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in contrast

The Queen on the morning of her accession. June 20 1837
Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee

Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India

Lancashire Pit-Brow Women

Fine Victorian Engravings of Lancaster

The Festivals at Florence

The burning of the Opera Comique in Paris many dead

The new racing yacht "Thistle" built on the Clyde

The riots at Ostend over fishing

Burning of the Exeter Theatre with over 200 dead

February 5th

Mr Stanley with the Maxim Automatic Machine Gun Emir Pasha Expedition.

Steel Whale Boat constructed for the ascent of the Congo.

Operation of the British Naval Forces on the River Niger.

Four Portraits of members of Parliament

Beautiful Engraving "Thus Conscience Does Make Cowards of us All" by Dadd.

"Pot Luck" with Russian Soldiers at Possiette Bay.

Double page Engraving ( very fine)." Their Only Boat.

March 5th

The Earthquake on the riviera South Coast of France.

Encampment in the Place Sasserino Nice,

Room in a Hotel Mentone.

Earthquake in Monaco, Monte Carlo and other Italian Towns.

Sketches in British Columbia.

Double page Spread "Russian Troops on the March.

Map of the Riviera showing effects of Earthquake.

March 24th

'The Townhall Birmingham'

'The Council house and Municipal Buildings, Birmingham'

'The Queen at Olympia, West Kensington'

' 'The Queens Visit to Birmingham: New Street Birmingham'

'Birmingham: Lawley parker Esq,Chairman of Reception Cimmittee' -
'Thomas Martineau Esq Mayor of Birmingham' -
J. Orford Smith Esq, Town Clerk of Birmingham' -
'Metal Workers Arch, Colmore Row' - 'Floral Arch, Bull Ring' -
'Gun Makers Arch, Corporation Street'

'The Attempt to Murder The Emperor of Russia:
The Anitchkoff palace, St petersburg, The Residence of the Emperor Alexander III'

'Russia: Outside the Citadel Church, St Petersburg'

'The New Law Courts at Birmingham,
The Foundation Stone of Which Was Laid By the Queen on Wednesday'

'Queens Jubilee in Bombay'

'Queens Jubilee in Bomay: Rampart Row'

'Bombay: Sassoon and Co's Offices, Rampart Row'

'The Bull ring, With St Martins Church, Birmingham in 1812'

'Specimens of the Hittite Inscriptions: Inscription At Jerabis ( Carchemish ) on the Euphrates -
Lion Figure at Merash, Mount Taurus - Fragment from Jeraris - Eagle at Eyuk, Asia Minor -
Bas Relief At Boghaz Keui - Stone Bowl found at Babylon - Inscription on Stone Bowl -
Silver Boss, with Bilingual Inscription in Cuneform and Hittite Characters'

'Chess'

'An English lady Preacher of The Salvation Army in a Swiss Tavern'

'The King of Prussia at a Court Ball in 1862, Pointing Out Bismark,
His New Minister of State by R. Caton Woodville' '
Life of The German Emperor, William I:
On The Eve of The Battle of Sadowa, July 2, 1866' Fullpage

'The Emperor William I at a Boar Hnt' Full page

'Beechams Pills' Full page
Echoes of The Week

'The Plot to Murder the Czar-'Ladies Column'

'Wills and Bequests'

April 2nd

'The Queen Laying The Foundation Stone of The New Law Courts At Birmingham'

'Trowel and Mallet Used by The Queen at Birmingham'

Birmingham 'Small Heath park' - 'Lodge and Gate, Small Heath park'

'The Old Crown Inn, Deritend' Birmingham

Birmingham 'Heathfield House, The Home of James Watt '

Birmingham 'St Martins Church, Bull Ring '

'The Queens Visit to Birmingham: The Luncheon Room at The Townhall'

Birmingham 'HighStreet'

'Reception at The Small Heath Station: The Mayoress Presenting The Queen with a Bouquet'

Birmingham 'Presentation of Addresses in The Townhall'

