1857 Collection (#14)

Street music: A street singer, 1857
A passing child shows charity to an old street singer, placing money in his hat in appreciation for his music. Date: 1857

A Spanish serenade, 1857
Musicians serenade an unseen subject in a street in Castille. 1857

Baudelaire Photo
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE French poet and critic, photographed in 1857. Date: 1821-1867

Sauvage Photo
FREDERIC SAUVAGE French engineer, inventor of the screw propellor, in 1854. Date: 1785 - 1857

Vatican Stamps 1929
The complete set of Vatican stamps, showing Pope Pius XI (lived 1857 - 1939; Pope 1922 - 1939). Date: 1929

John Britton - 2
JOHN BRITTON antiquary Date: 1771 - 1857

John Britton - 1
JOHN BRITTON antiquary with his autograph Date: 1771 - 1857

Mount Everest
A view from Darjeeling of the Himalayan mountain range including, to the right, Deodhunga. Following observations by James Nicolson, and subsequent calculations by Andrew Waugh

Beef cuts, 1857
Town and country methods of cutting up an ox. The head and hooves ar shown, as well as the carcass. Date: 1857

Great Eastern at the Isle of Dogs, October 1857
The Great Eastern steamship being constructed at the Isle of Dogs, October 1857. Date: October 1857

Design exhibition for government offices, Westminster Hall
Exhibition of the designs for the new government offices, in Westminster Hall. Architecture enthusiasts and the general public view the results of a competition for the proposed new Ministeria to be

German street band, 1857
A German street band in Paris, 1857. Date: 1857

Handel Festival at Crystal Palace
A performance at the Great Handel Festival at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham

Great Eastern Pontoon at Milford Haven, 1857
Launch of the pontoon for the Great Eastern steamship at Neyland, Milford Haven, 1857. Date: 1857

Laying transatlantic cable
Laying the Atlantic Cable : paying out the land end of the cable from the stern of the Niagara. Date: 1857

Visit of Lord Mayor to the West London Unions Womens Casua
The Lord Mayor of London in December 1857 on an unannounced visit to the womens casual ward of the West London Poor Law Union, used to provide overnight accommodation for tramps and vagrants

Grocer and juveniles, 1857
A Manchester grocer deals brusquely with some juvenile customers on New Years Day Date: 1857

Chinese Soldiers Exercis
Chinese soldiers exercising Date: 1857

MAP / DEVON C1857
MAP/DEVON C1857

Landing opium from the Pekin at Hong Kong
Men landing opium at Hong Kong from the Pekin Date: 1857

Patent double lathe 5 inch centres, front and side elevations and details Date: 1857

Registered engine, front and side elevations

Jim the Penman arrested
James Townsend Saward, better known as Jim the Penman, is found in a coffee shop near Oxford Street, London, by two City officers and arrested

Little girl asleep on her mothers lap at bedtime
A little girl asleep on her mothers lap at bedtime, watched by her elder sister. The photograph is entitled Hush Lightly Tread

The Soldiers Toast
A smiling soldier in armour, sitting at a table, entitled The Soldiers Toast, with a quotation from Shakespeares Othello, And let the cannikin clink, clink

Double page spread in a diary for 23-28 October
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 23-28 October. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Theatricals at Tavistock House
A scene from Frozen Deep, a play by Mr Wilkie Collins staged at Charles Dickens residence, Tavistock House

Gloucester House, Piccadilly, London
Carriages, a hand cart and a barking dog disturb the tranquillity of Gloucester House, Piccadilly, residence of the late Duchess of Gloucester

Union Workhouse, Sedbergh, North Yorkshire
The Sedbergh Union workhouse erected in 1857 at the south of Sedbergh, North Yorkshire (now Cumbria)

Commons Division Lobby
The Division Lobby in the new House of Commons

Lon Laurent-Pichat / Gill
Lon Laurent-Pichat (1823-1886) French politician, poet and man of letters, helping to publish the first edition of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert in 1857

Sir Arthur Sloggett / Stamp
Sir ARTHUR THOMAS SLOGGETT (1857 - 1929), Director General of the Army Medical School (AMS)

General Sir Bruce Hamilton / Stamp
General SIR BRUCE MEADE HAMILTON KCB (1857-1936) was a British Army General during World War I

General Sir John Nixon / Stamp
Lieutenant-General SIR JOHN ECCLES NIXON (1857 - 1921) Senior commander of the British Indian Army who gave the orders for the ultimately disastrous first British Expedition against Baghdad during

Cremorne Gardens
The Crystal Platform

Modern Athenians plate 4 - Edinburgh
Mr Robert Thompson (c.1790-1857) Sheriff of Caithness, being followed by Mr Robert Hunter (1791-1871) Sheriff of Bute and Dumbarton

Modern Athenians plate 43 - Edinburgh
Archdeacon John Williams (1792-1858) churchman and friend of Sir Walter Scott, meeting Rev. Thomas George Spink Suther (1814-1883)

Senegal Matam
Fort built at Matam, on the bank of the Senegal River, for the protection of French traders

Princess Beatrice down a coal mine
Princess Beatrice (1857-1944), youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, pictured picking coal in the Wynnstay Colliery, Ruabon, North Wales in 1889

Tom Titt / Will Thorne
William James Thorne, known as Will Thorne. British trade unionist, activist and one of the first Labour Members of Parliament

Princess Beatrice and her Spanish grandchildren
Princess Beatrice (1857-1944), youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, with her Spanish grandchildren (children of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena), Alfonso, Prince of the Asturias ( Alfonsito, left)

Princess Beatrice c. 1880
Princess Beatrice (1857-1944), later Princess Henry of Battenberg, youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Fossils found in Buckinghamshire
A deposit of fossils discovered in a bed of clay on the farm of Mr Greaves at Tingwick, Bucks, excited considerable curiosity and speculation as to their nature and origin

Whale Stranded at Winterton, Norfolk, 1857
Engraving showing a whale which was stranded on the beach at Winterton, Norfolk, during gales in January 1857

Construction of the Chelsea Embankment, London, 1857
Engraving showing the construction of the Chelsea Embankment, London, in 1857

The State Refreshment Room, Buckingham Palace, 1857
Engraving showing the interior of the then new State Refreshment Room, Buckingham Palace, London, 1857

The Old Arsenal in Danzig, Germany, 1857
Engraving showing the exterior of the Old Arsenal in Danzig, Germany, 1857

Design for The Foreign Office, London, 1857
Engraving showing the design for the British Governments Foreign Office, created by Coe and Hofland Architects, London, 1857

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