1895 Collection

Rockliff Northumberland Rugby Team: Steward, Roxby, Greenwell, Styan, Jackson, Nesbit, Taylor, Thompson, Taylor, Anderson, Greenwell, Lee, Taylor, Taylor, Alexander, Stephenson, Thompson, Nicholson

Walter Cranes Garland
Walter Crane shows his political allegiance in this May Day design. The ribbon that holds the garland of flowers together bears the slogans of his creed

Map / Arctic Circle 1895
Map of the Arctic Circle and surrounding areas

The Lords Prayer
From the Gospel of Matthew, chapter vi, verses 3 - 13

Tesla Coil - Twain
TESLAs COIL Author Mark Twain holds a loop over a resonating coil : high- tension current passes through his body before it brings the lamps to incandescence

SLOCUMs SPRAY
The boat which Joshua Slocum rebuilt and sailed single- handed round the world, 1895-1896

RIVERA, Diego. Man, Controller of
RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Man, Controller of the Universe. 1934. Right detail. Mexican Mural Painting. Fresco. MEXICO. FEDERAL DISTRICT. Mexico City. Fine Arts Palace

Marie Curie
Born in Poland in 1867, after receiving her secondary education she worked as a governess for eight years. Marie moved to Paris and read Physics at the Sorbonne

DEAL KENT
The sea-front at Deal, Kent

The Eddystone Lighthouse of 1698
Engraving of the Eddystone lighthouse, built by Henry Winstanley in 1698, which was destroyed in a storm in 1703. Winstanley, a London merchant

Parish Council Cartoon
A parish council caricatured

George Gissing / 1895 Phot
GEORGE ROBERT GISSING English novelist

MONTPARNASSE ACCIDENT
At Mont Parnasse terminus of the Chemin de Fer de l'Ouest, the Granville train crashes through the buffers and into the street, killing a poor woman selling newspapers Date: 1895

Birmingham New Street
View of New Street

Smithfield Market
The vast interior of Smithfield meat market, with carcasses hanging from hooks all down the central aisle

Cover design by Cecil Aldin, Spot, An Autobiography. Date: 1895

Tango. Watercolor by Marcel Vertes (1895-1961) published in l Illustration on November 26, 1925. Watercolour

Islington Angel
The Angel at Islington is one of North Londons best- known landmarks at the site of one of its busiest crossroads. Date: 1895

Union Workhouse, Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland
Female lunatic inmates sit in an airing yard at the Cootehill Union Workhouse, County Cavan, Ireland

Omnibus I, 1895 or 1892, by Anders Zorn
Anders Zorn (1860-1920). Swedish painter. Omnibus I, 1895 or 1892. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Billy Bancroft, Welsh international rugby player
William John Billy Bancroft (1871-1959), Welsh-born international rugby player who played for Swansea and Wales. He also played county cricket for Glamorgan. 1890s

Group photo, Millwall Athletic football team
Millwall Athletic football team for the 1895-1896 season, including Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary and Trainer, as well as the players themselves. circa 1895

Lilienthal No 11 Glider
Otto Lilienthal Taking-Off in His Normal Segelapparat Number 11 Gleitflug, at His Fliegeburg in Lichterfelde, Germany Date: 1895

Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA - Greetings Postcard Date: 1895

Design for Wallpaper in blue and white, with snowdrops in art nouveau style. Pencil and Gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1895

QUANAH PARKER (1845?-1911). Native American Kwahadi Comanche leader. Photographed c1895

Union Workhouse Infirmary, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
The Dewsbury Union workhouse infirmary on Healds Road at Staincliffe, West Yorkshire. The workhouse opened in around 1856, with a large infirmary erected in 1895

King George VI and Clement Attlee, Buckingham Palace, 1945
Photograph of King George VI (1895-1952) and Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (1883-1967) in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, 1945

Dancing Girl / 1895
A dancing girl with tambourine and ribbons - the back cover of a programme for the Empire Theatre of Varieties, London

NEW ORLEANS: STREET SCENE. A view of St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana. Photographed c1895

Training Ship Mercury and boys racing crew, River Hamble
The racing crew of the training ship Mercury with the ship itself in the background. The Mercury, established in 1885 by Charles Hoare, was originally based at Binstead, Isle of Wight

Boys Band, Hull Sailors Orphanage
Boys naval band at the Hull Sailors Orphanage, also known as Newland Homes. The Homes, a cottage homes development, were established in 1895 by a charity originally called The Port of Hull Society

Advert / Bread / Hovis 1895
Hovis Bread - advertised as a cure for indigestion, as supplied to the Royal Family!

