1856 Collection (page 15)

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

James Jesse Strang
JAMES JESSE STRANG American churchman, founder of a Mormon breakaway group

DORANDOs MARATHON 1908
Pietri Dorando of Italy wins the marathon from Windsor to the Olympic stadium, but because he is assisted during the final metres he is disqualified

Viscount Haldane Photo
RICHARD BURDON, (later viscount) HALDANE statesman, when Secretary of State for War

Party Dresses 1856
Four ladies chatting at a reception

Reinach Cartoon
JOSEPH REINACH French writer and statesman

Piccolomini in LA Figlia
Mlle Piccolomini performing in La Figlia del Reggimento at Her Majestys Theatre in London

Sawing Firewood
Sawing logs for firewood

Mexican Meeting 1846
Delighted at the prospect of war against those horrid Mexicans, New Yorkers celebrate with a Mexican Meeting in Central Park

California Statehood
Acquired by the U.S. in 1848 after the Mexican wars, California is given free state status in 1851 : the jubilant citizens of San Francisco celebrate with a procession

Normandy Peasants 1856
Industrious Norman peasants working by the fire in Calvados

Ludwig Quidde / Nobel 1927
JOHN GALSWORTHY Author of The Forsyte Saga and other novels, and of Loyalties, The skin game and other plays

Imperial Theatre, Moscow
Festival performance at the Grand Imperial Theatre, Moscow

Sir William Buckland
SIR WILLIAM BUCKLAND eccentric naturalist, whose household comprised all kinds of livestock in addition to his own family

Gretna Green - too Late
A Gretna Green wedding - until 1856, runaway couples could be married at Gretna, Dumfries- shire (Scotland) without banns licence, or priest, by black- smith, landlord or tollkeeper

Sir Henry Rider Haggard
SIR HENRY RIDER HAGGARD writer of She and other adventure stories

Gb Shaw / V Fair 1911
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW British playwright and critic in a long check coat

New River Water Works
The New River Head Works, London, a lovingly laid-out construction, and with a view of St Pauls Cathedral !

Covent Garden, Italian Op
COVENT GARDEN OPERA HOUSE Interior with Royal Italian Opera

Gb Shaw / Downey Cabinet
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Irish writer Three quarter length portrait

Wilde / In Prison Uniform
OSCAR WILDE - Cartoon of Oscar Wilde in prison uniform ( Oscars future should he continue to cut his hair and resume the knee breeches )

Wilde / Return from USA
OSCAR WILDE - Cartoon of Oscar Wilde on his return from the USA

Medicine Man Initiated
The initiation ceremony of a new medicine man of the Chippewa people

Pub Opening Time 1856
Waiting for the pub to open, Sunday, London : note the street is named Paradise Gardens

WILDE (1854-1900)
OSCAR WILDE playwright and dandy

WILDE (1856-1900)
OSCAR WILDE at the height of his success

China / Hong Kong 1856
Hong Kong harbour, from the land

Robert Edwin Peary, American explorer
Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920), American explorer who claimed to have been the first to reach the North Pole in 1909. Though this was accepted for a long time, it is now disputed

Joseph Reinach / Rire 1899
JOSEPH REINACH French politician and Dreyfus supporter

Gabrielle Rejane / 1873
GABRIELLE REJANE French actress

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