1890 s

Alamo. San Antonio Texas Stereoscope Card.

Texas stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assemb... More

Helsinki Zoo, Korkeasaari (Högholmen), 1898

Högholmens djurpark. Studenten Kovaleff vid isbjörnsburen 1898..Foto okänd..slsa1050_div38_3.Wikipedia: Korkeasaari ( http://Korkeasaari ) ..Ur boken Helsingfors i ord och bild.Utgiven av Svenska litteratursäll... More

Drawing and poetry by Vernon Orlando Bailey, 1890-1891

Creator: Vernon Orlando Bailey..Local number: SIA2011-1409..Summary: The poem and the drawings of animal tracks are from a field book kept by Vernon Orlando Bailey during his collecting efforts in Nevada and Ca... More

Ocean liners: S.S. Normannia - Public domain image of a steam ship or ...

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

A steam engine train pulling into a train station. Closeup steam engin...

Stock photo: A train engine with smoke coming out of it / A steam engine train pulling into a train station.

[Piccadilly Circus, London, England] view, photochrome print postcard.

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "10787". Printed at bottom left: 10787. London. Piccadilly Circus. More informati... More

Marion Duncan in costume for a July 4th-themed play: Tavares, Florida

: 9262 ( http://9262 ) ..Local call number: RC10814..Title: Marion Duncan in costume for a July 4th-themed play: Tavares, Florida..Date: July 4, ca. 1890..Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 9 x 5 in...Serie... More

Cordova Hotel: St. Augustine, Florida

Local call number: N039503..Title: Cordova Hotel: St. Augustine, Florida..Date: ca. 1895..Photographer: Pierre O. Havens ( http://www.floridamemory.com/solr-search/results/?q=collection:"Florida Photographic Co... More

Train station Robert French - Curves in Cork - Public domain photograp...

Chose this curvy photo of the railway station in Cork for the bewildering multiplicity of signage. Most scenes in our early photos are blissfully uncluttered, but not this one!..Also chose it because it has a c... More

Robert French - Drung Hill, Co. Kerry

NLI Ref.: LIMP 2947 ( vtls000058720 ) Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, engine, train, railroad, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Arthur Henri Poole - March 1 (allegedly), 1897

So far in my attempt to post a picture every day ( nlireland/collections/72157626612128423/ ) taken on that date/month, I've been so scrupulous that not even an independent assessor from KPMG could cast any as... More

Sconset Gully, Cary's Fish House, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Two men, seated outside a shanty in Codfish Park, one is playing the banjo, and the other the fiddle, c. 1890s...Image number: GPN4062

Mr et Mme Julien, Gourdon Caroline, aux Quinconces, Luchon, septembre ...

Fonds Trutat - Photographie ancienne..Cote : TRU C 319.Localisation : Fonds ancien.Original non communicable..Titre : Mr et Mme Julien, Gourdon Caroline, aux Quinconces, Luchon, septembre 1898..Auteur : Trutat,... More

Group of photographers posing in a studio

Creator: Unknown.Date: 1890.Collection: The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum ( http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Collection.aspx ) .Inventory no: 1990-5036/6032/0012 .Blog post: Snappy 5th b... More

Sankaty Head Lighthouse, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Sankaty Light was a popular destination for island visitors. 1890s, photo by Harry Platt...Image number: PH34-3

Robert French - Trinity College Dublin, late 19th century

Very bustling scene at College Green in Dublin (at 13:16 o' the clock?). There are surely clues in this streetscape that can help us narrow down the date.....This photo was taken probably by Robert French, chie... More

Ocean liners: S.S. Spaarndam - Public domain ocean liner image

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Robert French - Pilot Office, Belfast

Men working on tracks at the docks in Belfast beside the Pilot Office...Thanks to Gerry Ward ( gerryward/ ) for this great background information:."The Pilot Office stood on the north side of the Lagan at the ... More

Robert French - H.M.S. Warspite at Queenstown, now Cobh

Since we visited Kingstown yesterday, thought we might swing by Queenstown in Co. Cork today, now renamed Cobh...This photo lacks the usual impeccable clarity of our Lawrence Collection photos, but thought you ... More

Bunch of Rocky Mountain Diamonds

Artist: William E. Hook.Artist Bio: American, 1833 - 1908.Creation Date: 1891.Print Date: 1891.Process: albumen print.Credit Line: Gift of Stephen White ... More

The Cameo (Portrait of Julia McCune)

Artist: Clarence H. White.Artist Bio: American, 1871 - 1925.Creation Date: 1899.Print Date: 1904.Process: gum platinum.Credit Line: Museum purchase, Barbara Freeman Fund.Accession Number: 1991.008.001

Annie Dawson Wallace with her bicycle. NB: Annie is wearing trousers -...

