1897 Collection (page 9)

FRENCH CHILDREN / NURSERY
French children play with their toys in the nursery while their nanny gets on with some sewing. Date: 1897

GIRLS PLAYING TOUCH
Girls playing touch in the street - the aim is to touch the bollard before you yourself are touched Date: 1897

BOYS PLAYING LEAPFROG
Boys leapfrogging Date: 1897

PALAIS DE LINDUSTRIE
Built for the 1855 Exposition, this building was demolished in 1897 to make room for the Avenue Alexander III Date: 1855

World Map - 1897
Map of the world showing British Empire possessions Date: 1897

LIORETS PHONOGRAPH 1897
Fig.1 Phonograph recording at the Trocadero in Paris Fig. 2 Phonograph ensemble Fig.3 Needle and cylinder Date: 1897

CECIL RHODES Statesman, entrepreneur and imperialist in South Africa, before the South Africa Committee, London Date: 1853 - 1902

MOTHER AND BABY
Mother holds her child Date: 1897

Sleigh-ride on ice, 1897
A sleigh-ride on the ice in fancy dress costume. Date: 1897

Christmas decorations: childern bearing holly - greenery
Children arrive home and proudly display the foliage theyve brought. Date: circa 1897

MEDICAL / HOSPITALS
Children visiting their sister in hospital Date: 1897

The Millennium
The Christian Church will escape from the ravages of the Dragon in 1897- 1901 Date: 1891

A Gaiety Girl, Grand Theatre, Newcastle-on-Tyne, previously at The Prince of Wales Theatre, London, and Dalys Theatre, London. Also the success of the season in New York. (1 of 3) 1897

Diamond Jubilee military parade, Peoples Palace, London
Diamond Jubilee military parade passing the Peoples Palace, Mile End, Stepney, East London, on 19 June 1897. Date: 1897

Gas-Balloon Being Filled with Hydrogen at Long Valley, A?
Gas-Balloon Being Filled with Hydrogen at Long Valley, Aldershot, Hants, UK in 1897 Date: 1897

London Underground - District Line - Single Ticket #3042 from 1897 - Victoria to Gloucester Road (Brompton) - 4d - Third Class. Date: 1897

Worlds Theosophical Center of the Universal Brotherhood
View of the Worlds Theosophical Center of the Universal Brotherhood - Point Loma, San Diego, California, USA. Date: 1897

Iris Seed Pods
Decorative flower study by Jeannie Foord, of a Iris Seed Pods. 1897

Daylily
Decorative flower study by Jeannie Foord, of a Daylily that flowers for just one day. 1897

Pattern 1897 Japanese arisaka bayonet sword, used in both World Wars; single edged blade, mark of Kokura arsenal. The bayonet incorporated a quillon designed to catch and break an opponent

National Anthem, God Save the Queen (just the last few bars, with an Amen thrown in for good measure). 1897

Statue of Queen Victoria, Madras (Chennai) India circa 1897. Date: circa 1897

Jozef Marian Chelmonski (1849-1914). Herdsman, 1897
Jozef Marian Chelmonski (1849-1914). Polish painter. Herdsman, 1897. National Museum Gallery. Krakow, Poland

Alto Saxophone
ALTO SAXOPHONE : one of a family of instruments invented about 1840 by a Frenchman, Adolphe Sax. Date: 1897

The water lily, Nelumbo lutea, in wallpaper and tile patterns.. Lithograph by Verneuil with pochoir (stencil) handcoloring from Eugene Grassets Plants and their Application to Ornament, Paris, 1897

Botanical illustration of a snowdrop, Galanthus nivalis.. Lithograph by Verneuil with pochoir (stencil) handcoloring from Eugene Grassets Plants and their Application to Ornament, Paris, 1897

Womens Dining Hall at St Pancras Workhouse, London
Rows of inmate eating dinner in the womens dining hall at the St Pancras Workhouse. Date: 1897

Henry Tate (1819-1899), the businessman and philanthropist, pictured c.1897. Tates name is synominous with British sugar and British art

Horse with very long mane and tail, 1897
This extraordinary animal was bred at Marion, Oregon, United States, and was owned by Messers. C.H and H. W Eaton. The animal was shown at Fells Waxworks, Trongate, Glasgow

Mary Adelaide Von Teck
MARY ADELAIDE WILHELMINA ELIZABETH, duchess of Teck, princess of Cambridge, grand daughter of George III, mother of Queen Mary, the one who married George V. Date: 1833 - 1897

George Vs children
The children of King George V and Queen Mary in about 1916: (l to r behind) Prince Albert (1895-1952), later King George VI, Prince Edward (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII

Edward VIII, Princess Mary and George VI when children, c. 19
Photograph showing (from left) Prince Edward of York (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII; Princess Victoria of York (1897-1965), later Princess Mary

A Witch Doctor and his bride
The Witch Doctor pictured is from the Mashlangan tribe, inhabiting the Lydenburg district of the Transvaal Republic. He had claimed to have used his power to rid the plague of locusts that devastated

Art Nouveau Poppy 1897
A decorative, Art Nouveau, floral design incorporating a Poppy within a border

Mystery Airship 1897
Newsstand dealer Walter McCann successfully photographs an airship over Rogers Park, a Chicago suburb : an artist makes this version for newspaper reproduction

Belgica / Expedition Crew
The Belgica expedition which gathered many geological samples. The expedition members with Adrien de Gerlache, the Commander, on the far left

Boys Praying
Three angelic little boys kneel side by side to say their evening prayers

American Planchette
An American planchette

HAIRY MAN
Young Polish boy exhibited at Berlin : hairy over most of his body, but normal in all other respects

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