1871 Collection

Wells Cathedral / 1871
Wells Cathedral, Somerset

Proust (Age about 31)
MARCEL PROUST aged about 31

Parkside Asylum, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Buildings and grounds of the Parkside Asylum, Macclesfield, opened in 1871 as the Cheshire County Lunatic Asylum. At various times, the site was also known as Upton Mental Hospital and Deva Hospital

Map / Europe / Germany 1871
Imperial Germany after the Franco- Prussian War, showing Alsace and Lorraine as part of the country, not to mention huge chunks of Poland in East Prussia

Coal / Durham Pit Pony
Pitmen hewing the coal, South Durham : a pit pony waits to haul the coal away

CARTMEL RACES POSTER
A poster announcing Whit Monday races (29th May 1871) at Cartmel, Lancashire. Races will include a hurdle race, the Hartington Stake, the Innkeepers Stake, a Trotting Match and a Hound Dog Trail

St Pancras Station, London
General view of the exterior of St Pancras Station, facing Euston Road, Central London

Swinging on Ringing Bell
The bell ringers of Seville - a rather unusual method where the ringers are swinging on the bells themselves

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1939) shown in the late 1860s with a pet dog. Louise was the fourth daughter and sixth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair
Caricature of the naturalist Charles Darwin in Vanity Fair Magazine, 1871

Toulouse geese with dewlap, cock and hen. Oie de Toulouse a bavette, Anser anser domesticus. Bred by James Watts, winners of five first prizes

Charles Babbage
CHARLES BABBAGE Mathematician and engineer

Silver spangled Hamburgh cock and hen, Henry Beldons pair, Cup at Allerton 1871, Hen first at Birmingham 1871, and cup at Bristol 1872

Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre
Caricature portrait of Sir John George Shaw-Lefevre KCB (1797-1879). Shaw-Lefevre was a British barrister, Whig politician, and civil servant

Commune Barricade
To the death ! Communards make a desperate sortie from behind a barricade in the rue Saint-Martin, Paris

PROUST / ILS 1900
MARCEL PROUST French writer relaxing on an ornate sofa

Karl Marx / Ils 1871
KARL MARX German radical political thinker

Hm Stanley / Cdv Photo
HENRY MORTON STANLEY British journalist and explorer, in the clothes he wore to meet Livingstone in 1871

Ernest Rutherford
ERNEST RUTHERFORD British physicist, awarded 1908 Nobel prize for chemistry, president of the Royal Society 1925-30

Wise woman at Ilchester, Somerset
At Ilchester, Somerset, a local wise woman uses weird rituals to treat cattle for foot and mouth disease

Irish sea serpent off Kilkee, Ireland
A large and frightening sea monster seen by several people off the coast of Kilkee, Ireland. 1871

Luisa Tetrazzini / Signed
LUISA TETRAZZINI Italian opera singer in 1909

Morning in Menagerie
Morning in the menagerie - the animals are washed and fed in preparation for the days activities

St Helena - Jacobs Ladder (699 steps), Jamestown. In 1829, the Saint Helena Railway Company built an inclined-plane cableway on Saint Helena

Ladies Hats 1871
Seletion of fashionable bonnets from 1871

Olivia Baroness Ardilaun
OLIVIA CHARLOTTE WHITE, baroness ARDILAUN, wife of Arthur Edward Guinness - in 1900 she was hostess to Queen Victoria. Date: CIRCA 1871

Royal Wedding 1871 - wedding cake
A magnificent royal wedding cake for the wedding of Princess Louise to the Marquis of Lorne in 1871, made by Queen Victorias chief confectioner at Windsor Castle

Princess Louise on her wedding day
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyl (1848-1939) on her wedding day on 21st March 1871. Louise married John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, heir to the 8th Duke of Argyl

Auxiliary Military Hospital, Keighley, West Yorkshire
The Keighley Union workhouse infirmary during its First World War role as an Auxiliary Military Hospital. The building was erected in 1871 on Fell Lane, Keighley, West Yorkshire

Raoul Rigault
RAOUL RIGAULT French radical, prominent in the Paris Commune until he was shot by soldiers in the street, crying Vive la Commune ! Date: 1846 - 1871

Golden spangled Hamburgh cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus, Henry Beldons pair, cock cup at Birmingham 1870, hen cup at Kendal, Whitehouse and Spalding 1871

Black Hamburgh cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus, Rev. W. Sergeantsons pair, first prize at Birmingham, Edinburgh, Manchester 1871, and Bristol 1872

The Pickwick Quadrille by Fred Revallin
Promotional music sheet for The Pickwick Quadrille, by Fred Revallin, taken from Pickwick by James Albery which was first performed at the Lyceum Theatre on 23rd October 1871 with Henry Irving as

Sir Godfrey Baring, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR GODFREY BARING, 1st Baronet (1871-1957) Liberal Member of Parliament for Barnstaple and the Isle of Wight. Caption: Isle of Wight Date: 1871 - 1957

Albert Bridge London
Connecting Chelsea and Battersea : built 1871-3 by R M Ordish using a hybrid cantilever and suspension technique. Date: circa 1880

Henry Melvill
HENRY MELVILL English churchman and educator, canon of St Pauls cathedral, London. Date: 1798 - 1871

Marcel Proust
MARCEL PROUST French writer, at the time of being awarded the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Date: 1871 - 1922

Ballon-Poste 1871
A Ballon-Poste loaded with mail leaves the place Saint- Pierre, Montmartre Date: January 1871

Portrait of the Prince Imperial and Napoleon III
Photograph of Louis, the Prince Imperial (1856-1871)(seated) with his father, Napoleon III, Emperor of the French c. 1868

The Opening of the Royal Albert Hall, March 1871
Engraving showing the interior of the Royal Albert Hall, London, during its Grand Opening by Queen Victoria, on the 29th March 1871

Killing an Elephant for food, Paris; Franco-Prussian War, 18
Illustration showing the killing of an elephant, in the Jardin des Plantes, for food during the Siege of Paris in the winter of 1870-1

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

Minister Von Roon
ALBRECHT THEODOR EMIL VON ROON Prussian soldier and politician successful in the wars of 1866 and 1870-1871

J. H. Taylor, Golfer
John Henry Taylor. British Open champion, member of the Great Triumvirate and founding member of the PGA

Great Fire of Chicago
More than half of the city is destroyed by a fire

Victoria opens St Thomas Hospital
Queen Victoria opens the newly completed St Thomas Hospital, situated on the southern Thames Embankment in Lambeth, London, across the river from the Palace of Westminster

Lord Balcarres MP, Vanity Fair, Spy
DAVID ALEXANDER EDWARD LINDSAY, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of BALCARRES (1871-1940), styled Lord Balniel between 1880 and 1913. British Conservative politician and art connoisseur

Porthclais, near St Davids, Pembrokeshire, South Wales
View of Porthclais (or Porth Clais) Harbour, a small sheltered inlet port near St David s, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, with sailing ships and a rowing boat

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