1866 Collection (page 14)

Charles M E Mangin
Charles Marie Emmanuel MANGIN French explorer and military commander in Africa, member of Marchand Mission, later several expeditions as well as military campaigns

Adrien De Gerlache
ADRIEN DE GERLACHE Belgian sailor and explorer, sailed the Belgica into the Antarctic, made several subsequent expeditions

Cholera Poster / 1866
Board of Works, for the Limehouse District issue a poster warning about the effects of cholera

Saba Raleigh / Players
MRS CECIL RALEIGH also known as SABA RALEIGH English actress in The Best of Friends

Too Young to Work 1866
A mother is told that her children are too young to be sent to work

Lady John Thynne
Anna Constantia Thynne Lady John Thynne Nee Beresford

Gilbert Murray (Evans)
GILBERT MURRAY Classical scholar

Smetana / Bride - Set
( Prodama Nevesta ) Set design for acts 1 and 3. in the Paris 1928 production

Quack Doctor / 1866
Travelling quack doctor in an ale house

Black Friday, 1866
Black Friday - a monetary panic makes the headlines

London Sinks 1866
En route to Melbourne, this steamer founders in the Bay of Biscay : 220 lives are lost including the actor C V Brooke and Dr Woolley, principal of Sydney University

Thomas / Mignon / Liebig
Act 1 scene 3 : The student Wilhelm Meister rescues Mignon from her harsh gipsy master in the courtyard of an inn

Thomas / Mignon / Liebig 6
Act 3 scene 9 : Mignon recognises the Italian castle whence she was kidnapped, Lothario is her father, and all ends happily

Thomas / Mignon / Liebig 5
Act 2 final scene : the conservatory is set alight by the mentally disadvantaged Lothario, and Wilhelm rescues Mignon

Thomas / Mignon / Liebig 4
Act 2 scene 8 : Wilhelm Meister decides he cannot travel with Mignon, and leaves her, telling her to be of good heart

Thomas / Mignon / Liebig 3
Act 2 scene 3 : Mignon dresses in the clothes of the actress Philine, but Wilhelm and Philine make fun of her

Thomas / Mignon / Liebig 2
Act 1 scene 6 : Mignon asks Wilhelm Meister if he knows the land where the orange tree blossoms ?

Thomas / Mignon / Liebig 1
Act 1 scene 3 : Wilhelm Meister, a student, protects Mignon from the ill-treatment of her master, the gipsy

Northumberland Launched
Naval warship launched at Millwall, on the Thames : shipworkers man the capstan preparatory to the launch

MENs PUBLIC BATHS 1866
Public baths for men, Golden Lane, London

Train in Snowdrift 1866
Clearing the road through a snow-wreath on the Highland Railway, Scotland

Children / Country / Couple
A girl and a boy in the country: Sweet William and Marigold

Winter Flowers 1866
Cultivated & Wild: Hyacinthus (Hyacinths); Narcissus; Galanthus (Snowdrops); Polyanthus Primula; Euphorbia Pulcherrima (Poinsettia); Correa; Salvia

Autumn Flowers 1866
Cultivated Autumn flowers including: Lantana; Petunia; Phlox Drummondi; Calceolaria; Penstemon; Verbena; Fuschia & Solanum Jasminoides

Summer Flowers 1866
Orchids (Dendorbium Devonianum & Cattleya Leopoldi); Stephantis; Begonia; Rondeletia Odorata; Melastoma (Dedinella Magnifica); Cissus Discolor

Spring Flowers 1866
Acacia Dealbata (Mimosa); Deutzia Gracilis (Mock Orange); Senecio (Cineraria); Chaenomeles Japonica (Japanese Quince); Azalea; Anemone Coronaria; Heliotropium

Reform Riot, Hyde Park
The Reform League meeting in Hyde Park, London, dissolves into rioting as the crowd pull down railings on Park Lane; the police struggle to maintain control

Reform League Riot / 1866
Rioting during the Reform League demonstration in Hyde Park, London: the mob pull down the railings while the police struggle to maintain order

London Bridge Station s
Inside the signal boxes controlling the approach to London Bridge station, South- Eastern Railway. This is one of the busiest stretches of railway in the London area

Vision of a Ship in Fire
Pictures in the fire

Louvre, Salle Sauvageot
Visitors examining exhibits in the Salle Sauvageot

Man, Gorilla Skeletons
The skeletons of homo sapiens and a gorilla compared

Gorillas / Zoo. Soc / Vol 5
An adult male, an adult female and a young male

Spinning Cotton
Spinning cotton using a spinning wheel

Macdonald / Ramsay / Postcd
JAMES RAMSAY MACDONALD British politician (Labour party)

Karl J L Almquist
KARL JONAS LUDWIG ALMQUIST Swedish writer with his autograph

Volksgarten, Vienna
Soldiers and members of the public relax in the Volksgarten, Vienna

Greece / Ithaca 1866
Ithaca, in the Ionian Sea. View of the Vathy harbour

Financial Panic 1866
The murky machinations of Gould and Fisk in the gold market lead to a financial crisis : their New York offices are besieged by angry citizens

Anti-Jesuit Protest
To Frances republicans, the Jesuits were seen as a fearsome menace, intent on taking over public education and brainwashing children with papal perversions

Ludgate Hill / St Paul s
Ludgate Hill from Ludgate Circus, looking towards St Pauls Cathedral. The bridge was built in 1866 and removed in 1989

LUDGATE 1877
Ludgate with the railway bridge crossing Ludgate Hill. The bridge was built in 1866 and removed in 1989

Testing Explosives / 1866
Experiments with Gales protected gunpowder in a Martello Tower near Hastings

Prussia Imposes Force
Bismarck sees to it that Prussia takes control of the German states, breaking up the Bund of Bavaria, Hannover, Sachsen and the rest

Jane Welsh Carlyle
JANE WELSH CARLYLE wife of Thomas Carlyle

Edward P Oppenheim
Edward Phillips Oppenheim English Writer

Edward Vii / Concert / 1866
The Prince and Princess of Wales, along with her mother, the Queen of Denmark, and the Duke of Edinburgh, attend the Norwich Music Festival at St Andrews Hall

Servants Ball
At the servants ball, the elegant dancing of the footman is much admired

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