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The Leisure Hour (page 1/3)

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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

Author: Various

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.

Some sample images

[picture: Tyninghame on the Tyne]

Tyninghame on the Tyne

“Tyninghame on the Tyne (Residence of the Earl of Haddington) [more...] [$]

[picture: Fort Pitt, Chatham]

Fort Pitt, Chatham

The playground of Dickens in his childhood, and the scene of the duel (which never took place!) in Pickwick [more...] [$]

[picture: Charles Dickens in 1868]

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...] [$]

[picture: Gad's Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK)]

Gad’s Hill Place, near Rochester (Kent, UK)

Gad’s Hill Place, Near Rochester [Kent]; The home of Charles Dickens from 1857 to 1870. [more...] [$]

[picture: Title Page]

Title Page

The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading. [more...] [$]


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