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125x200, 522x835, 696x1114 | Title PageThe Leisure Hour (1904) The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading. Volume: 1904 – 5. 4 Bouverie St., London E.C. Atists in this volume: Barraud, Allan Copping, Harold Dunlop, M. P. Forestire, A. Finnemore, [...] Keywords: page images, title pages, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-05-13 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1045x713, 1394x951, 1858x1268, 293x200 | The late Philip Bailey in his study at the Rope Walk, NottinghamThe 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, greyscale Places shown: Nottingham; Nottinghamshire; England Added: 2006-05-13 + S K L R N |
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127x200, 557x875, 743x1167, 929x1458 | Rev. John WesleyThe 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, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-08-31 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1232x1822, 135x200, 164x243, 219x324, 292x432, 519x768, 693x1025, 924x1367 | Hobgoblin HallThe Leisure Hour (1904) A ruined hall, with cobwebs galore, a gothic mansion, a scene of death and decay, of neglect and ruin, a goth dream, perhaps the home of Victor or Victoria from the film Corpse Bride! “HOBGOBLIN HALL [...] Keywords: manors, wallpaper, backgrounds, ruins, spooky, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-05-24 + S K L |
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1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 640x480, 800x600 | Two of the revellers in Irish peasant costumeThe Leisure Hour (1904) Two of the revellers were dressed up to represent an old man and woman in Irish peasant costume. From a great pot in front of them they ladled out boiling tar! A man and a woman in traditional Irish [...] Keywords: festivals, people, costumes, thatched cottages, hats, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale Places shown: County Cork; Ireland Added: 2011-03-14 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 363x768, 485x1025, 647x1367, 95x200 | 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. Anonymous. Keywords: royalty, people, swords, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-05-13 + S K L |
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1181x1400, 169x200, 591x701, 886x1050 | Charles Dickens in 1830.The Leisure Hour (1904) The original painting by Mrs. Janet Barrow is in storage at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It is painted on ivory. Mrs. Barrow is said there to have worked between 1817 and 1830, and was Di [...] Keywords: people, portraits, dickens, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2012-12-24 + S K L |
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124x200, 542x872, 723x1164, 965x1552 | The Birthplace of Charles DickensThe Leisure Hour (1904) 1 Mile End Terrace, Portsea (now [i.e. 1904] 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth) (By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) The magazine (Leisure Hour, 1904) contains several illustrations from The Dicke [...] Keywords: birthplaces, houses, buildings, windows, dickens, greyscale Places shown: Portsmouth; Hampshire; England Added: 2006-10-08 + S K L R N |
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1057x1479, 143x200, 594x832, 793x1110 | Dickens at the Blacking WarehouseThe 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, dickens, work, labour, sketches, drawings, tiredness, fatigue, boys, greyscale Places shown: London; England Added: 2006-10-08 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1054x1484, 142x200, 593x835, 791x1113 | Charles Dickens in 1868The 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, dickens, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-10-08 + S K L |
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1024x702, 1751x1200, 292x200, 3443x2359 | Gad’s Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK)The Leisure Hour (1904) Gad’s Hill Place, Near Rochester [Kent]; The home of Charles Dickens from 1857 to 1870. The prinetd photograph also has the captions, (By permission of Messrs. A. and C. Black) and, Photochrom Co., Lt [...] Keywords: houses, buildings, trees, creepers, dickens, greyscale Places shown: Gads Hill Place; Higham-by-Rochester; Kent; England Added: 2014-08-07 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1024x768, 1600x1200, 267x200, 800x600 | The Deceiver: Grania and Verney in the GardenThe 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, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-09-14 + S K L |
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147x200, 531x721, 708x961, 944x1281 | Who ploughs with pain his native lea / And reaps the labour of his handsThe Leisure Hour (1904) The farmer stands in a muddy field with one hand on his hip, behind a pair of horses hitched to a single-furrow plough [US: plow]. He wears a hat, a tied neckerchief and tall boots. Specially drawn fo [...] Keywords: people, ploughs, farming, agriculture, rural, fields, horses, animals, farm machinery, ovals, cartici, greyscale Places shown: England Added: 2011-03-16 + S K L |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1085x994, 1447x1326, 218x200, 813x745 | A Vision of the FutureThe 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, flying cars, humour, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-05-13 + S K L |
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1050x601, 1400x801, 1867x1068, 350x200, 787x450 | A Calculating MachineThe Leisure Hour (1904) “Showing the numbers (in black marks) struck on the register, and the keys struck to multiply 2253 by 84. The answer is shown on the register.” (p. 775) This is a hand-operated calculator. Keywords: machinery, greyscale Places shown: none Added: 2006-05-13 + S K L |
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