1854 Collection (page 16)

Edward Terry, Actor
FLORENCE ST JOHN (nee Margaret Grieg) singer and actress, here as Boulotte in Barbe-bleu

Dartmoor Permit
Permit to allow Thomas Tertius Paget and party to view the Convict Prison at Dartmoor, by desire of the Home Secretary, viscount Palmerston

Cavalry at Inkerman 1854
British cavalry counter-attack against the greatly superior Russian attack and successfully rout the enemy

Poultry / French Hen Roost
A hen roost on a French farm

Bloomers / Leech
A girl wearing bloomers is the centre of attention

Fancy Dress Party, 1854
A fancy dress party

Leturrs Birdman Project
Leturr cleverly solves the problem of getting airborne by releasing himself from a balloon : alas, his design is not so clever, and he plunges fatally to the ground

Paris Rebuilt / Rivoli
Rue de Rivoli - construction site floodlit using electric lights

Crimea / Russian Mines
British ships Merlin and Firefly struck by Russian infernal machines (mines)

Balaclava / Heavy Brig
The Charge of the Heavy Brigade

Balaclava / Music Sheet
The Charge of the Light Brigade

Balaclava / Gilbert
The Charge of the Light Brigade - the thick of the fighting

Balaclava / Charlton
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Lord George Paget heads the 4th Light Dragoons

Lord Raglan
LORD FITZROY JAMES HENRY SOMERSET, first baron RAGLAN British commander in the Crimea 1854-55

British Victories
British victories at Inkerman [1854], Sebastopol [1855] and Tel-el-Kebir (Sudan) [1882]

Siege of Sebastopol 1854
Scene of fighting during the Siege of Sebastopol

Palladino 1880S
Eusapia creates materialised arms at a seance in the 1880s

Palladino 1892 Milano
Eusapia causes a table to rise at Milano, 1892

Palladino after Seance
Eusapia coming round after a seance, 1892

Palladino at Table
Eusapia at the seance table 1909

Parliament / St Stephen s
The Houses of Parliament - St Stephens Porch

Ukraine / Odessa 1854
View of the commercial quay, with the celebrated steps prominent on the left

Fetching the Yule Log
Bringing home the Yule Log into a country house

Site of the Eureka Stockade
BALLARAT Site of the Eureka Stockade, shortly after the fight

Emigrants from Strasb g
Emigrants from Strasbourg headed for America : note that on French emigrant ships there is waiter service !

Fleet River at Hampstead
FLEET RIVER at Hampstead

Paul Ehrlich
PAUL EHRLICH German chemist working in his Frankfurt Lab

Sir George Arthur
SIR GEORGE ARTHUR Colonial administrator

BORDEN (1854 - 1937)
SIR ROBERT LAIRD BORDEN Canadian lawyer and statesman

Battenberg / Prince Louis
Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg in Naval Dress

KRUPP (1854-1902)
FRIEDRICH ALFRED KRUPP German industrialist

Sightseers on board the Hecla in the Crimea
Sightseers on board the Hecla after the attack on Russian defences near Eknas, Finland, during the Crimean War

Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist, researcher into electricity

Harriet Smithson / Dawson
HARRIET SMITHSON Irish actress; wife of Hector Berlioz

Harriet Smithson / Hopwood
HARRIET SMITHSON Irish actress; wife of Hector Berlioz

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