1871 Collection (page 20)

Hissalik Post-Excavation
The site at Hissarlik, excavated by Heinrich Schliemann and identified as ancient Troy. Schliemanns massive slice through the deposits can be clearly seen

Wagner / Score / Song
Score for a humorous song, dedicated to Louis Kraft, proprietor of the Hotel Prusse at Leipzig, in gratitude for an enjoyable stay

Rugby / England-Scotland
England versus Scotland at Kennington Oval, London : the last scrimmage : England win by two goals to one (under the old system of scoring)

Loading Dog-Sledge
Loading goods onto a dog- sledge at Fort St Michael (formerly Michaelowski) in Norton Gulf, Alaska

Mania / Hudson Levee
George Hudson (1800-1871), a financier known as King Hudson for the dominant part he plays in the railway mania, is depicted holding a royal levee

Palais Royal Ablaze
The burning of the Palais Royal, Paris, severely damaged by the Communards

Hotel De LA Ville
The burning of the Hotel de la Ville, Paris, destroyed by the Communards as they are forced to abandon their designated headquarters in the face of advancing government troops

Villette Docks Burn
The Docks de la Villette, Paris, are set alight by the Communards during the fighting

Vendome Column Down
The Colonne de la Place Vendome, Paris, surmounted with a statue of Napoleon, is pulled down by the Communards

Proust (Aged 14)
MARCEL PROUST aged about 14

Evolution / Baby & Monkeys
The advent of the first human baby is celebrated by an admiring congregation of apes, who are holding a lamp to Darwins book " The Descent of Man" (1871)

French Passport 1871
The handwritten modification of this passport, changing Empire to Republique, reflects the changes in France after the war with Prussia and abdication of Napoleon III

Coes Golden Drop Plum
Coes Golden Drop

Peach: Salway
A Salway peach

Palmerston Peach
Palmerston peach

William Henry Davies
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES A Welsh poet who lived the life of a tramp in England and the US

GREENGAGE / 1871
A greengage shown still on the stalk with leaves

Brunswick Fig / 1871
A Brunswick variety renamed from Fat Lady when Caroline of Brunswick came to the throne as George IVs wife in 1820

Moor Park Apricot
A Moor Park variety

Costume September 1871
Lastest Paris fashion of 1871

Architect Shows Plans
An architect shows a set of plans to the woman who is his client; she seems pleased with the designs

Salt Tools, C1871
Tools used by Breton salt workers

Salt Marsh, Bourg Batz
Salt marsh at Bourg de Batz, near Croisie, France

Costume October 1871
Lastest Paris fashion of 1871

DANILO I
DANILO PETROVIC-NJEGOS King Danilo I, who abdicated in 1921 in favour of his nephew (KIng Michael I), only one week after succeeding his father, Nicholas I

People Gathering Ferns
Ladies and gentlemen engaging in the popular passtime of fern hunting. They would gather ferns for decorative purposes

Scene in New Caledonia
TAKING THE ROOT ROUTE : a native shows a westerner how to negotiate the swamps by stepping from one root to another of the trees growing in the water

Naval Court Martial
A COURT MARTIAL Captain Thrupp and his officers of the Megaera are exonerated from blame after a court martial on board the Duke of Wellington

Augustus De Morgan / Cdv
AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN Mathematician

Grape / Practical Gardener
Black grapes of the Madresfield Court variety

Greenland Bedroom
Sleeping accommodation in a Greenland home - each compartment has its own heating in the form of a small fire. I don t know what those sticks or poles are for

Making Railway Track
Making railway rails

Bird and Predator
Nature red in tooth and claw - a stoat-like creature has got its teeth into a guinea fowl or some such bird : predator and prey fall together from a tree

Nice, the Harbour
The harbour at Nice : a steamer is puffing out to sea, while several sailing vessels ply hither and thither

German Pastor & Flock
A German priest : The new pastor and his wife are greeted by their flock, some of whom have brought their sheep with them !

Tourists in the Tyrol
Tourists in the Austrian Tyrol set out for a boat excursion on a lake, watched by pigtailed girls and other peasantry in traditional costume

Fathers Homecoming
Father comes home from work, with his tools in a bag slung over his shoulder : his family are pleased to see him again

9th Duke Marlborough
CHARLES SPENCER CHURCHILL, ninth duke of MARLBOROUGH, with his American bride Consuelo Vanderbilt : alas, their made-in-heaven marriage soon broke up

After the Commune
After the recapture of Paris by the government, firemen extinguish the fires while a photographer seeks to record the scene for posterity. The residents can only grieve

Dunrobin Castle, the seat of the duke of Sutherland, was visited by Victoria in 1871

Fr. Wil. Refuses Crown
A deputation invites Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia to become Kaiser. He refuses, though in 1871 his successor, Wilhelm I, will show himself less modest

John Lawrence / Vfair 1871
JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE 1st BARON LAWRENCE Governor-General of India

Napoleon III & Family
LOUIS NAPOLEON III with his wife and son at Camden Place, Chislehurst in 1871

Sainte-Anne Asylum / 1871
Sainte-Anne asylum on the outskirts of Paris - the quarter for violent and insane patients

Ragged Truants Captured
An inspector of the London School Board accompanied by a constable captures a ragged group of schoolboys playing truant

Stanleys Expedition / Iln
Henry Morton Stanley in search of Livingstone

Livingstone Found
Dr Livingstone is found by H M Stanley at Ujiji - Dr Livingstone, I presume ?

Livingstone Found / Hornet
Stanley finds Livingstone - a somewhat disrespectful depiction of the momentous occasion by a caricaturist who suspected media hype

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