'The Queen at Olympia: Young Lions Introduced to Her Majesty' Full page

'The Late Mr Collingwood Smith' RSA

'The Crown Prince Of Siam' Somdetch Phra Chow Fah Maha Vajirunhis, age nine

'The Late Sir illiam Andrew'

'The Great Egg Question: Sketches at a Poultry Farm: Field with Poultry Coups -
Specimaens of Good Breeds - Incubators for Artificial hatching -
Artificial Foster Mother for New Born Chicken - Sleeping House for Older Chicks -
Fattening Chicken with the Craming Machine' - Higgler and Boy Collecting Poultry -
Coops in Barn with Chicken Fattening - Plucking Chicken, Killed by the man -
Chicken Being Pressed for Packing - Packing Cases for Chicken' Full page

'Life of The German Emperor William I - His Majesty at A Parade of The Royal Guards' wonderful double page

'Mid Lent Childrens Parties i Paris' Full page

'The Queens Visit to The Riveiera: The Villa Edelweiss, The Temporary Residence of the Queen at Cannes

'Distant View of Teh Villa Edelweiss'

'Chess'

'The Queens Visit To Birmingham: The Procession Passing Along new Street'

'Brookes Soap, Monkey Brand'
'Echoes of The Week'

'The Playhouses'

'Novels'

'The Silent Member'

The Court at Windsor etc'

''Home and Foreign News'

'Obituaries Emily Anne, viscountess Strangford died on board the steamship
Lusitania in the Mediterranean - - Sir William Grace, Bart., - -
The Rev John Prideaux Lightfood DD Rector of Exeter College, Oxford died on his birthday'

'The Queens Jubilee'

'The Ladies Column by Florence Fenwick Miller'

'The Lifeboat Institution'

'Egg and Poultry Industries'

'Kaiser Wilhelms Ninetieth Birthday'

'A Century Ago' Islington Church Spire

April 16th

price sixpence.

'Jubilee Festival at Pontypool, Monmouthsihire, on Easter Monday:
The Eisteddfod - Presentation of Prizes -
Roasting The Ox - General View of Pontypool' Front page

"The Homeward Bound" in Dover Harbour,
Captain and Crew: Captain Ingvald Nilson -
Bernhard Nilson - Zephanias Olsen'
a small sloop undertook the journey from Natal
on the Indian Ocean Coast of Eastern S. Africa to Dover

'Large Whale Captured at Skegness, Lincolnshire'

'With The Shan Column in Bujrmah, Attack on The Rebel Position at Nankon'

'Shan column: The Enlay Lake at Mein Senk'

'The Easter Volunteer Manoeuvres near Dover'

'The American Exhibition, Earls Court, West Brompton and West Kensington:
Lassoing Wild Steers - Indian Camp - Indian Chief - Lassoing Wild Horses - Indians' Double Page

'Sketches in Bechuanaland, South Africa: A Barolong Girl - Kraal at Mafeking - A Goat Herd -
Sunday morning worship at Mafeking - Village gossipsat the Well - Woman plucking maize' Full page

'Cleopatra from the picture by Alma Tadema RA' Wonderful double page with a blank reverse

'Sir Dinshaw Manouckjee Petit, Sherriff of Bombay'

The Late Right Rev. J. H. Titcomb DD, Formerly Bishop of Rangoon'

'St Petersburg Police Discovering a Nihilist Printing Press'

'Travelling in West America: Changing Station - Bull Whacker and Mule Skinner -
A Warning to Horse Stealers, a hanging - Stage Coach on Runners (skis) - Fast in The Gumbo -
Curious Trees in Red Canyon - A Curve on The Deadwood Road - Indians onThe Move -
Western Types, Negro, Indian and Mexican - A Bull Train' Double page

Adverts of the Day
The Silent Member '

'The Court'

'The Ladies Column'

'Obituaries The Most Noble flora Paulyna Hetty Barbara,
Duchess of Norfolk died at Arundel Castle aged 33 -
The Right Hon. Charles Newdigate Newdegate died at his seat near Nuneaton -
Colonel Sir William Owen Lanyon died at New York aged 45 '

May 7th

The Manchester Royal Jubilee Exhibition Opened by the Prince of Wales.The Central Dome.

