1869 Collection

Manchester Warehousemen Orphan Schools, Cheadle Hulme
The Manchester Warehousemen Orphan Schools, on Claremont Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. The school was founded in 1855 by a group of Manchester businessmen to care for and educate orphans

Variety Theatre, Dr. Walford Bodie
Dr. Walford Bodie 1869 - 1939, One of the most famed and controversial Music Hall performers of his day. Known as the Electrical Wizzard

Curling in Scotland 1869
A curling match in Scotland

Houseless and Hungry by Luke Fildes
A study entitled Houseless and Hungry by Luke Fildes depicting homeless paupers queuing outside the casual ward of a London workhouse. A policeman stands at the left of the scene

Walton Hospital, Liverpool
Walton Hospital, Rice Lane, Walton on the Hill, Liverpool. The central clock tower concealed a large water storage tank. The building was designed by William Culshaw

Riot at Mold in Flintshire
A huge mob, assembled at the railway station at Mold in Flintshire, Scotland to protest against the imprisonment of miners, employees of the Leeswood Coal Company

Wreck Chart of the British Isles For 1868
Chart showing the positions of all 2131 vessels wrecked around the British Isles during 1868, compiled from the Board of Trade records

Neville Chamberlain PM, 1938
Portrait of (Arthur) Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940), British Prime Minister, photographed in 1938

COAL MINE / PENITENT
A penitent, so named because his clothing resembled that of religious orders, rids the air of explosive gas by setting fire to it. A dangerous task, that often ended unhappily

Christmas Bell Ringers
Christmas bell ringers Date: 1869

Mahatma Gandhi spinning at his wheel
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, spinning at his wheel (Charakha) in 1931, demonstrating his strong work ethic

King Victor Emmanuel III
Photographic portrait of Victor Emanuel III, King of Italy (1869-1947). A constitutional monarch, he defied parliamentary majorities in bringing Italy into World War I on the side of the Allies

CUTTY SARK CLIPPER
China clipper, though she only made 8 voyages to China before steamships destroyed the clipper business : she then became a wool carrier, then a training ship

At the Coal Face / 1869
Two men mining for coal

The great international university boat race On the river Thames (England) from Putney to Mortlake 4 miles 2 furlongs August 27th 1869

Krupskaya (Lenins Wife)
NADEZHDA KONSTANTINOVNA KRUPSKAYA Russian Revolutionary - married Lenin in 1898

West London Union Workhouse, Upper Holloway, London
The West London Union workhouse on Cornwallis Road in Upper Holloway, North London, was erected in 1864. The architects were Searle, Son and Yelf

Central / Union Pacific
Joining of the Central and Union Pacific; the formal ceremony of driving the last spike at Promontory Point, Utah

Devon / Doone Valley 1919
Devon inland scenery: Doone Valley

CUTTY SARK IN 1924
Moored at Falmouth circa 1924

CALIPH CHINA CLIPPER
Aberdeen-built clipper for the China tea trade

Mahatma Gandhi sailing from Boulogne to Folkestone
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader, sailing from Boulogne to Folkestone on 12 September 1931

The Finish of the Race for Doggetts Coat and Badge, London
Engraving showing the finish of the Race for Thames Watermen for Doggetts Coat and Badge, Chelsea, 1869. This race, held on the River Thames, between the Old Swan, London Bridge, and the White Swan

La Grenouillere, 1869, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). French painter. La Grenouillere, 1869. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Claude Monet (1840-1926). Bathers at La Grenouillere (1869)
Claude Monet (1840-1926). French painter founder of French impressionist painting. Bathers at La Grenouillere (1869). Oil on Canvas. National Gallery. Londres. England. UK

Advert, Atkinson & Barkers Royal Infants Preservative
Atkinson & Barkers Royal Infants Preservative, claimed to be the best medicine in the world, by royal appointment, with portraits of Queen Victoria and Princess Alexandra in their bridal dresses

Gandhi in England 1931
MAHATMA GANDHI with enthusiastically supportive factory workers in Lancashire, 1931. Date: 1869 - 1948

Royal Wedding 1896 -- Princess Maud of Wales
Prince Charles (or Carl) of Denmark, later King Haakon VII, King of Norway, and Princess Maud of Wales (1869-1938), youngest daughter of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra

Inkerman Barracks, Woking, Surrey
A view of the entrance to Inkerman Barracks, Woking, Surrey. The buildings were originally opened in 1860 as an invalid prison for convicts not fit enough to be sent to Dartmoor

Typhoid Mary
MARY MALLON, (1869-1938) known as Typhoid Mary; though herself healthy, she is a carrier of typhoid and, employed as a cook, infects 22, one of whom dies

Harvest Mice 1869
Two harvest mice among the ears of corn and poppies

Queen Maud of Norway
QUEEN MAUD OF NORWAY wife of king Haakon VII daughter of Edward VII of England

Christmas scene at the Evelina Childrens Hospital
Christmas comes but once a year -- a scene at the Evelina Childrens Hospital, founded in Southwark, London, in 1869. A sick little girl is visited by her mother and younger sister

Columbia Market, London 1869
Columbia Market, Bethnal Green, east London, built by Angela Burdett-Coutts as a covered food market. It opened in 1869, and adjoined a set of model dwellings for working class families also built by

Copper and tin mine, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall
A copper and tin mine at Botallack, St Just, Cornwall -- the workings extend beneath the sea for about 1 km. Date: 1869

Training Ship Formidable, Portishead, Bristol
The Training Ship Formidable, moored in the Bristol Channel at Portishead, was established in 1869 as an Industrial Training establishment

ALLAN KARDEC
Allan Kardec - real name Hyppolyte Leon Denizard Rivail French medium and occult theorist, father of modern spiritism

Western Ambulance Station, Seagrave Road, Fulham
Entrance to the ambulance station at the Western Fever Hospital on Seagrave Road, Fulham. Opened in 1877, it was the fourth such hospital to be erected by the Metropolitan Asylums Board which in 1869

Queen Victorias procession in Smithfield
The Royal procession of Queen Victoria in Smithfield, passing the Metropolitan Meat Market. The Queens visit to the City of London was for the purpose of opening the new bridge over the Thames at

Union Workhouse, Hertford
A view of Hertford Union workhouse, Hertfordshire, opened in around 1869 on Ware Road, Hertford. The imposing three-storey building has a clock tower at its centre

Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, music sheet
Music sheet cover design, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written and sung by Mr Harry Clifton. Various scenes are depicted, with the discovery of the footprint in the sand at the centre

Digging for gold in Scotland
The Sutherlandshire gold diggings in Scotland. A sketch of men searching for gold at Kildonan Burn

A Fish Auction in Columbia Market
In 1869 Baroness Burdett-Coutts paid for the building of the great Columbia Market (for fish) between Hackney and Bethnal Green Roads on the site of Nova Scotia Gardens

Plants / Ophrys Apifera
BEE ORCHID

Emma Goldman - 1
EMMA GOLDMAN Lithuanian-born American anarchist politician and agitator

CORNISH TIN ORE DRESSERS
Cornish ore-dressers. Date: 1869

Hector Berlioz
HECTOR BERLIOZ French musician, who wrote the Symphonie fantastique, Les nuits d ete, The Trojans and much more. Date: 1803 -1869

Edwin McMasters Stanton
EDWIN MCMASTERS STANTON American lawyer and statesman Date: 1814 - 1869

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