1870 Collection (page 16)

READING WITH BOOK ON LAP
A woman sits on a chair reading a book in her lap. Date: circa 1870

DEAD CATS IN BUTCHERS
A butcher, planning to use cat meat as a cheap alternative, tells a distraught cat owner: No madame, I have no idea where your pet cat can have got to! Date: 1870

BLIND SASH MAKERS 1870
Blind boys making sash lines at the school for the Indigent Blind, St. George-in-the- Fields, London. Date: 1870

BOY PLAYS IN MASK C1870
A boy in a grotesque mask frightens his little sister Date: circa 1870

BOY IN MASK AND SISTER
A boy in a grotesque mask frightens his little sister Date: circa 1870

TRADERS AT BILLINSGATE
Traders at Billingsgate fish market auctioning the latest catch. Date: 1870

AFRICAN BLACKSMITHS
Central African blacksmiths Date: circa 1870

Butchers Boy
A butchers boy making a delivery. Date: circa 1870

Groom
London characters: the GROOM accompanies his mistress to Rotten Row in Hyde Park, to make sure she doesnt come to any harm by falling off or being molested by strangers. Date: circa 1870

Basketwoman
London characters: a BASKET WOMAN takes the baskets she has made from door to door. Date: circa 1870

Orange Girl
London characters: an ORANGE GIRL offers her wares to passers-by in the street, a valuable source of vitamin C if they only knew it. Date: circa 1870

Turncock
London characters: the TURNCOCK is employed by the water company to turn the mains taps on or off, as may be necessary. Date: circa 1870

Street Arab
London characters : even the barefoot street Arab must work for his living, doing cartwheels and handstands in hopes that some kind gent will chuck him a copper. Date: circa 1870

Occupation - Costermonger
London characters: costermonger Date: circa 1870

Park Keeper
London characters: the PARK KEEPER makes sure evildoers dont walk on forbidden grass, drop litter, pick the flowers or misbehave in the bushes. Date: circa 1870

Policeman
London characters: the POLICEMAN, friend to the well- behaved, foe to the miscreant, protector of the peaceful, upholder of law and order... Date: circa 1870

Entertainer
London characters : the STREET ENTERTAINER works hard for his living, for theres plenty of competition on the pavements from rival acrobats, jugglers, escape artists and strong men. Date: circa 1870

Navvy
London characters : if the streets of London were paved with gold, the navigator (NAVVY) would find it, for he spends his life digging them up and filling them in again. Date: circa 1870

Errand Boy
London characters: when you go shopping, you dont have to carry your purchases home, the ERRAND BOY does that, like this butchers boy carrying your uncovered Sunday joint. Date: circa 1870

Lamplighter
London characters: London is lit by gas lamps now, and every evening the LAMPLIGHTER must switch on every lamp in the metropolis, and every morning switch them off again. Date: circa 1870

Nursemaid (Petherick)
London characters: a NURSEMAID wheels her charges through Kensington Gardens, keeping an eye out for the friendly soldiers from Knightsbridge Barracks. Date: circa 1870

Organ Grinder
London characters: the ORGAN GRINDER and his monkey come from Italy, and the songs he sings in our fog-grey streets are warm with nostalgia for their sunny homeland. Date: circa 1870

Porter (Petherick)
London characters: in these days of hatboxes, parasols, dressing cases and all, the STATION PORTER takes them from cab to train and puts them in the luggage rack for you. Date: circa 1870

FIREMAN
London characters: Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward, and with a coal fire burning in every hearth, the FIREMAN is all too often called to cope with it. Date: circa 1870

LA GOULUE / PJOURNAL 1904
LA GOULUE (Louise Weber) French entertainer and her animal-tamer husband grapple with a puma in a cage Date: 1870 - 1929

WAREHOUSE IN LONDON / DORE
Working in the warehouses at Pickle Herring Street, London. Date: 1870

LONDON WAREHOUSES
Goods are loaded, unloaded and hoisted at Londons busy Pickle Herring Street warehouses Date: 1870

BILLINGSGATE - DORE 5
Setting out the fish at BILLINGSGATE market Date: 1870

BILLINGSGATE - DORE 4
Porters, merchants and customers at BILLINGSGATE fish market Date: 1870

BILLINSGATE FISH MARKET
BILLINGSGATE fish market, London : landing the days catch Date: 1870

BUSTLE AT COVENT GARDEN
The bustling scene at Covent Garden market, London, as the wagons arrive in the early hours of the morning with fruit and vegetables from the country Date: 1870

WAGONS, COVENT GARDEN
Horse-drawn wagons bring fruit and vegetables to Covent Garden from the country in the early hours of the morning Date: 1870

COVENT GARDEN / DORE 1
Covent Garden : fruit and vegetables arriving from the country in the early hours of the morning Date: 1870

Covent Garden 1870
COVENT GARDEN : a breakfast stall for the market porters and merchants - pies and oysters, coffee enjoyed beneath the flaring oil torches Date: 1870

BATTLE AMIENS 1870
Battle of Amiens during the Franco-Prussian War: the Prussians 44th regiment attacks a rail embankment at Villers Bretonneux Date: 23 December 1870

STRASBOURG GUNS 1870
Prussian guns bombard Strasbourg across the water during Franco-Prussian War Date: 23-24 August 1870

VIONVILLE AMLING 1870
The Prussian cavalry charge at Vionville-Mars-La-Tour during the Franco-Prussian War Date: 16 August 1870

Cartoon, dressmaker at work
Cartoon, a dressmaker works by lamplight at a table. Her work hangs around her as she sews in poor light. Date: 1870

WORKING MENS LECTURE
Lecture to working men on ornamental ironwork at South Kensington Museum. Date: 1870

The old clothes market, camp field, Manchester 1870
The old clothes market or rag fair, as it was called, which was held every Monday and Saturdays on Camp Field in Manchester. Date: 1870

PLOWING WITH HORSES
Ploughing with three horses in the English countryside Date: circa 1870

COOK AND HOUSEMAID
Cook and housemaid in a French kitchen : a welcome cuppa while the joint cooks on the range and the cat waits for its share of scraps

Riots in Paris, 1870
Citizens fleeing from the barricade they have erected out of overturned carriages as troops pour over the top during pre-Commune riots in Paris Date: May 1870

1870 / SEDAN SURRENDER
Emperor Napoleon III of France surrenders to Kaiser Wilhelm of Prussia the day after the battle of Sedan, conceding defeat in the Franco-Prussian War Date: 2 September 1870

Baked potato seller 1870
The baked potato man selling hot potatoes on a wintry day. Date: 1870

CALL THAT A HEADER?
Two girls swim from a boat : Dyou call that a header ? Date: 1870

WAGNER / LIEBIG / 5 / 1870
RICHARD WAGNER German composer in 1870, serenading his wife and baby in their own home with his Siegfried Idyll Date: 1813 - 1883

LONDON DUSTMAN
A London dustman walks behind his cart Date: circa 1870

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