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Winter Garden Exhibition, Dublin 1865Winter Garden or Crystal Palace as it was known in Dublin, showing the exterior of the permanent building constructed of iron and glass. Date: 1865
New Exchange Buildings at Birmingham 1865Exterior of the new stone Exchange Buildings in a Gothic style, at Birmingham, with adjoining tenements. Date: 1865
Saloon Steam-Packet Companys vessel Alexandra 1865Saloon Steam-Packet Companys vessel Alexandra, conveying passengers from London Bridge to Gravesend, travelling nearly twenty miles an hour, length being 240 ft and the breath 22 ft 9 in
Articles in the Chinese Exhibition at Crystal Palace, 1865Precious objects brought from the Emperor of Chinas Summer Palace, near Pekin, displayed at the Chinese Exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1865
Paris new market of Temple 1865Paris improvements to the new Paris market of Temple, constructed where the old decayed building lay unused for eighty years
Baths and washhouses in Golden Lane, London 1865Exterior of City of London Baths and Washouses, near Smithfield Market, this was a place where you could go swimming in a large bath and get clean at the same time
Valentine card from a Man-Servant, with verse. Date: circa 1860s
Country cottage and verse on a romantic greetings cardCountry cottage and verse with marriage proposal on a romantic greetings card. Date: circa 1850s
Old maid with cat on a comic greetings card with verse. Date: circa 1860s
Old maid on a comic greetings cardOld maid with birch twigs and alphabet book on a comic greetings card with verse and pull tab. Date: circa 1860s
Couple in a garden on a Valentine card, with verse. Date: circa 1860s
Advert, Woods Grass Mowing MachineAdvertisement, Woods Grass Mowing and Reaping Machine. 1862
W P & G Phillips, China and Glass ManufacturersAdvertisement, W P & G Phillips China and Glass Manufacturers, Oxford Street and New Bond Street, London. 1862
Advert, Samson Barnett Mineral Water Machinist and EngineerAdvertisement for Samson Barnett, Mineral Water Machinist and Engineer. 1862
Advert, Samson Barnett Diving ApparatusAdvertisement for Samson Barnett, Diving Apparatus Manufacturer to the Royal Navy. 1862
Wedding March, Prince Edward and Princess AlexandraRoyal Wedding March, depicting Edward, Prince of Wales, and Princess Alexandra. 1863
Advert, Richard Garrett & Son, Agricultural EngineersAdvertisement, Richard Garrett & Son, Agricultural Engineers and Machinists, Leiston, Suffolk. 1862
Advert, Ransomes and Sims, Agricultural ImplementsAdvertisement, Ransomes and Sims, Agricultural Implements, Ipswich. 1862
St Valentines Day bank note from the Bank of Love, Temple of Hymen, promising to pay the entire love of the suppliant, signed by the Governor of the bank, Cupid. Date: 1867
Station at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham 1865The new high-level station at the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. 1865
Flushing the sewers 1860sWith the population expanding and dumping coursing blockages below the depths of London, men wearing heavy oilskin protective clothing would go into the tunnels to unblock the sewers with a combing
Sewer hunter 1860sSewer hunters who made their money by combing through the sewers beneath London streets, sieving through the raw water for a small opportunity of finding something valuable like a ring that somebody
Submarine divers 1869Divers wearing diving armour with flexible arms and helmet with eye-plates of strong glass, with a fresh supply of oxygen been pumped in through a long hose to allow the operator to say under
Modes of travelling in India. Clockwise from top left: tramps; hindu pilgrim; travelling beggar; charry dawk; an ekha; the East Indian railway; a bhylie; camel caravan; palky dawk; and in the centre
The Illustrious Women of France - The BridesmaidThe Illustrious Women of France - the Bridesmaid. 1860
The Illustrious Women of France - Mass in Church. 1860
The Illustrious Women of France - At the Ball. 1860
The Australian Aborigines Cricket Team 1868. 1868
Nutmeg plantation 1868Island of Penang, in the Indian Ocean by the Strait of Malacca, consisted of a vast plantation of fruit trees of which the nutmeg was run by an English enterprise
Butchers over Christmas period 1868Exhibiting hanging beef for the Christmas. 1868
Grocers shop over Christmas period 1868A London shop before Christmas day, the grocers preparations are all on the grand scale; Victorians looking through the window at the currants, raisins and sultanas heaped in mountainous slopes. 1868
Christmas holly seller 1867" Holly! fine holly! bye my holly!" Street trader selling holly on an wintry Christmas day to some children collecting evergreen. 1867
General view of Huddersfield, Yorkshire. 1869
Designs for a system of composite shipbuilding, recommended by Lloyds (class 66). By J.H. Cornish Date: 1867
The Kirkham and the Assaye at Henleys Cable FactoryThe Kirkham and the Assaye taking in telegraph cable at Henleys Cable Works at north Woolwich, 1863 Date: 1863
GARIBALDI IN ENGLAND 1864Garibaldi visits England : huge crowds welcome him at Southampton. April 1864
Miners at work 1865Various positions assumed by the Hewers in digging at the coal. Date: 1865
Prince and Princess of Wales visit Knole, Kent, 1866 PrincePrince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) visit Knole, Kent, the seat of Earl Delawarr in 1866 - the promenade of the company upon the lawn with croquet before dinner
Scene outside a London railway station - probably Victoria, judging by the destinations of Brighton, Reigate, Croydon, Epsom, St Leonards and Hastings. Date: circa 1860s
Messrs Gilbeys wine stores, Titchfield Street, LondonView inside Messrs Gilbeys wine stores, Titchfield Street, London, with men at work. Date: 1861
Pleasure velocipede 1869New World, pleasure, recreation or exercise, this newly invented contraption was used by young and old in public or private grounds
Two-seated velocipede 1869Popular in America this two-seated velocipede an early form of bicycle, the back seat was intended to be used side-saddle for ladies. Date: 1869
Cowans improvement steam carriage 1861Thomas William Cowan s, steam carriage with patent in 1861 Date: 1861
Velocipede, early form of bicycle 1869Samuels patent human-powered bicycle. Date: 1869
John Howard, Victorian fireman, in studio portraitJohn Howard, Victorian fireman, in a studio portrait on a carte de visite. Date: 1868
Scene in a carpenters workshop. circa 1865
Found Bronzes - ArchaeologyBronzes - Archaeology - found in Galloway (1 and 2), Fairholm, Lockerbie (3), and Barnhill, Dumfries (4). 1863
Scrap - decoupage design - Fish. 1865
