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Eviction In Colomacirca 1850: An eviction taking place in Coloma, California. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Men At Work14th December 1850: Builders at work on the upper part of a column at Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, in preparation for the Great Exhibition
Ranelagh Gardenscirca 1850: Grand structures in Ranelagh Gardens, London. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Reform RallyMay 1867: Large crowds attending a Reform meeting in Hyde Park. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Harvest Time13th January 1889: A farmer operating Osbornes self-binding harvester. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Electric Light18th March 1882: A collection of lamps for the electric light. Original Publication: From Queen (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
After The EarthquakeDecember 1908: Messina in Sicily after an earthquake that destroyed half the town and killed over 77, 000 people. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Fashions For Childrencirca 1820: An advertisement for a French childrens couturier. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
In The Sudscirca 1820: A thin pale child submits reluctantly to a bathing. Original Artwork: Engraving by F C Hunt. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Toll Gate1864: The turnpike at Notting Hill Gate in London. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Brighton Pavilioncirca 1825: A lavish royal party at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, built by Henry Holland and John Nash for King George IV, then Prince of Wales. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Toll Evasioncirca 1800: Toll collectors in pursuit of a man on horseback dashing through a toll gate. Original Artist: By J Thompson (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Cromwells Home1st November 1805: An engraved depiction of Oliver Cromwells Whitehall home
Lawn Tennis1881: Two couples meet for a friendly game of lawn tennis. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Breakfast En Routecirca 1850: Stagecoach passengers enjoying breakfast at a hotel. Original Artist: By J Pollard. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Courtly Dancecirca 1775: An eighteenth century couple dancing. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Gypsy Fiddlerscirca 1910: Four young, Hungarian, Romany violinists. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Winter Coat1902: A gentlemans winter coat. Tailor & Cutter - pub. 1902 (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Military Doctorcirca 1880: A military doctor, with an ambulance cart in the background. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Carbiners Advancecirca 1844: An officer of the Carbiners, the 6th Dragoon Guards leading a charge of men. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Lancashire Regimentcirca 1850: Soldiers of the 30th East Lancashire foot regiment in bright red jackets. Rischgitz Collection (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Going To The Wellcirca 1850: A young woman going to collect water from the well. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Distillation20th May 1803: Double apparatus for distillation of spirits. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
At the Pumpcirca 1800: Visitors to the town pump. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Musician Playscirca 1870: A man playing the piano at home while his wife listens and sews. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Connaught Place1840: Traffic on Connaught Place at the corner of Edgware Road, London. Original Artist: By Whitlock (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Funeral Coachman1859: Horse-drawn fire engines galloping towards a blaze in a street. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Letter Readercirca 1860: A man reading a letter lying in a studio country scene. London Stereoscopic Company Comic Series - 121 (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)
Bicycle For Twocirca 1880: A double seated safety (or low) tricycle being ridden by a couple reading a book. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
FurnitureCirca 1830: Furniture from the Sixteenth Century. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Visiting The Needycirca 1860: A wealthy villager brings fruit and a book to a woman nursing her sick child. Charity by T Brooks (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Challenge Cup1840: Crowds watch from stands on the riverside as roeing temas make their way along the River Thames during the Henley Regatta Challenge Cup race. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Street DressA proud lady in Edwardian street dress, looks lively for this studio portrait. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Wind OrganA monk works the bellows for a fourteenth century organist, circa 1335. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Hotel KitchensThe chefs and staff in the restaurant kitchen of the Hotel Cecil. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Medieval ForgeThirteenth century rustics at a blacksmiths forge, circa 1200. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
SiblingsMother and children in the parlour. London Stereoscopic Company Comic Series (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images)
Tom And MaggieTom and Maggie overwhelmed by the flood in scene from George Eliots book, Mill-on the Floss. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
BloomersWomen in Bloomers, loose trousers gathered at the knee or ankle, a fashion started by American magazine editor Amelia Bloomer. It did not catch on but did re-appear as swimwear
Peace With FranceCrowds gather outside the house of the French ambassador in Portman Square, London to celebrate the new peace between France and Britain following the Treaty of Amiens
Factory BoysAn illustration from the novel The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy by the English novelist Frances Trollope (1780 - 1863), the mother of Anthony Trollope
Brixton CharlieCharles Rouse, the last of the Charlies, an early police force. His watch was on Brixton Road, London. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Union StreetCotton mills on Union Street in Manchester. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Monoliths JourneyCleopatras Needle wrapped in a specially built torpedo-shaped shell at the start of its journey
London GardensThe backyards of a row of terraced houses in a slum area of London. Over London by Rail by Gustave Dore (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Slum ChildrenDudley Street in the Seven Dials (Covent Garden) area of London. Original Artwork: By Gustav Dore. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Culloden Moor (aka Drummossie Moor)in Inverness looking towards the Moray Firth with British soldiers firing on fleeing and dying soldiers who are being tended by their women, April 1746
