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[picture: Front Cover, Oxford Pictured by Haslehust, described by How]

Pictures from Oxford, Pictured by Ernest Haslehust [1866 – 1949] and Described by F. D. How, Blackie & Son Limited, London and Glasgow (undated but probably some time between 1920 and 1935).

There are more pictures of Oxford in Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Lang.

Ernest William Haslehust died in 1949, so copyright on these images expired in 2020.

Title: Oxford

Author: Haslehust and How

City: London

Date: 1910

Total items: 14

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: Botanical Gardens and Magdalan College Tower, Oxford]

Botanic Gardens and Magdalan Tower

The Botanical Gardens by Magdalan Bridge. Their situation on the brink of the River Cherwell, and almost under the shadow of Magdalan Tower, is what probably appeals most strongly to the ordinary observer, while those who merely pass the gardens by will delight in the gateway, the work of Inigo Jones, with its statues of Charles I and II. Formal these gardens are of necessity, but there hangs [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Old Clarendon Building, Broad Street, Oxford]

The Old Clarendon Building, Broad Street

...the Clarendon Building with its lofty pillared porch, where once the University Press was housed. [p. 30] [$]

[picture: Fisher Row (narrow street by a canal) by the tower of Oxford Castle]

Fisher Row and Remains of Oxford Castle

The square tower in the background is part of the remains of Oxford Castle. [$]

[picture: Magdalen College from the River Cherwell]

Magdalen College From the Cherwell

Magdalen Tower, rising 150 feet in exquisite proportion, and standing just where the Cherwell is spanned by the well-known bridge, is in the opinion of many the fairest sight in Oxford. [p. 9] [more...] [$]

[picture: Brasenose College and Radcliffe Library Rotunda, Oxford]

Brasenose College and Radcliffe Library Rotunda

... the great dome of the Radcliffe Camera rose up in the space between All Souls and brasenose colleges, and was thenceforth the first object to take the eye of one [...] [p. 10] [more...] [$]


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