAN AUGUST STRINDBERG Swedish playwright and novelist, best known for his play Miss Julie (1888), seen writing at his desk
Frederic Chopin / ThiriatFREDERIC CHOPIN Polish musician
Edgeworth / ChappelMaria Edgeworth Novelist
Sugar Mill, JamaicaSugar cane is fed into grooved iron rollers that crush the cane, producing cane juice. The juice runs down the grooves into a cistern, from where it travels via a pipe to the boiling-house
Food and Drink / SugarCarting sugar in barrels for shipment, Jamaica, West Indies
Elephants / Siege MooltanThe houdah of Moolrajs elephant struck by a cannon ball during the Siege of Mooltan, Sikh War
Jean Beraud / ArtistJean Beraud French surwheelist artist
Adelaide / Players / 45 / 50Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen Queen to William IV
Pullen & Hooper / CampingPullen and Hooper encamping for the night during their search for Franklin
Reptiles / Turtles / HuntingCatching turtles is not quite so good as eating them, but it is very good sport, I can tell you
Franz Joseph 1849FRANZ JOSEPH Austrian emperor as a young man
Mme Recamier / J-L DavidJEANNE-FRANCOISE-JULIE- ADELAIDE RECAMIER nee BERNARD French society beauty and wit
Mme Recamier / ChampagneJEANNE-FRANCOISE-JULIE- ADELAIDE RECAMIER nee BERNARD French society beauty and wit
Mme Recamier / MiniatureJEANNE-FRANCOISE-JULIE- ADELAIDE RECAMIER nee BERNARD French society beauty and wit
James Polk / Scrap 1880JAMES POLK 11th President of the United States, 1845-49
Jacob Perkins / World InvJACOB PERKINS American inventor, especially associated with the printing of bank notes
J Grasset / Nos MaitresJ GRASSET French medical
Churchill / Randolph / FlyBritish MP Lord Randolph Spencer Churchill as a pesky insect which bites at night, but no-one feels its sting, and which is " all hum"
Chopin / Anon PostcardFREDERIC CHOPIN Polish composer
Cartoon / Republic DrownsThe Republic drowns herself in Bonapartism
A Von Tirpitz / RenatusALFRED VON TIRPITZ German naval commander, in 1915
A Von Tirpitz / PostcardALFRED VON TIRPITZ German naval commander
Bhmk Von Bulow / CardBERNHARD HEINRICH MARTIN KARL VON BULOW Prussian politician and diplomat
Franklin Richards / CdvFRANKLIN SNYDER RICHARDS Mormon leader, photographed in June 1866