York Collection (#95)

Releasing French army homing pigeons on board the transatlantic liner La Bretagne between Le Havre and New York. From Le Petit Journal, Paris, 10 April 1898

Shakespeare, Richard III Act IV Sc. IV. Elizabeth Woodville and the Duchess of York, Widow and mother of Edward IV, intercept and remonstrate with Richard III. Illustration by Sir John Gilbert

Washington E Connor, partner and broker of Jay Gould. Thought to do the largest brokerage business in the New York Stock Exchange. Engraving 1885

Shakers: Society of Believers in Christs Second Appearance. Shakers dancing at Meeting, holding hands palms upwards to catch Gods grace and blessing

Dick Turpin (1706-1739) English robber and highwayman. Subject of many romantic stories especially that of his ride to York on his mare Black Bess

Lemuel Gulliver, set ashore after a mutiny, finds himself in kingdom of the Houyhnhns. He discusses mankind with his master

Dunstanburgh Castle on the coast of Northumberland, which changed hands a number of times during the Wars of the Roses between the house of York and Lancaster. Nineteenth century engraving

Pre-Columbian: Columbia. Muisca (fl1000-1541) Cast gold figure pendant, 18cm high. Metropolitan Museum, New York

Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-67) American geophysicist: superintendent of US Coast Survey: great grandson of Benjamin Franklin. Engraving, New York, 1896

Anne Hyde (1637-1671) by Sir Peter Lely. Lady Anne Hyde, Duchess of York (22 March 1638 - 10 April 1671) first wife of James, Duke of York (the future King James II of England and VII of Scotland)

from Atlas maior. Amsterdam, Johannes Blaeu, 1662 Atlas. A detail from a map of the East Indies showing, outlined in pink, the first European discoveries along the Cape York Peninsula

Leonard Bernstein, composer, conductor and musical director of New York City Symphony Source Library of Congress. 1945

Brooklyn Suspension Bridge, New York, USA, designed and built by John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869) and his son Washington Augustus Roebling (1837-1926), and opened in 1883

Coal cutting machine on rails, powered by compressed air produced by a steam engine at the pithead. From The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics by Edward H Knight (New York and London, c1880)

Youngs Hotel, from the Beach Postcard. 1904, Youngs Hotel, from the Beach Postcard

The Nubble Postcard. 1904, The Nubble Postcard

James Prescott Joule (1818-1889) English physicist. Mechanical equivalent of heat (J). Engraving from The Science Record New York 1875

Top: Sectional view of workings under East River, New York, during preparations to destroy Flood Rock, part of the Hell Gate Rocks complex which prevented large vessels reaching New York Harbour

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

Inserting detonators into cartridges of dynamite for blasting Flood Rock, East River, part of the Hell Gate Rocks complex which was partially removed in 1876 and again in 1885

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

Thomas Edisons carbon filament lamp. From The Scientific American, New York, 10 January 1880

Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893) giving a clinical lecture at the Salpetriere. Engraving after painting by Andre Brouillet

York Minster, a Fuegian adopted by the expedition, as he appeared in 1833. From Robert Fitzroy Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majestys Ships Adventure and Beagle Vol II, London 1839

Alfred Krupp (1812-1887) German industrialist and armaments manufacturer. Engraving published New York 1886

Display card showing ladies cycling costume with accordion-pleated divided skirt and side-buttoning gaiters: Made by Gosta Kraemer, New York, for Pope Manufacturing Co

Edisons improved form of JW Trowbridges electric dynamometer. Scientific American New York 1879

Edison generator for electric light at Menlo Park. Behind doors is the 80 hp engine. The two vignettes (top) are Edisons improved form of JW Trowbridges electric dynamometer

James Watts workshop at Heathfield Hall, Birmingham, 1886. It had not been disturbed since his death in 1819. Watt (1736-1819) made great improvements to the steam engine

Morse telegraph. The operating room, Cincinnati, Ohio. From The Telegraph Manual, by TP Shaffner. (New York 1859). Credit Smithsonian Institution, Washington. Engraving

Morse telegraph. (1859). The public reception room where telegraph messages could be sent and received, Cincinnati, Ohio. From The Telegraph Manual by TP Shaffner. (New York 1859)

Isaac Lea (1792-1886) American publisher, geologist and conchologist. (1896). President Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1858-1863. (New York, 1896). Engraving

Gustave Robert Kirchhoff (1824-1887), German physicist. Together with Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899) he pioneered spectrum analysis, and formulated two laws governing electric networks

Sonia (or Sophie) Kowalevski (or Kowalevski), Russian mathematician, (1850-1891). She was appointed professor of mathematics at Stockholm in 1884

Vacuum apparatus used to exhaust Edison incandescent light bulbs at G (centre top). From Scientific American, New York, 1880. Engraving

Planchette or Ouija board, c1880. Method of using the Planchette for spirit writing during a seance. From The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics, editor Edward H Knight (New York and London, c1880)

Colt revolver. From Edward H Knight The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics, New York and London c1878

Sectional view of Colt revolver with, at E, the cylinder and revolving mechanism. From Edward H Knight The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics, New York and London c1878

Wilson sewing machine, showing belt drive (left) from treadle, oil can (centre foreground), and spools for thread (right). Engraving published New York, 1880

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

Hypnotic trance induced during Voodoo dance rites: Louisiana. Voodoo, a synthesis of Roman Catholic and African magic and beliefs. Engraving published New York 1886

Woman using typewriter by American inventor Christopher Latham Sholes (1819-1890). Forerunner of 20th century machine, keys had piano action

The Rocky Mountains. Emigrants in covered wagons crossing the Plains watched by Native Americans. Lithograph by Currier and Ives, New York, c1870

Clipper Ship Flying Cloud. Lithograph by Currier and Ives, New York, 1852

Staten Island and the Narrows New York viewed from Fort Hamilton. Fort Layfayette centre framed by trees. Lithograph by Currier and Ives, New York, c1870

The Last War-Whoop Native American Indian giving his last war cry watched by a settler he has wounded. Lithograph by Currier and Ives, New York, c1870

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