Newspapers Collection

New Hydraulic Lift at the Victoria Docks, 1858. Creator: Walmsley
New Hydraulic Lift at the Victoria Docks, [London], 1858. The new graving-docks in connection with the Victoria Docks, the construction of which was commenced about two years back

Rifle fete at Ecclesbourne, near Hastings, 1860. Creator: W Thomas
Rifle fete at Ecclesbourne, near Hastings, 1860. The contest was chiefly among the members of the Cinque Ports Corps...The first prize was a Lancaster rifle, value ten guineas, which was won by Mr

The Highland Shepherd - painted by R. Ansdell - from the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1856. Creator: W Thomas
The Highland Shepherd - painted by R. Ansdell - from the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1856. Engraving of a painting....one of those happy transcripts of Highland life that has made Mr

Dancing between Decks, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Dancing between Decks, 1850. Emigrants leaving for the colonies: United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia or New Zealand

Rustic sports in the Park - north view of Harewood House, 1845. Creator: Unknown
Rustic sports in the Park - north view of Harewood House, 1845. Celebrations at Harewood House near Leeds in Yorkshire. The events which gave rise to the Festival were the Coming of Age

View of Ayr, the birth-place of Burns, 1844. Creator: Unknown
View of Ayr, the birth-place of Burns, 1844. The town where Scottish poet Robert Burns was born, with its two bridges over the River Ayr. From " Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I

The Princes Second Derby, 1900: Diamond Jubilee first past the post, (1901). Creator: Unknown
The Princes Second Derby, 1900: Diamond Jubilee first past the post, (1901). Thoroughbred race horse owned by the Prince of Wales winning the Derby at Epsom racecourse in Surrey

Washing Day, 1888. Creator: Unknown
Washing Day, 1888. From, The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 38. July to December, 1888

New Physicians Hall, Edinburgh, 1845. Creator: Unknown
New Physicians Hall, Edinburgh, 1845. Offices of the Royal College of Physicians in Queen Street, designed by Thomas Hamilton. The top figure of the facade is that of Hygeia, the Goddess of Health

Brandon Station, 1845. Creator: Unknown
Brandon Station, 1845. Railway station at the town of Brandon in Suffolk, one of the stops on the newly opened line from London to Cambridge and Ely

Lloyds Coffee House, London, 1798, (1947). Creator: William Holland
Lloyds Coffee House, London, 1798, (1947). Interior of the Lloyds Coffee House in Lombard Street in the City of London. Lloyds became a meeting place for merchants and shipowners

Queen Victoria... visiting Soldiers wounded in the Indian Frontier campaigns... 1898, (1901)
Queen Victoria at Netley Hospital visiting Soldiers wounded in the Indian Frontier campaigns, December 3, 1898, (1901). Victoria (1819-1901) with injured men of the British Army

Queen Victoria conferring the Victoria Cross on heroes of Dargai... May 14, 1898, (1901)
Queen Victoria conferring the Victoria Cross on heroes of Dargai at Netley Hospital, May 14, 1898, (1901). Victoria (1819-1901)

Visit of the Prince of Wales to Bournemouth; View of Bournemouth form the East Cliff, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Visit of the Prince of Wales to Bournemouth; View of Bournemouth form the East Cliff, 1890

What do you think of the expedition? from Metamorphoses of the Day, 1829

Prossers Wooden Railway, Wimbledon Common, 1845. Creator: Unknown
Prossers Wooden Railway, Wimbledon Common, 1845....a System of Tram-ways composed entirely of Wood, which the inventor, Mr

The Char-a-banc presented to Her Majesty by the King of the French, 1844. Queen Victoria and King Louis Philippe of France ride from the Queens Entrance at Windsor Castle to Twickenham

Framlingham Castle, 1845. Creator: Unknown
Framlingham Castle, 1845. Norman castle in Suffolk. This picturesque ruin of a fortress of the Middle Ages, stands on the north side of the town of Framlingham, 18 miles north-east of Ipswich

Conflagration at Sir C. Prices Wharf, Blackfriars, 1845. Creator: Unknown
Conflagration at Sir C. Prices Wharf, Blackfriars, 1845. The London fire brigade attempting to extinguish a fire...in the warehouses belonging to Sir Charles Price and Co

Gotha - from His Royal Highness Prince Alberts drawing, 1845. Creator: W. J. Linton
Gotha - from His Royal Highness Prince Alberts drawing, 1845. View of the town of Gotha in Thuringia, Germany, seat of the royal house of Wettin of which Prince Albert was a member

The Distin Family, 1844. Creator: Unknown
The Distin Family, 1844. John Distin and his sons were British musicians who performed on saxhorns and were influential in the evolution of brass instruments in then popular music. Mr

Scenes from a Victorian Summer, 1878, (1942). Creator: Randolph Caldecott
Scenes from a Victorian Summer, 1878, (1942). Page layout with illustrations and indications of the placement of text. Design for the Summer Number of " The Graphic" [newspaper], 1878

Crowd watching "playograph," World Series, 1911, 1911. Creator: Bain News Service
Crowd watching "playograph," World Series, 1911, 1911. Shows crowd gathered outside the New York Herald newspaper building, New York City

Materials for a Leisure Hour, 1879. Creator: William Michael Harnett
Materials for a Leisure Hour, 1879. Objects for a Leisure Hour conveys the sense of recent human presence through the smouldering pipe resting on the edge of the table

A.P. Moore, who just married Lillian Russell, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
A.P. Moore, who just married Lillian Russell, 1912.