Format: Photograph..Find more detailed information about this photograph: 394103 ( http://394103 ) ..Search for more great images in the State Library's collections: ( http:// ) ..From the collection of the St... More

M. Russel, Caroline, Luchon, allée d'Etigny, 15 sept. 1899

Fonds Trutat - Photographie ancienne..Cote : TRU C 107.Localisation : Fonds ancien.Original non communicable..Titre : M. Russel, Caroline, Luchon, allée d'Etigny, 15 sept. 1899..Auteur : Trutat, Eugène.Rôle de ... More

Deseronto Archive Photos, Ontario

Photograph of two men in coats, hats and gloves, holting umbresllas, taken in Hart's Arcade Studio, Paddock's Arcade, Watertown, New York...The photograph was in an album with the words "Irve Smith" next to it ... More

Deseronto Archive Photos, Ontario

Photographic portrait of a woman, taken in the studio of I. S. Hawke, Hubbard Block, Watertown, New York...This is one of a set of photographs found in a photograph album donated to the Archives by Aaron Baptis... More

Deseronto Archive Photos, Edward Wilkes Rathbun

A street railway car of the type built by the Rathbun Company in their car works in Deseronto, Ontario, c.1895.

Deseronto Archive Photos, Ontario

Photographic portrait of a man, taken at the Lewis studio, Carthage, New York. Captions next to this picture in the album identify the man as Fred Smith...This is one of a set of photographs found in a photogra... More

Deseronto Archive Photos, Edward Wilkes Rathbun

Steamer Deseronto, built at the Rathbun Company's shipyard in Deseronto (then Mill Point). Ontario, in 1880.

Deseronto Archive Photos, Ontario

Photograph of woman leaning on a chair, taken in the studio of J. S. Hulett, Napanee, Ontario...This is one of a set ( deserontoarchives/sets/72157624095119168/ ) of photographs found in a photograph album don... More

J. McCollough, Assessor, Deseronto Town Council

One of the members of Deseronto's Town Council in 1898.

James Whitton, Deseronto Town Council

One of the members of Deseronto's Town Council in 1898.

Deseronto Archive Photos, Ontario

Photographic portrait of a man with a moustache, wearing a coat and hat. Taken at the Coughlin studio, Tubbs Block, Watertown, New York...This is one of a set of photographs found in a photograph album donated ... More

Deseronto Archive Photos, Ontario

Mounted photograph of Deseronto High School, Thomas Street, Deseronto, Ontario...Donated to Deseronto Archives in May 2015.

Deseronto Archive Photos, John M. Brigham studios

Photographic portrait of a baby, taken at the J. M. Brigham studio in Plainwell, Michigan. The image is slightly scratched...This is one of a set of photographs found in a photograph album donated to the Archiv... More

T. D. Galt, Deseronto Town Council

One of the members of Deseronto's Town Council in 1898.

Deseronto Archive Photos, John M. Brigham studios

Portrait of a man, woman and baby, taken in the studio of J. M. Brigham, Plainwell, Michigan. The caption next to this photograph in the album reads "Libbie & Henry Hawely & Bernice"...This is one of a set ( de... More

E. W. Rathbun, Mayor, Deseronto Town Council

Edward Wilkes Rathbun, Mayor of Deseronto in 1898.

George Gonyou, Chief of Police, Deseronto Town Council

One of the members of Deseronto's Town Council in 1898.

On the beach, Palm Beach, Fla. - Public domain image. Dry plate negati...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Deseronto Archive Photos, Ontario

Photographic portrait of a man, taken in the studio of J. S. Hulett, Napanee, Ontario. The caption in the album next to this photograph reads Irvine Smith ...This is one of a set of photographs found in a photo... More

Deseronto Archive Photos, Ontario

Photograph of C. M. Luffman ‘Dad/Pete’, Herbert Luffman ‘Uncle Herb’ and Nate Luffman ‘cousin’. Taken by H. A. Osborne, photographer, Main Street, Deseronto, c.1898. According to freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.an... More

G. E. Deroche, Solicitor, Deseronto Town Council

George E. Deroche, one of the members of Deseronto's Town Council in 1898.

