1869 Collection (page 14)

Grammes dynamo-electrical machine
Engraving by W. Bazzett Murray showing Grammes direct-current dynamo. Zenobe Theophile Gramme (1826-1901) built the first successful dynamo in 1869

Yvette Guilbert / Trottins
YVETTE GUILBERT French singer and diseuse with her famous song Les Trottins

Birmingham Dog Show
Prize dogs at Birmingham Dog Show

Siegfried Wagner Photo
SIEGFRIED WAGNER Son of composer Richard Wagner and a productive opera composer in his own right. Artistic Direcror of the Bayreuth festival 1908-30

Jerusalem / Pool Bethesda
Jerusalem: the Pool of Bethesda

The tunnel from the heading
View down the second tunnel beneath the Thames. (Isambards Rotherhithe Tunnel being the first) The tunnel passes from Tower Hill to Tooley Street, near the London Bridge Station

Experiments with Fairlies steam carriage
Fairlies steam carriage; an invention that gained much criticism, due to its unusual seating design. The train is sectioned into 2 first class carriages seating 16 people

Hans Spemann / Nobel 1935
HANS SPEMANN German embryologist

Puryne / Purkinje
JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNE (or Purkinje) - Bohemian physiologist from Prague, friend of Goethe

Working Mens Assoc
Certificate of membership of the International Working Mens Association signed by officers from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Poland as well as the United States

Dog Show Islington
A group of prize-winning dogs at the National Dog Show, held in the Agricultural Hall, Islington, London

Catalonia Conflict 5
Street fighting in Barcelona - a Volunteer of liberty keeps watch on events from a bell tower

Constitution at Madrid
The new constitution is proclaimed at Madrid, though Spaniards are still far from being of one mind as to what kind of government they want

Catalonia Conflict 3
Council of war of revolutionaries on the outskirts of Barcelona, opposing the new regime

Catalonia Conflict 7
The civil administrator of Tarragona, a Catalonian seaport, is assassinated by the rebels

Catalonia Conflict 2
Street fighting in Barcelona between supporters and opponents of the new regime

Catalonia Conflict 1
A street barricade in Barcelona, before and after the fghting

Volunteers of Liberty
The Volunteers of liberty are formed at Madrid to defend the new regime

Fighting at Valencia
Government troops confront the Catalonian rebels at the Ponte Serranos

Fighting at Malaga - 2
Fighting at Malaga between royalists and republicans

Volunteers for Cuba
Regime change in Spain encourages some Cubans to seek independence : in Spain, volunteers prepare to go to Cuba to suppress the insurrection

Fighting at Malaga between supporters and opponents of the new regime

Catalonia Conflict 4
A new Carlist insurrection divides the people of Catalonia : a Carlist sortie in a mountain village

Serrano Accepts
Serrano swears to uphold the new constitution

Abdon Eugene Mage
ABDON EUGENE MAGE French traveller in Africa, notably Senegal and Sudan

14th Earl of Derby(Holl)
EDWARD STANLEY 14th earl of DERBY British Tory Statesman, thrice Prime Minister :(1852, 1858- 59 & 1866-68)

Rejoicings at Geneva
On Lake Geneva, fireworks and illuminated boats celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the reunion of the canton of Geneva with the rest of the country

Romance and Reality 1869
Convent Life - Romance and Reality

Fashions for 1869
Polonaise dresses. over-skirt is up-gathered to create a scalloped edge, deep fringe trim & epaulettes. Girl: over- skirt descends in points & is caught up with a bow

Berlioz, Montmartre Home
The home of Hector Berlioz in la Rue du Mont-Cenis, Montmartre (Paris)

Jupiter Observed 1869
The planet as observed and drawn by John Browning

Guatemala Izabal
General view of the port

Guatemala Polochic
Village scene in the valley of the Polochic

Guatemala Santa Rosa
Distant view of the town, located on the Polochic river

Guatemala City
The Plaza and the cathedral

Guatemala Livingston
The port of Livingston viewed from the sea

Belize City
Scene in the harbour : at this time, Belize was part of British Honduras

John Wheatley
JOHN WHEATLEY (on the right, with Mr Trevelyan) circa 1924 socialist statesman

Jan Evangelista Purkyne
JAN EVANGELISTA PURKYNE (also spelt Purkinje) Bohemian physiologist

Lizzie Davenport
Lizzie (mrs Blandy), sister of stage magicians William & Ira Davenport, seeing what money was to be made, went into show business too, advertising seances at Boston

Pope Pius IX (Letaille)
POPE PIUS IX (Conde Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferreti) Declared papal infallibility in 1869 but quarrelled with the Italian government

Franklin Pierce 4
FRANKLIN PIERCE American statesman, President 1853-1857

Silver Mining / Mexico
Apache prisoners condemned to the Mines of Chihuahua, Mexico

Coal / Horse Works Whim
A horse working a whim in a French colliery

Card - Mother & Child
Mother and child at a window admire robin

Gabriel Garcia Moreno
GABRIEL GARCIA MORENO President of Ecuador 1869- 1875, assassinated

Plants / Orchis Mascula
Early Purple Orchid

Xmas in Norway
Raising the Bird-Pole - a traditional Norwegian Christmas custom

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