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Front Cover, The Leisure Hour

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Front Cover, The Leisure HourThe Leisure Hour (1896)

Blue cloth with black and gold printing; a fine cover for this collection of The Leisure Hour from 1896.

Keywords: book covers, colour

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Added: 2006-12-14

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Spine of the book

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Spine of the bookThe Leisure Hour (1896)

This bound edition of The Leisure Hour has a luxurious blue and gold cover.

Keywords: book covers, spines, lettering, victoriana, books, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-24

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Back cover

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Back coverThe Leisure Hour (1896)

Even the back of this book has a floral decoration, in black against the blue cloth.

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Added: 2012-06-24

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Title Page, the Leisure Hour

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Title Page, the Leisure HourThe Leisure Hour (1896)

Title page from “The Leisure Hour”—this was a monthly magazine, and this book is all of the issues for the year 1896, bound together. The engraving is signed J.H. Hipsley. The Leisure Hour 56 Paterno [...]

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Added: 2006-12-14

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Mr. Carlyle.

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Mr. Carlyle.The Leisure Hour (1896)

From a photograph by Elliott & Fry.

Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881) was a famous Scottish writer and social historian who flourished in the Victorian era.

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Places shown: none

Added: 2012-06-25

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The Robin’s Christmas Carol

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The Robin’s Christmas CarolThe Leisure Hour (1896)

A robin redbreast sits on a sprig of holly and sings. The holly has berries. In the background is a winter scene with a snow-covered house. “A little robin sweetly singing    Came to my window on a C [...]

Keywords: christmas, birds, snow, winter, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-14

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In Single File

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In Single FileThe Leisure Hour (1896)

Three ladies skating on ice one after the other, holding on to a pole. They are Dutch, and have the clogs to prove it.

Keywords: people, winter, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-12-18

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Sleighing

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SleighingThe Leisure Hour (1896)

A driver and two passengers (a man and a woman) ride a horse-driven sleigh over the ice. The image, which is printed using a dot-screen method to simulate gray, is signed Davey, and also (I think) Car [...]

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Places shown: none

Added: 2007-10-10

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Darjeeling Railway 1

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Darjeeling Railway 1The Leisure Hour (1896)

“India can show a most interesting experiment in railway constructioon in the recently built line to Darjeeling, on the slopes of the Himalayas. The problem to be solved by its projectors was how to c [...]

Keywords: steam engines, railways, trains, people, greyscale

Places shown: Darjeeling; India

Added: 2006-12-14

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Darjeeling Railway 2

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Darjeeling Railway 2The Leisure Hour (1896)

“The line has done wonders in the development of a valuable tea district, and is returning a revenue to the Treasury of India of about £20,000 a year, besides its dividend to the company which constru [...]

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Places shown: Darjeeling; India

Added: 2006-12-14

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Golden Strings

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Golden StringsThe Leisure Hour (1896)

By permission of the Berlin Photographic Company By J. M. Strudwick. A young lady plays a musical instrument. Her expression is one of yearning; a romantic portrait from one of the great Pre-Raphaelit [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, music, romance, valentine, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-01-20

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Molly Sat Waiting For Her Father

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Molly Sat Waiting For Her FatherThe Leisure Hour (1896)

An attrctive young lady sits gazing out of an open window into a rose garden. She is dressed in Victorian costume, with a tight corset. She is in love. This picture was used to illustrate an episode [...]

Keywords: foreswyck, people, windows, romance, costumes, valentine, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-02-01

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Apteryx Mantelli.  From a Photograph.

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Apteryx Mantelli. From a Photograph.The Leisure Hour (1896)

The Apteryx is the name given to the genus of birds moer commonly known as the kiwi; they are native to New Zealand. The Apteryx Mantelli is the north Island Brown Kiwi bird. Wikipedia on the Kiwi Bi [...]

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Places shown: none

Added: 2008-07-17

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Axis Deer (Calcutta)

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Axis Deer (Calcutta)The Leisure Hour (1896)

Axis Deer photographed by Gambier Bolton, F.Z.S. (Fellow of the Zoological Society), accompanying the article on the London Zoo, but it is not clear whether they are mentioned in the text: I do see so [...]

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Places shown: London; England

Added: 2007-12-17

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One of the dark cells

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One of the dark cellsThe Leisure Hour (1896)

From a contemporary sketch. Depicting a cell in the dark and feared dungeon of Vincelles, some time between the 16th century and 18th century. The prisoner sits glumly on a rather uncomfortable-lookin [...]

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Places shown: Vincelles; Jura; France

Added: 2007-01-20

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