Lord Salisbury, British Prime MinisterLord Salisbury (Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 1830-1903), British Prime Minister. 1889
Giovanni BottesiniItalian bass-player
Middlesbrough Town Hall, a typical Victorian municipal building, with a lofty clock tower, was officially opened by Edward, Prince of Wales later Edward VII), in 1889
Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey)Highclere Castle (architect Sir Charles Barry). Date: 1889
Gerard Manley Hopkins English Poet
Brockwell Park, Herne Hill : a movement is now on foot to buy this land, and keep it as a public park for the people
Brunels SS Great Eastern, Milford Haven, South WalesBrunels iron sailing steamship, the SS Great Eastern, berthed at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, during the 1870s. The ship is so large that it runs the length of Hamilton Terrace
Charlie Chaplin as the little trampFilm actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), film star and director, seen here in his little tramp costume, probably in a still from his 1925 film, The Gold Rush
Landore Viaduct construction, near Swansea, South WalesView of construction work on the Landore Viaduct, over the Swansea valley and the River Tawe, on the Great Western Railway, Glamorgan, South Wales
Menelik Ii / EthiopiaMENELIK II Emperor of Ethiopia (1889-1913)
Music cover for Two Marionettes Polka, composed by May Ostlere. Two puppets (without strings!) are depicted dancing on a small stage, framed by red and gold curtains
Girls with Blossom 1889Three little girls on the bank of a stream, surrounded by flowers and blossom
Flood at Johnstown / USAA mother watches helplessly as her husband and young duaghter are swept away by the raging waters of a flood that hit Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Empire Theatre / 1889The cover of a programme for the Empire theatre, London. The bill featured comedians including Dan Leno and Cleopatra, A Grand Ballet Divertissement
Paris / Eiffel Tower 1889The Tower surrounded by the buildings of the Exposition, seen from the Seine
Loseley Farm, SurreyLoseley Farm, near Ewhurst, Surrey, which will become famous for its dairy produce in days to come
Martin HeideggerMARTIN HEIDEGGER German philosopher who influenced Sartre and the Existentialists
Manchester Ship CanalConstruction scene : the works at Latchford, near Warrington
Joseph De Veuster DamienJOSEPH DE VEUSTER DAMIEN FATHER DAMIEN Belgian missonary who helped lepers
Circus Poster / ParisA poster for Cirque d ete (Summer circus) in the Champs Elysees, Paris. Open every evening, there are clowns, lions and horses, to name but a few acts
Cameron Highlanders79th Regiment; The Queens Own Cameron Highlanders
Mer-People / Look-AlikesA mermaid compared with the manatee at the Zoological Gardens, London
Robert Browning / QuinnellROBERT BROWNING Colour portrait
Rudolf / Archduke AustriaRUDOLF, ARCHDUKE and CROWN PRINCE of AUSTRIA Seen here with his fiancee, Stephanie Clothilde of Belgium
Lyttleton V Saunders 89A Lyttleton and C Saunders play real tennis at New Princes Club in Knightsbridge, London, which was recently opened by the Prince of Wales
Circus Acrobats / GarnierA female acrobat balances on her hands and brings her ankles level with her ears
Meat Mincer 1889The Enterprise meat chopper, or mincer, is apparently the best in the world
Gasworkers MeetingMeeting of the GASWORKERS at Peckham Rye, London, in favour of better working conditions
Smoking the Bees / StokesSmoking the bees
Blavatsky 1889HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY Russian mystic, writer &c at age 58
Fazakerley Cottage Homes TreatA treat - probably in the form of a country picnic - for boys from the Fazakerley Cottage Homes in Liverpool, accompanied by staff and other helpers
Labour Union Poster - Great London Dock StrikeLabour Union Poster Commemorating the Great London Dock Strike of 1889. This industrial dispute involving dock workers in the Port of London broke out on 14 August 1889
Infirmary - Havil Street, CamberwellIts the circular ward block for the workhouse infirmary, designed in 1889 by architect R.P. Whellock, and opened the following year at Havil Street, Camberwell
Judaism. Torah scroll case wrapped in black. Libya, 1889. Carved wood and cotton. Case: Gift of the Moshav movement, through Rabbi Menahem Hacohen and Bracha Yaniv, Survey of Synagogues
King's Royal Rifle Corps Date: 1889
1889 photograph - RMS Teutonic - from an album of images relating to the launch of the vessel, which was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast
Stanley MorrisonSTANLEY MORRISON Typographer and type designer Date: 1889 - 1967
Shoreditch Cottage Homes, Hornchurch, EssexBoys in surplices leaving the chapel at the Shoreditch Union cottage homes, Hornchurch, Essex. Opened in 1889 to house pauper children away from the workhouse
Sir John Reith - Director General of the BBCCartoon portrait, Sir John Reith, 1st Baron Reith of Stonehaven (1889-1971), Director General of the BBC, 1927-1938, depicted here as a giant figure towering over Broadcasting House, Portland Place
The Folly Theatre, Peter Street, ManchesterPromotional postcard showing a playbill of the acts playing at the Folly Theatre of Varieties, (known as the Folly) Peter Street, Manchester for the week commencing Monday, 24th March 1889
Incandescent giant lamp, model of the Edison type bulb. ExpoIncandescent giant lamp, twelve feet high, mounted on a pedestal crowned by a model of the Edison type bulb, increased 20, 000 times
Allan Robertson and Tom Morris playing golf. 1889
Urinal Advert 1889Milton Syers Peckham urinal 1889
Propaganda / BismarckBismarck exploits the power of the Reptile Press. Date: 1889
Berberis angulosa, yellow flowered shrub native to the Himalayas.. Hand-coloured botanical illustration drawn by Matilda Smith and lithographed by J.N
Olearia macrodonta, white flower native to New Zealand.. Hand-coloured botanical illustration drawn by Matilda Smith and lithographed by E
BESSIERES, Jean-Baptiste (1768-1813). Marshal of the French Empire. Duke of Istria. He fought with Napoleon in the campaigns of Egypt, Spain and Russia
Reptile Gallery, November 1889The Reptile Gallery displayed a collection of stuffed specimens and skeletons of reptiles, including crocodiles, lizards, snakes and tortoises