1876 Collection

Varieties of edible-podded pea, or sugar pea. Chromolithograph, by G. Severeyns, of Brussels, from Ernst Benary, Album Benary. Date: 1876-86

Breezing Up by Winslow Homer (1836-1910). Date: 1876

Nell Gwynn and the houses in which she lived
Engraved portrait of Nell Gwynn (1650-1687), the English actress and mistress of King Charles II, and two of the houses in which she lived

Tolstoy / 1876 Photo
LEO TOLSTOY Russian novelist in 1876, at age 48

Morning Ride along the Beach, 1876, by Anton Mauve (1838-188
Anton Mauve (1838-1888). Dutch painter. Morning Ride along the Beach, 1876. Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam. Holland

Maps / Australia Post-1876
Map of Australia with names of Counties

The Gullet, Stafford Street, Birmingham
Under the Artisans and Labourers dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, slum areas like the gullet were cleared and improved. Date: 16 December 1876

Princess Alexandra with her five children
Princess Alexandra of Wales (1844 1925) (later Queen Alexandra consort) of Edward VII, photographed with her five children (left to right) Princess Victoria, who remained single

Sir Harcourt Gilbey Gold, Vanity Fair, Spy
SIR HARCOURT GILBEY GOLD (1876-1952) Oarsman and President of the Oxford University Boat Club (OUBC), in flannels and blazer. Caption: Tarka Date: 1876 - 1952

Varieties of pea (Pisum sativum) - second. Chromolithograph, by G. Severeyns, of Brussels, from Ernst Benary, Album Benary. Date: 1876-86

Varieties of carrot (daucus). Chromolithograph by G. Severeyns, of Brussels, from Ernst Benary, Album Benary. Date: 1876-86

Suicide on the Little Big Horn

Berrywood Asylum, Northamptonshire
The Northampton County Lunatic Asylum was designed by Robert Griffiths and opened in 1876 at a site on Berrywood Road, Duston, Northampton. It later became St Crispin Hospital

Duston War Hospital, Northamptonshire
The west wing of the Northampton County Lunatic Asylum in its First World War guise at Duston War Hospital

Social / Croquet in Garden
Elegant men and women play croquet in the garden

Georges Sand / De Musset
GEORGE SAND with ALFRED DE MUSSET, neither the first nor the last of her many lovers

Abdul Hamid Ii / Lith
ABDUL HAMID II Ottoman Sultan (1876-1909) who went to war abroad, misgoverned at home, and was eventually deposed

Plimsoll Line
The Mark indicates the degree to which a ship may be loaded - if it is below water level, the ship is dangerously over- loaded. (We have Plimsolls original prospectus)

Girls Rowing in 1876
Four ladies and a young man go for a ladylike row

Jack London * Wife
JACK LONDON with his second wife CHARMIAN photo taken six days before his death

Manchester / River Irwell
Industrial Manchester, showing the Irwell River from Blackfriars Bridge

Newcastle / Swing Bridge
The opening of the new swing bridge at Newcastle-on-Tyne on June 15th 1876. The bridge was designed by William Armstrong

BAKUNIN, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (1814-1876). Russian revolutionary, founder of the international anarchism. Portrait of Bakunin, Russian

Llandaff Cathedral / 1876
Llandaff Cathedral Date: 1876

Training Ship Exmouth
The Training Ship Exmouth, operated from 1876 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board on the River Thames off Grays, Essex

Fighting the Sioux
The U.S. government finds itself continually having to fight the Sioux, who fail to see that the white mens intentions are for their good

Hunting of the Snark
The Landing of the Hunters

Guyana / Roraima
This was the reputed location for The Lost World created by Conan Doyle

Nelly Power music hall singer 1854-1887
Nelly (Nellie) Power music hall singer, burlesque actress and early male impersonator. On the back of the photograph is printed ?Saturday Programme Supplement February 5th 1876?. Date: 1876

St Annes Home, Herne Bay, Kent
In 1876, the former Pier Hotel in Herne Bay (centre of picture) became a convalescent home for pauper children from the South Metropolitan School District

The Loss Book at Lloyds of London, 1877
Engraving showing a group of Lloyds underwriters consulting the Loss Book in their offices, after a bad spell of storms in the winter of 1876-7

Rev. Hugh Hanna 1824-90 (1876). Whichelo, Augustus George fl.1873-1876. Date: 1876

Dr Christopher Dresser on a rickshaw, Japan
Dr Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) - English designer and theorist - best known as a pivotal figure in the Aesthetic Movement

Training Ship Warspite, Greenhithe, Kent
The Training Ship Warspite at anchor on the River Thames at Greenhithe, Kent. The Warspite, established by the Marine Society in 1876, was originally moored at Woolwich

Dr Barnardos Village Homes for Girls, Barkingside, Essex
Dr Barnardos Village Homes for Girls at Barkingside, Ilford, Essex

RACEHORSE GLADIATEUR
French thoroughbred racehorse Gladiateur (1862 - 1876) who dominated the major races in 1865 and 1866. Date: 1865

Art Deco Interior
The fantastic German Art Deco interior of a house in Bremen, which belonged to Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876 - 1907), the first German artist to absorb French modernism

The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelp
United States. The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia. Horticultural Hall. The Spanish and American Illustration (1876)

Rev Francis Ward Monck and William Oxley, spiritualists
Rev Francis Ward Monck (right, c. 1842-?)) and William Oxley (1823-1905), spiritualists. Oxley was a Methodist, Swedenborgian, spiritualist and writer based in Manchester

Robbing and Scalping
Native American women rob and scalp a U. S. cavalryman Date: 1876

ZULOAGA ZABALETA, Ignacio. Portrait of the countess
ZULOAGA ZABALETA, Ignacio (1870-1945). Portrait of the countess Mathieu de Noailles. 1913. Oil on canvas. SPAIN. BASQUE COUNTRY. VIZCAYA. Bilbao. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

