Secret Collection (page 6)

Arthur Ranc / Gill
Arthur Ranc (1831-1908), Duel fighting, French politician and writer. Implicated in a plot against Napoleon III, imprisoned for belonging to a secret society

Observation post 1918
A soldier in a canvas and steel observation post near Souchez on the Western Front in France during World War I in May 1918

A secret is shared
A woman whispers something into the ear of a humbly dressed servant who carries a bible. The painting is entitled Peine Perdue, meaning a waste of time

Secret Admirer 1918
A showgirl, dressed as a bottle of Champagne - and why not? - is intrigued to find that a secret admirer had left flowers in her dressing room

Richard Sands Air Walking at Drury Lane, 1853
Engraving showing Richard Sands (d.1861), the American acrobat, equestrian and air walker, performing at Drury Lane Theatre, London, March 1853

Abelard Instructs Helois
Abelard falls in love with Heloise while instructing her in theology; she falls in love with him while being instructed; they marry in secret, but he is castrated

Womans bedroom
Womans bedroon. A colour scheme of green, with dark furniture in Macassar ebony, showing a bookcase commode with secret jewel safe. The new British furniture, a complete home in the modern manner

Signs used by burglars and tramps
A series of photographs showing burglars secret signs to their accomplices. The signs are drawn onto houses to warn of the reception they are likely to recieve

Secret Library Doorway
A young Edwardian boy discovers a secret doorway in the library, concealed behind the false panel of a bookcase

Three Girls Talking 19C
Three little girls talking in a conspiratorial way

Social / Russia Police
Okhrana - pre-revolutionary secret police

A close friend is better than a near relation
Couple having a secret tryst on a beach, while an elderly aunt or relative brandishes a parasol on discovering them together

Cabinet Noir
The correspondence of persons suspected of republican sympathies is subject to censorship by the secret Cabinet Noir

Miss Braddon
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON English novelis, playwright and actress. Protagonist of the Victorian sensational novel, notably Lady Audleys Secret

Secret Mass
A group of faithful Christians pray at a secret mass held during the French Revolution

Ufos / Books / Tollet
Pierre Tollet MEURTRE EN SOUCOUPE VOLANTE Popular French thriller featuring a flying saucer which turns out to be a secret military device

Secret Garden / Characters
Mary, Colin, Dickon and their garden

Carr, Royal Love
ROYAL LOVE (Kathryn Carr) Looks like shes got the young man drunk in order to steal the secret papers she knows hes carrying - but oh dear, heres a man with a gun !

Girl with Fairies 1926
A young girl plays with her fairy friends unnoticed, while her mother sleeps and her brother reads. The cat though seems suitably surprised!

Polish Kossinieri
Members of a patriotic secret society, the KOSSINIERI (literally, the scythers) swear to fight for the freedom of Poland against the hated Russians who rule them

Molly Maguires
The Molly Maguires, a secret patriotic organisation whose members dressed as women to fool the authorities

London / Whitechapel / Dore
Three dubious characters meet in a dark and mysterious Whitechapel passage

French Wise Woman
A French village wise woman uses her secret herbs to cure her patient

Concocting Medicine
A medicine man concocts a pot of medicine in his hunt, using secret rituals

Secret Society
Newcomers to a secret society of medicine men are shown the magic objects and substances which will be the tools of their trade

Ines De Castro
INES DE CASTRO Portuguese noblewoman, wife (secret) of the Infante Pedro (later Pedro I), murdered by his father, Alfonso IV who disapproved of the marriage

Early Trade Union C1835
Initiation into a TRADE UNION - due to official hostility (unionists were perceived as revolutionaries) the earliest unions conducted themselves like secret societies

Young woman with a basket full of Easter eggs
A young woman with a basket full of decorated Easter eggs -- These eggs hold the secret of my heart !

Court Martial of Dreyfus
Captain Alfred Dreyfus before his court martial for treason: papers giving secret information to the Germans had been found and Dreyfus was made a scape-goat

Miners Vote to Strike
Miners queue to vote yes to strike action

Carbonari Meeting / 1820
A meeting of Carbonari, the Italian nationalist secret society

Carbonari Deputation1820
A deputation of Carbonari, the nationalist secret society, are presented to Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (previously Ferdinand IV of Naples)

Italy / Carbonari Arrested
Members of the Carbonari nationalist secret society are arrested in Lombardy

Chicago Strikers / 1886
Strikers in Chicago riot at the McCormick Reaper Works; police, aided by Allan Pinkertonss men (US Secret Service head) fire into the crowd

Member of ?society
A man wearing a ceremonial costume of long robe and hat decorated with beads and the pelt of an animal, holds a cutting implement. Possibly a member of a Secret Society

Circular Bath / Bath
The Circular Roman Bath at Bath, Somerset. The existence of the remains were secret until 1755, when hot water came rushing out of the Roman masonry

Saint Saens / Samson / Lieb4
Act 2 scene 3 : Samson has revealed the secret of his strength, Dalila has cut his hair and now calls the Philistine warriors to take him captive

Saint Saens / Samson / Lieb3
Act 2 scene 3 : Dalila tries to get Samson to reveal to her the secret of his strength

James Graham, Quack Doc
James Graham, famous Scottish quack doctor, delivers a lecture to an audience. In December 1783, Graham claimed that he knew the secret to living to the age of 150

Voting / General Election
A general election scene in Britain before the introduction of the secret ballot: voters coming to the poll at Westminster

Last of the Picts
A legend from Galloway tells how the last Pict refuses to divulge to the conquering Scots the secret of how to make heather-ale. The secret is lost

Digging in the Catacombs
Early Christians, with pick, shovel, and a flaming torch, dig themselves secret places for their meetings in the Roman catacombs

Maintenon / Petitot / Miniat
Francoise d Aubigne, madame de MAINTENON, widow of the poet Scarron, and second wife (secret) of Louis XIV

Fortress of Utopia
THE FORTRESS OF UTOPIA: On a lifeless mystery satellite, five lone mortals summon the secret forces of science to free the earth from the doom of the black nebula!

Ussr Police / Okhrana 1934
Secrets of the Okhrana - the pre-revolutionary secret police

Tunic Dress by Doucet
Column like tunic dress by Doucet: the over-skirt caught up at the back with roses & ornamented wih pendants

Open Election, Britain
Scene at a hustings in the days of OPEN ELECTRION, before the secret ballot was finally introduced in 1872 after being rejected time and time again

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