1899 Collection (page 11)

Advertisement for Horners patent Dorcas thimble, 1899
Advertisement for Charles Horners patent Dorcas thimble, as worn by a quarter of a million ladies. This thimble has a steel core, lined with two layers of silver

Nubar Pasha
NUBAR PASHA Egyptian statesman and diplomat, Christian, involved in negotiations for the Suez Canal etc. Date: 1825 - 1899

View of Pont Aven (1899). O Conor, Roderic 1860-1940. Date: 1899

Street Vendor selling Nuts to Gentleman with a Simian Visage
Street Vendor cheekily offering the sale of some nuts to a diminutive Gentleman with a distinctive Simian visage!! Date: 1899

Tom Campbell Black, 1899-1936, winner of MacRobertson Air Ra
Tom Campbell Black, 1899-1936, winner of the MacRobertson Air Race, London to Melbourne race in 1934, with his wife, the actress Florence Desmond

Alfred Cyril Lovesey CBE CEng FIMechE FRAeS
Alfred Cyril Lovesey, CBE, CEng, FIMechE, FRAeS, of Rolls-Royce, 1899-1976. Date: 1976

Goldie Leigh Childrens Cottage Homes, Bostall Woods, Plumst
Entrance to the Woolwich Unions Goldie Leigh cottage homes at Bostall Heath, Plumstead, erected in 1899 to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Battle of Paceo. (Manila) Feb y 4 & 5 1899. Battle of Paceo. (Manila) Feb y 4 & 5 1899

Japanese Story-Telling
A Japanese grandmother tells traditional tales to a group of children gathered round the brazier, laying aside their kites, dolls and tops. Date: 1899

Lord Kitchener at peace conference that ended Boer War
Lord Kitchener (1850-1916) seated at the peace conference that brought the Boer War of 1899-1902 to an end. Kitchener became Commander-in-Chief of the British war effort in South Africa from 1900

Winston Churchilll in South Africa
Winston Churchill pictured in the uniform of the South African Light Horse regiment at the time of the Boer War where he was captured while working as a correspondent for the Morning Post

The Australian Cricket Team 1899. Back row V Trumper, H Trumble, AE Johns, WP Howell, Major Wardill, MA Noble, F Laver, CE M Leod

ASC Greenwich Union Workhouse, Grove Park, London
Part of the ASC (Army Service Corps) Barracks on Marvels Lane, Grove Park, Lewisham, south east London. The buildings, designed by T & J Norman Dinwiddy

How to Pose as a Strong Man
Trick No. 1 - How to master a man with two fingers from How to Pose as a Strong Man, an article in Pearsons Magazine, March 1899 by Edward William Barton-Wright

Woolwich Union Goldie Leigh Homes, Plumstead
A group of children and their house mother at the Woolwich Union Goldie Leigh cottage homes. The homes, at Bostall Heath, Plumstead (then in Kent, now in south east London)

Noel Coward / Postcard
NOEL COWARD Actor, playwright and songwriter

Sven Hedin to Tibet - 1
Swedish explorer sets out on a second expedition (first was in 1895); he takes the train to furthest point, Andidjan, and forms a caravan which will carry his supplies to Lailik

Hamlet and Ghost / 1899
Hamlet with the ghost of his father on the battlements of Elsinore

1st Duke of Westminster
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st duke of WESTMINSTER statesman

The Face at the Window by L. Vernon Wyrall. For the R. Amos Jones Co. touring to Royal West London Theatre. A play with this title by F

Opening of the war session of Parliament: Boer Crisis
The opening of the war session of Parliament on the 17th October 1899, as the Second Boer War commences. Mr Balfour exclaimed, " We have with use the conscience of the Empire". Date: 1899

Colonial troops off to fight in the Second Boer War
Colonial troops off to the Cape- departure of the New South Wales Lancers at Fenchurch Street Station, London Date: 1899

Major General French and President Krugers cousin discussing the Boer Crisis on board the union liner " Norman". Date: 1899