Railways Deseronto Archive Photos, Edward Wilkes Rathbun

Snow plough under construction at the Rathbun Company's car works in Deseronto, Ontario. In the background a car of the Oshawa Electric Railway Company is being built. Annotations on the back of the photograph ... More

Deseronto Archive Photos, Ontario

Photographic ortrait of Lucinda Hill wiith her children (from left): Susan, Elizabeth and James, and her grand-daughter, Elsie (Elizabeth's daughter). Lucinda was born on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory in arou... More

J. M. Olliver, Deseronto Town Council

One of the members of Deseronto's Town Council in 1898.

Harbor at Hamburg, Germany - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The sweetest story ever told, (tell me, do you love me)

Yes, I love you - love song - Public domain sheet music scan

DINNER [held by] ROYAL ORDER OF SCOTLAND [at] "NEW WILLARD, THE, WASHI...

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside...

To end the week and to stay beside the sea as we have for the past few days we go to the Mason Collection. This doesn't look like anyplace in Ireland that I know? Was Mr. Mason out forring?..And indeed derang... More

An ass, a dog and a poster - everything for everybody?

This posed cabinet sized image from Robert French looks like a picture postcard! It was probably taken for just that reason as Lawrence ran a commercial photography business producing cards and prints for publ... More

Robert French - General View, Dalkey, Co. Dublin

A Monday morning with a view! Dalkey from the heights was a small village at that time, scattered and with a great sea view. At first I thought those rocks in the foreground were fence height but looking at t... More

Robert French - Grand Parade, Cork City, Co. Cork

Grand Parade as I've never seen it, half empty, no buses, no crowds and with the fountain in a different place! Cork has proven to be a happy hunting ground for us in the past, so for this week's final contrib... More

Robert French - Dame Street in the centre of Dublin

So much has changed and so little has changed! This shot of Dame St. in Dublins city centre is still recognisable today despite perhaps 100 years that have elapsed. Mr. French must have obtained access to a bui... More

Hat trick - Royal visitors in the Picture Gallery, Kilkenny Castle

A royal group in Kilkenny Castle, that beautiful castle in, arguably, Ireland's most beautiful city - but can we name this lot?..And indeed it seems we can. With thanks in particular to some our regular stalwar... More

Arthur Henri Poole - Movember's Finest!, Boer War

(And these finely moustachioed gentlemen were actually photographed in November of 1899!)..There's a wee mystery here. Most of these chaps are either tradesmen and/or members of the 3rd Division, Ambulance (pro... More

"Man seated on rocks, by a river and surrounded by woodland in an unid...

Well, what say you about our unidentified location?..Photographer: Joshua H. Hargrave ( http://catalogue.nli.ie/Author/Home?author=Joshua+H.+Hargrave+Collection&sort=title&page=1&view=grid ) ..Date: Circa 1890.... More

"Carved, stone mantelpiece with crests over the hearth in an unidentif...

We had a burning desire to find out where this was taken, and we feared our hopes of finding a location for this lantern slide might just go up in smoke. But no, derangedlemur speedily identified our hitherto "... More

Anna Corver portrait. Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek, Norway

Artist: Bieber..Date/place: 03.03 1894, Berlin - Hamburg..Subject: Anna Corver..Medium: photographic positive, B&W..Notes: none..:..Original belongs to the Edvard Grieg Archives at Bergen Public Library ..Ori... More

Carl Rabe portrait. Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek, Norway

Artist: M. Selmer..Date/place: 15.06 1897, Bergen..Subject: Carl Rabe..Medium: photographic positive, B&W..Notes: Written on the photo: "Hr. Grieg til venligt Minde! 15/6 97". (Mr. Edvard Grieg in friendly memo... More

Robert French - Arcade, New Tipperary

Following on from yesterday's photo of Dillon Street in New Tipperary ( nlireland/8557077664/ ) , here's the Arcade built near the same location. Couldn't decide between the two images we have digitised, and as... More

Robert French - Sawmill, Foynes, Co.Limerick, circa 1890

Delighted to hear this from Gerard in Ireland: "It is told in my family that the bearded man with hat is Jeremiah O'Connor manager of the sawmill and resident in the large house shown. He died 1922. I am his gr... More

