Images Dated 17th October 2007 (page 8)

Disinfecting a home - 1
DISINFECTING A HOME Workers for the Paris prefecture disinfect a home where tuberculosis or cholera have occurred

Palais Royal Ablaze
The burning of the Palais Royal, Paris, severely damaged by the Communards

Postman and Junk Mail
A French postman distributes junk mail on behalf of the Bonnard-Bidault advertising agency, Paris

French Toyshop C17
A French toy stall

Mozart Requiem Request
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART commissioned by the steward of Count Walsegg to write the Requiem

Shadow Timekeeper
The ancient Greeks are said to have used shadows to measure time, the length of a persons shadow, varying at different times of day, giving a rough indication as to the time

Edmund Halley / Mezzotint
EDMUND HALLEY Astronomer

Military / Camp / Saxon, C7
A Saxon Encampment in 7th century England

Paris Oil Streetlight
A Paris lamplighter prepares to light an oil lamp, which he has to fill every evening

Rossini / Barbiere / Liebig
Scenes from the opera, with the composers portrait

Smoking Contest
Table Mountain, South Africa, is rarely without a tablecloth of cloud which is said to have been created when Dutch settler Van Hunks had a smoking contest with the Devil

Van Riebeck Lands
Jan van Riebeeck lands in Table Bay where he founds Cape Town

Dragons in America
The Spanish conquistadors find dragons in America; the natives catch and cook them

Sleepwalking Girl
A girl in her nightie walks on the window-ledge

Blackheath Road School
Blackheath Road board school, Greenwich

Tattooing, New Zealand
A Maori tattooist decorates a warriors back

Atlantis Destroyed
The island is destroyed by a tidal wave

Lucas Van Leyden
LUCAS VAN LEYDEN Dutch artist

Charles I Miniaturen
CHARLES I OF ENGLAND in a miniature of 1647

Palm-Reading Manual
LES MYSTERES DE LA MAIN popular French manual on palmistry

Flappers 1923
Two happy flappers wear soft wide brimmed hats & gathered skirts that catch the breeze

Carriage on Rail Wagon
In the earliest days of the rail, a private carriage might be carried on a rail wagon - anticipating todays motorail service by a hundred years

Greenwich Railway
LONDON-GREENWICH RAILWAY Elevated on either arches or embankment throughout most of its length, the line snakes through the south-eastern outskirts of London

Liszt Mulnier Photo
FRANZ LISZT the Hungarian composer and musician in old age

Fall of Babylon (Dore)
Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird

Coleridge at 26
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE English poet and critic as a young man

Boer / Cronje Surrenders
The surrender of Cronje at Paardeberg

Hoovering a Chair 1930S
A housewife demonstrates how to vacuum clean an armchair using a Hoover " Dustette" cleaner

Lorgues / Salamanca
Columbus states his proposals to the Royal Commission at Salamanca

De Lorgues / Waterspout
Columbus exorcises a waterspout whilst on board his ship during a storm

India / Sikh War / Multan
A view of Mooltan (Multan) Fort from the west

Saint Giles
SAINT GILES

Benjamin Lee Guinness
BENJAMIN LEE GUINNESS Irish brewer; manager (from 1825), sole proprietor (1855) of brewing business founded by his father; first lord mayor of Dublin (1851)

Decorating the House
Hanging a holly wreath

Harpies / Johnstone
Though Johnstone includes the harpy in his natural history of birds, they are only half- birds, having human faces; they have nasty habits and they smell awful

Racial /s Africa / Zulu 19C
A Zulu warrior in traditional attire, with spears, shield and club

France / Lamarque
Chateau de Lamarque (Gironde)

France / Vincennes
Chateau de Vincennes (Seine)

France / Mareuil
Chateau de Mareuil (Dordogne)

France / Saint-Fons
Chateau de Saint-Fons (Rhone)

France / Chantilly
Chateau de Chantilly (Oise)

Pelagia the Penitent
PELAGIA THE PENITENT actress of Antioch who after hearing a Christian sermon repented of her wicked ways and became a hermit on the Mount of Olives, Jerusalem

Buddha Heals Child
SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA, known as the BUDDHA ( Enlightened One ) he heals a blind child

Girls Draw on Slate 19C
An older girl helps her younger sister to draw a house on a slate

Miracle at Lourdes
At Lourdes, young Marie- Therese Lepretre is suddenly cured of Potts Disease while waiting for mass in her wheeled stretcher

Denis Diderot / Meissonier
DENIS DIDEROT French encyclopedist and philosopher who worked as a teacher and a translator. Discussing the encyclopedia with colleagues

Hogarth Palette Easel
WILLIAM HOGARTH Seated at his easel, painting The Comic Muse

Theatre / Bear Garden
A view of the Bear Baiting arena with The Globe and The Rose theatres

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