1850s Collection (page 13)

Man on an unruly horse on a comic greetings card with verse and pull tab. Date: circa 1850s

Boys sailing a model boat on a greetings card, with verse. Date: circa 1850s

Queen Victorias farewell to the Duke of Wellington, 131 guns, Spithead, 11 March 1854. 1854

Horatia Charlotte Pechell
Horatia Charlotte Skipwith (nee Pechell, c1827-1910). circa 1850s

Blind boot-lace seller 1850s
Blind boot-lace seller with his little dog in the streets of London. Date: circa 1850s

Dust-yard 1850s
Londons dust-yard, while a man digs through the rubbish and the women sieve the dust hoping to find things of value. circa 1850s

Irish crossing sweeper 1850s
Irish crossing sweeper, in the streets of London. Date: circa 1850s

Dog ratting 1850s
Dog ratting at a show held at The Graham Arms, Graham Street, London. Involving capturing rats in a pit or other enclosed area

Rat-catcher 1850s
Jack Black, was a rat-catcher and mole destroyer from Battersea. Date: circa 1850s

Ballast-heavers 1850s
Ballast-heavers or also named as mudlarks at work, labourers dredging the River Thames for the opportunity of finding something valuable amongst the mud

Coal-porters 1850s
Coal-porters on board a ship filling waggons at the coal-wharf. Date: circa 1850s

Coal-whippers
Coal been brought from the mines was transported by ship to London docks to be sold, illustration showing a gang of coal-whippers on board bringing the coal up from below deck using pulley system

Guy Fawkes
A man from the country with a great display of the gunpowder plotters, asking " A penny for the Guy!" at neighbouring houses. Date: circa 1850s

Launch of La Hogue, Sunderland 1855
Launch of La Hogue, the largest ship ever built in Sunderland, in 1855. 16th July 1855

Town garden before and after. 1857

An early sewing machine. 1856

America yacht winning at Cowes, 1851
The America yacht winning at Cowes in 1851. 1851

Music cover, Young England Quadrille, by Wilhelm Keller. circa 1850

Music cover, My Mary Anne Polka, The Yankee Gals, composed by Jules Normann. circa 1850

John Everett Millais, The Rescue - a fireman rescues three children and returns them to their mother. 1855

Aerostatic Machine, Ballooning
George B Bales, newly invented Aerostatic Machine - Ballooning. circa 1850

Balloon ascent by Mrs Graham, Vauxhall Gardens, London
First Balloon Ascent at night by a female, Mrs Graham from Vauxhall Gardens, London, 26 July 1850. 1850

Design for a Summer House. 1857

Design for a Rustic Summer House. 1857

Design for a pair of Model Cottages for Labourers, Mechanics etc. 1857

Design for a Bee House. 1857

Charge of the Light Brigade, 25 October 1854, with a quotation from Tennysons poem. 1854

Keepeth the Sabbath from polluting 1856
Our only day, the Sabbath is the workingmans chapter. Date: 1856

The parliamentary female
Father of the family: " Come, dear; we so seldom go out together now- can t you take us all to the play tonight!" Mistress of the House, and MP: " How you talk, Charles

Launch of the Marion Macintyre and part of ship Iron Frame
Launch of the " Marion Mactintyre" and part of the ship " Iron Frame", at Messrs Jordan and Gettys building-yard Liverpool (not Getley as printed in the ILNs caption), 1851

Botanical room, British Museum 1858
Newly opened Botanical room at the British Museum, exhibiting trunks of trees-ferns, palms and other monocotyledonous trees. Date: 1858

Dressmakers workroom in London 1858
Interior of the working conditions of a dressmakers workroom in the west-end of London. With women over worked and tired at five-past twelve midnight. 1858

Saturn and his rings! only a penny 1856
Street telescope exhibitor in London. Attracting passers by to have a look through the telescope on a clear night for a penny. Date: 1856

Sheffield - Castle Grinding Mill for cutlery 1853
Exterior view of the Castle Grinding Mill for cutlery at Sheffield. Date: 1853

London, Southwark & Blackfriars bridges 1854
Taken from the Surrey side of the River Thames, London, in 1854. Southwark and Blackfriars bridges, before Cannon Street Railway Bridge, opened in 1866 and Millennium Bridge in 2002. Date: 1854

View of Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA
View of Clark Street, between Lake and Randolph, Chicago, Illinois, USA, one of 16 historical paintings by Lawrence C Earle in the Banking Room of the Central Trust Company of Illinois

Wedgwoods manufactory in Etruria 1850s
Yard at Wedgwoods manufactory in Etruria the village near Stoke-on-Trent built by Josiah Wedgwood. Date: 1850s

Wedgwoods manufactory in Etruria 1857
Etruria, the village near Stoke-on-Trent built by Josiah Wedgwood to be the centre of his ceramics production. Date: 1857

Crossing-sweeper nuisance Crossing-sweeper nuisance 1856
Group of young children with brooms, sweeping the ground as a gentleman walks alone, asking for a ha penny. Date: 1856

Boys crossing-sweepers, London boys asking an affluent gentlemen for a penny for keeping the streets tidy. Date: circa 1850s

Anglo-French fleet entering the Sea of Marmora
The Anglo-French fleet entering the Sea of Marmora, Crimean War. 1854

Music cover, She Wore a Wreath of Roses. circa 1850

Naval Operations, Cronstadt, Crimean War
Naval Operations, Cronstadt (Kronstadt) during the Crimean War. 1854

A South African Cape of Good Hope Caffre Chief. circa 1850s

Queen Victoria by W Holl
Queen Victoria, engraving by W Holl. circa 1850s

Selling mistletoe in streets 1854
Street trader selling mistletoe to passers by in the streets. Date: 1854

German fashion, September 1857
Latest fashionable clothing for women. Date: 1857

Paris beggar 1850
French woman beggar with child, holding out her hand for money. Date: 1850

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