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Our Illustrations: ARRIVAL OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS AT PORTSMOUTH

... This remarkable object called The Expectant Wife, is that of a woman, whose head and figure, down to the waist, are clearly depicted. The legend runs that centuries ago a certain poor woman was left by her husband who went on a journey into Kwang-Si, which ...

Published: Saturday 14 October 1882
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 4279 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

A JOURNEY TO MOUNT KILIMA-NJARO, AFRICA: LIFE AT MOSHI

... which a woman, who is shelling peas, casts from time to time on the ground and fowls arc busy picking in the several rubbish heaps, or kitchen-middens, which stand outside the doorway. Little surprise is manifested at my entrance. Another woman comes out ...

Published: Saturday 20 June 1885
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 7532 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

An Amateur Photographer at the Zoo. FACSIMILES OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS

... hug a California!! in a red shirt and large straw hat of a crocodile in the rushes by the river, crying like a baby while a woman, looking about in pity for the supposed child, comes nearer and nearer to the reptile's jaws. She had told her that it was ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1885
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 8541 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

Our Illustrations: SHOULD LADIES RIDE ASTRIDE?

... Caprivi reorganised the navy, and was rewarded for his services by the command of the 10th or Hanoverian Army Corps, one of the finest in the army, lie is reported to possess great force of character and will, blending sagacity with patience, resolution ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1890
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2113 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

OUR ILLUSTRATIONS

... spite of the counter-attraction of the Army Association Cup, that it is likely an Army Rugby Cup Competi tion would have a good entry. Ourpicture is from a photograph by Messrs. Elliott and Fry, 55, Baker-street. A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE AT THE HAYMARKET ...

Rome News: THE DUKE OF YORK AT RICHMOND

... the Licensing Act. At the inquest held on the bodies of the man and woman named Stoer, found in Cockering Wood on Satur day evening last, medical evidence was given to prove that the woman could not have shot herself. Several letters found on the bodies ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1893
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1629 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... writer's satire is the American woman who comes to London. I am perfectly certain, he or is it she says, I can go into a drawing-room or salon full of my ladies, countesses, and princesses and pick out every American woman at once, and that before any of ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4393 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... is proverbial, and the combination of creations in which her Majesty appeared when reviewing the nine regiments of the 8th Army Corps with the Emperor last week savoured more of a mediceval pageant than a prosaic nineteenth century review. The Empress ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6486 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... the young Russian painter, who is to marry Miss Ethel Wright, the artist, is half an American, his mother being a Boston woman. Three of her sons have taken to art. Prince Paul is a sculptor of great promise, taking medals at almost every exhibition ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 6710 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

PICKANINNIES IN PANTOMIME

... hnds a merry echo on the stage, and probably not even that Napoleon of pantomime producers, Sir Augustus Harris, who marshals armies of stage children at Christmas time, ever heard one of his rank-and-file complain that she was tired. Stage carpenters' arms ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1135 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... I think that all ranks of the Army should give a helping hand. How one misses the poor Colonel in Waterloo Place, 011 his way to the Junior It only seems to be but yesterday to me when wc were standing on the club landing, talking about the newly commissioned ...

Published: Wednesday 21 February 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3378 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

SMALL TALK

... late Lord Lovat, one of the great supporters of Catholicism in Scotland, and was given by that nobleman with some surrounding land to the Benedictine Order, who have built, in the Early English style, at a heavy cost, a great college, hospice, scriptorium ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1894
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3938 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs