1860s Collection (page 22)

JAPANESE GYMNASTS 1860S
Japanese gymnasts performs all sorts of contortions for an audience at Kyoto. Date: 1860s

Frontiersmen trade with native Americans
Backwoodsmen trade with native Americans. Date: circa 1860

BETHLEHEM / MENS GALLERY 1860
The mens gallery: patients chat, play the violin, smoke and play card games Date: 1860

Anatomy, inner arm dissection post-mortem
Superficial view of the arm on the inner side, with the parts undisturbed. Date: 1867

Cartoon, election bribery
Cartoon commentary on bribery during the election. Date: 1866

Villiage shop 1867
Long established shop with the shopkeeper starting as an apprentice and taking over the company many years later. Date: 1867

FRENCH TRADING IN SAIGON
French trading establishment at Saigon, Vietnam Date: 1864

Covent Garden market, London 1862
Covent Garden market six oclock in the morning. Date: 1862

COVENT GARDEN IN THE SPRING 1867
Covent Garden in the Spring - Londoners flock to buy fresh flowers; a manservant in livery waits while his mistress makes her choice Date: 1867

CRUIKSHANK / THE GIN SHOP
The drunkard having signed the pledge goes with his family to church. plate 10 of 12 Date: 1868

Cartoon, Sir Rowland Le Grand. A reference to the English postal reformer, Sir Rowland Hill, being congratulated by a grateful Britannia. Date: 1864

BRIXTON WASH-HOUSE
A scene in the wash-house in Brixton Prison Date: 1860

Cartoon, Late from School-Room 1860
A small girl reads out aloud to her governess. Date: 1860

VICTORIAN GIRL SKIPPING
A girl skips, her brother watches with admiration Date: Late 1860s

BASKET SACRIFICE, DAHOMEY
In the Basket Sacrifice of Dahomey, captives from other tribes are tied in a basket and thrown down from a tower to the eager crowd below... Date: circa 1860

Newgate during the week of Christmas 1866
Busy Newgate during the week of Christmas. Date: 1866

Cartoon, Mills Logic; or, Franchise for Females -- John Stuart Mill was trying to include women in the new Reform Act by replacing the word men with persons. Date: 1867

Victorian women and child 1869
Women and little girl wearing polonaise with train & sleeves, picking fruit and putting them in a basket. Date: September 1869

Fund Committee in Coventry 1861
Meeting with distressed ribbon weavers, Relief Fund Committee was held in the kitchen of St. Marys Hall, Coventry, due to the cotton famine. Date: 1861

Chimney Sweep 1869
The number of people living in London was on the increase, to get any trade you had to get up very early in the morning, sweeps usual were up and about at starlight, waiting for people to arise

OPIUM SMOKERS, MALAYSIA
Three Malay smokers of opium Date: circa 1860

Boring machine used in the Hoosac tunnel 1869
Workers using a primitive boring machine to make the tunnel, lying between Switzerland and Italy, being thirty-six miles long and about twenty-five feet broad

Thames Viaduct Railway
The Thames viaduct railway plan, designed by James Samuel and John M Heppel Date: 1864

Street sweeper 1863
Young barefoot boy sweeping the streets for some money. Date: 1863

Sale of the fish 1869
Early morning fish selling in France. Date: 1869

Cartoon, The Tourists Guide
Cartoon, THE TOURISTS GUIDE, a satirical comment on the growing number of climbing accidents. Date: 1867

YOKOHAMA CUSTOM HOUSE
Custom House in Yokohama, Japan Date: 1861

Harvest of the sea 1867
Trawler vessel out to sea with two fishermen rowing. In 1867 there were between 800 and 900 boats with large nets sweeping the bottom of the sea catching fish for the London market. Date: 1867

LEAK DISTURBS FAMILY
Family disturbed by water leaking from upstairs Date: C.1860

Metropolitan Cattle Market, Copenhagen Fields, London 1868
Busy live cattle market in Copenhagen Fields. Date: 1868

Queen Victoria at the christening of Victoria Cecil 1866
Victoria and Albert attend the christening of Victoria Cecil, daughter of Baron Carbery. Date: 1866

US Civil War Sharpshooter, poised in a tree with his rifle. Date: 1862

British horse race meeting in India
Race meeting on a British station in India, from Curry and Rice (on Forty Plates) by Captain Geo. F. Atkinson. Date: 1860

English dinner party in India with servants
A dinner party on an English hill station in India in the British raj, from Curry and Rice (on Forty Plates) by Captain Geo. F. Atkinson. Date: 1860

Ladies in their carriage in India 1860
Ladies in their carriage while their gentlemen admirers crowd round, from Curry and Rice (on Forty Plates) by Captain Geo. F. Atkinson. Date: 1860

Horse-drawn ambulance 1867
Horse-drawn ambulance design for those suffering with fever and smallpox. Date: 1867

ACCIDENTS / LIFE-SAVING
Resuscitation - Dr H R Silvesters method Date: circa 1860

Progress on Thames Embankment 1865
View from Westminster Bridge, of the progress on Thames Embankment. Date: 1865

Sheffield Steel manufactures 1866
Sheffield : scythe-grinders. Date: 1866

Comtesse de Segur, French writer
Comtesse de Segur, nee Sophie Rostopchine, French writer, born in Russia, best known for Les Malheurs de Sophie, first published 1859. Date: 1799 - 1874

Te Tarata hot springs, Rotomahana, New Zealand
View of the Te Tarata hot springs by Lake Rotomahana, North Island, New Zealand -- thermal springs with encrusted terraces. Date: circa 1866

St Paul Island, Indian Ocean, a former volcano
The Island of St Paul, in the Indian Ocean -- a former volcano, with the crater still visible on one side. Date: ca 1866

Basalt columns, Tasman Island, Tasmania, Australia
View of Tasman Island, Tasmania, Australia, showing the formations of basalt columns. Date: circa 1860

View of Mount Everest from Nepal. Date: late 19th century

Royal Swimming Bath for Ladies, Brighton, Sussex 1861
View inside the Royal Swimming Bath for Ladies at Brighton, Sussex. The water, though fresh from the ocean, was kept by steam at the summer temperature of the sea. Date: 1861

Father chides son for smoking while drinking port
A father chides his son for smoking while drinking his best port! Date: 1867

Comic view of Cooks voyages and excursions
Cooks Tours -- a comic view of Cooks voyages and excursions, with Thomas Cook and his clientele as depicted by Fun magazine. Date: 1867

Construction of sewer at Peckham, south east London
Construction of the high-level southern sewer at Peckham, south east London. Date: 1861

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