Victorian TravellersPorters assist passengers with their baggage at Paddington Railway Station in London. Original Artwork: Painting by William Powell Frith (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
London OmnibusPassengers travel between Paddington and the Bank aboard Shillibeers omnibus for a fare of one shilling. Guildhall Library (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
PickpocketA pickpocket at work on an unsuspecting gentleman. Original Publication: Busbys Humorous Etchings - Introspection - Thomas Busby (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Marvel At MunchhausenThe magnificent Baron Munchhausen riding a canonball over an enemy camp. An illustration from Rudolf Erich Raspes book Baron Munchhausens Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia
No RulesA group of boys playing an old-fashioned version of football. Original Artwork: Engraving by Webster (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
National AssemblyThe interior of the French National Assembly building at the time of the French Revolution. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Subscription RoomDiners and cardplayers in the great subscription room at Brooks Club, St Jamess Street, London. Original Artwork: Engraving by Thomas Rowlandson (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Buying And Selling1854: The London Stock Exchange. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Haydn Monumentcirca 1900: The monument in Berlin to the German composer Franz Joseph Haydn. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
London Sweep1849: A young chimney sweep dressed in rags and covered in soot
An Old Songcirca 1800: A woman plays the harpsichord for a gentleman admirer. Original Artist - Hennessy. Engraver - Jenkins (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Great EasternAugust 1865: The breaking of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board Brunels steamship the Great Eastern
Great EasternSeptember 1865: The laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board Brunels steamship the Great Eastern
The Tug Of WarDecember 1878: Little Katie and Johnny wrestle with a Christmas cracker. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Check Those Stripescirca 1895: Wearing a check knickerbocker suit with ribbed three-quarter socks and low-laced oxfords and holding a terrier pup a father sits arm-in -arm between his two daughters clad in stripes
Railway Opening27th September 1825: The opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the worlds first public railway. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Poets Walkcirca 1900: Tree lined Well Walk in Hampstead, London beloved of Constable and a favourite haunt of Coleridge and Charles Lamb. It is where Keats composed Endymion and The Eve of St Agnes
Railway JunctionJanuary 1868: Junction of the Midland, Great Northern and Metropolitan railways at Kings Cross, London. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Edgar Allan Poecirca 1845: Author and poet Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849). Pioneer of the modern detective story with The Murders in the Rue Morgue. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Great Western1838: The Great Western Steamship, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel with a gross tonnage of 703 tons, passing Portishead on her 1st voyage from Bristol to New York
Free The Park1866: Reform Leaguers fighting with the police at Marble Arch. Use of Hyde Park had been restricted and this was opposed by the Reform League. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Lexington19th April 1773: Hand to hand fighting in the Battle of Lexington, the first battle in the American War of Independence. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Twin Steam-ShipAugust 1875: The twin steamship Castalia a catamaran type passenger ship carrying passengers from Dover to Calais, seen from the bows. Original Publication: The Graphic - The Channel Passage - pub
Revolutionaries1848: A meeting of Revolutionaries in a cellar in Berlin, the plotters are of all ages and classes. Sketch - Hoffman (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Manchester1889: A birds eye view of Manchester in 1889 with various landmarks identified. Original Publication: The Graphic - pub. 1889 Illustration - H W Baker and W Brewer (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
HurdlingApril 1871: Hurdle racing at Brompton. Athletics with sturdy looking hurdles like five-barred gates! Original Publication: The Graphic - Athletic Sports at Brompton-Hurdle Racing - pub
Victoria Towercirca 1840: The royal entrance to the New Houses of Parliament, Victoria Tower. Original Artist: By Jones (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Gentle Pleasurescirca 1855: A decorous couple ballroom dancing. Original Artist - Auguste Francois Laby (1784 - 1860). (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
MilkmaidsJanuary 1805: One young milkmaid churns butter whilst another milks a cow in the background. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
New Lodgings1850: Mr Micawber introduces David Copperfield to Mrs Micawber. From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Original Artist - Fred Barnard (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Sending A Messagecirca 1845: A man sending a message on an early morse code machine. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Cricket Pose1768: Portrait of a boy holding a cricket bat by Francis Cotes (1726-1770). (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Noble Gamecirca 1780: Cricket being played at White Conduit House, Islington, the original home of the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) which moved to Lords in 1788. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
Union MeetingMarch 1832: A great meeting of the political unions at New Hall Hill, Birmingham. Original Artwork: Engraving by Garner after Green. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
A Joyous Lifecirca 1800: The song sheet cover for The Gipsys Life is a Joyous Life, with lyrics by Stuart Farquharson and music by Edwin Flood. A group of Romany travellers make merry around a camp fire
Frater Mendicanscirca 1800: A mendicant monk, of an order which forbids its followers to own property. Instead the monks have to beg for alms in order to survive
A Milk Girlcirca 1820: A little girl fills her cup with milk from the milk churns carried by the young milk maid. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)
