1859 Collection (page 20)

Sydney University / 1859
A view of Sydney University, founded in 1852

Curies on Bikes
MARIE AND PIERRE CURIE The two scientists set out on a Sunday afternoon cycle ride

Cobden Honoured
RICHARD COBDEN Radical statesman, honoured at a soiree at Rochdale, Manchester

Jean Jaures, Speaking
JEAN JAURES depicted singing the revolutionary song La carmagnole, which contains the words Tous les bourgeois on les pendra ! (we shall hang every bourgeois)

Perils of Crinolines No4
A young lady in a cage crinoline is confronted with the folly of the new fashion as she is prevented from negotiating a staggered stile on a country walk

Perils of Crinolines No3
The High Style (Stile): a woman is thankful that no one is looking as she struggles over a country stile in a cage crinoline, thereby exposing her legs

Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
SIR CECIL SPRING-RICE British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918, he also wrote the text to the hymn I Vow to Thee My Country

Unification of Italy
ITALIAN WAR OF UNIFICATION: During the war for Italian independence French troops land at Genoa

Men and Boys
Two men, one in formal wear (academician ?) and one in outdoor wear, with two boys, one in zouave outfit, the other in a kilt and bonnet

Euston Sq Station 1877
London and North Western Railway, enquiry and parcels office. Standing guard is the statue of Robert Stevenson, (1803-1859), engineer

Variety of Sea Shells
A variety of sea shells including razor clams and other bivalves and worm casts

Shells and Bivalves
A variety of different sea shells, including varieties of clam, mussel, whelk and cockle

Varioety of Molluscs
A selection of molluscs including varieties of clam, razor-clams soft shellfish and sea snails

Sidney Webb (Russell)
SIDNEY WEBB economist and social theorist

Humboldt / Steuben / Spamer
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT German scientist and traveller portrait dated 18 April 1824

Humboldt / Keller / Orinoco
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT German scientist and traveller depicted on the Orinoco with Bonpland during his American travels, 1799 - 1804

Humboldt / Begas / Pound
ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT German scientist and traveller towards the end of his life

French Sweep Boys
LES RAMONEURS French chimneysweeps leave for the days work

Knut Hamsun / Pedersen / Sim
KNUT HAMSUN Norwegian writer, Nobel 1920

Leigh Hunt / Ford
JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT - English poet, essayist and imprisoned for criticising the Prince Regent in 1813

Sir John Jellicoe
SIR JOHN RUSHWORTH JELLICOE 1st Earl Jellicoe Naval commander

W. Irvings Home / Sleepy H
WASHINGTON IRVING His home at Sleepy Hollow near Tarrytown, New York

Aquarium by Freeman
An aquarium designed by Freeman

NANA SAHIB Leader of the Indian Mutiny

Macaulay / After Grant
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY 1st Baron Macaulay English writer and politician

Conan Doyle / Lamond Life
CONAN DOYLE writing one of the early Sherlock Holmes stories, circa 1892

Elizabeth Browning 1859
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Writer; in Rome, 15 May 1859

Barrett Browning 1859
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Writer; in Rome, March 1859

Henri-Louis Bergson
HENRI-LOUIS BERGSON French philosopher

Wilhelm II Caricature
WILHELM II German ruler between June 1888 and November 1918

Wilhelm Ii / Fischer 1915
WILHELM II German ruler between June 1888 and November 1918

Wilhelm Ii / Jugend 1915
WILHELM II German ruler between June 1888 and November 1918

Svante Arrhenius / Nobel
SVANTE ARRHENIUS Swedish chemist

Bettina Von Arnim
BETTINA VON ARNIM German writer

Wilhelm II 1894
WILHELM II GERMAN ROYALTY Emperor of Germany shown in military uniform and smoking a cigarette

Female / Strong & Proud
An American actress looking strong and proud in an elaborate brocade dress: Mary Anderson (1859-1940)

French Thresher 1859
BATTAGE A LA VAPEUR - A French steam thresher by Renaud & Lotz, Nantes

Maurice Donnay / P Contemp
Maurice Donnay French writer

Queen Victoria and the Bible
Victoria recommends the Bible to a foreign ambassador. This is the secret of Englands greatness

Scene on the Boulevard des Italiens, Paris, at 5 pm

Royal Albert railway bridge, Saltash, Cornwall
The Royal Albert railway bridge at Saltash, Cornwall

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