1856 Collection (page 14)

Mikhail Vorontsov
MIKHAIL SEMYONOVICH VORONTSOV Russian military and prince

French Farm / Champagne
A French farmhouse from the Champagne region

Alfred Deakin / V Fair 08
ALFRED DEAKIN Australian politician

Henry Cort / Iln 1856
HENRY CORT Inventor of the puddling process

Bethmann-Hollweg (Col)
THEOBALD BETHMANN-HOLLWEG German soldier and statesman

GREAT WESTERN STEAMER
One of the first steamships to cross the Atlantic, Brunels paddle-wheel vessel was the first purpose-built passenger liner, making 64 crossings before being broken up in 1856

Mme Vestris / Susanetta
MADAME VESTRIS alias LUCIA ELIZABETH BARTOLOZZI, also MRS MATHEWS Singer in the role of Susanetta in The Two Figures

Mrs Schimmelpenninck
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck Nee Galton Writer

Louis Napoleon / E&f Cdv
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON PRINCE IMPERIAL as a young man

Hugh Miller / A Rae Cdv
HUGH MILLER Scottish man of letters and geologist

Viscount Haldane
RICHARD BURDON, viscount HALDANE lawyer, judge

Woodrow Wilson / Stereosco
WOODROW WILSON 28th President of of U.S seated at his desk and holding a document

Florence Cook
Florence Eliza Cook Noted medium, investigated by Crookes : sometimes guilty of fraud

Louis Napoleon / Moloch 82
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON PRINCE IMPERIAL Son of Napoleon III

R Wurlitzer / Catalogue 24
RUDOLPH WURLITZER German musical instrument maker, based in America from 1856

Ca Sinding / Postcard
CHRISTIAN AUGUST SINDING Norwegian composer

GB SHAW / ILZ 1926
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Irish playwright and critic with Emma Gramatica, her dog Michele, and the sculptor Paolo Troubetzkoi in 1926

GB SHAW / ILN 1911 / 1891
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Irish playwright and critic in July 1891, wearing a distinctive hat

Estonia / Tallin / Revel
Tallin (formerly Revel): south entrance to the Gulf of Finland

Petain, during Ww1
PHILIPPE PETAIN French military, at the time of his glory during World War One

Street Arabs / Adelphi 19C
A policeman discovers a group of homeless boys and girls sheltering under the Adelphi arches, near Charing Cross, London

Peary and Wife
ROBERT EDWIN PEARY with his wife who accompanied him on the early stages of his expeditions and on one occasion gave birth in Greenland

B. C (Before Crinoline)
At a time prior to 1857 when the cage crinoline became available (patented December 1856) Adolphus and his beloved Kitty could walk intimately side by side

Gathering Grass Seed
California women gathering grass seed

Surrey Gardens Musichall
A concert at the new music hall at the Surrey Gardens, London

USA / Michilimackinac
Michilimackinac Island, Huron River, Michigan

LE BRIS 1856 PROJECT
LE BRISs PROJECT the bird-like flying device of Jean-Marie Le Bris

Crimea / Peace Restored
PEACE ! PEACE ! PEACE ! A song composed to celebrate the end of the war in the Crimea

Etienne Cabet
ETIENNE CABET French socialist and colony-founder

A Prawn and other Things
An Aesop prawn and some other sea creatures

A Plumose Anemone
A plumose anemone and some other marine creatures

A WRASSE / 1856
An ancient wrasse

Simon Templeman, Jockey
Simon Templeman, the celebrated jockey

A Log on the Fire / 1856
Putting a log on the fire

Crimean Peace Festival
The Peace Festival held at Salisbury, Wiltshire, to celebrate the end of the Crimean War. To Abraham Jackson, Esq. Mayor of Salisbury this is inscribed

Big Ben / Bell 1856
The bell Big Ben arrives at Westminster. It will chime the hours of St Stephens clock tower

Ryde, Isle of Wight
The town seen from the sea : in the harbour are sailing vessels and a paddle- steamer - presumably a ferry from the mainland

Marshal Petain / Postcard
Marshal PHILIPPE PETAIN A propaganda message in 1940 : I have been with you in glorious days. I am still with you in dark days. Be at my side

Paris Bourse C1856
The French equivalent of the London Stock Exchange

Haldane / Joseph Simpson
Richard Burdon, Viscount English statesman

Haldane / Postcard
Richard Burdon, Viscount English statesman

Irish Spinners
A visitor enters an Irish cabin and finds that nine women have brought their wheels to spin and reel together

Woodrow Wilson President
WOODROW WILSON 28th US President (1913-21)

Vigilantes / San Francisco
A meeting of the Vigilance Committee on Portsmouth Square, 1856

Elbert Hubbard - 2
ELBERT HUBBARD American idealist, ethical writer of uplifting stuff and elegant book designer, and his wife in their workplace

Elbert Hubbard - 1
ELBERT HUBBARD American idealist, ethical writer of uplifting stuff and elegant book designer

Joseph George Ward
JOSEPH GEORGE WARD New Zealand statesman

Tolstoy & Friends 1856
TOLSTOY (top left) with (left to right) I A Goncharov, Ivan Turgenev, D V Grigorovich, A V Druzhinin and A N Ostrovski

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