1872 Collection (#46)

DORÉ: LONDON, 1872. Dudley Street, Seven Dials. Wood engraving after Gustave Dor

DORÉ: LONDON, 1872. The rag merchants home - Coulston Street, Whitechapel. Wood engraving after Gustave Dor

DORÉ: LONDON, 1872. Flower Girls. Wood engraving after Gustave Dor

VACCINATION, 1872. A Board of Health physician vaccinating the poor against smallpox in a New York City police station, 1872. Wood engraving from a contemporary American newspaper

DORÉ: LONDON, 1872. Wentworth Street, Whitechapel. Wood engraving after Gustave Dor

LAST OF THE MOHICANS, 1872. Wrapper of an 1872 edition of James Fenimore Coopers The Last of the Mohicans

CUMBERLAND GAP, 1872. The Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Color engraving, American, 1872

DORÉ: LONDON, 1872. Over London-By Rail. Colored wood engraving after Gustave Dore from London: A Pilgrimage, 1872

DORÉ: LONDON, 1872. The Great Vats. Wood engraving after Gustave Dor

DORÉ: LONDON, 1872. Mixing the Malt. Wood engraving after Gustave Dor

DORÉ: LONDON, 1872. Coffee Stall-Early Morning. Wood engraving after Gustave Dor

SHREVEPORT LEVEE, 1872. Loading barrels of molasses at the levee at Shreveport, Louisiana. Engraving, 1872

DORÉ: LONDON, 1872. The Workmens Train. Wood engraving after Gustave Dor

DORÉ: LONDON, 1872. Ludgate Hill-A Block in the Street. Wood engraving after Gustave Dor

DORÉ: LONDON, 1872. Refuge-Applying for Admittance. Wood engraving after Gustave Dor

DORÉ: LONDON, 1872. Bishopsgate Street. Wood engraving after Gustave Dor

SAINT GOTTHARD TUNNEL. One of the Swiss entrances to Saint Gotthard Tunnel during its construction from 1872-1880. Wood engraving from a contemporary English newspaper

RIOTERS AT BELFAST, 1872. The Belfast Riots: Wrecking Shops and Plundering Spirit Stores. Wood engraving, English, 1872

MADAME ALBANI (1852-1930). Stage name of Emma Lajeunesse. Canadian operatic singer. Wood engraving, English, 1872

STEAMSHIP: REPUBLIC. The steamship Republic of the White Star line sailing out of New York City. Wood engraving, American, 1872

ZOOLOGY: DEER, 1872. The Deer Family. Wood engraving

Birds eye view of the city of Columbia, South Carolina, 187

Ninth annual New England Fair, at Lowell, Mass. Sept. 3, 4, 5 & 6 1872. View of fairground, with horses racing, tents, and crowds, and railroad train in foreground, Lowell, Massachusetts. Date 1872

The celebrated trotting mare Lucy, passing the Judges Stand: In the fourth heat. Winning the $5000 prize at Buffalo, N.Y. August 9th 1872. Date 1872

Mr. Bonners horse Joe Elliott, driven by J. Bowen: trotting in harness at Mystic Park, Medford, Mass. June 28th 1872. Date c1873

National soldiers home. Eastern branch near Augusta, Me. 1872

Dupuy de Lome, marine engineer who built a dirigible for the French government in 1872, head-and-shoulders portrait. Date between 1880 and 1900

Industrial-exposition. Louisville 1872. Date c1872

Zither making, Germany, 1872
Two men making zithers in a workshop in Mittenwald, Germany. Date: 1857

Street music: A November day, 1872
Three weary street musicians ply their trade on a rainy day in November. Date: 1872

The Childrens Home and Orphanage, Lancashire Branch, Edgewo
Boys constructing a reservoir at the Childrens Home on the Moor at Edgworth near Bolton. Founded in 1872 by Methodist minister Thomas Bowman Stephenson

Middlesex Hospital, Cleveland Street, London
The Middlesex Hospital on Cleveland Street in Londons Fitzrovia district. The building was erected in the 1770s as a workhouse for the parish of St Paul, Covent Garden

National Childrens Home, Edgworth
Inmates and staff at the Childrens Home on the Moor at Edgworth near Bolton, founded in 1872 by Methodist minister Thomas Bowman Stephenson

A Monday Popular Concert, London, 1872
Music lovers at a Monday Popular Concert, London, 1872.Some follow the score avidly, others stare into space and look bored. Date: 1872

Napoleon and Josephine enjoy street musicians

Charterhouse Gatehouse
The Gatehouse of Charterhouse, London. Founded in 1371 as a Carthusian monastery, this fine building was endowed as a school in 1611. Transferred to Godalming, Surrey, in 1872. Date: founded 1371

Street music: Organ grinder, 1872
A Civil War veteran turns his hand to organ grinding in New York, 1872. Date: 1872

Exiled Communards 2
Living as best they can, French communist refugees after the collapse of the Commune find refuge in London. Date: 1872

Exiled Communards 1
Fleeing France after the Commune, communist refugees establish a community in London : they maintain a co- operative kitchen in Newman Passage, near Charing Cross. Date: 1872

Georgi Chicherin
GEORGI VASILYEVICH Russian diplomat, arrested in London in October 1917 for enemy associations. Also negotiated the Treaty of Rapallo with Germany (1922). Date: 1872 - 1936

Edouard Herriot Photo
EDOUARD HERRIOT French statesman, President, and writer of a life of Beethoven and other books : seen playing the piano in 1925. Date: 1872 - 1957

Charles Laubry Photo
CHARLES LAUBRY French cardiologist, in 1940. Date: 1872 - 1960

Charles Brook
CHARLES BROOK Yorkshire businessman and philanthropist. Date: 1814 - 1872

Bowring (Maclise)
SIR JOHN BOWRING Traveller and author, depicted as translator of the poetry of the Sandwich Islands. Date: 1792 - 1872

RSPCA prize-giving by Princess Louise
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, (4th daughter of Queen Victoria) giving the prizes of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at the annual meeting of the society in St Jamess

The New York Academy of Music, 1872. Date: 1872

Grenadier Guards perform
The musical festival at Boston: the band of the grenadier guards playing The Star Spangled Banner. Date: 1872

Filling water canteens, 1872
Soldiers of the Army Service Corps filling canteens from the water cart on Bottle Bush Down, during their Autumn Campaign in Wiltshire, England. Date: 1872

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