1869 Collection

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

Manchester Warehousemen Orphan Schools, Cheadle Hulme
The Manchester Warehousemen Orphan Schools, on Claremont Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire

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

Curling in Scotland 1869
A curling match in Scotland

Walton Hospital, Liverpool
Walton Hospital, Rice Lane, Walton on the Hill, Liverpool. The central clock tower concealed a large water storage tank

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christmas Bell Ringers
Christmas bell ringers Date: 1869

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

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

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

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

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

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

Western Ambulance Station, Seagrave Road, Fulham
Entrance to the ambulance station at the Western Fever Hospital on Seagrave Road, Fulham

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)

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

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

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

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

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

Cartoon, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Byron -- Byron's reputation is besmirched by Harriet Beecher Stowe in her biography : England rises to the defence of its beloved poet. Date: 1869

Columbia Market, London 1869
Columbia Market, Bethnal Green, east London, built by Angela Burdett-Coutts as a covered food market

George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
GEORGE DOUGLAS CAMPBELL, 8TH DUKE OF ARGYLL (1823 - 1900), Statesman and scientist Date: 1869

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

Queen Victorias procession in Smithfield
The Royal procession of Queen Victoria in Smithfield, passing the Metropolitan Meat Market

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

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

Opening of the Alexandra Dock at Kings Lynn, Norfolk by the Prince and Princess of Wales, showing the Mary entering the dock

Plants / Ophrys Apifera
BEE ORCHID

Dalys Theatre / Broadway
Augustin Daly, American theatrical manager & dramatist, opened his first theatre on Broadway in 1869. This picture shows a full house enjoying a performance

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

Finsbury Park
The opening of Finsbury Park

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

London Orphan Asylum, Watford, Boys House
London Orphan Asylum, Watford. Architects design for a Boys House. Date: 1869

Training Ship Mars, Woodhaven, Fife, Scotland
The Training Ship Mars, moored off Woodhaven on the River Tay at Fife, Scotland, was founded in 1869 as an Industrial Training establishment

Esmond as Touchstone
HARRY VERNON ESMOND English actor in the roll of Touchstone in Shakespeares As You Like It

The Earl of Derbys Cabinet, 1867
Engraving showing the Cabinet of then Prime Minister, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1869)

Edmund Y. W Henderson
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL SIR EDMUND YEAMANS WALCOTT HENDERSON shown soon after he was appointed as Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 1869. He succeed the late Sir Richard Mayne in this post

N Chamberlain / Postcard
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN British Prime Minister in 1939

Princess Victoria / Maud
PRINCESS VICTORIA Daughter of Edward VII with her younger sister Maud (1869-1938) in 1901

1869 / Gladstone / Peerages
Gladstones Magic Change! or How to make a silk purse out of a sows ear. Satire on Gladstones appointments to the peerage

Funghi / Mushrooms 1869
Seven varieties of mushroom: beef-steak, latticed, boletus, hedgehog, fly agaric, clavaria, birds-nest, and sporangium (magnified)

Andrew Johnson (Chappel)
ANDREW JOHNSON American statesman, president 1865-1869

Berlioz Photo
HECTOR BERLIOZ the French composer in middle age

Christmas in Norway
Jultid [yuletide] fun and games on a Norwegian farm - children dress up as gnomes and other grotesques

A three-spined stickleback swims near its nest. Date: 1869

African women from the east coast of Africa husking millet on board HMS Lynx to provide fresh food for the crew Date: 1869

La Jour des Morts (Day of the Dead) - Parisiens visit tombs of their dead relatives Date: 1869

Dinner Time at the Clare-Market Ragged School 1869
Clare-Market ragged school in the parish of St Clement Danes in London; lots of children sitting on benches and the floor eating at Christmas time. Date: 1869

Latest style of American velocipede 1869
America were in the middle of bicycle craze, different types of cycles were introduced

Alfred Mager, Francis Horner, Thomas Bowman Stephenson
In 1869, a collaboration between Alfred Mager (left), Francis Horner (centre) and Thomas Bowman Stephenson (right) led to the founding of the National Childrens Home. Date: 1870s

Emigrant Ship leaving for the USA, 1869
Engraving showing an emigrant ship, still alongside the quay, just prior to its departure for America, 1869

Gloucester St Lucy's Home
A rear view of St Lucy's Home for Girls, Gloucester, founded in 1869 by the Sisters of St John the Baptist. Date: circa 1905

Pigs dancing before King Louis XI of France during his illness Date: circa 1480s

Beddington Organ Screen
An organ screen designed and made at the workshops of William Morris, who painted part of the screen. The piece is located at St. Mary's Church in Beddington, Surrey. Date: circa 1869

Emile Bergerat, French poet, playwright and essayist
Emile Bergerat (1845-1923), French poet, playwright and essayist. Date: 1869

Empress Eugenie's visit to Egypt in November 1869 for the opening of the Suez Canal. Date: 1869

Silver medal, Empress Eugenie's visit to Egypt
Silver medal designed by Bovy, commemorating Empress Eugenie's visit to Egypt. The reverse of the medal is decorated with a border of leaves and flowers. Date: 1869

People at a ball, Tuileries, Paris Date: 1869

Delegation of foreign officers, Paris Date: 1869

Guests at an official reception, France Date: 1869

Buffet in the Tuileries, Paris
People enjoying an evening buffet in the Tuileries, Paris. Date: 1869

The World's First Postcard
The idea of a postal card which could be used at half the letter rate was that of Heinrich von Stephan in 1865

Advert, Tomlinson & Co's Butter Powder, churning made easy, good fresh butter all the year round. Date: 1869

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