1885 Collection (#5)

Costume of Rolleville, drawn at le Havre
5855693 Costume of Rolleville, drawn at le Havre; (add.info.: Woman in the costume of Rolleville, drawn at le Havre. She wears an elaborate tall bavolet hat of folded lace)

Young person of le Havre
5855691 Young person of le Havre.; (add.info.: Young woman of the port of le Havre. She wears a bonnet that rises to a point, decorated with lace only to the ears. A silk ribbon is wrapped around it)

Costume of the Dieppe area
5855687 Costume of the Dieppe area; (add.info.: Woman in costume of the Dieppe area. Rear view of the tall bavolet bonnet with two long lace tails reaching to the shoulder)

Costume of the Coutances area
5855685 Costume of the Coutances area; (add.info.: A young woman from the Coutances area who could not help but sacrifice most of her hair)

Costume of Coutances
5855683 Costume of Coutances; (add.info.: Woman in the costume of Coutances. Here is a really large bavolet bonnet, with the most luxurious decoration)

Laundry woman of fine linen at Rouen
5855679 Laundry woman of fine linen at Rouen.; (add.info.: Laundry woman of fine linen at Rouen. It's not the tall bavolet bonnet that is remarkable here so much as the hair chignon held up in)

Illustration by Andre Gill (17 October 1840-1 May 1885), French caricaturist. 19th century (engraving)
5669280 Illustration by Andre Gill (17 October 1840-1 May 1885), French caricaturist. 19th century (engraving); (add.info.: Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guines at Paris)

Adding hops to boiling beer in brewery, 1885
2604011 Adding hops to boiling beer in brewery, 1885; (add.info.: Adding hops to boiling beer in an American brewery. Wood engraving published 1885)

American Civil War, battle of ironclads
2603973 American Civil War, battle of ironclads; (add.info.: American Civil War: Engagement between the Confederate ironclad Merrimac (also called Virginia')

Yellow Dog, North American Indian
2604108 Yellow Dog, North American Indian; (add.info.: Yellow Dog: North American Indian. From photograph taken c1885 - 1890)

Phoebe Ann Mosey (1860-1926) known as Annie Oakley, Little Sure Shot, American sharpshooter who joined Buffalo
527944 Phoebe Ann Mosey (1860-1926) known as Annie Oakley, Little Sure Shot, American sharpshooter who joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1885.; Universal History Archive/UIG

Floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Engraving, 1885
536636 Floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Engraving, 1885; (add.info.: Floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Engraving, 1885); Universal History Archive/UIG

Title page, Illustration from Jocelyn and La Chute d'un ange 1885 written by, Knight of Pratz (1790-1869)
5304571 Title page, Illustration from Jocelyn and La Chute d'un ange 1885 written by, Knight of Pratz (1790-1869), French writer

Cauchoise
5855659 Cauchoise; (add.info.: Woman of Caux in white dress, tall bonnet with lace tails. All the elegant women of St. Clair are assembled for a harvest festival in an apple orchard)

Servant in Caen
5855701 Servant in Caen; (add.info.: Servant girl in Caen. She wears a tall bavolet bonnet, and carries a basket. In the background can be seen the fish market and part of the church of Saint Pierre)

Costume of Bois d'Embourg
5855690 Costume of Bois d'Embourg; (add.info.: Costume of Bois d'Embourg. Rear view of the tall bavolet bonnet with lace tails. The model is the mother of the girl in plate 32)

Costume of Bois d'Embourg
5855688 Costume of Bois d'Embourg; (add.info.: Costume of Bois d'Embourg, three leagues from Rouen. Tall bonnet with lace tails hanging forward over the face)

Costume of Coutances
5855684 Costume of Coutances; (add.info.: Woman in costume of Coutances. Rear view of a very tall bavolet bonnet showing the artful lacing with pink and silver ribbon)

