1898 Collection (page 26)

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

Zola / Petit Journal 1898
Emile Zola arrives at the Palais de Justice after being sued for libel by the French army for publishing his denunciation of the army cover up in a daily newspaper

Dreyfus / Zola Loses Case
Emile Zola loses the libel case brought against him by the French army, fails to secure Dreyfus rehabilitation and is sentenced to imprisonment

Science / Lab / Sorbonne
Physics Laboratory, Sorbonne, France

Papal Audience 1898
Pope Leo XIII gives audience to a lady, while a cardinal sits nearby looking rather bored, and another religious person scratches his chin in a puzzled kind of way

Electric Light in Home
LUMIERE ELECTRIQUE A DOMICILE (Electric Light in the Home) - catalogue of a Paris company specialising in the supply and installation of domestic electrical services

Boy Engrossed in a Book
A boy engrossed

Social / Hansom Fare 1898
A handsome fare gives a handsome tip to the handsome driver of a hansom cab

Lewis Carrolls House
The Chestnuts, Castle Hill, Guildford, Surrey, England, where English author Lewis Carroll died on 14 January 1898

Bismarck (Gill)
OTTO graf von BISMARCK depicted as a warmonger by the French caricaturist

Beatrice Lillie / Nerman
BEATRICE LILLIE (Lady Peel) British revue actress with Peter Haddon and Gertrude Lawrence in 1927

Olga Lindo / Postcard
OLGA LINDO Anglo-Norwegian character actress in British films, seen here with her dog

Ninette De Valois 1930S
NINETTE DE VALOIS English ballet dancer with the Ballet Russe, later founder of the Royal Ballet, director and choreographer

Death / Funerals / Gladstone
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE His funeral cortege leaving Westminster Hall

Sharing Chinese Cake / 189
The European powers share the Chinese cake. France backs Russia

Costume Cape 1898
Two elegant ladies, one wearing a fur-trimmed cape

Omdurman / Lancers Charge
BATTLE OF OMDURMAN : the charge of the Lancers

Burne-Jones / Oval
SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES English artist

Beardsley / Sketch 1895
AUBREY VINCENT BEARDSLEY English illustrator, leader of the Aesthetic movement and principal artist in the Art Nouveau manner

Lewis Carroll / L&l / P50
LEWIS CARROLL Real name : Charles Lutwidge Dodgson English mathematician and writer - creator of Alice

Gracie Fields House
The home of popular Lancashire singer Gracie Fields (1898 - 1979)

Elizabeth, Empress of Austria
ELIZABETH, EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA Married her cousin, Franz Josef I of Austria and reigned with him from 1854 - 1898. Riding with Meath Hounds, Ireland

Advert / Yorkshire Relish
Yorkshire Relish - the cheapest and the best sauce in the world, for flesh, fish and fowl - beware of substitutions!

Devils Island / Guyana
A view of Devils Island, French Guyana, where Alfred Dreyfus was sent on 13 April 1895 and placed in solitary confinement

Bismarck / Vanity Fair
OTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD BISMARCK Prussian statesman and first chancellor of German Empire in his military uniform

Toast of Bismarck / Rire
OTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD BISMARCK " The toast of Bismarck" He toasts with blood

Morgan Robertson
MORGAN ROBERTSON Author of Futility, novel published in 1898, featuring the collision of the Atlantic liner Titan with an iceberg, prefiguring the Titanic

Nat Langham, Boxer
Langham (1820 - 1871) entered boxings hall of fame by defeating Tom Sayers in 1853. He was the only man to ever do so

British in Wei-Hai-Wei
The British occupation of Wei-Hai-Wei : Captain King-Hall reading the Proclamation

William Fraser
SIR WILLIAM FRASER - Writer, statesman and collector

We Gladstone / Anon Photo
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE English politician MP

A Cure for Gout
The waistcoat pocket remedy for gout

Solar Powered Aircraft
A flying machine fills its tanks with solar power derived from the suns energy

Mr Popple on the Chase
Having fallen off his horse, Mr Popple grabs it by the tail to stop it running away

Mr Popple Gets Stuck
Mr Popples horse gets stuck in the mud, at the only exit from Watchers Wood

Mr Popple and the Widow
An attractive widow asks Mr Popple to retrieve her hat, but he dare not risk making a fool of himself in attempting to jump the fence

Mr Popple Jumps Gate
Mr Popple jumps a five barred gate on his horse Radical. Not so impressive, though, as the gate was lying flat on the ground!

Mr Popple Buying Horse
Mr Popple considers buying a rather wheezy looking horse from the local postman

Misbehaving Horse 1898
Mr Popples horse, Candles, bought from the local grocer, causes a bit of consternation when Mr Popple introduces himself to the Hopham Hunt

Mr Popple Front Cover
Front cover design, showing Mr Popple on his horse, ready to join the hunt

Mr Popple and the Lady
Mr Popple gets in the way of a young lady in the process of negotiating a fence

Mr Popple and the Mfh
An infuriated MFH tells Mr Popple to go away and turn his horses into potted meat -- so he does!

RAIL / GARE D ORSAY 1898
Gare D Orsay, Paris

Bismarck / De LA Barre
Otto Eduard Leopold, prinz von Bismarck German statesman

Ice skating scene
An ice skating scene, with an athletic male skater in the foreground, a couple further back, and a non-skating man with his non-skating dog

Mr Popple throws his hat at the fox, much to the Master of Fox Hounds disgust

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