View of Swindon Station, 1895
This image was taken to mark the occasion of the abolition of the ten minute stop at Swindon. It was the first non-stop express through the station

Groucho Marx / Postcard
GROUCHO MARX (Julius Marx) American comedian with his characteristic cigar and painted-on moustache

Kings Cross Station / 1895
A view of the platforms at the terminus for the Great Northern Railway, designed by the architect Lewis Cubitt, built in 1851-52

JOSE MARTI Cuban poet and freedom- fighter, active in cause of Cuban independence, killed fighting the Spanish

Roentgen X-Rays Patient
William Konrad Roentgen examines a patient. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1901 for his discovery in 1895 of what was to be called the x-ray

Bournemouth Pier
Bournemouth, Dorset, viewed from the pier Date: 1895

Reginald Joseph Mitchell CBE AMICE FRAeS (1895-1937)
Reginald Joseph Mitchell, CBE, AMICE, FRAeS, 1895-1937

MUCHA: BISCUIT AD, c1895. Flirt : French lithograph advertisement, c1895, by Alphonse Mucha for Biscuits Lefevre-Utile
MUCHA: BISCUIT AD, c1895. " Flirt" : French lithograph advertisement, c1895, by Alphonse Mucha for Biscuits Lefevre-Utile

CLARIDGES HOTEL, Brook Street, London : built 1895 on the site of Mivarts, and generally reckoned as the most prestigious hotel in London. Date: circa 1905

Admiral sir Michael Culme-Seymour, (1836 - 1920), British naval commander, on the deck of a warship at sea. Date: 1895

MARX, Karl (1818-1883); ENGELS, Friedrich (1820-1895). German philosopher, politician, economist and revolutionary.; German socialist

TOOL ADVERTISEMENT, 1895. From the Montgomery Ward & Co. catalogue of 1895

The Importance of Being Earnest at the St Jamess Theatre, London. Gwendolen Fairfax (Miss Irene Vanbrugh) and Worthing; Gwendolen and Cecily (Miss Evelyn Millard); Gwendolen

Issuing Grog to Navy
On deck on the Royal Sovereign ship: sailors are issued with grog, a mixture of rum and water

Plants / Lilium Tigrinum
TIGER LILY

King George VI and Clement Attlee, at Buckingham Palace, 194
Photograph of King George VI (1895-1952) and Clement Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (1883-1967) in the grounds of Buckingham Palace, 1945

Ladies Football Club
The first match of the British Ladies Football Club

Advert / Navy Cut Cigs
Players Navy Cut Cigarettes - A Fine Tobacco

Nigerian Rising 1895
Native Nigerians rebel against the Royal Niger Company, which gives place to a protectorate five years later

A Group of Flat Fish
A group of mixed flat fish: halibut, turbot, flounder, plaice and sole

Liverpool Docks C1895
Liverpool docks, with the Cunard liner Campania

Marshall Island Coast
South Sea Island - Jaluit, in the Marshall Islands

George VI & Elizabeth
George VI and Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother, on their wedding day in 1923 when they were Duke and Duchess of York: a carriage ride with royal coachmen

England / Aldeburgh / 1895
At this date, Aldeburgh, on the Suffolk coast, is still a thriving fishing village : but that bathing hut is a sign that the holidaymakers are coming

Oscar Wilde / Sketch 1895
OSCAR WILDE - Irish writer and playwright

AD: ALCOHOL, 1895. Advertisement for Quinquina Dubonnet aperitif. Lithograph by Jules Cheret, 1895

Penn a R. R. car shops, Altoona Pennsylvania. 1895
Penn a R.R. car shop s, Altoona Pennsylvania. 1895

George Vi / Vandyk 1922
GEORGE VI as Duke of York in 1922

Ship / Victory / Lantern Sli
Nelsons flagship moored in Portsmouth, circa 1895

Queen Victoria
QUEEN VICTORIA With son, grandson and Great grandson

Harlequins Rugby Team: Hindley, Phillipps, Hunt, Clarke, Hill, Whittaker, Surtees, Cipriani, Pauk, Peech, Wood, Wells, Susmann, Saward, Wells. 1890s

CAMBRIDGE OBSERVATORY
An exterior view of the Cambridge Observatory. Date: 1895

William Eldon Tucker, rugby player
William Eldon Tucker (1872-1953), Bermuda-born rugby union player for Cambridge University, St Georges Hospital, Blackheath and England. He later qualified as a medical doctor. 1890s

Arthur J Gould, Welsh rugby player
Arthur J Gould (1864-1919), Captain of Newport Rugby FC and Welsh International rugby union player. 1890s

Rudolph Valentino / Mail
RUDOLPH VALENTINO Italian-American romantic film idol with his fan mail Date: 1895 - 1926