Packy McFarland, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Packy McFarland, 1910.

Wm. Barnes, Jr., standing outside in park, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Wm. Barnes, Jr., standing outside in park, 1910.

The Tickle, 1755. Creator: Pietro Longhi
The Tickle, 1755. A young girl looks out at the spectator and makes a gesture of complicity. She tickles the face of a sleeping young man with a feather, attentively watched by two maids

The Reader, 1885. Creator: Ferdinand Hodler
The Reader, 1885. Showing an eighty-year-old man reading a newspaper amid a room decorated with prints.

Morgan funeral - newspaper photographers arrested in Stuyvesant Sq., 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Morgan funeral - newspaper photographers arrested in Stuyvesant Sq., 1913. Shows funeral of financier John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) which took place on April 14, 1913 in New York City.

Consul Kirchknopf, Hilmi Pacha, De Giers, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Consul Kirchknopf, Hilmi Pacha, De Giers, 1912. Shows diplomats from Turkey (Huseyin Hilmi Pasha), Russia (Mikhail Nikolayevich von Giers)

Woodrow Wilson, Norman E. Mack, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Woodrow Wilson, Norman E. Mack, between c1910 and c1915.

Naval boat-race in Cork Harbour, 1865. Creator: Smyth
Naval boat-race in Cork Harbour, [Ireland], 1865. 'Some days ago an exciting match was rowed at Queenstown, Cork Harbour, by the crews, respectively

The Wiltshire Champion Coursing Meeting at Stonehenge, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Wiltshire Champion Coursing Meeting at Stonehenge, 1865. Engraving of a sketch by Mr. G. B. Goddard, representing '...the trysting-place for the coursers on one or two mornings during

"Statesmen's Corner", North Transept, Westminster Abbey, 1865. Creator: Unknown
"Statesmen's Corner", North Transept, Westminster Abbey, [London], 1865. 'The more ancient monuments of the larger size

Romsey Abbey Church, Hampshire, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Romsey Abbey Church, Hampshire, 1865. 'The Abbey Church...is one of the most interesting monuments of Norman ecclesiastical architecture belonging to the conventual class of buildings which

Interior of Romsey Abbey Church, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Interior of Romsey Abbey Church, 1865. 'The Abbey Church...is one of the most interesting monuments of Norman ecclesiastical architecture belonging to the conventual class of buildings which

Presentation of the Freedom of the City of Glasgow to the Rt. Hon. W.E. Gladstone...City Hall, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Presentation of the Freedom of the City of Glasgow to the Rt. Hon. W.E. Gladstone, in the City Hall, 1865. 'The hall was, of course, filled with spectators in every part...At two o'clock Mr

Colombia Market, Bethnal-Green, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Colombia Market, Bethnal-Green, [London], 1865. 'The new market [financed by Angela Burdett-Coutts]...will be quadrangular...The west side is nearly completed

The Right Hon. Benjamin Samuel Phillips, the new Lord Mayor of London, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Right Hon. Benjamin Samuel Phillips, the new Lord Mayor of London, 1865. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Mayall. 'Mr

Lord Palmerston's study at Broadlands, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Lord Palmerston's study at Broadlands, 1865. Interior of the home of British politician Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston, at Romsey in Hampshire

Kelso, Roxburghshire, lately visited by the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Kelso, Roxburghshire, lately visited by the Prince and Princess of Wales, 1865. 'On the recent occasion of the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe

The ship Glad Tidings, with a cargo of American cotton, entering the port of Liverpool, 1865. Creator: Smyth
The ship Glad Tidings, with a cargo of American cotton, entering the port of Liverpool, 1865. 'The reopening of the American cotton trade this summer has been hailed with grateful joy by many

Uncovering the equestrian statue of the late Field Marshal Lord Combermere at Chester, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Uncovering the equestrian statue of the late Field Marshal Lord Combermere at Chester, 1865. 'Sir Edward Cust, introduced by Earl Grosvenor

Unveiling the statue of the late Lord Eglinton at Ayr, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Unveiling the statue of the late Lord Eglinton at Ayr, 1865. Engraving from a photograph by David Campbell. 'A statue, by Mr

The Funeral of Lord Palmerston: arrival of the hearse at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Funeral of Lord Palmerston: arrival of the hearse at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, 1865. In the evening, '...the body was here received by the nearest surviving kinsman of Lord Palmerston

The Funeral of Lord Palmerston: the hearse leaving Brocket Hall, Hatfield, Herts., 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Funeral of Lord Palmerston: the hearse leaving Brocket Hall, Hatfield, Herts., 1865. 'the setting forth of the hearse from Brocket Hall about ten o'clock in the morning ...the change of

The Funeral of Lord Palmerston: the new cemetery at Romsey...interment of Lord Palmerston, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Funeral of Lord Palmerston: the new cemetery at Romsey, with the vault opened for the interment of Lord Palmerston, 1865. 'Mr

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