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The Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection (page 9)

A unique, visual archive of 19th century Victorian Britain historical illustrations

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Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Irish Harvest

Irish Harvest
Saving the harvest in the Cahir Mountains of Kerry. Original Publication : Illustrated London News - pub. 1886 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Japanese Artillery Shells

Japanese Artillery Shells
Japanese troops in Manchuria with a stockpile of 11-inch artillery shells during the Russo-Japanese War, 1905. Original publication: Illustrated London News, pub. 28th January 1905

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: The Age Of Steel

The Age Of Steel
1872: Metalworkers cast a cylinder for the new Albert Bridge at Chelsea, watched by interested members of the public. Original Publication: Illustrated London News - pub

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Steel Workshop

Steel Workshop
21st January 1866: Workmen in a steel workshop in Sheffield. (Photo by HultonArchive/Illustrated London News/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Anti-Slavery

Anti-Slavery
1841: The audience throw their hats in the air at an anti-slavery demonstration at Exeter Hall. Original Publication: Illustrated London News - pub

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Clerkenwell Bombing

Clerkenwell Bombing
The aftermath of a bombing carried out by Fenian Irish nationalists at Clerkenwell Prison, London, 1867. Twelve people were killed

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Learning To Swim

Learning To Swim
1871: A Victorian swimming class at Brighton in East Sussex. Original Publication: Illustrated London News - pub. 1875 The Graphic (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Oil Wells

Oil Wells
7th April 1866: The Gordon Oil wells in Western Canada. Original Publication: From The Illustrated London News. (Photo by HultonArchive/Illustrated London News/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Prussians At Koniggratz

Prussians At Koniggratz
Prussian troops advancing at the battle of Koniggratz (aka Battle of Sadowa), 3rd July 1866. The battle resulted in a decisive victory for the Prussians

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Attack On Sevastopol

Attack On Sevastopol
French and British warships of the Allied fleet begin their attack on the city of Sevastopol (Sebastopol), the base of the Russian Tsars Black Sea fleet, during the Crimean War, October 1854

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Soup Kitchen

Soup Kitchen
1879: A soup kitchen for the Jewish poor in Spitalfields, London. Published in Illustrated London News 27th December 1879 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Overarm Trial

Overarm Trial
July 1842: A cricket match at Lords in London at which the new technique of overarm bowling was tested against the old underarm method

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Abergele Train Disaster

Abergele Train Disaster
The scene on the track, one and a half hours after the Abergele Train Disaster on the Chester and Holyhead Railway in North Wales, 20th August 1868

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Christmas Shopping

Christmas Shopping
A grocers shop at Christmas, December 1850. Men wearing sandwich boards advertise the shops stock of fruit. Original publication: Illustrated London News, pub

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Victorian Grand National

Victorian Grand National
The Grand National Steeplechase takes place in Aintree, Liverpool, circa 1850. Original publication: Illustrated London News (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: London Draper Shop

London Draper Shop
The interior of Peter Robinsons draper shop in Regent Street, London, 1891. Original Publication : Illustrated London News - pub. 25th April 1891. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: The Pirates

The Pirates
circa 1850: A young man stands on a barrel to play a violin while pirates sprawl on deck armed to the teeth and in the background an American ship comes to the rescue of delighted captives

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Sheffield Steel

Sheffield Steel
1866: Children employed at a Sheffield fork factory. Original Artwork: Engraving by J Palmer. Original Publication: Illustrated London News - pub. 1866 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: War On Opium

War On Opium
January 1918: Workers destroy twelve million dollars worth of opium balls at Pootung in Shanghai. Original Publication: Illustrated London News - pub

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Separation Sanction

Separation Sanction
26th August 1905: Students and the merchants singing clubs sing national songs at the University Christiana, on the day of the Norwegian referendum sanctioning separation

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Factory Guard

Factory Guard
16th January 1905: Strikers face the factory guard outside one of the government works in St Petersburg. The strike which led to the massacre of January 22 began in the Putiloff Ironworks

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Bank of England

Bank of England
Employees and clients at the Bank of England in Threadneedle Street, London, December 1855. Original publication: Illustrated London News

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: The Talbot Arms Inn

The Talbot Arms Inn in Rugeley, Staffordshire, where John Parsons Cook was murdered, 24th May 1856. Dr. William Palmer was convicted of poisoning Cook and hanged for his crime

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Rescue Party

Rescue Party
1905: A rescue party waiting to descend the mine shaft in the worst Welsh mining disaster for 11 years at the Wattstown Colliery in the Rhondda Valley

