1898 Collection

The War of the Worlds
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS A Martian fighting-machine is destroyed by a hit from a shell

Training Ship HMS Conway
A view of the training ship HMS Conway which was established in 1859 and for many years was moored on the River Mersey near Liverpool. Some of the ships company can be seen amongst the rigging

George Gershwin / Musician
GEORGE GERSHWIN American composer

Snowballing by Louis Wain
Group of cats having fun and snowballing in the snow. Wain was able to turn his hand to drawing a wide variety of animals prior to the fame he achieved with his feline creations

Roosevelt and the Rough Riders on San Juan Hill, 1898
Colonel Roosevelt and Rough Riders where they charged over San Juan Hill, Spanish-American War. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

The Tabby Toboggan Club / Louis Wain
A huge number of tabby cats go mad sledging in the winter snow

Nottingham Forest vs. Derby County F. A. Cup Final, 1898
Illustration of John McPherson scoring the third goal for Nottingham Forest in their F.A. Cup Final Match against Derby County, played at Crystal Palace, London, 1898

Battle of Omdurman, Friday, September 2, 1898. Chromolithograph, after A Sutherland, published by G W Bacon and Company Limited, 127 Strand, London, 1900 (c)

EDVARD MUNCH: THE KISS. Woodcut, 1897-98, by Edvard Munch

Whitley Bay Lighthouse
The lighthouse on St. Marys Island, off Whitley Bay, Northumberland, England. Built in 1898, it was in use until 1984. Date: built 1898

SWISS TRAVEL POSTER, 1898. Poster for the Visp-Zermatt Railroad, Switzerland, 1898

Map /s Africa / Boer C1898
SOUTH AFRICA on the eve of the Boer War

Ebenezer Howard - Three Magnets diagram
The Three Magnets - Ebenezer Howards diagram illustrating the advantages of the garden city. Diagram from Ebenezer Howards To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898)

Claridge's Hotel, London, in 1898 Date: 1898

Prague
Antique map of Prague from 1898

Royal Dock from the South, Grimsby, Lincolnshire - Valentine's postcard 1898 Date: 1898

Zebra-drawn trap of Lord Walter Rothschild
Rothschild broke in and trained several zebras to pull a trap, which he memorably used to visit Buckingham Palace in 1898 Date: 1898

Staffordshire County Asylum, Cheddleton, near Leek
The Staffordshire County Lunatic Asylum was established in 1898 on Cheadle Road, Cheddleton, near Leek. It was later known as Staffordshire Mental Hospital, then St Edwards Mental Hospital

Forth Bridge Construct
The Forth Bridge during construction. Designed by Sir John Fowler (1817- 1898) and Sir Benjamin Baker (1840-1907) and constructed by Sir William Arrol (1839-1913)

Bismarck as Blacksmith
OTTO BISMARCK Prussian statesman, depicted as Smith of the Nation, handing a newly forged sword to Germania

Interior, 1898, by Vilhelm Hammershoi
Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1919). Danish painter. Interior, 1898. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

The Master foxhound by Cecil Aldin
Fox hunting scene, with hounds. Date: 1898

Training Ship HMS Conway - Working with the Sextant
The naval training ship HMS Conway was established in 1859 and for many years was moored on the River Mersey near Liverpool. Here, some of the ships boys are seen using a sextant. Date: 1898

Lancers Memorial - Battle of Omdurman
Lancers Memorial on the Battlefield of Kerreri, Sudan, commemorating those troops who lost their lives during the famous Battle of Omdurman on 2nd September 1898. Date: 1910s

Frog Couple & Pet Snail
A well-dressed frog couple take their pet snail for a walk

Krupskaya (Lenins Wife)
NADEZHDA KONSTANTINOVNA KRUPSKAYA Russian Revolutionary - married Lenin in 1898

Pigs Ride in Tandem 1898
Two pigs go for their honeymoon on a tandem bicycle - a comment on the current cycling craze

OMDURMAN
BATTLE OF OMDURMAN : the fight for the Khalifas standard

The War of the Worlds
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS The Martian fighting-machines in the Thames Valley

Gladstone in Library
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE in his library : he was a classical scholar of considerable ability. Date: 1809 - 1898

Steer Point Station, Devon, c. 1898
A view of Steer Point station on the Plymouth to Yealmpton Line, at Brixton, east of Plymouth in Devon, c.1898. The station opened in January 1898 and closed in 1930

Battleship Maine entering Havana harbor, 1898
USS Maine saluting the Spanish flagship upon arrival in Havana harbor, 1898. Hand-colored halftone reproduction

