1894 Collection (page 8)

Battle of Ping-Yang, 1894. Engraving. Colored
First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). Battle of Ping-Yang (September 15, 1894). The Japanese take a Chinese position. Engraving. Colored

Coldstream guards, oldest regiment in the Regular Army in continuous active service. Date: 1894

Sadi Carnot, Young
MARIE-FRANCOIS-SADI CARNOT President of France, while a young man. Date: 1837 - 1894

Variety of birds eggs
1- swallow, 2- cuckoo, 3- rook, 4- crow, 5- jackdaw, 6- jay, 7- sparrowhawk, 8- kestrel, 9- ringed plover, 10- snipe, 11- black tern, 12- common tern. Date: 1894

Lily Langtry (1853 - 1929), British actress. Date: 1894

Advert for Wilson & Gill jewellery 1894
Selection of novelty jewellery from Wilson & Gill, in Regent Street, London. 1894

Introduction to Mwanga III of Uganda
Introduction to Mwanga, from The Rise of Our East African Empire, by Lord Frederick J.D. Lugard, 1893 Date: 1894

Watkins Tower - Proposed Design - Wembley Park, London
Programme for a series of musical concerts and entertainments at Wembley Park, London in July 1894 (Wembley Park officially opened to the public in May 1894)

Karl Anton Werther
KARL ANTON baron von WERTHER Prussian ambassador to France in 1869 : in less than a year the two countries would be at war... Date: 1809 - 1894

Egyptian souvenir postcard - Sphinx, Oasis and Woman
Early pictorial Egyptian souvenir postcard featuring deictions of the Sphinx, an Oasis and an Egyptian bedouin woman from Cairo, wearing an Arousa el Burqa (literally the Bride of the Veil)

Irascible old man leaning forward to rise from his chair
A study of an irascible old man leaning forward to rise from his chair. He may have had a little too much to drink. Date: 1894

Prince Edward of Wales in Indian military uniform
Prince Edward of Wales (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor, dressed in Indian military uniform. Date: c. 1925

Edward VIII in military uniform
Prince Edward of Wales (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, as second lieutenant of the Grenadier Guards in 1914. Date: 1914

Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburghs wedding dress
A sketch showing the profusely embroidered wedding dress worn by Princess Victoria Melita for her marriage to Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse on 19th April 1894 at Coburg

Salome Contents page by Aubrey Beardsley
Design by Aubrey Beardsley for the Contents page of the English translation of Oscar Wildes play Salome. A masked, winged, hermaphroditic satyr gestures to a lady in a long gown. Date: 1894

Princess Victoria Melita & Prince Ernst Ludwig of Hesse
A portrait of the recently married Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and her husband, Prince Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse

Edward VIII in full dress uniform on a blotter
King Edward VIII (1894-1972) in full dress uniform on a Family Journal Coronation Year Blotter. Date: 1937

Latvia - Liepaja - The Nicolai Gymnasium
Liepaja (Libau) - a city in western Latvia on the Baltic sea and the administrative center of Liepaja district. The largest city in the Kurzeme (Courland)

Union Workhouse, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Entrance gateway to the Grimsby Union workhouse on Scartho Road, Grimsby (then in Lincolnshire, now in South Humberside). The buildings, opened in 1894, were designed by H.C. Scaping

Facade of the Reichstag building, Berlin, Germany
View of the front facade of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany. The building opened in 1894 to house the German parliament

Lews Combination Poorhouse, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
The Lews Combination Poorhouse on Coulregrain Road, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland. A number of inmates are visible at the front of the building

The Imperial wedding at St. Petersburg
The Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna, Princess Alix of Hesse, the imperial bride, arrives at the Winter Palace to marry Emperor Nicholas II

Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson on holiday on the Dalmatian c
King Edward VIII (1894-1972), later Duke of Windsor together with Mrs. Wallis Simpson (1896-1986), later Duchess of Windsor on the Dalmatian coast in August 1936

George II and Elizaveta of Greece
King George II of the Hellenes (1890-1947) and his wife, Elisabetha (1894-1956) in the early 1920s. George was the eldest son of King Constantine I and Queen Sophie