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: ILN Adverts

ILN Adverts
A page from the Illustrated London News advertising Carters Little Liver Pills, Floriline and Murray & Lanmans Florida Water amongst other things, 12th September 1903

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Garrett Thresher

Garrett Thresher
A diagram of a threshing machine by Garrett, 1851. Original publication: Illustrated London News, pub 23rd August 1851 (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Derelict Village

Derelict Village
The derelict village of Tullig, Ireland, 1849. Original publication: Illustrated London News, 15th December 1849. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Siege Of Rome

Siege Of Rome
French troops under Lieutenant-General Charles Oudinot make their first attack on Rome near the Porta Cavellegiere, May 1849

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Greek Guerilla

Greek Guerilla
12th September 1903: A Macedonian revolutionary leader and his men during the Balkan rising. Original Publication: Illustrated London News - pub. 1903 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Cuban Sugar Refinery

Cuban Sugar Refinery
A sugar refinery near the town of Matanzas, Cuba, circa 1898. Original publication: Illustrated London News - pub 14th May 1898. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: District Line Works

District Line Works
circa 1868: Horses pulling carts do their share to assist the labourers during works of the Metropolitan District Railway on the Thames Embankment at Westminster

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Zulus At War

Zulus At War
Zulu warriors crossing a river during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Original Publication : Illustrated London News - pub. 12th April 1879 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Black Friday

Black Friday
Police officers return from a baton charge in North Frederick Street during a general strike in Glasgow, January 1919. Tensions mounted

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: In Search Of Franklin

In Search Of Franklin
British naval officer Horatio Thomas Austin leads an expedition in search of missing Arctic explorer John Franklin, 1850. From left to right, the vessels are the Intrepid, the Assistance

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Balaclava Hospital

Balaclava Hospital
The washing establishment at the General Hospital in Balaclava, during the Crimean War, 1855. Original Publication : Illustrated London News - pub. 1855 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Bethnal Green Slum

Bethnal Green Slum
A military tailor and his family share a single room at Number 10, Hollybush Place, in Londons Bethnal Green, 1863. Original Publication : Illustrated London News - pub

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Emmigrants Depart

Emmigrants Depart
Irish emmigrants leaving for Liverpool on board the paddle steamers Nimrod and Athlone, during the Great Famine (aka the Irish potato Famine), Ireland, 1851

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Emigrants Sail For USA

Emigrants Sail For USA
Irish emmigrants sailing to the US during the Great Famine (aka the Irish potato Famine), 1850. Original publication - Illustrated London News - pub 6th July 1850

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Gatling Gun

Gatling Gun
A Gatling gun, a hand-cranked rapid-fire weapon designed by American inventor Richard J Gatling, circa 1867. Original publication: Illustrated London News

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Civilisation In Japan

Civilisation In Japan
March 1875: Foreigners walking through the streets seeing the progress of civilisation in Japan. Original Publication: From the Illustrated London News 1875. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Drouets Infant Pauper House

Drouets Infant Pauper House
A view of Drouets infant pauper house in Tooting, south London, 1849. In that year, the establishment saw an outbreak of cholera, which killed 118 children

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Kings School

Kings School, Sherborne, Dorset, circa 1750. From the Illustrated London News. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Crush At Henley

Crush At Henley
Spectators in their boats rush to leave at the end of the Henley Royal Regatta, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, July 1893. Original publication: Illustrated London News - pub: 8th July 1893

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Palm-Reader At Henley

Palm-Reader At Henley
A smartlly-dressed spectator has her palm read by a fortune teller (left) during Henley Royal Regatta, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, July 1888

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Race At Bayswater

Race At Bayswater
Spectators watch a competitor in a cross-country race in Bayswater, London, February 1851. Original publication: Illustrated London News - Pub. 8th February 1851

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Indian Corn On Sale

Indian Corn On Sale
Crowds outside a government depot in Cork, Ireland, where Indian corn is being sold by the British government, 1846. Food was short after the failure of much of the potato harvest

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: Prayers During Famine

Prayers During Famine
A group of worshippers praying in a chapel in the town of Thurles, North Tipperary, Ireland, during the Great Famine, 1848. Original publication: Illustrated London News - pub 26th August 1848

Background imageThe Illustrated London News (ILN) Collection: La Gloire

La Gloire
9th March 1861: The French ironclad frigate La Gloire. Illustrated London News, March 9th 1861 (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)



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