1890s Gallery

Guernsey & Jersey via Weymouth poster, about 1891

In 1889 the GWR began operating a steamship
service to the Channel Islands. This poster shows
the GWR's TSS Ibex, leaving harbour at Guernsey on its route across the Channel. This early poster is very
elaborate compared to the GWR's later designs

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1890s, Boat, Castle Cornet, Channel Islands, Guernsey, Holiday, Ibex, Jersey, Sea, Ship, Steamer, Travel, Victorian

Hong Kong street scene, 1890s C016/4499

Hong Kong street scene. Pedestrians, carts, rickshaws and signs in both Chinese script and English on a hill street in Hong Kong in the 1890s. At the time, this area was a British colony. This lantern slide, by US explorer and survey photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), was obtained for the World's Transportation Commission, a worldwide survey carried out for the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago, USA. The lantern slides in this collection were hand-coloured with dyes and paints. Here, the areas at far right and left have not been coloured

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Calots spinal surgery, 19th century

Calot's spinal surgery, 19th-century artwork. This operation is being carried out by the French surgeon Jean-Francois Calot (1861-1944) on a condition known as Pott's disease. This curvature of the spine is also known as tuberculous spondylitis, and is caused by tuberculosis (TB). Calot's technique was described in 1896 in a paper he read to the Academy of Medicine in Paris, and the operation is named after him. An orthopaedic institute he founded is also now named after him. Artwork from the 19th volume (first period of 1897) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

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