1878 Collection (page 16)

Improving Voice Timbre
Improving the timbre of the human voice with an amplifier

Islington Walk Race 1878
The Six Days Pedestrian Race at the Agricultural Hall, Islington. (Vaughan on the left, O Leary centre and Brown being sponged on left)

Rail Accident Risk
A satirical comment on the remarkably high accident rate of excursion trains

Manitoba Homestead
A homestead in Manitoba - greeting visitors at Christmas time

Louis Blanc / Gill 1878
LOUIS BLANC French socialist leader Satire

Sailors Dance Hornpipe
British sailors dance a hornpipe to the edification of their Egyptian spectators

Congress of Berlin / 1878
A glass of congress sherry: A scene in the dining room at the Radziwill Palace, Berlin, the setting for the Congress of Berlin

Lady Sips Champagne 1878
This lady is about to take a sip from her glass of champagne

Cruikshank / Wagstaff
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK the artist and temperance advocate as a young man

Alexander Mackenzie
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE Canadian statesman and Prime Minister of Canada from 1873- 1878

Maria De Las Mercedes
MARIA DE LAS MERCEDES first wife of ALFONSO XII, king of Spain

Stanley / Across Unyoro
Zaire expedition : the dash across Unyoro - Stanley at the head of a vast retinue of porters, cooks etc

Disraeli / Berlin / 1878
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl of Beaconsfield In Berlin, 1878

Disraeli / Order of Garter
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl of Beaconsfield Queen Victoria invests him with the Order of the Garter at Osborne in 1878

Disraeli / Carlton Club
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl of Beaconsfield Giving a humorous speech at a Carlton Club Banquet in 1878

G Stresemann / Nobel 1926
GUSTAV STRESEMANN German statesman

Swimming at Santander
A couple swim side by side off the beach at Santander, Spain

Changing in Bathing Hut
Two girls strip in a hut which has not only a mirror and pegs but also a desk and chair in case they feel like writing postcards or a poem about the sea

Lord John Russell / Mayall
Lord John Russell 1st Earl Russell British Liberal Mp

Masefield / John / P Evans
JOHN MASEFIELD English poet, playwriter and fiction writer

C L G Marquis Audiffret
Charles Louis Gaston, marquis d AUDIFFRET French statesman

Joseph Naudet
JOSEPH NAUDET French classical scholar

Victoria / Disraeli / Salisb
Victoria receives Disraeli and Salisbury on their return from the Berlin Congress

Congress of Berlin

LA Garnier-Pages / Feret
LOUIS-ANTOINE GARNIER-PAGES French politician and historian

Vittorio Emanuele Ii / Mar
Vittorio Emanuele II King of Italy

Umberto I / Cadel / Le Rire
UMBERTO I King of Italy from 1878, caricatured as a frightening Jack-in-the-Box

Umberto I / Petit Parisien
UMBERTO I King of Italy from 1878

Hilarion Daza / Iea 1878
HILARION DAZA Bolivian general and provisional President

Wc Bryant / Quinnell
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT American poet and editor

Whaling in Japan
A whaling scene in Japan : drawing them onto the shore

Constance Collier / Benhur
CONSTANCE COLLIER English actress (appeared in Ben Hur at Drury Lane 1902 amongst other roles)

Vittorio Emanuele Ii / Cdv
VITTORIO EMANUELE II King of Italy, circa 1865

Lord John Russell / Cdv
Lord John Russell 1st Earl Russell British Liberal Mp

Charlotte / Saxe-Meiningen
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF PRUSSIA DUCHESS OF SAXE-MEININGEN Grand-daughter of Queen Victoria; married Prince of Saxe-Meiningen in 1878

Shipyards on Clyde
Shipyards and shipping on the Clyde

Henry Vincent / Whitlock
HENRY VINCENT Radical politician

Upton Sinclair / Lon Mag
UPTON BEALL SINCLAIR American writer and social reformer

Angelo Secchi / Rome Uni
PIETRO ANGELO SECCHI Italian astronomer and Jesuit priest

George Gilbert Scott / Iln
SIR GEORGE GILBERT SCOTT English architect

Scarborough / Caldecott
Scarborough, Yorkshire: the Spa Terrace is full of people at the height of the Season

Orange Orchard, Florida
An orange orchard in Florida

Sir William Orpen
SIR WILLIAM NEWENHAM MONTAGUE ORPEN Irish artist, notably during World War One, when he painted the Peace Conference

1st Earl of Lytton
EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON 1ST EARL OF LYTTON Viceroy of India (1875-80), failed to avert Second Afghan War (1878)

Afghanistan / 1878 / Jumrood
The camp of the British Mission to Kabul, at Jumrood, near the Khyber Pass. The Mission was turned back by the Afghan Emir Sher Ali

Khyber Pass / 1878
The fort of Ali Musjid where, in 1878 a British Mission to Kabul was turned back by order of the Emir of that city, Sher Ali

Doll Breakers
Doll breaker!

Electric Light Comes
Coming events cast their shadows before - and none more so than the electric light, which promises to make all other forms of illumination obsolete

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