1858 Collection (page 17)

Thackeray / Virginians
THE VIRGINIANS A welcome to Old England. One of the American twins arrives in England and is welcome by a curious horseman

Longfellow home - 6
LONGFELLOWs home at Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts - the poet working in his study

Longfellow home - 3
LONGFELLOWs home at Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Longfellow home - 2
LONGFELLOWs home at Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts - west side

Longfellow home - 1
LONGFELLOWs home at Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Henry Warburton
HENRY WARBURTON reformer with his autograph

Shakespeare / Autograph
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE English poet and playwright. His autograph on display at the British Museum

Andrew Bonar Law
ANDREW BONAR LAW Statesman

Selma Lagerlof at Work
SELMA LAGERLOF Swedish writer at work in her study

Giovanni Segantini / Self
GIOVANNI SEGANTINI Italian artist

Vision at Lourdes
The scene at the Grotte de Massabieille when Bernadette Soubirous, gathering firewood with friends, sees the figure of a young female, later identified as the Virgin

Ferdinand Khnopff
FERDINAND KHNOPFF Flemish artist

Laurence Portrait
Monseigneur LAURENCE, bishop of Tarbes, the cleric ultimately responsible for the Catholic Church in the Lourdes region at the time of Bernadettes alleged visions

Peyramale Portrait
Monseigneur PEYRAMALE, the French cleric who was cure of Lourdes at the time of Bernadettes alleged visions, and had the difficult task of directing Church policy

Drinking the Water
Pilgrims drink the water from the miraculous healing spring which the Virgin Mary revealed to Bernadette in 1858

Lourdes / Image of Mary
Mary as supposedly seen by Bernadette Soubirous in the grotto

Af Winnington-Ingram / Vf
Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram Bishop of London

Samuel Morse 1858
SAMUEL MORSE American artist and inventor

Evening Entertainment
Or The Richest Commoner in England ; A lee-tle contre- temps - Jack Rogers & the glove

Giacomo Puccini / Ass. Beur
GIACOMO PUCCINI Italian composer stands with his arms folded with a cigarette dangling out of the corner of his mouth

Bernadette / Postcard
Bernadette Soubirous, while gathering firewood, sees the Virgin Mary in the rocky grotto at Lourdes

Boston / Tremont Street
Tremont Street and Park Street Church, Boston

Robert Hare
ROBERT HARE American scientist and spiritualist, noted for devising machines whereby to contact the spirits

Pierres-Sottes
Les PIERRES-SOTTES [also known as pierres caillasses - rocks in Berry, Central France, popularly supposed to be animated

14th Earl of Derby / Mote
EDWARD STANLEY 14TH EARL OF DERBY British Statesman and Prime Minister three times: Tory (1852, 1858-59 & 1866-68)

Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving dinner

Edith Nesbit (Strand)
EDITH NESBIT - Mrs Hubert Bland, English writer

Robert Brown
ROBERT BROWN Botanist

Wilfred & Anne Blunt
WILFRED SCAWEN BLUNT English poet and traveller LADY ANNE BLUNT his wife (1858) who travelled with him on many expeditions in search of horses for their stud farm

Constance Wilde
CONSTANCE WILDE (nee Lloyd) Wife of Oscar Wilde

Matthew Calbraith Perry
MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY U.S. naval commander, negotiator of landmark treaty with Japan, 14 July 1853

Folklore / Grand bete
The GRAND BETE (= Great Beast) is a scary monster of Berry, central France, usually in the form of a huge bull, though sometimes as a dog, hare or sheep - but always gigantic

Apparitions / Demoiselles
LES DEMOISELLES faceless white female figures who may be encountered in the woods of Berry, central France - but who or what they are, no one knows

Folklore / Casseur De Bois
LE CASSEU DE BOIS (= branch-breaker) of Berry, central France, entity who breaks tree branches and may challenge the peasant as he gathers his firewood

Folklore / Wolf-Charmer
LE MENEUR DE LOUPS (= Wolf-charmer) of Berry, central France - a power handed down from father to son in certain families

Lavandieres De LA Nuit
LES LAVANDIERES DE LA NUIT (= Laundresses of the night) sinister washerwomen of Berry, central France, who launder infant corpses by stagnant pools

Stone Men Apparitions
The STONE MEN - fearful apparitions seen at night by the countryfolk of Berry, in central France

Bernadette / Vision / Laugee
Bernadette Soubirous, while gathering firewood, suddenly sees the Virgin Mary in the grotto

Christiaan Eijkman
CHRISTIaN EIJKMAN Dutch Scientist

Giacomo Puccini / 1907
GIACOMO PUCCINI Italian musician at the time of Madama Butterfly

Sport / Gymnastics
a French family exercises at home using the Gymnase Pichery system

Selma Lagerlof
SELMA LAGERLOF Swedish writer

ANTOINE (1858-1943)
Andre Antoine French actor/manager

Manufacturing Cigars
Copes cigar manufactory, Liverpool

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