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Fire in Clock TowerFire threatens the new Clock Tower (housing Big Ben) in the rebuilt Parliament buildings
Gerard Leman / StampGERARD MATHIEU LEMAN (1851 - 1920) Belgian general and Governor of Liege
Gerard Foch / StampFERDINAND FOCH (1851 - 1929) Marshal of the French army during World war I
Ernest Augustus HannoverERNEST AUGUSTUS - Duke of Cumberland (1799) - 5th son of George III - became King of Hanover in 1837
Prince Ernst AugustusERNEST AUGUSTUS, Duke of Cumberland (1799) - son of King George III. Became King of Hanover in 1837
Marble Arch LondonNashs arch was originally built in 1827 and placed in front of Buckingham Palace, but was moved to its present site in 1851
Great ExhibitionThe Transept, from the north side
Guildhall CryptThe crypt
Greenwich Baths EtcBaths and laundries are erected in Greenwich to keep both the residents and their clothing nice and clean in Exhibition Year
London Apsley HouseAt Hyde Park Corner : the London residence of the duke of Wellington
London Beulah SpaFete of the Blenheim Free Dispensary in the grounds of Beulah Spa, Norwood, in south London
Modern Athenians plate 41 - EdinburghSir James Wellwood, Lord Moncreiff (1776-1851) walking the same street as fellow member of the Bar, Mr Robert Bell (1781-1861) Sheriff of Berwickshire
Modern Athenians plate 27 - EdinburghWilliam Gallaway (d. 1851) accountant, approaching Patrick Neill (1776-1851) a printer, florist, gardening author, naturalist and useful citizen Date: 1847
Hainault ForestHog Hill House, overlooking Hainault Forest, in Redbridge, London
Exmouth, DevonDistant view of Exmouth, situated at the mouth of the Exe, Devonshire
DERBYGeneral view from the south- east
BroadstairsThe beach at Broadstairs, Kent
Burslem & LongportDistant view of Burslem and Longport, Staffordshire, centres of the ceramics industry
Albert Smiths Ascent of Mont Blanc, London, 1852Engraving showing an illustrated lecture given by Albert Smith, on the subject of his ascent of Mont Blanc in 1851, in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London, 1852
Crown Court, LiverpoolInterior view of part of the Crown Court, with the Great Hall in the distance, at St. Georges Hall, Liverpool, 1851
J. M. W. Turner at the Royal Academy, 1845JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER English painter, pictured at the Royal Academy on varnishing day, 1845
Victoria Street, Westminster, 1851Engraving showing a view of Victoria Street, with the West Front of Westminster Abbey on the left, London, 1851
Victoria Street, London, 1851Engraving showing the weset end of Victoria Street, London, in 1851. The West Front of Westminster Abbey is clearly visible in centre of this image
Ashridge BucksAshridge House, Buckinghamshire, the seat of viscount Alford
Howard Staunton (1810-1874), English Shakespearean scholar, actor and chess player. World chess champion from 1843-1851, he also wrote, The Chess-Players Handbook, published in 1847
Wylds Great Globe, Leicester Square, London, 1851Engraving showing the building built for Wylds Great Globe in the early 1850 s. This building housed a 10, 000 sq. foot painting of planet Earth
Marble Arch, London, 1851Engraving showing the Marble Arch at Cumberland Gate, Hyde Park, London, 1851
William Ball, also known as John Bull, 1851Engraving showing William Ball (1795-1852), an Englishman from Shropshire, who came to be nicknamed John Bull on account of his weight - 40st
Algerine Family at Vauxhall Gardens, London, 1851Engraving showing the Algerine family of Yousoff Ben Ibrahim, who were being exhibited at the Vauxhall Gardens in London, 1851
Emigration. Emigration Vessel Between DecksSleeping quarters for women and children, with trunks and hat boxes and all kinds of luggage stowed away
Emigration. Irish Emigration. The Emigration Agents OfficeEngraving of the Emigration Office at Cork, of Mr G. O Neil. Crowded with men discussing business and reading papers and families with women and children sitting on boxes, waiting for their ship
Emigration. Departure of the Nimrod and Athlone SteamersEmigrants set sail from Cork for Liverpool in the first stage of their transatlantic jouney. Dock side with exterior of two steam ships
American Indians. The peaceful extincion oif the red indianIn all their war paint, Chiefs of the vanishing Sioux tribe. The Sioux were originally the principle tribe in Dakota. By 1851 they had lost nearly all of their land
A view near Russian River, California, 1851Engraving showing a beautiful wooded landscape with pines, fishermen and hills, near Russian River, 100 miles North-West of San Francisco, California, 1851
Portrait of M. Louis DaguerreA portrait of Louis Jacques Maude Daguerre (1789-1851). The French artist was famed for inventing the Daguerretype in conjunction with Joseph Nicephore Niepce
Australia Farm CountryFarming country in the gold district
The Canterbury Association Ships in East India Dock, LondonEngraving showing the Canterbury Association Ships, Bangalore, Dominion, Duke of Portland, Lady Nugent, Midlothian and Canterbury, in the East India Docks, London, 1851
San Francisco, California, 1851Engraving showing the city of San Francisco with Yerba Buena Island in the background. On 3rd May 1851 San Francisco was subject to a terrible fire and only days later, on 15th May
American Indians. The peaceful extinctoin of the red indianIn all their war paint, Chiefs of the vanishing Sioux tribe. The Sioux were originally the principle tribe in Dakota. By 1851 they had lost nearly all of their land
S Africa GrahamstownDistant view of the town, at this time the capital of eastern province of the Cape Colony
Repavement of the StrandIllustration showing work in progress on the West side of Temple Bar. Workers are using heavy rammers to level the surface
Great Exhib. / Gutter PlanPaxtons Gutter, a novel innovation used in the construction of the Crystal Palace, arranged over the entire building
Crystal Palce / Brick Beam3 diagrams showing the tests undertaken to establish which material, Roman or Portland cement, would provide the stronger hollow bricks for use in the exhibition beams
Clovis Hugues / Hommes AujCLOVIS HUGUES French writer and radical politician
Barth / Africa / MusguInterior of a Musgu dwelling: Dr Heinrich Barth crossed the Sahara from Tripoli, through the Chad basin to Timbuktu, where he did work on the languages and ethnography. Date: 1851
John Dillon / Van Fair 81CHARLES STEWART PARNELL Irish Nationalist politician in jail with John Dillon
Verdi Rigoletto ParisFrezzolini, Alboni, Mario and Corsi in the celebrated last act quartet, in the production at the Theatre Italienne, Paris
Italy Rome CollegioThe college of the Propaganda, sketched from the piazza di Spagna : a crocodile of seminarists crosses the square
