1860s Collection (page 23)

Bushbys patent pill making machine 1869
Pill mass, is first placed between two plain rollers to form a sheet of thickness required for the size of pill to be made, the thickness of the sheet necessarily determining the size of the pills

Tobacconist shop 1861
Tobacconists shop, Paris, providing customers with Duchamp & Trouillets gas-powered cigar-lighting apparatus. Date: 1861

Piccadilly Circus, London 1866
Piccadilly Circus, London on the morning of Derby Day Date: 1866

Trafalgar Square Lion
Sir Edwin Landseer at work on the models for the lions at the base of Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square, London Date: circa 1860

Dieppe, France
Dieppe: the church of St Jacques Date: circa 1860

Stockbrokers in New York 1864
Kerbstone brokers, New York, 1864 Date: 1864

Construction of Charing Cross Station, London 1864
A view from the River Thames, showing Charing Cross Station under construction. Date: 1864

Selling oranges 1864
The Orange Market in Dukes Place, London, itinerant vendors buy them wholesale, selling them from baskets in the street. Date: 1864

Liberation of prisoners from Coldbath Fields 1862
Liberation of prisoners from Coldbath Fields house of Correction. Date: 1862

Hungerford railway and footbridge, River Thames, London
Hungerford railway and footbridge crossing the River Thames in Central London. Date: 1860

Building Cannon Street Station, London 1866
Boatmen on the Thames can see that work on the Cannon Street Station terminus of the South Eastern Railway is nearly completed. Date: 1866

Newly opened Charing Cross Station, London 1864
The newly opened railway terminus of Charing Cross Station, Central London, with the hotel adjoining -- the Eleanor monument is not yet installed in the station yard. Date: 1864

Queen Alexandra visiting Eton College
Queen Alexandra - wife of Edward VII - visits Eton College. Date: 9 March 1863

The Swan with Two Necks was once a coaching in in the City of London. Until the arrival of the railways, it was one of the principal departure points for travel to the north of England

Blackfriars Old Bridge
The Old Blackfriars Bridge designed by Scottish architect and engineer Robert Mylne was built in the 1760s and demolished in the 1860s. Date: 19th century

Launch of Her Majestys Ironclad Frigate at Devonport Date: 1863

Disaster at the Mouth of the Mersey - Wreck of the Lelia
Disaster at the Mouth of the Mersey off the north west lightship - the cutter-rigged steamer Lelia commanded by Captain Skinner foundering with the loss of 20 lives

Embarking elephants at Bombay for the Abyssinian Expedition
Embarking elephants at Bombay (Mumbai) for the Abyssinian Expedition Date: 1868

Encampment and Review - Suffolk Volunteer Corps at Lowestoft
Encampment and Review of the Suffolk Volunteer Corps at Lowestoft. Date: 1865

Illustration, Gullivers Travels
Illustration to Gullivers Travels, showing Gulliver captured and tied down in Lilliput. circa 1860s

Sir Edwin Landseer and His Friends -- the artist surrounded by the animals he has painted. circa 1860s-1870s

Distress in Lancashire: mill-hands work on Preston Moors
The distress in Lancashire: mill-hands at work on Preston Moors. Unemployed operatives levelling waste ground on the north side of the town, over seen by inspectors

Argus - Falcon class 2-4-0 of the LSWR
Argus of the London & South Western Railway (LSWR) - a Standard Gauge 2-4-0 Locomotive (works number 21 - one of 17 built at the Nine Elms Works between 1863-67)

Victorian child with cricket bat, Otley, Yorkshire
Studio portrait of a Victorian child with cricket bat, Otley, Yorkshire. circa 1860s

Parliamentary train, interior of third class 1862
Crowded less affluent passengers seated on a busy Parliamentary train in third class at 7 o clock in the morning. 1862

Three types of Pipefish and a Seahorse
Three types of Pipefish and a Short-Nosed Seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus). The Pipefish are: Snake Pipefish (Syngnathus ophidion or Entelurus aequoreus)

Greater Pipefish and Broad-Nosed Pipefish
Greater Pipefish (Syngnathus acus) and Broad-Nosed Pipefish (Syngnathus typhle). Date: 1865

Anguilla anguilla, or Broad-Nosed Eel
Anguilla anguilla (Anguilla latirostris), or Broad-Nosed Eel, a freshwater eel. Date: 1865

Salvelinus alpinus, or Arctic Char, this particular one described as the Torgoch of Llanberris (Llanberis, Snowdonia), a rare cold water fish of the Salmonidae family. Date: 1865

Blicca bjoerkna, or Silver Bream, also known as White Bream and Breamflat, a species of freshwater fish. Date: 1865

Anarhichas lupus, or Atlantic Wolffish, also known as Seawolf, Atlantic Catfish, Ocean Catfish, Devil Fish, Wolf Eel and Sea Cat. Date: 1863

Chelidonichthys lucerna, or Tub Gurnard, also known as Tubfish. Date: 1863

Dicentrarchus labrax, or European seabass, also known as sea dace, Mediterranean seabass, loup de mer, robalo, lubina, spigola, branzino, branzini, bronzino, and bronzini. Date: 1862

Mabel Grey, Victorian courtesan
Mabel Grey (real name Annie King), Victorian courtesan in London, late 1860s to early 1870s. Date: circa late 1860s

Crinoline Difficulties 1860s
A lady goes to extreme lengths to wear the widest, most fashionable crinoline skirt during the 1860s when the fashion was at its height. Date: 1865-70

Repeating Pattern - Alice in Wonderland characters. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern and will not feature on the final file.*

Croydon Fire Brigade, Thornton Heath horse fire engine
Thornton Heath was one of three stations in the Croydon Fire Brigade -- the other two were the main Croydon headquarters station and South Norwood

Spanish lottery game for children, Neuva Loteria De Los Globos (Juego para les ninos.) Num. 57. Made up of 52 small pictograms of various fanciful balloon designs. 1867

Royal wedding 1863 - Wedding gifts to the bride
Wedding gifts to Princess Alexandra of Denmark(1844-1925)on her marriage to Edward VII, at that time the Prince of Wales.The jewellery was crafted by Garrard

William Lanne, last surviving male Tasmanian aborigine
William Lanne (c1835-1869), also known as King Billy or William Laney, the last surviving full-blooded male Tasmanian aborigine. 1866

August von Mackensen in first year of military service
August von Mackensen (1849-1945), later a Field Marshal in the German army, seen here as a volunteer with the Prussian 2nd Life Hussar Regiment in the first year of his army service. Date: 1869

Music sheet cover for The Alexandra March

Nell Lane Hospital, Manchester
Aerial view of Nell Lane Hospital, Withington, Manchester, opened in 1855 as Chorlton Union workhouse. The cross shaped block (left of centre) was the main workhouse building

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