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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. Photographs taken before 1945 in England by British citizens and not published in other European countries are out of copyright. Engravings and drawings that were commissioned (works for hire) are also out of copyright, as are typographic elements. Other items are out of copyright 70 years after the death of the creator, generally.
Title: The Leisure Hour
City: London
Date: 1904
Total items: 17
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Dickens at the Blacking Warehouse]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0550-Dickens-at-the-Blacking-Warehouse-q75-143x200.jpg "[picture: Dickens at the Blacking Warehouse]")
Dickens at the Blacking Warehouse
From a drawing by Fred Bernard. Reproduced in “The Dickens Country” by kind permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall [more...] [$]
![[picture: Hobgoblin Hall]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0401-Hobgoblin-Hall-q75-135x200.jpg "[picture: Hobgoblin Hall]")
![[picture: The Birthplace of Charles Dickens]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0548-Birthplace-of-Charles-Dickens-q75-124x200.jpg "[picture: The Birthplace of Charles Dickens]")
The Birthplace of Charles Dickens
1 Mile End Terrace, Portsea (now [i.e. 1904] 393 Commercial Road, Portsmouth) [more...] [$]
![[picture: Who ploughs with pain his native lea / And reaps the labour of his hands]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0580-who-ploughs-with-pain-q75-147x200.jpg "[picture: Who ploughs with pain his native lea / And reaps the labour of his hands]")
Who ploughs with pain his native lea / And reaps the labour of his hands
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. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Charles Dickens in 1868]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-LeisureHour-1904/wm/big/0551-Charles-Dickens-in-1868-q75-142x200.jpg "[picture: Charles Dickens in 1868]")
From a photograph by Mason. Reproduced in “The Dickens Country” by kind permission of Messrs. Chapman and Hall
“On the page opposite to that which contains this touching picture we have placed a rmarkably handsome photograph of the great novelist as he was in the height of his fame. What a striking contrast! What a world of life-emotion [more...] [$]
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