1870 Collection

Police Group 1864
Group of police officers wearing combed back helmets, in use between 1864 and 1870. Metropolitan Police

Dickens / Empty Chair
HIS HOME AT GADSHILL His desk and empty chair after his death, dated 9 June 1870

Rosa Luxemburg
ROSA LUXEMBURG German Socialist agitator and leading intellectual of the German left, giving a speech

Map / Asia / India C1870
India, showing the various Presidencies under British rule

Rosa Luxemburg - 1
ROSA LUXEMBURG German Socialist agitator, helped found the Polish Social Democratic Party

Verne / Under the Sea
20, 000 LIEUES SOUS LES MERS [20 000 leagues under the sea] A giant squid, seen from the safety of the Nautilus

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian statesman
A photograph of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin (1870 - 1924), Russian statesman and Communist leader, circa 1920

Lenin / Anon Photo / Trotsky
VLADIMIR ILICH ULYANOV LENIN Russian statesman; addressing the Red Army with Trotski on the steps

Dickens & his Creations
Charles Dickens Writer

Charles Dickens / Bibby s
Charles Dickens Writer

Charles Dickens
CHARLES DICKENS English writer, at his writing desk, circa 1860

MONTESSORI (1870 - 1952)
Doctor MARIA MONTESSORI Italian medical and educator, first woman in Italy to obtain a medical degree; pioneered child education methods

Montessori school
A detailed illustration by S. Begg of a Montessori school in Courtfield Gardens, London, showing children at various activiities

Bismarck & Napoleon III
After the battle of SEDAN, a triumphant Bismarck chats with the defeated Napoleon III

Phrenological Head / Scrap
A phrenological head, showing the different categoies of the brain which should exist in healthy humans. These include self perceptive, aspiring and animal morals

HARE
(lepus europaeus) Brown hare

Croydon Fire Brigade, South Norwood station
The firefighters of the Croydon Fire Brigade serving at South Norwood station, South Norwood High Street, together with their horse drawn manual fire engine

Errigal Mountain (1870). Burgess, James Howard 1817-1890. Date: 1870

Oldbury Factories
A West Midlands town known for its manufacture of iron and steel tubes, chemical and engineering products - hence such an out put of smoke !

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Communist leader in disguise
A photograph of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin (1870 - 1924), Communist leader in disguise, August 1917

St Lawrences Hospital, Caterham, Surrey
Aerial view of St Lawrences Hospital at Caterham in Surrey, originally opened in 1870 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as an imbeciles asylum for Londons sick poor suffering from mental conditions

Glasgow University
THE UNIVERSITY GALOP Edward and Alexandra are cheered as they leave after opening GLASGOW UNIVERSITY in its fine new building by George Gilbert Scott Date: 1870

Highcroft Hall Hospital, Erdington, Birmingham
An aerial view of Highcroft Hall Hospital on Slade Road, Erdington, Birmingham. The hospital was originally opened in around 1870 as the Aston Union workhouse

LANCASTER, Lancashire
Birds eye view of Lancaster, Lancashire

Charles Dickens, by Andre Gill, 1868
Engraved caricature of Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the English writer, produced by the French artist, Andre Gill, first published in 1868

India Amritsar
Entrance to the Golden Temple

Smithfield Market 1870
The arrival of an early meat train at Smithfield Market in London: porters unload and move baskets and crates

Saudi Arabia Mecca
The Kaaba, or Kissing Stone enclosure

Lenin in his Study
VLADIMIR ILICH ULYANOV LENIN Soviet statesman, in a relaxed pose, in front of a bookcase in his study

Bleak House, Broadstairs, Kent, England. This building has great literary associations, for it was here that Charles Dickens lived and wrote " David Copperfield" etc

London Boxing 1870
Two fighters slug it out in the gloomy interior of a tent, watched by a small crowd of Londoners who have probably bet on the outcome

LENIN READING PRAVDA
VLADIMIR ILICH ULYANOV LENIN Russian statesman, reading a copy of Pravda in his study

Old Town and Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Old Town and Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland, seen from Princes Street, with some smoking chimneys in the foreground

Union workhouse, Pontardawe, Glamorgan, Wales
The Pontardawe Union workhouse was erected in 1870 on Brecon Road, Pontardawe, Glamorgan, Wales. It later became the Danybryn Hostel

Rugby at Rugby School
AT RUGBY SCHOOL A crowd of schoolboys run after the ball at Rugby

James Braid, Golfer
James Braid. Scottish golfer and course architect, winner of five British Open Championships

CARPENTER / 1870
A carpenter planes a piece of wood creating lots of wood shavings

Skeleton & Ligaments
Physiological diagram of the skeleton and ligaments

Tropical plant and orchid house
Cross-section view of a tropical plant and orchid house

MATTHEW: VI, 28-30.....consider the lilies of the field....... Text decorated with white lilies

France Grenoble
Birds eye view of the town in southeast France

Two Parakeets - 2
The TIRIBA PARAKEET and the COQUETTE PARAKEET (or PARAQUET) Two members of the Palaeornithinae family

Sir Francis Ronalds
Portrait of English inventor, Sir Francis Ronalds (1788-1873), inventor of the electric telegraph in 1816. He fitted his garden in Hammersmith with an electric telegraph but was refused when he

Robert E Lee / Pyle / Spirit
ROBERT EDWARD LEE American Confederate general on his horse, Traveler

1870 / CRITICS / PUNCH
Critics Gladstone and Disraeli as rival authors

Gads Hill House
The fine red brick house at Gads Hill, near Rochester, Kent. It was here that Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870, while writing his novel " Edwin Drood"

Prague / General View 1870
Prague: general view

Lenin Making Speech
VLADIMIR ILICH ULYANOV LENIN The Russian statesman is depicted making a rousing speech

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