Manchester Exhibition he Terra- Cotta Arcades.

The Franco-German Incident.Schnaebele Arrested.

Reception of British Naval Officers by the Mikado of Japan

12 engravings of pictures from the Royal Academy.

Jubilee Fancy Dress Ball Portsmouth.

May 14th

The Prince and Princess of Wales at Knutsford

"After the storm" Double page by E. Morant Cox
(Depicts families looking out on to a rough sea)

Opening of the Manchester Royal Jubilee Exhibition

Royal visit to Saltaire

May 28th

The Festivals at Florence Historical Procession.

The Conte Verde Meeting the Gonfaloniere in the Piazza.

Sketches of the Florence Festivals by Signor Fabri.

New Buildings for the London Hospital.

Lancashire Pit Brow Women.

Sketches from the Grosvenor Gallery.

The House of Commons Attending the Jubilee Service.

The Newscastle Exhibition. Street View of Old Tyne Bridge.

Sketches of the Painters Masque Royal Institute

June 11th

'The New Racing Yacht "Thistle", Built on The Clyde' (full front page),

'Mr. E. S. Hartland, Chairman of Library Committee,
Swansea', 'Mr. Frank A. Yeo MP., Mayor of Swansea',

'Jubilee Fountain and Clock Tower, Gift of an American
Citizen to Stratford on Avon, Mr George W. Childs of Philadelphia',

'New Public Library, Swansea',

'Earthslip in The Schachenthal, Canton URI, Switzerland,
on the northern side of The Spitzen, between the hamlets
of Spirigin and Unter-Schachen - six lives lost',

'De Kaap Gold Fields, Transvaal - Mr Alfred Woodhouse
consulting Engineer' (small), 'De Kaap Gold Fields:
The Sheba Mountains Showing The Reef on The Face of The Hill',
'De Kaap Gold Fields: Joe's Luck Mine , Sheba Reef',

'The Collision Between The S.S. Celtic and Britannic -
Just After the Collision, The Celtic Lying Aft -
The Bow of The Celtic After the Collision -
The Britannic Escorted by The S.S. British Queen and
The Marengo to New York - Just After the First Blow'
(full page sketched by Mr. George Allen Rudd, Passenger on Board the Britannic),

'Sketches in and About Dorchester: High Street Dorchester -
Maiden Castle - Judge Jeffreys' Lodgings - Roman Amphitheatre -
Winterborne Came Rectory, Residence of The Late Rev. W. Barnes,
The Dorset Poet - Dorchester, From The Show Field' (all on one full page),

'Prince of Wales at Dorchester meeting ,
Bath and West of England Agricultural Association: The Dairy -
The Sheep Pen - The Grand Stand, The Prince Inspecting The Prize Cattle',

'Antiquarian Discoveries in Windsor Castle:
Mouth of The Old Well in The Round Tower -
The Old Sally Port, South Side - The Old Culvert Drain,
North Side' (full page), 'Antiquarian Windsor:
Plan of Windsor Castle - Section of the Round Tower and Mound
- Ancient Norman Gateway',

'Firing of The 111 Ton Gun at Woolwich,
The Largest Gun in Existence' (double page),
Constructed at The Elswick Works,
Newcastle by Sir W. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co.),

'A Meeting of The Colonial Conference, London,
1887 includes Sir R Thorburn of Newfoundland -
Sir A. Shea, Newfoundaland - Sir S. Griffith, Queensland -
Sir Saul Samuel, New South Wales - Mr. J. S. Dodds, Tasmania -
Sir C. Mills, Cape - Sir A. Blyth, South Australia',

Adverts = 'The Ammoniaphone, Medical Battery Co Ltd,
52 Oxford St W' , 'Mappin & Webb' ,
'Maple & Co Furnishing Establishment, Tottenham Court Road, London,
W' , 'Redfern Ladies Taylor To HRH The Princess of Wales,
26 & 27 Conduit St, and 27 New Bond Street London, W' ,
'Tamar Indien Grillon for Constipation, Hemorrhoids &c' ,
'J. W. Bensons Queens Watchmaker' .

