1888 Collection (page 6)

Christmas card in the form of a railway ticket -- Wishing you a First Class time of it. Date: 1888

Advert for Hillman, Herbert & Cooper Ld 1888
Advertisement for safety bicycles, youths and girls premier tricycles and steering tricycles, all available from Hillman, Herbert & Cooper Ld in Coventry. 1888

Landscape from Arles, 1888, by Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). French painter. Landscape from Arles, 1888. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

View of a Garden, Linkoping, 1887-1888, by Johan Krouthen
Johan Krouthen (1858-1888). Swedish painter. View of a Garden, Linkoping, 1887-1888. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Statue of Juan Sebastian Elcano (1476-1526) by Ricardo
Juan Sebastian Elcano (1476-1526). Spanish explorer and navigator. Statue by Ricardo Bellver Ramon (1845-1924), 1888. Getaria. Spain

Advert for W. Summerscales & Sons, Victorian items 1888
General Engineers, Corey Lane Works and Phoenix Foundry, Keighley, England. Selection of items for interior and exterior use including, patent Sundale copying press, patent perfect washer

Advert for Maple & Co. lamps 1888
Selection of Victorian lamps with decorative stands. 1888

Advert for Dobble, Forbes & Co stoves and ranges 1888
A selection of three matchless combustion heating stoves, kitchen ranges with self-setting and fuel saving and a new portable cast-iron washing copper

Advert for Hudsons Soap 1888
Policeman holding a touch up at a notice on a fence saying Arrest all dirt and cleanse everthing by using Hudsons Soap REWARD!! purity, health and satisfaction by its regular saily use. 1888

Advert for Clarkes Patent Fairy lamps & lights 1888
Clarkes Patent Fairy lamps and lights. Available in Manufactory-Childs Hill, London, N.W. 1888

Queen Katherine of France, by Laurence Alma-Tadema
Queen [Princess] Katherine of France, by Laurence Alma-Tadema, receiving a lesson in the English language from her Nurse before meeting King Henry V of England (from Henry V). 1888

Beatrice, by Frank Dicksee (from Much Ado About Nothing). 1888

At the circus, two clowns playing musical instruments 1888
Two traditional circus clowns, wearing ruffled collar, pointed hats, white faces with red noses, lips, eyebrows and cheeks, playing musical instruments. Date: 1888

Bisley Farm School No. 1
The original main building at Bisley Farm School, Surrey, opened in 1868. Date: circa 1888

Cranmore House, 12Th Sept. 1888 - a view to the front of the house with a man and woman in the foreground. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Ferreira Gold Mining Company, Transvaal, South Africa, circa 1888 (Robert Harris studio). Date: circa 1888

West Street, Durban, South Africa, circa 1888 (Robert Harris studio). Date: circa 1888

Judas Iscariot. One of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. Betrayal of Jesus to the hands of the chief Sanhedrin priests in exchange for a payment of thirty silver coins. Engraving by Bong

Arnolds home at Fox How
Matthew Arnolds home at Fox How, near Ambleside in Cumbria, built by his father Thomas A. at Wordsworths suggestion : W. and Harriet Martineau lived close by. Date: 1822 - 1888

Bryant & May Matchmakers
A group of women employed at Bryant & May cutting down & boxing Ruby & Runaway Matches. Date: 1888

Advert in Zimmermann & Co. lamps 1888
Zimmermann & Co. Lamp manufactures and importers. Date: 1888

Dom. Faust. Sarmiento
DOMINGO FAUSTINO SARMIENTO Argentinian statesman and President 1868 - 1874 Date: 1811 - 1888

Advert for Ewart & Son boiler 1888
Advertisement in a trade book for 1888, New Crown boiler, instant hot water in five minutes, available from Ewart & Son in Euston Road, London. 1888

Advert for Morrison, Ingram & Son bath and lavatories 1888
Advertisement in a trade book for 1888, specialities of the manufactures of patent steamless and noiseless baths and lavatories, patent spray, cascade, trinal and other closets

