Flight Of The Empress Maude pepper shaker From The Atlantic Telegraph by

From The Atlantic Telegraph by William Howard Russell

Miss Granville in An Interrupted Honeymoon

View of the Port of London showing the Custom House and shipping on the River Thames

View of Mountefort Brown pulling off Dr John Hill's wig in the entrance to the Rotunda

Room within a New York tenement block

Flight Of The Empress Maude pepper shaker From The Atlantic Telegraph by'Flight Of The Empress Maude', 12th century, (c1850). In 1142, Maude (or Matilda), was trapped in Oxford Castle but escaped over the ice of the frozen River Thames. Colour plate from Pictures of English History, George Routledge & Sons, (London, New York, c1850).