1865 Collection (page 21)

Amelie / Queen Portugal / Ph
AMELIE, QUEEN OF PORTUGAL Wife of CARLOS I, daughter of the Comte de Paris

Joseph Paxton / Anon Photo
SIR JOSEPH PAXTON Architect and horticulturist, designer of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851

Sven Hedin (Card)
SVEN ANDERS HEDIN Swedish explorer, notably in Turkestan and China, 1896-1897

Edmund Payne / Toreador
EDMUND PAYNE English comic actor, singer and dramatist, seen here in The Toreador

Brighton / West Pier 1865
The West Pier, Brighton, Sussex

Getting out a Buoy
When the cable breaks in mid- ocean, a buoy is prepared for launching from the Great Eastern to mark the spot

Buoy Marks Broken Cable
When the cable breaks in mid- ocean, a buoy is launched from the Great Eastern to mark the spot

Atlantic Cable & Eastern
In the harbour at Sheerness, the cable is transferred from the hulk to the Great Eastern

Great Eastern Forge
In the forge housed on the deck of the Great Eastern iron plating is prepared for the capstan

Meyerbeer Africaine Lib6
Act five - Selika, queen of Madagascar, watches her husband Vasco da Gama sail away with Ines, and sits under a manchineel tree, to breathe whose scent is fatal

Meyerbeer Africaine Lib5
Act four - Vasco da Gama marries Selika, queen of Madagascar; but even as he swears the marriage oath he hears his beloved Ines lamenting her misfortunes

Meyerbeer Africaine Lib3
Act three - the warriors of Selika, queen of Madagascar, board Don Pedros ship and massacre the Portuguese : Vasco survives, but only just

Meyerbeer Africaine Lib2
Act two - Ines, in love with Vasco da Gama, delivers him from imprisonment by the Inquisition but only by consenting to marry Don Pedro

Meyerbeer Africaine Lib1
Act one - Vasco da Gama before the Grand Council of the king of Portugal tells the story of his explorations and petitions for an expedition to sail round the Cape to the Indies

Imported Cattle at Docks
Foreign cattle are landed at the British and foreign wharf, near the London docks

Importing Cattle 1865
Importing cattle on board the Batavier, a London to Rotterdam steamship

Suspension Bridge
Bristol: Clifton Suspension Bridge, opened 8 December 1864

Cable Breaks 1865
The scene on board the Great Eastern when the cable breaks for the first time

GREAT EASTERN DECK
The view (looking aft) from the port paddle box of the Great Eastern showing the trough for cable

Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, western Ireland, the European terminal of the cable

Cable Passed to Hulk
The cable is passed from the works to a hulk at Greenwich, from which it will be passed into tanks for loading aboard the Great Eastern

Landing the Shore End
The locals watch with interest as the shore end of the cable is landed at Foilhummerum Bay, Port Magee, Ireland

Shore End of Cable
Laying the shore end of the cable at Port Magee, Ireland

The Cable Lost
The broken cable is lost, and all attempts to grapple and retrieve it fail : the Great Eastern will have to return to England, and prepare to try again

Earth Cable, Valentia
Laying the earth cable at Valentia, Ireland, at the European terminal of the cable

Cable Passing Out
The cable passes out from the hold of the Great Eastern onto the deck where it is paid out : a team of crewmen keep constant watch to make sure it runs smoothly

Splicing Atlantic Cable
Splicing the broken cable aboard the Great Eastern after the first break

Atlantic Cable Coiled
At Greenwich the cable is carefully coiled in tanks before loading aboard the Great Eastern - enough to stretch from one side of the ocean to the other !

Atlantic Cable Loaded
The cable is brought to Greenwich and transferred into tanks before loading aboard the Great Eastern - enough to stretch from one side of the ocean to the other !

Grappling Broken Cable
Crew and engineers cluster in the bows of the Great Eastern as a final attempt is made to grapple the broken cable from the sea-bed

Gt Eastern Faultfinding
When a fault occurs in the cable, it is recovered from the sea-bed and examined on the deck of the Great Eastern

Gt Eastern Paying Out
The paying-out machinery on the deck of the Great Eastern which meticulously lowers the cable to the sea- bed as the ship proceeds westwards

Gt Eastern Weighs Anchor
The Great Eastern weighs anchor off Maplin Sands, at the Nore in the Thames Eastuary : a boy plays the fiddle while crew work the capstan to raise the anchor

Free Trade Co-Op Meeting
A meeting of the Manchester & Salford Co-operative Society in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester

JAMAICA / DEMO / 1865
Demonstration by natives outside the courthouse in Morant Bay

Party at Crossness
A sumptous luncheon is served to mark the opening of drainage works at Crossness, London

Purple Bonnet 1865
Blue: demi-train, silk cord at hem, neck & as a device to loop up floating ribbon ends. Grey & purple: button & flat ribbon trim down the front & in points at the hem

LADIES & BOY 1865
Boy: Danish trousers & Zouave jacket. Women: bodice with square basques, fourreau skirt (each panel trimmed); hitched- up walking skirt & hooded mantle in spotted fabric

Costume / Amy Aged 10 1865
Girl wears a dress with loose, pleated bodice, a crinoline supported short skirt trimmed with lattice motifs & sleeves with epaulettes & turned back cuffs. Hair worn plain

Racial / Crow Leaders 1865
A group of Crow leaders in council

Alice Cover 1908
The White Rabbit is featured on the cover of the 1908 edition published by John Lane, Bodley Head

Lincoln (Postcard)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN U.S. President, in 1864

Lincoln (Pyle)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN U.S. President, in his office at the White House, 1865

Lincoln (Brady / Pound)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN U.S. President, early in his political career

Lincoln (Anon)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN U.S. President

Lincoln (Hunt)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN U.S. President

Lincoln in 1864
ABRAHAM LINCOLN U.S. President in 1864

Lincoln (Scrap)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN U.S. President

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