The Transvaal (Boer) Crisis
A Field Cornets messenger hands over commandos to Boer farmers to be ready for war Date: 1899

Lt. -Gen. Sir George White, V. C. on horseback
Lieutenant General Sir George White, V.C. announced as commander of the British Forces in Natal, just prior to the Second Boer War which began in October 1899. Date: 1899

Zinnia
Decorative flower study by Jeannie Foord, of a Zinnia, an annual flower. 1899

St. Petersburg in Winter - View over the Neva River, Russia - reproduction of a painting by by Alexander Karlovich Beggrov (1841-1914). Date: 1899

Grace Palotta (1870 - 1959), Austrian actress who appeared in several of Mr. George Edwardes burlesques and was noted as one of the best-loved performers of Londons Gaiety Theatre

Franklin McLeay
Franklin (Franklyn) McLeay (1864 - 1900), Canadian-born actor, shown here in costume as Jediah in The Daughters of Babylon. Date: 1899

Forbes Robertson and Patrick Campbell
Forbes Robertson (1853 - 1937) and Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1865 b 1940). Johnston Forbes Robertson was an English actor and theatre manager

Eva Moore (1868 - 1955), English stage and film actress who was active in the womens suffrage movement. Her daughter, Jill Esmond, was the first wife of Laurence Olivier. Date: 1899

Maud Hoffman (1875 - ?) - American actress and theosophist of the Victorian era. Date: 1899

Mary Moore (1861 - 1931), distinguished English actress of the Victorian era, widow of Sir Charles Wyndham, also an actor. Date: 1899

Florence St. John (1855 1912), English singer and actress of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, famous for her roles in operetta, musical burlesque, music hall

Phyllis Rankin
Phyllis McKee Rankin (1874 - 1934), Broadway actress and singer known for never smiling, worked from the1880s until the 1920s.Shown here in costume as Fifi in The Belle of New York. Date: 1899

Ada Rehan (1857 - 1916), Irish born American actress, one of the great comediennes of her day, represented the " personality" style of acting in the nineteenth century

Maud Jeffries (1869 - 1946), American actress. She was noted for her height and beauty and became a popular subject for a wide range of theatrical post-cards and studio photographs

Ethel Matthews (1869 - 1957), English actress of the 19th and 20th centuries. Date: 1899

Evelyn Millard (1869 1941) - English Shakespearean actress, actor-manager and " stage beauty" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Dorothea Baird (1875 - 1933), English stage and film actress. She first appeared on stage in 1894 as Iris in Oxford University Dramatic Societys production of The Tempest

Lewis (Kate Terry) and Mabel Terry-Lewis
Lewis, previously Miss Kate Terry (1844 - 1924), English actress and member of the Terry-Gielgud dynsasty of actors. Pictured here with her daughter: Mabel Gwynedd Terry-Lewis (1872 - 1957)

Sybil Carlisle (1871 - 1951), English actress of the Victorian era; sister of Mary Helen Carlisle. Date: 1899

Standon Farm School - Market stall
Market stall at Stoke on Trent run by boys and staff from the Waifs and Strays Societys Standon Farm Industrial School Date: circa 1899

Sir Henry Irving (1838 - 1905), English stage actor and actor-manager of the Victorian era. Shown here in the role of Cardinal Wolsey. Date: 1899

Portrait of August Strindberg (1849-1912) by Carl Larsson
August Strindberg (1849-1912). Swedish writer. Portrait by Carl Larsson (1853-1919), 1899. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Gallic cock crow for the Paris exhibtion by Gilbert James
A woman dressed in a Pierrot or clown outfit is helped in her performance by a cockerel balancing on an egg. 1899

The Torch of Night
A woman flies through the air carrying a torch to light her way in the darkness. 1899

Will-o -the-Wisp
A woman in a diaphanous dress flies through the air holding a light to illuminate her way in the darkness. 1899

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