All illustration from a December 1848 edition of the Illustrated London News shows the Duchess of Kent, Queen Victoria, and Prince Albert with...
Frank Vizetelly who served as the Illustrated London News' correspondent in America during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865. Location...
An illustration of cotton workers at Dean Mills, published in the Illustrated London News, October 25, 1851.
Composite illustration of Britsh emigrants en route from Liverpool, England to Canada, published in the Illustrated London News, November 15, 1884.
Engraving depicting 'Wreck of the Chilean steamer - Cazador', as published in the Illustrated London News, England, 1856.
Engraving depicting 'The fearful shipwreck of the steamer Atlantic', as published in the Illustrated London News, England, 1873.
Engraving depicting 'A catastrophe at a ship launch at Hull', as a large ship capsizes and plummets passengers into the sea, published in the...
Engraving of a survey party on Hampton Plains, Western Australia, printed in 'The illustrated London News', November 1895.
Front page of the Illustrated London News which featured people on the Randolph Street bridge during the Great Chicago Fire, Chicago, Illinois,...
An allegorical image is on the cover of the Illustrated London News for May 11 printed in London, England.
Print titled "American Sketches: A Negro Congregation at Washington", published by The Illustrated London News, 18th November 1876.
Newly crowned Queen Elizabeth and King George are on the cover of The Illustrated London News for May 22, 1954.
Cover of "Illustrated London News" showing a little girl who trys to give a piece of pudding - english speciality- to her dog, Christmas 1906,...
Festival of Britain special issue of The Illustrated London News, May 12, 1951. Front cover showing the South Bank, Dome of discovery and the Thames...
The Ship "Tory", in the West India Docks, 1845. Sailing ship on the River Thames in London. Murders were allegedly committed on board by the captain:...
Victoria Barracks, Hong Kong - from a sketch by a correspondent, 1845. British military buildings in China. 'The climate produces the most weakening...
Grand Banquet to Sir H. Pottinger, at Manchester, 1844. Dinner at Manchester Town Hall in honour of British colonial administrator Lieutenant-General...
The 'Great Eastern', 1860: The Vessel leaving Southampton on her First Voyage, June 17', . The 'SS Great Eastern' was an iron sailing steamship...
View of American Life, from Illustrated London News, pub. 1860 coloured engraving. Idealistic view of life in America; buildings portrayed in the...
View of American Life, from Illustrated London News, pub. 1860 coloured engraving. Idealistic view of life in America; buildings portrayed in the...
'Death of Richard II', 1861. A print from the Illustrated London News, 12th January 1861. . Artist W Thomas.
Engraving taken from the �Illustratred London News�. Traction engines are mobile steam-powered road vehicles which can be used for haulage,...
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News�. Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon , Commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet in 1893 had instructed...
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News�. Naval innovations of the late nineteenth century, included increasingly heavy guns, and torpedoes....
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News�. Passengers question a guard as he struggles through the snow drift beside the blocked train and the...
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News�. The armour-plated frigate 'Deutschland�, which weighed 8,000 tons, sank off the coast near Harwich on...
Engraving from the �Illustrated London News� , entitled �The Late Railway Accident at Chester�, showing the collapsed sections of the bridge and the...
Engraving from the �Illustrated London News� , entitled �The Late Railway Accident at Chester�, showing the collapsed sections of the bridge and the...
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News� . Manchester was a leader in trade and industry in the early part of the nineteenth century, but by...
Engraving from the �Illustrated London News� showing a station planned on the Epsom extension of the London and Croydon Railway. �Architecturally, an...
An extract from �The Illustrated London News�, with two illustrations of Glaisher�s scientific balloon ascent. In his efforts to determine the nature...
Printed woodcut from ?The Illustrated London News?. This giant balloon was built by Godard for the French photographer and aeronaut, Felix Tournachon...
Printed woodcut from the �Illustrated London News� showing the annual Band of Hope Fete in Aston Park, Birmingham, West Midlands. Three balloons can...
Printed woodcut from the �Illustrated London News� depicting a balloon ascent by Charles Green . Green was one of the greatest English aeronauts. He...
Plate taken from the Illustrated London News showing Queen Victoria about to board the ship at Cowes Harbour. HMS Resolute, a Royal Navy arctic...
Painting by H C Seppings Wright reproduced in the �Illustrated London News�. The image shows a view of the newly constructed Tower Bridge in London,...
Engraving taken from the 'Illustrated London News' , showing Paxton's successful design for the Crystal Palace, submitted after Isambard Kingdom...
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News�. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was asked by the building committee to design a building to house the Great...
Plate taken from the Illustrated London News. Engineer Sebastian Ferranti�s completed his electricity generating station at Deptford, on the...
Two page spread taken from the �Illustrated London News� , showing various plates illustrating the opening of the Thames Tunnel. Sir Marc Isambard...
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News�. The Ebbw Vale Co. Sank the Llanerch in 1858 when it was originally called Cwmnantddu; this name was...
Plate from �Illustrated London News�. The English word for tea comes from the Chinese té. This is the name for tea in the dialect of Fukien province,...
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News� . The huge masonry dam spans the river valley. Completed in 1889, it was the first large stone-built...
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News�. The power looms, the type shown here were already considered to be �old� by the time of the 1851...
Plate from the �Illustrated London News�. The �mule�, employed a combination of the techniques used in Sir Richard Arkwright and James Hargreaves�...
Plate from the �Illustrated London News�. The building made to house the International Exhibition was designed by Captain Frances Fowke and was built...
Plate from the �Illustrated London News�. Inside Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, visitors admire the 'Great Exhibition of the Works of the Industry of...
Plate from the �Illustrated London News�. Crowds gather for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Joseph Paxton designed what Punch named Crystal Palace, the...
Constructing the Crystal Palace, London, 1850. Plate taken from the Illustrated London News , showing a view of construction work from the west....
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News� . The use of balloons as methods of transport was begun during the Franco-Prussian War, and during the...
Engraving taken from the Illustrated London News. These demonstrations of science, famed for their �abominable smells and of the odd explosion� were...
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News�. Westminster Bridge was built in 1738-50 by the engineer Charles Labelye following the 1722 design of...
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News�. The name given to this phenomenon signifies Northern Daybreak, and is very appropriate, because the...
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News�. The 1875-1876 arctic exploration was led by Captain George S Nares , one of the ablest navigators in...
Plate taken from the 'Illustrated London News' showing crowds and horse-drawn carriages at Mansion House, in the City of London.
Plate taken from the �Illustrated London News�. Koch worked on anthrax which can be passed from cattle to humans. At the time anthrax was causing...
Charles Darwin came up with his famous theory of evolution while employed as a naturalist on HMS Beagle . His most famous work, 'The Origin of...
