Commencement Collection

The commencement of the season. Date: 1858

Lady Eliza Deane at Dundanion, 1847
Lady Eliza Deane commencing, at Dundanion, the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway. Date: 1847

William Tell, Commencement of the Liberty of Switzerland -- the famous scene in which Tell shoots an apple on his sons head. circa 1307

Women Graduates Date: 1910

PUPILS HOME FROM SCHOOL
Home from School on the commencement of the Holidays. A boy blows a horn to herald his and his siblings arrival home. They are greeted by an overjoyed mamma and brother. Date: 1835

Page design, commencement, School Silhouettes
Page design for commencement in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA

John Cabot receives charter from King Henry VII
John Cabot and his sons receive the charter from King Henry VII to sail in search of new lands. Date: 1496

Rejouissances des mexicains, au commencement du siecle (The rejoicing of Mexicans at the start of the Century). Celebration of the beginning of Aztec century, consisting of a 52-year cycle

ILN front cover - start of Thames Embankment works
Front cover of The Illustrated London News depicting the commencement of the Thames Embankment works near Westminster Bridge in February 1864. Date: 1864

Commencement day in the senate

A patrol of boy scouts marching to the rendezvous at the commencement of operations. The Scouts field day at Aldershot has developed into a splendidly organised monthly meeting

General Horne watching march past of soldiers, WW1
General Henry Sinclair Horne (1861-1929) of the British First Army watching a march past of New Zealand soldiers, probably in northern France

Witch Possessed 17C
A witch is possessed: the commencement of the attack. Date: 1659

The Thames Embankment Works, London, 1864
Engraving showing men and barges in the River Thames at the commencement of the Thames Embankment works, near Westminster Bridge, 1864

Glaciers (Liebig) 1
1 - the commencement of the ice river

Commencement of the tunnel at Kings Cross
The commencement of the tunnel at Kings Cross. Kings Cross was proposed to be a principle terminal station. The underground was deemed to be the solution for convenient travel in densely populated

Court Lady 1715
A lady in court dress, at the commencement of Louis XVs reign, walks in the park with a fan in one hand, a parasol in the other

New Age Dance, Mexico
Mexicans dance in celebration of the commencement of a new era of the cosmic cycle

Social / Gaslit Street 19C
A gas-lit London street at the commencement of Victorias reign

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