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people: an image depicting or containing humans, whether individual or groups, and whether foreground or background.

Synonyms: crowds, pedestrians, onlookers, spectaters

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Images and some text from The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading, 1904/5.

Individual images may or may not be out of copyright here; I cannot guarantee that I have it right, sorry.

Fort Pitt, Chatham

Fort Pitt, Chatham

The Leisure Hour (1904)

The playground of Dickens in his childhood, and the scene of the duel (which never took place!) in Pickwick (By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) “The happiest days of Dickens’ss childhood were s [...]

Keywords: fields, people, fences

Places shown: Fort Pitt; Kent; England

Added: 2006-10-08

Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required

Dickens at the Blacking Warehouse

Dickens at the Blacking Warehouse

The Leisure Hour (1904)

From a drawing by Fred Bernard. Reproduced in “The Dickens Country” by kind permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall Charles Dickens is here shown as a boy of between eight and twelve years of age, work [...]

Keywords: people, misery

Places shown: London; England

Added: 2006-10-08

Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required

Charles Dickens in 1868

Charles Dickens in 1868

The Leisure Hour (1904)

From a photograph by Mason. Reproduced in “The Dickens Country” by kind permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall “On the page opposite to that which contains this touching picture we have placed a rmark [...]

Keywords: portraits, writers, people, beards

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-08

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The late Philip Bailey in his study at the Rope Walk, Nottingham

The late Philip Bailey in his study at the Rope Walk, Nottingham

The Leisure Hour (1904)

An elderly gentleman with white hair and a white beard sits at a writing desk, pen in hand, gazing out of the window, lost in thought. “Seldom has a poet come as near to absolute greatness, as Bailey [...]

Keywords: people, scholars, interiors, writing

Places shown: Nottingham; Nottinghamshire; England

Added: 2006-05-13

Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required

The Deceiver: Grania and Verney in the Garden

The Deceiver: Grania and Verney in the Garden

The Leisure Hour (1904)

Grania’s face was full of tenderness, and her eyes seemed to plead for pardon. The hands she held out to Verney trembled. “Verney Drake did not see his sister-in-law till late in the morning following [...]

Keywords: people, manors, ruins, romance, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-10-08

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King Edward VII. in his uniform as colonel of a Russian regiment.

King Edward VII. in his uniform as colonel of a Russian regiment.

The Leisure Hour (1904)

King Edward VII of England wearing a dress uniform, complete with medals and sword.

Keywords: royalty, people, swords

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

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Rev. John Wesley

Rev. John Wesley

The Leisure Hour (1904)

(From the painting by Romney) The article is entitled “John Wesley, Evangelist” and was written by the Rev. Richard Green. John Wesley founded the Methodist movement, and also wrote “A Short History [...]

Keywords: religion, people, portraits

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-08-31

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A Vision of the Future

A Vision of the Future

The Leisure Hour (1904)

A vision of a car of the future from May 1905. Amusingly, the two ladies in the passenger compartment are dressed in costume of the period, and appear to be paying no attention to driving: presumably [...]

Keywords: transport, people, aeroplanes

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-13

Image status: stock image royalty-free for non-commercial uses only, usage credit required

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