1893 Collection

Ivor Novello / Profile
IVOR NOVELLO (Ivor Davies) Welsh actor of stage and screen, playwright and composer

Flat Earth map of the world showing it to be a plane
A MAP OF THE WORLD SHOWING IT TO BE A PLANE - and those of us who suppose it to be a globe are clearly mistaken. Date: 1893

Carbolic Smoke Ball / 1893
Advertisement for The Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. which claimed to offer a cure for a wide variety of ailments. This led to a court case on grounds of deception & a landmark ruling

Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty struggle
THE FINAL PROBLEM The death of Sherlock Holmes; Holmes & Moriarty struggle at the Reichenbach Falls: apparently, both are killed. Date: First published: 1893

Chicago World Fair 1893
View from the air of the Chicago World Fair

Dorothy Parker / Iln 1930
DOROTHY PARKER American writer

Map Siam / Thailand 1893
Map showing the Kingdom of Siam, now Thailand

Queen Victoria with King George and Queen Mary, 1893
Photographic portrait of Queen Victoria (1819-1901) of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, with her grandson King George V and his wife Queen Mary, pictured at Osborne House, 1893

An Enthusiastic Lawyer
BRITAIN A barrister in court is carried away by his feelings, to the astonishment of his colleagues

Gladstone / Home Rule Bill
The House of Commons, February 13 1893. William Gladstone, Liberal Prime Minister, introduces the Second Home Rule Bill

Mayakovsky (Seated)
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY - Russian poet and supporter of the Communist party in Russia (this photograph is dated 1927)

Barton Swing Bridge
The Barton Swing Aqueduct is a feat of Victorian civil engineering, at Barton upon Irwell, England. It carries the Bridgewater Canal over the Manchester Ship Canal. Date: completed 1893

Dursley-Pedersen Bike
The Dursley-Pedersen cantilever bicycle

Restaurant Chef / Marchett
Restaurant chefs at work

Guy de Maupassant, French writer
Guy de Maupassant ( Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant ), French writer of novels, short stories and poems

In the Old Belfry -- bellringers in action. 1893

Wedding of George V
Wedding of King George V, then Duke of York, to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, later Queen Mary on 6 July 1893. The couple are attended by numerous bridesmaids

Tsar Alexander III and family
Tsar Alexander III (1845-1894) at the Livadia Palace, Yalta with his family. From left; the Tsarevich Nicholas (later Tsar Nicholas II), Grand Prince Georgi Alexandrovich, Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna

Mayakovsky (H / S)
Mayakovsky (H/S)

Vladimir Mayakovsky
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY Russian poet, futurist : supported communism from 1907, after 1917 sought to depoetize poetry by use of technical innovations

Men Evening Dress 1893
Three variations of evening dress for 1893-4: dress tail coats with roll collar or step collar & a dress jacket. One man wears a black waistcoat & pumps the others wear white

Golf at Wimbledon 1893
A group of male golfers putt out during a round at Wimbledon. Date: 1893

Victorian Train Station
The little railway station at Newtonmore, Inverness-shire, Scotland, a typical small late Victorian station. Date: 1893

Aussie Cricketers 1893
The Eighth Australian Cricketing Team of 1893 pose in their cricket whites and a variety of caps and blazers

PROFESSOR MORIARTY
THE FINAL PROBLEM The evil professor Moriarty; named by Holmes the Napoleon of Crime'. Date: First published: 1893

Scottish Toast 1893
Scotsmen make a toast with thistle shaped glasses full of John Robertson & Sons whisky Date: 1893

Kensington Infirmary, West London
The entrance to Kensington Infirmary on Wrights Lane (now Marloes Road) in West London. The infirmary, designed by Thomas W Aldwinckle, was built in 1893 by the poor law parish of St Mary Abbots

Airing Court at Fountain Mental Hospital, Tooting, Surrey
Children and nurses enjoy playing with toys in an airing court at the Fountain Hospital at Tooting in Surrey (now South London)

Pier Head Station, Liverpool Docks, 1893
Engraving showing the Pier Head Station of the Liverpool Docks Overhead Electric Railway, 1893. This passenger railway, which ran for seven miles through Liverpools docks

PWLLHELI - 1893
Pwllheli, Llyn Peninsula, Gwynedd

J-M Charcot / Maitres
JEAN-MARTIN CHARCOT French neurologist

Excalibur / Beardsley
Arthur learns of the sword Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake

Holmes & Watson / In Lab
THE NAVAL TREATY Holmes busy with his chemistry apparatus at Baker St. watched by Dr. Watson

Mormon Temple
The Mormon Temple, Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah built 1893 at a cost of nearly $4 million !!!

Puccini Mascagni Franche
GIACOMO PUCCINI with Mascagni (left) and Franchetti (centre) at Milan in 1893

NANSENs FRAM (COLOUR)
his ship, the Fram

Queen Victoria & Empress Frederick of Prussia
Queen Victoria seated, together with her eldest daughter, Victoria, (affectionately known as Vicky ), Empress Frederick of Prussia, mother to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Taken 1893

Harry Pollitt, Communist Party leader, with Mao Zedong
Harry Pollitt (1890-1960), Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and head of its trade union department. Seen here shaking hands with the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong (1893-1976)

William Price as Druid
WILLIAM PRICE Welsh eccentric and druid

Wedding of George, Duke of York, and Princess Mary of Teck
The Wedding of Prince George, Duke of York (later King George V), and Princess Mary of Teck on 6th July 1893 at the Chapel Royal, St. Jamess Palace in London

Royal wedding 1893 - Queen Victoria congratulates the bride
Princess May of Teck(later the Duchess of York, then Queen Mary)(1867-1953) receives congratulations from her husbands grandmother, Queen Victoria

Statue of Eros
The famous statue of the Greek god of love, Eros, Piccadilly Circus, London, was sculpted by Alfred Gilbert in 1893. It was originally called the Shaftesbury Monument. Date: 1893

Childrens Ward, Fountain Mental Hospital, Tooting, Surrey
Children in cots and nurses in a ward of the Fountain Hospital at Tooting in Surrey (now South London). The hospital was opened in 1893 as a fever hospital by the Metropolitan Asylums Board

Alfred Rosenberg
ALFRED ROSENBERG Leading proponent of National Socialist ideology. In 1941 he was appointed Minister for the Eastern Occupied Territories

Thailand / Bangkok 1893
Bangkok: viewed across the river

Coventinas well (Roman) Carrawborough, Northumberland Date: 1893

Herbert Vaughan
Herbert Alfred Vaughan (1832 1903), English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1892 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1893

Tower Bridge from the south west, March 1893 Date: 1893

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