Chinese musical instruments
A selection of Chinese musical instruments, including a bell(1), gong, (2), cymbals(4), a guqin or seven-stringed zither(7), a pipa or four-stringed lute (8), Yueqin or moon-shaped lute(11)

American advertisement for Clark Stanleys Snake Oil Liniment, c1895
PATENT MEDICINE AD, c1895. American advertisement for Clark Stanleys Snake Oil Liniment, c1895

Venus between terminal gods by Aubrey Beardsley
Venus Between Terminal Gods by Aubrey Beardsley. Date: 1895

John Devey, footballer and cricketer
John Henry George Jack Devey (1866-1940), footballer for West Bromwich Albion, Mitchells St George s, Aston Villa and England, and a first-class cricketer for Warwickshire. 1890s

G O Smith, footballer and cricketer
Gilbert Oswald Smith (1872-1943), amateur footballer who played for Oxford University and the Corinthians, and was captain for England. He played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Surrey

White Horse Hill, Chislehurst View from pub window
White Horse Hill, Chislehurst. View from pub window. 21017 Private P. J. Hill, D Company, 20Th Battalion, The County Of London Regiment. Studied At Lambeth School Of Art, St

Armless painter Charles Felu
Belgian painter Charles Francois Felu (1830-1900), born without arms. He was taught at an early age by his mother to draw and paint with his feet. Shown here painting in Antwerp Gallery. Date: C.1895

Sergius Stepniak
SERGIUS STEPNIAK Russian nihilist, author of Underground Russia etc. self-exiled to England, lived in Bedford Park, London. Date: 1852 - 1895

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, May Milton
The singularly untalented young English woman, May Milton, danced briefly on stage in Paris as part of a performing troupe and then in a solo act

Design for Printed Textile with leaves and flowers in art nouveau style. Gouache on heavy paper. Silver Studio. 1895

An 1895 American cartoon by F. Victor Gillam suggesting that the Cleveland administration was inattentive to British
VENEZUELA BOUNDARY, 1895. An 1895 American cartoon by F. Victor Gillam suggesting that the Cleveland administration was inattentive to British encroachment during the Venezuelan Boundary Dispute

Chitral Expedition
Members of the Chitral Expedition, including Lieut. Cheyne, Capt. C.R Ross, Major Sawyer, Capt. Gordon, Lieut. Henderson and a Sikh priest. 14th Ferozepore Sikhs. Date: April 13 1895

Camberwell Workhouse, East Dulwich, London
The administrative block of the Camberwell workhouse opened in 1895 on Constance Road, East Dulwich, south London. The building was designed by Thomas Aldwinckle

Princes Oscar, Joachim and Viktor of Prussia
Princes Oskar (1888-1958) and Joachim (1890-1920) of Prussia with their sister, Princess Viktoria Luise (1892-1980), dressed in Highland attire

Babe Ruth Signing a $100, 000 Contract, 1926
Photograph showing Babe Ruth (1895-1948), the American baseball player, signing a $100, 000 contract for a twelve-week tour, 1926

New York / Broadway 1895
New York: Lower Broadway, looking north from Bowling Green

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In the year 1895, a world of discovery and innovation unfolded before our eyes. As we examine the map from that time, our attention is drawn to the Arctic Circle, where explorers embarked on daring expeditions in search of uncharted territories. Meanwhile, communities found solace in reciting The Lord's Prayer, seeking guidance and strength. The artistic realm also flourished during this period; Walter Crane's Garland adorned many homes with its intricate beauty. Inventions like the Tesla Coil fascinated both Mark Twain and curious minds alike, while Marie Curie made groundbreaking strides in her scientific research. Tragedy struck when the Montparnasse Accident shook Paris as a train careened off its tracks. Yet amidst adversity, Edvard Munch captured an eternal moment of passion and love through his iconic masterpiece "The Kiss. " On another front, Captain Joshua Slocum sailed solo around the globe aboard his vessel "Spray, " defying all odds and inspiring generations to come. And at Claridge's Hotel, elegance reigned supreme as guests indulged in luxury accommodations fit for royalty. Transportation took center stage with Birmingham New Street station becoming a bustling hub connecting people from all walks of life. Novelist George Gissing immortalized this era through his photographic lens capturing glimpses into daily life. Sports enthusiasts cheered for their favorite teams such as Millwall Athletic football team whose group photo symbolizes camaraderie and determination on the field. As we reflect upon 1895, let us remember it not merely as a year but rather as a tapestry woven with tales of exploration, artistry, scientific breakthroughs, resilience against tragedy – each thread contributing to humanity's rich history.