Rush Collection (page 7)

Gold mining, Australia
Ivanhoe gold mine, Australia

Advert for Chaplin in The Gold Rush
Advertisement for a showing in March 1943 in East London, South Africa, of the release of a new version of " The Gold Rush" starring and directed by Charlie Chaplin with a musical score

Stanfield Hall murder trial
The interior of the court house at Norwich during the trial of James Blomfield Rush (which started on 29th March 1849 and lasted for 6 days)

Notice of Death from Union Workhouse, Maldon, Essex
A Notice of Death sent from the Maldon Union workhouse to the next of kin of William John Rush. If relatives or friends did not undertake the funeral arrangements

Alarming prospect 1853 / Leech
Alarming prospect - The single ladies ladies off to the diggings. The early days of the Victorian gold rush were famously male dominated

Park Lane - Brook Street Gate - London

Fire Brigade - Abadan Oilfield, Iran
A group of Iranian firefighters practising the swift deployment of the hose from their engine at the Abadan oilfield, Iran

Birds-eye view of Oxford Street, London
A birds-eye view looking down a busy Oxford Street, London, the heart of the retail centre of the capital. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

The Cafe de la Paix, Boulevard Capucines, Paris
Undated photograph of outside of the Cafe de la Paix, Boulevard Capucines, Paris. HPG/1/14/5 (vii)

Sketches from the New Zealand Gold Rush. Gold-diggers out Pr
Engraving of four men with picks and shovels travelling through the mountainous region in New Zealand where gold had been found

Gold in New Zealand 1853
The New Zealand gold field: discovery of gold near the source of the Kapanga Stream, about 40 miles from Auckland; miners camped close to the river pan for gold

America. San Francisco, California, from the Bay
By 1868, 20 years after the gold rush, San Francisco has grown to be a thriving metropolis with 70-80, 000 inhabitants

Fleet Street in election time showing the rush for newspapers as the new edition arrives off the printing presses

San Francisco, California, 1850
Engraving showing San Francisco, viewed from the South-West, 1850. Founded as a gold rush town, San Francisco had a population of only 10-15, 000 people at this time

A Land-rush in the United States. A Minute after the signal
Horses and wagons of all sorts take the participants in the land-rush to stake a claim for their plot. The land on which Arkansas City was to be built had belonged to the Cherokees until they were

A Land-rush in the United States. The crowd waiting to take
Once the Cherokee Indians had been taken off their lands, a land rush was organised where settlers would race to take possession of the land, sometimes shooting rivals in the process

Victoria, Vancouver Island, c. 1863
A street in Victoria, Vancouver Island. The scene of a gold rush in the 1860s and home to many native American Indians

Costume Men & Boys 1845
Boys: trousers, tasselled cap, short fitted jackets one with braiding. Men:1/2 length sac coat, pinched waists, waistcoats with a deep V opening & strapped trousers

Triton's spear - Crane - Kniphofia
That, reddening on the Triton's spear, foretells the waning of the year. (The flower resembles Kniphofia or Red-hot Poker')

The Leap Frog Railway
An amusing illustration of the latest sensational railway design, the Leap Frog railway. The railway consists of a track about five hundred feet long

New York Traffic congestion
Illustration of congestion in New York city, showing carnage on the streets especially at rush hours. It is a state that it was felt London was rapidly approaching

Woman in Garden / Woof
Smiling blonde, wearing a white, peasant style dress, sits on a rush mat on a path in a sunny garden

Piccadilly 1950S
The hustle and bustle of central London, around the entrance to Piccadilly Circus underground station, with remarkably few cars about

San Francisco, Calif
The former Spanish settlement of Yerba Buena was taken from the Mexicans in 1846 and renamed San Francisco : it expanded rapidly during the Gold Rush of 1849

San Francisco, in 1848
Compare this 1848 view with our view from 1850, and you ll see the enormous expansion of the town during the Gold Rush of 1849 !

Sacramento Circa 1840
Settled in 1839 by John Sutter during the California Gold Rush, Sacramento rapidly became an important trading centre, and was made State Capital in 1854

Ostrich Feather Making
The new feather fashion brought a rush of work to the workshops where they combed, curled, dressed and tinted the feathers ready for the milliners

Johann August Sutter
JOHANN AUGUST SUTTER German pioneer in California, on whose land was found the nugget of gold which led to the California Gold Rush

Australian Gold Rush
A new rush, and more people flood in to make their fortunes

Klondike / Nome 1900
FRONT STREET, NOME, ALASKA during the Gold Rush

Klondike / Nome July 1900
Prospectors crowd Front Street, Nome, Alaska, at the height of the gold rush

Klondike / Services 1900
Cigars and liquor for sale, watch repairs done, brokers, an undertaker and a lawyer offer services on Steadman Avenue, Nome, Alaska, during the gold rush

Klondike / Camp 1900
Miners camp on the Snake River, Nome, Alaska, during the Gold Rush

Klondike / Hegg / 1900
The Discovery Claim at Anvil Creek, Nome, Alaska, during the gold rush

Klondike / Post Office
Miners gathering outside the Post Office at Nome, Alaska, during the gold rush

Dogs at Nome, Alaska
Dogs hauling water at Nome, Alaska, during the Gold Rush

Industry / Metals / Gold
A rush for new diggings, California

Cattle Rush, Australia
A cattle rush at dawn

Adjusting her Stockings
A young woman wearing a lacy chemise, corset & frilly edged drawers, adjusts her stockings

Samuel Brannan
SAMUEL BRANNAN Leader of colony of Mormons to San Francisco in 1846; made fortune during California gold rush

A Nun Makes a Bolt
A French girl, incarcerated against her will in a convent at Marseille, makes a dramatic escape by clambering over a wall, where passers-by rush to her aid with a ladder

AEOLUS
Aeolus was appointed ruler of the winds by Zeus. Hr lives on the island of Aeolia, and when he opens his door the winds rush out

Rush Gatherers 1878
Three children set out rush gathering in a small rowing boat. A boy holds a sickle in his hand. The rushes are used for rush seats for chairs & for baskets etc

Tea Party / Greenaway
Thin faced little girls in mob caps partake of cake & tea seated on rush chairs. A racquet & shuttlecock have momentarily been abandoned for the sake of refreshment

Postman Early C19
The postman rings his bell - those with a letter to send rush out into the street and pop it into the slit in his bag

Rushlight Holder
An old English Rushlight Holder, a relic of the days when the pith of rushes was used as a primitive candle

Queensland Gold Rush
Encampment at New Zealand Gully, near Roehampton, Queensland

RUSH TRIAL / 1908
Christabel Pankhurst, Mrs Pankhurst and Flora Drummond at Bow Street Magistrates Court during the Rush trial

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