The Illustrated London News 1900


1900 graf zeppelin

July 1st - First flight by Count Zeppelin's airship

1900 first motor car race

The first ever Automobile race at Welbeck abbey.

Fine Victorian Engravings of Lancaster


 

 

Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

February 27th - The British Labour Party launched under Ramsay MacDonald

February 28th - The end of Ladysmith's 118 day seige

May 17th - The relief of Mafeking after 31 weeks seige by the Boers August 4th -

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (The Queen Mother), youngest daughter of 14th Earl of Strathmore, born at St. Paul's Walden Bury, Herts

August 14th - Boxer rising against Europeans in China, Peking stormed by the allies (British, German, Japanese, Russian and USA) to end the rebellion

The Commonwealth of Australia was created

Russia occupied Korea

Britain was building several new battleships for Japan

Germany was planning a new fleet of 38 battleships

The Daily Express was first published

Minoan culture discovered in Crete

John Ruskin dies, aged 81

Oscar Wilde dies in Paris

 

March 10th

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Double Page Illustrations:
News of RELIEF OF LADYSMITH in the City. Battle of Caesar’s Camp – Devons (Devonshire Regiment) charge on Wagon Hill SOL.

Full Page Illustrations
Boers moving artillery
Guards, Gordons and Lancers at Modden River and Enslin, .
A Boer shot for firing on RAMC Officer SOL.
Looking for Buller’s advance SOL.
Marksmen at King’s Post SOL.
Lucky escape for 18th Hussars trooper SOL.
General Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl Dundonald SOL, .
Portraits of Officers killed in South Africa .
Portraits of Lady Smith and General Sir Harry Smith
Nurses and patients at Rondebosch .
Great War Budget in London.

Half Page Illustrations:
18th Hussars preparing for battle,
5th Division cross Tugela River,

Commissariat Officers,
Officers from Thorneycroft’s Horse, .
Major Harrison and Officers of Royal Field Artillery, .
Reminiscences of Exodus from Pretoria.
Bethune’s mounted infantry in Natal, .
Simon’s Town naval base and 6 named Royal Navy vessels, .
Athletic ground in Cape Town for use by Boer prisoner
Naval Gun on rail truck.
Refugees at East London, .
Sir George White’s birthplace, Portstewart, Co Derry.
Bishops of India at Calcutta, .
Departure from Adelaide of soldiers for South Africa, .

Part Page Illustrations
Officers of Gordon Highlanders in the field. .
Homes of Rest for Discharged Soldiers at Bisley.
Captain Chichester Transport Officer at Cape Town. .
Martial Law in Durban.

 

 

 

 

 

May 12th .

 

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50 pages

Some of the engravings are

Our Artist under Fire, Camp Wellington,

The Queen in Ireland,

A Warriors Refreshment, Conje,

The Relief of Kemberley,

A Lyddite Shell,

Our Occupation of Bloemfontein,

Tommy's Curious,

Aid at Last,

End of Days Work

 

 

 

 

August 18th

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End of the Boer War and the start of the Boxer War in China

Examination of Russian Workmen before a Manchurian District Mandarin;

Troops at Canterbury Cathedral; S
Invalided Home – wounded C.I.V.’s return;
The Yeomanry Hospital at Roodeval captured by the Boer guerilla commander Christiaan De Wet. P x 6
Inside De Wet’s Guerilla Camp;
Portrait of the late Baron Russell, Lord Chief Justice;
Russian Govt. Post in Transbaikal, Siberia;
A Japanese Infantryman,
A Boxer;
Chinese Alligator;
French battle ship ‘Brennus’
Yachting - German Emperor’s Cup at Cowes;
Chung King and Chiang Pei;
Chinese road at Shanhaikwan;
Portraits of Col. Cavaye, Dr. Elliston, Capt. Parsons, Count Waldersee, Mr. Oliphant, Capt. Wellby, Dr. Max Nordau.
Cage punishment in Shanghai
Russian military cart
Peking Skating Rink
Kruger’s Lioness
German ship greets a British one at Suez.
Almon’s Pass, Natal
Harrismith Orange Free State
Cronje and family in St Helena;
European Club, Tientsin;

 

 

 

 

September 22nd

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Boxer Rebellion cover showing Admiral Seymour's advance on Tientsin:an incident of Chinese Treachery."The Chinese Crisis Scenes at Taku and Tientsin".

Great black and white photos of the captured Taku Forts, illustration of 12th Russian Infantry on sentry duty, two page spread titled "Russian Cossack Artillery in action near Tientsin.

Also photos of Chinese prisoners and wounded and parade of the garrison.

illustrated article on the Boer War etc.

 

 

 

 

October 27th

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cover titled "The Allied Forces in China:German Soldiers searching houses for Armed "Boxers".

short article titled "The Allied Forces in China" with several black and white photos showing a Temple in Tientsin used by the American troops as their headquarters,

a Russian Battery on the Pei-Ho River and a

Russian wagon-camp at Tongku.

Also has great two page spread illustration titled "The Allies in China German troops cheering a

Charge by the Bengal Lancers".

photos from the Boer War

 

 

 

 

November 3rd

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cover titled "The Russians at Newchwang"a Test of Boxer "Invulnerability".

illustrated article titled "The Siege of the Legations" with full page illustration showing house in the British Legation in which the ladies of the embassy lived during the siege,

other illustrations show "Boxer loopholes outside the city wall" the International Hospital in the British legation,

photo of British Marines from HMS Orlando who held the barricades in the Han Lin College,

scenes of destruction during the siege,civilians constructing earthworks before the seige,

a Chinese camp from the German position,

two page spread titled "Russians repelling the Boxer attack on the barricade"

illustrations of the protected way across the Imperial Canal and the fire at Peking.

two page spread titled "Within the wall of the British Legation during the Defence"showing soldiers of the multi-national force,ruins of Han Lin College,

company of Chinese soldiers marching down Peking street.

a Boer War illustrated article in this issue

Great Boxer Rebellion cover.

 

 

 

 

 

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