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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.

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[picture: Christ Church College, Oxford]

Christ Church

Now let us stroll on – ’tis but a step – to Christ Church. Sometimes it seems as though this should take precedence of all other colleges. Its chapel is Oxford’s Cathedral, its quadrangles are the finest, its founder was in some ways the most famous; and lastly (and of least account), if one who has tried the task of “seeing Oxford” in an afternoon [...] [p. 37] [more...]

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[picture: Magdalan Bridge and Tower, Oxford]

Magdalan Bridge and Tower

Magdalan 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 fariest sight in Oxford. [p. 9]

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[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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[picture: Iffley Mill, near Christ Church Meadow, Oxford]

Iffley Mill

“Close by [Christ Church] meadow the college barges line the banks of the Isis, and then come other meadows on either side – meadows nameless and indignified by pageantry, but sacred to [more...] [$]

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

Front Cover, Oxford Pictured by Haslehust, described by How

A brownish gray cover with a thick green border around a colour image. This book is part of a series produced from around 1900 until well into the 1950s as far as I can tell. [more...]

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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.


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