[Officer Demonstrating His Billy Club Swing to Group of Men, Mississippi]

Image frieze on the short ends with glued joints attached sheets paper, l: 185 mm, h: 10.3 mm. Attached to a pearl cardboard sleeve with glued brown pink (?) fabric with pressed fr...

Arthur (James) Lewis (1824-1901), husband of Kate Terry, and grandfather of John Gielgud. It appears he was also a painter and a musician, with a connection to J M Whistler. Arthur...

Portrait of a man in a black top hat. He also wears a brown jacket and a black waistcoat. He is holding papers in both hands. Stamp at bottom left of page reads 'Bristol Paper' aro...

Photograph, black and white, showing boxing champion Bombardier Billy Wells posing on the beach with one of his young children, taken by photographer, A H Remington (1886-1965), En...

Nicolas Lancret initially focused on history painting and trained in the studio of Pierre Dulin, an artist who specialised in that genre. Lancret continued his studies at the Royal...

Henry Lewis was one of the first explorers who began to travel the upper Mississippi River in the mid-nineteenth century to admire the exuberance of its cataracts. In summer 1847 t...

His pretty blonde wife tried to stop him from doing it . So did his friends. ' Remember , two men have died in the attempt , ' they told him . But magician Billy McComb was determi...