1870 Gallery

Dickens / Empty Chair
HIS HOME AT GADSHILL His desk and empty chair after his death, dated 9 June 1870

Map / Asia / India C1870
India, showing the various Presidencies under British rule

Lenin / Anon Photo / Trotsky
VLADIMIR ILICH ULYANOV LENIN Russian statesman; addressing the Red Army with Trotski on the steps

Charles Dickens / Bibby s
Charles Dickens Writer

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian statesman
A photograph of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin (1870 - 1924), Russian statesman and Communist leader, circa 1920

STEAMBOAT RACE, 1870. The Great Mississippi Steamboat Race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez from New Orleans to St. Louis won by the Robert E

Rosa Luxemburg
ROSA LUXEMBURG German Socialist agitator and leading intellectual of the German left, giving a speech

Rosa Luxemburg - 1
ROSA LUXEMBURG German Socialist agitator, helped found the Polish Social Democratic Party

Dickens & his Creations
Charles Dickens Writer

Bismarck & Napoleon III
After the battle of SEDAN, a triumphant Bismarck chats with the defeated Napoleon III

Charles Dickens
CHARLES DICKENS English writer, at his writing desk, circa 1860

MONTESSORI (1870 - 1952)
Doctor MARIA MONTESSORI Italian medical and educator, first woman in Italy to obtain a medical degree; pioneered child education methods

Montessori school
A detailed illustration by S. Begg of a Montessori school in Courtfield Gardens, London, showing children at various activiities

Phrenological Head / Scrap
A phrenological head, showing the different categoies of the brain which should exist in healthy humans. These include self perceptive, aspiring and animal morals

Jules Vernes Nautilus submarine, artwork
Nautilus submarine. Artwork of the submarine Nautilus surfacing rapidly after sinking a ship. This scene is from the book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870)

HARE
(lepus europaeus) Brown hare

CARPENTER / 1870
A carpenter planes a piece of wood creating lots of wood shavings

Errigal Mountain (1870). Burgess, James Howard 1817-1890. Date: 1870

Croydon Fire Brigade, South Norwood station
The firefighters of the Croydon Fire Brigade serving at South Norwood station, South Norwood High Street, together with their horse drawn manual fire engine

Highcroft Hall Hospital, Erdington, Birmingham
An aerial view of Highcroft Hall Hospital on Slade Road, Erdington, Birmingham. The hospital was originally opened in around 1870 as the Aston Union workhouse

LANCASTER, Lancashire
Birds eye view of Lancaster, Lancashire

Skeleton & Ligaments
Physiological diagram of the skeleton and ligaments

Oldbury Factories
A West Midlands town known for its manufacture of iron and steel tubes, chemical and engineering products - hence such an out put of smoke !

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Communist leader in disguise
A photograph of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin (1870 - 1924), Communist leader in disguise, August 1917

THE FALL OF THE REBEL ANGELS, BY GUSTAVE DORE. Gustave Dore, 1832 - 1883, French. Engraving for Paradise Lost by Milton. 1870, Art, Artist, romanticism, colour, color engraving

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Looe, South Cornwall, for Ideal Homes and Holidays, GWR Poster, 1930

St Lawrences Hospital, Caterham, Surrey
Aerial view of St Lawrences Hospital at Caterham in Surrey, originally opened in 1870 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as an imbeciles asylum for Londons sick poor suffering from mental conditions

Glasgow University
THE UNIVERSITY GALOP Edward and Alexandra are cheered as they leave after opening GLASGOW UNIVERSITY in its fine new building by George Gilbert Scott Date: 1870

Charles Dickens, by Andre Gill, 1868
Engraved caricature of Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the English writer, produced by the French artist, Andre Gill, first published in 1868

Saudi Arabia Mecca
The Kaaba, or Kissing Stone enclosure

James Braid, Golfer
James Braid. Scottish golfer and course architect, winner of five British Open Championships

Bleak House, Broadstairs, Kent, England. This building has great literary associations, for it was here that Charles Dickens lived and wrote " David Copperfield" etc

Reform Club Library / Iln
The library of the Reform Club

LENIN READING PRAVDA
VLADIMIR ILICH ULYANOV LENIN Russian statesman, reading a copy of Pravda in his study

Old Town and Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Old Town and Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland, seen from Princes Street, with some smoking chimneys in the foreground

Fox Terriers at Newstead Abbey
Oil on canvas 35 x 27.5 ins This painting was completed for the 6th Duchess of Newcastle in c. 1870. A composite picture, it is reasonable to assume that not all the dogs with still alive when it was

BALD EAGLE, 1870. Old Abe, the bald eagle which was the mascot of the Eight Wisconsin Regiment during the American Civil War. American banknote engraving, c1870

Union workhouse, Pontardawe, Glamorgan, Wales
The Pontardawe Union workhouse was erected in 1870 on Brecon Road, Pontardawe, Glamorgan, Wales. It later became the Danybryn Hostel

Two Parakeets - 2
The TIRIBA PARAKEET and the COQUETTE PARAKEET (or PARAQUET) Two members of the Palaeornithinae family

Rugby at Rugby School
AT RUGBY SCHOOL A crowd of schoolboys run after the ball at Rugby

Factory at Paisley
Bird s-eye view of Messrs J and J Clarks Anchor Thread works at Paisley, 11 km west of Glasgow, Scotland. They are still Britains leading threadmakers

Tropical plant and orchid house
Cross-section view of a tropical plant and orchid house

Bristol and Exeter Railway Station, Bristol, 1870
Based at Bristol Temple Meads, this was the Headquarters for the Bristol and Exeter Railway. The GWR Station can be seen to the right of the image

VERNE: 20, 000 LEAGUES. Only one of its arms wriggled in the air, brandishing the victim like a feather. One of Captain Nemos sailors seized by a giant cuttlefish

VERNE: 20, 000 LEAGUES, 1870. One of Captain Nemos sailors seized by a giant cuttlefish. Wood engraving after a drawing by Alphonse de Neuville from an 1870 edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under

MATTHEW: VI, 28-30.....consider the lilies of the field....... Text decorated with white lilies

Smithfield Market 1870
The arrival of an early meat train at Smithfield Market in London: porters unload and move baskets and crates

Lenin in his Study
VLADIMIR ILICH ULYANOV LENIN Soviet statesman, in a relaxed pose, in front of a bookcase in his study

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