Robert French - Diamonds are a girl's best friend

Well now, that surely is a fine display in celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee on Alma Place in Coleraine...Think that J. McQuillan - shop doorway on left behind gaggle (or giggle?) of children - is... More

Herman Levi. Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek, Norway

Artist: unknown..Date/place: 08.03 1894, München..Subject: unknown..Medium: photographic positive, B&W..Notes: German Jewish orchestral conductor. Greetong to Nina Grieg in german on the photo...:..Original be... More

Down from the Diamond. Northern Ireland

Thought some of you might like to play "Name that Flag" with this one, taken on Shipquay Street (just down from The Diamond) in Derry City...Date: Circa 1890, and definitely before installation of Guildhall Clo... More

... between N[ew]t[own]M[oun]tkennedy and Roundwood...

Feeling particularly fiendish today! This image is from a lantern slide in our Joshua H. Hargrave collection...If you like, you can take it as an interesting image in and of itself, but if you're up for a chall... More

Miss Bay Farrell - known to go out "without her gloves"

Uploading this quirky shot today as we got great information on this woman last Friday. Brendan Grogan in Waterford (a relative) spotted Bay Farrell in this photo ( nlireland/5841413289/ ) taken at a Bazaar in... More

Robert French - Market Square, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow, late 19th cen...

This photo was taken in the late 19th century, probably by Robert French, chief photographer of William Lawrence Photographic Studios of Dublin. It features a laughing, or at least smiling, policeman!..Compare ... More

Robert French - 4 o'clock on a Sunday?

This strangely self-conscious group was photographed at the bandstand on Fort Hill, Enniskillen at 4 o'clock according to the beautifully ornate clock, and perhaps it was a Sunday too.....Thanks to eyelightfilm... More

Robert French - Ghostly Tram on Bedford Street

Love this one for the gorgeous ghostly tram moving along Bedford Street in Belfast, and if that child conveying device at the right isn't a perambulator, I don't know what is.....The building on the left with t... More

Arthur Henri Poole - Lady Waterford

This is Lady Waterford (front left), in what may have been a specially designed invalid carriage, with members of the Beresford family and other guests at Curraghmore House, Portlaw, Co. Waterford...Found this... More

Robert French - Bonafide Travellers

3 weeks ago, I uploaded a Gun Powder Office ( nlireland/6828772647/ ) photo. Please indulge me for returning to the scene of the crime so soon, but I just fell in love with this image of the same bustling junc... More

Robert French - Basically a giant lump of rock

We may need input from passing geologists, but this is either limestone or limestone shot through with something known locally as green stone (we think). The photo was taken near Kenmare, Co. Kerry...An exact l... More

Robert French - The most beautiful terrace in Ireland?

Gorgeous view from the terrace at Powerscourt House, Co. Wicklow across impeccably manicured grounds to the Sugarloaf on the horizon...Date: Circa 1890..NLI Ref.: L_CAB_06676 ( L_CAB_06676 )

Robert French - Kissing the Blarney Stone

A small group of tourists seeking the alleged eloquence that comes from kissing the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle in Co. Cork...Date: Circa 1897..NLI Ref.: L_CAB_04830 ( L_CAB_04830 )

Robert French - Fore! And Fore more!

Eight golfers (including caddies) at Lahinch, Co. Clare, although there seems to be rather more smoking than golfing going on.....Date: Circa 1897..NLI Ref.: L_CAB_06241 ( L_CAB_06241 )

Robert French - Ewart's Linen Factory

A great shot of the equipment at Ewart's Linen Factory, Crumlin Road, Belfast. Can only imagine the din when all of the machines were in operation.....Have had to slap this down rather vaguely on Crumlin Road o... More

Robert French - Mother & Son

This pair may have had something to do with Newtown Castle near Ballyvaughan in Co. Clare. Apparently, this is a ballad singer and his mother. The paper the son is holding is a printed poem with the heading Lin... More

Arthur Henri Poole - Christening Day

This photo was taken at Sion Lodge, Ferrybank, Waterford. The clergyman pictured had baptised the two babies who are replendent in their christening robes. One of these ladies is Mrs Augustus Smith, but not sur... More

Robert French - Donegal Fisherman

A fisherman with his Currach at Ardara, Co. Donegal. Cannot for the life of me explain why, but I find the stance of the second man behind very appealing - something to do with the angle of his head perhaps....... More

