1898 Collection (page 28)

Steam Baths 1898
Diagram to show various vapour or steam baths, including a child s, feet and head baths, as well as a box bath

Johannesburg 1898
General view of the city at the outbreak of the Boer War

Street of the Lepers, in Harrar, Ethiopia

Ninette De Valois / Photo
NINETTE DE VALOIS Dancer with the Ballet Russe and later founder of the Royal Ballet; a revered teacher, director and choreographer

Rimsky-Korsakov / Sadko / 6
Street scene in Novgorod

Rimsky-Korsakov / Sadko / 5
The sixth scene : the palace of the King of the Ocean, where Sadko marries Volkhova, the kings daughter, but she is transformed into a river

Rimsky-Korsakov / Sadko / 4
The seventh scene : the shores of lake Ilmen, where Sadko will be reunited with his wife and learn that he is now the wealthiest merchant in all Novgorod

Rimsky-Korsakov / Sadko / 3
The fourth tableau : the quayside at Novgorod where Sadko wins his bet, finding golden fish among his catch

Rimsky-Korsakov / Sadko / 2
Scene one : the hall at Novgorod where the merchants are holding a banquet

Rimsky-Korsakov / Sadko / 1
The opening scene : the snow covered streets of Novgorod where the merchants are holding a banquet

Portable Searchlight
A soldier equipped with a portable searchlight can detect an enemy at night - though in this instance, all he has detected is a poacher trapping a rabbit

Aerial Recce Foreseen
A flying machine capable of carrying out reconnaisance over the battlefield will be of great help in tomorrows wars : this fantastic device shows how it might look

German Dogs of War
German dog handlers receive their orders from an officer mounted on a horse

Glasgow / Buchanan Street
Glasgow: Buchanan Street and some prominent Glaswegians

Wolf Britannia / Fashoda
Britannia seen as the big bad wolf at the time of the Fashoda Incident, a territory dispute in south Sudan between Kitcheners Anglo-Egyptian army and Marchands French

Man and Dog Rescued
A fisherman and his dog are rescued by a lifeboat as he clings to the wreck of his boat

C. Pankhurst as Dancer
Christabel Pankhurst, aged 17, while staying with the Rochefort Du Faux family in Geneva. Her mother Emmeline hoped for a time that she would become a ballet dancer

Making Nativity Figures
A young woman paints figures for a nativity scene

Japan - the Kokyu
A Japanese musician plays the KOKYU, a string instrument played with a bow

Japan - the Biwa
A Japanese musician plays the BIWA, which resembles the western lute

Japan - the Koto
A Japanese musician plays the KOTO, a harp-like instrument played horizontally on the floor till the player collapses from back-ache

Japan - the Samisen
A Japanese musician plays the SAMISEN, a stringed instrument like a guitar, plucked with the fingers or a plectrum

Japan - the Seiteki
A Japanese musician plays the SEITEKI, which resembles the western piccolo

Learning to Swim 1898
Learning to swim

Upper Class 19C Scene
A group of men and women in their best evening dress near a bandstand in a park at night

LA Boheme / Puccini / II
La BOHEME Act II: a scene at the Cafe Momus, the central meeting point of Bohemian society - from a production at the Opera Comique, Paris

Austrian Hay Harvest
Austrian haymakers return from the days work

Bertolt Brecht (Colour)
BERTOLT BRECHT German writer

Crayfish Display
An elegant display of crayfish on a plate

Toilet / Teeth / Ricole 19C
Cleaning teeth with Ricoles dentifrice, containing menthe for freshness

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

Eggs of Crows Etc
Eggs of raven crows, rooks and jackdaws

Bismarck as a Young Man
OTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD, Bismarck as a young man in 1834

Nikolai Tsitsin
NIKOLAI TSITSIN Russian agronomist : rose from a poor peasant family to international repute in the improvement of crops etc

Nadezhda Krupskaya
NADEZHDA KONSTANTINOVNA Russian revolutionary, married Lenin 1898, exile in Siberia, took part in the Revolution and held several posts in the communist government

Opposing the Martians
76-year old William Dock stands ready to hold off the Martians in his farm near Grovers Mill - location of the dramatised version, in the Mercury Theatre broadcast

Fumigator / Medical Adv
A vapour-releasing contraption..great value in Whooping Cough, Croup and other spasmotic coughs. It is of great value in Diptheria... simple and inexpensive

Lady Artist at Seaside
An amateur artist at the seaside plants her easel on the sand

Dussauds Teleoscope - 2
Dussauds TELEOSCOPE 2 - receiving

Dussauds Teleoscope - 1
Dussauds TELEOSCOPE 1 - transmitting

Gladstone (Elliott / Fry)
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE statesman, in the 1880s

Gladstone (Whitlock)
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE statesman, at age 67, 1876

Gladstone & Wife / Cdv
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE statesman, photographed with his wife

Bismarck 1870S
OTTO von BISMARCK German statesman, in the 1870s with his autograph

Royal Niger Co. Fighting
Soldiers of the British Royal Niger Company form a square to attack the camp of the Emir of Lapaie and subdue West African resistance to British colonial efforts

SIR G GREY (1812-1898)
SIR GEORGE GREY - Colonial administrator whose arrogance and insensitivity, despite his abilities, led to catastrophe for the New Zealand Maoris and S. African Xhosa (Kaffirs)

Jules Pean Photo
JULES EMILE PEAN French surgeon, in 1897

Sir James Stansfeld
Sir JAMES STANSFELD statesman

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