Advert for Silicated Carbon Filter Company 1888
Patent Silicated Carbon Filter, each time that the fiter is filled the air under the Aerator Cover is forced in the direction shown by the arrows through the Silicated Carbon block

Advert for Moses Eadon - Sons tools makers 1888
Moses Eadon & Sons, established in 1823, manufactures of steel, tool makers. 1888

Eiffel Tower being built 1888
Construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, strated in January 1887 and finished in March 1889, here you can see workmen building parts of Eiffel Tower

WAKSMAN, Selman Abraham (1888-1973). American microbiologist. He discovered streptomycin. He received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1952. Oil

RENOIR, Pierre Auguste. Little Girl Carrying
RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919). Little Girl Carrying Flowers or The Little Gleaner. 1888. Impressionism. Oil on canvas. BRAZIL. Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo Museum of Art

The Fatalist
THE FATALIST. I m sure they ll ear this damn thing squeakin.. Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 1St Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (1888-1959)

German Gewehr 88 rifle with face guard
German Gewehr 88 bolt-action rifle, in service from 1888 until the early part of the First World War. The face guard may be a later addition. (2 of 4) Date: 1888-1915

Prof Dr Ernst Heinkel 1888-1958
Prof Dr Ernst Heinkel, 1888-1958. Date: 1958

Advert for Jays of London Mourning clothes
A pensive woman sits beneath a tree, modelling mourning attire from Jays of London. Her work basket is perched on a rustic table, and illustrated magazines lie discarded at her feet. Date: 1888

The Australian Cricket Team 1888. Back row JJ Ferris, AH Jarvis, J Worrall, CW Beal (manager), J McC Blackham, HF Boyle, J Edwards

Emigrant Ship, Denmark
Danish emigrants board a steamship in the harbour, Copenhagen, for travel to America. Date: 1888

Nicolas Gustave Hubbard / Gill
Nicolas Gustave Hubbard (1828-1888) French political economist and historian

Prince Otto von Bismarck addressing the German Reichstag, 18
Engraving showing Prince Otto Edward Leopold von Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg (1815-1898), the Prusso-German statesman and first Chancellor of the German Empire

John Logie Baird watching Stereoscopic Television, 1942
Photograph showing John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the Scottish electrical engineer and television pioneer, watching stereoscopic television at his home in Sydenham Hill, London, June 1942

John Logie Baird experimenting at home, 1942
Photograph showing John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the Scottish electrical engineer and television pioneer, conducting a television experiment at his home in Sydenham Hill, London, 1942

Lord Howard of Effingham on the quarterdeck of the Ark Royal
Engraving of Lord Howard of Effingham, Admiral of the English Fleet, knighting some of his captains for their distinguished action in attacking the Spanish Armada

Princess Dora D istria
Mme DORA D ISTRIA, nee Princess Elena Ghica, wife of Prince Alexander Koltov Massalsky. Romanian writer, feminist, ethnographer, historian, composer, alpinist etc etc

Battle between the English Fleet and Spanish Armada, 1588
Illustration of a battle in the English Channel between Elizabeth Is fleet and the Spanish Armada of King Philip II. This image would appear to depict several English galleons or galleases exchanging

Match Makers
The Match Makers of the East End. The match-making industry employed mainly female workers and came to prominence in 1888 during the match-making strike when, led by Annie Besant

The Torpedo Washer / 1888
THE TORPEDO WASHER - clothes cleaned by compressed air, in half the time of any other washer

JACK-IN-THE-BOX 1888
Two little girls look rather wary of a jack-in-the-box sitting on the table

Toilet / Loos
TWYFORDs UNITAS combining W.C.basin, urinal and slop sink, avoiding the wetting so objectionable in Closets having permanent seats

Invitation, Glasgow International Exhibition, 1888
Invitation to the International Exhibition, Glasgow, 22 August 1888, on the occasion of a State Visit from Queen Victoria. 1888

David Garrick by Tom Robertson. Part of four-page souvenir for the revival at the Criterion Theatre, 29th February 1888 starring Charles Wyndham (23 March 1837 12 January 1919) who owned the theatre

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