1896 Collection (page 2)

Wallis Simpson
A glamorous studio portrait of Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, later Duchess of Windsor (1896-1986), American socialite. Born in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, she divorced her second husband

Hatchards bookshop
Advertisement by Hatchards bookshop promoting one of its books. Depicts an Edwardian lady in front of a horse drawn coach. Date: 1896

Trade union. Manifest published by the World Congress in London
Trade union. Emerged from the development of the Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century in Great Britain. Manifest published by the World Congress in London. 1896

Royal Wedding 1896 -- Princess Maud of Wales
Prince Charles (or Carl) of Denmark, later King Haakon VII, King of Norway, and Princess Maud of Wales (1869-1938), youngest daughter of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra

Camberwell Workhouse, East Dulwich, London
The administrative block of the Camberwell workhouse opened in 1895 on Constance Road, East Dulwich, south London. The building was designed by Thomas Aldwinckle

County Asylum, Newport, Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight County Lunatic Asylum was opened in 1896 at Sandy Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight. It later became the Isle of Wight County Mental Hospital and then Whitecroft Hospital

The Safety Bicycle of the 1890 s
Photograph of a cyclist and his Safety bicycle of the 1890 s. John Kemp Starley produced the first safety bicycle with his Rover design of 1885

Aston Villa Football Club, 1896
Photograph of the Aston Villa Football Club, with the team for the 1896-1897 season. The photograph shows: Back row, left to right: G.B. Ramsay (Secretary), Dr. V.A

Ethiopia / Cartoon / Italy
French comment on Ethiopian defeat of Italy - Italy receives a poke in the eye from a long split bread or " pain fendu

Advert / Press Morning J
Poster for the Morning Journal, New York - a modern newspaper at a modern price

India / Agra / Taj Mahal
Agra: view of the Taj Mahal through a window in Shah Jehans Palace

Ranavalona Iii / Ils 1896
RANAVALONA III in 1897, at the close of her reign, when she had been dethroned by the French and was on her way to exile on the island of Reunion

Blackheath Rugby Team: Latter, Carpmael, Stokes, Lohden, Spurling, Tarbutt, Dixon, Rigby, Finlinson, De Winton, Fegan, Maud, Thomson, Harris, Maturin, Cope, Cattell, Wilson. 1890s

Chanute Type Biplane Glider Hang-Glider of 1896 Date: 1896

St Oswalds Home, Cullercoats, Northumberland
St Oswalds Home for Girls, Mast Lane, Cullercoats, Whitley Bay, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. The home was opened by the Waifs and Strays Society in 1896. Date: 1920s

Sir Alister Hardy
SIR ALISTER HARDY English zoologist with a strong interest in parapsychology, and author of books on the spiritual dimension of the paranormal

Paul Verlaine, French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. Seen here in a full-length photograph, wearing top hat, overcoat and scarf, and leaning on a walking stick

Children dancing on a cutout Christmas card. Date: 1896

Fred Clegg, Rugby player. 1890s

Advert for Maple & Co furniture 1896
Selection of household furnishings. Date: 1896

Advert for Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Victorian items 1896
A selection of Victorian household items; twin oil and vinegar bottles, solid silver candlestick holders, ornate mounted hair brush, cut crystal scent bottle, chased silver lamp with burner

Shoreditch High Street Date: 1896

Drunk man amazed his tankard contains beer and not coffee
In the Bars and Streets. Cartoon drawing by Phil May depicting a very drunk man amazed that his tankard contained beer and not coffee

Architects proposed front elevation, IMechE HQ, Storeys Gate, 1896 1896

Morris / Merton Abbey
WILLIAM MORRIS English writer/artists workshop at Merton Abbey, Surrey Date: 1834 - 1896

Trials on the Midland Railway, May 1848, between Jenny Lind and Jenny Sharp Date: 1896

France / Rennes-Le-Chateau
Wall painting in the eglise Sainte-Madeleine, redecorated circa 1896 to the orders of Berenger Sauniere

Advert / Press To-Day 1896
Poster for To-Day, London, a weekly magazine edited by Jerome K Jerome Date: circa 1896

Honduras Turkey
HONDURAS TURKEY meleagris ocellata

William Morris / Day With
WILLIAM MORRIS English poet and artist

Ethiopia / Negus Menelik
The Negus Menelik II at the battle of Aduwa, where the Italian invaders under general Baratieri were routed with enormous loss

Indian Elephant in London Zoo 1896
Jung Perchard the Indian elephant was presented to Prince of Wales (Edward VII), during the shooting expeditions in Indian twenty years before in 1876

Children riding elephants at Zoological Gardens 1896
Children riding on the elephants at Zoological Gardens, (London Zoo). Date: 1896

Archbishop Herbert Vaughan
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Herbert Vaughan. 1896

W Percy Carpmael, Blackheath and Barbarians Rugby player. 1890s

F H Maturin, Blackheath Rugby Club player. 1890s

Durham County Rugby Team: Parkinson, Stephenson, Swinburne, Marston, Wilson, Bell, Johnston, Humphreys, Todd, Troup, Thompson, Poole, Martin, Kassell, Swainston, Geenty, Hill, Oakes, Gibbon, Hall

Ga Sala / Vanity Fair 1875
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA Writer and journalist Date: 1828 - 1896

Battle of the Beaux and Belles, Aubrey Beardsley
The Battle of the Beaux and Belles by Aubrey Beardsley, one of his series of illustrations to Alexander Popes The Rape of the Lock. Date: 1896

Waifs and Strays Society Lincoln - Boot polishing
Boys polishing boots at the Waifs and Strays Society Home, Lincoln Date: 1896

MASSINE, Lenide (1896-1979); FALLA, Manuel de (1876-1946). Russian dance and choreographer.; Spanish composer and pianist

A couple take a break from fishing by a river
Illustration to Ellen Thorneycroft Fowlers Through Things Temporal captioned And then they went and fell in love with each other

Cretan Insurrection
Once again, the Cretans rise against their Turkish rulers : this time, the great powers intervene : the island will be taken from the Turks and made an independent nation

Edme Pajot, Caricature
EDME PAJOT French medical

Seascape / Wyllie / Girl Own
A seascape

Dreyfus on Devils Isle
ALFRED DREYFUS French army officer and victim of injustice as a prisoner on Devils Island

Advert / Van Velsen Beer
Poster for Van Velsens Beer from Belgium

Morris / Kelmscott House
WILLIAM MORRIS English writers home, Kelmscott House in Hammersmith

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