Images Dated 1st August 2019

Queen Victorias Plantagenet Costume Ball at Buckingham Palace, May 7, 1842..., (1901)

Queen Victoria's Plantagenet Costume Ball at Buckingham Palace, May 7, 1842: Her Majesty as Queen Philippa; The Prince Consort as Edward III, (1901). Fancy dress party, with costumes from the Plantagenet period (c1154-1485), held by Victoria (1819-1901) at Buckingham Palace in London. Victoria is dressed as Philippa of Hainault (1314-1369), and her husband Prince Albert (1818-1861) wears the costume of King Edward III 1312-1377). From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]

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The Prince of Wales...laying the Foundation Stone of the new Eddystone Lighthouse

The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh laying the Foundation Stone of the new Eddystone Lighthouse, August 19, 1879, (1901). Prince Albert Edward (1841-1910), the future King Edward VII, and his brother Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900) at the site of the fourth Eddystone Lighthouse off the coast of Cornwall. The tower was designed by James Nicholas Douglass to warn shipping away from the dangerous Eddystone Rocks. From "The Illustrated London News Record of the Glorious Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901: The Life and Accession of King Edward VII. and the Life of Queen Alexandra". [London, 1901]

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The Ypres Salient before and after the Second Battle of Ypres..., First World War, 1915, (c1920)

The Ypres Salient before and after the Second Battle of Ypres, April 22-May 13, First World War, 1915, (c1920). Map showing positions of the allied forces around Ypres in Belgium: French, Canadian and British, the Cavalry Corps which took the place of the Central Division on May13, and "A Division (British; originally Colonel Geddes mixed brigade)'. The shaded area indicates ground won by the Germans as a result of the first great gas attack. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume III, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]

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