1850s Collection (page 19)

Vain man at a mirror on a comic greetings card, with verse. Date: circa 1850s

BOY IN FROCK 1850S
A small child (probably a boy) wears a tartan costume of short skirt & short sleeved bodice with shaped basque, lace tucker & narrow ribbon trim & shoes with ankle straps Date: 1850s

Prince Albert, husband and consort of Queen Victoria
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819-1861), husband and consort of Queen Victoria. circa 1850s

View of Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. 1850

Marriage ceremony of Rothschilds, 1857
Marriage ceremonial of the Baron Alphonse de Rothschild and Miss Leonora Rothschild in the mansion at Gunnersbury Park, west London

Messrs. Scheutzs New Calculating Machine
Messrs. Pehr (Per) Georg Scheutz (1785-1873) and Edvard Scheutzs (of Stockholm, Sweden) New Calculating (Tabulating) Machine

The Pavilion, Weedon, Northamptonshire. circa 1850

Grand Saloon of the Great Eastern steam ship, 1859
The opulent interior of the Grand Saloon of the Great Eastern steam ship, 1859. See picture 10054741 for the same interior during a gale. 1861

Victorian Ballerina in folk costume. circa 1850

Crimean War, Sergeant Davies defending the colours
Crimean War -- Sergeant Davies (Poolfield Davis) of the Grenadier Guards defending the colours against Russian infantry at the Battle of Inkerman in 1854

La Crinolonomanie by Charles Vernier -- A fashionable young woman visits a blacksmith for repairs to the iron ring of her crinoline frame. circa 1850

The Golden Temple, Amritsar, 1858
Sacred tank and marble causeway leading to the Golden Temple in Amritsar (or Umritzir as it is spelt here), in India; the centre of the Sikh religion. Date: 1858

Music cover, The Gipsy Duet from Verdis Il Trovatore
Music cover, The Gipsy Duet from Il Trovatore, opera by Verdi, in the version performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. Sung by Fanny Huddart and Augustus Braham. circa 1850

The Great Industrial Exhibition, Dublin, 1853
The Great Industrial Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland, 1853. 1853

Le garcon de cafe, Paris 1850
Parisian men and women being served in a coffeehouse. 1850

Kavanaghs journey, Relief of Lucknow, Indian Mutiny
Scenes from Thomas Henry Kavanaghs (1821-1882) perilous journey leading to the Relief of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny, for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross

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

Rescue of McClure during Arctic expedition
Rescue of Robert McClure during his unsuccessful Arctic expedition to discover the fate of the Franklin expedition of 1845

Mount Vernon Hotel at Cape May, New Jersey
The palatial Mount Vernon Hotel at Cape May, New Jersey. Built in the Italianate style, it could accomodate 3, 500 guests, who came seeking the sea air and healthful recreation

The American Twins, or North and South
North grapples with south as America is depicted at war with its own flesh and blood. Date: 1856

Young Victorian woman in pink crinoline
A young Victorian woman in an enormous pink crinoline evening dress decorated with roses. She has matching roses in her hair, and a fan in her hand. Date: circa 1860

Amatola Mountains, by Thomas Baines
The 74th Highlanders with the Beaufort and Port Elizabeth Fingoe Levies, Storming the Stronghold of the Rebel Chief Sandilli, in the Amatola Mountains, 24th June 1851, by Thomas Baines (1820-1875)

Fire brigade horse drawn manual fire pump
A horse drawn manual fire pump typical of those used by the London Fire Engine Establishment (1833) and in the Metropolitan Fire Brigade before the widespread introduction of horse drawn steam engines

Church service
Offering in a Country-Church, Date: 1858

Two bulls locking horns, Sri Lanka
Two Bulls at One Shot -- two bulls (male buffalo) locking horns with hunters in the background, ready to fire. 1854

BIG BEN
The clock face (designed by Augustus Pugin) of Big Ben. Westminster, London. The clock mechanism was completed in 1854; the Victorian Gothic tower was completed in 1858. Date: 1850s

Lord of the Isles steam train, 1851
The Great Western Railway Broad Gauge Locomotive Lord of the Isles, 1851. Date: 1851

Pride comes before a fall
An illustration to the saying, Pride comes before a fall. Showing a rich man (possibly royal) in an encounter with a boy selling food from a basket in the street

Bleasdale Reformatory, Garstang, Lancashire
A view of the North Lancashire Reformatory for Boys at Bleasdale, near Garstang, Lancashire which opened in 1857. Reformatories could house convicted juvenile offenders aged under 16 for a period of

County Lunatic Asylum, Brentwood, Essex
The Essex County Lunatic Asylum was established in 1853 at Warley Hill, Brentwood, Essex, and was designed by H. E. Kendall Junior. It later became Brentwood Mental Hospital and then Warley Hospital

Bury Union Workhouse, Jericho, Lancashire
A distant view of the Bury Union workhouse opened in 1857 at Jericho, Bury, Lancashire. The site later became Fairfield Hospital

Character from Il Trovatore -- Azucena
Depiction of the character Azucena from Verdis grand opera Il Trovatore (The Troubador), first performed in Rome in 1853. The gipsy woman Azucena (a mezzo-soprano or contralto role)

Union Workhouse, Hemsworth, West Yorkshire
The Hemsworth Union workhouse, erected in 1859 on Southmoor Road, Hemsworth, West Yorkshire. Several inmates can be seen sitting or working. A girl pushes a baby in a pushchair on the road alongside

Hackney Union School, Brentwood, Essex
The Hackney Union School at Brentwood. In 1885 Hackney took over what had been the Brentwood District School, originally set up by the Shoreditch Board of Guardians in 1854 to house pauper children

Mccormicks Reaper
MCCORMICKs REAPER McCormicks patent American horsedrawn reaper being used in the field

Green Dress Early 1850S
Possibly evening dress: 3 scallop edged, embroidered flounces, stomacher corsage trimmed with bows in imitation of echelles & a square neckline. (possibly a Watteau body)

Horse puddler used during Australian gold rush
The first horse-powered rotary puddler in use at Pennyweight Flat, Ballarat, Victoria, during the Australian gold rush. Puddling involved breaking up clay soil containing gold

Gold Escort leaving for Melbourne, Australia
The Gold Escort leaving Castlemaine Camp in Victoria, Australia, for Melbourne

Passiflora -- Passion Flower -- brought from Peru/Brazil to Europe in 1699

Music cover, La Pricesse Valse (The Princess Waltz), composed and dedicated to HRH Prince Albert by Felix Gantier. Depicting Princess Victoria, the eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Englands Royal Sailor, HRH Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (1844-1900), Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Edinburgh. circa 1850s

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American author of Uncle Toms Cabin. circa 1850s

George Mogridge, English writer
George Mogridge (1787-1854), prolific English writer, poet and childrens author, also known as Old Humphrey. circa 1850s

Chelsea New Bridge, London. 1858

Flavel kitchener
Flavels kitchener, on display at the Great Exhibition 1851, named after William Flavel(1819-1892), iron-founder and businessman. Date: 1851

Crystal Palce, Sydenham, the Nave under construction
The 1851 Great Exhibition building was remodelled and rebuilt in Sydenham between 1852 and 1854. The nave with the intersection of the North Transept. Date: circa 1853

Father Christmas at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham
Old Father Christmas attended by a motley group under the direction of the Lord of Misrule 1859. Photograph by Hudson and Kearns 1859

Selling pastries from a street stall in France, 1850
Le patissier - man selling pastries to schoolboys in France, 1850. Date: 1850

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