Hawaiian Hula Dancers
Three Hawaiian Hula Dancers - depicted on a Greetings postcard published by the Island Curio Store in Honolulu, Hawaii

Otto Von Bismarck
OTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD VON BISMARCK Prussian statesman and first chancellor of the German Empire

Bertolt Brecht / Photo
BERTOLT BRECHT German writer

Gladstone / Vanity Fair 69
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE British statesman

The War of the Worlds
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS The Martians fire their gas- guns

We Gladstone / Pound / Mayal
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE English politician MP sitting in a chair

Indian elephant, c. 1898
Jung Pasha or Jung Pershad was one of four Asian elephants brought back to London Zoo by Bertie, Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) following his tour of India during 1875-76

Buffalo Bills Show
BUFFALO BILLs WILD WEST SHOW Bill Codys rough rider extravaganza, featuring scenes of Napoleon, and an onstage artist, Rosa Bonheur

Notts Forest V Derby
F.A. CUP FINAL: NOTTINGHAM FOREST 3 DERBY COUNTY 1 Lord Roseberry holds up the F.A. Cup after the game

AUSTEN: PERSUASION, 1898. Looking on her with a face as pallid as her own. Illustration by Hugh Thomson for an 1898 edition of Jane Austens Persuasion, first published in 1817

Nikola Tesla, Serb-US physicist
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Serb-US physicist and electrical engineer. Tesla was educated at Graz and Prague, but in 1884 he emigrated to the USA

Infants playground, Lambeth Schools, West Norwood, London
Infants (girls and boys together) at play at the Lambeth Schools for workhouse children on Elder Road, West Norwood, South London. A young Charlie Chaplin was briefly a resident of the Schools in 1898

Victorian Women Cyclists Pushing their Bicycles, c. 1898
Photograph showing a group of women pushing their bicycles up a hill; probably somewhere in England in the summer of 1897

Mr Popple Drunk 1898
After a convivial hunt breakfast at Hopham Hall, Mr Popple is found drunk and disorderly in charge of a horse

Japan - the Shakuhachi
A Japanese musician plays the SHAKUHACHI, a wind instrument resembling the western flute

Gertrude Lawrence / Sketch
Gertrude Lawrence, actress

Sergei Eisenstein
SERGEI EISENSTEIN Russian film director, noted for Cruiser Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the terrible and several other masterpieces of early cinema

Spelterini over Alps
Swiss aviator Eduard Spelterini achieves the first flight over the Swiss Alps in his balloon Wega

Karl Marx / Shukow 1898
KARL MARX German political theorist

Medium / Helen Duncan
HELEN DUNCAN Portrait of the spirit medium circa 1940

Africa / Sudan Wars
The Seaforth Highlanders storming the Zareba at the Battle of Atbara

Bank / Klondike / Gold / 1898
Weighing gold at the bank in Klondike, Canada

The War of the Worlds
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road

infant Christ rewarding martyred innocents Bethlehem
The infant Christ rewarding martyred innocents of Bethlehem, in Church of the Nativity. 1898, West Bank, Bethlehem, Israel

Bismarck Circa 1870
OTTO von BISMARCK German statesman, circa 1870

Africa / Sudan Wars
The Cameron Highlanders taking the stockade at Atbara Date: 8th April 1898

Notts Forest V Derby
F.A. CUP FINAL: NOTTINGHAM FOREST 3 DERBY COUNTY 1 At Crystal Palace, Benbow scores Forests second goal

Violin Concerto 1898
the Violin Concerto

Welles and Newsmen 1938
Orson Welles speaks with newsmen, 30 October 1938, after the sensational broadcast of a dramatised version of the book by the Mercury Theatre, NY

Paris Nightlife
Le Moulin de la Galette

Early Bull Terrier / 1898
CHAMPION FAULTLESS An early example of the Bull Terrier breed

Historic map of London (18th Century)
map/plan of the inner city of London from 1898

Jugend front cover, naked woman with dragon
Front cover design for Jugend magazine, depicting a naked woman with a large red dragon. Date: 1898

Battle of Manila Bay, 1898
Admiral George Dewey commanding US fleet in the Battle of Manila Bay, Spanish-American War, 1898. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Cartoon, Triumph of De-Jenner-Action 1898
Grim reaper holding the vaccination act. A new Vaccination Act removed these penalties and introduced a new clause known as the conscientious objector clause that allowed parents who did not believe

Essex Cricket Team, 1898. 1898

Ebenezer Howard - plan of garden city
Ebenezer Howards plan of a garden city. Date: 1898

