Stirring Gallery

Trades in Regency England: Cheese making, check manufacture

Trades in Regency England: Cheese making, check manufacture and cotton printing. Dairymaid making cheese in Cheshire 55, man selling check cotton aprons door to door 56, and man printing rolls of cotton with wooden blocks in Manchester 57. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865

© Florilegius

Spring is coming

Spring is coming - Waken O World - it is Spring!'. Stirring image of a young girl playing a violin to herald the coming of Spring. Artist: Millicent Sowerby Date: circa 1913

© Mary Evans Picture Library/Peter & Dawn Cope Collection

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The Boy of the period stirring up the animals

The Boy of the period stirring up the animals. Print shows a caricature of financier Jay Gould, left, who attempts to corner the gold market, represented by bulls and bears in a cage. On Black Friday, September 1869, in the midst of scandal, President Ulysses S. Grant, center, restored prevailing gold prices by having the U.S. Treasury sell five million dollars in gold which he brings forward in a bag. Date 1869. The Boy of the period stirring up the animals. Print shows a caricature of financier Jay Gould, left, who attempts to corner the gold market, represented by bulls and bears in a cage. On Black Friday, September 1869, in the midst of scandal, President Ulysses S. Grant, center, restored prevailing gold prices by having the U.S. Treasury sell five million dollars in gold which he brings forward in a bag. Date 1869

© Mary Evans / Library of Congress