News Collection (#90)

Dinner given by Waterhouse Hawkins (the maker) to celebrate the completion of two Iguanadon statues to be put on display at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, New Years Eve, 1853

Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871: A balloon from Paris passing over Versailles. During the war Paris was under siege from September 1870 to January 1871

Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) Scottish-born British jurist and politician. Social Science: London University. From The Illustrated News of the World, London c1861

Indian (Sepoy) Mutiny, also known as the Sepoy Mutininy or the Great War of Independence: Siege of Delhi: Colonel Campbells troops storming the Cashmere Gate after engineers had blown it up

Jenny Lind (1820-87) soprano known as the Swedish Nightingale, 1848. Lind in the title role of Donizettis opera Lucia di Lammermoor based on the novel The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873) English prelate, third son of abolitionist William Wilberforce. Bishop of Oxford 1845, Bishop of Winchester 1869. Known as Soapy Sam for his charm. Opposed Darwinism

Workers in underground galleries putting cartridges of dynamite into position in preparation for the blowing up Flood Rock

Blowing up Flood Rock, part of the Hell Gate Rocks complex which prevented large vessels reaching New York Harbour, and presented a hazard to smaller ones. Dynamite was the explosive used

Ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital. This was under the management of the Metropolitan Asylums Board and was built to meet the needs of the epidemic of the winter of 1870-1871

Florence Nightingale (1820 -1910) English nurse and statistician. From The Illustrated Midland News, 19 March 1870. Wood engraving

The barrack hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War (1853-56) under Florence Nightingale s
The barrack hospital at Scutari during the Crimean War (1853-56) under Florence Nightingales (1820-1910) management. From The Illustrated London News, 1854. Wood engraving

Florence Nightingale (1820 -1910) English nurse, in her carriage in the Crimea. It is a homely vehicle corresponding to the womanly simplicity of her whom it was employed to convey

John Stevens Henslow (17906-1861) English botanist, geologist and clergyman. Professor of Botany at Cambridge from 1827. Charles Darwin his friend and favourite pupil

Exhibition of hypnosis given by Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley at the Hotel Metropole, London, under the auspices of members of the medical profession

Second explosion at Oaks Colliery, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, December 1866. 350 people were killed including a number who perished in the second

Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) Austrian archaeologist. Engraving from The Illustrated London News, 3 January 1891

Advertisement for Kodak Brownie camera from The Illustrated London News, 4 August 1900. Engraving

Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, home of Charles Darwin, English naturalist. Evolution by Natural Selection. From The Illustrated London News, 10 December 1887. Engraving

Thomas Henry Huxley (1823-1883) English biologist. Huxley at the time of his presidency of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

Richard Owen (1804-1892) English anatomist and paleontologist. He coined the word dinosaur (terrible lizard) in 1841. Opposed Darwins theory of natural selection

Great Eastern on the stocks in John Scott Russells (1808-1882) yard at Millwall on the Thames. View from the stern. Double-hulled, of all iron construction

Westminster Bridge, London, looking from the south bank of the Thames. This is the bridge rebuilt by Thomas Page (1803-1877) beginning in 1853

Chelsea Bridge, London. Suspension bridge over the Thames, opened in 1858, connecting Chelsea with Battersea on the south bank of the river. It was replaced in the 1930s

George Hudson (1800-1871) the Railway King, 1848. English railway speculator, ruined during the 1847-1848 railway mania when accused of paying dividends out of capital

Joseph Paxton (1801-1865), English gardener and architect. Superintendent of the Duke of Devonshires gardens at Chiswick and Chatsworth from 1826, and designer of the Crystal Palace, 1851

Cameramen under fire while filming an engagement while reporting on the First Balkan War, 1912-1913. This war was between the Balkan League (Bulgaria, Greece)

David Brewster (1781-1868) Scottish physicist Brewster was editor of the Edinburgh Magazine, 1802 and the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, 1808. His scientific work was mainly in the field of optics

Webbs chemical factory, Diglis, Worcestershire. The tall building to right behind chimney contains Gay-Lussacs lead chambers for the production of sulphuric acid (Oil of Vitriol or H2SO4)

Servant Hiring Office, Berlin. From The Illustrated London News, London, 28 November 1874

Solar Eclipse Observatory, Nicobar Islands. Showing various illustrations including The Equatorial Camera, Brownings Reflector and Spectroscopic Camera and Sig Tacchinis Observatory

Solar eclipse seen over the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1858. The picture, viewed from the Isle of Dogs, shows the Royal Naval College and River Thames in the foreground

Steam-powered sewing machine designed by C. T. Judkin of Manchester in use at Holloway & Co
Steam-powered sewing machine designed by C.T. Judkin of Manchester in use at Holloway & Co.s clothing factory, Stroud, Gloucestershire. Holloways introduced division of labour in their factory

Aerial Telegraph: Ancient Greek soldiers tending a signal fire. It is claimed that news could be transmitted 525 km in a night. Liebig trade card c.1900. Chromolithograph

De Kaap goldfields, Transvaal, South Africa. Water-powered stamping mill for crushing gold-bearing quartz ore, Moodies Farms, near Brereton. Engraving from The Illustrated London News, 1887

Russo-Turkish (Crimean) WAR 1853-6. Peace commemorations at Plymouth, England. Rockets and general illumination of the fleet in Plymouth sound. From The Illustrated London News, 1 June 1856

American Civil War 1861-65: Federal (northern) prison in Fort Lafayette, New York Harbour, used to hold Confederate (southern) prisoners from the beginning of the war. View in one of the casemates

American Civil War 1861-1865: Confederate (southern) prisoners in Federal (northern) prison camp at Elmira, New York Stare

Jules Perrot (1810-1894) French dancer, choreographer and ballet master, and Fanny (Francesca) Cerito or Cerrito (c1817-1909) Italian ballerina

A Farewell Ride on Jumbo at the Zoo. This large African elephant was sold by London Zoo in 1882 to the American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891)

Jumbo the large African elephant sold by London Zoo in 1882 to the American showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) for his circus which became known as the Greatest Show on Earth

The Extinct Animals model room at Crystal Palace, Sydenham, showing models of dinosaurs being prepared for display. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1807-1889) prepared the display

Reconstruction of Iguanadon, large herbivorous dinosaur, sketched from model on show at the Natural History Museum, London. From The Illustrated London News (London 1895). Engraving

Teaching girls to read in The Ragged School Union (formed 1844) school, Lambeth, London. From The Illustrated London News 11 April 1868. Wood engraving

Teaching boys to read in The Ragged School Union (formed 1844) school, Lambeth, London. From The Illustrated London News 11 April 1868. Wood engraving

Schliemanns excavations at Mycenae. Illustrated London News artist sketching in front of the Lion gateway at Myceneae 1877. Engraving

Rebecca Riots in Wales. Men and boys, many dressed as women, attacking a turnpike gate in protest at charges at tollgates on public roads. Another of their main targets was union workhouses

Threshing with ash wood flails in a barn. A labour-intensive winter occupation for farm labourers which was gradually made obsolete with the introduction of threshing machines

A mail train on which letters were sorted while it travelled through the night between cities, replacing the need for the horse-drawn mail coaches. From The Illustrated London News, January, 1849

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