1876 Collection (page 17)

Aino Ackte / Herwine
AINO ACKTE Finnish opera singer, seen here in 1900 in the role of Herwine in La Cloche du Rhin

John Bright / Anon Photo
JOHN BRIGHT radical statesman, in 1876

Abdul Hamid Ii / Pj 1897
ABDUL HAMID II Ottoman Sultan (1876-1909) who went to war abroad, misgoverned at home, and was eventually deposed

Abdul Hamid Ii / Rire 1897
ABDUL HAMID II Ottoman Sultan (1876-1909) who went to war abroad, misgoverned at home, and was eventually deposed

Duke Heinrich / Dutch / 1901
DUKE HEINRICH of MECKLENBURG-SCHWERIN Prince Consort of Wilhelmina, Queen of Holland

Elisabeth / Belgian Queen
ELISABETH OF BAVARIA Wife of Albert I, King of Belgium

Sewing Machine Factory
The Singer sewing machine factory at Elizabethport, New Jersey

Sir Muirhead Bone
SIR MUIRHEAD BONE Scottish artist, notably as war artist during World War One

US / IRONWORKS / 1876
USA Cambria Iron & Steel works, Johnston, PA

Saarbrucken Ironworks
GERMANY Saarbrucken Ironworks: the welding shop

Ponchielli / Gioconda / Lbg
Performed at Covent Garden Theatre, London

Royal Visit to Hospital
Princess Louise visits the Victoria hospital for sick children in Chelsea

A G Bell in 1876
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL in 1876, at the age of 29 American inventor

Picnic by a River
A group of men and women enjoy a picnic by a river

WOMEN & GIRL 1876
Girl: short grey dress trimmed with red ribbons down the front. Women: jacket bodices, one with pointed basques at the back, tie-back skirts & long mermaid-tail trains

Bristol Paddlesteamer
Paddle steamer of the Fall River Line, plying between New York and Boston

Performing Elephant
A performing elephant entertains the crowd during a circus performance at the Crystal Palace

Outdoor Wrestling
Westmoreland sports, Grasmere

WAGNER / LIEBIG / 6 / 1876
RICHARD WAGNER German composer in 1876, with Kaiser Wilhelm I at the inauguration of the Bayreuth Theatre

Manuel De Falla -
MANUEL DE FALLA Spanish musician

V Visits Hospital
She visits the London Hospital

Ponchielli / Ferrari
AMILCARE PONCHIELLI the Italian opera composer, best known for La Gioconda of 1876

JACK LONDON (1913)
JACK LONDON American writer, in 1913 writing in his garden

Atlantic Telegraph
sections of Atlantic and other cables: Dover-Calais 1851 first Atlantic 1857 second Atlantic 1865 Berlin-Halle 1876

Felicien David (Schultz)
FELICIEN DAVID French musician

Jewish Tashlich
The Tashlich ceremony, in which sins are cast into the sea

Mata Hari / Dagger Dance
MATA HARI (= Eye of Dawn) (Margarete Gertrude Zelle) dances the sacred Brahmic Dagger Dance, claiming to have learnt it as a child from the priestesses of Java

Clerk on his Stool
A clerk at his desk, seated on a stool

Two Piece Swimsuits 1876
Two swimmers in the two-piece short-sleeve bathing costume of the day. The short knickers are quite revealing compared with the long dresses of contemporary fashion

Girls with Dog in Snow
Two girls in the snow offer some bread to a hungry little dog

Strawberries & Flowers
A bunch of decorative strawberries and their flowers

A Bunch of Blackberries
A cluster of unripe red and ripe black blackberries

Riverboat Interior
The opulent interior of the Mississippi steamboat Drew. The upper gallery is lined with individual cabins for those who prefer privacy to the society of the saloon

Eagle as us Symbol
The eagle symbolises the way Americans choose to think of themselves - rapacious, aggressive, isolationist, predatory. You wouldn t want one as a pet !

Tom Sawyer & Pirates
The pirates: " They built a fire against the side of a great log... & then cooked some bacon in the frying pan for supper..."

Canal Folk Take Tea / 1876
Canal Life: Tea-time on a Monkey Boat

USA Yale Univ 1876
Yale College: external view

Selective Breeding
Winners of a contest for selective breeding, matching brains with beauty, the academic with the athletic

Elisabeth Q of Belgians
ELISABETH OF BAVARIA wife of Albert I, queen of the Belgians during World War One, she was popular for her resistance to the German invasion

Pavel Yablochkov
PAVEL YABLOCHKOV Russian electric engineer, worked on telegraph system, developedthe first arc lamp, settled in Paris 1876

Ambroise Firmin Didot
AMBROISE FIRMIN DIDOT French scholar, reputed for his Greek studies. He was a member of a famous French family of printers

FUNGHI / CORDIER 49 1876
PHALLUS IMPUDICUS (poisonous)

FUNGHI / CORDIER 34 1876
BOLETUS EDULIS (edible) Date: 1876

FUNGHI / CORDIER 33 1876
Fistulina Hepatica (Edible)

FUNGHI / CORDIER 32 1876
Cantharellus Cibarius (Edible) Cantharellus Aurantiacus (Suspect)

Garden / Decorative Lady
Cherry Ripe : a pretty lady in a pink dress stands in front of a tree full of blossom

Leeds Co-Op Store
LEEDS INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERATIVE STORE, Yorkshire - one of the earliest co-ops

LORD MAYORs SHOW 1876
Elephants are part of the Lord Mayor of Londons 1876 procession : they are shown passing beneath Temple Bar, Fleet Street

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