American persidents - first hundred years - 1776 1876. Print showing bust portraits of U.S. presidents from George Washington to Ulysses S. Grant, with view of the U.S. Capitol building

Little Big Horn
General Custers last stand Date: 25 June 1876

Kensington & Chelsea District School, Banstead, Surrey
Aerial view of Beechholme childrens home, Banstead, Surrey, originally established in 1876 as the Kensington and Chelsea District School to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Puffing Billy engine
Puffing Billy, steam engine invented by William Headley in 1813. Headley solved the problem of slippage on the iron tracks by applying power through two sets of driving wheels

Tuscarora Indian village hut
Interior of a Tuscarora American Indian village hut. The Indian hut betrays nothing pertaining to native Indian culture, being bare apart from a perambulator and double bed. Date: 1876

Greece Salonika
The harbour of Salonika, seen from the sea

Mikhail Bakunin
MIKHAIL ALEKSANDROVICH BAKUNIN Russian anarchist and writer

Titus Salt / Col Lith
SIR TITUS SALT Manufacturer and philanthropist

Wild Bill Hickok / Postcd
WILD BILL HICKOK alias JAMES BUTLER American frontiersman, stage driver, scout, and US marshal; famous as a crack shot

Easton Neston / 1876
Easton Neston, Northamptonshire: the hunting seat of the Empress of Austria

Dalys Theatre / Broadway
Augustin Daly, American theatrical manager & dramatist, opened his first theatre on Broadway in 1869. This picture shows a full house enjoying a performance

Spring Announced 1876
Spring is announced to a pretty lady at a window

Sheep Dog Trial in 1876
Sheepdog trials at Alexandra Palace

MACLEOD (1876 - 1935)
JOHN JAMES RICHARD MACLEOD Canadian physiologist Nobel prize 1922

George Sand / Nadar Photo
GEORGE SAND Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dudevant, nee Dupin French writer

Indian Elephant in London Zoo 1896
Jung Perchard the Indian elephant was presented to Prince of Wales (Edward VII), during the shooting expeditions in Indian twenty years before in 1876

Haslar Naval Hospital, Gosport, Hampshire. 1876

G F Hamilton / Woodbury
GEORGE FRANCIS, lord HAMILTON Son of the 1st duke of Abercorn: politician, administrator in India (see here in 1876) Date: 1845 - 1927

Sketch map of proposed improvements, Birmingham
Sketch map of a locality around Stafford Street in Birmingham with the proposed new street running through it

Wye Valley Railway
Tintern Abbey, and the south entrance to a short tunnel alongside the River Wye on the Wye Valley Railway, opened in October 1876 Date: October 1876

Modern Athenians plate 46 - Edinburgh
James Simson (d. 1876) doctor and president of the Royal College of Surgeons, approaching Alexander Monro (d. 1859) professor of Anatomy

Bournemouth
The new Winter Garden at Bournemouth, Dorset

Alexander Russel - 2
ALEXANDER RUSSEL editor of the Scotsman newspaper. Date: 1814 - 1876

MASSINE, Lenide (1896-1979); FALLA, Manuel de (1876-1946). Russian dance and choreographer.; Spanish composer and pianist

Kensington & Chelsea District School, Boys Band
In 1876, the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea established a District School for pauper children at Banstead, Surrey (later known as Beechholme)

Caius New Buildings
The new buildings of Caius College, facing along Kings Parade

US Centenary Celebration
The first century of the United States of America as an independent country is celebrated with these scenes of great and memorable events

Pablo Casals / Postcard
PABLO CASALS Spanish cellist, conductor and composer

Countrywear / Men 1876
A country gentlemen wears a Norfolk shirt (the forerunner of the Norfolk jacket), knickerbockers, bowler hat, woollen socks & leather shoes & carries a knobbly cane

Funghi / Cordier 2 1876
AGARICUS MUSCARIUS (poisonous)

Japanese Staff Fighting
Japanese practising with their equivalent of the quarterstaff

Geo. Macaulay Trevelyan
George Macaulay Trevelyan Historian

Dance of nautch girls before the Prince of Wales at the native entertainment at the Villa of Belgatchia in Calcutta, India. Date: 1876

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Engraving of Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

Installation of Prince Leopold as Grand Master of the Oxfordshire Freemasons in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. Date: 1876

A masonic ball at Cambridge, given by the Isaac Newton University Lodge of Freemasons

One of the memorial's corner statues (Europe) Date: built 1864 - 1876

At the Turnspit Quakers Alley drawn by Alfred Concanen, betting on rat baiting or ratting in the East End of London Date: 1876

Jose Antonio Vidal Pujadas (Josep Anton Vidal)
Jose Antonio Vidal Pujadas (Josep Anton Vidal i Pujadas) (Botarell, 1804-l'Arboc, 1889)

Baldomero Espartero (1793-1879). Spanish military
Joaquin Baldomero Fernandez-Espartero Alvarez de Toro (1793-1879), called Baldomero Espartero. Spanish military and politician. He served as the Regent of Spain

Jose Vive (d. 1854). Sixth commander of the Squadrons of Catalonia (1836-1854). Portrait. Engraving. Historia de las Escuadras de Cataluna, 1876

Pedro Pablo Veciana y de Pastoret (Pere Pau Veciana)
Pedro Pablo Veciana y de Pastoret (Pere Pau Veciana i Pastoret) (Valls, 1787-Valls, 1854). Spanish military

Pedro Martir de Veciana y de Miro (Pere Martir)
Pedro Martir de Veciana y de Miro (Pere Martir de Veciana i de Miro) (Valls, 1771-Tarragona, 1836)

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