Also articles (no engravings) including 'The Silent Member',

'The Queens Golden Jubilee',

'Carl Rosa Opera Company',

'Obituary includes Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton
Baronet of Silverton Hill - Thomas Spencer Baynes LL.D Professor of Logic,
Rhetoric, and Metaphysics University of St Andrews -
Major General Alexander Hadden Lindsay CB at Riverstone, Banchory -
Major Rolla Rouse of Fern Hill, Melton, Suffolk -
Commissary General George Adams at 47 Queens Gate, Lancaster Gate',

'The Playhouses', 'Literature', 'Chess', 'Ladies Column',

'A Century Ago - January 1787

'Wills and Bequests

June 25th
The Jubilee Service in Westminster Abbey

'Jubilee Thanksgiving Festival in London:

The Royal Procession Leaving Buckingham Palace' Front page 'Regent Street'

Royal Procession Passing The Guards Memorial in Waterloo Place'

'On The Victoria Embankment'

'Trafalgar Square' Full page

'Building the Stack on the Malvern Beacon' smal

'Jubilee Mug Given to Each of
The Thirty Thousand Children in Hyde Park'

'The Queensx Jubilee Orchid Bouguet'

'Arrival of The Queen at The West Door of Westminster Abbey' Wonderful Double Page

'Whitehall'

'The Bank of England, Illuminated'

'Illumination of The Calton Hill, Edinburgh'

'The Prince of Wales Starting the Jubilee Yacht Race' Full page

'Beechams Pills' Full page Advert

A huge pullout supplement of The Jubilee
Thanksgiving Service in Westminster Abbey, June 21, 1887'

'Queen Victoria'.

'Jubilee Assemblage of Thirty Thousand London School Children in Hyde Park'

July 23rd

Front Cover: Portraits of Monsignore Ruffo Scilla (Special Envoy from the Pope)
and Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg (Price Elect of Bulgaria)
The Queen laying the Foundation-Stone of the Statue of Prince Albert
(Women’s Jubilee Offering) in Windsor Park

Inspection of Volunteer Medical Staff Corps in the Grounds of Lambeth Palace

New Townhall at Barrow-In-Furness, North Lancashire (Full-page)

A Moorland Stream by R. Taylor (Full-page)

Double-Page Spread of the Jubilee Review at Aldershott
: Royal Horse Artillery Moving Up to Take Position

Sketches of Bits of Old London

Country Cousins at the Royal Academy Exhibition (Full-page)

Gordon Brown Drawing to Supplement Miser Farebrother Novella

H.M.S. Inflexible (Flag-Ship) Full-page

H.M.S. Monarch (Full-page)

Illustration Advertising Beecham’s Pills (Full-page)

H.M.S. Ajax (Full-page)

H.M.S. Sultan, H.M.S. Invincible, H.M.S. Devastation, H.M.S. Glatton (One Page)

H.M.S. Ajax (Full-page)

H.M.S. Minotaur, H.M.S. Agincourt, H.M.S. Hercules (One page)

H.M.S. Imperieuse (Full-page) See Photo

H.M.S. Collingwood (Full-page) See Photo

July 30th

Front Cover: The Queen’s Jubilee Naval Review at Spithead

The Queen’s Arrival from the Alberta on Board the Victoria and Albert: The Fleet Saluting

Manning the Yards

Spectators on Board a Ship at the Queen’s Jubilee Naval Review

Double-Page Spread of the Victoria and Albert Passing Down the Centre between the Lines of Ironclads

Sketches Taken on Board the Silvertown (India Rubber, Gutta Percha, and the Telegraph works Company

The Prince of Wales Receiving Foreign Naval Officers on Board the Victoria and Albert

Drawing by Gordon Brown as Supplement to Novella Miser Farebrother

Double-Page Spread of Models of Old English Ships of War

Pictures from the Christmas Edition

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