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The paying-out machine for laying the Atlantic Telegraph cable stands on the deck of HMS Agamemnon, 1858. A wooden structure shelters the large, complex machinery.

Victorian illustration to download showing a picture of a woman making pillow lace (bobbin lace) by the light of a candle placed behind a bowl of water to enhance and…

Victorian illustration to download showing a picture full of pathos of the eviction from their village home of a mother and daughter.

Charming Victorian picture showing a boy fishing, watched by his mother.

Victorian illustration to download showing a picture of an albatross sitting on its clifftop nest; in the background more albatrosses fly.

Illustration to download showing a close-up drawing of a flowering branch of double white Chinese cherry blossom.

Victorian illustration to download showing a picture of workers at the Great Western Railway works in Swindon. In the erecting shed myriad parts are assembled into finished locomotives.

Victorian illustration to download copied from a medieval miniature showing a picture of people listening to a dulcimer and a viol.

Victorian illustration to download showing children at a dame school. In the dame’s cottage the children stand in a circle listening to the dame, who holds a cane in her…