1898 Collection (page 25)

Milan Riots / 1898 / Petit J
Cuban rebels against Spanish colonial rule, welcoming American intervention

Merchant Ship Captured
A Spanish gunboat stops and takes a merchant vessel

Plimsoll / Faustin
SAMUEL PLIMSOLL statesman, responsible for introducing the Plimsoll Line to regulate the loading of ships

Mallarme / Harpers 1893
STEPHANE MALLARME French poet

Berthe Louise De Marsy
BERTHE LOUISE DE MARSY French activist for womens rights

Bicycle Obstacle Race for Girls, 1898
Photograph showing a bicycle obstacle race, known as The Innocents Race, for young ladies under the age of seventeen held at Esquimalt, British Columbia, 1898

Bridgnorth Lift - 1898
The Bridgnorth Cliff Railway Shropshire

China / Wei-Hai
(previously Wei-hai-wei) Seaport occupied by Japanese 1895-1898, leased to Britain 1898-1930, re-occupied by Japanese 1938-1945

Kipling Carried
English writer, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), is carried aloft by hearty party-goers aboard the Majestic warship after he had recited his poem Soldier and sailor too

Cricketer, Ulyett
George Ulyett Cricketer - Yorkshire

The British Expedition Against Havana, 1762
Illustration of the British Fleet, under Sir George Pocock, entering Havana Harbour on 14th August 1762. In the centre of the image can be seen Morro Castle; an important stronghold to the east of

SS New York, 1898
Photograph of the passenger liner, SS New York, built 1888 and acquired by the United States Government in 1898

Ovis Carrollensis Shop
LEWIS CARROLL - This quaint little shop in St. Aldate s, Oxford, England, opposite Christchurch College, where Carroll was a Professor, is in Alice in Wonderland

The Turbinia, 1898
Photograph of the experimental turbine steamer Turbinia. Built in 1894 to test C.A. Parsons ideas about turbines, Turbinia famously demonstrated her speed at the Fleet Review of 1897

SS Sampo, 1898
Photograph of Steamship Sampo a newly constructed ice-breaker, built by Armstrong, Whitworth and Co. for the Senate of Finland, 1898

HMS Goliath, 1907
Photograph of HMS Goliath, a Canopus Class battleship of 12, 950 tons, launched in 1898. She was sunk in May 1915, off Cape Helles, Dardanelles, with the loss of most of her crew

Bismarck 1885
OTTO von BISMARCK German statesman, in 1885 wearing uniform

Bismarck with Dogs 1887
OTTO von BISMARCK German statesman, in 1887 with two dogs in his garden

Bismarck 1880S
OTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD, graf von BISMARCK, in the 1880s

Bismarck 1884
OTTO von BISMARCK German statesman, in 1884

Bismarck Profile 1890
OTTO von BISMARCK German statesman, profile view, 1890

Geraniums Design / Jugend
Design of geraniums (pelargoniums)

Boy W / Catapult 1898
A boy demonstrates a catapult to a friend

Frogs as Humans (3 of 5)
A baby frog is delivered by the stork

Frogs as Humans (4 of 5)
A couple of happy frogs

Frogs Race on Snails
Three frogs mounted on snails race each other

Frogs as Humans (5 of 5)
Frog Students

Frogs as Humans (1 of 5)
A sick frog recovers to smoke his pipe again!

Gracie Fields / Goodnight
GRACIE FIELDS English singer and actress: Goodnight Children Everywhere - for children evacuated during the war

Yvette Guilbert / Rire 98
YVETTE GUILBERT French singer and diseuse

Howard Florey Working
HOWARD WALTER FLOREY Australian-born pathologist, Nobel Prize 1945 : shown injecting penicillin into the tail of a mouse

Wynyard / Cricketer
Edward Wynyard, English cricketer and Captain for Hampshire, seen here at the wicket

Mckinley with Cabinet
WILLIAM MCKINLEY President McKinley with his eight chosen advisers in the Cabinet room

The Empress of Austria
ELIZABETH, EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA Consort of Emperor Francis Joseph. Great beauty and proficient horsewoman. Murdered by an Italian anarchist in Geneva

Crackers by S. Begg
A delightful scene showing adults and children alike enjoying a Christmas party in the late Victorian era

Mr Gladstone
Mr. William Gladstone (1809-1898) addressing a crowd of electors at Greenwich on Blackheath in February 1874. One of the great Victorian statesmen

Congo railway, station at Matadi
Station at Matadi, forming part of the new Congo railway from Matadi to Stanley Pool. The railway took nine years to complete, and in the first five years only 25 miles of track was constructed

Swan / Glass Design / Jugend
The first of two designs for stained glass depicting swans in the water. (Cygnus olor)

Arthur Orton / Vfair 1871
Arthur Orton, who claimed to be sir Roger Doughty Tichborne, but couldn t persuade the courts to agree with him

Bilz Sanatorium / 1898
Advert. for Bilz Sanatorium, for the natural method of healing

Amsterdam / Jewish Quarter
Amsterdam: canal in the Jewish quarter

Dance French Street
Dancing in the street on Bastille Day : the musicians have hung a sign to tell everyone this is a waltz

A Private Dance, France
Fashionable dancers

Hyacinth / Jugend 1898
A stylized, art nouveau depiction of a hyacinth within a rectangular border

Two Ladies at the Beach
Two splendidly dressed ladies, one in grey dress with red detailing, the other in green floral gown with ruched neckline, at a lake or beach; one holds binoculars

Ladies on the Beach 1898
Two ladies by the sea: yellow and black checked dress with multiple ruffles and blue and green dress with hat, veil and parasol

Sandford Manor House, west London (later demolished)

Buying a Tie 1898
A young salesman entices a gullible gentleman into buying one of his new range of colourful neckties

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