1854 Collection (page 13)

George William Manby
GEORGE WILLIAM MANBY Inventor of equipment for saving life at sea

James Montgomery - 3
JAMES MONTGOMERY The Scottish-born author of The world before the flood. with his autograph

James Montgomery - 4
JAMES MONTGOMERY The Scottish-born author of The world before the flood

Seine Frozen 1854
The Seine frozen over - Parisians are able to walk from one bank to the other without using the bridges

France Solesmes
The Benedictine Abbaye de Saint-Pierre has been periodically closed by the authorities, but survives and flourishes as the revivers of Gregorian chant

Pavel Karl. Rennenkampf
PAVEL KARLOVICH RENNENKAMPF, Russian soldier who took part in many major military events including the Boxer rising, the war with Japan and World War One. Date: 1854 - 1918

Cricketer, Thornton
Dr Arthur Thornton Cricketer - Middlesex

Cricketer, Scott
Stanley Scott Cricketer - Middlesex

Nurses at work in a hospital at Scutari
38 nurses departed with Florence Nightingale for the Barrack Hospital in Scutari, during the Crimean War (1854-1856). They were sent, against doctors wishes, to assist with the medical support

Racial / Swedish Cottage
Scene in a Swedish cottage: entertaining a British visitor during the Crimean War

Cricketer, Blackham
J.M. Blackham Australian Cricketer

Cricketer / Bannerman
Alick Bannerman Australian Cricketer

Lighthouse Chersonese
Cape Chersonese is close to Balaklava, and this lighthouse is a valuable seamark to Allied shipping during the Crimea War

Battle Scene 1854
Warships are frequently used against shore targets as their guns generally outclass any thing available on land : during the Crimea War H.M.S. Bulldog bombards Bomarsund

Sailors and Families
Sailors with their families in the Crimea

August Borsig
JOHANN FRIEDRICH AUGUST BORSIG German industrialist, founder of engine works

H. M Screw Caesar
Engraving of the fitting out of a war steamer, H. M. Screw Caesar at Portsmouth

Crystal Palace Terrace
The sloping grounds of the Sydenham site enable the re- constructed Crystal Palace to be more picturesquely laid out than in Hyde Park : this is the Second Terrace

Crystal Palace Rosary
The ROSARY is one of the many attractions of the Palace Grounds

Crystal Palace Gen View
Seen from the grounds, the re-created Palace is seen more strikingly than in its original Hyde Park location

Crystal Palace Archery
Archery is the most extreme sport practised in the early days of the Palace : the football team has yet to come

Crystal Palace Temple
The WATER TEMPLE in the Palace grounds is a fine example of Victorian design

Crystal Palace Lake
The picturesque boating lake is a popular feature of the Palace grounds : around 1900, an electric canoe will ply its waters

Crystal Palace Fountains
No palace is complete without fountains, and visitors to the Crystal Palace are delighted with a sight to rival Versailles

Cry Palace Water Arcades
The Water Arcades in the grounds of the Palace

The Palace Gardens
The Valley of Rhododendrons and Cedars is a picturesque part of the Palace grounds

Cry Pal Geological Gard
The GEOLOGICAL GARDEN, with its sculptures of prehistoric animals, is one of the most striking features in the grounds of the Palace

The Asia, dismastered by a waterspout, on her passage to Bom
The Asia dismasted by a waterspout on her passage from Port Phillip to Bombay. The rain flooded the decks ankle deep, the fall of the foremast had crushed all that lay beneth. Date: 22nd April 1854

Canada / St Lawrence River
St Lawrence River, near Montreal: the Cataragui coming down the Galop Rapids

The Post in the Snow
Three engravings to illustrate the changing modes of postal delivery through the nineteenth century. The top illustration shows a post boy with his horse, lost in the snow

Edward Forbes, 1850
EDWARD FORBES naturalist

Ca Parsons / Iln 1919
SIR CHARLES ALGERNON PARSONS Engineer and inventor

Siege of Sebastopol
The Malakoff redoubt under attack during the Siege of Sebastopol, which lasted from Septemebr 1854 until September 1855 resulting in victory for the British and French forces

Ball at Paris 1854
Ball at the Jardin d Hiver, Paris, in aid of the English charitable fund for victims of the war currently in progress in the Crimea in which France and Britain are allies

Madrid Insurrection 1
Insurrection against the government in Madrid - barricades in the plaza San Geronimo, near the Prado

Madrid Insurrection 3
Insurrection against the government in Madrid - confrontation between the insurgents and the government forces in the plaza Mayor

Espartero Returns
Hailed by many but not all, Espartero returns to Madrid

Madrid Insurrection 2
Insurrection against the government in Madrid - insurgents set fire to the palace of Christina, the queen mother

Well in Senegal
Women of Goree, Senegal, (West Africa), fill their water-bowls from buckets lowered into the communal well

Abbas I / Egypt / Anon Eng
Abbas I/Egypt/Anon Eng

Quakers and Tsar
On the eve of war in the Crimea, a delegation of Quakers travel to St Petersburg to beg tsar Nicolas I to modify his belligerence : he won t, and war follows

Omar Pacha at Varna
Omar Pacha embarks from Varna - Bulgaria - on the Black Sea coast during the 1854-56 Russian Crimean War

Combat at Kalafat
Russian and French infantry at close quarters near Kalafat - the French successfully hold off the Russian attack

Bordeaux Wine Growing
The pressing of grapes at the Chateau Lafitte, near Bordeaux

Printing at Bank of Eng
The banknote printing room at the Bank of England, London

Kronstadt Birds Eye
The island, harbour and fortifications of this Important port on the Baltic, at the time of the Crimea War

Odessa Birds Eye
Birds eye view of the town, at the time of the Crimea war

Mexico Acapulco
View of the harbour

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