1879 Collection (page 4)

BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR Surviving veterans meet after 74 years ! Date: 1805 - 1879

Sheffield Truant School
A view of the Truant school established in 1879 in a former workhouse at Hollow Meadows, Bradfield, near Sheffield

England v Scotland International Football at the Oval, 1879 Date: 1879

Morris & Company Premises
A photograph showing the shop window premises of Morris and Co, a furnishing and decorative arts manufacturer founded in 1861 by William Morris, a pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement. Date: 1879

The Dreamer
A portrait painting of a young figure, with short black hair, seated, holding her little finger to her mouth. Her eyes are staring without a direct focus, in a day dream. Date: 1879

Crocheted Bicycle Cap Date: 1879

Crocheted Deerstalker and Scotch Bonnet Date: 1879

Sculling championship won by Edward Hanlan, River Tyne
The Sculling Championship won by Canadian Edward Hanlan over Englishman William Elliott, on the River Tyne, 19 June 1879 Date: 1879

The Press Gang - forcing men to join the navy Date: 1879

The Cunard Steamer Scotia, in its day the largest transatlantic paddle-wheel boat Date: 1879

Only A Penny, Try Your Lungs! - fairground scene Date: 1879

Only A Penny, Try your weight, Sir? - fairground scene
Only A Penny, Try your weight, Sir? - weighing machine in fairground scene Date: 1879

Only A Penny, Don't be afraid to hit! - fairground scene
Only A Penny, Don't be afraid to hit! - strength test at fairground Date: 1879

Ocean race between the Henrietta, Fleetwing and Vesta - The Start Date: 1879

Nine lighthouses in different styles Date: 1879

A Favourite Breeze, Transatlantic Yacht Date: 1879

The Daughter of the House
A portrait painting showing a comfortable looking girl, wearing a blue neck garment, holding some fruit in her right hand, while reading a book. A pink bird resides in the cage next to he. Date: 1879

First Bulgarian Postcard
The printing is pink on buff card. The heading is Union Postale Universelle Bulgarie with a Cyrillic form underneath. There is a printed 10c stamp. Date: 1879

Bosnia and Herzegovina Postcard
The card is entitled Correspondez-Karte and the countries are identified as Dopisnica. It has light brown printing on dark buff board with a printed 2.25 Nov stamp. Date: 1879

The card that upset Ireland
This card headed Great Britain missed out Ireland which caused political uproar and was corrected and replaced from 1 October 1879. Brown printing on buff card

The card that pleased Ireland
This card for overseas mail replaced the one issued on 1 April (unfortunate date!) which had left Ireland off the title. It was posted from Hull to Magdeburg

Art deco lady with handbag, long coat and high heels
Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi was born in 1879 and died in 1949. He lived for many years in Paris working as a caricature cartoonist

Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt by Bastien-Lepage
Reproduction of a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, by Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1879 Date: 1879

Boy with snowballs, Snowballing Ambush Date: 1879

KINDELAN DUANY, Alfredo (1879-1962). Spanish military man, risen up together with Franco. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Jubert Figueras Private Foundation

Ypres, The City of Death, Cloth Hall and St Martin's Church
Ypres - The City of Death showing the shelled Cloth Hall and St. Martin's Church. Captain Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937). Holiday'S Early Life Was Spent In St

Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky and others
Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), Soviet Russian leader. Seen here in a group of men, with Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) on his left. Date: circa 1930s

Leon Trotsky, Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist
Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein, 1879-1940), Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist, one of the leaders, with Lenin, of the Russian October Revolution of 1917

Portrait bust of Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), theoretical physicist, philosopher and author -- a bronze portrait bust on a marble plinth, made by Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), American-born British sculptor

Albert Einstein with Charlie Chaplin at movie premiere
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), theoretical physicist, with Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), film star and director, at the premiere of Chaplin's movie, City Lights

Zulu war. At Bay! The French Prince Imperial attacked by Z
Fanciful depiction of the Prince Imperial's last moments as he is attacked by Zulus, a reflection of the sentimental way his death was treated by the press at the time. Date: 1879

The Prince Imperial of France, aged three in the uniform of
The infant Prince Imperial in full military dress, with small rifle, prefiguring his death in uniform twenty years later in 1879, 1st June, during an ambush in the Zulu wars. Date: 1859

The Zulu war. The entrenched position at Rorke's Drift
The scene as reinforcements arrive at Rorke's Drift, successfully defended by the British from 3, 000 Zulus. Extended caption

Zulu war. Death of Prince Imperial. The Prince's toy railway
Sketch taken during Franco-Prussian war of Prince's playthings. The death of the Prince Imperial during the Zulu war was treated with great sentimentality by the ILN. Date: 1879

Zulu War Late Prince Imperial Body Carried Iln
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The Defenders of Rorke's Drift at daybreak, 23rd January 187
Dead Zulus piled up against sandbanks and fortifications, British officers with rifles and bayonets standing above them, perpetrating the myth that Rorke's Drift was an important victory

The Battle of Isandhlwana. Isandula Hill - facsimile of sket
Sketch of Isandhlwana Hill after the battle of Isandhlwana, showing the British dead at the bottom of the hill. Date: 1879

John Bright (1811 - 1889), British radical and Liberal statesman. Date: 1879

Charles Parnell at a Anti Rent Meeting 1879
Charles Parnell an Irish nationalist, addressing an anti-rent meeting at Limerick, Ireland. Date: August 1879

MAURITANIAN GRAVEMOUND
The burial mound of a king in Mauritania, northwest Africa. Date: 1879

A ride in the magic Sleigh. Date: 1879

Per Gynt. Date: 1879

Floors Castle, Roxburgh Date: 1879

Dalkeith Palace Date: 1879

BURIAL AT SEA
Committing a body to the deep on a passenger steamer Date: 1879

BERNADETTE DIES
When Bernadette Soubirous dies, a nun, at Nevers, not only do nuns hover round her deathbed, but angels hover overhead Date: 16 April 1879

A Norwegian countryman encounters spirits of the dead in the marshes Date: 1879

The March to Ulundi The occupation of a Military Kraal by British troops Date: 1879

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