Louis Leon Cesar Faidherbe, 3 June 1818 - 29 September 1889, was a French general and colonial administrator, digital improved reproduction of a...
Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria . Queen of the Netherlands . Girl portrait. Engraving. "La Ilustracion Espa–ola y Americana", 1890.
Luis I . King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1861 to 1889. Portrait. Engraving. "La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana", 1881.
Craighton with Vice Regal Group , 'Craighton House' is named after its first owner George Craighton. It is believed to have been built in 1805. It...
Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, 1880. Eiffel's most historic and best-known work is the Eiffel Tower, built for the Paris Exposition of 1889, staged...
Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston, July 21, 1864 - October 29 was married to the President of the United States Grover Cleveland and was the...
The Volkstheater in Vienna was founded in 1889 by request of the citizens of Vienna, Austria, illustration, woodcut from 1880.
Dom LuÕs, 31 October 1838 - 19 October 1889, was a member of the House of Braganza, and King of Portugal and the Algarves, hictorical illustration...
William Wilkie Collins, 8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889, was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer, hictorical illustration from...
Ludwig Anzengruber, 29 November 1839 - 10 December 1889 was an Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet, hictorical illustration from 1880.
The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886 to 1889 was one of the last major European expeditions into the interior of Africa in the nineteenth...
The explosion of the ammunition factory of Corvilain, near Antwerp, Belgium, on September 6 illustration, woodcut from 1880.
After the explosion of the ammunition factory of Corvilain, near Antwerp, Belgium, on September 6 illustration, woodcut from 1880.
Jose Francisco Vergara Echevers . Chilean politician, founder of Vina del Mar. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1880.
Peter Fintan Lalor, 1827 – 1889. Activist turned politician famous for his leading role in the Eureka Rebellion of 1854, a rebellion of the gold...
Cartoon drawing in pen and ink by F Carruthers Gould depicting a monster with a gasometer for a body and a gas meter for a head. The monster strides...
Photograph by Walery with Eiffel�s facsimile signature. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel . Eiffel designed several notable bridges and viaducts before...
Carte de visite photograph of Sir George Gabriel Stokes , Irish mathematical physicist who contributed to fluid dynamics and made advances in the...
Plate taken from 'The Illustrated London News', 25 May 1889 showing Muybridge lecturing at the Royal Society in London. After emigrating to America...
Photograph of four children climbing a tree, taken by their father, Edgar Tarry Adams on 13 April,1898. Adams had five children - three boys and two...
Photograph of Pauline Adams playing on a swing in the family garden, taken by her father, Edgar Tarry Adams on 18 June, 1898. Edgar Tarry Adams was a...
Carte-de-visite portrait of Cetywayo , king of the Zulus, taken on board the S.S. Natal by Crewes & Van Laun, Cape Town, South Africa and published...
Carte-de-visite portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany , taken by an unknown photographer in about 1880. A carte-de-visite is a photograph mounted...
Platinum print photograph by Frederick Hollyer of British soldier and Indian administrator Sir Richard Strachey . Strachey was a member of the...
Five jars containing blue synthetic colorants. Ketone Blue B manufactured by Farbwerke vormals Meister, Lucius & Brüning of Höchst-am-Main, Germany;...
Six jars containing synthetic colorants. Blue Lilac 20 manufactured by G. Siegle & Co. Of Stuttgart; Guinea-Rot SDG by Actien Gesellschaft für Anilin...
Stereocard which when placed in a viewer, gave a 3-D image. Before the Firth of Forth railway bridge was completed in 1889, passengers were...
In the 1870s an American, David Brooks, developed a method of insulating copper telegraph wires with manilla hemp strands, laid underground in a pipe...
In the 1870s an American, David Brooks, developed a method of insulating copper telegraph wires with manilla hemp strands, laid underground in a pipe...
Oil painting by F Moore of the Great Western Railway broad gauge locomotive 'Sebastopol', a locomotive of the 'Iron Duke' class designed by Sir...
Gas lighting was much improved through the introduction of the incandescent gas mantle in Vienna in the 1880s. In London in 1887, the 'Incandescent...
Gas lighting was much improved through the introduction of the incandescent gas mantle in Vienna in the 1880s. In London in 1887, the 'Incandescent...
Plate 11 from the 'Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society', volume 26, 1900. Presidents featured: C Greaves , G J Symons , J K...
Francis A Pratt founded the Pratt and Whitney manufacturing company with Amos Whitney in 1860. Having suppiled arms for the American Civil War, Pratt...
Theophilus Redwood was an apprentice to a surgeon-apothecary in Cardiff before moving to London to become an assistant in the pharmacy of John Bell....
Raimond Louis Gaston Plante invented a secondary electric cell, from which developed the lead-acid storage battery. Whilst working as a chemist at...
Blickensderfer designed the Blick typewriter, which was produced in 1889 at his works in Connecticut. The Blick's portability and ease of adaptation...
The engineer Chichester A Bell was a cousin of the telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell . In 1880 the French government awarded Alexander Graham...
Carte de visite photograph of Sir George Gabriel Stokes , Irish mathematical physicist who contributed to fluid dynamics and made advances in the...
Oil painting by Sir Hubert von Herkomer of William Cawkwell, general manager of the London & North Western Railway company. Herkomer was a...
From the 1880s, hand-held exposures became possible for the first time because of the introduction of gelatin-silver bromide emulsion plates. This...
Henri Boucher French statesman, he devoted himself to industry and becomes deputy of the Vosges in 1889 and under Secretary of State at the stations...
Louis first King of Portugal , photographied between 1870 and 1889, extracted from the collection Felix Potin, 500 contemporary celebrities , the...
John Bright British radical statesman, born in Rochdale, Lancashire. Anti Corn Law League. Reform Act 1867. From "The National Portrait Gallery" ....
Wilkie Collins , English author of sensation novels of mystery and suspense including "The Woman in White" and "The Moonstone" . From "Men of Mark"...
John Ericsson , Swedish-born American engineer, as a Lieutenant in the Jamtland Field Chasseurs in the Swedish army. Wood engraving.
John Ericsson , Swedish-born American engineer, as a Lieutenant in the Jamtland Field Chasseurs in the Swedish army. Wood engraving.
Photograph of Nancy Price an English actress, in her role of 'Calpurnia' in Julius Caesar. Dated 19th Century.
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships, This illustration shows Ernest and William Renshaw contesting final set of the Mens Singles Final, with William...
Sport, Cricket, Circa 1895, John Thomas Rawlin, Yorkshire , Middlesex and the Vernon tour to Australia
Sport, Tennis, All England Lawn Tennis Championships, Wimbledon, London, England, pic:1880, The Renshaw brothers William, and Ernest, who dominated...
Sport/Horse Racing, The Grand National Steeplechase, Aintree, Illustration, Top jockey Tommy Beasley who rode three Grand National winners in his...