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London Sketches - Fetching the Sunday Dinner
Bustling London street scene showing people fetching their Sunday dinners and roasts from a Smiths Bakery. Many lower class households did not possess ovens during the Victorian era but could take a

France Chartres
Houses on the Eure, in the lower town : the spires of the cathedral, in the upper town, can be seen in the distance

The Lower Deck of HMS Foudroyant
Photograph of the lower deck of HMS Foudroyant ; the 2nd Rate ship, built in 1798, that served as Lord Nelsons Flagship in the Mediterranean, 1799-1800. Mess tables can be seen set up between the guns

Military Camels
MEHARISTES MILITAIRES - French troops mounted on camels for operations in southern Algeria (Sahara). [Note that the lower pair are suplicates.]

The Duplex Catamaran, 1880
Engraving of a Duplex Catamaran, built in Rhode Island USA, for Mr. Henry N. Custance, honorary treasurer of the Corinthian Yacht Club, August 1880

The Roman Rocks Lighthouse, Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope
Engraving of the Roman Rocks lighthouse at Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope, March 1869. This iron lighthouse was built in 1860, but showed signs of structural failure shortly thereafter

Edwardian Servants
Below stairs at an Edwardian country house. The servants assemble in order of status: The butler, ladys maid, housekeeper, chef at the front, lower servants behind

A Knife and Fork Tea at Bill s
The first of two pictures by Edmund Blampied in a series called, Leaves from Life, showing a lower middle class family enjoying a simple dinner in a house

Smallpox Vaccination
An elegant Parisian lady requests that she have the smallpox vaccination in her lower limb

Richard Lower, Medical
RICHARD LOWER Cornish anatomist, interested especially in blood

French Xmas Banquet
A noble family - French or Dutch - celebrate Christmas or New Year in their decorated hall : family at the head of the table, lesser mortals at the lower end

The Tholsel / Dublin / 1817
Tholsel Houses were financial centres where people exchanged money. This Dublin building was demolished in 1809. The lower floor was used as a market

Village Idyll, 1930S
An idyllic scene in the Cotswold village of Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire. Peace and quiet reigns and families live safely alongside well-behaved teenagers

Galleys Attack Town
Armoured galleys lower their masts and attack a town, with protection for the oarsmen from the arrows of the defenders

William I (Vertue 1)
WILLIAM I THE CONQUEROR holding a sword : lower vignette shows him with the Domesday Book

British Workman
A typical English worker of the lower middle class - specifically, a calico printers clerk - with some pretensions to gentility in his choice of clothes

Honduras Tigre Island
Tigre Island : the lower picture shows the United States garrison

Caedmon Cross (Detail)
Detail of the lower panel of the famous Caedmon Cross at Whitby, Yorkshire, England. Caedmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman, poet and monk, who died circa 680 A.D

USA / Mississippi River
View of a Levee on the Lower Mississippi

Train-Passing Project
By enabling trains to pass each other on the same track, the cost of building railways could be substantially lower. So could the life-expectancy of rail travellers

Delivering Fur
Delivering fur for the Hudsons Bay Company at Lower Fort Gary, Manitoba, Canada

REDOUTE, 1875
A redoute at the Paris home of fashionable writer Arsene Houssaye : the guests include many celebrities - Theodor de Banville on the lower left, Gautier to the upper right

C19 Sampler
A beautiful sampler by Susannah Hephzibah Haydon, depicting the alphabet in both lower and upper case, and bordered with flowers, hearts and animals

German Couple 1475
A fashionable couple from Lower Germany : her finger points to her swelling belly - Now look what you ve done, she says, you and your codpiece and pointed shoes !

Working Mens Bar, Paris
A working mens bar, Paris

Building Trestle Viaduct
Building a trestle bridge : once the woodwork has been completed, soil and rock are washed down onto the lower levels, giving it a solid base

Climbing the Pyramids
Egyptian men stand on the lower levels of the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, ready to assist adventurous tourists, keen to scale the mighty structure

Racial / White Swan / Sioux
White Swan: Chief of the Lower Yanktonas Sioux

Racial / Mad Bear / Sioux
Mad Bear: Chief of the Lower Yanktonas Sioux

India / Simla Bazaar 1920S
Simla: Lower Bazaar

Quebec / Market / Lower Town
Quebec: Market, Lower Town

Buddhist Pagoda, Burma
Burmese women at prayer on the platform of the pagoda at Prome, Lower Burma

Amazon Warriors
Two Amazon warriors : the lower one wears a protective tunic

C17 Sand Glass
The SAND GLASS, also known as CLEPSAMMIA, measures time by how long sand takes to filter from the upper bulb into the lower; different apertures measure different periods

Egyptian Clepsydra
The CLEPSYDRA, used throughout the Near/Middle East in ancient times, measures time by how long it takes the upper bowl to fill the lower one

Costume / A Florent 1902
S-bend ladies wear gowns with trained gored skirts, braid trim & sleeves with fullness at the lower arm. Also an open bodice, turned back cuffs, lace yoke & belts

Ship on Lower Thames
The Lower Thames

Building French Ship 8
Careening a corvette : she is laid on her side so that the accumulation of marine rubbish which has gathered on her keel and lower hull can be burned off

Brazil / Amazon C1890
Tropical forest lines the banks of the lower Amazon, Brazil

Girl Hides Behind a Fan
A shy young woman hides her mouth and lower face behind a fan which is ornamented with a design incorporating foliage, berries & flowers. Date: 1880s

GORKY, LOWER DEPTHS
A scene from the 1902 production of Maxim Gorkys classic play of working class life, THE LOWER DEPTHS, performed by the Moscow Arts Theatre

Henry I of Brabant
HENRY I DUKE OF BRABRANT (formerly Henry IV Duke of Lower Lorraine). Known as The Warrior. Took the title Duke of Brabant in 1190

Chariot Race
Depiction of a chariot race, with putti taking part in the upper panel, and a curious monster making his appearance at lower right

Spinning, Austria
A Rockensitz - literally, a distaff session - among peasant women in lower Austria; the old lady tells stories as she spins, the young ones listen

Jerusalem / Plan 1C Ad
Plan of the city in biblical times : the City of David upper left, Solomons Temple lower centre, the site of Jesuss crucifixion upper centre

Haymarket, St Petersburg
The Hay market, St Petersburg - where many things are on sale, except hay : the lady lower right may have passed out with the excitement, but is more probably drunk

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