1851 Collection (page 19)

Story Telling, Norway
In a peasant home, an old countrywoman holds her hearers entranced with her folktales and stories of times gone by

Victoria / Manchester 1851
VICTORIA VISITS SALFORD (MANCHESTER) The Queens arrival in Peel Park : Children of Manchester and Salford schools singing the national anthem

Morris / Duck / Pintail
PINTAIL (Dafila acuta)

Buckingham Palace 1843
The Palace, with Nashs improvements completed, seen from St Jamess Park, with the Marble Arch which stood before it from 1827 to 1851

Morris / Duck / Teal
TEAL DUCK (Anas crecca)

Industry / Pen Manufacture
Women at work in the pen grinding room

FOCH (1851 - 1929)
FERDINAND FOCH - Marshal of the French army during World war I

Jmw Turner / Chas Turner
J M W TURNER English painter

Prince Albert Soliciting
PRINCE ALBERT, CONSORT OF Victoria, depicted soliciting help for the Great Exhibition of 1851

Birds / Turtle Doves
TURTLE DOVE (Turtur communis) A summer visitor to the British islands

Rock Thrush (Morris)
ROCK THRUSH (Monticola saxatilis)

Crested Lark (Morris)
CRESTED LARK (Alauda crestata)

Industry / Metals / Gold
A rush for new diggings, California

Delolmes Chronometer
Delolmes chronometer

Turner Birthplace Maiden
JMW TURNER Artists birthplace in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden

Geological Museum
After starting life in 1835 in Whitehall, the Museum of Practical Geology moves to these premises in Jermyn Street in 1851, and finally to South Kensington in 1935

Sir Oliver Lodge / Spy Jnr
SIR OLIVER LODGE English physicist

Sir Oliver Lodge / Empire
SIR OLIVER LODGE English physicist, circa 1912

Clovis Hugues / Nadar Phot
CLOVIS HUGUES French writer and radical politician

Clovis Hugues / Moloch 82
CLOVIS HUGUES French writer

Swords & Daggers 1851
Swords, daggers etc. in Trophy of Arms, India

Crystal P. / Indian Court
General view of the Indian court

Crystal Palace Construct
Building in progress in Hyde Park

Charles Stanhope / Harring
Charles Stanhope 4th Earl Harrington Lord Petersham until 1829 out Walking

Margherita of Savoy / Sepi
MARGHERITA OF SAVOY Queen of Umberto I of Italy

Margherita of Savoy / Roya
MARGHERITA OF SAVOY Queen of Umberto I of Italy, in 1901

Henry Drummond / Postcard
HENRY DRUMMOND Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer; sought to reconcile Christianity with Darwins Theory of Evolution

Duke of Cumberland 1807
Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland

Bache Edward Cunard
Sir BACHE EDWARD CUNARD Shipping magnate, member of family originating in Canada; but he was more interested in fox-hunting as master of the Pytchley

J Fenimore Cooper / Brady
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER American novelist in old age

Crystal Palace / Shilling
THE FIRST SHILLING DAY - GOING IN Visitors pushing and shoving and generally losing all sense of decorum (not to mention other apparel !) to get in

Crystal Palace / Lodgings
Satire on the lack of lodging facilities during the Great Exhibition; " This is all I have ma m - I have just let the last tent on the tiles to a Foreign Nobleman"

Deserted Manchester 1851
All the world (except one man smoking and reading his newspaper in a shop doorway) has gone to the Crystal Palace in London, leaving Manchester deserted

Crystal Palace Odds / Ends
ODDS & ENDS A greedy gentleman who has lost his party; a rather large lady who cannot get through the entrance and the said party minus provisions

Crystal Palace Opened
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the inauguration ceremony; view from the South West Gallery as the Archbishop offers up a prayer for Divine blessing upon the objects

Crystal Palace Satire
Some of the " Drolleries" of the Great Exhibition, making satirical references to Goethes " Reynard the Fox" etc

Crystal Palace / Opera
In consequence of the great pressure for lodgings, the Proprietor of Her Majestys Theatre allows parties visiting the opera to live in their boxes until the next day

Crystal Palace / Dispersed
The Dispersion of the Works of all Nations from the Great Exhibition of 1851

Crystal Palace Crowds
Utter chaos and gridlock in central London due to the sheer volume of visitors travelling to the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park

Lortzing (Classen)
GUSTAV ALBERT LORTZING German musician

Lortzing (Eichhorn)
GUSTAV ALBERT LORTZING German musician

Lortzing (Anon)
GUSTAV ALBERT LORTZING German musician

Crystal Palace / Exterior
Exterior of the Crystal Palace at Hyde Park

Decorative Pistol 1851
Decorative pistol by Lepage Mautier, Paris

Joseph Paxton / Caldesi Cv
SIR JOSEPH PAXTON Architect and horticulturist, designer of the 1851 Crystal Palace

Ada Byron as a Child
AUGUSTA ADA BYRON the poets daughter as a small child

OLGA / GREECE / 1901
QUEEN OLGA OF GREECE Wife of George I of Greece (they married in 1867), niece of the Tsar of Russia

Olga / Greece / Photo
QUEEN OLGA OF GREECE Wife of George I of Greece (they married in 1867), niece of the Tsar of Russia

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