1904 Collection (#13)

The late Duke of Cambridges carriage which was put up for auction in 1904 fetching a price of just 21. The carriage was bought by Fred Karno and his entertainment troupe. Date: 1904

Reverend Frank Gillingham (1875-1953) - noted clergyman and cricketer - in cricket apparel walking back to the pavilion. His score of 201 for Essex versus Middlesex (as reported in this issue)

Villa Selvatico - Sartori - Battaglia Terme, Italy
Villa Selvatico - Sartori - completed in 1650, a Baroque-style villa surrounded by a park designed by the famous landscape gardner Giuseppe Jappeli in Battaglia Terme

The Pier - Viareggio, Italy
Viareggio - a city and comune in northern Tuscany, Italy - on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Fishing from the Pier. Date: 1904

Bologna, Italy - Palazzo Municipale Date: 1904

Remains of Russian Cannon on 203 Hill
The remains of Russian Cannon on 203 Hill - high ground located in Lushunkou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China

Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral, Santiago, Chile. Construction of the neoclassical cathedral began in 1753 and ended in 1799. The architect was the Italian Gioacchino Toesca. Date: 1904

Fantasy cherubs
Cupids Realm. Cherubs in the land of cupid. Date: 1904

The Village, Hutton Cranswick, Driffield, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1904

Passenger locomotive no 2728, 4-4-0. Engine constructed by the Societe Anonyme des Forges, Usines et Foderies de et a Haine-Saint-Pierre. Date: 1904

Original Napier Samson 6 cylinder, the fastest of its day. Date: circa 1904

B6 class locomotive engine by Richard Francis Trevithick. Side view. Date: circa 1904

6 WC tank engine by Richard Francis Trevithick. Front view. Embosseds Ichida, Kobe, Japan. Date: 1904

6 WC tank engine by Richard Trevithick. 1st trial air diagram. Date: circa 1904

Advert, Wee MacGreegor Pottery, Glasgow, Scotland, by John Hassall - Whit Wey? 1904

Advert, F W Cotterill, Darlaston, Staffordshire
Advert, F W Cotterill, Darlaston, South Staffordshire -- bolts, nuts, rivets and washers. 1904

Advert, G B Kent & Sons Ltd, Best British Brushes Advert, G B Kent & Sons Ltd
Advert, G B Kent & Sons Ltd, Best British Brushes. 1904

Advert, A Stokes & Co, Birmingham Advert, A Stokes & Co, Birmingham
Advert, A. Stokes & Co, Birmingham and London, wood and metal screws. 1904

Heres Health
Greeting card depicting a handsome cavalier proposing a toast. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1904

Young romance
Small boy and girl in warm fur-trimmed white winter coats out in the snowy weather. Artist: Ellen Jessie Andrews Date: 1904

Two girls skating
Two young girls in warm fur-trimmed red coats are skating. Artist: Ellen Jessie Andrews Date: 1904

Young girls out in the snow
Young girls in warm white fur trimmed coats in the snow with a brolly. Artist: Ellen Jessie Andrews Date: 1904

Boy and girl at a dance
Young boy in a red velvet suit with lace collar helps his girl with her fur trimmed white cloak. Artist: Ellen Jessie Andrews Date: 1904

Playing with hoops
Young boy and girl dressed in sailor suits are playing hoops. Artist: Ellen Jessie Andrews Date: 1904

Boy and girl dancing
Boy in a blue suit and knee length breeches dancing with a girl in a blue dress. Artist: Ellen Jessie Andrews Date: 1904

Sailor boy and his girl
Sailor boy adjusts the hat ribbon of his girl in a red dress and holding a fan. They are at a party. Artist: Ellen Jessie Andrews Date: 1904

Pretty girls with holly
Heads of two young girls in tam o shanters bearing Xmas holly. Date: 1904

Girl in turquoise with a lavish turquoise hat and a garland of pink roses in her hair. Artist: Ellen Jessie Andrews Date: 1904

Girl in pink with a lavish pink hat and a garland of roses in her hair. Artist: Ellen Jessie Andrews Date: 1904

The Duke and Duchess of Connaughts hockey team whose members included both the duke (standing second from left) and duchess (seated centre) as well as their daughters

Chung Ling Soo at the London Hippodrome
Chung Ling Soo, Chinese conjuror (real name Billy Robinson) in publicity photographs for his act at the London Hippodrome in 1904. Date: 1904

Behind the scenes at the London Hippodrome
Mr Hawkins, the electrical engineer in the switch-room of the London Hippodrome, which was situated behind the stage and exclusively used for lighting that part of the building. 1904

The Golden Princess & the Elephant Hunters, Hippodrome
Scene from The Golden Princess and the Elephant Hunters, the Christmas production at the London Hippodrome, with Miss Ened Hett as the princess and Hetty Chattell as the Silver Prince

Sybil Carlisle, English actress. 1904

Mabel Love, British dancer and stage actress. 1904

Lily Brayton, English actress and singer. 1904

Henry Ainley, English Shakespearean actor
Henry Hinchliffe Ainley, English Shakespearean actor of stage and screen. 1904

George Alexander, English actor and theatre manager
George Alexander, English actor, producer and theatre manager. 1904

Enid Spencer Brunton, actress
Enid Spencer Brunton (1874-1963), actress. 1904

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, actor and theatre manager
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor and theatre manager. 1904

Joseph Chamberlain, British Liberal politician
Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), British Liberal politician. 1904

Flying the Flume at Crystal Palace 1904
French Mademoiselle Dutrien (le fleche humaine), the human arrow, performing at Crystal Palace, London. After riding down a curving track on her bicycle which falls some seventy feet

An extraordinary motoring turn at the London Hippodrome
Strongman Herr George Lettl between two 8 1/2 h.p. cars at the London Hippodrome. The cars both started off at top speed in opposite directions and by sheer strength

Zutka, the mystery turn at the London Hippodrome
Zutka, one of the latest turns at the London Hippodrome in 1904. But is he a live man or a mechanical boy? asks The Bystander

Mr Fords arrival at the Hippodrome in 15 hp Darracq car
Mr A. Ford appearing in the arena of the London Hippodrome where he finally came to a stop after completing a record-breaking non-stop drive of 2, 390 miles between Liverpool, Brighton

Marquis of Anglesey in costume
Henry Paget, the 5th Marquess of Anglesey, aristocrat renowned for his eccentric love of theatre, pictured in a particularly flamboyant costume for a part in a production at his own theatre

Claire Heliot, lion tamer
Madame Claire Heliot, renowned female lion tamer with one of her dangerous pets at the time she was wowing audiences at the London Hippodrome

Sandows marvellous feat of strength at London Hippodrome
Eugene Sandow, strong man extraordinaire, seen supporting on his chest four men and ten women in addition to sundry cannon balls, part of his act at the London Hippodrome

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