1871 Collection (page 12)

Paris Commune Defeated
Government forces suppress the Commune : fighting on the housetops in the Faubourg Poisonniere. Anyone with a gun or a can of petrol in their hands is summarily shot. Date: 1871

Petroleuse Arrestede
The last of the commune - a petroleuse says goodbye to her children as she is led away, probably to be shot. Date: 1871

Communards Attacked
Government forces recapture Paris from the Communards : a field gun at the Pont de Neuilly commands the avenue leading to the Arc de Triomphe. Date: 1871

Colonne De Juillet
The Colonne de Juillet in the place de la Bastille, Paris, commemorating the 1830 revolution, is decorated with red flags and tricouleurs by the Communards. Date: March 1871

Vendome Column 3
Communards celebrate the destruction of the column in the place Vendome, Paris, seen as a symbol of the previous regime, at the instigation of artist Gustave Courbet. Date: 8 May 1871

Commune Womens Club
The women of Paris participate as enthusiastically in the Commune as the men : an impassioned orator addresses a womens club at the Boule Noire, boulevard Rochechouart. Date: March-April 1871

Rue Royale Fires
Fires are started in parts of Paris, often by petroleuses - women carrying cans of fuel. Firemen fight fires in the fashionable rue Royale, seen as symbolic of the old regime. Date: April- May 1871

Republican Club, Paris
At a Red Republican club in Paris, a speaker exhorts his comrades to defend the Commune against the government forces. Date: 1871

Burning Guillotine
The Paris Communards burn the guillotine - symbol of the despised government - in the place Voltaire. Date: March-April 1871

Street Barricades
The Communards erect barricades throughout Paris to hamper the assaults of government forces : they are scenes of bitter fighting. Date: April 1871

Petroleuse Captured
A petroleuse - a woman supporter of the Commune who set fire to buildings - is cornered and shot by the government forces. Date: May - June 1871

Swiss Rack Railway at Rigi Kulm, Switzerland. The line ascends Mount Rigi from Arth-Goldau and Vitznau and is operated by the Rigi-Bahnen

Military music - The bugle call
An old man sounds a bugle in the snow. 1871

Shrewsbury Schools c. 1931WHS Derwent Series
The main building of Shrewsbury School, originally erected in 1784 as the Shrewsbury Incorporation workhouse. The workhouse ceased operation in 1871 and the School moved in in 1882 Date: circa 1931

KUANG HSU (1871 -1908)
KUANG HSU Named emperor in 1875, he ruled with his regent and aunt Tzu Hsi. She later imprisoned him for trying to issue modernizing reforms. Date: 1871 - 1908

Proust (As Soldier)
MARCEL PROUST while doing his military service at Orleans Date: 1871 - 1922

Proust (Age 51)
MARCEL PROUST in the last year of his life, aged 51, while he was completing A la recherche.. Date: 1871 - 1922

Frieslanders Skate 1871
Women from Friesland, northern Holland, race on the ice. Date: 1871

Trader Offers Whiskey
A trader tempts a native Indian with whiskey Date: 1871

Cake Walk, Virginia
Three finely dressed black ladies perform the cake walk before an enthusiastic audience at Richmond, Virginia. Date: 1871

Outside the Soup Kitchen
The poor and distressed throng the entrance to a soup kitchen : well-to-do passers- by look apprehensive as they are assailed by beggars Date: 1871

Louisa Queen of Sweden
Wilhelmina Fredrika Alexandra Anna Louisa, daughter of Fredrik, prince of the Netherlands, queen of Carl XV of Sweden & Norway. Date: 1828 - 1871

Childrens Orchestra
Demonstrating the love of music that is innate in all human creatures, these six children have formed an impromptu orchestra and are making music together... Date: 1871

Rotten Row Riders
Riders and their friends in Rotten Row, Hyde Park, the recognised meeting-place for fashionable society on a fine summers day 1871

Proust (Age about 20)
MARCEL PROUST aged about 20 Date: 1871 - 1922

Proust (Perrichon)
MARCEL PROUST Date: 1871 - 1922

Map / Asia / China 1871
The CHINESE EMPIRE with Korea and Japan. The Treaty Ports are underlined, Hong Kong is underlined in red Date: 1871

Dangerous fashions in the street
The dangers of impractical fashions in the street. The reintroduction of the trained skirt, even for walking dresses, proves inconvenient and possibly fatal! Date: 1871

People returning home on Derby Day
A group of tired people returning home on Derby Day. Date: 1871

Ladies drinking at a fashionable milliners in London
Ladies drinking at a fashionable milliners establishment in London. Date: 1871

The French siege of Paris
An armour-plated locomotive battery during the French siege of Paris

The Royal visit to Dublin, 1871
The Royal visit to Dublin - the arrival of Edward(then Prince of Wales) and his wife Alexandra on the steam yacht " Victoria and Albert" at Kingstown

Franco-Prussian War / French military train
French military train of boats for pontoon bridges

Local Government Board Offices, Whitehall, London
A view of the Local Government Boards headquarters, at the junction of Great George Street and Parliament Street, Central London

South Western Fever Hospital, Stockwell, South London
A porter at the entrance to the South Western Fever Hospital, opened in 1871 on Landor Road, Stockwell, South London. With facilities for fever and smallpox patients

French civil war
Members of the French national guard hanging on to a rope that leads down far into the ground, during the civil war

Fetis, Francois Joseph 1784 - 1871
Francois Joseph Fetis. Belgian musicologist, musician, composer, critic and teacher. Date: 1784 - 1871

Strand Clearing
Clearing the site for the new Law Courts

Vice Admiral David Beatty / Stamp
LORD DAVID BEATTY British admiral and 1st Earl

Nine Elms, Lambeth
Old houses at Nine Elms, Lambeth

Modern Athenians plate 4 - Edinburgh
Mr Robert Thompson (c.1790-1857) Sheriff of Caithness, being followed by Mr Robert Hunter (1791-1871) Sheriff of Bute and Dumbarton

Blackheath Gladstone
Gladstone welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd on Blackheath

Gibert and Sullivan theatre poster
Poster for the Gilbert and Sullivan production Ruddigore. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan worked together to create fourteen operas between 1871 and 1896

Epping Forest
Some of the trees which compose Epping Forest, Essex, a favourite destination for holiday-making Londoners

Marquess of Lorne
John (Ian) Campbell, Marquess of Lorne (1845-1914), heir to the 8th Duke of Argyll. Lorne married Princess Louise, Queen Victorias fourth daughter in March 1871

Feeding the Lions at London Zoo, 1871
Engraving showing a large group of holidaymakers watching the feeding of the large carnivores at the Zoological Societys Gardens (London Zoo), Regents Park, 1871

The Opening of the Royal Albert Hall, London, 1871
Engraving showing the exterior of the Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences on the day that it was opened by Queen Victoria, March 1871

Fishing for Pilchards, 1871
Engraving showing a group of fishermen, with rowing boat and steam launch, fishing for pilchards off the coast of Britain, 1871

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