CUBA: U. S. S. MAINE, 1898. Destruction of the U. S. Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor
CUBA: U.S.S. MAINE, 1898. Destruction of the U.S. Battleship Maine in Havana Harbor, 15 February 1898. Contemporary chromolithograph by Kurz & Allison

Contemporary map showing the advances of Colonel Theodore Roosevelts Rough Riders at the Battle of San Juan Hill, Cuba
CUBA: SAN JUAN HILL. Contemporary map showing the advances of Colonel Theodore Roosevelts Rough Riders at the Battle of San Juan Hill, Cuba, and of other American forces at El Caney, 1 July 1898

The Charge of the 21st Lancers at the Battle of Omdurman, 1898. Coloured photogravure after Richard Caton Woodville. Associated with 21st (Empress of India s) Lancers and 2nd Sudan War (1896-1899)

KONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKI as Trigorin in The Seagull (1898) at the Moscow Art Theater

The Conversion of Paula, by Alma-Tadema
The Conversion of Paula, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema RA (1836-1912). Date: 1898

Pen and ink drawing, 1898, by Charles Dana Gibson
GIBSON: AFTER THE WAR, 1898. Pen and ink drawing, 1898, by Charles Dana Gibson

The Latest Nobleman. Pen and ink drawing by Charles Dana Gibson, 1898
GIBSON: LATEST NOBLEMAN. The Latest Nobleman. Pen and ink drawing by Charles Dana Gibson, 1898

NY: BROOKLYN BRIDGE, 1898. Curve at the Brooklyn terminal of the bridge, 1898

MUCHA: POSTER, 1898. Poster design, 1898, by Alphonse Mucha

Battleship Maine, 1898
US battleship Maine, just before sailing to Cuba, 1898. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photoograph

Battleship Iowa receiving prisoners, Spanish-American War
Spanish Admiral Cervera y Topete taken aboard the USS Iowa, Battle of Santiago, 1898. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Naval battle off Puerto Rico, Spanish-American War
U.S. Navy cruiser " St Paul" shelling Spanish destroyer " Terror" off San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1898. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Childrens nursery, Chorlton Union Cottage Homes, Styal
View inside a childrens nursery at the cottage homes in Styal, Cheshire, with a large group of girls and boys posing for their photograph

Steyning Union Workhouse, Shoreham, Sussex
An architects aerial view of the Steyning Unions new workhouse opened in 1901 at Kingston-by-Sea, near Shoreham, Sussex. The buildings were designed by Charles E Clayton and Ernest Black of Brighton

Victorian Women Cyclists Descending a Hill, c. 1898
Photograph showing a group of women descending a hill on their bicycles; this image was probably taken somewhere in England in the summer of 1897. Note the haystacks on the right of the image

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"1898: A Year of Triumphs, Artistry, and Engineering Marvels" In the world of sports, the Nottingham Forest vs. Derby County F. A. Cup Final in 1898 captivated fans with its intense rivalry and thrilling match. Meanwhile, aboard the Training Ship HMS Conway, young cadets honed their skills and prepared for a life at sea, embodying discipline and determination. The whimsical artwork "Snowballing" by Louis Wain brought joy to many with its playful depiction of feline friends engaging in winter fun. Speaking of cats, The Tabby Toboggan Club illustrated by Louis Wain showcased these beloved creatures enjoying a snowy adventure together. On the coast of Whitley Bay stood the majestic Whitley Bay Lighthouse, guiding ships safely through treacherous waters and symbolizing strength amidst adversity. Art enthusiasts were enthralled by Edvard Munch's iconic woodcut masterpiece "The Kiss, " created between 1897-98 - an expression of passion that transcended time. In 1898, Theodore Roosevelt led his Rough Riders to victory on San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War - a testament to bravery and leadership in times of conflict. Bismarck as Blacksmith depicted an unexpected portrayal of Otto von Bismarck as a skilled craftsman forging his own destiny - showcasing resilience and adaptability. George Gershwin emerged as a musical prodigy in 1898; his compositions would later revolutionize American music with their unique blend of jazz and classical influences. A Swiss travel poster from 1898 enticed adventurers to explore Switzerland's Visp-Zermatt Railroad - promising breathtaking landscapes and unforgettable experiences. Ebenezer Howard's Three Magnets diagram laid out his vision for utopian urban planning – harmoniously integrating town life with country living for enhanced quality-of-life standards Lastly but certainly not least was the completion of Scotland's Forth Bridge, a marvel of engineering that defied the odds and connected communities with its