1875 Collection (page 27)

Ballroom Dance / Forgotten
Though he has reserved this waltz on her dance card, he has not come to claim her - has he forgotten her ? is he drunk ? is he playing poker ? or has he found another ?

Denmark / Skagen 1875
Skagen: the northern tip of Denmark

Sewing Machines / Steam
Steam powered sewing machines

Mausoleum of Theodoric
The Mausoleum of the Ostrogoth leader Theodoric

Fashions / Toudouze 1875
Jacket bodices with stand-up collars in grey & black - front buttoning & with pocket flaps or sleeveless in brown with a pink plaid under-dress & elaborate trained skirt

Racial / C Africa / Zaire
Mroua warrior of Zaire in the Congo

Emmeline Pankhurst 1875
EMMELINE PANKHURST (nee Goulden) aged 17, 2nd from right, in Geneva with the Rochefort family. Her school friend Noemi Rochefort is on far left

Men Play Dominoes 1875
Two men play dominoes in a cafe, watched by a companion at their table

Senegal / Goree C1875
Goree Island, off Dakar, Senegal, West Africa: view of the landing stage and fort

Gabon / Settlement C1875
Gabon, West Africa: a European trading settlement

Angola / Luanda C1875
Luanda (Sao Paolo de Loanda): view of the roadstead and town

Kastners Pyrophone
Frederic Kastners instrument is a kind of organ, with keyboard and pipes, but the sound is produced by flames within the pipes

War Dance / Delhi / 1875
Walpurgis Night Delhi - a war dance. Men dance around a fire to the beat of drum

Dribbling / Sporting News
Association football; dribbling

Maurice Ravel / Ouvre
MAURICE RAVEL French musician, depicted at the keyboard

Clerk at his Desk
A clerk at his desk

Engagement Announced
Anticipation: the couple are congratulated upon their engagement

Proposal / She Accepts
Anticipation: he proposes, she accepts

Honeymoon Couple C1875
Anticipation, then Realisation: a newly-wedded couple during and after their wedding trip

Husband Hogs Fire C1875
Realisation: the husband selfishly hogs the fire, while his wife stands by the window wondering where she went wrong

Husband Ignores Wife 19C
Realisation: the husband ignores the wifes rendition of their song

Toilet / For Conquest
Anticipation: a pretty young woman prepares to make a conquest

GRANDMOTHERs STORY 1875
Grandmother tells three children a story

Two Girls in Shop 1875
Two little girls, dressed in their best pink dresses, sit at the counter of a toy and sweet shop

Two Men in Restaurant
Two seated men are served by a plethora of waiters in a restaurant

Girl with Parrot C1875
A smartly-dressed girl with a basket of cherries and a parrot

Family of Three C1875
A happy young couple and their little girl out for a walk

Social / USA / White House
A reception at the White House

Animals in Flood
When floodwaters carry away his livestock, a farmer near Cardiff, Wales, does his best to save them

Florida Swamp
A deer and its young gaze dubiously at us as we gaze into the swampy forest scenery of Florida, which isn t all like Miami Beach

USA Penn Univ 1875
The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Albert K of Belgians
ALBERT I King of the Belgians during World War One, he was popular for his resistance to the German invasion

Music at Home, Piano 19C
Two women and a girl making music at the piano

Benefit Soc. Certificate
Allegorical depictions of suffering, succour, prudence, sickness & acts of God. Also carpenters, masons, weavers, printers, blacksmiths, farm worker, bricklayers & engineer

Brit Mus Kings Library
The Kings Library : the British Library is still a part of the Museum

Brit Museum Stacks
The Book Stacks, whence books are retrieved for readers, one by one, and carried on a trolley to the Reading Room where readers await them in scholarly patience

Brit Museum Mammalia
The Mammalia Saloon : the natural history department will not be moved to South Kensington until 1881

Royals on Bentwood
Lunching after a review at Krassnoje Selo, St Petersburg, the king of Sweden and the duke and duchess of Edinburgh sit on bentwood chairs by Thonet of Vienna

Butter Churn, France
A Normandy Butter churn in action and in cross-section, showing the shaped interior paddles for working the butter

Fairy Courtship / Doyle
A Fairy Prince pays court to a fairy, inviting her to share his crown

Edward VII Mason / Photo
EDWARD, Prince of Wales, (subsequently king Edward VII) in his ceremonial regalia as Grand Master of English Freemasons, a position he held from 1875 to 1901

Edward VII as Mason
EDWARD, Prince of Wales, (subsequently king Edward VII) in his ceremonial regalia as Grand Master of English Freemasons, a position he held from 1875 to 1901

Picnic by the River 1875
Picnic by the river

Jean-Nicolas Demarquay
JEAN-NICOLAS DEMARQUAY French medical

Man-Powered Tram, Japan
Whereas most trams are powered, these at Yokohama, Japan, are man-powered, two men to pull and two to push

Travellers in Egypt
Travellers on the overland route to India, transferring from ship to carriage at Bulaq, Cairo

Boy Picking Apples
A boy picks apples from a conveniently low-hanging tree, filling a wheelbarrow

Girl, Imps, Toadstools
Dollys Dream. Why would Dolly dream of a little girl surrounded by imps, fairies, plum puddings, toadstools & a miniature town ?

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