Oyster shucker of Le Havre
5855681 Oyster shucker of Le Havre; (add.info.: Oyster shucker of Le Havre. She wears a low bonnet decorated with lace only to the ears)

Bouquet-maker at Rouen cathedral
5855678 Bouquet-maker at Rouen cathedral; (add.info.: Bouquet-maker at the plaza in front of Rouen cathedral. She wears a shawl with all its edges decorated and a capuchon)

A woman in wine-coloured redingote, from the English "riding coat."
5856318 A woman in wine-coloured redingote, from the English "riding coat."; (add.info.: A woman in wine-coloured redingote, from the English "riding coat)

The Queen's bed at Trianon, in gilded walnut with Florentine linen bedspread
5856313 The Queen's bed at Trianon, in gilded walnut with Florentine linen bedspread.; (add.info.: The Queen's bed at Trianon, in gilded walnut with Florentine linen bedspread)

Dresses and clothes in the Turkish style
5856344 Dresses and clothes in the Turkish style.; (add.info.: Dresses and clothes in the Turkish style. Hand-colored lithograph from "Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times)

Oval chinoiserie candlestick
5856341 Oval chinoiserie candlestick.; (add.info.: Oval chinoiserie candlestick. Hand-colored lithograph from "Fashions and Customs of Marie Antoinette and her Times)

Woman in redingote with four collars, wearing an anonymous hat, and a "ribbon of love" on which is found
5856333 Woman in redingote with four collars, wearing an anonymous hat, and a "ribbon of love" on which is found the letters L. M

Woman in yellow caraco and straw hat, and woman in violet-blue caraco and yellow gauze hat
5856331 Woman in yellow caraco and straw hat, and woman in violet-blue caraco and yellow gauze hat.; (add.info.: Woman in yellow caraco and straw hat)

Turkish-style bonnet with diadems and high-priestess bonnet
5856330 Turkish-style bonnet with diadems and high-priestess bonnet.; (add.info.: Turkish-style bonnet with diadems and high-priestess bonnet)

Woman wearing an English-style dress with peasant bonnet and hair in ringlets
5856321 Woman wearing an English-style dress with peasant bonnet and hair in ringlets.; (add.info.: Woman wearing an English-style dress with peasant bonnet and hair in ringlets)

Costume of Granville
5855762 Costume of Granville; (add.info.: Costume of Granville. A woman in her finery. Rear view of the conine headdress showing the tasteful manner of folding the tails)

Costume of Granville
5855756 Costume of Granville; (add.info.: Costume of Granville. The women of Granville dress in very fine fabrics, but never wear lace in their bonnets)

Costume of Etrepagny
5855751 Costume of Etrepagny; (add.info.: Costume of Etrepagny. The village is famous for its lace, and we have here a lace-maker. She wears a small bonnet, a very short jacket over a long dress)

Costume of Honfleur
5855750 Costume of Honfleur; (add.info.: Costume of Honfleur. The bonnet is poorly set, but that is the fashion in this region. The port is visible in the background)

Woman of Polet, Dieppe
5855729 Woman of Polet, Dieppe; (add.info.: Woman of Polet, Dieppe. Polet is a suburb inhabited principally by sailors. This woman is in her Sunday best, on her way back from church)

Fish merchant at Dieppe
5855728 Fish merchant at Dieppe; (add.info.: Fish merchant at Dieppe. All the women at the port wear short petticoats. The background shows the main dock)

Costume of the area of Dieppe
5855724 Costume of the area of Dieppe.; (add.info.: Costume of the area of Dieppe. Rear view of a bonnet with its papillon (butterfly) wings folded toward the front, giving it a very different air

Costume of Saint Aubin
5855721 Costume of Saint Aubin; (add.info.: Costume of a woman of Saint Aubin, near Dieppe. Looking at this figure one realizes why the women of Normandy are fond of the bridle that is part of almost)

