1850s Collection (page 17)

Ladies in their carriage in India 1860
Ladies in their carriage while their gentlemen admirers crowd round, from Curry and Rice (on Forty Plates) by Captain Geo. F. Atkinson. Date: 1860

THE VOTE AUCTION satirical comment on the prevalence of bribery in British parliamentary elections Date: 1853

Sedan Chair in Hong Kong 1857
Coolie chairmen in Hong Kong. Date: 1857

English Yokel practising maths on slate 1858
An English Yokel practising his maths on a slate. Date: 1858

Traditional female accomplishments
Three young women demonstrating traditional female accomplishments -- reading, embroidery, and playing the piano. Date: 1858

Quartz crushing battery used during Australian gold rush
The first quartz crushing battery, used during the Australian gold rush, located at the base of Black Hill, Ballarat, Victoria. The quartz had to be crushed in order to extract the nuggets of gold

Vezelay Abbey, Burgundy, France
View of the facade of Vezelay Abbey, now known as the Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, or the Eglise de la Madeleine, a Benedictine abbey church in Burgundy, France. Date: 1853

Bandstand in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris France 1856
A bandstand in the Pre Catelan, in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, with people gathered round to hear a concert. Date: 1856

Advert for Grays Inn Pianoforte Manufactory 1851
Advertisement of Grays Inn Pianoforte Manufactory, C.Cadby patent grand and cottage pianoforte maker. Showing the front of the shop and product. Date: 1851

Self sufficient village plan 1850
A self-supporting village designed by Mr J Minter Morgan, housing 300 families of the working class. Date: 1850

Money no object. Satire on marrying for money Date: circa 1850s

Emancipated women of America, satire 1851
Emancipated women of America, as depicted by the illustrator of Alice. Date: 1851

Rioting in the Provinces in France in 1851 Date: December 1851

Scene in a dance hall -- Cruikshank
A popular dance hall in the East End of London -- a brother and sister get into undesirable company. Date: circa 1850

London coffee-stall 1850s
Selling coffee to passers-by on the streets of London. Date: circa 1850s

London costermonger 1850s
Here partaters! kearots and turnips! fine brockelo-o-o!. Date: circa 1850s

Inside a crowded horse bus, London
Passengers inside a crowded horse bus in London. Date: 1859

Telegraphic message boy
Telegraph boy employed to deliver telegrams, holding his leather satchel with an important sealed message, which is probably sent up by a Manchester or Birmingham manufacturer to one of the London

Low Moor - Ironworks 1856
Exterior of the Ironworks foundry in West Yorkshire. Date: 1856

The elderly Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) attending worship at St. Marys Church, Walmer, Kent. Date: 1852

Attack on Whig mug-house
The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom

Banquet held at Audley End House. Date: 1852

Preparations for Crimean War, The Baltic Fleet - HMS Miranda
Naval preparations for the Crimean War, The Baltic Fleet under Sir Charles Napier - The steam-sloop HMS Miranda, pictured saluting Kronberg Castle, Helsingor (Elsinore, Elsineur), Denmark. Date: 1854

Grand Banquet of the Officers of the Coldstream Guards
Grand Banquet to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the enrolment of the Coldstream Guards, 22nd May 1850 in the Banquet Room, St Jamess Palace Date: 1850

Upper Tooting Road - The Bell Pub? Date: 1856

Great Exhibition cartoon - the pound and the shilling
The pound and the shilling. " Whoever thought of meeting you here?" Visiting the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace enabled a substantial amount of social mixing between the classes

Town versus Gown fight in Oxford
Town versus Gown brawl in Oxford in the 1850s, with undergraduates fighting locals. Date: 1850s

Two women in crinoline dresses. circa 1850s

The Liverpool Industrial schools at Kirkdale, 1850
The Liverpool Industrial schools at Booth Lane, Kirkdale. Built in an Elizabethan style, it was designed as an alternative to the workhouse to accomodate juvenile paupers. Date: 1850

General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna of Mexico
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794-1876), 8th President of Mexico. After a successful political career he was overthrown in 1854 and lived most of his later years in exile. circa 1850s

The Golden Temple, Amritsar, ILN 1858
Page from the Illustrated London News, 6th November 1858 showing the Golden Temple at Amritsar, India. Date: 1858

A young Queen Victoria, 1858
Queen Victoria(1819-1901), pictured here in 1858

Map of the islands in the Atlantic Ocean -- Azores or Western Isles, Madeira, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Cape Verde. Date: 1851

Cabin of Henry David Thoreau, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Cabin of Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1850s

Inuit people outside McClintocks hut. Francis Leopold McClintock was searching for remains of John Franklins ill-fated Arctic expedition of 1845

Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806 15 September 1859) - English mechanical and civil engineer. Designer and builder of dockyards, the Great Western Railway

Great Pyramid of Giza and Sphinx, Egypt
Great Pyramid of Giza (or Gizeh) and Sphinx, Egypt. Date: 1857

Henry Willis Grand Organ at the Great Exhibition, 1851
The Grand Organ, built upon the German plan by Henry Willis, as exhibited at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park as part of the Great Exhibition, 1851. Date: 1851

Reformatory School for Boys, Thorndon, Suffolk
The reformatory school for boys at Thorndon, near Eye in Suffolk, originally established in 1856. It was usually known as the Kerrison Reformatory, after one of its initiators, Sir Edward C Kerrison

New End Hospital, Hampstead, North London
The frontage of New End Hospital, Hampstead, North London, with a military ambulance outside. The building, designed by H.E. Kendall, was erected in 1849-50 as the Hampstead workhouse

Nell Lane Hospital, Manchester
Aerial view of Nell Lane Hospital, Withington, Manchester, opened in 1855 as Chorlton Union workhouse. The cross shaped block (left of centre) was the main workhouse building

Nell Lane Hospital and Institution, Manchester
Aerial view of Nell Lane Hospital at Didsbury, near Withington, Manchester, opened in 1855 as Chorlton Union workhouse. The cross shaped block (above centre) was the main workhouse building

Wakefield Union workhouse, West Yorkshire
Aerial view of the Wakefield Union workhouse, designed by J.E. Oates and erected in 1851 on Park Lodge Lane, Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Durham County Lunatic Asylum, Sedgefield
The Durham County Asylum was opened in 1859 at Salters Lane, Sedgefield, County Durham. The Sedgefield Asylum later became Durham County Mental Hospital and then Winterton Hospital

Mile End Old Town Workhouse, East London
Previously part of the Stepney Union, Mile End Old Town in East London became an independent Poor Law Hamlet in 1857. The following year, work began on its new workhouse located on Bancroft Road

Boundary Park Hospital, Oldham, Lancashire
Arched entrance to Boundary Park Municipal Hospital, Rochdale Road, Oldham, Lancashire. The hospital began life in 1851 as the Oldham Union workhouse

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