Look up!, Galway, Ireland

Young boys outside a school in Connemara. It was presumably photographer Major Ruttledge-Fair, who wrote "Look up" on this photo when he realised he had captured two boys grinning skyward...Date: Circa 1892..NL... More

Quite a Modern Institution, Galway, Ireland

This is the Galway Mail Car at a crossroads somewhere in Connemara, Co. Galway. A note on the back reads "The mail car from Galway - quite a modern institution (1892)"..This photo was taken by Major Ruttledge-F... More

Arthur Henri Poole - Baker's Dozen

This is the dim, and presumably boiling hot interior, of Adair's Bakehouse, which we were fairly sure was somewhere in Waterford. Thanks to ofarrl ( 33577523@N08/ ) for his dogged determination in finding out ... More

Arthur Henri Poole - A warning to shoplifters?

This is George Deacon posing with a gun outside his emporium - Deacon's Furniture Store also known as Ye Old Curiosity Shop, Colbeck Street, Waterford...Date: Circa 1897..NLI Ref.: POOLEIMP 341 ( vtls000031528 )

Robert French - Best dressed windows of any classroom ever?

A classroom at St. Mary's Convent, Newtownbarry, Co. Wexford. Newtownbarry reverted to the name of Bunclody in the early 20th century...Was very tempted to tag this with teeny tiny chairs - they are so cute!..D... More

Robert French - Doing the stations

Station Island, Lough Derg, Co. Donegal...The traditional pilgrimage involved three days of fasting and two days of prayer. The central prayer of the pilgrimage was called a 'station' - prayers were said at the... More

Robert French - Harvest Time

A scene from our Lawrence Collection Irish Life series...Date: Circa 1897..NLI Ref.: L_ROY_03303 ( L_ROY_03303 )

Robert French - Lartigue Monorail

Photo taken at the tiny Lisselton Station, Co. Kerry...According to abandoned railways ( abandonedrailsireland/ ) , the "pivot on the turntable was eccentric [wasn't in the centre]. They had to switch twice for... More

Robert French - Not the Halfway House at Cahirciveen at all!

Despite the fact that the Lawrence Studio marked this one on the glass plate itself as being Cahirciveen, it's actually Glenbeigh, Co. Kerry, and this "house" is now The Glenbeigh Hotel...Thanks to mgk_online (... More

Robert French - Caherdaniel, County Kerry

Or Cahirdanil as Lawrence Photographic Studios called it.....Thanks to mix_no_1 ( brian_as_a_camera/ ) for letting us know that "the building on the left of the shot is now the gable end of freddies pub freddy... More

"Equestrian monument in an unidentified location" = Emperor Joseph II ...

Part of our Joshua H. Hargrave Collection. Thought that this could be "out foreign" somewhere, and indeed it is. Thanks to Leonard Bentley, we now know this is "the equestrian statue of Emperor Joseph II in the... More

Årsta Castle, Södermanland, Sweden

Stairwell in Årsta Castle south of Stockholm. Built in about 1650, but originating in the 14th century. ..Trapphus i Årsta slott söder om Stockholm. Byggt omkring 1650, men med anor från 1300-talet. ..Parish (... More

Parlin Hardware stationery

Collection of posters and other poster-like images from various sources selected by BibliOdyssey.

Bardoc Hotel, Western Australia - pre 1897

Sign above the door says:."Bardoc Hotel, W.G. Cross.This sign hangs high - It hinders none - To drink, pay and pass on".Bardoc is an abandoned town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It is... More

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN TROOPS READY FOR SOUTH AFRICAN BOER WAR - 1890s

Vintage Western Australia Public domain photograph of military parade, army ceremony, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The 'Druids' Club, St. Johns College, Cambridge, England - early 1890s

Back row L - R: A.P. Cameron, H.L. Gregory, W.K. Wills, R.W. Tate, A.G. Butler.Front row L - R: E.W. Jackson, A.I. Tait (Pres) P.W.G. Sargent, W.I.L. Phillips

Severn End House, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, England - pre 1896

I discovered that Severn End is a 17th-century house rebuilt after a fire in 1896. This photo was taken before the fire.

Three men in a row boat

Looks like the same three friends from the previous photo - A.G. Butler, J.H. Sexty and A.P. Cameron

Gloucester Street, Winchcombe, England - 1890s

England Vintage Postcards Public domain scan of the vintage Australian postcard, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Winchcombe Church from Almsbury, England - 1890s

England Vintage Postcards Public domain scan of the vintage Australian postcard, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description