The Hesse- Cassel children
The children of Princess Margarete of Prussia and Prince Friedrich Karl of Hesse-Cassel: from left; Wolfgang (1896-1989), Friedrich Wilhelm (1893-1916), known as Freddy, Richard (1901-1969)

Flower Girl at St. Martin s-In-The-Fields, London, 1894
Engraving, after the painting by William Logsdail, showing a London flower-selling girl outside the church of St. Martin s-in-the-Fields, 19th century

King George V beside a portrait of the Czar, 1909
Photograph showing King George V (1865-1936) when Prince of Wales, standing beside a portrait of Czar Nicholas II of Russia (1894-1917) in 1909

Harold Macmillans Speech to the South African Parliament, 1
Photograph of Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) (standing at top) delivering a speech to the South African Parliament, 3rd February 1960

Dwight D Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan, Bermuda, 1957
Photograph of Dwight D Eisenhower (1890-1969)(left), President of the USA, shaking hands with Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), British Prime Minister, at the end of the Bermuda conference

Water Tricycle - 5
The nautical velocipede of Georg Pinkert, of Hamburg, Germany, operates on the paddle-wheel principle. It travels at 15 km/h on land, 12 km/h on water

ABD AL AZIZ / MOROCCO / 1903
ABD AL AZIZ or ABD AL AZIZ IV Sultan of Morocco (1894-1908): modern ideas and friendliness to other nations made him unpopular in his own country

Aepyornis Ingens Moa
An artists impression of how aepyornis ingens, a genus of flightless birds native to Madagascar, might have looked

Racial / Ecuador / Quito Man
Indian man from Quito, carrying a heavy pot

Edisons Kinetoscope 2
EDISONs KINETOSCOPE " Reproducing to the eye the effect of human motion by means of a swift and graded succession of pictures"

Venezuela / Orinoco 1894
VENEZUELA - The banks of the Orinoco teem with picturesque wildlife, but some it can be dangerous, too - note that leopard prowling nearby

Lancelot & Hellawes
Sir Lancelot and the witch Hellawes

Hungarian wolves attack a wedding party
A pack of hungry Hungarian wolves attack a wedding party at Hidos (Hidas, Hidasch)

Wonderland, 1894, by August Strindberg
August Strindberg (1849-1912). Swedish artist. Wonderland, 1894. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Foster-Brothers, 1894, by Olof Sager-Nelson
Olof Sager-Nelson (1868-1896). Swedish painter. Foster-Brothers, 1894. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

At Dutys Call, by Fred C Harcourt, touring to various theatres, including the Gaiety Theatre, West Hartlepool. Other plays by Harcourt are mentioned: The Patriot, Jeanne d Arc, Enlisted

Oxford University Rugby Team, 1894-95: Gibson, Smith, Hartley, Carey, Mullins, Unwin, Balfour, Donaldson, Carey (Captain), Poole, Thomas, Baiss, Leslie Jones, Baker, Robertson. 1890s

Cambridge University Association Team, 1894-5: Broadbent, Lawrence, Lowe, Bray, Anderson, Middleditch, Perkins, Lodge, Hatton, Manly, Burnup. 1890s

Out with the Fire Brigade -- firemen in action at a fire. 1894

Emptying the Missionary Box -- a smartly-dressed woman empties coins onto a plate. 1894

Raw levies for the Chinese army, 1894
First Sino-Japanese War (1st August 1894 17th April 1895). Raw levies for the Chinese army. The only reserve force is that of the Ying Ping or Chinese militia

Japanese warship Yoshino Kan, 1894
First Sino-Japanese War (1st August 1894 17th April 1895). The Japanese warship Yoshino Kan on the cover of the Illustrated London News, 4th August 1894

Cartoon, The Undertakers Arms (after Hogarth), Endum Non Mendum, depicting the imagined demise of the House of Lords. A Bill had been put forward to abolish the Upper House, but was not successful

Triumphal Arch, Tokyo, 1895 - The triumphal arch made in Tokyos Hibiya district to welcome Emperor Meiji back to the capital after the conclusion of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). Date: 1895

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