1897 Collection (page 5)

Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames, London, received the Royal Assent in 1888 but it was not until March 1892 that the work actually begun

Photograph taken from the roof-tops of South Africa Capital, Cape Town. Jubilee procession passing the streets with flags fluttering between the telegraph wires. Date: 22nd June 1897

Adderley Street, crowds gather to watch thoroughfare going past, with British Union Jack flying proudly from the buildings. Date: 22nd June 1897

Gas Light & Coke Company in Nine Elms on the south bank of the River Thames, photograph showing their shire horse and carriage. Date: 1897

Half a mile away from Westminster, Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridge, situated at the northern end of Walworth Road and the beginning of New Cross Road

Monument raising above the other buildings, designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Date: 1897

During a hot day at Embankment, London, young children gathering round a public water fountain during the celebrations of the Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Date: July 1897

The introduction of electric trams in the cities of Britain were becoming more popular due to being cleaner, cheaper, smoother, roomier and safer

RODOLPHE SALIS PHOTO
RODOLPHE SALIS - French singer and artist, legendary Paris impresario of the Chat Noir cabaret, known for his fine posters : photographed in, alas, the year of his death. Date: 1851 - 1897

THERESE'S CONVENT
The Carmelite convent at Lisieux, where Therese was a nun until her early death. Date: 1873 - 1897

WILLIAM TERRISS, ACTOR
WILLIAM TERRISS Famous English actor who was stabbed to death by madman Richard Arthur Prince. Date: 1847 - 1897

EDWARD ALEXANDER MACDOWELL (1860 - 1908), American composer. Date: 1897

The monks of Saint-Bernard clear snow after an avalanche blocks the pass and prevents access to their monastery Date: 1897

She arrives at Cherbourg, at the start of a spring visit to the south of France Date: 1897

THE BLACKWALL TUNNEL. The opening ceremony, showing the arrival of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Date: 22nd May 1897

Lieut Adrien de Gerlache Buried in the Ice
The BELGICA, commander Lieut Adrien de Gerlache : lieut Danco, dead by heart attack, is buried in the ice Date: circa 1900

The Grand Duchess (of Gerolstein), Savoy Theatre, London, English version of the operetta by Offenbach, Meilhac and Halevy, words by C H Brookfield, lyrics by Adrian Ross. Date: 1897

On the way to Valentia - A welcome from local peasant girls
The Royal Visit to Ireland - On the way to Valentia - A welcome from local peasant girls. Date: 1897

Madame Sans-Gene by Victorien Sardou and Emile Moreau. First produced Theatre du Vaudeville, Paris, 27th October 1893.Henry Irving starred in J

The Singer Building of 1897 was an office building and early skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City and demolished in 1968

Eros at Piccadilly Circus
A line drawing by Reginald Buchanan Urquhart

Three Child Faces - From sketches by Paul Helleu (1859-1927). A French oil painter, pastel artist, drypoint etcher, and designer

Piano Lesson
Ellen et sa Grandmere. From a drypoint by Paul Helleu (1859-1927). A French oil painter, pastel artist, drypoint etcher, and designer

PS Kroyer
Peder Severin Kroyer (1851-1909). Self-portrait of the prominent Danish artist

Henry H La Thangue
A sketch of Henry Herbert La Thangue (1859-1929). An English realist rural landscape painter associated with the Newlyn School

Bjornstjerne Bjornson
A portrait of Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910). A Norwegian writer and winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry

Photograph of Grapes PH, Southwark (Old), London. The main side of the print (shown here) depicts: Face on view of the pub

With the distressed hop pickers in Kent - a series of drawings by ILN Special Artist Mr H. C. Seppings Wright showing the poor conditions for hop pickers in Kent during bad wet weather

Fashionable guests at a masquerade ball, 1800. Woman in medival headdress, man in hussar uniform, man in striped breeches and bicorn, woman in mask and hooded habit. An opera ball, Year VIII, 1800

In the Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliotheque Nationale, 1897. The search for bygone fashions. Two women in dresses with corseted waists

Carved figures from Benin placed at the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, SE London, thought to be associated with the hideous sacrificial rites of Benin. Date: 1897

Black Prince - Crewe Works
Black Prince, 7ft 0ins 4 wheels coupled compound passenger engine, side elevation, Crewe Works. Scale 1.5 inches: 1 foot. Signed FW Webb 1/5/97. Date: 1897

The Kidderminster Cycle Company Ltd, Worcestershire
The Kidderminster Cycle Company Ltd in Vicar Street, Worcestershire, with men, boys and bicycles outside on the pavement. 1897

Trio of Cats - Mr Louis Wain at Home. 1897

Scarey cat - Mr Louis Wain at Home. 1897

Cat and pail of milk, Mr Louis Wain at Home. 1897

The World of Sport 1897
The World of Sport, 1897. Racing notes by Captain Coe. Before the Derby race. Epsom Stand, showing Tattenham Corner. Date: 1897

Tattenham Corner 1897
Horses racing round Tattenham Corner, 1897 1897

The Derby, 1897. Galtee More in the paddock before saddling; Galtee More, Charles Wood up; the parade; the finish. Date: 1897

Advert for Ocdens Guinea Gold Cigarettes 1897
Advertisement for Ocdens Guinea Gold Cigarettes, featuring a woman smoking on a bicycle. This brand often used politicians, sportsmen, celebreties in advertisements. Date: 1897

Entirely female army, September 1897
Hypothetical depiction of " the next great war", showing an army made up entirely of female soldiers riflemen and artillery, one of which lies dead on the grass

St Olaves Union Institution, Ladywell
Bird s-eye view of the design for the St Olaves Union Institution for the Aged and Infirm Poor, Ladywell, South London. The architects were Newman and Newman of London. Date: 1897

London - Tower Bridge, Guildhall and the Tower of London
Early pictorial postcard - court card sizing - Scenes and sights of London - The Tower of London, Tower Bridge (opened three years earlier in 1894) and the Guildhall. Date: 1897

Rachel Beer, British newspaper editor
Rachel Beer (nee Sassoon, 1858-1927), British newspaper editor, editor-in-chief of The Sunday Times and The Observer. 1897

Florence Fenwick Miller, English journalist and author
Florence Fenwick Miller (1854-1935), English journalist, author and social reformer, editor and proprietor of The Womans Signal, an influential feminist journal. 1897

Ethel Comyns Lewer, editor of The Feathered World
Ethel Harriet Comyns Lewer (1861-1946), periodical proprietor and editor of The Feathered World. and author of Poultry Keeping (1914). 1897

Gillian Debenham, editor of Judy magazine
Gillian Debenham, editor of Judy, the comic magazine. 1897

Ella Hepwoth Dixon, English novelist and editor
Ella Hepwoth Dixon (pen name Margaret Wynman, 1857-1932), English novelist, and editor of The Englishwoman magazine. 1897

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