Young woman of Bayeux
5855708 Young woman of Bayeux; (add.info.: Young woman of Bayeux. The bodice of this dress is much shorter in the back than in the front)

Cauchoise
5855658 Cauchoise; (add.info.: Woman of Caux in white dress, tall blue bonnet with long lace veils, carrying a bouquet of roses in the village of Yvetot)

Costume of Caen
5855700 Costume of Caen; (add.info.: Costume of Caen. The bonnet is of great height, with the veils twisted over the crown of artificial flowers up to a point like a mitre)

Costume of the Dieppe area
5855686 Costume of the Dieppe area; (add.info.: Woman in costume of the Dieppe area. She wears a bonnet covered in silk, set on a velvet band. Her white dress is trimmed with embroidered roses)

Costume of Coutances
5855680 Costume of Coutances; (add.info.: Woman in the costume of Coutances, in the department of Manche. She wears a tall bonnet trimmed with lace, a plain red shawl and simple white dress)

Illustration depicting 19th century, woman riding side-saddle on a horse 1885
5311086 Illustration depicting 19th century, woman riding side-saddle on a horse 1885; (add.info.: Date: 1885); Universal History Archive/UIG

Illustration showing a woman worker, gauging watch springs at the American Watch Company, in their factory at Waltham
5310722 Illustration showing a woman worker, gauging watch springs at the American Watch Company, in their factory at Waltham, Mass. 1885; (add.info.: Date: 1885); Universal History Archive/UIG

Indian outside their tee pee
2604127 Indian outside their tee pee; (add.info.: Cree North American Indian squaw with her papoose on her back, standing outside her tepee with an older child and two dogs)

Indian outside his tent
2604126 Indian outside his tent; (add.info.: Young Black Foot North American Indian outside his tent. Photograph c1885 - 1890)

First Anglo-Afghan War 1838-1842: Rescue of British prisoners from the Afghans after the defeat of Akbar Khan
530479 First Anglo-Afghan War 1838-1842: Rescue of British prisoners from the Afghans after the defeat of Akbar Khan, April 1842. General Robert Sale united with his wife and daughter

First Anglo-Afghan War 1838-1842: William McNaghten (1793-1841) British diplomat
530476 First Anglo-Afghan War 1838-1842: William McNaghten (1793-1841) British diplomat, orientalist and colonial administrator: instigated interventionist policy in Afghanistan

Title page, Illustration from Jocelyn and La Chute d'un ange 1885 written by, Knight of Pratz (1790-1869)
5304568 Title page, Illustration from Jocelyn and La Chute d'un ange 1885 written by, Knight of Pratz (1790-1869), French writer

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"Step back in time to the year 1885, a fascinating era captured through various hints. D. H. Lawrence's literary genius begins to blossom as he takes his first steps towards becoming an iconic writer. A photograph freezes a moment in time, preserving memories for generations to come. General C Gordon's courageous spirit shines through a captivating color lithograph, showcasing his remarkable leadership skills. Amidst the vastness of the sea, the majestic Cutty Sark sails gracefully, symbolizing adventure and exploration. At Box Station in 1885, bustling with activity and anticipation, people embark on journeys that will shape their lives forever. The Native American warrior Geronimo stands tall as a symbol of strength and resilience against adversity. Lady Fern, True Maidenhair, and Holly Fern add beauty and elegance to nature's tapestry. In Scotland, curling enthusiasts gather on icy rinks to engage in friendly competition while honing their skills at this beloved winter sport. Women take aim with precision during archery practice; determination etched upon their faces. The Battle of Abu Klea unfolds on January 17th - a historic clash where bravery meets sacrifice amidst desert sands. A regrettable reminder of our past is seen in a racist Pear's advertisement that serves as a stark contrast to progress made since then. Fast forward sixty years later; General George S Patton emerges onto the stage of history as an influential military leader during World War II. The enchanting melodies from Mikado fill the air as music sheets transport us into another world. " Note.