1879 Collection (page 7)

Sarojini Naidu Nee Chatt
SAROJINI NAIDU (NEE CHATTOPADHYAY) Indian poet and reformer. First woman president of the National Congress. Date: 1879 - 1949

Victorian man in studio photo
A Victorian man in a studio photo, probably around the time of his marriage in 1879. He is Walter Watson of Derby, joiner and carpenter. Date: circa 1879

St Johns Childrens Home, Ipswich, Suffolk
Children and nurses at the St Johns Childrens Home on Bloomfield Street in Ipswich, Suffolk. The childrens toys include two rocking horses

Industrial School, Chelmsford, Essex
The Essex Industrial School on Rainsford Road, Primrose Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, certified in 1879 to hold 150 boys. In 1933 it became the Essex Home Approved School

Joseph Swan
Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (1828-1914), English chemist, inventor and industrialist. As well as inventing the dry plate photographic process

Swanbill Corsets 1879
Mrs Addley Bourne offers her Swanbill corsets at her shop in Piccadilly, where une corsetiere Parisienne is ready to assist and advise

The Sailors Return
The sailors wife holds up her child to see the ship in which its papa is sailing home

Pages of a calendar booklet for 1879
Pages of a calendar booklet or diary for 1879 -- Winter comes serene and slow, Love leaves footprints in the snow; Spring has touched the earth and sky, Love awakened passes by. Date: 1879

Rorkes Drift, Natal, South Africa, site of a battle on 22-23 January 1879 during the Anglo-Zulu War. Date: circa 1905

Franz Rumpler (1848-1922). The Sedelmayer Family, 1879
Franz Rumpler (1848-1922). Austrian painter. The Sedelmayer Family, 1879. National Gallery in Prague (Sternberg). Czech Republic

Edouard Manet (1832-1883). French painter. The Beer Maid, 1879. Oil on canvas. Impressionism. Orsay Museum. Paris. France

Juan Antonio Mateos (1831-1913). Writer and Mexican liberal
Juan Antonio Mateos Lozada (1831-1913). Playwright, novelist, poet and Mexican liberal politician. Engraving by A. Carretero. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, 1879. Colored

Juan Jose Latorre (1846-1912). Portrait. Colored engraving
Juan Jose Latorre Benavente (1846-1912). Chilean naval officer. Portrait. Engraving by Capuz in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1879. Colored

Claude Monet (1840-1926). Plum Trees in Blossom at Vetheuil, 1879. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Cartoon, Edwin Villiers, theatre manager and actor
Cartoon, Robert Edwin Villiers (1830-1904), manager of the Canterbury and London Pavilion music hall, and formerly an actor. 1879

Nicholas-Fabre Geffrard
NICHOLAS-FABRE GEFFRARD Haitian general and politician; President of Haiti 1859-67 Date: 1806 - 1879

Bismarck as Sailor / 1879
OTTO BISMARCK Portrayed as a sailor at the helm of his ship Date: 1815 - 1898

Nancy, Lady Astor
NANCY, LADY ASTOR nee Nancy Witcher Langhorne wife of Waldorf, 2nd viscount Astor (her 2nd husband) first woman MP, noted hostess of the Cliveden Set Date: 1879 - 1964

Young Trout, Salmon Parr, and Smelt
Young Trout (Salmo cambricus or Salmo trutta, also known as Young Salmon, Silver Salmon, Sea Trout, Sewen and Sewin), Salmon Parr (Salmo salar, Salmo salmulus)

Salmo trutta, or Brown Trout, also known as Grey Trout, Bull Trout, Sea Truff and Pugtrout. Date: 1879

Salmo trutta, or Salmon Trout. Date: 1879

Salmo salar, or Atlantic Salmon (male), a freshwater and marine variety. Date: 1879

Crucian Carp and Prussian Carp
Crucian Carp (Carassius carassius) and Prussian Carp (Carassius gibelio). Date: 1879

Eurasian Ruffe and Millers Thumb
Eurasian Ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernua, also known as Ruff, Jack Ruff, Ruffe and Pope), and Millers Thumb (Cottus gobio, also known as Freshwater Sculpin, European Bullhead)

Georgia. Gori. Statue of Stalin
GEORGIA. SHIDA KARTLI. Gori. Statue of Stalin. Sculpture

First Woolworth store, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
The first Woolworth store, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, where items were sold for five and ten cents. It was opened by F W Woolworth on 21 June 1879. Date: late 19th century

Royal Wedding 1879 -- Duke of Connaught & Princess Louise
Scene at the wedding of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, on 13 March 1879 at St Georges Chapel, Windsor

Little girl sitting on a fence
A little girl sitting on a fence. first published 1879

Gypsy Camp near Latimer road, London
Sketches of gypsy life: an encampment near Latimer road, Notting Hill. Mr. George Smith, social reformer of Coalville, Leicester, can been seen conversing with a gypsy family in the fore ground. 1879

Morosis mountain stronghold in Basutoland, South Africa
British soldiers inspect from afar the stronghold of Morosi, a chief of the Bapedi, in the rugged highland country of the Basutos in South Africa

Yakub Khan / Afghanistan
YAKUB KHAN Amir of Afghanistan (Kingdom of Kabul). Ruled from February to December 1879. Date: 1840 - ?

Railway tunnel, Oakeley Slate Quarry, North Wales
Entrance to a railway tunnel, built in 1879, which goes right under the main workings of Oakeley Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales

Smithston Asylum and Poorhouse, Greenock, Renfrewshire
The Smithston Asylum and Poorhouse, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, was opened in 1879 to house the areas lunatics and paupers

Charlotte and Feodora of Prussia
Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1860-1919), daughter of Vicky (Princess Royal), Crown Princess of Prussia, with her daughter Feodora (1879-1945) in 1880

The Death of Francesca de Rimini and Paolo Malatesta
Engraving of the painting by Alexandre Cabanel (1870), of the Death of Francesca de Rimini and Paolo Malatesta

Gypsy camp in Notting Hill
Sketches of Gypsy life: a camp near Latimer Road, Notting Hill

The Zulu wars. A Zulu blacksmith forging an assegai
Scene depicting a Zulu making a spear in a fire and shaping it into the famous zulu weapon. Male and female zulus are in the foreground, while two European men watch in the background

Zulu wars. Queen Victoria decorating officers engaged in the
Queen Victoria decorating Lieutenant John Rouse Merriott Chard with the Victoria Cross for bravery. Chard was one of the officers who successfully defended Rorkes Drift from an army of Zulu warriors

Lorne Highland Whisky
A display case of Lorne Highland Whisky and a model of the distillation equipment

Trotsky and Wife
LEON TROTSKY Russian statesman, visiting Pompeii with his wife, 1932 while traveling under the name of Leo Sedoff Effendi

Garibaldi / Cartoon 1879
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI Italian patriot

Zulu & Cleft Stick
A Zulu courier running, carrying a message in a cleft stick

Acton Reynald Hall, Shropshire

Schonbrunn Palace
The royal palace of Schonbrunn

Swedish Countryside
Christdala i Smaland - a country village dominated by its church, and looking pretty much like villages anywhere else !

The Human Brain. Date: 1879

Route taken by Front attack of Peiwar Kotal
Photograph of a view of the route taken by front attack of Peiwar Kotal. Photographer: John Burke, 1878-1879 (c). From album of 115 photographs by Bourne and Shepherd

Soldiers of the 72nd (Duke of Albany?s Own Highlanders) Reg
Photograph: Soldiers of the 72nd (Duke of Albany?s Own Highlanders) Regiment, 1879. From an album of 60 photographs by John Burke, 1878-1880

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